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My red blood : a memoir of growing up communist, coming onto the Greenwich Village folk scene, and coming out in the feminist movement / Alix Dobkin.
- Title
- My red blood : a memoir of growing up communist, coming onto the Greenwich Village folk scene, and coming out in the feminist movement / Alix Dobkin.
- Author
- Dobkin, Alix.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | ML420.D573 A3 2009g | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Dobkin, Alix.
- Description
- x, 275 p., [8] p. of plates : ill.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "Women's music legend Alix Dobkin chronicles her rise to fame as the first artist to record an openly lesbian record album in 1973. Her story, however, opens much earlier in post-war New York City where, growing up in a Communist family, she watches Jackie Robinson steal home, rubs elbows with radical left celebrities like Paul Robeson, and comes of age under the watchful eye of the FBI. Dobkin herself joins the Party at the height of the McCarthy witch hunts and offers readers a first-hand glimpse of daily life as a teenager living under government surveillance." "During this time she also matures as a devotee of folk music, having fallen under the spell of renowned performers such as Leadbelly, and Pete Seeger. 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. Marie, and Flip Wilson, among many other rising luminaries, that she achieves her first acclaim as a singer-songwriter. Her music takes on overt feminist dimensions when she joins a women's consciousness raising group and comes out as a lesbian."--BOOK JACKET.
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- ISBN
- 1593501072 (pbk.)
- 9781593501075 (pbk.)
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries