Published
Tue, Feb 1, 2022, 17:15
- It's edited and authored by 16 women writers, including Juliana Huxtable, Zakia Sewell and Jenn Pelly.
A new book about pioneering women artists will be published by White Rabbit Books in April.
Edited by writer Sinéad Gleeson and Sonic Youth member Kim Gordon, This Woman's Work: Essays On Music features writing by 14 more women writers, including Jenn Pelly, Juliana Huxtable and Zakia Sewell.
The book confronts the imbalance, sexism and male-dominated canons of music, literature and film, with each contributing author writing about the pioneering artists, movements and scenes that have impacted their own experience. It's a celebration of women who have had to fight being pigeonholed or sidelined by working harder and carving out their own space within the industry.
"This Woman's Work also features writing on the experimentalists," reads the White Rabbit blurb. "Women who blended music and activism, the genre-breakers, the vocal auteurs; stories of lost homelands and friends; of propaganda and dictatorships, the women of folk and country, the racialised tropes of jazz, the music of trap and Carriacou; of mixtapes and violin lessons."
Here's the front cover. Pre-order the book here.
