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The Spitboy rule : tales of a Xicana in a female punk band /

Title
The Spitboy rule : tales of a Xicana in a female punk band / Michelle Cruz Gonzales ; preface by Mimi Thi Nguyen ; foreword by Martín Sorrondeguy.
Author
Gonzales, Michelle Cruz,
Publication
  • Oakland, CA : PM Press, 2016.
  • ©2016

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Description
xxi, 135 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
Summary
The story of a Chicana drummer who forged paths of feminism, freedom, and human rights into her all-girl punk rock band in the nineties.
Subject
  • Gonzales, Michelle Cruz
  • Mexican American lesbians > Biography
  • Punk rock musicians > San Francisco Bay Area > Biography
  • Riot grrrl movement > San Francisco Bay Area > History
  • Spitboy (Musical group)
  • Women drummers (Musicians) > San Francisco Bay Area > Biography
  • Women rock musicians > San Francisco Bay Area
Contents
Prologue : a band is not an identity -- Not a riot grrrl band -- Kill white bitch -- Punk points -- Flowers of evil -- The threat -- The female Phil Collins of punk rock drummers -- Come out with your hands up -- Shut up and play -- Spitboy in Little Rock -- Race, class, and Spitboy -- The Spitboy rule -- Fish or Fugazi -- Pete the roadie -- My body is mine -- Kurt Cobain is dead -- Our favorite assumptions -- Homesickness cure -- Soundchecks, lesbians, and long sets -- Vivendo asperamente -- Turning Japanese -- Spitboy : the creation story.
ISBN
  • 9781629631400
  • 162963140X
LCCN
2016930958
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library