Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl: A Memoir
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| Rating | : | 4.51 (597 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0399184767 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-03-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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Moving through her childhood in the Seattle suburbs, we see the proto-performer searching for her personal stage while navigating tumultuous family dynamics. Her memoir resembles her songs: taut, thoughtful, and honest. It's not a tell-all; Brownstein is selective about what she shares, but what she does give us hits hard. 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--b
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 antho
A good memoir even without context 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 Clu. Deborah Pelser said Simply brilliant. A brilliant account of Carrie Brownstein's life and career with the band Sleater-Kinney. Some very sad and poignant moments and others where I laughed out loud. Highly recommended.. "Four Stars" according to Katie. I didn't know anything about her band but still found this a fascinating read.
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.From the Hardcover edition.. 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. 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