Evelyn McDonnell
| Evelyn McDonnell | |
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| Born | Glendale, California |
| Occupation | Writer, academic |
| Nationality | American |
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| Period | 1989–present |
| Genre | Memoir, Non-fiction |
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Evelyn McDonnell is an American writer and academic. Writing primarily about popular culture, music, and society, she "helped to forge a new kind of feminism for her generation." She is associate professor of journalism and new media at Loyola Marymount University.
McDonnell was born in Glendale, California and grew up in Beloit, Wisconsin. She was "weaned on the Jackson 5 and the women's movement." Her first concert experiences were with her family at the Milwaukee Summerfest, where she saw Dave Brubeck, Journey and Squeeze. As a teenager, she listened to Iggy Pop and Patti Smith, and would drive to Chicago for shows by artists including New Order and the Dead Kennedys. She attended Brown University and graduated with a BA in American History. In 2010, she earned a master's degree in Specialized Journalism, the Arts,from the University of Southern California, Annenberg School.
In college, McDonnell began writing professionally, first for the Providence NewPaper and then for the Providence Journal. She was a contributing editor for the NewPaper from 1985 through 1989, and then the associate editor of the San Francisco Weekly. In 1996 she was named music editor for the Village Voice. That same year, she founded a fanzine, Resister, "a scholarly arts and literary journal for the masses, a fanzine for the mainstream, a magazine that's raw and sticky, not slick and glassy, a nuts and bolts guide to thought and expression." She was a pop culture writer and music critic for The Miami Herald from 2001-2007.
In the early 90s McDonnell freelanced for publications including Rolling Stone, Spin, Ms., The New York Times, and Billboard. She wrote frequently about bands and musicians associated with the underground feminist punk movement, Riot Grrrl, and was a founding member of Strong Women in Music (SWIM), an activist group supporting women on all music-industry levels. McDonnell wrote: "It was the early '90s, when direct activism, identity politics, hip-hop, and grunge were driving forces of the dawn of the Clinton era. We were a new breed of woman whom pundits, including some in our own ranks, struggled to name: postfeminists, womanists, Riot Grrrls, pro-sex feminists, do-me feminists (a name obviously thought up by a men's magazine), third-wave feminists, lipstick lesbians, bitches with attitudes."
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