{"product_id":"holes-live-through-this-9781623563776","title":"Hole's Live Through This","description":"\u003cp\u003eCourtney Love has never been less than notorious. Her intelligence, ambition and appetite for confrontation have made her a target in a music industry still dominated by men. As Kurt Cobain's wife she was derided as an opportunistic groupie; as his widow she is pitied, and scorned, as the madwoman in rock's attic. Yet Hole's second album, \u003ci\u003eLive Through This\u003c\/i\u003e, awoke a feminist consciousness in a generation of young listeners.\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLive Through This arrived in 1994, at a tumultuous point in the history of American music. Three years earlier Nirvana's Nevermind had broken open the punk underground, and the first issue of a zine called Riot Grrrl had been published. Hole were of this context and yet outside of it: too famous for the strict punk ethics of riotgrrrl, too explicitly feminist to be the world's biggest rock band. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eLive Through This\u003c\/i\u003e is an album about girlhood and motherhood; desire and disgust; self-destruction and survival. There have been few rock albums before or since so intimately concerned with female experience. It is an album that changed lives - so why is Courtney Love's achievement as a songwriter and musician still not taken seriously, two decades on?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnwen Crawford\u003c\/b\u003e is an Australian writer. She is the music critic for \u003ci\u003eThe Monthly\u003c\/i\u003e magazine, and her essays have appeared in publications including \u003ci\u003eFrieze\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOverland\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLoops: Writing Music\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50644583874834,"sku":"9781623563776","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f39bbfcc-e702-44b9-beb1-7c7e7d58e730.jpg?v=1733116639","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/holes-live-through-this-9781623563776","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}