Girl in a band
Kim Gordon, founding member of Sonic Youth, fashion icon, and role model for a generation of women, now tells her story -- a memoir of life as an artist, of music, marriage, motherhood, independence, and as one of the first women of rock and roll. Gordon tells the story of her family, growing up in...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow Publishers,
[2015]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Online Access: | Go to Downloadable eBook Here. |
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| Summary: | Kim Gordon, founding member of Sonic Youth, fashion icon, and role model for a generation of women, now tells her story -- a memoir of life as an artist, of music, marriage, motherhood, independence, and as one of the first women of rock and roll. Gordon tells the story of her family, growing up in California in the '60s and '70s, her life in visual art, her move to New York City, the men in her life, her marriage, her relationship with her daughter, her music, and her band. She takes us back to the lost New York of the 1980s and '90s that gave rise to Sonic Youth, and the Alternative revolution in popular music. The band helped build a vocabulary of music -- paving the way for Nirvana, Hole, Smashing Pumpkins and many other acts. But at its core, Girl in a Band examines the route from girl to woman in uncharted territory, music, art career, what partnership means -- and what happens when that identity dissolves. |
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| Physical Description: | vii, 273 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 0062295896 (hardcover) 9780062295897 (hardcover) 006229590X (pbk.) 9780062295903 (pbk.) |
| Author Notes: | Gordon, who started out as a visual artist, rose to prominence as the bassist, guitarist, and vocalist of alternative rock band Sonic Youth, which she formed with Thurston Moore in 1981 and stayed with until 2011. She is also a producer, fashion designer, writer, and actress. Her book, Girl in a Band, was published in 2015. (Bowker Author Biography) |
