Women Drummers: A History From Rock And Jazz To Blues And Country

Combining archival research with personal interviews of over 50 female drummers representing more than eight decades in music history, Women Drummers: A History from Rock and Jazz to Blues and Country paints a vivid picture of their struggles to overcome discrimination not only as professional musicians but in other parts of their lives. Looking back several centuries, drum historian Angela Smith outlines the evolution of the woman drummer from pre-biblical times when women held important leadership roles to their silencing by the church during the middle ages to their changing role as they sp ...

• | Author: Angela Smith
• | Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• | Publication Date: Apr 10, 2014
• | Number of Pages: 316 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0810888343
• | ISBN-13: 9780810888340