Girl in a Band
Min historie
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- 259,00 kr
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- 259,00 kr
Publisher Description
Kim Gordon var en af frontfigurerne i det banebrydende postpunkband Sonic Youth. I dag er hun et ikon i rock- og modebranchen – aldrig mainstream, ofte på forkant. I sin bog fortæller hun om sin opvækst, om hvordan det er at være ”pigen i bandet” i en mandsdomineret rockverden, og om ægteskabet med guitaristen i bandet, Thurston Moore, som ender brat og dramatisk.
Kim Gordon kommer fra det, hun beskriver som ”en helt almindelig middelklasseopvækst”, der også rummer smertelige barndoms- og ungdomserindringer om hendes psykisk syge bror – erindringer der har været med til at forme den, hun er. Gordon søger væk fra ”det normale”, og som helt ung fascineres hun af og søger mod det eksperimentelle kunstnermiljø i New York. Hun afsøger flere kunstarter, og hendes bog er også en historien om, hvordan hun – ofte lidt tilfældigt – tager turen fra fascineret iagttager til udøvende kunstner og trendsætter inden for musik, mode og design.
“Kim Gordon. Hun er den sejeste i hele verden.”
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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In this intriguing memoir, Sonic Youth founding member Kim Gordon describes a life in art and music that led her through the undergrounds of Los Angeles and New York City, a journey framed by the dissolution of her 27-year marriage to bandmate Thurston Moore. Raised in L.A. by academic parents, Gordon surfed the last waves of '60s counterculture into art school and the seedy, dynamic New York City of the late-1970s. An article she wrote for Real Life magazine titled "Trash Drugs and Male Bonding" led her to play guitar in a performance art piece; soon afterward she met Moore, five years younger than the 27-year-old Gordon but already a working musician. Gordon writes, "I joined a band, so I could be in that male dynamic, not staring through a closed window.... That essay unlocked the next thirty years of my life." The strength of Gordon's prose lies in her evocation of places the dappled light of L.A. canyons, the clamor and steaming heat of Hong Kong, the N.Y.C. loft scene. The descent of her older brother, Keller, into schizophrenia shadows the first half of the book; Moore's adultery the second. Although Gordon includes expected list of celebrities she met throughout life, her unique sensibility never fades.
