The history of the female rock musicians in Argentina.
The role of women in the rock industry has always been eclipsed by the presence of men. Their incorporation to the music scene went hand in hand with the different feminist movements in the second half of the 20th century. The Light Shines for Them covers the evolution of rock music after the inclusion of women, from the arrival of rock in Argentina in the 1960s to the current days.
It starts with the story of friends, girlfriends and groupies of the members of the most successful national bands in the 60s, and the first female musicians who recorded their own songs in the 70s –like Gabriela, María Rosa Yorio, o Mirtha Defilpo–, precursors of the Argentinian feminism and rock music.
But it also takes the audience to the 1980s and 90s, the golden age for those women who started to have a more prominent role in the national rock scene, the media, and the big corporations which finally invested big amounts of money on them. From that moment onwards, rock diversifies in several subgenres and styles, both within the mainstream and the underground music. This is the time when icons like Fabiana Cantilo, Hilda Lizarazu, Celeste Carballo and Patricia Sosa emerge.
The Light Shines for Them gathers the different lives of female musicians, rock journalists, managers, press workers, photographers, technicians and all those other women who fought for their visibility in the music industry.
RELEVANT DATA: The Light Shines for Them is a story never told before, which possesses all the ingredients to become a potential TV series: female-lead stories, based on true events, with well-known icons from the music scene, and the feminist movements.
“This story needed to be told. There’s an enormous research work behind it and it covers the presence of all the women who took part in the Argentinian rock music from its very beginnings”. Amazon
“This work presents all the actual female pioneers of the movement, the tradition of the genre that started in the 1960s up to the present, and provides an explanation to why there is almost no official registration about all these women”. Infobae
Romina Zanellato, journalist specialized in music and feminism, has given several interviews in rock.com, Radio Universidad Nacional de La Plata, and infobae to present her work.
AUDIOVISUAL POTENTIAL: TV Series, Miniseries, Film, TV Movie.
LANGUAGES AVAILABLE: Spanish.
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