Violence Girl: East L.A. Rage to Hollywood Stage, a Chicana Punk Story
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| Rating | : | 4.33 (553 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1936239124 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 384 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-04-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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"can't reccomend highly enough" according to Jesse Michaels. If anybody is interested in the spirit of punk culture at its inception and most exciting phase, don't pass on this book. The first time I heard The Bags I was blown away and I have loved this woman's spirit and insight ever since (not to take anything away from the rest of the band). Just a huge soul. The writing here is conversational and journal - like; don't expect a slick, professionally edited memoir. But why would you want that from one of the original queens of what people now call "D.I.Y.?" This book is exactly as it should be. As a punkera, a Lati. Jamie T said A Punk Life, Examined. Being a fan of the late seventies west coast punk scene, I ordered this book based on the author's history in the Bags, a band I had only heard of in relation to other bands of the time. I have to admit that I expected this book to be similar to other punk tomes I have read: either a sloppily written oral history or a breathless tell-all about the crazy punk days. What I got was so much more. Violence Girl is a universal coming of age story of a bright young artist who is struggling to come to terms with her identity as a daughter, a woman, a chicanaand how. Amazing Memoir Sectmaniac I just got the book last week and I couldn't put it down It's an amazing memoir from one of punk rock's first ladies. Alice's first hand accounts of her memories are heart-warming, frightening, familiar (myself being first generation Mexican-American as well), eye-opening, and inspiring all at the same time. It was fantastic getting her first-hand account of how the punk rock scene in Los Angeles first blossomed and reading all about Alice's early influencesbut the best if the way Alice tells and conjures up memories of her life as a little girl and all tha
Alice's feminist sympathies can be understood by the name of her satiric all-girl early Goth band Castration Squad.Violence Girl takes us from a violent upbringing to an aggressive punk sensibility; this time a difficult coming-of-age memoir culminates with a satisfying conclusion, complete with a happy marriage and children. Born to Mexican-born and American-naturalized parents, Alicia Armendariz migrated a few miles west to participate in the free-range birth of the 1970s punk movement. Nearly a hundred excellent photographs energize the text in remarkable ways.Alice Bag's work and influence can be seen this year in the traveling Smithsonian exhibition "American Sabor: Latinos in U.S. The proximity of the East L.A. Popular Music.". Alicia adopted the punk name Alice Bag, and became lead singer for The Bags, early punk visionaries who starred in Penelope Spheeris' documentary The Decline of Western Civilization.Here is a life of many crossed boundaries, from East L.A.'s musica ranchera to Hollywood's punk rock; from a violent male-dominated family to female-dominated transgressive rock bands. barrio to Hollywood is as close as a short drive on th
I recommend Violence Girl." - Henry Rollins, LA Weekly. "It's rare that someone at the real beginning of something so monumentally influential is around long enough to put it down in writing