Carrie Brownstein HUNGER MAKES ME A MODERN GIRL First Edition Signed
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Carrie Brownstein HUNGER MAKES ME A MODERN GIRL First Edition Signed
First UK edition first print hardback of HUNGER MAKES ME A MODERN GIRL: A Memoir by Carrie Brownstein and published by Virago in 2015. Signed by Brownstein on the title page. Numberline is 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2.The book is in near fine condition (black cloth boards with white lettering to spine) with only very light bumping to corners and creasing to spine edges. There is light tanning around the page edges. The book is in a near fine unclipped dust jacket which has very light rubbing to the edges. Internally the pages are otherwise clean and tight and there are no tears or other inscriptions.
Before Carrie Brownstein became a music icon, she was a young girl growing up in the Pacific Northwest just as it was becoming the setting for one of the most important movements in rock history. 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. With Sleater-Kinney, Brownstein and her bandmates rose to prominence in the burgeoning underground feminist punk-rock movement that would define music and pop culture in the 1990s. They would be cited as Americas 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.
'Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl' is an intimate and revealing narrative of her escape from a turbulent family life into a world where music was the means toward self-invention, community, and rescue. Along the way, Brownstein chronicles the excitement and contradictions within the eras flourishing and fiercely independent music subculture, including experiences that sowed the seeds for the observational satire of the popular television series Portlandia years later.
With deft, lucid prose Brownstein proves herself as formidable on the page as on the stage. 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.
244 pages. With numerous black & white photographs.
ISBN: 9780349007922
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