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The Womens' story
By Helen McCookerybook
At the core of British punk music and the punk subculture in the 1970's was the concept of subver-sion, and the punk women in the London punk environment who formed and joined bands exercised a double subversion: not only the subversion associated with the subculture itself, but also a subversion of sounds normally associated with 'male' music making in the pop and rock arenas.
If you listen to music by The Slits and The Raincoats, for instance, they do have their own 'sound,' with space, vocal harmonies and clear and distinctive bass-lines to the forefront. In my book The Lost Women of Rock Music: female musicians of the punk era, I explored politics, the media, gender issues and social context but not the musical legacy of punk in any detail; this article is based on a more detailed academic paper that is currently in progress, and is based in part on interviews with musicians Tessa Pollitt of The Slits and Gina Birch of The Raincoats.
HELEN McCOOKERYBOOK AT GONZO
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