Happy holidays, everyone! After a bit of a hiatus on this project, I’m now at work behind the scenes on a whole bunch of new biographies and blog posts—as well as hopefully some site updates—all to come in 2021. I’m so grateful to everyone who has reached out with suggestions and other leads since womeninrockproject.org […]
When rock and roll first became popular, some performers who had already established themselves in other genres had to walk a fine line between capitalizing on the fad and alienating existing fans. Several records by women from this era show that one technique to strike this balance was to perform songs that juxtaposed rock and […]
Some of rock and roll’s best known girl groups—the Supremes, Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, the Ronnettes—were active in the 1960s, but the girl group phenomenon has roots in the 1950s. It was during the 50s that the first prominent vocal groups made up of teenage girls began to show up on the popularity charts, […]