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Overview
In her new memoir, No Walls and the Recurring Dream, Ani DiFranco recounts her early life from a place of hard-won wisdom, combining personal expression, the power of music, feminism, political activism, storytelling, philanthropy, entrepreneurship, and much more into an inspiring whole. In these frank, honest, passionate, and often funny pages is the tale of one woman's eventful and radical journey to the age of thirty. Ani's coming of age story is defined by her ethos of fierce independence--from being an emancipated minor sleeping in a Buffalo bus station, to unwaveringly building a career through appearances at small clubs and festivals, to releasing her first album at the age of 18, to consciously rejecting the mainstream recording industry and creating her own label, Righteous Babe Records. In these pages, as in life, she never hesitates to challenge established rules and expectations, maintaining a level of artistic integrity that has impressed many and antagonized more than a few. Ani continues to be a major touring and recording artist as well as a celebrated activist and feminist, standing as living proof that you can overcome all personal and societal obstacles to be who you are and to follow your dreams.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780735225176 |
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Publisher: | Penguin Publishing Group |
Publication date: | 05/07/2019 |
Pages: | 320 |
Sales rank: | 543,986 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.30(d) |
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Table of Contents
Introducing… 1
Self Evident 4
1 No Walls 11
Pedigree 15
Plans 17
Martin Luther 19
Exposure 22
Names 23
The Lake 25
Dancing 29
2 Hello Friend 33
And Hello Friend 36
Making Songs 1 38
Gigging 39
Emancipation 41
The Big Apple 45
The Unread Note 47
Suzi 49
Precipice 53
Reproductive System 55
Silences 57
760 Ashland Avenue 60
Scot Fisher 62
Talent Contest 64
Wildcat Builders 66
The Road Not Taken 67
3 Making Songs 2 69
My Other Other Voice 70
If You Can Make It There … 72
Eponymous Debut 76
Traveling Salesmen 80
Pay to Play 83
Strays 85
Too Good to Be True 88
Now Voyager 90
The New School for Social Research 96
Boopha 98
Sekou 102
Racist Bullshit 106
Activation 108
Pete Seeger 112
4 The New Frontier 117
The Lone Star State 123
Unwelcome Home 127
Once More With Feeling 128
The Slant 134
My IQ 136
Beauty and the Beast 137
Californiiay 139
Reverse Objectification 142
Up a Notch 144
Typhoid Mary 148
The Changing of the Guard 149
Andy 153
Water Water Everywhere 157
Is Chicago, Is Not Chicago 159
I.R.S. 162
Rendezvous 163
Mexico 167
5 Mish 173
Folk festivals 179
Utah 181
The Alphabet vs The Goddess 186
Making Songs 3 190
A Record of an Event 191
The Boob Tube 197
A Mother's Work 201
It's Not an Adventure, It's a Job 204
Merch 207
Goat 208
Heidi Ho 212
Chick Singers 216
Hitchfest 220
Arbitration 221
6 Italia 227
Spewing Chunks 230
Muscle Cars 232
Excuse Me, Ms.? 235
Rebirth 240
Grand Canyon 242
The Guthrie Archives 246
Nora 249
Cultural Equity 251
Fellow Workers 253
A Matter of Life and Death 256
Maceo 258
Making Songs 4 262
A Prince Among Men 263
Photo Shoots 268
7 Longstory Short 273
Why Are You Getting So Mad? 275
Grey 281
The Crash 283
Late Night 285
Subdivision 286
8 The Shock Was Subsonic 289
Crash Number Two 294
Platforms 296
Platforms 297
Making Songs 5 299
Akimbo 300
Whole Other Girls 301
Imagine That 303
Other People's Trash 304
Recurring Dream 306
Acknowledgments 307