From the founding member of Sonic Youth, a passionate memoir tracing the author's life and art--from his teen years as a music obsessive in small-town Connecticut, to the formation of his legendary rock group, to thirty years of creation, experimentation, and wonder Thurston Moore moved to Manhattan's East Village in 1978 with a yearning for music. &nbsp;He wanted to be immersed in downtown New York's sights and sounds--the feral energy of its nightclubs, the angular roar of its bands, the magnetic personalities within its orbit. &nbsp;But more than anything, he wanted to make music--to create indelible sounds that would move, provoke, and inspire. His dream came to life in 1981 with the formation of Sonic Youth, a band Moore cofounded with Kim Gordon and Lee Ranaldo. &nbsp;Sonic Youth became a fixture in New York's burgeoning No Wave scene--an avant-garde collision of art and sound, poetry and punk. &nbsp;The band would evolve from critical darlings to commercial heavyweights, headlining festivals around the globe while helping introduce listeners to such artists as Nirvana, Hole, and Pavement, and playing alongside such icons as Neil Young and Iggy Pop. &nbsp;Through it all, Moore maintained an unwavering love of music: the new, the unheralded, the challenging, the irresistible. In the spirit of Just Kids, Sonic Life offers a window into the trajectory of a celebrated artist and a tribute to an era of explosive creativity. &nbsp;It presents a firsthand account of New York in a defining cultural moment, a history of alternative rock as it was birthed and came to dominate airwaves, and a love letter to music, whatever the form. &nbsp;This is a story for anyone who has ever felt touched by sound--who knows the way the right song at the right moment can change the course of a life.

Sonic Life: A Memoir

Moore, Thurston

Humor & Entertainment

DOUBLEDAY

From the founding member of Sonic Youth, a passionate memoir tracing the author's life and art--from his teen years as a music obsessive in small-town Connecticut, to the formation of his legendary rock group, to thirty years of creation, experimentation, and wonder "Downtown scientists rejoice! For Thurston Moore has unearthed the missing links, the sacred texts, the forgotten stories, and the secret maps of the lost golden age. This is history--scuffed, slightly bent, plenty noisy, and indispensable." --Colson Whitehead, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and Harlem Shuffle Thurston Moore moved to Manhattan's East Village in 1978 with a yearning for music. &nbsp;He wanted to be immersed in downtown New York's sights and sounds--the feral energy of its nightclubs, the angular roar of its bands, the magnetic personalities within its orbit. &nbsp;But more than anything, he wanted to make music--to create indelible sounds that would move, provoke, and inspire. His dream came to life in 1981 with the formation of Sonic Youth, a band Moore cofounded with Kim Gordon and Lee Ranaldo. &nbsp;Sonic Youth became a fixture in New York's burgeoning No Wave scene--an avant-garde collision of art and sound, poetry and punk. &nbsp;The band would evolve from critical darlings to commercial heavyweights, headlining festivals around the globe while helping introduce listeners to such artists as Nirvana, Hole, and Pavement, and playing alongside such icons as Neil Young and Iggy Pop. &nbsp;Through it all, Moore maintained an unwavering love of music: the new, the unheralded, the challenging, the irresistible. In the spirit of Just Kids, Sonic Life offers a window into the trajectory of a celebrated artist and a tribute to an era of explosive creativity. &nbsp;It presents a firsthand account of New York in a defining cultural moment, a history of alternative rock as it was birthed and came to dominate airwaves, and a love letter to music, whatever the form. &nbsp;This is a story for anyone who has ever felt touched by sound--who knows the way the right song at the right moment can change the course of a life.

Vintage

Diversified Publishing

Thurston Moore has had a multi-faceted life of 87 years—from a newsboy to the President of Tennessee Players, Inc., a non-profit performing arts organization, founded in 1987, by him and his late wife, Georgianna. Many chapters have opened and closed. Their Multimedia Musical Dramatization, Words of Albert Schweitzer and the Music of Bach, has been presented in more than 150 churches and schools, including a presentation at The Washington National Cathedral. When it was presented at the Holy Trinity Church in New York City in 2005, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg issued a proclamation for Albert Schweitzer Day, and said…. “Further establishes the Tennessee Players’ reputation as one of the nation’s most innovative and conscientious arts organizations.” In 2000 Moore conceived and produced a landmark 16-day international peace event, Symposium 2000— World Peace Through Reverence for Life, sponsored by Vanderbilt University, which drew worldwide attention. In 2002 he delivered the Keynote Address at the International Conference on Universal Harmony through Reverence for Life, in New Delhi, India. Moore has enjoyed success in many careers and has rubbed elbows with countless personalities, from Grand Ole Opry star Roy Acuff to comedian Henny Youngman. Some of his favorites are Ethel Waters, Cesar Romero, George Gershwin’s son, Martin Luther King Jr, Christiane Engel, Minnie Pearl, Tex Ritter, Lena Horne, Rhena Schweitzer Miller, Hollis Summers, Lillian Gish, Hal Holbrook, Lorne Greene, Patti Page, Judy Garland, Oscar Levant, Johnny Cash, Naomi Tutu, Charlton Heston, Eddy Arnold, Alex Haley, Lloyd Lindroth, Audie Murphy, Hugh O’Brian, Willie Nelson, Max Morath, Paul Whiteman, Arun Gandhi, Larry Adler, Alberta Hunter, Sidney Poitier, and Robert Thurman. For 25 years Moore published many books in country music—over one million sold—including the coveted Country Music Who’s Who. In 1972 he received the Jim Reeves Award from the Country Music Academy, presented at the John Wayne Theatre, Knott’s Berry Farm, in California. In 136 chapters, readers will find many fascinating stories. Noted author, Leslie Stephen, called autobiography the most fascinating branches of literature. Thurston’s book will be an inspiration to everyone who has dreams and aspirations. Reading Moore’s ideas and his success story, you will say, “I can do that!” For the older readers it will be a pleasant trip down “memory lane.” The book will be enjoyed by readers of all ages. YOU WON’T BELIEVE IT! is a beautiful love story Thurston shared with Georgianna for 59 years.

You Won't Believe It!

Tennessee Players, Inc.

Stop. Pause. Fast-forward. Rewind. It has become part of our vocabulary when talking about the momentum of our lives... Since Phillips launched the compact audio cassette at the 1963 Berlin Radio Show, our relationship with music has never been the same. Portable, inexpensive, and durable―the new format was an instant success. By the early 1970s, we were voraciously recording music onto blank cassettes: LPs, concerts, tunes from the radio. It allowed us to listen to music in a new way, privately. Artist and musician Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth) looks back at the plastic gadget that first let us make our own compilations. Mix Tape shares the treasured works (and the stories behind them) of over 50 dedicated home tapers, including Elizabeth Peyton, DJ Spooky, Jim O’Rourke, Allison Anders, and Mike Watt. From the Romantic Tape to the Break-up Tape, the Road Trip Tape to the “Indoctrination” Tape, the art and text that emerged was of the mix cassette as a new way of resequencing music to make sense of our most stubbornly inexpressible feelings―a way of explaining ourselves to someone we love, or to ourselves. “Ask any ex of yours from the early ‘90s about the amorous mix tapes you once made, and chances are, Sonic Youth appears somewhere among the track listing. So, perhaps it’s fitting that Thurston Moore is working on a book that takes a nostalgic look at that most humble vehicle of adolescent expression. Mix Tape: The Art of Cassette Culture explores the sound mixes and art we created in our bedrooms long before iTunes and Photoshop.” ―Michael Dougherty, Blackbook Magazine. Fall 2004

Mix Tape: The Art of Cassette Culture

Arts & Photography

Music

Universe

More than a decade after his death, alienated, awkward, heavily eye-lined Kurt Cobain continues to sit front and center in the arena of popular culture, as the subject of books, music, fashion, gossip, and inspiration for major motion pictures and documentaries. Together with flannelsporting, music-obsessed communities emerging (in the late 1980s and early 1990s) from the chilly Pacific Northwest, Nirvana, Sound Garden, and Pearl Jam changed the scene with wild aggressive sounds and truly alternative records. Author Thurston Moore (of Sonic Youth)―who introduced Kurt Cobain t David Geffen (Geffen Records), a meeting that resulted in Nirvana’s first major debut, Nevermind, in September 1991, which by December was selling 400,000 copies a week―writes about the discovery of Seattle punk youth, the seminal bands that defined the movement, the exploitation of the subculture, and the backlash of grunge, as well as the death of his longtime collaborator and intimate Cobain.

Grunge

Lavine, Michael

Photography & Video

Harry N. Abrams

No Wave is the first book to visually chronicle the collision of art and punk in the New York underground of 1976 to 1980. This in depth look at punk rock, new wave, experimental music, and the avant-garde art movement of the 70s and 80s focuses on the true architects of No Wave from James Chance to Lydia Lunch to Glenn Branca, as well as the luminaries that intersected the scene, such as David Byrne, Debbie Harry, Brian Eno, Iggy Pop, and Richard Hell. This rarely documented scene was the creative stomping ground of young artists and filmmakers from Jean-Michel Basquiat to Jim Jarmusch as well as the musical genesis for the post-punk explosions of Sonic Youth and is here revealed for a new generation of fans and collectors. Thurston Moore and Byron Coley have selected 150 unforgettable images, most of which have never been published previously, and compiled hundreds of hours of personal interviews to create an oral history of the movement, providing a never-seen-before exploration and celebration of No Wave.

No Wave: Post-Punk. Underground. New York. 1976-1980.

Coley, Byron

Abrams Image

Provides the definition and correct spelling for more than twenty-seven thousand words and includes information about popular word games

Original Word Game Dictionary

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

UNKNO

Barbara Ess makes subtly-toned photographs that are not so much reality as visionary versions of it. Blurry and distorted, they seem to coax their subjects from mysterious spaces. --Grace Glueck, The New York Times “Ess' images often have a dreamy subterranean quality--part wonder and part menace--as if culled directly from the subconscious.” --Gregory Volk, ARTnews I Am Not This Body investigates primary, personal experience and relies upon the viewer's imagination and memories. Barbara Ess is renowned for her accomplished use of the pinhole camera and her effort to “photograph what cannot be photographed.” Ess' is a conscious quest to explore what she calls “ambiguous perceptual boundaries: between people, between the self and the not self, between in here and out there.” In her view, “reality... includes a perceiver, who has memories, thoughts, desires, emotions--[which] a normal camera tends to omit.” The strange and affecting images she coaxes from this primitive camera manage to evoke the sublime and the impossible, the textures of desire and loss.

I am Not This Body: The Pinhole Photographs of Barbara Ess

CUNNINGHAM, Michael

Armstrong, Guy

Individual Artists

Aperture

Alabama Wildman is Thurston Moore's first major collection of poems, lyrics, road journal entries, and observations. With rare photographs.

Alabama Wildman

Literature & Fiction

United States

Water Row Pr

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Sonic Life: A Memoir

Sonic Life: A Memoir

Sonic Life: A Memoir

You Won't Believe It!

Mix Tape: The Art of Cassette Culture

Grunge

No Wave: Post-Punk. Underground. New York. 1976-1980.

Original Word Game Dictionary

I am Not This Body: The Pinhole Photographs of Barbara Ess

Alabama Wildman