Heavy Music Mothers

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Heavy Music Mothers is a celebration and a critique, challenging essen-tialist narratives of who gets to rock and who gets to mother while offering a roadmap for those who seek to do both ... The authors' honest acknowledgement of imperfection underscores the book's nuanced and empathetic portrait of mothers navigating extreme identities. * Metal Music Studies * Turley and Jocson-Singh's focus on motherhood sets this work apart. Heavy Music Mothers is engaging, unique, well-researched, and an important contribution to the literature concerned with music and gender and how women navigate these traditionally male-dominated spaces. -- Stacy Russo, author of <i>We Were Going to Change the World: Interviews with Women from the 1970s and 1980s Southern California Punk Rock Scene</i> Heavy Music Mothers by Julie Turley and Joan Jocson-Singh offers a brave and important look into what it takes to make extreme music while mothering-and highlights the structural and social barriers that get in the way. These mothers' stories are raw, vulnerable, harrowing, and beautiful, just like the music they make. Heavy Music Mothers will change the way you understand metal, punk, and motherhood. -- Beth Winegarner, author of <i>Tenacity: Heavy Metal in the Middle East and Africa</i>