Dr. Lisa R. Rhodes This is Me

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1. 1. San Diego CityBEAT

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   Published on: 8/10/2005   Last Visited: 8/10/2005

   If the preceding declaration doesn't meet your high standards for learned analysis, you might want to be there at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Aug. 15, when Temple University American studies professor Lisa Rhodes goes a little bit deeper as she discusses and signs copies of her book, Electric Ladyland: Women and Rock Culture, an exploration of how the roles of women in the music industry-artists, journalists and groupies-changed in the formative '60s and '70s.

2. 2. AFT - Pubs-Reports - AFT On Campus - May/June 2006 - Newsmakers

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   Published on: 3/12/2005   Last Visited: 7/13/2006

   Lisa Rhodes remembers going backstage as the headliner, the front person for her rock 'n' roll band, and being mistaken for ... a groupie. Or a journalist. Even when it was her name on the marquis.
   
   Times have changed for Rhodes. Once on the cover of Billboard and in the pages of People magazine, playing guitar before tens of thousands in the 1980s and jamming with Joan Jett and Stevie Ray Vaughan, she now lectures before classrooms of students enrolled in introductory American studies. She doesn't perform much-though she did pick up the guitar for the faculty Christmas party last year-and the superstars she admires most are academic heavyweights doing research down the hall. But Rhodes, a lecturer at Temple University and a member of the Temple Association of University Professionals (TAUP)/AFT, uses her backstage savvy in her book, Electric Ladyland: Women and Rock Culture, bringing to life women's roles in rock between 1965 and 1975.
   
   Since then, times have changed backstage as well, though not as much as Rhodes would like. Women may get more attention, and press coverage in magazines like Rolling Stone and the Village Voice, but it still frequently focuses more on how they look than how they sound.
   
   Back in the '60s and '70s, women were a relatively rare breed in rock. Although Rhodes first played guitar when she was 9, inspired by her older brother's garage band, it was another three years before she saw another girl holding a guitar. For her, it didn't matter. "I loved doing it," she remembers.
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   Rhodes examines the press on influential musicians like Aretha Franklin, her hero Janis Joplin, Cass Elliott and Karen Carpenter, as well as the journalists who covered them, and groupies like Cynthia Plaster Caster and Pennie Lane.
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   At Temple for three years, Rhodes teaches media classes as well as gender and censorship in 20th-century film and music, television and American culture, and the history of American sexuality. Her next book, But Can She Play, considers women instrumentalists from 1965 to 1975.
   
   Rhodes' work as a lecturer in a field that frequently explores the rights of women has made her especially appreciative of TAUP's "great job" negotiating partner benefits, among other things.
   
   As a colleague of Lewis Gordon, a Temple philosophy professor pilloried in David Horowitz's recent book, The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America, Rhodes also applauds AFT's leadership against the Horowitz-led "Academic Bill of Rights," a move toward government oversight of academia.
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   Gordon's work "is respected worldwide and he's aiming to expand people's rights," says Rhodes.

3. 3. Ruby Cadilac Band Pages

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   Published on: 10/17/2004   Last Visited: 2/28/2006

   While playing out with Midlife Crisis I came across an inspiring front person, Lisa Rhodes, who also is a song writer. We got together and put out an anti-war song "Blood for Oil." We have collaborated on other material and continue to write and record. Dr. Rhodes is a professor at Temple University in Philadelphia which makes this a long distance musical endeavor. This is my closest effort to electronica, incorporating digital WAV files. Every time Lisa and I get together we come up with new material. It¹s a dream come true for a songwriter.
   
   Lead Guitar ­ Ruby Cadilac - Vocals/Rhythm Guitar ­ Lisa Rhodes