"We're Bikini Kill. And we want Revolution Girl-style now!!!" In the
early 1990s, a female youth movement named Riot Grrrl formed around the
feminist punk band Bikini Kill. The band's singer, Kathleen Hanna,
became one of the most visible and outspoken activists of Riot Grrrl,
which gained momentum particularly in the Pacific Northwest and
Washington, D.C. Jannika Bock looks at the beginnings of the youth
movement and uncovers its reliance on Second Wave feminists and their
works. In her analysis she traces Riot Grrrl's double allegiance: its
indebtedness to feminism and the (male) punk scene, two seemingly
opposing discourses. Culminating in a case study of Biniki Kill and
their first CD Jannika Bock demonstrates how Riot Grrrl re-interpreted
the punk narrative in feminist terms. The book is geared towards
Americanists and Musicologists, former activists of the youth movement
and all people interested in this exciting part of US cultural history.