Frock Rock

This is a study of women playing instruments in bands: pop, rock, indie, soul etc. from punk until today. The author, an academic and musician, carried out over 100 interviews with women playing in British bands from the late 1970s to the mid-1990s. Although the book is primarily sociological it is easily accessible by the general reader and rich with quotations. It explains the shortage of female instrumentalists and explores the routes and life experiences which have been taken by those exceptional women who do play in bands.