Noah Sua-Godinet
The readings I have decided to discuss was Daphne Brooks The Right to Rock and Maureen Mahon’s Rock. These two readings connected as both covered the feminist side of music, mainly focused on rock and roll. In Mahon’s Rock, it discusses the a few types of rock and roll styles that female artist used, but unfortunately those styles were taken by male artist. These male artists took those styles, made it their own, and became famous off of them. An example of this would be when, “Dorothy La Bostrie wrote the lyrics for the well-known Little Rickie Song Tuttie Fruttie” (Mahon 558). Songs were not the only thing taken as mentioned, “Tina Turner taught Mick Jagger how to dance the Pony and he incorporated this and other Turner-esque mannerisms into his show” (Mahon 558). When it comes to women and rock and roll you have to know about Ellen Willis. Brooks The Right to Rockgives us a history of legendary male artist that got their talents from a mythical and magical guitar pick. The history only consists of male artist which leads you to assume that this genre was male dominated. This is where Ellen Willis comes in as she changed everyone’s perspective of men ruling rock and roll. Brooks acknowledged, “the doors that Ellen Willis kicked open in the sixties, seventies, and eighties” (Brooks 58). Willis was able to, “open dense equations of gender, class, power, and subculture music scene…like no one before her…and find a way from the inside to record, in her own words, the sound of liberation” (Brooks 59).
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