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Leader of the Pack: RIP Ellie Greenwich
Ellie Greenwich, October 23, 1940 – August 26, 2009American singer, songwriter, and producer Ellie Greenwich died yesterday of a heart attack. Greenwich was best known for writing and co-writing such...
View ArticlePreacher's Daughter: An Introduction
My name is Kristin Rawls, and, yes, I am a preacher's daughter. I'm in my early 30s, and I was raised in an unusual blend of Protestant traditions. The preacher (my dad) grew up in the Southern Baptist...
View ArticlePreacher's Daughter: St. Vincent's "Cruel" Take on Labor
Over the weekend, St. Vincent's upcoming album, Strange Mercy, started streaming on NPR. The woman behind the band, multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter Annie Clark, started out as a member of the...
View ArticlePreacher's Daughter: PJ Harvey's Apocalypse Now
Last week, I wrote about apocalyptic themes and imagery in contemporary music. In closing out that discussion (at least for now), I use PJ Harvey's February LP, Let England Shake*, as a jumping off...
View ArticlePreacher's Daughter: Q&A with Lesbian Christian Singer-Songwriter Jennifer Knapp
In May, Religion Dispatches published my first interview with former darling of the Christian contemporary music scene, lesbian singer-songwriter Jennifer Knapp. Then over the summer, I got to meet and...
View ArticlePreacher's Daughter: Women in Country and the Construction of Femininity
There's a script for women in commercial country music that doesn't necessarily coincide with more mainstream stereotypes and assumptions about women. If you've ever heard Carrie Underwood's ubiquitous...
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