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We have an e-subscription to The New Yorker , plus we get all kinds of e-mail feeds from 'em. Today there's one on an early female rock music critic, Ellen Willis.
If nothing else, she wrote on some interesting subjects :) so I thought this might be of interest. See link below, e.g.
From the aforementioned e-mail: " In 1969, Willis wrote a haunting essay for The New Yorker about the legendary rock singer Janis Joplin. The piece ran the year before Joplin passed away and is notable for its elegiac opening line. "Janis Joplin put on the most exalting, exhausting concert I have ever been privileged to see, hear, and feel," Willis writes. "Euphoric from Bill Graham's champagne, she sang four encores, and the audience, standing on the seats, wouldn't go home. Finally, she came back onstage. 'I love you, honey,' she said, gasping, 'but I just got nothing left.' Someday, we were sure, it would really be true-someday soon, if she kept giving like that." Willis was writing at a time when there were very few female rock critics, and her work is noteworthy for its ability to sift through the layers of creativity and expressiveness of any artist she was profiling. "
link to the aforementioned Janis article:
'JANIS JOPLIN'S ELECTRIC ENERGY'
all the best,
mrh
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Topic - Music. Rock. Critics. - The New Yorker on critic Ellen Willis - mhardy6647 06:00:00 01/29/20 (2)
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