ALIX DOBKIN, MY RED BLOOD: A MEMOIR OF GROWING UP COMMUNIST, COMING ONTO THE GREENWICH VILLAGE FOLK SCENE, AND COMING OUT IN...
10/03/2010 12:00 pm
Location:
- Street:
- Village Books
- Additional:
- 1200 Eleventh Street
- City:
- Bellingham ,
- Province:
- Washington
- Postal Code:
- 98225
- Country:
- United States
Women's music legend Alix Dobkin chronicles her rise as the first artist to record an openly lesbian album, Lavender Jane Loves Women (1973). She begins in postwar-NYC where, growing up in a Communist family, she rubs elbows with radical Left celebrities like Paul Robeson and comes of age under FBI surveillance. She arrives on the burgeoning Greenwich Village folk music scene achieving her first acclaim as a singer-songwriter, before her work and life take an overt feminist turn and she comes out as a lesbian. Rich in period detail, storytelling, and outspoken politics, this is essential reading for lovers of music and history.
A free event to include some live music from this legendary performer!
2012 Chuckanut Writers Conference
