The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic: Revised and Expanded Edition
Jessica Hopper
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The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic: Revised and Expanded Edition
Jessica Hopper
Jessica Hopper’s criticism is a trenchant and necessary counterpoint not just on music, but on our culture at large. –Annie Clark, St. Vincent
An acclaimed, career-spanning collection from a fiercely feminist and revered contemporary rock critic, reissued with new material
Throughout her career, spanning more than two decades, Jessica Hopper, a revered and pioneering music critic, has examined women recording and producing music, in all genres, through an intersectional feminist lens. The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic features oral histories of bands like Hole and Sleater Kinney, interviews with the women editors of 1970s-era Rolling Stone, and intimate conversations with iconic musicians such as Bjoerk, Robyn, and Lido Pimienta. Hopper journeys through the truths of Riot Grrrl’s empowering insurgence; decamps to Gary, Indiana, on the eve of Michael Jackson’s death; explodes the grunge-era mythologies of Nirvana and Courtney Love; and examines the rise of emo. The collection also includes profiles and reviews of some of the most-loved, and most-loathed, women artists making music today: Fiona Apple, Kacey Musgraves, M.I.A., Miley Cyrus, Lana Del Rey.
In order for the music industry to change, Hopper writes, we need the continual presence of radicalized women … being encouraged and given reasons to stay, rather than diminished by the music which glues our communities together. The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic–published to acclaim in 2015, and reissued now with new material and an introduction by Samantha Irby–is a rallying cry for women-centered history and storytelling, and a groundbreaking, obsessive, razor-sharp panorama of music writing crafted by one of the most influential critics of her generation.
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