Mavis bayton biography examples

The author is a sociologist who was a member of an all-women band The Mistakes, who were based in Oxford, England starting in 1978. Apparently Simon Frith was her PhD tutor.

She started with a study of women musicians in bands in the early 80s. However, after her thesis was completed, she was not able to publish a book immediately. So she undertook another round of research and interviews in the mid-90s, at the time of Riot Grrrl (though most of the women she interviewed saw British Riot Grrrl as a media construct that they didn't want to be a part of.) Therefore she had two groups of women to compare.

She notes in the introduction that the book is intentionally written in an accessible manner - it is not dry and doesn't suffer from critical theory language problems.

Due to the way the research was conducted, some of the musicians from the earlier cohort (i.e.

the era this mailing list focuses on) are referred to by pseudony