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33 revoluciones por minuto

Autor: Dorian Lynskey

Número de Páginas: 529

Una historia detallada de la canción protesta, uno de los géneros musicales que mejor han definido el siglo XX. Para Lynskey, la obra fundacional de este género es "Strange Fruit" que Billie Holiday interpretó por primera vez en 1939. En esa canción se reunían la calidad musical y la denuncia de una situación ignominiosa. Es importante insistir en esa reunión de calidad musical y denuncia porque éste es el criterio que rige este libro por encima de otras consideraciones. Pete Seegen, Joan Baez o Bob Dylan fueron pioneros de una carrera en la que los relevarían REM, U2 o Springsteen. Porque, al llegar a cierto punto, música popular y denuncia parecen indisociables. Lynskey se ocupa de esta relación describiendo los movimientos sociales que se apoyaron en la música para difundir su mensaje

La hija del clérigo (edición definitiva avalada por The Orwell Estate)

Autor: George Orwell

Número de Páginas: 245

La hija del clérigo es una de las novelas menos conocidas de George Orwell, pero sin duda una de las mejores y más experimentales. Ambientada en la década de los años treinta, cuenta la dura vida de la hija de un clérigo, maltratada y condenada a ser una criada hasta que un brusco cambio la llevará inesperadamente a Londres, donde vivirá una vida totalmente distinta, exiliada incluso de su propia memoria. Retrato de la Inglaterra de la gran depresión, esta novela es una de las obras esenciales del realismo inglés de principios del siglo XX. La presente edición, avalada por The Orwell Foundation, sigue fielmente el texto definitivo de las obras completas del autor, fijado por el profesor Peter Davison. La crítica dijo: «Nadie ha escrito en los últimos cinco años una novela que pueda compararse en transparencia, nervio, coraje y vitalidad a La hija del clérigo.» Compton Mackenzie

The Ministry of Truth

Autor: Dorian Lynskey

Número de Páginas: 454

Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction Longlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing The Ministry of Truth charts the life of George Orwell's 1984, one of the most influential books of the twentieth century and a work that is ever more relevant in this tumultuous era of 'fake news' and 'alternative facts'. 'Fascinating . . . If you have even the slightest interest in Orwell or in the development of our culture, you should not miss this engrossing, enlightening book.' – John Carey, The Sunday Times George Orwell's 1984 has become a defining narrative of the modern world. Its cultural influence can be observed in some of the most notable creations of the past seventy years, from Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale to the reality TV landmark Big Brother, while ideas such as 'thought police', 'doublethink', and 'Newspeak' are ingrained in our language. In the first book to fully examine the origin and legacy of Orwell's final masterpiece, Dorian Lynskey investigates the influences that came together in the writing of 1984 from Orwell's experiences in the Spanish Civil War and in wartime London to his fascination with utopian and dystopian fiction. Lynskey ...

El ministerio de la verdad

Autor: Dorian Lynskey

Número de Páginas: 520

'1984', de George Orwell, se ha convertido en un relato definitorio del mundo moderno. Su influencia cultural puede observarse en algunas de las creaciones más notables de los últimos setenta años, desde 'El cuento de la criada' de Margaret Atwood hasta el hito televisivo Gran Hermano, mientras que ideas como "policía del pensamiento", "doblepensamiento" y "Newspeak" están arraigadas en nuestro lenguaje. 'El Ministerio de la Verdad' traza la vida de uno de los libros más influyentes del siglo XX y una obra que es cada vez más relevante en esta tumultuosa era de "noticias falsas" y "hechos alternativos". Dorian Lynskey investiga las influencias que confluyeron en la escritura de 1984, desde las experiencias de Orwell en la Guerra Civil española y en el Londres de la guerra hasta su fascinación por la ficción utópica y distópica. Lynskey explora el fenómeno en que se convirtió la novela cuando se publicó por primera vez en 1949 y las formas cambiantes en que se ha leído desde entonces, revelando cómo la historia puede orientar a la ficción y cómo la ficción puede influir en la historia. Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2019 Longlisted for...

Fascism

Autor: Ian Dunt , Dorian Lynskey

Número de Páginas: 143

AN ORIGIN STORY BOOK 'Provides clarity, scholarship, wit and essential insight into why our world is the way it is' Adam Rutherford 'I wish I could make Ian and Dorian's work mandatory' Sathnam Sanghera Why is 'fascist' used to describe everyone from dictators to parking wardens? Does the word 'fascism' describe a historical movement or an enduring ideology? And could we see it rise again today, in an age of populism? Unlike most major political ideologies, fascism has no clear-cut intellectual foundation. It appeals to some of the very darkest instincts in human nature: the hatred of difference, the desire to control, the delight in violence. The story of fascism shows us what happens when these instincts consume entire nations. In Fascism: The Story of an Idea, Ian Dunt and Dorian Lynskey lay out in clear and accessible terms the origins of fascism: what happened, how it happened and why. It is only by understanding fascism's beginnings that we can start to understand what it means today - and guard against those who seek its return.

La emoción de leer. Leer las emociones. Lectura para el desarrollo personal en jóvenes y adolescentes

Autor: Paulo Cosín Fernández

Número de Páginas: 121

Sentiremos la esperanza, el honor, el amor, la culpa, la infidelidad, la ira, la indignación, el placer, la amistad... Y todo, ¿para qué? Para disfrutar al máximo de los libros y, al tiempo, conocer mejor nuestras emociones, pues ese autoconocimiento nos conducirá al bienestar emocional. "Paulo Cosín nos ofrece un libro de una claridad encomiable en un tema que es fundamental. Su propuesta podría llamarse 'la lectura apasionada': intensa, vehemente, vital, de entrega a las tribulaciones y triunfos de los personajes para experimentarlo todo con ellos. Esta 'lectura apasionada' expande nuestra interioridad y, por consiguiente, nuestra capacidad compasiva. Pero, como explica muy bien el autor, esta pasión, ciega en sí misma, debe encaminarse mediante el diálogo reflexivo". Esteban Laso. Psicólogo experto en terapia emocional Instituto Zapopán. Guadalajara. México Damos la bienvenida al maravilloso mundo de la lectura apasionada. ¡Pasen y lean! Y, sobre todo, EMOCIÓNENSE.

Everything Must Go

Autor: Dorian Lynskey

Número de Páginas: 513

A rich, captivating, and darkly humorous look into the evolution of apocalyptic thought, exploring how film and literature interact with developments in science, politics, and culture, and what factors drive our perennial obsession with the end of the world. As Dorian Lynskey writes, “People have been contemplating the end of the world for millennia.” In this immersive and compelling cultural history, Lynskey reveals how religious prophecies of the apocalypse were secularized in the early 19th century by Lord Byron and Mary Shelley in a time of dramatic social upheaval and temporary climate change, inciting a long tradition of visions of the end without gods. With a discerning eye and acerbic wit, Lynskey examines how various doomsday tropes and predictions in literature, art, music, and film have arisen from contemporary anxieties, whether they be comets, pandemics, world wars, the Cuban Missile Crisis, Y2K, or the climate emergency. Far from being grim, Lynskey guides readers through a rich array of fascinating stories and surprising facts, allowing us to keep company with celebrated works of art and the people who made them, from H.G. Wells, Jack London, W.B. Yeats and J.G. ...

33 Revolutions Per Minute

Autor: Dorian Lynskey

Número de Páginas: 542

Why 33? Partly because that's the number of rotations performed by a vinyl album in one minute, and partly because it takes a lot of songs to tell a story which spans seven decades and five continents - to capture the colour and variety of this shape-shifting genre. This is not a list book, rather each of the 33 songs offers a way into a subject, an artist, an era or an idea. The book feels vital, in both senses of the word: necessary and alive. It captures some of the energy that is generated when musicians take risks, and even when they fail, those endeavours leave the popular culture a little richer and more challenging. Contrary to the frequently voiced idea that pop and politics are awkward bedfellows, it argues that protest music is pop, in all its blazing, cussed glory.

Anatomía de la canción

Autor: Marc Myers

Número de Páginas: 419

Las historias de 45 canciones que revolucionaron la música popular del siglo xx. Detrás de las grandes canciones hay historias fascinantes. A partir de la columna que publica en el Wall Street Journal, el crítico e historiador Marc Myers ilumina cinco décadas de música popular explicando cómo nacieron y cómo impactaron en los oídos 45 temas que han dejado una huella indeleble en la memoria de nuestro tiempo. Los protagonistas de esos impactos tejen el relato contándole al lector los secretos y las peripecias de sus aventuras creativas. Entre las canciones cuyos orígenes se narran en este libro hallaremos "Whola Lotta Love", de Led Zeppelin, "Mercedes Benz", de Janis Joplin, "Maggie May", de Rod Stewart, y "Time After Time", de Cyndi Lauper. Joni Mitchell recuerda la cueva de Creta donde vivía con el "viejo gruñón" que inspiró "Carey"; Elvis Costello habla de la breve epifanía que produjo "(The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes" cuando iba en tren a Liverpool; John Fogerty confiesa que manipuló la Quinta Sinfonía para componer "Proud Mary"... Mil curiosidades con cabezas de cartel como Mick Jagger, Jimmy Page, Smokey Robinson, Grace Slick, Mavis Staples, Steven...

Prince

Autor: Matt Thorne

Número de Páginas: 932

«No sé por qué debería regalar mi nueva música a iTunes o quién sea. No me pagan un anticipo por ello y encima se enfadan porque no pueden conseguirla.» Prince Prince es una de las pocas estrellas de la música que actualmente sigue siendo un enigma. Enemigo declarado de la prensa y las entrevistas, Prince ha contribuido, con una personalidad polémica y contradictoria, a crear su propio mito. Matt Thorne, reconocido escritor británico, ha hecho un trabajo meticuloso y exhaustivo en esta biografía de Prince en la que analiza su extenso catálogo musical y describe sus tendencias, influencias musicales, vínculos temáticos y preocupaciones recurrentes. Todo ello apoyado por una serie de entrevistas a sus colaboradores más próximos. Matt Thorne repasa cada fase de la carrera artística de Prince, desde sus inicios hasta la actualidad. Nada más y nada menos que treinta y cinco años de grabaciones y actuaciones en directo de un «adicto al trabajo» que con su música revolucionó la escena del pop. Prince de Matt Thorne será por muchos años el libro de referencia de este artista «irrepetible». «Escucho de nuevo cada uno de sus temas con renovado entusiasmo. La...

La industria de la felicidad

Autor: William Davies

Número de Páginas: 352

Un ensayo demoledor que nos enfrenta a una gran pregunta: ¿estamos obligados a ser felices? Es más, ¿quién dicta qué es la felicidad? Tener o ser, esa es la cuestión. De un tiempo a esta parte, parece como si estuviéramos obligados a ser felices. Tanto los Estados como el mercado y la tecnología nos animan a dejar atrás el malestar (y, de paso, la inconformidad) y a disfrutar (¡sin protestas, por favor!) del presente. Pero, ¿eso es la felicidad? La industria de la felicidad –un oportuno antídoto contra esas frágiles obras de superación personal que atestan las mesas de novedades− explora el modo en que nuestras emociones se volvieron, para bien para mal, la religión de esta era. En ' La industria de la felicidad', William Davies recorre los pasillos de las empresas, laboratorios y oficinas gubernamentales para descubrir cómo se construye la noción dominante de felicidad, cómo se mide, cómo se vende. En el camino dibuja un implacable retrato del capitalismo contemporáneo y delinea otra idea de felicidad, acaso menos rentable, pero más esperanzadora. "La obra de Davies es un necesario antídoto contra el exceso de esos libros seudocientíficos sobre la...

Crónicas I

Autor: Bob Dylan

Número de Páginas: 215

Bob Dylan, cantautor de cantautores, recientemente galardonado con el Premio Nobel de Literatura, presenta la edición del primer volumen de sus memorias. Las incomparables dotes de narrador y la exquisita expresividad que constituyen el sello distintivo de su música hacen de "Crónicas" una reflexión penetrante sobre la vida y sobre las personas y los lugares que moldearon al hombre y su arte. En 1961 Bob Dylan llega a Nueva York y se instala en Greenwich Village dispuesto a encontrarse con Woody Guthrie, que por aquel entonces era el cantautor al que intentaba emular. El joven Dylan se busca la vida tocando en distintos locales mientras vive una gran historia de amor y se desarrolla como autor. Esa entrada en el mundo de la música profesional, que culminará en 1962 con su primer contrato discográfico, es el trasfondo de 'Crónicas I', un libro que recoge impresiones, vivencias y reflexiones, que presenta al primer Bob Dylan como un creador animado por una inquietud infinita. Si conocíamos la calidad de Dylan como poeta, 'Crónicas I' nos descubre a un narrador extraordinario, capaz de alternar el recuerdo, lo elegíaco y las observaciones más mordaces e incisivas.

Conversations with Ben Okri

Autor: Vanessa Guignery

Número de Páginas: 139

Conversations with Ben Okri collects twenty-six interviews that range from 1986 to 2023 and reflect the international resonance of Nigerian writer Ben Okri's work. The reader is given access to the various phases of Okri’s life and career, beginning with his childhood (b. 1959) and upbringing in Nigeria and the publication of his early short stories and novels. The interviews also explore the tremendous success of The Famished Road (for which Okri became the first Black African writer to receive the Booker Prize in 1991) and the dazzling creativity of his subsequent work in a multiplicity of literary genres. The volume offers insight into the writer’s creative process and his unique views on literature, history, memory, politics, freedom, spirituality, and environmental issues. The conversations often veer into fascinating philosophical discussions about the nature of art and reality, the value of myth, and the dynamics of storytelling. Since the publication of his first novel in 1980, Okri has encouraged his readers to open their minds and eyes to new modes of perceiving reality. Convinced of the universality of art, he has been intent on redreaming the world from a variety...

Moving Mountains: The Little Guide to Pink

Autor: Orange Hippo!

Número de Páginas: 194

"I'm proof that things absolutely can happen." - Pink Dubbed the next "Queen of Pop" for her distinctive voice and live acrobatic stage performances, Pink unapologetically smashed her way through the music industry at the mere age of 14. The incredible success of her masterpiece Missundaztood showcased the reality of Pink to the world; a strong, rebellious yet vulnerable woman who was here to conquer the music industry. With over 135 million albums and singles sold worldwide, nine studio albums and a long list of accolades, she is one of the world's best-selling music artists. Moving Mountains: The Little Guide to Pink is bursting with quotes taken from the mouth of the "toothless tiger" herself across interviews from all eras of her continuing career. From relatable quips to fascinating facts from her wild teenage days, this tiny tome will get you ready to paint the world pink.

Transmedia Directors

Autor: Carol Vernallis , Holly Rogers , Lisa Perrott

Número de Páginas: 529

Transmedia Directors focuses on artist-practitioners who work across media, platforms and disciplines, including film, television, music video, commercials and the internet. Working in the age of media convergence, today's em/impresarios project a distinctive style that points toward a new contemporary aesthetics. The media they engage with enrich their practices – through film and television (with its potential for world-building and sense of the past and future), music video (with its audiovisual aesthetics and rhythm), commercials (with their ability to project a message quickly) and the internet (with its refreshed concepts of audience and participation), to larger forms like restaurants and amusement parks (with their materiality alongside today's digital aesthetics). These directors encourage us to reassess concepts of authorship, assemblage, transmedia, audiovisual aesthetics and world-building. Providing a vital resource for scholars and practitioners, this collection weaves together insights about artist-practitioners' collaborative processes as well as strategies for composition, representation, subversion and resistance.

Love Songs

Autor: Ted Gioia

Número de Páginas: 332

The love song is timeless. From its beginnings, it has been shaped by bohemians and renegades, slaves and oppressed minorities, prostitutes, immigrants and other excluded groups. But what do we really know about the origins of these intimate expressions of the heart? And how have our changing perceptions about topics such as sexuality and gender roles changed our attitudes towards these songs? In Love Songs: The Hidden History, Ted Gioia uncovers the unexplored story of the love song for the first time. Drawing on two decades of research, Gioia presents the full range of love songs, from the fertility rites of ancient cultures to the sexualized YouTube videos of the present day. The book traces the battles over each new insurgency in the music of love--whether spurred by wandering scholars of medieval days or by four lads from Liverpool in more recent times. In these pages, Gioia reveals that the tenderest music has, in different eras, driven many of the most heated cultural conflicts, and how the humble love song has played a key role in expanding the sphere of individualism and personal autonomy in societies around the world. Gioia forefronts the conflicts, controversies, and...

The Killers: Days & Ages

Autor: Mark Beaumont

Número de Páginas: 541

The ultimate story of The Killers' rise from Las Vegas croupiers to million selling global superstars headlining festivals throughout the world. Featuring interview transcripts with the band as well as new interviews with them and those around them right up to their new album Battle Born.

The Little Guide to Leonard Cohen

Autor: Orange Hippo!

Número de Páginas: 192

Without a doubt one of the most important, influential and acclaimed artists since the 1960s, Leonard Cohen is admired by fans, musicians and composers the world over. His death in 2016 at the age of 82 was front-page news globally. The deeply personal nature of his work, and its profound insight into humans and human nature see him revered as a lyrical genius, and for good reason. His ongoing themes of depression, love, religion and relationships struck a chord with fans all over the world and his albums (as well as his books of poetry) sold accordingly. The Little Guide to Leonard Cohen features quotes from the man himself, as well as contributions from many great artists and commentators. Cohen had many celebrity fans, including Bob Dylan, Kurt Cobain, Judy Collins and more. This book contains many insightful, witty and meaningful quotes by and about Leonard Cohen, as well as fascinating facts, song lists and more. SAMPLE QUOTE: 'My reputation as a ladies' man was a joke. It caused me to laugh bitterly through the 10,000 nights I spent alone.' - Leonard Cohen SAMPLE FACT: 'Hallelujah' has been recorded by more than 200 artists, in many languages. Many of the cover versions have ...

Neil Young

Autor: Martin Halliwell

Número de Páginas: 217

When Neil Young left Canada in 1966 to move to California, it was the beginning of an extraordinary musical journal that would leave song after song resonating across the landscapes of North America. From “Ohio” to “Albuquerque,” Young’s fascination with America’s many places profoundly influenced his eclectic style and helped shape the restless sensibility of his generation. In this book, Martin Halliwell shows how place has loomed large in Young’s prodigious catalog of songs, which are themselves a testament to his storied career as a musician playing with bands such as Buffalo Springfield, Crazy Horse, and, of course, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Moving from the Canadian prairies to Young’s adopted Pacific home, Halliwell explores how place and travel spurred one of the most prolific creative outputs in music history. Placing Young in the shifting musical milieus of the past decades—comprised of artists such as Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Gordon Lightfoot, the Grateful Dead, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Devo, and Pearl Jam—he traces the ways Young’s personal journeys have intertwined with that of American music and how both capture the power of America’s great...

Iconic Designs

Autor: Grace Lees-maffei

Número de Páginas: 241

Iconic Designs is a beautifully designed and illustrated guide to fifty classic 'things' – designs that we find in the city, in our homes and offices, on page and screen, and in our everyday lives. In her introduction, Grace Lees-Maffei explores the idea of iconicity and what makes a design 'iconic', and fifty essays by leading design and cultural critics address the development of each iconic 'thing', its innovative and unique qualities, and its journey to classic status. Subjects range from the late 19th century to the present day, and include the Sydney Opera House, the Post-It Note, Coco Chanel's classic suit, the Sony WalkmanTM, Hello KittyTM, Helvetica, the Ford Model T, Harry Beck's diagrammatic map of the London Underground and the Apple iMac G3. This handsome volume provides a treasure trove of 'stories' that will shed new light on the iconic designs that we use without thinking, aspire to possess, love or hate (or love to hate) and which form part of the fabric of our everyday lives.

Conspiracy Theory

Autor: Ian Dunt , Dorian Lynskey

Número de Páginas: 143

AN ORIGIN STORY BOOK 'Provides clarity, scholarship, wit and essential insight into why our world is the way it is' Adam Rutherford 'I wish I could make Ian and Dorian's work mandatory' Sathnam Sanghera What makes people believe in conspiracy theories? Why have they taken over our political sphere? And how do we counter them before it's too late? The world has always had conspiracy theories. From the Illuminati to the deep state, the JFK assassination to the death of Princess Diana - there have always been those who believe that events are manipulated by shadowy forces with sinister intent. But in recent years, conspiracism has colonised the mainstream. These days, it is a booming industry, a political strategy and a pseudo-religion - and it's threatening the foundations of liberal democracy. Where once political battles were fought over ideas and values, it now feels as though we're arguing over the nature of reality itself. The problem is bigger than lizard people or UFOs: left unchecked, conspiracy theories have the power to warp the fabric of society and justify unspeakable crimes. In Conspiracy Theory: The Story of an Idea, Ian Dunt and Dorian Lynskey pull back the curtain on ...

Not Stolen

Autor: Jeff Fynn-paul

Número de Páginas: 378

A renowned historian debunks current distortion and myths about European colonialism in the New World and restores much needed balance to our understanding of the past. Was America really “stolen” from the Indians? Was Columbus a racist? Were Indians really peace-loving, communistic environmentalists? Did Europeans commit “genocide” in the New World? It seems that almost everyone—from CNN to the New York Times to angry students pulling down statues of our founders—believes that America’s history is a shameful tale of racism, exploitation, and cruelty. In Not Stolen, renowned historian Jeff Fynn-Paul systematically dismantles this relentlessly negative view of U.S. history, arguing that it is based on shoddy methods, misinformation, and outright lies about the past. America was not “stolen” from the Indians but fairly purchased piece by piece in a thriving land market. Nor did European settlers cheat, steal, murder, rape or purposely infect them with smallpox to the extent that most people believe. No genocide occurred—either literal or cultural—and the decline of Native populations over time is not due to violence but to assimilation and natural demographic...

Takin' Care of Business

Autor: George Case

Número de Páginas: 217

By the early 1970s, practically everyone under a certain age liked rock music, but not everyone liked it for the same reasons. We typically associate the sounds of classic rock 'n' roll with youthful rebellion by juvenile delinquents, student demonstrators, idealistic hippies, or irreverent punks. But in this insightful and timely book, author George Case shows how an important strain of rock music from the late 1960s onward spoke to — and represented an idealized self-portrait of — a very different audience: the working-class 'Average Joes' who didn't want to change the world as much as they wanted to protect their perceived place within it. To the extent that "working-class populism" describes an authentic political current, it's now beyond a doubt that certain musicians and certain of their songs helped define that current. By now, rock 'n' roll has cast a long shadow over hundreds of millions of people around the world — not just over reckless kids, but over wage-earning parents and retired elders; not just over indignant youth challenging authority, but over indignant adults challenging their own definition of it. Not only have the politics of rock fans drifted...

Centrism

Autor: Ian Dunt , Dorian Lynskey

Número de Páginas: 140

AN ORIGIN STORY BOOK 'Provides clarity, scholarship, wit and essential insight into why our world is the way it is' Adam Rutherford 'I wish I could make Ian and Dorian's work mandatory' Sathnam Sanghera A coherent political philosophy or a vacuous cop-out? A pragmatic middle way between the extremes of left and right or a cynical strategy to secure power and neuter debate? Politicians have long invoked centrism as both a term of abuse (Margaret Thatcher) and a badge of pride (Tony Blair). Figures as important as John Maynard Keynes, Roy Jenkins, Bill Clinton and Emmanuel Macron have all had different ideas about how to make sure the centre holds. But for a term that purports to describe consensus, it's ironic just how little agreement there is over what 'centrism' actually means. In Centrism: The Story of an Idea, Ian Dunt and Dorian Lynskey trace the evolution of centrism from ancient Greece to the French Revolution, the Second World War to the 2024 elections. They find a story that is much bigger than the sum of its parts - and that raises some uncomfortable questions about tribalism and compromise.

A Version of Reason

Autor: Rob Jovanovic

Número de Páginas: 256

The missing Manic - an authoritative look into the life and times of Richey Edwards, the Manic Street Preachers' guitarist who disappeared in 1995. The disappearance of Richey Edwards, troubled guitarist with the Manic Street Preachers, is one of rock and roll's great unresolved mysteries. His Vauxhall Cavalier was found abandoned in a service station car park near the Severn Bridge, a notorious suicide spot, in February 1995, a fortnight after Edwards had last been seen. The location of the car and the tape left in the deck - Nirvana's album In Utero - tended to point to one conclusion. However, it almost seemed too obvious a statement, and in A VERSION OF REASON, Rob Jovanovic unravels the complicated life and final days of Richey Edwards. Piecing together testimony from those close to Edwards Jovanovic seeks to produce an authoritative account of the life and times of Richey Edwards.

Orwell and Empire

Autor: Douglas Kerr

Número de Páginas: 216

Considers George Orwell's writing about the East, and the presence of the East in his writing and argues that in thinking of Orwell as an 'Anglo-Indian writer', not just in upbringing and experience, but in many of his views, perceptions, and reactions, a different Orwell emerges.

Leonard Cohen on Leonard Cohen

Autor: Jeff Burger

Número de Páginas: 475

Leonard Cohen, one of the most admired performers of the last half century, has had a stranger-than-fiction, roller-coaster ride of a life. Now, for the first time, he tells his story in his own words, via more than 50 interviews conducted worldwide between 1966 and 2012. In Leonard Cohen on Leonard Cohen—which includes a foreword by singer Suzanne Vega and eight pages of rarely seen photos—the artist talks about “Bird on the Wire,” “Hallelujah,” and his other classic songs. He candidly discusses his famous romances, his years in a Zen monastery, his ill-fated collaboration with producer Phil Spector, his long battle with depression, and much more. You'll find interviews that first appeared in the New York Times and Rolling Stone, but also material that has not previously been printed in English. A few have not been available until now in any format, including many illuminating reminiscences that contributors supplied specifically for this definitive anthology.

The Guardian Index

Número de Páginas: 1848

El pueblo sin atributos

Autor: Wendy Brown

Número de Páginas: 304

El capitalismo no sólo venció al comunismo: también está derrotando a la democracia. La razón neoliberal —hoy ubicua en los despachos gubernamentales y los centros de trabajo, en la educación y la cultura, en el hogar y en una amplia gama de actividades cotidianas— está configurando todos los aspectos de la existencia en términos económicos y transformando al ciudadano en un simple y explotado 'homo oeconomicus'. ¿Puede la democracia sobrevivir en esas condiciones? ¿Estamos todavía a tiempo para tirar del freno de emergencia antes de que el neoliberalismo lo arrase todo? 'El pueblo sin atributos' es un lúcido y apasionado alegato contra el 'sentido común' de nuestro tiempo. Mediante un minucioso análisis de las fuentes intelectuales del neoliberalismo y de los hábitos sociales y políticos que éste produce, Wendy Brown, una de las grandes figuras contemporáneas de la teoría política, muestra con insólita y angustiosa precisión lo que las multitudes proclaman en las calles: la democracia está bajo ataque.

Libérés de la masculinité

Autor: Aline Laurent-mayard

Número de Páginas: 203

« Ce livre n’est pas sur Timothée Chalamet, le sex-symbol le plus maigrichon et imberbe qu’Hollywood ait jamais connu, mais sur ce qu’il représente : la libération de la mode et des corps masculins, la ringardisation du bad boy, l’émergence d’hommes qui se fichent d’être de “vrais hommes” et se montrent sensibles, humbles, à l’écoute... Peuvent-ils nous libérer du patriarcat ? » Dans ce livre entre étude d’un phénomène de la pop culture, enquête journalistique et essai personnel, Aline Laurent-Mayard interroge avec drôlerie et beaucoup d’esprit le rapport que nous entretenons avec la masculinité, avec les normes de genre et la binarité. Que l’on soit homme, femme, non-binaire, une chose est certaine : face aux injonctions sociétales, tout le monde gagnerait à se sentir plus libre. « Dans un essai drôle et documenté intitulé Libérés de la masculinité, la journaliste Aline Laurent-Mayard s'interroge sur sa fascination pour Timothée Chalamet, antithèse du bad boy. » Clément Boutin, Causette « Cette nouvelle masculinité, ou figure de l'homme nouveau, c'est d'ailleurs ce qu'analyse la journaliste Aline Laurent-Mayard dans un...

La librería más famosa del mundo

Autor: Jeremy Mercer

Número de Páginas: 364

Con unos facinerosos pisándole los talones, el cronista de canalladas Jeremy Mercer se planta en París a la espera de algo. Cierto día, cuando deambula con aguacero y sin techo por la orilla izquierda, le ofrecen té en una fábula conocida como Shakespeare and Co. Aquella guarida es, en realidad, el segundo avatar de una fantasía ideada por Sylvia Beach en los años veinte como domicilio de una generación no más perdida que cualquier otra, un templo ya difunto pero resucitado durante los cincuenta con extravagantes consecuencias. Allí, sin ir más lejos, residieron Ginsberg, Burroughs, Ferlinghetti y otros tambores de la percusión beat. George Whitman, su nuevo sacerdote, ofrece hospedaje a cambio de trabajo a los letraheridos sin rumbo, y nuestro Jeremy acepta la generosa oferta para acabar convertido en huésped, confidente y factótum del estrafalario posadero. Lo acompañará en su aventura un formidable reparto de exotismos humanos decididos a llevar la bohemia parisina hasta las cotas más sublimes de lo descabellado. Y lo entrañable. Y lo literario. Porque la librería más famosa del mundo aloja el sueño de unas vidas reales hechas con la materia de la ficción. ...

En busca de aquel sonido

Autor: Ennio Morricone , Alessandro De Rosa

Número de Páginas: 427

Una íntima conversación con El Maestro. ¿Qué es la música? ¿Dónde comienza? ¿Cuál es su propósito? ¿Sigue teniendo sentido estudiar música hoy en día? Las historias y reflexiones de Morricone en conversación con su discípulo y confidente, el también compositor Alessandro de Rosa, giran en torno a estas cuestiones. Juntos recuperan muchos de los recuerdos que pueblan la singladura vital del maestro, tanto en lo concerniente a la evolución de su lenguaje musical como a las múltiples y privilegiadas relaciones profesionales que cimentaron su reconocimiento internacional. Vida y obra confluyen en una suerte de partitura que nos permite contextualizar y comprender algunas de las grandes paradojas y contradicciones de nuestro tiempo. Conversar con Morricone invita a reflexionar sobre el pasado, el presente y el futuro de la música, para abordar de manera cercana cuestiones como la crisis de la música culta del siglo XX, la llegada de la radio y la televisión, el desarrollo de la industria cinematográfica y discográfica, y los usos y costumbres de la sociedad de consumo. No menos fascinante es la crónica de sus encuentros con personalidades como Sergio Leone, Pier ...

Listening to the Unconscious

Autor: Kenneth Smith , Stephen Overy

Número de Páginas: 281

What happens in our unconscious minds when we listen to, produce or perform popular music? The Unconscious – a much misunderstood concept from philosophy and psychology – works through human subjects as we produce music and can be traced through the music we engage with. Through a new collaboration between music theorist and philosopher, Smith and Overy present the long history of the unconscious and its related concepts, working systematically through philosophers such as Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, psychoanalysts such as Freud and Lacan, to theorists such as Deleuze and Kristeva. The theories offered are vital to follow the psychological complexity of popular music, demonstrated through close readings of individual songs, albums, artists, genres, and popular music practices. Among countless artists, Listening to the Unconscious draws from Prince to Sufjan Stevens, from Robyn to Xiu Xiu, from Joanna Newsom to Arcade Fire, from PJ Harvey to LCD Sound System, each of whom offer exciting inroads into the fascinating worlds of our unconscious musical minds. And in return, theories of the unconscious can perhaps takes us deeper into the heart of popular music.

Anyone Can Do It: Empowerment, Tradition and the Punk Underground

Autor: Pete Dale

Número de Páginas: 257

For more than three decades, a punk underground has repeatedly insisted that 'anyone can do it'. This underground punk movement has evolved via several micro-traditions, each offering distinct and novel presentations of what punk is, isn't, or should be. Underlying all these punk micro-traditions is a politics of empowerment that claims to be anarchistic in character, in the sense that it is contingent upon a spontaneous will to liberty (anyone can do it - in theory). How valid, though, is punk's faith in anarchistic empowerment? Exploring theories from Derrida and Marx, Anyone Can Do It: Empowerment, Tradition and the Punk Underground examines the cultural history and politics of punk. In its political resistance, punk bears an ideological relationship to the folk movement, but punk's faith in novelty and spontaneous liberty distinguish it from folk: where punk's traditions, from the 1970s onwards, have tended to search for an anarchistic 'new-sense', folk singers have more often been socialist/Marxist traditionalists, especially during the 1950s and 60s. Detailed case studies show the continuities and differences between four micro-traditions of punk: anarcho-punk, cutie/'C86',...

Reality Unedited

Autor: Kevin R. Nelson

Número de Páginas: 268

Our species has coexisted in the world in a healthy and balanced way for 97% of its existence. It was only after our ancestors emerged from life in nature as hunter-gatherers that this all began to change. By the beginning of civilization some 6,000 years ago, these changes rigidified and became destructive on a large scale. They have accumulated to such an extent that our species now faces extinction or a dismal future of ever-worsening ecocide. Meaninglessness and confusion have become rampant in our postmodern era. The human psyche has become utterly fragmented and rendered a stranger to reality, other people, and itself. As dispiriting as this all seems, the path forward has always been available to us if we can overcome the ignorance that prevents us from taking it. We must reject the values of civilization and return to the naturalistic perspective of our ancestors where our values, thinking, feeling, and actions are once again based on how nature and reality truly function. While this approach should be evident, we have until now been too terrified, bewildered, or arrogant to adopt it. To help us succeed, Reality Unedited provides a simple model of reality that serves as a...

Flannery at the Grammys

Autor: Irwin H. Streight

Número de Páginas: 214

A devout Catholic, a visionary—and some say prophetic—writer, Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964) has gained a growing presence in contemporary popular culture. While O’Connor professed that she did not have an ear for music, allusions to her writing appear in the lyrics and narrative form of some of the most celebrated musicians on the contemporary music scene. Flannery at the Grammys sounds the extensive influence of this southern author on the art and vision of a suite of American and British singer-songwriters and pop groups. Author Irwin H. Streight invites critical awareness of O’Connor’s resonance in the products of popular music culture—in folk, blues, rock, gospel, punk, heavy metal, and indie pop songs by some of the most notable figures in the popular music business. Streight examines O'Connor's influence on the art and vision of multiple Grammy Award winners Bruce Springsteen, Lucinda Williams, R.E.M., and U2, along with celebrated songwriters Nick Cave, PJ Harvey, Sufjan Stevens, Mary Gauthier, Tom Waits, and others. Despite her orthodox religious, and at times controversial, views and limited literary output, O’Connor has left a curiously indelible mark...

Fans de...

Autor: Gabriel Segré

Número de Páginas: 231

D’Elvis à Michael Jackson, de Lady Di à Justin Bieber, le culte des vedettes ne s’est jamais aussi bien porté. Johnny, Madonna, « Cloclo », Dalida..., certaines stars, vivantes ou disparues, sont véritablement sacralisées. À la fois célébrées et adorées, elles sont devenues les objets de cultes profanes, de mythologies et de rituels contemporains. Les adeptes de ces nouvelles idoles se comptent par millions. Dépenses inconsidérées en objets à l’effigie de la vedette, pèlerinages en masse sur son lieu de résidence, sacrifice de la vie personnelle et amoureuse, vague de suicides après la disparition de « l’élu(e) »... La ferveur des fans, toujours plus spectaculaire, peut prendre un visage pathétique, drôle, touchant ou tragique. Et reste souvent peu compréhensible. Qui sont les fans ? Comment expliquer l’intensité – parfois l’irrationnel – de leurs passions ? Pourquoi certaines célébrités sont-elles ainsi adorées telles de « nouvelles divinités » ? Les fans incarnent-ils les travers de notre société de consommation et de la culture de masse ? Ou plutôt, au-delà de l’image caricaturale du fan, ce phénomène ne serait-il pas...

¡Alucina!

Autor: Pauline Butcher

Número de Páginas: 538

Londres. Corre el año 1967 y Pauline deambula sin rumbo por la mágica metrópoli contracultural de los sesenta. Tiene 21 años, trabaja en una agencia de secretarias y no suele desmelenarse, pero un inesperado encuentro cambiará radicalmente su vida: una tarde recibe la llamada de un sujeto que necesita transcribir las letras de un disco. Es Frank Zappa. Ese feliz e improbable encargo vendrá seguido por vagos flirteos, extrañas confidencias y una propuesta desconcertante: trasladarse a Los Ángeles e ingresar en la variopinta cuadrilla que allí convive y desvaría con el cantante. Aceptada la invitación, nuestra audaz mecanógrafa asistirá atónita y deslumbrada al asombroso espectáculo que se representa frente a ella. Contempla la incansable actividad creativa de Zappa, es toda oídos durante sus peregrinos coloquios con tipos como Mick Jagger, George Harrison, Eric Clapton o Rod Stewart y asiste religiosamente a los extáticos ensayos de su grupo, ceremonias por las que desfila una caterva de friquis, tunantes, colgados y entrañables soñadores. De todo ello da cuenta en este libro.

Electrified Democracy

Autor: Andrew Blick

Número de Páginas: 387

The story of how the UK Parliament came to use the Internet from the 1960s onwards has never been told. Electrified Democracy places the impact of technology on parliamentary workings in its longer term historical context. The author identifies repeating patterns of perception and analysis, and cultural tendencies in the perception of inventions dating back over centuries that have reasserted themselves in connection with the parliamentary response to networked computers. He uncovers evidence and makes new connections, while situating all this within the wider global debates on connections between communication and democracy in the age of the Internet, constitutional law and history, and 'law and technology'. This book will be of interest to a wide readership including policy makers, researchers, and all those interested in contemporary controversies about the role of the Internet in modern societies.

Nuestra pandilla

Autor: Philip Roth

Número de Páginas: 146

Philip Roth disecciona con hilarante y despiadada inteligencia la era Nixon y sus tejemanejes. Trick E. Dixon es un cuáquero, amante de la paz y convencido del carácter sagrado de la vida humana, que no tiene el menor inconveniente en aplicar la noción de defensa propia a la matanza de mujeres y niños desarmados. Es un maestro de la política, y en su rostro hay siempre una desdeñosa expresión de honradez, pero ello no le impide entrar en batalla con los boy scouts, ni declarar la guerra al gobierno pro-pornografía de Dinamarca, confiando siempre en la indiferencia básica de los votantes. Reseña: «Una brillante sátira, en la auténtica tradición de Swift.» Anthony Burgess