My Red Blood: A Memoir of Growing Up Communist, Coming Onto the Greenwich Village Folk Scene, and Coming Out in the Feminist Movement

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Bob Dylan's "favorite female singer" and one of the groundbreaking icons in women's music recalls the bohemian folk years of Greenwich Village, the radical left culture that shaped her life and music, and the feminism thatchanged it.

Women's music legend Alix Dobkin for the first time chronicles her rise to fame as the first artist to record an openly lesbian record album in 1973. Her story, however, opens much earlier in post-war New York City where, growing up in a Communist family, she watches Jackie Robinson steal home, rubs elbows with radical left celebrities like Paul Robeson, and comes of age under the watchful eye of the FBI. Dobkin herself ...

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Overview

Bob Dylan's "favorite female singer" and one of the groundbreaking icons in women's music recalls the bohemian folk years of Greenwich Village, the radical left culture that shaped her life and music, and the feminism thatchanged it.

Women's music legend Alix Dobkin for the first time chronicles her rise to fame as the first artist to record an openly lesbian record album in 1973. Her story, however, opens much earlier in post-war New York City where, growing up in a Communist family, she watches Jackie Robinson steal home, rubs elbows with radical left celebrities like Paul Robeson, and comes of age under the watchful eye of the FBI. Dobkin herself joins the Party at the height of the McCarthy witch hunts and offers readers a first-hand glimpse of daily life as a teenager living under government surveillance.

During this time she also matures as a devotee of folk music, having fallen under the spell of renowned performers such as Leadbelly and Pete Seeger. Yet it's after she arrives on the burgeoning folk music scene of Greenwich Village, where she meets the up-and-coming Bob Dylan, Bill Cosby, John Sebastian, Buffy Ste. Marie, and Flip Wilson, among many other rising luminaries, that she achieves her first acclaim as a singer-songwriter. Her music takes on overt feminist dimensions when she joins a women's consciousness raising group and comes out as a lesbian. Rich in period detail, storytelling, and outspoken politics, My Red Blood is essential reading for lovers of music and history.

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  • ISBN-13: 9781593501075
  • Publisher: Alyson Books
  • Publication date: 10/1/2009
  • Pages: 300
  • Sales rank: 1,172,317
  • Product dimensions: 6.00 (w) x 8.90 (h) x 0.90 (d)

Meet the Author

Alix Dobkin

Singer-song writer and producer of the groundbreaking 1973 "Lavender Jane Loves Women," Alix Dobkin has six additional highly praised albums and a songbook to her credit. She lives in Woodstock, NY.

Table of Contents

Preface: Why I Wrote This, or, As Pop Would Say, "Why Is a Cow?

Pt. 1 1934-1952: Red Diaper on a White Horse 1

Pt. 2 1952-1954: Philly 47

Pt. 3 1954-1956: Flat Kansas 75

Pt. 4 1956-1962: Driving My Red Blood 95

Pt. 5 1962-1965: The Folk Biz 149

Pt. 6 1965-1971: Marriage 209

Pt. 7 1971-1972: And Beyond 255

Epilogue 267

Acknowledgments 271

Sources and Resources 273

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