A Seat at the Table: Interviews with Women on the Frontline of Music

Amy Raphael

Softcover | 15.2 x 3 x 23.2 cm | 304 pp

Virago | 2019 | 9780349009827

Writer and critic Amy Raphael has interviewed some of the world's most iconic musicians, including Courtney Love, Patti Smith, Björk, Kurt Cobain and Elton John. In 1995 she wrote the critically-acclaimed Never Mind the Bollocks: Women Rewrite Rock, which included a foreword by Debbie Harry. More than two decades on, the music business has changed, but the way women are regarded has not. In this book Raphael interviews eighteen women who work in the music industry about learning to speak out, #MeToo, social media, queer politics and the subtleness of everyday misogyny.

Featuring interviews with:

CHRISTINE & THE QUEENS
IBEYI
KATE (now KAE) TEMPEST
ALISON MOYET
NADINE SHAH
JESSICA CURRY
MAGGIE ROGERS
EMMY THE GREAT
DREAM WIFE
NATALIE MERCHANT
LAUREN MAYBERRY
POPPY AJUDHA
KALIE SHORR
TRACEY THORN
MITSKI
CATHERINE MARKS
GEORGIA
CLARA AMFO

'Variously optimistic, troubling, joyful, illuminating, fierce and thoughtful' GUARDIAN

'Fascinating and illuminating' STYLIST

'Perceptive and candid' IRISH TIMES

'A fascinating, brilliant book, full of joy, rage, a love of music' THE SKINNY