La vendetta delle Punk by Vivien Goldman

Then comes Money with Patti Smith, Shonen Knife, Malaria! and the Slits followed by Love/Unlove: Crass, Cherry Vanilla, Grace Jones, Rhoda Dakar with the Special AKA, Alice Bag (The Bags), Tribe 8 and the Au Pairs, the Mo-Dettes, Neneh Cherry from the UK/Sweden/US and this writer/musician. We open with Identity featuring Fea, Big Joanie, The Raincoats, Blondie, and Poly Styrene with X-Ray Spex. Together, they demonstrate how girls around the world, with no or few role models, found ways to thwart blockages and become self-expressive musicians, breaking traditions and expectations, setting new standards with every chord.

The book offers a template to finding a way through the patriarchal labyrinth of the music industry by telling the backstories of thirty-eight songs by women from not only the Anglophone countries, but Africa, the Caribbean, Asia and Eastern and Continental Europe. As both my book that inspired it and this recording prove, us She-Punks' revenge is about our complex survival in an all too often hostile environment. 'We're not talking a mean-spirited gotcha! revenge here. Compiled and with liner notes by Vivien Goldman. This compilation is inspired by the book, originally released by University of Texas Press in 2019. Along four themes - Identity, Money, Love and Protest - the 'punk professor' traces empowering moments that punk holds especially for women. This feminist reckoning was written by none other than post-punk pioneer Vivien Goldman, who has an insider's perspective due to her work as a musician and one of Britain's first female music writers.

Since the historiography of punk is a male-dominated one, a Revenge of the She-Punks was long overdue.

La vendetta delle Punk by Vivien Goldman