Girls like us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon--and the journey of a generation
Sheila Weller
- Resource Type:
- Book (Print/Paper)
- Publication:
- New York : Atria Books, [2008]
- Copyright:
- ©2008
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- Summary:
- "Girls Like Us" is a groundbreaking and irresistible biography of three of America's most important musical artists--Carly Simon, Carole King, and Joni Mitchell--and offers an epic treatment of these mid-century women who dared to break tradition.
- Table of Contents:
- pt. 1. "We can only look behind from where we came"
- Overture : Three women, three moments, one journey
- pt. 2. "I'm home again, in my old narrow bed"
- ch. 1. Carole
- ch. 2. Joni
- ch. 3. Carly
- pt. 3. "And the sun poured in like butterscotch"
- ch. 4. Carole : 1961-1964
- ch. 5. Joni : 1961-early 1965
- ch. 6. Carly : 1961-late 1965
- ch. 7. Carole : 1964-early 1969
- ch. 8. Joni : March 1965-December 1967
- ch. 9. Carly : 1965-1969
- pt. 4. "I feel the earth move under my feet"
- ch. 10. Joni : late 1967-mid-1970
- ch. 11. Carole : 1969-1970 / Joni : 1970 / Carole and Joni : early 1971-1972
- ch. 12. Carly : mid-1970-early 1973
- pt. 5. "We just come from such different sets of circumstance"
- ch. 13. Carole : 1972-1984
- ch. 14. Joni : 1972-1984
- ch. 14. Joni : 1972-1982
- ch. 15. Carly : late 1973-late 1987
- pt. 6. "In the river I know I will find the key"
- Coda : The middle '80s to the present : three women, three endings, one journey
- Source notes
- Acknowledgments
- Bibliography
- Discography
- Index.
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- Languages:
- English
- Language Notes:
- Item content: English
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- General Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 545-559), and discography (p. 561-564), and index.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 584 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Call Numbers:
- ML400 .W35 2008
- ISBNs:
- 0743491475
9780743491471 - Library of Congress Control Numbers:
- 2007043445
- OCLC Numbers:
- 166373130