Julie Turley and Joan Jocson-Singh are the authors of Heavy Music Mothers: Extreme Identities, Narrative Disruptions published by Lexington Books in April. Joan and Julie are both librarians, Julie at Kingsborough Community College and Joan, formerly at Lehman College, is now library director at the new Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles. They are also both musicking mothers and rock and metal music scholars. In this episode, they talk with another librarian and rock music scholar, Monica Berger, who works at New York City College of Technology. All three are supremely knowledgeable and passionate about women and rock/metal music. If this topic happens to be up your alley, be sure to stay tuned to the end for the call for collaboration.
Joan Jocson-Singh is the inaugural library director at the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art and moderates a Facebook group where Metal academics and librarians discuss all things metal. Read more about her work here.
Julie Turley is Assistant Professor and Open Education Librarian at Kingsborough Community College. She is also a fiction writer with work in North American Review, Quarterly West and other journals. Her music research has included Mötley Crüe, “rock ‘n’ recovery” memoirs, and mothers who participate in rock and heavy metal music subcultures.
Monica Berger is Associate Professor and Instruction and Scholarly Communications Librarian at the Ursula C. Schwerin Library at the New York City College of Technology.
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