{"product_id":"this-womans-work-essays-on-music-9780306829000","title":"This Woman's Work: Essays on Music","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdited by iconic musician Kim Gordon and esteemed writer Sinéad Gleeson, this powerful collection of award-winning female creators shares their writing about the female artists that matter most to them.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This book is for and about the women who kicked in doors, as pioneers of their craft or making politics central to their sound: those who offer a new way of thinking about the vast spectrum of women in music. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis Woman's Work: Essays on Music\u003c\/i\u003e is edited by iconic musician Kim Gordon and esteemed writer Sinéad Gleeson and features an array of talented contributors, including: Anne Enright, Fatima Bhutto, Jenn Pelly, Rachel Kushner, Juliana Huxtable, Leslie Jamison, Liz Pelly, Maggie Nelson, Margo Jefferson, Megan Jasper, Ottessa Moshfegh, Simone White, Yiyun Li, and Zakia Sewell. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this radical departure from the historic narrative of music and music writing being written by men, for men, \u003ci\u003eThis Woman's Work\u003c\/i\u003e challenges the male dominance and sexism that have been hard-coded in the canons of music, literature, and film and has forced women to fight pigeon-holing or being side-lined by carving out their own space. Women have to speak up, to shout louder to tell their story--like the auteurs and ground-breakers featured in this collection, including: Anne Enright on Laurie Anderson; Megan Jasper on her ground-breaking work with Sub Pop; Margo Jefferson on Bud Powell and Ella Fitzgerald; and Fatima Bhutto on music and dictatorship. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis Woman's Work \u003c\/i\u003ealso features writing on the experimentalists, women who blended music and activism, the genre-breakers, the vocal auteurs; stories of lost homelands and friends; of propaganda and dictatorships, the women of folk and country, the racialized tropes of jazz, the music of Trap and Carriacou; of mixtapes and violin lessons. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gordon, Kim\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/03\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Hachette Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780306829000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 5.90w x 1.10d","brand":"Kim Gordon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39746418475083,"sku":"9780306829000","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0021\/1697\/6715\/products\/img_5a256f11-d15d-4118-86ca-ce5b6f973e2e.jpg?v=1650986157","url":"https:\/\/blackbookstore.com\/products\/this-womans-work-essays-on-music-9780306829000","provider":"Black Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}