My Red Blood: A Memoir of Growing Up Communist, Coming Onto the Greenwich Village Folk Scene, and Coming Out in the Feminist Movement
Women’s music legend Alix Dobkin for the first time chronicles her rise to fame as the first artist to record an openly lesbian album in 1973. Her story, however, opens much earlier in postwar 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...
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David Hadju's Positively Fourth Street with a lesbian twist.
Preface: Why I Wrote This, or, As Pop Would Say, "Why Is a Cow?Pt. 1 1934-1952: Red Diaper on a White Horse 1Pt. 2 1952-1954: Philly 47Pt. 3 1954-1956: Flat Kansas 75Pt. 4 1956-1962: Driving My Red Blood 95Pt. 5 1962-1965: The Folk Biz 149Pt. 6 1965-1971: Marriage 209Pt. 7 1971-1972: And Beyond 255Epilogue 267Acknowledgments 271Sources and Resources 273
