Beate Bartel, Gudrun Gut, Bettina Koster - M_Dokumente - Mania D., Malaria!, Matador

184 page softcover book. Extensive show of works by the three iconographic underground bands. The book project M_Dokumente focuses on the explicitly female perspective of the all-female bands Mania D., Malaria! and Matador on the West Berlin music and art scene from the late 1970s on. The three bands around Bartel, K?ster and Gut played concerts, released records and toured around the world in different formations from 1979 on. What stood out and was new was the self-determined appearance of the musicians, which was reflected in their music and lyrics as well as in their unique style and the genre-crossing approach of more art in the music, more music in the art. To this day, the three M_Bands are considered visionary, they shaped a new image of women in pop culture and are pioneers and role models for important and necessary emancipator movements in the music industry. With oral history documentary by and with Beate Bartel, Gudrun Gut and Bettina K?ster as well as contributions by Nick Cave, Diedrich Diederichsen, Christine Hahn, Peter B?mmels, Mark Reeder, Scumeck Sabottka, and Annett Scheffel. In German and English. ?Beginning in West Berlin, in 1979, with the inception of Mania D., spawning Malaria! and later Matador; in a time when music was essential to movement, to escape, to space, to the scene and to the rebellion of the people; three bands stood for trial and error, trial and terror, anti-conformity, and anti-consumerism, for girl power and sticking it to the man, and for just doing whatever the hell they wanted.? ANNIKA HENDERSON (ANIKA)