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Dey Street Books
March 2015
On Sale: February 24, 2015
290 pages
ISBN: 0062295896
EAN: 9780062295897
Kindle: B00M70S96S
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Non-Fiction Memoir
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.
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