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Girl in a Band

Kim Gordon

Hardcover | Pages: 273 pages

Rating: 3.61 | 21464 Users | 1751 Reviews

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Title	:	Girl in a Band
Author	:	Kim Gordon
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition (U.S.)
Pages	:	Pages: 273 pages
Published	:	February 24th 2015 by Dey Street Books (first published February 2015)
Categories	:	Music. Nonfiction. Autobiography. Memoir. Biography

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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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Original Title:	Girl In A Band
ISBN:	0062295896 (ISBN13: 9780062295897)
Edition Language:	English URL http://www.harpercollins.com/9780062295897/girl-in-a-band
Literary Awards:	Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Memoir & Autobiography (2015)

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A very fast read and quite illuminating though not for the reasons one might expect. I was pretty dismayed at how Kim's elitism and namedropping goes hand in hand with her playing punk rock contests and speaking really harshly about other women. It's one thing to say Courtney Love is crazy but quite another to complain just chapters before, how sexist it was to call a brash woman "crazy". It's one thing to admit to dating older, influential, stifling men as a young women but quite another to say

Maskenfreiheit: The Freedom Conferred by Masks"In general, though women aren't really allowed to be kick-ass. It's like the famous distinction between art and craft: Art and wilderness, and pushing against the edges, is a male thing. Craft and control, and polish, is for women. Culturally we don't allow women to be as free as they would like, because that is frightening. We either shun those women or deem them crazy. Female singers who push too much, and too hard, don't tend to last very long.

So hard to say what I feel about this book. It's full of a lot of pain, as Kim clearly and heartily states her case and shows her wounds over her split with Thurston Moore. But outside of that, there is an odd blankness, a cool recounting of a sequence of events. It reminded me a little of Viv Albertine's book, of a woman at the heart of various scenes and engaged and creative within them, but simultaneously seeming and being swept along by cultural history. Maybe women are better able to accept

Thurston Moore is a narcissist, New York City used to be cool but now is all Pret A Mangers, and here's a bunch of art dealers you're not cool enough to know.There, you've read the book. It's amazing how uninteresting an incredibly interesting life can be.

i know I'm in the minority of most readers of Kim Gordon's "Girl in a Band," but I think the book would be a lot more interesting if she focused on her childhood and then the New York years. I liked her descriptions of Manhattan life in the late 70s and early 80's - and also the sections that deals with her ill brother. If I was the editor, I would ask more writing about her family as well as the early stages of being an artist among other artists in the New York world. The marriage part is too

COULD NOT BE MORE EXCITED.- - -Edit: Ok, now I've read. I savored! This book was everything I hoped for and sometimes more and sometimes less. That it was just a little bit flawed makes it feel more intimate a portrayal.Kim Gordon is an icon of counter-culture. I looked up to her when I was a teen, and she's one of few people I looked up to *then* that I can say I still do *now*. She has a whip smart internal compass that has guided her through decades of style and dozens of interesting

Interesting and at times even moving, but mostly, there is a distance there and whether or not it's because there are places she doesn't want to go or doesn't care to take you, I'm not sure. There is something very unresolved about it as a memoir but again, that's ok - she's in the middle of a major life change and you can feel it. Not that different from how I feel about Sonic Youth, a band I liked and even admired, but never felt a heart connection to. All that said, I still enjoyed reading it