Books like She Bop by Lucy O'Brien

A compilation of interviews with pioneering women rock musicians, offering insight into their careers, the evolution of rock music, and the intersection of feminism and artistic expression.

Exploring decades of female rock musicians, this nonfiction work examines how women have navigated a male-dominated industry, blending interviews, feminist theory, and music history to reveal their motivations, challenges, and cultural impact.

An in‑depth, chronological survey of women’s impact on rock, pop, and R&B from the 1950s to the 2000s, featuring profiles of iconic singers and an insider look at the industry.

Selection of riot grrrl zines collected by New York University's Fales Library.

To illustrate the role women have played in the development of music, Upton describes the impact they have had on the lives of composers such as Bach, Mozart, and Handel, and thereby presents unique biographical sketches of the composers.

The fabled city of Memphis has been essential to American music--home of the blues, the birthplace of rock and roll, a soul music capital. We know the greatest hits, but celebrated author Robert Gordon takes us to the people and places history has yet to record. A Memphis native, he whiles away time in a crumbling duplex with blues legend Furry Lewis, stays up late with barrelhouse piano player Mose Vinson, and sips homemade whiskey at Junior Kimbrough's churning house parties. A passionate listener, he hears modern times deep in the grooves of old records by Lead Belly and Robert Johnson. The interconnected profiles and stories in Memphis Rent Party convey more than a region. Like mint seeping into bourbon, Gordon gets into the wider world. He beholds the beauty of mistakes with producer Jim Dickinson (Replacements, Rolling Stones), charts the stars with Alex Chilton (Box Tops, Big Star), and mulls the tragedy of Jeff Buckley's fatal swim. Gordon's Memphis inspires Cat Power, attracts Townes Van Zandt, and finds James Carr always singing at the dark end of the street. A rent party is when friends come together to hear music, dance, and help a pal through hard times; it's a celebration in the face of looming tragedy, an optimism when the wolf is at the door. Robert Gordon finds mystery in the mundane, inspiration in the bleakness, and revels in the individualism that connects these diverse encounters.