Rock'n'Girls — 139 книг

Патти Смит - американская рок-певица и поэт, подруга и любимая модель фотографа Роберта Мэпплторпа. В своих воспоминаниях она рисует точный и в то же время глубоко личный портрет эпохи. Нью-Йорк конца 60-х - начала 70-х, атмосфера "Фабрики" Энди Уорхола и отеля "Челси", встречи с великими поэтами-битниками и легендарными музыкантами - все это неразрывно переплетено с историей взросления и творческого роста самой Патти, одной из самых ярких представительниц поколения. "Просто дети" - это не только бесценное свидетельство о времени и щемящее признание в любви ушедшему другу. Это глубокая, выверенная, образная проза поэта, выходящая далеко за рамки мемуарного жанра.

Патти Смит - американская рок-певица и поэт, подруга и любимая модель фотографа Роберта Мэпплторпа. В своих воспоминаниях она рисует точный и в то же время глубоко личный портрет…

Поэт, певица и «крестная мать панк-движения» Патти Смит предстает в книге поэтической прозы «Я пасу облака» в совершенно непривычном образе. Здесь она – маленькая девочка, впервые познающая такой волнующий и пугающий окружающий мир. Она слышит движение трав и листвы деревьев. Она верит в существование других миров. Широко открытыми глазами она смотрит на проносящиеся над ее головой облака и понимает, что все вокруг – не просто так, что все взаимосвязано, и она – часть этого волшебного мира. Знаменитая певица, изменившая рок-н-ролл и написавшая несколько великих песен, смогла сохранить в себе частичку детства. В книге «Я пасу облака» она не просто вспоминает это детство, она дарит его частичку читателям.

Поэт, певица и «крестная мать панк-движения» Патти Смит предстает в книге поэтической прозы «Я пасу облака» в совершенно непривычном образе. Здесь она – маленькая девочка, впервые…

Kristin Hersh was a preternaturally bright teenager, starting university at fifteen and with her band, Throwing Muses, playing rock clubs she was too young to frequent. By the age of seventeen she was living in her car, unable to sleep for the torment of strange songs swimming around her head - the songs for which she is now known. But just as her band was taking off, Hersh was misdiagnosed with schizophrenia. Paradoxical Undressing chronicles the unraveling of a young woman's personality, culminating in a suicide attempt; and then her arduous yet inspiring recovery, her unplanned pregnancy at the age of 19, and the birth of her first son. Playful, vivid, and wonderfully warm, this is a visceral and brave memoir by a truly original performer, told in a truly original voice.

Kristin Hersh was a preternaturally bright teenager, starting university at fifteen and with her band, Throwing Muses, playing rock clubs she was too young to frequent. By the age…

Новая книга Патти Смит — это удивительная одиссея легендарной певицы, путешествие из настоящего в прошлое и обратно, тропинка между мечтами и реальностью, путь от депрессии к вдохновению. Читатель побывает в Синем доме Фриды Кало, на заседании Клуба дрейфа континентов в Берлине, на могилах Жене, Плат, Рембо, Мисимы. В этой книге отчаянье переплетено с надеждой, а тоска с любовью, и все озарено талантом писательницы, уже получившей Национальную книжную премию за свою первую книгу воспоминаний "Просто дети".

Новая книга Патти Смит — это удивительная одиссея легендарной певицы, путешествие из настоящего в прошлое и обратно, тропинка между мечтами и реальностью, путь от депрессии к…

In a career spanning over a decade, PJ Harvey has continually defied expectation and classification with her seven blues-drenched studio albums, attracting a fanbase including Madonna and Courtney Love and achieving worldwide recognition in the process.

In a career spanning over a decade, PJ Harvey has continually defied expectation and classification with her seven blues-drenched studio albums, attracting a fanbase including…

«Парадоксия: дневник хищницы» Лидии Ланч – это откровение, признание женщины в своей ненасытной тяге к самовыражению, которое проходит через слово, художественный образ. Книга пронизана одержимостью, стремлением проникнуть в самую суть вещей, открыть некую истину и тут же, без колебаний, представить ее на всеобщее обозрение, невзирая на то, что эта истина безобразна и разрушительна. Потому что Лидия Ланч работает с тем, что она знает лучше всего. Ее материал – это она сама.

«Парадоксия: дневник хищницы» Лидии Ланч – это откровение, признание женщины в своей ненасытной тяге к самовыражению, которое проходит через слово, художественный образ. Книга…

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Kim Gordon, founding member of Sonic Youth, fashion icon, and role model for a generation of women, now tells her story—a memoir of life as an artist, of music, marriage, motherhood, independence, and as one of the first women of rock and roll, written with the lyricism and haunting beauty of Patti Smith's Just Kids.

Often described as aloof, Kim Gordon opens up as never before in Girl in a Band. Telling the story of her family, growing up in California in the '60s and '70s, 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 build a vocabulary of music—paving the way for Nirvana, Hole, Smashing Pumpkins and many other acts. But at its core, Girl in a Band examines the route from girl to woman in uncharted territory, music, art career, what partnership means—and what happens when that identity dissolves.

Evocative and edgy, filled with the sights and sounds of a changing world and a transformative life, Girl in a Band is the fascinating chronicle of a remarkable journey and an extraordinary artist.

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Kim Gordon, founding member of Sonic Youth, fashion icon, and role model for a generation of women, now tells her story—a memoir of life as an artist,…

A description of this artist's book is best summed up by Kim Gordon's own words: "Basically what the book consists of is a loopy text of me having a conversation with someone named Julia about Dylan's book Chronicles , at a Strokes gig. It's

A description of this artist's book is best summed up by Kim Gordon's own words: "Basically what the book consists of is a loopy text of me having a conversation with someone…

The life and music of Iceland's Björk Gudmundsdottir, from her origins as a burgeoning child star and her days spent training on the battleground of Iceland's notoriously seditious punk scene to her eventual emergence as one of pop music's pioneering figures, are explored in this comprehensive biography. Punk extremist, teenage mother, fashion iconoclast, fierce independent, emotional conduit, feminist antihero, reluctant actress, unabashed music geek, and lover-no side of the complex artist is left unexamined. Described are Björk's merging of naturalism with technology, self-empowerment with unflinching vulnerability, and elements of avant-garde and experimental music with her own irrefutably unique sensibilities. Containing a detailed songbook and more than 30 exclusive interviews with close family members, past band mates, and frequent collaborators, this is an exhaustive and revealing look at the life, music, and philosophy of one of modern music's most compelling innovators.

The life and music of Iceland's Björk Gudmundsdottir, from her origins as a burgeoning child star and her days spent training on the battleground of Iceland's notoriously…

В книгу вошли воспоминания великой французской певицы, актрисы Эдит Пиаф и ее друга, режиссера и сценариста Марселя Блистена.
Мемуары Пиаф - это лишенный ложной стыдливости, эмоциональный рассказ о любви, разочарованиях, триумфальных взлетах, об одиночестве и счастье, о возлюбленных и о друзьях, ставших благодаря ей знаменитыми артистами: о Шарле Азнавуре, Иве Монтане, Эдди Константине и др.
Книга рассчитана на широкий круг читателей.

В книгу вошли воспоминания великой французской певицы, актрисы Эдит Пиаф и ее друга, режиссера и сценариста Марселя Блистена.
Мемуары Пиаф - это лишенный ложной стыдливости,…

Amazon.comElla Fitzgerald, who died in 1996, came from a poverty-stricken background. She was abandoned by her father, possibly abused by her stepfather and lived on the streets as a teenager. As a club singer she had to contend with racism, sexism

Amazon.comElla Fitzgerald, who died in 1996, came from a poverty-stricken background. She was abandoned by her father, possibly abused by her stepfather and lived on the streets…

Billie Holiday chantait le jazz comme personne. Avec une voix fragile et fraiche, d'une troublante beaute. Billie Holiday avait tout pour plaire: le talent, le genie, la beaute. Mais les Cadillac blanches, les dollars et le succes ne devaient

Billie Holiday chantait le jazz comme personne. Avec une voix fragile et fraiche, d'une troublante beaute. Billie Holiday avait tout pour plaire: le talent, le genie, la beaute.…

Первая книга стихов и песен Янки (Яны Станиславовны Дягилевой). Они были напечатаны автором на машинке, оформлены участниками группы "Флирт" и выпущены "самиздатом" в количестве восьми экземпляров в 1991 году, после гибели Янки.

Первая книга стихов и песен Янки (Яны Станиславовны Дягилевой). Они были напечатаны автором на машинке, оформлены участниками группы "Флирт" и выпущены "самиздатом" в количестве…

This is the first ever in-depth study of Kate Bush's life and career. "Under the Ivy" features over 70 unique and revealing new interviews with those who have viewed from up close both the public artist and the private woman: old school friends, early band mates, long-term studio collaborators, former managers, producers, musicians, video directors, dance instructors and record company executives. "Under the Ivy" undertakes a full analysis of Bush's art. From her pre-teen forays into poetry, through scores of unreleased songs. Every crucial aspect of her music is discussed from her ground-breaking series of albums to her solo live tour. Her pioneering forays into dance, video, film and performance. Combining a wealth of new research with rigorous critical scrutiny, "Under the Ivy" offers a string of fresh insights and perspectives on her unusual upbringing in South London, the blossoming of her talent, her enduring influences and unique working methods, her rejection of live performance, her pioneering use of the studio, her key relationships and her gradual retreat into a semi-mythical privacy.

This is the first ever in-depth study of Kate Bush's life and career. "Under the Ivy" features over 70 unique and revealing new interviews with those who have viewed from up close…

The first collection of the texts by one of the world's leading and most controversial performance artists

From the National Book Award–winning author of Just Kids: an unforgettable odyssey of a legendary artist, told through the prism of the cafés and haunts she has worked in around the world. It is a book Patti Smith has described as “a roadmap to my life.”

M Train begins in the tiny Greenwich Village café where Smith goes every morning for black coffee, ruminates on the world as it is and the world as it was, and writes in her notebook. Through prose that shifts fluidly between dreams and reality, past and present, and across a landscape of creative aspirations and inspirations, we travel to Frida Kahlo’s Casa Azul in Mexico; to a meeting of an Arctic explorer’s society in Berlin; to a ramshackle seaside bungalow in New York’s Far Rockaway that Smith acquires just before Hurricane Sandy hits; and to the graves of Genet, Plath, Rimbaud, and Mishima.

Woven throughout are reflections on the writer’s craft and on artistic creation. Here, too, are singular memories of Smith’s life in Michigan and the irremediable loss of her husband, Fred Sonic Smith.

Braiding despair with hope and consolation, illustrated with her signature Polaroids, M Train is a meditation on travel, detective shows, literature, and coffee. It is a powerful, deeply moving book by one of the most remarkable multiplatform artists at work today.

From the National Book Award–winning author of Just Kids: an unforgettable odyssey of a legendary artist, told through the prism of the cafés and haunts she has worked in around…

By the time she was 14, Chrissie Hynde knew she had to get out of Akron, Ohio. Her perfect ’50s American childhood upturned by a newly acquired taste for rock ’n’ roll, motorbikes and the ‘get down boys’ seen at gigs in and around Cleveland – Mitch Ryder, the Jeff Beck Group, the Velvet Underground and David Bowie among the many.

Wrapped up in the Kent State University riots and getting dangerously involved in the local biker and drug scenes, she escaped - to Mexico, Canada, Paris and finally London where she caught the embryonic punk scene just in time not only to witness it first-hand, but more importantly to seize the opportunity to form her own band, the Pretenders.

Iggy Pop, the Sex Pistols, the Clash, Vivienne & Malcolm, Ray Davies … on every page household names mingle with small town heroes as we shift from bedroom to biker HQ; from squat to practice room; from pub gig to Top Of The Pops – the long and crooked path to stardom, and for the Pretenders, ultimately, tragedy.

That Chrissie Hynde is alive to tell the tale is, by her own admission, something of a miracle. Throughout she is brutally honest, wryly humorous and always highly entertaining. She has written one of the most evocative and colourful music memoirs to be published in recent years.

By the time she was 14, Chrissie Hynde knew she had to get out of Akron, Ohio. Her perfect ’50s American childhood upturned by a newly acquired taste for rock ’n’ roll, motorbikes…

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