Chronicles the creative story of the award-winning Broadway musical (view table of contents)

Product Description: Critically acclaimed from Bust to People, this “heartfelt treatise on punk motherhood” (Donna Gaines) is “moving and surprising-a familiar lick performed in an entirely revolutionary way” (Alison Bechdel). Any parent may ask, “What's the connection between my youthful self and the old fart my kids think I am?” It's especially relevant for McDonnell, a recent mom looking back on her bohemian, feminist, punk-rock, East-Village glory days and wondering, is the new me still the old me? As she makes the personal transformation from Riot Grrrl to Rebel Mom, this music journalist gives an eyewitness account of the cultural movements of the '90s, from alternative rock and third-wave feminism to hip-hop, raves, and Rent, and their relationship to the conventions and pressures of motherhood...read more

Product Description: Wearing thick glasses, speaking in her thick Icelandic accent, and, well, seeming a touch thick, Bjork stormed the public consciousness in 2000 as an unlikely heroine in the experimental musical film Dancer In the Dark. Army of She is an in-depth look at the woman who first took the public stage twenty-three years ago, analyzing her rise from child prodigy to punk anarchist to New Wave novelty (as member of the Sugarcubes) to hit soloist to film star...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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