Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl: A Memoir
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| Rating | : | 4.31 (529 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1594486638 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-11-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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An Best Book of November 2015:Hunger Made Me a Modern Girl isn't the stately, studio-oriented music memoir that we've seen in the wake of Keith Richards's epic Life--Townshend, Costello, and others--but perhaps most closely resembles Chrissie Hynde's Reckless, at least in spirit, if not content: both are relatively short, intensely personal, and less concerned with chord progressions than personal progression (Hynde’s being particularly gritty). And when she finds he
Along the way, Brownstein chronicles the excitement and contradictions within the era’s flourishing and fiercely independent music subculture, including experiences that sowed the seeds for the observational satire of the popular television series Portlandia years later. Seeking a sense of home and identity, she would discover both while moving from spectator to creator in experiencing the power and mystery of a live performance. Accessibly raw, honest and heartfelt, this book captures the experience of being a young woman, a born performer and an outsider, and ultimately finding one’s true calling through hard work, courage and the intoxicating power of rock and roll.. They would be cited as “America’s best rock band” by legendary music critic Greil Marcus for their defiant, exuberant brand of punk that resisted labels and limitations, and redefined notions of gender in rock. With deft, lucid prose Brownstein proves herself as formidable
"A good memoir even without context" according to Trevor Seigler. If you want me to tell you all about Sleater-Kinney, Riot Grrrl, and PortlandiaI can't. I know nothing about any of these topics. I know that S-K were a band (and are, as they've reformed), and I have heard the term "Riot Grrrl" thrown around in books about music in the Nineties. And Portlandia is some show that I've heard of only in passing. So maybe I'm not the ideal audience for this bookbut then again, maybe I am."Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl," by Carrie Brownstein, was the subject of a review on the Onion's AV Club that I . Robin O. Harris said Punk Rock, All-girl Bands, and Cats and Dogs to Boot!. Without seeing Carrie Brownstein on a television talk show, I can guarantee my Kindle library list would never included "Hunger Makes Me a Modern Woman:A Memoir." However, seeing her guest appearance on theLate Night Show with Stephen Colbert revealed Brownstein as an intelligent, funny, articulate woman that I wanted to know more about. I am not a musician; I detest punk rock; know very little about the girl bands and the indie musical movement in the Northwest begun in the 1990s. Sure, I was familiar with the names Nirvana and. Amazon Customer said what actual rocking out is like, what it is not. Where do you even freakin begin? amiright?!I was 16 at their show in Northampton, MA finally seeing my fave band live. All Hands and Dig Me Out got me through and now the real deal of Carrie's book. That entire storyscape is the story told in this memoir. Just getting to the stage to rock out, what actual rocking out is like, what it is not, the interplays between audiences with devout fans - and yes it's Carrie's perspective and well it's so freakin articulate and it creates a full experience of transporting to a time and space
She lives in Portland, Oregon and Los Angeles. . Carrie Brownstein is a musician, writer and actor who first became widely known as the guitarist and vocalist of the band Sleater-Kinney and later as a creator, writer and co-star of the Emmy-nominated, Peabody Award winning television show Portlandia. Brownstein's writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Believer, Slate, and numerous anthologies on mus