A new e-book of essays co-edited by Kim Gordon has been introduced. This Woman’s Get the job done: Essays on New music is co-edited by Gordon and former new music journalist Sinéad Gleeson, and will involve items about revolutionary female artists, all penned by female writers, re-contextualizing a heritage that has very long been advised from the male point of view. The e book will function contributions from Anne Enright, Fatima Bhutto, Maggie Nelson, Pitchfork Contributing Editor Jenn Pelly, Juliana Huxtable, Liz Pelly, Margo Jefferson, and additional. The e book will strike cabinets April 7, 2022 by way of White Rabbit.
Of the challenge, Gordon wrote on Instagram:
“What’s it like to be a lady in a band?” The typically-repeated question through my vocation as a musician produced me come to feel disrupted, a freak or that we are all the exact same. I at the time questioned my boyfriend what it was like to have a penis. To me they are form of equal thoughts. If it was born out of pure curiosity it’s comprehensible. Ideally this ebook commences an unravelling of the fantasy that if you are a woman musician you are a prepared-produced, effortlessly digestible. I liked doing the job with Sinéad on this book—she is a accurate inspiration! And so thrilled to be operating with Lee Brackstone all over again.
Gleeson additional in a press release:
New music has been a enormous part of my daily life, from lover to audio journalist and writer, I’ve generally been aware that male narratives have dominated this sector valorised and prioritised earlier mentioned numerous ground-breaking woman practitioners. Women (like Kim) experienced to carve out their possess area in just it, and we desired to build a reserve that questioned women to convey to us about the female artists, movements and pioneers that make any difference to them. It is been honour to uncover these stories, and to operate alongside Kim—who I initial observed play in Dublin with Sonic Youth when I was 16. This Woman’s Get the job done has a stellar listing of contributors composing throughout subjects the two common and niche and we hope there is certainly a little something in here for every songs fan.
Gordon printed her possess memoir Female in a Band back again in 2015. Previous 12 months, she launched No Icon, a scrapbook featuring previously unseen images, writings, and ephemera from in the course of her job.
Gordon will take the stage at Pitchfork Tunes Competition on Saturday, September 11 at Union Park in Chicago. The evening in advance of, she’ll execute an formal Pitchfork Fest aftershow at Thalia Corridor. Tickets are on sale now.
Revisit “Unconventional Idol: Kim Gordon’s Lady in a Band.”
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