Bøger af Kim Gordon

“Unconventional. . . . Not a garden-variety rock memoir . . . [but] a strange and lovely book about  a woman finding and losing herself onstage and off and crafting a complicated creative life when  none of the molds quite fit.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review“Engaging and surprisingly intimate.”—Vanity Fair“More than a memoir, though one of the most riveting music biographies ever penned.”—Examiner.comFor many, Kim Gordon, vocalist, bassist, and founding member of Sonic Youth—one of the most influential and successful bands to emerge from the post-punk New York scene—has always represented the epitome of cool. And almost as celebrated as the band’s defiantly dissonant sound was the marriage between Gordon and her then husband, Thurston Moore. When it was announced that the couple was splitting after twenty-seven years of marriage, fans were devastated.In Girl in a Band, this famously reserved superstar speaks candidly about her past and the future. From her childhood in the sunbaked suburbs of Southern California, growing up with a mentally ill sibling, to New York’s downtown art and music scene in the eighties and nineties and the birth of a band that would pave the way for acts like Nirvana, as well as help inspire the Riot Grrl generation, here is an edgy and evocative portrait of a life in art.Exploring the artists, musicians, and writers who influenced her, and the relationship that defined her life for so long, Girl in a Band is filled with the sights and sounds of a pre-Internet world and is a deeply personal portrait of a woman who has become an icon.

An edgy and evocative visual self-portrait by musician and artist Kim Gordon, indie-underground cultural icon and muse of style for four decades.

Often described as aloof, Kim Gordon opens up as never before in Girl in a Band. Telling the story of her family, 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 usher in-paving the way for Nirvana, Hole, Smashing Pumpkins and many other acts. But at its core, Girl in a Band examines what partnership means-and what happens when it dissolves.

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.” MØ

Imagine a world in which there is a huge rising up of godly women who are drawing closer to God, experiencing spiritual growth along with their husbands, and moving mountains of marital difficulties because of learning how to be the helper that God intended them to be! Imagine that you are one of those women! There is power and promise in your prayers. This book serves as an inspiration for wives who want to lift their husbands through prayer, but often don't know how to start or what to say. Inside you'll find ways to prepare your heart and mindset, exemplary prayers that you can make personal, multiple scriptures for inspiration, and thoughtful questions. If you are a wife or soon-to-be wife of any age, any stage of life, any level of faith, then this book is for you. God longs to see your heart loving and cherishing your husband through prayers; prayers that God loves to answer.

Throughout the 1980s and early ''90s, Kim Gordon—widely known as a founding member of the influential band Sonic Youth—produced a series of writings on art and music. Ranging from neo-Conceptual artworks to broader forms of cultural criticism, these rare texts are brought together in this volume for the first time, placing Gordon''s writing within the context of the artist-critics of her generation, including Mike Kelley, John Miller, and Dan Graham. In addressing key stakes within contemporary art, architecture, music, and the performance of male and female gender roles, Gordon provides a prescient analysis of such figures as Kelley, Glenn Branca, Rhys Chatham, Tony Oursler, and Raymond Pettibon, in addition to reflecting on her own position as a woman on stage. The result—Is It My Body?—is a collection that feels as timely now as when it was written. This volume additionally features a conversation between Gordon and Jutta Koether, in which they discuss their collaborations in art, music, and performance.Institut für Kunstkritik Series