We Gotta Get Out of This Place by Gerri Hirshey

We Gotta Get Out of This Place by Gerri Hirshey

Rock and roll has traditionally been a boys' game. It has forced female artists to work twice as hard, usually for half the recognition -- but without their contributions, American music would be radically impoverished. Called a kind of female Cameron Crowe by the Chicago Tribune, Gerri Hirshey has been writing about music for two decades. Now, in a narrative based on frank original interviews and a vise grasp of American cultural history, she serves up a tasty platter of girl groups and soul queens, acoustic goddesses and priestesses of the avant-garde, punk grrrls, glamazons, and innovators of hip-hop and neo-soul. We Gotta Get Out of This Place is the passionate history of a century of women in rock that is deft, authoritative, and a sheer delight to read. A literary soul queen, an Aretha of the page . -- Karen Schoemer, Elle We Gotta Get Out of This Place . helps set the record straight. -- Dan Gilgoff, U.S. News & World Report Hirshey doesn't write about rock aoll. She writes rock and roll. -- L. D. Meagher, CN.com Vivid, impassioned, and] lively. -- Francine Prose, O Magazine

Hirshey, Gerri: - For more than thirty years, Gerri Hirshey has worked as a features writer, columnist, reporter, and essayist at The Washington Post, The New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, GQ, Esquire, and New York, among others. She has also written for O, The Oprah Magazine, More, The Nation, Food & Wine, Ladies' Home Journal, and Parade. Beginning in the 1980s, Hirshey was the first female contributing editor toRolling Stone--she wrote celebrity profiles of numerous artists, musicians, actors, authors, and fashion designers. She is the author of several books, including Nowhere to Run: The Story of Soul Music, which is now in its seventh reprint incarnation, and We Gotta Get Outta This Place: The True, Tough Story of Women in Rock. Hirshey lives in New York City with her husband, Mark Zwonitzer, a writer and documentary filmmaker; they have two young adult children.

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ISBN 13	9780802138996
ISBN 10	0802138993
Title	We Gotta Get Out of This Place
Author	Gerri Hirshey
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Year published	2002-06-19
Number of pages	304
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