Förlagstext:
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, written with the lyricism and haunting
beauty of Patti Smith's Just Kids.
Often described as aloof, Kim Gordon opens up as never before in Girl in a Band.
Telling 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, Girl in a Band is a rich and beautifully written memoir.
Gordon
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.
Evocative and edgy, filled with the sights and sounds of a changing world and a transformative life, Girl in a Band is the fascinating chronicle of a remarkable journey and an extraordinary artist.
Boktitel: Girl in a Band. A Memoir
Författare: Kim Gordon
Bokförlag: Dey St.Etiketter: Nya böcker