Ellen James Society was a
rockRock music is a genre of popular music that entered the mainstream in the 1960s. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, rhythm and blues, country music and also drew on folk music, jazz and classical music....
band, based in Atlanta, that was fronted by
Cooper SeayCooper Seay was a member of the rock bands Ellen James Society and Viva la Diva. She recently released a solo album, Fin de Siecle, on Moksha Records, as "E. Cooper Seay". She also works as a Bikram and Sivananda yoga instructor in Austin, Texas. E...
and Chris McGuire. Gary Held, Jan Dykes, Scott Bland, and Bryan Lilje were also members at various times. They formed in 1987 and disbanded in the early 1990s after releasing two albums on
Daemon RecordsDaemon Records is an Atlanta, Georgia based, not-for-profit independent record label started by musician Amy Ray of the Indigo Girls. The label is run mostly by the musicians who record on it....
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They took their name from a fictitious group of women who cut off their tongues to protest the
rapeRape, also referred to as sexual assault, is an assault by a person involving sexual intercourse with or without sexual penetration of another person without that person's consent....
of an (also fictitious) eleven-year-old girl, Ellen James, whose tongue was cut off by her attackers in order to prevent her from identifying them.
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Ellen James Society was a
rockRock music is a genre of popular music that entered the mainstream in the 1960s. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, rhythm and blues, country music and also drew on folk music, jazz and classical music....
band, based in Atlanta, that was fronted by
Cooper SeayCooper Seay was a member of the rock bands Ellen James Society and Viva la Diva. She recently released a solo album, Fin de Siecle, on Moksha Records, as "E. Cooper Seay". She also works as a Bikram and Sivananda yoga instructor in Austin, Texas. E...
and Chris McGuire. Gary Held, Jan Dykes, Scott Bland, and Bryan Lilje were also members at various times. They formed in 1987 and disbanded in the early 1990s after releasing two albums on
Daemon RecordsDaemon Records is an Atlanta, Georgia based, not-for-profit independent record label started by musician Amy Ray of the Indigo Girls. The label is run mostly by the musicians who record on it....
.
They took their name from a fictitious group of women who cut off their tongues to protest the
rapeRape, also referred to as sexual assault, is an assault by a person involving sexual intercourse with or without sexual penetration of another person without that person's consent....
of an (also fictitious) eleven-year-old girl, Ellen James, whose tongue was cut off by her attackers in order to prevent her from identifying them. The group was the creation of
John IrvingJohn Winslow Irving is an American novelist and Academy Award-winning screenwriter.Irving achieved critical and popular acclaim after the international success of The World According to Garp in 1978...
in his novel
The World According to GarpThe World According to Garp is John Irving's fourth novel. Published in 1978, the book was a bestseller for several years.A movie adaptation starring Robin Williams was released in 1982, with a screenplay written by Steve Tesich.-Plot:...
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