Girl in a Band
Book description
A new edition, part of the Faber Greatest Hits series -- books that have taken writing about music in new and exciting directions for the twenty-first century.
In Girl in a Band Kim Gordon, founding member of Sonic Youth and role model for a generation of women, tells her story.…
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1 author picked Girl in a Band as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I was very surprised by this book about Kim Gordon the bassist of the band Sonic Youth. It wasn’t what I was expecting.
Kim Gordon was someone I always thought of as very cool and extremely reserved. In her memoir she opens up quite a bit about who she is, as opposed to the persona she had been given in the band Sonic Youth. Playing music was not her first love—it was art.
I loved reading about her artistic explorations, traveling with hippies in California, and being a free spirit. She describes tenderly her relationship with her older brother Keller…
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