Women’s History Month: Nina Simone’s “Four Women”
Between Dystopian Dance Party and my guest posts on Andresmusictalk, I feel like I've been writing a lot about Nina Simone recently. Not that I'm complaining, of course: Simone is one of...
Women’s History Month: The Slits’ “Typical Girls”
Rock and roll is a notoriously male-dominated genre: never more so than in the 1970s, the peak years of a groupie culture that turns women--and, more often than not, underage girls--into...
Yes, I’m a Witch: The Dystopian Dance Party Guide to Yoko Ono
Few figures in contemporary pop culture are more unnecessarily reviled than Yoko Ono. A respected activist, philanthropist, and performance artist with a five-decade body of work, she is more colloquially remembered...