Lucy O'Brien Event

Origin:: Music

Time:: 14:00 - 15:00
Date:: 6 January 2014
Venue:: Room 2077 Building 2a (Arts Annexe) University of Southampton Highfield Campus SO17 1BJ

For more information regarding this event, please telephone Laurie Stras on 023 8059 2858 or email L.A.Stras@soton.ac.uk .

Event details

A special open lecture on female popular musicians

Lucy O'Brien is an esteemed rock journalist who has written for NME , Q , MOJO , Spare Rib , the Guardian , the Independent , and many other journals. She has written three best-selling biographies of female musicians – Dusty Springfield, Annie Lennox, and Madonna – and her comprehensive history of women in popular music, She Bop: The Definitive History of Women in Rock, Pop and Soul , is now in its third edition.

O'Brien will be speaking about the recent past, present, and future of female popular musicians as the final session of MUSI2088/3090 Flappers to Rappers: Girl Singers in Popular Music. Attendance is compulsory for students on the module, but all students and staff are welcome at the lecture – it promises to be a lively discussion, and an inspiring way to start 2014!