This is a memoir with a pop-culture twist: music critic. Evelyn McDonnell brings her punk-rocker rebel perspective to her new role as wife and mum of three. Any parent may well ask "What's the connection between my youthful self, and the old fart my kids think I am?" This question is especially relevant for Evelyn McDonnell, a new mum looking back on her bohemian, feminist, punk-rock, East Village glory days and wondering is the new me still the old me? The answer is yes: a baby changes everything but yourself. In fact, though she may no longer write for the Village Voice, don a gorilla mask or march in gay pride parades, her revolutionary spirit is strengthened by having an added investment in the future - her son. As she makes the personal transformation from Riot Girl to Rebel Mum, this music journalist gives an eyewitness account of the cultural movements of the 90s, from alternative rock and third-wave feminism to hip-hop, raves, and Rent, and through this pop-culture lens confronts the conventions and pressures of modern motherhood.
- ISBN10 0738210544
- ISBN13 9780738210544
- Publish Date 30 January 2007
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 23 March 2011
- Publish Country US
- Publisher INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES US
- Imprint Da Capo Press Inc
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 272
- Language English