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OSU Researchers on a Roll with Girls Rock
from: oregonstate.edu
GIRLS ROCK!
Fifty Years of Women Making Music
By Mina Carson, Tisa Lewis, and Susan M. Shaw
Women overcoming obstacles is a major part of the book, the OSU authors say, but the performers' love for their music make those struggles worthwhile. In the first chapter of their book, "Girls With Guitars," they recount the experience of JOAN JETT, who started an all-women band in the 1970s called the RUNAWAYS. Initially dismissed as a novelty act, Jett went on to stardom with her next band, JOAN JETT AND THE BLACKHEARTS, who cranked out numerous hits.
Recalled Jett: "…there wasn't anything that we got because we were girls that I remember in a positive sense," she said. "Everything was, 'You're weaker 'cause you're girls. You can't take it because you're girls…But you're cute to have around, so come in and get drunk.'
But, she adds, those sacrifices may be paying off.
"After all," Jett says, "one of the goals of the RUNAWAYS was to make it normal for a girl or woman to write and play rock 'n roll and sweat onstage - and we seem to be getting closer to that."
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