Live through this
By: Anwen Crawford
Series: 33 1/3 -- 103; 33 1/3 -- 103.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 130
ISBN-13: 9781623563776
Subjects: Feminism and music; Analysis, appreciation; History and criticism; Women in music; Hole (Musical group); Rock music
Description: "Courtney Love has never been less than notorious. Her intelligence, ambition and appetite for confrontation has made her a target in a music industry still dominated by men. As Kurt Cobain's wife she was derided as an opportunistic groupie; as his widow she is pitied, and scorned, as the madwoman in rock's attic. Yet Hole's second album, Live Through This, awoke a feminist consciousness in a generation of teenage girls. Live Through This arrived in 1994, at a tumultuous point in the history of American music. Three years earlier, Nirvana's Nevermind had broken open the punk underground, and the first issue of a zine called Riot Grrrl had been published. Hole were of this context and yet outside of it: too famous for the strict punk ethics of riot-grrrl, too explicitly feminist to be the world's biggest rock band. Live Through This is an album about girlhood and motherhood; desire and disgust; self-destruction and survival. There have been few rock albums before or since so intimately concerned with female experience. The album is a key document of third-wave feminism, but the conditions that produced its particular aesthetic have disappeared. So where did the energy of that feminism go? And why is Courtney Love's achievement as a songwriter and musician still not taken seriously, two decades on?"--Back cover.
Notes: Series numbering from spine.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 122-127).
Table of contents: title: Violet; title: Miss World; title: Asking for it; title: Credit in the straight world; title: Softer, softest; title: I think that I would die; title: Rock star.