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In the early 1970s, Trumbull became immersed in the rock music scene. She and four other girls decided to form a group and began pursuing bands. They each gave themselves nicknames, and Trumbull chose the name Pennie Lane in part from the song by the Beatles. The other girls in the group were Marvelous Meg, Sexy Sandy, The Real Camille, Miss ...
Ammer wrote the first edition of Unsung because there was a lack of material about women in music at the time. [4] When Unsung was first published in 1980 it was considered "a pioneering volume at a time when women in music was a fledgling area located at the margins of musicology," according to Music & Letters. [5]
Biographies of Johann Sebastian Bach; Bach's Nekrolog; The Beach Boys and the California Myth; The Beatles: The Biography; Becoming the Beach Boys, 1961–1963; Beethoven: A Life in Nine Pieces; Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century; Blind But Now I See; Bob Dylan: Mixing Up the Medicine; Bono: In Conversation with Michka Assayas ...
THE LIST: Catch up on 2024’s most illuminating life stories, encompassing tales of recovery, literary feuds and devastating betrayal, with Katie Rosseinsky’s edit of the best memoirs and ...
Women in music impact and influence creativity, activism, and culture. Currently, a significant percentage of popular and classical musicians are women, and a significant portion are songwriters (many of them being singer-songwriters). Despite this, few record producers, rock critics, or rock instrumentalists are women.
Ferron Foisy (born Deborah Foisy on 1 June 1952; known professionally as Ferron) is a Canadian singer-songwriter and poet. [1] In addition to gaining fame as one of Canada's most respected songwriters, [2] [3] Ferron, who is openly lesbian, became one of the earliest and most influential lyrical songwriters of the women's music circuit, [4] [5] and an important influence on later musicians ...
Viola Clara Smith (née Schmitz; November 29, 1912 – October 21, 2020) was an American drummer best known for her work in orchestras, swing bands, and popular music from the 1920s until 1975. She was one of the first professional female drummers.
Anita Lasker-Wallfisch (born 1925), cellist, surviving member of the Women's Orchestra in Auschwitz; Margarethe Quidde (1858–1940), Prussian-born cellist, writer, pacifist in Munich; Eleonore Schoenfeld (1925–2007), influential 20th-century cellist, recording artist and educator