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| Title | : | My Red Blood: A Memoir of Growing Up Communist, Coming Onto the Greenwich Village Folk Scene, and Coming Out in the Feminist Movement |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.11 (989 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1593501072 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 300 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-07-28 |
| Language | : | English |
Singer-song writer and producer of the groundbreaking 1973 "Lavender Jane Loves Women," Alix Dobkin has six additional highly praised albums and a songbook to her credit. She lives in Woodstock, NY.
About the AuthorSinger-song writer and producer of the groundbreaking 1973 "Lavender Jane Loves Women," Alix Dobkin has six additional highly praised albums and a songbook to her credit. She lives in Woodstock, NY.
Lesbian icon Alix Dobkin's amazing life story! For those of you `70s and `80s lesbians for whom Alix Dobkin was the role model for our baby dyke generation - you will love this book, and be very surprised by the rich, unusual life Alix lived before the record "Lavendar Jane Loves Women" made her the first and most enduring star of the Second Wave lesbian world.For those lesbians unfamiliar with Alix, read this book to understand what led to the amazing outburst of lesbian music, art, culture, and politics in the 1970s. Alix's life story is that evolution - from her days as Red Diaper baby, sassy teenage . Clair L. Kaplan said Extraordinary book - highly recommended. This book is highly recommended. Storytelling Alix once again shines with the sharpest of connections and humor, only unkindly when truely necessary, and with her deeply informed world view and bittersweet love. Writing of a time that many women in the feminist movement, now of "memoir-writing-age" were shaped by, she gives us her own history (and some of our own) without denying any uncomfortable or unflattering moment, and respectfully lets us understand the contexts that shaped her artistry -- work that has meant so much to so many of us. I was not surpri. Jerry Landis said Heady Times. In the '50s and '60's, being a young Communist was very heady stuff. This assertive and audacious woman brings that experience to life.
She lives in Woodstock, New York.. Yet it’s after she arrives on the burgeoning folk music scene of Greenwich Village, where she meets the up-and-coming Bob Dylan, Bill Cosby, John Sebastian, Buffy Ste. During this time she also matures as a devotee of folk music, having fallen under the spell of renowned performers such as Lead Belly and Pete Seeger. Rich in period detail, storytelling, and outspoken politics, My Red Blood is essential reading for lovers of music and history.Singer-songwriter and producer of the groundbreaking 1973 Lavender Jane Loves Women, Alix Dobkin has six additional highly praised albums and a songbook to her credit. Marie, and Flip Wilson, among many other rising luminaries, that she achieves her first acclaim as a singer-songwriter. Women’s music legend Alix Dobkin for the first time chronicles her rise to fame as the first artist to record an openly lesbian album in 1973. Her music takes on overt feminist dimensions when she joins a women’s consciousness-raising group and comes out as a lesbian. Her story, however, opens much earlier in postwar New York City, where, growing up in a Communist family, she
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