Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock's Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout
Autor Laura Jane Grace Cu Dan Ozzien Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 aug 2017
The provocative transgender advocate and lead singer of the punk rock band Against Me! provides a searing account of her search for identity and her true self.
It began in a bedroom in Naples, Florida, when a misbehaving punk teenager named Tom Gabel, armed with nothing but an acoustic guitar and a headful of anarchist politics, landed on a riff. Gabel formed Against Me! and rocketed the band from its scrappy beginnings-banging on a drum kit made of pickle buckets-to a major-label powerhouse that critics have called this generation's The Clash. Since its inception in 1997, Against Me! has been one of punk's most influential modern bands, but also one of its most divisive. With every notch the four-piece climbed in their career, they gained new fans while infuriating their old ones. They suffered legal woes, a revolving door of drummers, and a horde of angry, militant punks who called them "sellouts" and tried to sabotage their shows at every turn.
But underneath the public turmoil, something much greater occupied Gabel-a secret kept for 30 years, only acknowledged in the scrawled-out pages of personal journals and hidden in lyrics. Through a troubled childhood, delinquency, and struggles with drugs, Gabel was on a punishing search for identity. Not until May of 2012 did aRolling Stoneprofile finally reveal it: Gabel is a transsexual, and would from then on be living as a woman under the name Laura Jane Grace.
Trannyis the intimate story of Against Me!'s enigmatic founder, weaving the narrative of the band's history, as well as Grace's, with dozens of never-before-seen entries from the piles of journals Grace kept. More than a typical music memoir about sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll-although it certainly has plenty of that-Trannyis an inside look at one of the most remarkable stories in the history of rock.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780316264372
ISBN-10: 0316264377
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 138 x 208 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Hachette Book Group
Colecția Hachette Books
ISBN-10: 0316264377
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 138 x 208 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Hachette Book Group
Colecția Hachette Books
Notă biografică
Laura
Jane
Graceis
a
transgender
musician
best
known
as
the
founder,
lead
singer,
songwriter
and
guitarist
of
the
punk
rock
band
Against
Me!.
Since
coming
out
as
transgender
in
a
2012
interview
withRolling
Stonemagazine,
she
has
become
an
outspoken
advocate
for
transgender
awareness.
She
has
a
daughter
and
lives
in
Chicago.
Dan Ozziis a New York-based writer and has served as the editor of VICE's music site, Noisey.
Dan Ozziis a New York-based writer and has served as the editor of VICE's music site, Noisey.
Recenzii
"Laura
Jane
Grace
shows
great
bravery
diving
into
every
detail
of
a
story
seldom
told,
with
the
advantage
of
having
kept
journals
documenting
everything
she
went
through,
from
childhood
to
the
beginnings
of
her
band.
Capturing
the
pain
and
struggle,
self-doubt
and
lack
of
support
she
experienced,
Grace
provides
a
valuable
starting
point
for
a
conversation
to
broaden
the
understanding
of,
and
empathy
for,
trans
people."—Joan
Jett,Billboard's100
Greatest
Music
Books
of
All
Time
"An ambassador for the gender revolution currently sweeping through public restroom policy andNational Geographiccovers [and] a potent tool for empathy that hasn't quite existed in pop culture....Grace and co-writer Dan Ozzi spin green room drama and rock star recklessness into a gem of a rock bio that belongs on a shelf alongsideHammer of the GodsandGet in the Van."
—PasteMagazine, Best Nonfiction Books of 2016
"A full-length tell-all about Grace's lifelong journey to discovering, accepting, and at last publicly acknowledging her true identity....[told] with daring candor...the memoir establishes her as at once a transgender icon and a modern day heroine."
—Harper's Bazaar, Best Books of November
"A savagely candid transgender memoir, and thus far, the only quintessential text regarding Against Me!--one of the most significant punk bands of the aughts and onward. Without a smidgen of sarcasm, I would highly recommend the book to your grandmother, even if she is afraid of transpeople and can't name three Clash songs."—Esquire
"In this riveting and at times harrowing biography, Grace recounts in unflinching detail her path to self-realization....The story [of the band] would be enough for a compelling book, but Grace's gender dysphoria adds a remarkable twist to the tale....[a] brutally honest, soul-searching memoir."
—Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
"An engrossing story about the perils of the rock star lifestyle, identity, drug abuse, and what it means to be a punk."—Third Coast Review, Best Music and Art of 2016
"The extraordinary story of the misfit among the punks who attempted to save himself by choosing his gender--as if by erasing the man he was might heal the diseased society that produced him. Laura Jane Grace claws her way into the light and we are all inspired to find our own grace."—John Cameron Mitchell
"Laura Jane Grace has pulled off the near impossible. With her first book,Tranny,she has added a new perspective to a vastly over populated genre of music-based literature.
In doing so, she has also managed to tell her own deeply personal, at times heartbreaking, story of her struggle with gender identity in a society still content to ascribe gender using an archaic binary system that drives so many transgender people to despair.
This book is a mandatory read for anyone interested in gender identity, intellectual punk rock, or an engrossing account of a great rock and roll band, subjects that may sound mutually exclusive but here are inextricably linked."—Shirley Manson, lead singer of Garbage
"Grace writes about juggling the pressures of grappling with dysphoria and keeping her band together with such naked honesty that you can feel the weight being lifted off of her shoulders....A page turner that brims with hard emotional truth....A poignant and timely look at a still-emerging cultural issue worthy of serious discussion."—A.V. Club
"Potent...Grace writes viscerally about her experiences grappling with this condition throughout her life."—Rolling Stone
"A powerful, disarmingly honest portrait of becoming."—Entertainment Weekly
"What does it mean to be an authentic musician? The question doesn't sound like good fodder for a book - it's too woolly, too late-night-dorm-room. And yet, in part because it asks the question over and over, Against Me! front woman Laura Jane Grace's memoir works wonderfully."—Vulture
"The real power ofTrannycomes from Grace's journal entries, which tell the real-time story of a quest for self that winds through addiction, divorce, and, ultimately, action to address the agonizing dysphoria."—The New York Times Book Review
"Trannyis an intimate, sometimes appropriately messy account of Grace's career as a musician and agitator, full of on-the-road indulgences and off-the-clock struggles. It's as honest as any Against Me! tune, and just as hooky."—Wired
"A poignant, brave, and at times funny story about struggling to fit into a community but feeling biologically out of place....Both fascinating and entertaining. It's also sometimes heartbreaking."—Yahoo! Music
"An ambassador for the gender revolution currently sweeping through public restroom policy andNational Geographiccovers [and] a potent tool for empathy that hasn't quite existed in pop culture....Grace and co-writer Dan Ozzi spin green room drama and rock star recklessness into a gem of a rock bio that belongs on a shelf alongsideHammer of the GodsandGet in the Van."
—PasteMagazine, Best Nonfiction Books of 2016
"A full-length tell-all about Grace's lifelong journey to discovering, accepting, and at last publicly acknowledging her true identity....[told] with daring candor...the memoir establishes her as at once a transgender icon and a modern day heroine."
—Harper's Bazaar, Best Books of November
"A savagely candid transgender memoir, and thus far, the only quintessential text regarding Against Me!--one of the most significant punk bands of the aughts and onward. Without a smidgen of sarcasm, I would highly recommend the book to your grandmother, even if she is afraid of transpeople and can't name three Clash songs."—Esquire
"In this riveting and at times harrowing biography, Grace recounts in unflinching detail her path to self-realization....The story [of the band] would be enough for a compelling book, but Grace's gender dysphoria adds a remarkable twist to the tale....[a] brutally honest, soul-searching memoir."
—Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
"An engrossing story about the perils of the rock star lifestyle, identity, drug abuse, and what it means to be a punk."—Third Coast Review, Best Music and Art of 2016
"The extraordinary story of the misfit among the punks who attempted to save himself by choosing his gender--as if by erasing the man he was might heal the diseased society that produced him. Laura Jane Grace claws her way into the light and we are all inspired to find our own grace."—John Cameron Mitchell
"Laura Jane Grace has pulled off the near impossible. With her first book,Tranny,she has added a new perspective to a vastly over populated genre of music-based literature.
In doing so, she has also managed to tell her own deeply personal, at times heartbreaking, story of her struggle with gender identity in a society still content to ascribe gender using an archaic binary system that drives so many transgender people to despair.
This book is a mandatory read for anyone interested in gender identity, intellectual punk rock, or an engrossing account of a great rock and roll band, subjects that may sound mutually exclusive but here are inextricably linked."—Shirley Manson, lead singer of Garbage
"Grace writes about juggling the pressures of grappling with dysphoria and keeping her band together with such naked honesty that you can feel the weight being lifted off of her shoulders....A page turner that brims with hard emotional truth....A poignant and timely look at a still-emerging cultural issue worthy of serious discussion."—A.V. Club
"Potent...Grace writes viscerally about her experiences grappling with this condition throughout her life."—Rolling Stone
"A powerful, disarmingly honest portrait of becoming."—Entertainment Weekly
"What does it mean to be an authentic musician? The question doesn't sound like good fodder for a book - it's too woolly, too late-night-dorm-room. And yet, in part because it asks the question over and over, Against Me! front woman Laura Jane Grace's memoir works wonderfully."—Vulture
"The real power ofTrannycomes from Grace's journal entries, which tell the real-time story of a quest for self that winds through addiction, divorce, and, ultimately, action to address the agonizing dysphoria."—The New York Times Book Review
"Trannyis an intimate, sometimes appropriately messy account of Grace's career as a musician and agitator, full of on-the-road indulgences and off-the-clock struggles. It's as honest as any Against Me! tune, and just as hooky."—Wired
"A poignant, brave, and at times funny story about struggling to fit into a community but feeling biologically out of place....Both fascinating and entertaining. It's also sometimes heartbreaking."—Yahoo! Music