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DESCRIPTION:Modern Times is thrilled to welcome Alice Bag, reading from her new memoir, 
 "Violence Girl."\n\nThursday, December 8: 7pm\n\n\nAlice Bag was the lead 
 singer of the Bags, the first female fronted punk band to play the Masque 
 during the West Coast punk revolution of 1977. "Violence Girl, From East LA 
 Rage to Hollywood Stage" is the story of her upbringing in East LA, her 
 eventual migration to Hollywood and the euphoria and aftermath of the first 
 punk wave. "Violence Girl" reveals how domestic abuse fueled her desire for 
 female empowerment and sheds a new perspective on the origin of hardcore, a 
 style most often associated with white suburban males.\n\nThe proximity of 
 the East L.A. barrio to Hollywood is as close as a short drive on the 101 
 freeway, but the cultural divide is enormous. Born to Mexican-born and 
 American-naturalized parents, Alicia Armendariz migrated a few miles west 
 to participate in the free-range birth of the 1970s punk movement. Alicia 
 adopted the punk name Alice Bag, and became lead singer for The Bags, early 
 punk visionaries who starred in Penelope Spheeris’ documentary "The 
 Decline of Western Civilization."\n\nHere is a life of many crossed 
 boundaries, from East L.A.’s musica ranchera to Hollywood’s punk rock; 
 from a violent male-dominated family to female-dominated transgressive rock 
 bands. Alice’s feminist sympathies can be understood by the name of her 
 satiric all-girl early Goth band Castration Squad. "Violence Girl" takes us 
 from a violent upbringing to an aggressive punk sensibility; this time a 
 difficult coming-of-age memoir culminates with a satisfying conclusion, 
 complete with a happy marriage and children. Many personal photographs 
 energize the text in remarkable ways.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/11/30/18701373.php
SUMMARY:Alice Bag presents "Violence Girl: East LA Rage to Hollywood Stage"
LOCATION:Modern Times Bookstore\n2919 24th St (@alabama)\nSan Francisco, CA 94110
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/11/30/18701373.php
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