Women Of The Underground: Music: Cultural Innovators Speak for Themselves

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In a series of 30 candid interviews with radical women musicians, editor Zora von Burden gives the forerunners of this generation a voice and probes the depths of how and why they broke through society's limitations to create works of outstanding measure. Includes interviews with: Wanda Jackson, Moe Tucker (Velvet Underground), Teresa Nervosa (Butthole Surfers), Nina Hagen, Lydia Lunch, Patricia Morrison (Sisters of Mercy, The Damned), Pamela Tent (The Cockettes) and many others. An inspiration to young women and fascinating to music fans of all ages and genders.

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"Nothing about ora von Burdens book of interviews with female musicians and performance artists is typical. Her questions for her subjects are probing and intimateThe format of the book itself is unique, in that the interviews speak entirely for themselvesIf you want to make art, make art, is the unfaltering message of Women of the Underground: Music."Bitch Magazine
"Nothing about ora von Burdens book of interviews with female musicians and performance artists is typical. Her questions for her subjects are probing and intimateThe format of the book itself is unique, in that the interviews speak entirely for themselvesIf you want to make art, make art, is the unfaltering message of Women of the Underground: Music."Bitch Magazine

Author Bio

Zora von Burden was born and raised in San Francisco, California. A frequent contributor to the San Francisco Herald, von Burden also wrote the screenplay for Geoff Cordner's underground cult classic film, Hotel Hopscotch.