It will make you want to form a band it will make you angry it will make you laugh and it
will educate you. - Gina Birch Drawing on more than 270 original interviews with female artists
and women working behind the scenes in A&R marketing music publishing and production SheBop
presents a feminist history of women in popular music from 1920s blues to the present day.
Talking to iconic artists from Eartha Kitt and Nina Simone to Debbie Harry and Beyoncé
acclaimed author Lucy O'Brien charts how women have negotiated 'old boy' power networks to be
seen and to get their music heard. This revised edition updates that story through many fresh
interviews and new perspectives. Since She Bop was first published in 1995 digital downloading
has transformed the music landscape. But has the issue of gender inequality changed too? In a
new introduction and closing chapter O'Brien celebrates the rise of unique women such as Lizzo
and Billie Eilish who are bursting through and creating new possibilities for female artists
while also looking at the struggles of artists like Kesha and wondering whether the pop
industry has had its #MeToo moment yet. - Published to celebrate the original book's 25th
anniversary - and in a year that also marks 50 years of Women's Liberation. - This new She Bop
will appeal to a huge cross-section of readers from music fans to the LGBT audience and women
of all generations.
