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Mammoth List of Feminist/Girl Power Books (200 + Books)

Lists of Real, Amazing Women Throughout History

Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Remarkable Women Who Changed the World by Ann Shen

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls by Elena Favilli & Francesca Cavallo

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls 2 by Elena Favilli & Francesca Cavallo

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Immigrant Women Who Changed the World by Elena Favilli & Francesca Cavallo

Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World by Pénélope Bagieu, Montana Kane (Translator)

Rejected Princesses: Tales of History's Boldest Heroines, Hellions, and Heretics by Jason Porath

Tough Mothers: Amazing Stories of History’s Mightiest Matriarchs by Jason Porath

Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World by Rachel Ignotofsky

Bygone Badass Broads: 52 Forgotten Women Who Changed the World by Mackenzi Lee

Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed History by Sam Maggs

The Little Book of Feminist Saints by Julia Pierpont

Rad Women Worldwide: Artists and Athletes, Pirates and Punks, and Other Revolutionaries Who Shaped History by Kate Schatz

Warrior Women: 3000 Years of Courage and Heroism by Robin Cross & Rosalind Miles

Women Who Dared: 52 Stories of Fearless Daredevils, Adventurers, and Rebels by Linda Skeers & Livi Gosling

100 Nasty Women of History by Hannah Jewell

The Warrior Queens by Antonia Fraser

Sea Queens: Women Pirates Around the World by Jane Yolen

The Book of Gutsy Women: Favorite Stories of Courage and Resilience by Hillary Rodham Clinton & Chelsea Clinton

Fight Like a Girl: 50 Feminists Who Changed the World by Laura Barcella

Samurai Women 1184–1877 by Stephen Turnbull

A Black Woman Did That by Malaika Adero

Tales from Behind the Window by Edanur Kuntman

Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists: A Graphic History of Women's Fight for Their Rights by Mikki Kendall

Witches and Pagans: Women in European Folk Religion, 700-1100 by Max Dashu

Mad and Bad: Real Heroines of the Regency by Bea Koch

Modern HERstory: Stories of Women and Nonbinary People Rewriting History by Blair Imani

Individual and Group Portraits of Real, Amazing Women Throughout History

Alice Paul and the Fight for Women's Rights: From the Vote to the Equal Rights Amendment by Deborah Kops

Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All by Martha S. Jones

Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life by Jane Sherron De Hart

The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice by Patricia Bell-Scott

I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai, Christina Lamb

Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA by Amaryllis Fox

Native Country of the Heart: A Memoir by Cherríe L. Moraga

The Soul of a Woman by Isabel Allende

Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly

Ashley's War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Alice Diamond and the Forty Elephants: The Female Gang That Terrorised London by Brian McDonald

Women Against the Raj: The Rani of Jhansi Regiment by Joyce Chapman Lebra

Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution by Sara Marcus

The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women Across the Ancient World by Adrienne Mayor

Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars by Nathalia Holt

The Women of WWII (Non-Fiction)

Women Heroes of World War II: 26 Stories of Espionage, Sabotage, Resistance, and Rescue by Kathryn J. Atwood

Skyward: The Story of Female Pilots in WWII by Sally Deng

The Women with Silver Wings: The Inspiring True Story of the Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II by Katherine Sharp Landdeck

The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II by Svetlana Alexievich, Richard Pevear (Translation), Larissa Volokhonsky (Translation)

Les Parisiennes: How the Women of Paris Lived, Loved, and Died Under Nazi Occupation by Anne Sebba

To Serve My Country, to Serve My Race: The Story of the Only African-American Wacs Stationed Overseas During World War II by Brenda L. Moore

Standing Up Against Hate: How Black Women in the Army Helped Change the Course of WWII by Mary Cronk Farrell

Sisters and Spies: The True Story of WWII Special Agents Eileen and Jacqueline Nearne by Susan Ottaway

A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II by Sonia Purnell

The White Mouse by Nancy Wake

Code Name Hélène by Ariel Lawhon

Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II by Liza Mundy

Tomorrow to be Brave: A Memoir of the Only Woman Ever to Serve in the French Foreign Legion by Susan Travers & Wendy Holden

Pure Grit: How WWII Nurses in the Pacific Survived Combat and Prison Camp by Mary Cronk Farrell

Sisterhood of Spies by Elizabeth P. McIntosh

Spy Princess: The Life of Noor Inayat Khan by Shrabani Basu

Women in the Holocaust by Dalia Ofer

The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos by Judy Batalion

Night Witches: The Untold Story of Soviet Women in Combat by Bruce Myles

The Soviet Night Witches: Brave Women Bomber Pilots of World War II by Pamela Jain Dell

A Thousand Sisters: The Heroic Airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II by Elizabeth Wein

A Dance with Death: Soviet Airwomen in World War II by Anne Noggle

Avenging Angels: The Young Women of the Soviet Union's WWII Sniper Corps by Lyuba Vinogradova

The Women of WWII (Fiction)

Among the Red Stars by Gwen C. Katz

Night Witches by Kathryn Lasky

Night Witches by Mirren Hogan

Night Witch by S.J. McCormack

Flygirl by Sherri L. Smith

Daughters of the Night Sky by Aimie K. Runyan

The Lost Girls of Paris by Pam Jenoff

Code Name Verity series by Elizabeth Wein

Front Lines trilogy by Michael Grant

The Alice Network by Kate Quinn

All-Girl Teams (Fiction)

The Seafire trilogy by Natalie C. Parker

Elysium Girls by Kate Pentecost

The Good Luck Girls by Charlotte Nicole Davis

The Effigies trilogy by Sarah Raughley

Guardians of the Dawn series by S. Jae-Jones

Wolf-Light by Yaba Badoe

Undead Girl Gang by Lily Anderson

Burned and Buried by Nino Cipri

This Is What It Feels Like by Rebecca Barrow

The Wild Ones: A Broken Anthem for a Girl Nation by Nafiza Azad

We Rule the Night by Claire Eliza Bartlett

Tigers, Not Daughters by Samantha Mabry

The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion by Fannie Flagg

Saving CeeCee Honeycutt by Beth Hoffman

Bad Girls Never Say Die by Jennifer Mathieu

The Secret Life of Prince Charming by Deb Caletti

Kamikaze Girls by Novala Takemoto, Akemi Wegmüller (Translator)

The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See

The Passion of Dolssa by Julie Berry

The Scapegracers by Hannah Abigail Clarke

Sisters in Sanity by Gayle Forman

The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place by Julie Berry

The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix

The Lost Girls by Sonia Hartl

Hell's Belles series by Sarah MacLean

Jackdaws by Ken Follett

The Farmerettes by Gisela Tobien Sherman

A Sisterhood of Secret Ambitions by Sheena Boekweg

Feminist Retellings

Stepsister by Jennifer Donnelly

Poisoned by Jennifer Donnelly

Girls Made of Snow and Glass by Melissa Bashardoust

The Girl Who Fell Beneath The Sea by Axie Oh

Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins by Emma Donoghue

Doomed by Laura Pohl

The Seventh Bride by T. Kingfisher

The Boneless Mercies by April Genevieve Tucholke

Seven Endless Forests by April Genevieve Tucholke

The Queens of Innis Lear by Tessa Gratton

A Thousand Nights by E.K. Johnston

Kate Crackernuts by Katharine M. Briggs

Legendborn series by Tracy Deonn

One for All by Lillie Lainoff

Feminist Dystopian and Horror Fiction

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

The Grace Year by Kim Liggett

Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrand

Godshot by Chelsea Bieker

Women and Girls in Comedy

Crying Laughing by Lance Rubin

Stand Up, Yumi Chung by Jessica Kim

This Will Be Funny Someday by Katie Henry

Unscripted by Nicole Kronzer

Pretty Funny for a Girl by Rebecca Elliot

Bossypants by Tina Fey

We Killed: The Rise of Women in American Comedy by Yael Kohen

The Girl in the Show: Three Generations of Comedy, Culture, and Feminism by Anna Fields

Trans Women

Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More by Janet Mock

Nemesis series by April Daniels

American Transgirl by Faith DaBrooke

Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock's Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout by Laura Jane Grace

A Safe Girl to Love by Casey Plett

Gracefully Grayson by Ami Polonsky

Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars by Kai Cheng Thom

Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family by Amy Ellis Nutt

George by Alex Gino

The Witch Boy series by Molly Ostertag

Uncomfortable Labels: My Life as a Gay Autistic Trans Woman by Laura Kate Dale

She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders by Jennifer Finney Boylan

An Anthology of Fiction by Trans Women of Color by Ellyn Peña

Wandering Son by Takako Shimura

Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg

Feminist Poetry

Women Are Some Kind of Magic trilogy by Amanda Lovelace

Wild Embers: Poems of Rebellion, Fire and Beauty by Nikita Gill

Fierce Fairytales: Poems and Stories to Stir Your Soul by Nikita Gill

Great Goddesses: Life Lessons from Myths and Monsters by Nikita Gill

The Girl and the Goddess by Nikita Gill

A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland by DaMaris B. Hill

Feminist Philosophy and Facts

The Creation of Patriarchy by Gerda Lerner

The Creation of Feminist Consciousness: From the Middle Ages to Eighteen-Seventy by Gerda Lerner

Misogyny: The World's Oldest Prejudice by Jack Holland

White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color by Ruby Hamad

We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism by Bushra Rehman

Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics by bell hooks

Here We Are: Feminism for the Real World by Kelly Jensen

The Equality Illusion by Kat Banyard

White Feminism: From the Suffragettes to Influencers and Who They Leave Behind by Koa Beck

Everyday Sexism by Laura Bates

I Have the Right To by Chessy Prout & Jenn Abelson

Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World by Kumari Jayawardena

The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir

How to Suppress Women's Writing by Joanna Russ

Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color by Andrea Ritchie

Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism by bell hooks

Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment by Patricia Hill Collins

But Some of Us Are Brave: All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men: Black Women's Studies by Akasha Gloria Hull, Patricia Bell-Scott, Barbara Smith Women, Race, and Class by Angela Y. Davis This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherríe L. Moraga, Gloria E. Anzaldúa

Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas D. Kristof & Sheryl WuDinn

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde

Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay

Difficult Women by Roxane Gay

Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay

Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture by Roxane Gay

This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by by Cherríe Moraga & Gloria Anzaldúa

Power Shift: The Longest Revolution by Sally Armstrong

Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney Cooper

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall

Had It Coming: What's Fair in the Age of #MeToo? by Robyn Doolittle

She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story that Helped Ignite a Movement by Jody Kantor & Megan Twohey

#Notyourprincess: Voices of Native American Women by Lisa Charleyboy

Girl Rising: Changing the World One Girl at a Time by Tanya Lee Stone

Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers: Monstrosity, Patriarchy, and the Fear of Female Power by Sady Doyle

Sisterhood is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings from the Women's Liberation Movement by Robin Morgan (Editor)

Girls Make Media by Mary Celeste Kearney

Rock She Wrote: Women Write about Rock, Pop, and Rap by Evelyn McDonnell (Editor)

You Play the Girl: And Other Vexing Stories That Tell Women Who They Are by Carina Chocano

Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl: A Memoir by Jeannie Vanasco

The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers by Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Editor), Hollis Robbins (Editor)

Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman by Lindy West

A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf

Believe Me: How Trusting Women Can Change the World by Jessica Valenti and Jaclyn Friedman Bread Out of Stone: Recollections, Sex, Recognitions, Race, Dreaming, Politics by Dionne Brand

Other General Girl Power/Feminist Awesomeness

The Edge of Anything by Nora Shalaway Carpenter

Kat and Meg Conquer the World by Anna Priemaza

Talk Before Sleep by Elizabeth Berg

The Female of the Species by Mandy McGinnis

Pulp by Robin Talley

Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera

How to Save a Life by Sara Zarr

That Summer by Sarah Dessen

Someone Like You by Sarah Dessen

Honey, Baby, Sweetheart by Deb Caletti

The Girl With the Louding Voice by Abi Daré

Mrs. Everything by Jennifer Weiner

Beauty Queens by Libba Bray

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

American Girls by Alison Umminger

Don't Think Twice by Ruth Pennebaker

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women by Alice Walker

You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down: Stories by Alice Walker

Wonder Woman: Warbringer by Leigh Bardugo

Sula by Toni Morrison

Rose Sees Red by Cecil Castellucci

A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik

Moxie by Jennifer Mathieu

Rules for Being a Girl by Candace Bushnell & Katie Cotugno

None of the Above by I.W. Gregorio

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Orlando by Virginia Woolf

Everything Must Go by Jenny Fran Davis

The House on Olive Street by Robyn Carr

Orange Is the New Black by Piper Kerman

Queens of Geek by Jen Wilde

Lady Luck's Map of Vegas by Barbara Samuel

Fan the Fame by Anna Priemaza

Puddin' by Julie Murphy

A Heart in a Body in the World by Deb Caletti

Gravity Brings Me Down by Natale Ghent

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See

The Summer of Impossibilities by Rachael Allen

The Dead Girls of Hysteria Hall by Katie Alender

Don't Tell a Soul by Kirsten Miller

After the Ink Dries by Cassie Gustafson Girl, Unframed by Deb Caletti

We Are the Ashes, We Are the Fire by Joy McCullough

Maybe He Just Likes You by Barbara Dee

Things a Bright Girl Can Do by Sally Nicholls

The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart

Uprising by Margaret Peterson Haddix

The Cure for Dreaming by Cat Winters

Dress Coded by Carrie Firestone

The Prettiest by Brigit Young

Don't Judge Me by Lisa Schroeder

The Roommate by Rosie Danan

Tomboy: A Graphic Memoir by Liz Prince

Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Present by Lillian Faderman

All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation by Rebecca Traister

Paper Girls comic series by Brian K. Vaughan

Heavy Vinyl comic series by Carly Usdin

Please feel free to reblog with more!

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dustedmagazine · 8 years ago

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Joseph Burnett: 2016 in review

2016, you shan’t be missed. Thus far, most year-end round-ups outside of Breitbart and whatever equivalent we have for Der Stürmer these days (er, Breitbart?) have lamented the hideous direction the world has taken over the last 12 months. They’ve reeled off a list of lost artistic heroes that suggests whomever has taken up the job of ferrying the dead over the Styx once failed an audition to be harpist for Zeus and has a Manson-esque grudge against the talented as a result. So, whilst I can’t not mention the trauma of losing Bowie, Prince, Pauline Oliveros, two-thirds of ELP, Victoria Wood, Alan Rickman, Leonard Cohen, Andrzej Wajda, Dale Griffin of Mott the Hoople and my personal most harrowing Tony Conrad, like the shameful Brexit vote and baffling Trump triumph, I’d rather not dwell on these matters. The three letters “R.I.P.” convey more than I ever could. And I mean “R.I.P. humanity,” not just those individuals mentioned above. Actually, fuck you, 2016.

So yeah, war, a refugee crisis, prejudice, nationalism and dead artists dominated 2016, but there was music too, and some of it was outstanding (as was a film that for me was the most important made in the UK for over a decade: I, Daniel Blake). Sadly, two stand-out albums from 2016 came from artists who departed this mortal coil not long afterwards: David Bowie’s Blackstar and Pauline Oliveros’ duo album with another casualty of 2016, Connie Crothers, First Meeting Still Sounding. The latter was only released as a tribute to pianist Crothers and tragically became one for Oliveros as well. It’s a wondrous meeting of two expansive and forward-thinking talents and a fitting farewell from both. As, in a rather different way, was Blackstar. I only heard the album after David Bowie had joined the ever-growing list of departed icons, so it seems impossible to divorce it from his passing, especially the wonderful “Lazarus.” But in addition being a farewell from an artist who had a profound impact on my life, it’s his most solid and musically coherent album in about two decades, benefitting notably from a gorgeous jazz-inflected production. An additional shout out must go to Leonard Cohen’s You Want it Darker, a bleak, introspective collection of songs that also sees an artist in the twilight of his existence reflecting on that stark reality.

The legendary ECM Records had something of a bumper year to please admirers of their particular stylistic production and jazz fans as a whole. Wadada Leo Smith —whose colossal America’s National Parks was another highlight— teamed up with Vijay Iyer for the quietly spectacular A Cosmic Rhythm with Every Stroke, Golfam Khayam and Mona Matbou Riahi produced an undoubted masterpiece in Narrante, and Jack deJohnette bridged past and present on his delightful In Movement to deliver an achingly poignant reflection on the travails of African-Americans as they face racism and policemen’s guns. Special mention also to Theo Bleckmann, Carla Bley, Wolfert Brederode, Tigran Hamasyan and Ches Smith for their own masterful releases on ECM. Sarathy Korwar produced an intriguing post-jazz exercise in the form of Day to Day on NinjaTune, and beyond the specific realm of jazz the field of experimental music continues to throw up exciting and challenging works even in these straightened times, with composer Ben Johnston, Graham Lambkin, Cindytalk, Rhodri Davies and Richard Dawson’s Hen Ogledd and Oren Ambarchi all making it into my top 30 list. And I can’t not mention the wondrous drone works of Catherine Christer Hennix (both archival and new), Yves Tumor’s fractured pop or Gary Mundy’s expansively beautiful noise experiments in his solo incarnation as Kleistwahr.

But, and this is purely on a personal level, electronic music delivered the most consistently exciting music of the year. In the UK, producers continue to probe where we go after dubstep and its quasi-punk levelling of form, something most notable in Kuedo’s Slow Knife, which may just have provided us with a clear run into the future. Meanwhile, many a British producer continued to delve into the hidden interstices of reality, as evidenced by Demdike Stare’s weird meshing of harsh techno and dub, the amalgamation of dark poetry and brittle electronica of eMMplekz, Pye Corner Audio’s horror-sci-fi dance and the sepulchral ambient techno of Andy Stott. And what to make of Dean Blunt’s sardonic take on Brexit Britain as Babyfather? His oblique but piercing political stance found an echo across the pond with Fatima Al Qadiri’s Brute, and even — away from electronica per se — Frank Ocean’s magnificent follow up to Color Orange, Blonde. But it’s impossible to look past Grumbling Fur and Furfour as the most perfect album of the year. Going beyond the promise of their past releases, Daniel O’Sullivan and Alexander Tucker elevated pop song into the most enthralling medium of expressing both joy and mystery, transcending dance, avant-garde, folk and hauntology in the process.

It’s perhaps not surprising that in this fractured world we find comfort in the folk expressions of specific locations. The aforementioned Golfam Khayam and Mona Matbou Riahi took the exotic folk of their native Iran and spliced it with European avant-garde, whilst Aşıq Nargilə delivered an intoxicating aperçu of Georgian and Azeri troubadour music with a live set from London’s Café Oto, superbly preserved on vinyl by the diligent peeps of the venue themselves. Closer to home (well mine), Laura Cannell continues to sketch and sublimate the landscapes of England’s East Anglia via her recorders and fiddle. Also plundering and resurrecting the traditions of the UK’s hidden reverse is the Folklore Tapes label, a wonderful combination of record company and research project whose founders Ian Humberstone and David Chatton Barker have dedicated the last five or so years to resurrecting forgotten traditions of the land of my birth, in musical form. In 2016, two reissues of their Devon series (for those unfamiliar with UK geography, Devon is one of our wildest and most historically deep counties) and a new set of music inspired by the Black Dog mythology of England, crystallized Folklore Tapes as a singularly important, even crucial, vehicle for the preservation of some of the most fragile collective memories in Britain.

If 2016 severed us so painfully from so many greats, I want to end by saluting two veterans who refuse to give up the ghost. Neil Young has slipped down the ranks of the intelligentsia’s appraisals when it comes to singer-songwriters, I think because he has traded in abstraction for visceral, sometimes slap-dashed and clumsy, invective. But fuck it, I wish more of our younger artists had his passion and anger, because we need it more than ever. Peace Trail is not some grand return to seventies form, but it’s important, often beautiful, and contains one of his best songs in a while in the title track. I’m glad he’s still out there. More impressive and welcome perhaps, however, was the return of Shirley Collins after a studio silence of no less than 38 years. At 81, her voice is more frail and strained than in her Love, Death and the Lady heyday, but rather than being a weakness, it only adds to the spectral beauty and gravitas of Lodestar. In such turbulent times, knowing Shirley Collins is out there, producing such incredible music and shining through the night with her humanity, is a real comfort.

So yeah, fuck 2016 and fingers crossed 2017 won’t be such a bummer. Now forgive me whilst I reach for my copies of Lodestar and Furfour and hope that when I open my eyes the world will be gone...

Grumbling Fur — Furfour (Thrill Jockey)

Golfam Khayam & Mona Matbou Riahi — Narrante (ECM)

Catherine Christer Hennix — Live at Issue Project Room (Important)

Yves Tumor — Serpent Music (PAN)

Andy Stott — Too Many Voices (Modern Love)

Shirley Collins — Lodestar (Domino)

Kuedo — Slow Knife (Planet Mu)

Pye Corner Audio — Stasis (Ghost Box)

Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith — A Cosmic Rhythm with Each Stroke (ECM)

Demdike Stare — Wonderland (Modern Love)

Aşıq Nargilə — Yurt Yeri (OtoRoku)

Kepler Quartet/Ben Johnston — String Quartets Nos 6, 7 & 8 (New World)

Laura Cannell — Simultaneous Flight Movement (Brawl)

Jenny Hval — Blood Bitch (Sacred Bones)

Frank Ocean — Blonde (Def Jam)

Babyfather — BBF Hosted by DJ Escrow (Hyperdub)

eMMplekz — Rook to TN34 (Mordant Music)

Kleistwahr — Over Your Heads Forever (Fourth Dimension)

Jack deJohnette — In Movement (ECM)

David Bowie — Blackstar (Sony/Columbia)

Fatima Al Qadiri — Brute (Hyperdub)

Graham Lambkin — Community (Kye)

Gate — Saturday Night Fever (MIE Music)

Cindytalk — The Labyrinth of the Straight Line (Editions Mego)

Pauline Oliveros & Connie Crothers — First Meeting Still Sounding (Important)

Tongues of Light — Channelled Messages at the End of History (Pre—Cert Home Entertainment)

Ian Humberstone — Folklore Tapes Occultural Creatures Vol.1: Black Dog Traditions of England (Folklore Tapes)

Oren Ambarchi — Hubris (Editions Mego)

Hen Ogledd — Bronze (alt.vinyl)

Neil Young — Peace Trail (Warner Reprise)

Archive & reissue

LaMonte Young & Marian Zazeela — The Theatre of Eternal Music: Dream House 78’17” (Les Série Shandar)

AMM — AMMMusic (Black Truffle)

Magpahi/Paper Dollhouse — Devon Folklore Tapes Vol.IV: Rituals & Practices (Folklore Tapes)

This Heat — This Heat / Deceit (Light in the Attic)

Catherine Christer Hennix — Central Palace Music from 100 Model Subjects For Hegikan Roku (Important)

Awalom Gebremariam — Desdes (Awesome Tapes from Africa)

Dean McPhee / Mary Arches — Devon Folklore Tapes Vol.V: Ornithology (Folklore Tapes)

Ragnar Johnson assisted by Jessica Mayer — Sacred Flute Music from New Guinea (Ideologic Organ)

Harry Bertoia — Sonambient (Important)

Yoshi Wada — Off the Wall (Important)

Best tracks

Frank Ocean: “Nikes”

David Bowie: “Lazarus”

Grumbling Fur: “Acid Ali Khan”

Kuedo: “In Your Sleep”

Neil Young: “Peace Trail”

Leonard Cohen: “You Want it Darker”

Shirley Collins: “Awake Awake /The Split Ash Tree / May Carol / Southover”

eMMplekz: “Britain’s Go Talon”

Anohni: “Drone Bomb Me”

Yves Tumor: “The Feeling When You Walk Away”

#joseph burnett #year-end 2016 #grumbling fur #Golfam Khayam & Mona Matbou #Catherine Christer Hennix #Yves Tumor #Andy Stott #Shirley Collins #Kuedo #Pye Corner Audio #Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith #Demdike Stare #frank ocean #david bowie #year end 2016

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londontheatre · 7 years ago

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Meera Syal (Miss Hannigan)

Michael Harrison and David Ian, Producers of the West End production of Annie are delighted to announce that from 27th November 2017, Meera Syal will join the Company to play the role of Miss Hannigan for the duration of the run which concludes, as previously announced, on 18 February 2018 at the Piccadilly Theatre.

Nikolai Foster’s West End production opened in May this year with Miranda Hart as Miss Hannigan and last month Craig Revel Horwood joined the Company to play the role. Following the conclusion of the West End run Annie will embark on a five-week visit to the Ed Mirvish Theatre in Toronto.

British comedian, actor and writer Meera Syal was last on stage earlier this year in a profoundly affectionate, passionate devotion to someone (-noun) at the Royal Court Theatre where her previous credits include Serious Money and The Great Celestial Cow. Her other theatre credits include Romeo & Juliet at the Garrick Theatre, Behind the Beautiful Forevers and Rafta Rafta for the National Theatre, Much Ado About Nothing for the Royal Shakespeare Company, The Killing of Sister George at the Arts Theatre, Shirley Valentine for the Menier Chocolate Factory, Bombay Dreams at the Apollo Victoria, My Girl for Theatre Royal Stratford East and Goodness Gracious Me on tour. On television, she is best known for her work in the BBC’s comedy series The Kumars at No. 42 and Goodness Gracious Me as well as roles in Midsomer Murders, Broadchurch, The Boy in the Dress, Silk, Bollywood Carmen, Doctor Who, The Amazing Mrs Pritchard, The Secretary Who Stole £4 Million, Linda Green and Life Isn’t All Ha Ha Hee Hee. Her film credits include Absolutely Anything, Desert Flower, You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, Beautiful Thing, It’s Not Unusual as well as the forthcoming The Nutcracker and the Four Realms. As a writer, her work includes My Sister Wife and Anita & Me. Syal was made an MBE in 1997 and a CBE in 2015.

The West End Company of Annie also includes Alex Bourne as Daddy Warbucks, Holly Dale Spencer as Grace Farrell, Jonny Fines as Rooster and Djalenga Scott as Lily. The title role of Annie is shared by Madeleine Haynes, 14-years old from Hadley Wood, Barnet, Lola Moxom, 12-years old from Rochester, Kent and Ruby Stokes, 12-years old from Hampshire. They are joined by three teams of young performers who play the girls in Miss Hannigan’s orphanage. Amber, a 4-year-old Labradoodle, plays Annie’s dog Sandy. Completing the adult company are Russell Wilcox, Bobby Delaney, Keisha Atwell, Sophie Ayers, Nic Gibney, Patrick Harper, Ben Harrold, George Ioannides, Megan Louch, Benjamin Mundy, Ben Oliver, Heather Scott-Martin, Anne Smith, Kate Somerset How and Katie Warsop.

Set in 1930s New York during The Great Depression, brave young Annie is forced to live a life of misery and torment at Miss Hannigan’s orphanage. Her luck changes when she is chosen to spend Christmas at the residence of famous billionaire, Oliver Warbucks. Meanwhile, spiteful Miss Hannigan has other ideas and hatches a plan to spoil Annie’s search for her true family…

Annie has book by Thomas Meehan adapted from the comic strip Little Orphan Annie, music by Charles Strouse and lyrics by Martin Charnin. The West End production has sets and costumes designed by Colin Richmond, choreography by Nick Winston, lighting by Ben Cracknell, sound design by Richard Brooker and orchestration and musical direction by George Dyer.

Foster’s production arrived in the West End 40 years after the original Broadway production opened in 1977 and received seven Tony awards including the Best Musical, Best Score and Best Book. The last West End production of Annie opened at the Victoria Palace Theatre in 1998. In 1982, Annie was adapted for the big screen directed by John Huston with a cast including Carol Burnett, Bernadette Peters and Albert Finney and in 2014 a further feature film was released, directed by Will Gluck, with a cast including Cameron Diaz and Jamie Foxx. The much-loved score includes the classics It’s A Hard Knock Life, Tomorrow and Easy Street.

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Craig Revel Horwood will join the West End Company to play the role of Miss Hannigan for 10 weeks. In addition, it is announced today that Nikolai Foster’s production will extend booking at the Piccadilly Theatre to 18 February 2018.

Best known on television as a judge on the BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing and for a role he returns to this Autumn, Craig Revel Horwood received great critical acclaim in Foster’s production of Annie that toured the UK in 2015. Previously in the West End he has performed the role of Munkustrap in Cats, was Dance Captain in Miss Saigon and played the role of Harry in Crazy for You. His production of Son of a Preacher Man will open in Bromley in September before embarking on an extensive UK tour. During his 10-week run, because of his Strictly Come Dancing commitments, Craig Revel Horwood will not play the role of Miss Hannigan on Saturdays.

Craig Revel Horwood said: “I am so pleased to be returning to the West End, especially to a role I had such a brilliant time performing on tour. Miss Hannigan is evil, sassy and fab-u-lous. It will be a real challenge for me not to take her man-hungry, wicked ways to the Strictly judging panel each Saturday night – though I am sure my fellow judges will keep me in check! I can’t wait to get started.”

The Annie West End Company also includes Alex Bourne as Daddy Warbucks, Holly Dale Spencer as Grace Farrell, Jonny Fines as Rooster and Djalenga Scott as Lily. The title role of Annie is shared by Madeleine Haynes, 13-years old from Hadley Wood, Barnet, Lola Moxom, 12-years old from Rochester, Kent and Ruby Stokes, 12-years old from Hampshire. They are joined by three teams of young performers who play the girls in Miss Hannigan’s orphanage. Amber, a 4 year-old Labradoodle, plays Annie’s dog Sandy. Completing the company are adult are Russell Wilcox, Bobby Delaney, Keisha Atwell, Sophie Ayers, Nic Gibney, Patrick Harper, Ben Harrold, George Ioannides, Megan Louch, Benjamin Mundy, Ben Oliver, Heather Scott-Martin, Anne Smith, Kate Somerset Howand Katie Warsop. Miranda Hart will play the role of Miss Hannigan until 17 September 2017.

Annie has book by Thomas Meehan adapted from the comic strip Little Orphan Annie, music by Charles Strouse and lyrics by Martin Charnin. The West End production will have sets and costumes designed by Colin Richmond, choreography by Nick Winston, lighting by Ben Cracknell, sound design by Richard Brooker and orchestration and musical direction by George Dyer.

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After the siren: Saints go from pretenders to contenders

IN A football season as even as this, any time a team can put together a winning streak of four matches, then it is worth taking note of.

That’s where St Kilda sits right now aftera 67-point thrashing of Richmond at Etihad Stadium on Saturday night, capping off a great month of football that has the club firmly in the finals mix once more.

In the space of those four weeks the Saints have gone from one of the more disappointing teams in the competition to one of the most impressive. After three straight defeats that culminated in a 57-point Friday night stinker against Adelaide, the Saints have knocked over North Melbourne (17 points), Gold Coast (31 points), Fremantle (nine points) and then the Tigers, and have looked better with every passing week.

Their opening half might have been the best played by any team this year and at one stage late in the third term they led by 95 points. Had they kept their foot to the floor all evening they would have flipped places with the Tigers and given themselves a chance of being in the top four come the end of the round.

The template the Saints have been building towards was on show for all to see and enjoy. Manic ball movement with excellent spread, and plenty of aggression when they didn’t have it. On Saturday night, they seemed to have the right mix of speed and grunt, but it is a weekly challenge to get the combination right, hence their bid to bring Josh Kelly to the club next year.

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The Saints also derived great benefit from the new tactic of putting work into Alex Rance. Port’s Jackson Trengove did it well for a half last week, but Nick Riewoldt did it for even longer on what was a special night for him. Riewoldt is a master and in his 17th season still finds a way to add a new dimension to his game and that of St Kilda.

Plenty of hype surrounded the Saints entering this season and many had them pencilled in as the team most likely to break into the eight. They were a bit more cautious, saying there could yet be improvement without necessarily making the finals. But the Saints, like the little girl in the taco ad, might get to have both – improvement and finals.

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Lewis shows his worth in Demons’ vital win

Where to start after a magnificent game of football at the MCG on Sunday?

The Blues were into Jordan Lewis all afternoon, and fair enough after the events from when they played earlier this season, after which the former Hawk was rubbed out for three weeks. This time, he kept his emotions in check and delivered one of his most important games for Melbourne. Lewis had 24 touches in a depleted midfield and some veteran savvy at the end to find space, call out for a pass from Alex Neal-Bullen and then take the mark to milk the final 30 seconds off the clock and kick the goal on the final siren for the cherry on top for the Demons.

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The question going in was how Melbourne would fare with three gun injured midfielders – Jack Viney, Nathan Jones and Dom Tyson – watching on from the stands. A fair bit was resting on Clayton Oliver and he was terrific with 29 disposals, 15 contested possessions and nine tackles, but it was also a day the Demons will be glad they made the play to get Lewis.

The Blues weren’t helped when their own midfield gun Patrick Cripps went off injured and were two short for much of the afternoon when Simon White was hurt as well. But they nearly lifted the roof off the MCG with three quick goals to open the last quarter and one of the most courageous wins of the Brendon Bolton era seemed on the cards.

But then the Demons dug in and the contest that finally decided the match was when Neville Jetta halved a marking contest with Dale Thomas on the outer wing. It probably says a bit about where Thomas is at these days, in that he smartly won the ball at ground level, but he went sideways rather than towards the goals because he just doesn’t have the acceleration he once did.

Another feature was the six contested marks to Carlton’s Levi Casboult, who will surely become a wealthier man next year when he signs a new deal, either with the Blues or a different suitor. He has just about the best hands in the competition. The only rider will be that surely, Sav Rocca – ostensibly Carlton’s kicking coach but in reality the Levi-whisperer – comes across with Casboult in a package deal.

Irrespective of all that, this has become a bit of a rivalry in the AFL, so memo to fixturing boss Travis Auld: put these two clubs on a Friday night sometime next year.

Clarko’s grand plan begins to take shape

Is it possible that the ‘reverse tank’ is taking place at Hawthorn?

Coach Alastair Clarkson admitted last week that the finals haven’t been on the radar at the Hawks for the last six weeks or so, but in that time they have beaten Sydney and Adelaide on the road and drawn with Greater Western Sydney.

Hawthorn might have bottomed out already and the transformation has been built on youth. If you take Luke Hodge out of the backline, the group that quelled the uber-qualified Giants forwards for large stages on Saturday comprised Blake Hardwick, Kurt Heatherley, Kaiden Brand, Ryan Burton and James Sicily. The Hawks have long been confident in the quality of the youth they have been stockpiling, but who haven’t been given the opportunity until now, for obvious reasons.

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Of course, the Hawks have little incentive to finish near the bottom this year because their first-round draft pick later this year belongs to St Kilda, courtesy of the Jaeger O’Meara trade.

The coaching from Clarkson continues to be outstanding and he has flipped the team around. Taylor Duryea and Will Langford forward, Sicily back and Jack Gunston further up the ground. And how was the ambition to try and win the game with 12 seconds left on Saturday? Had there been 13 seconds, they would have pinched it.

Hawthorn won’t play finals this year, but wouldn’t it be ironic if this was finally the year that Clarkson wins his first coach of the year award? If the formline continues, then he has to be in the conversation, which is quite something.

Other observations

1. ‘Nathan Buckley watch’ is now officially on. It will be a drawn-out process and nothing will happen immediately because Pies president Eddie McGuire is out of the country. But Buckley’s demeanour changed after the loss to Essendon on Saturday that effectively ended Collingwood’s season, and the prediction here is of some sort of dignified, mutual decision before the end of the season that will bring six largely disappointing years as coach to an end. But he won’t be sacked and he will coach until the end of the season. A bit has to change at the Pies but Buckley will be treated with respect and affection from here on in and rightly so. But the decision to make a change will be the right one.

2. Technically speaking, Port Adelaide still hasn’t beaten a team in the top eight this year given that as of the end of this round, West Coast is now ninth place. But that’s being way too harsh. This was a stirring win by the Power in a remarkable game in which they kicked the first four goals, fell behind by 24 points in the second term, then totally dominated after half-time, winning contested possessions by 11, clearances by four and inside 50s by 19. That’s a belting in anyone’s language and the sort of form that should stand up in the frenzy of September. The story of the game was Port’s goalscorers – five to Charlie Dixon, three to Robbie Gray and two each to Justin Westhoff, Jackson Trengove and Paddy Ryder. Port is loaded with scoring power – excuse the pun – and it will take a strong backline to keep it in check from here.

3. This is West Coast’s final season at Domain Stadium before the move to the palace by the river at Burswood. For so long a fortress, the Eagles have lost three of their past four games there and if they miss the finals or find themselves in the lower reaches of the eight, which seems likely, the lack of a killer punch at home will be a key reason why.

4. The story in Sydney gets better by the week – this time it was a five-goal haul to Gary Rohan – and the build-up to the Sydney rivalry this week will be huge. The lingering question over the Swans will be how much petrol they will have left in the tank after this barnstorming run to the finals.

5. The Cats took a calculated risk in moving their entire football operation out of Geelong for a week, but it appeared to have paid off. Instead of returning home after their game in Sydney last week the Cats decamped straight to the Gold Coast and spent the week there preparing for their clash with Brisbane at the Gabba. It is standard practice in the NFL for teams who have back-to-back games on the opposite side of the country to stay in the area for the week and there is no surprise that a club as professional as the Cats made it work so well. Nor are we surprised that Patrick Dangerfield didn’t spend the week up north – he was otherwise occupied for the birth of young George Dangerfield – yet was still best on ground, despite not training with his teammates all week.

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6. Ryan Nyhuis was probably about tuck into an extra pancake at breakfast on Sunday when the Dockers informed him he was coming in for his debut game to replace the ill David Mundy as a late replacement. And what a first game it was, with four goals including the last two of the game to help Freo to a four-point win, their first in six weeks. Not only that, but as he explained to Fox Footy afterwards, it was one of the first games he had ever played in the forward line. Bulldogs forward Clay Smith is the only other current AFL player to have kicked four goals on debut.

7. It was another close loss for the Kangas, with the result decided once and for all with Todd Goldstein’s miss from a set shot with only a few minutes to go. It spared a few blushes for young Freo ruckman Sean Darcy who grabbed Goldstein around his shoulder and gave away the free kick. North did well to get back into the game and take the lead in the final quarter, but the Kangas dug themselves a hole early on with a poor first quarter. The Kangas are getting games into the kids, but that, and the gold-star form of Shaun Higgins, are about the only positives of their season.

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8. Add Jake Lever to the list of those playing great footy while weighing up gargantuan contract offers next season. He had 22 possessions and nine marks and joins Josh Kelly and Dustin Martin as those watching their value go up by the week.

9. Now that Luke Beveridge is admitting that there might be an issue with the Dogs’ hunger, it might be the first step towards properly addressing why the club’s premiership defence has been so lousy.

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