Sleater-Kinney's Dig Me Out (33 1/3)
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| Rating | : | 4.90 (584 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1628929766 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 152 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-02-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Interesting look at a pivotal band" according to A.A.. A well-researched and interesting look at the evolution of a tremendous band and their struggle to play music on their own terms. Sleater-Kinney were often miscategorized using reductive labels like "riotgrrl" or "women in rock" by media that didn't quite know what to make of them. This book shows how they fought, and ultimately succeeded, in being taken seriously as a rock band.. "Five Stars" according to Sonny P.. Insightful and well researched. I learned a lot about SK, the album, and rock in general.
It's about feminism and gender as much as it is about the three musicians and this one particular album. For SK fans, it's a must, but I also recommend it highly to people interested in media and sexism.” – Lower East Side Librarian. Babovic displays the toughness and the DIY attitude of Sleater-Kinney perfectly through her writing… I can’t recommend this book enough.” – HiFi Noise“I loved Dig Me Out. “Sleater-Kinney’s Dig Me Out by Jovana Babovic?not only dives into the album, but it also dives into the culture surrounding women in music.
Dig Me Out was the band's third studio album, but the first one written and recoded with Weiss. Sleater-Kinney's 1997 album Dig Me Out is built on Corin Tucker and Carrie Brownstein's competing guitars, Janet Weiss's muscular rhythms, and layered vocals that teeter between an urgent, banshee-like vibrato and a lower accompaniment. It inaugurated Sleater-Kinney into a lineup that would span its two-decade career.This 33 1/3 follows the narrative of Dig Me Out from its inception in Olympia to its recording in Seattle and its reception across the United States. This story of Dig Me Out chronicles how Sleater-Kinney won the fight to define themselves on their own terms – as women and as musicians – and, in the process, how they redefined the parameters of rock.. The band wrestled with the media about how they would be presented to the public, it contended with technicians about how their sound would be heard in clubs, and they struggled with pervasive social hierarchies about how their work would be understood in popular culture. The acclaim Sleater-Kinney received from their listeners in the late 1990s, and continue to receive toda
Jovana Babovic is an Assistant Professor of History at Louisiana Tech University, USA.