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Before Quatro's success, rock was dominated by men. In his paper ''I Wanna Be Your Man: Suzi Quatro's musical androgyny'', Philip Auslander points out that the many women in rock by the late 1960s mostly performed only as singers, "a traditionally feminine position in popular music". For example, since [[Janis Joplin]] did not play guitar on stage, even she "cannot be seen as a powerful figure in the context of the rock culture of her time". Though some women (like Quatro herself) played instruments in American all-female garage rock bands, none of these bands achieved more than regional success. So they "did not provide viable templates for women's on-going participation in rock".<ref name="I Wanna Be Your Man"> |
Before Quatro's success, rock was dominated by men. In his paper ''I Wanna Be Your Man: Suzi Quatro's musical androgyny'', Philip Auslander points out that the many women in rock by the late 1960s mostly performed only as singers, "a traditionally feminine position in popular music". For example, since [[Janis Joplin]] did not play guitar on stage, even she "cannot be seen as a powerful figure in the context of the rock culture of her time". Though some women (like Quatro herself) played instruments in American all-female garage rock bands, none of these bands achieved more than regional success. So they "did not provide viable templates for women's on-going participation in rock".<ref name="I Wanna Be Your Man"> |
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Annie Get Your Gun - 1986 London Cast is an album recorded by the cast of the 1986 London production of Irving Berlin's musical Annie Get Your Gun, starring Suzi Quatro as Anne Oakley.
It is Quatro's ninth studio album. Quatro is the first female bass player to become a major rock star — this success in the 1970s empowered women (at a time when rock was dominated by men).
The musical Annie Get Your Gun is based on a book by the same name, written by Herbert and Dorothy Fields. The story covers Oakley's romance with Frank Butler while they were exhibition shooters in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
In real life, Butler became Oakley's manager when she became the star attraction in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. Oakley then became the first American female superstar.
Background
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Before Quatro's success, rock was dominated by men. In his paper I Wanna Be Your Man: Suzi Quatro's musical androgyny, Philip Auslander points out that the many women in rock by the late 1960s mostly performed only as singers, "a traditionally feminine position in popular music". For example, since Janis Joplin did not play guitar on stage, even she "cannot be seen as a powerful figure in the context of the rock culture of her time". Though some women (like Quatro herself) played instruments in American all-female garage rock bands, none of these bands achieved more than regional success. So they "did not provide viable templates for women's on-going participation in rock".[1]: 2–3 When Quatro emerged in 1973, "no other prominent female musician worked in rock simultaneously as a singer, instrumentalist, songwriter, and bandleader".[1]: 2
Quatro's career as an actor started in 1977 when she had a recurring role as Leather Tuscadero in the US TV sitcom Happy Days.[2]
On 12 April 1982 Quatro appeared in a BBC television program called An Evening with Andrew Lloyd Webber. During his show, Webber suggested that Quatro should star in in Annie Get Your Gun.[2]
References
- ^ a b Auslander, Philip (28 January 2004). "I Wanna Be Your Man: Suzi Quatro's musical androgyny" (PDF). Popular Music. 23 (1). United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press: 1–16. doi:10.1017/S0261143004000030. Retrieved 9 May 2012.
- ^ a b "Suzi Quatro Timeline". www.thecoverzone.com. Bristol, USA: Suzi Quatro Rocks - Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Mission. Retrieved 9 May 2012.
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