Foxcore

Foxcore is a 1990s rock music genre of bands featuring female singers. According to Joanne Gottlieb and Gayle Wald, the term was coined as a joke by Thurston Moore during the early 1990s to describe a wave of loud and aggressive female-fronted bands that was occurring at the time. Failing to understand Moore's humorous intent, and confusing it with the Riot Grrrl movement of that era, the media picked up on the term.[1][2]

The term was criticized by Courtney Love in a 1991 interview for CKUT Radio for being sexist and tokenizing.[3]

  1. ^ Smells Like Teen Spirit: Riot Grrrls, Revolution and Women in Independent Rock Archived October 27, 2005, at the Wayback Machine, Joanne Gottieb and Gayle Wald, in Microphone Fiends: Youth, Music, and Youth Culture, eds. Andrew Ross and Trica Rose, Routledge, 1994, 250–274. The authors do not cite a source for Moore's comment.
  2. ^ Gaar, Gillian (2002). She's a Rebel (2 ed.). Seal Press. p. 388. ISBN 978-1-58005-078-4.
  3. ^ Patterson, Penny (1991). "The Pretty Side of HOLE - 1991". CKUT Time Capsule.