THE READING ROOM: ‘Pretend We’re Dead’ Recalls Women Who Rocked and Changed American Music

THE READING ROOM: ‘Pretend We’re Dead’ Recalls Women Who Rocked and Changed American Music

In the 1990s, numerous women rockers emerged on the popular music scene, flooding the airwaves of college and independent radio stations with alternative feminist rock and momentarily elevating these women in the rock pantheon. As Tanya Pearson, founder of the Women in Rock Oral History Project, illustrates in her buoyant oral history, Pretend We’re Dead: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of Women in Rock in the ‘90s (Da Capo, January 28, 2025), …

The Association Women of the Music Industry launches a manifesto with ten measures to combat the inequality suffered by the workers of the sector, both artists and the rest of professionals.One of the proposals is that the posters of festivals that receive public funding include at least 50% of women. They have already presented the decalogue to the Minister of Culture, Ernest Urtasun. Topics: Radical Magazine, Music, Feminisms, Machismo, Cultur…