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Author : Nik Cohn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780297000174
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Arfur: Teenage Pinball Queen written by Nik Cohn and published by . This book was released on 1970-01-01 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nik Cohn
Publisher : Harvill Press
ISBN 13 : 9780586035726
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (357 download)
Download or read book Arfur - Teenage Pinball Queen written by Nik Cohn and published by Harvill Press. This book was released on 1973-01-01 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nik Cohn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Arfur: Teenage Pinball Queen written by Nik Cohn and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark Blake
Publisher : Aurum
ISBN 13 : 1781313180
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (813 download)
Download or read book Pretend You're In A War written by Mark Blake and published by Aurum. This book was released on 2014-09-18 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A definitive tome for both Who fans and newcomers alike’ ***** Q Magazine Pete Townshend was once asked how he prepared himself for The Who’s violent live performances. His answer? ‘Pretend you’re in a war.’ For a band as prone to furious infighting as it was notorious for acts of ‘auto-destructive art’ this could have served as a motto. Between 1964 and 1969 The Who released some of the most dramatic and confrontational music of the decade, including ‘I Can’t Explain’, ‘My Generation’ and ‘I Can See For Miles’. This was a body of work driven by bitter rivalry, black humour and dark childhood secrets, but it also held up a mirror to a society in transition. Now, acclaimed rock biographer Mark Blake goes in search of its inspiration to present a unique perspective on both The Who and the sixties. From their breakthrough as Mod figureheads to the rise and fall of psychedelia, he reveals how The Who, in their explorations of sex, drugs, spirituality and class, refracted the growing turbulence of the time. He also lays bare the colourful but crucial role played by their managers, Kit Lambert and Chris Stamp. And – in the uneasy alliance between art-school experimentation and working-class ambition – he locates the motor of the Swinging Sixties. As the decade closed, with The Who performing Tommy in front of 500,000 people at the Woodstock Festival, the ‘rock opera’ was born. In retrospect, it was the crowning achievement of a band who had already embraced pop art and the concept album; who had pioneered the power chord and the guitar smash; and who had embodied – more so than any of their peers – the guiding spirit of the age: war.
Author : Kirk Curnutt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108551599
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (85 download)
Download or read book American Literature in Transition, 1970–1980 written by Kirk Curnutt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-22 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Literature in Transition, 1970–1980 examines the literary developments of the twentieth-century's gaudiest decade. For a quarter century, filmmakers, musicians, and historians have returned to the era to explore the legacy of Watergate, stagflation, and Saturday Night Fever, uncovering the unique confluence of political and economic phenomena that make the period such a baffling time. Literary historians have never shown much interest in the era, however - a remarkable omission considering writers as diverse as Toni Morrison, Thomas Pynchon, Marilyn French, Adrienne Rich, Gay Talese, Norman Mailer, Alice Walker, and Octavia E. Butler were active. Over the course of twenty-one essays, contributors explore a range of controversial themes these writers tackled, from 1960s' nostalgia to feminism and the redefinition of masculinity to sexual liberation and rock 'n' roll. Other essays address New Journalism, the rise of blockbuster culture, memoir and self-help, and crime fiction - all demonstrating that the Me Decade was nothing short of mesmerizing.
Author : Peter Stanfield
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1789142784
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (891 download)
Download or read book A Band with Built-In Hate written by Peter Stanfield and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2022-08-22 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the explosion of the Who onto the international music scene, this heavily illustrated book looks at this furious band as an embodiment of pop art. “Ours is music with built-in hatred,” said Pete Townshend. A Band with Built-In Hate pictures the Who from their inception as the Detours in the mid-sixties to the late-seventies, post-Quadrophenia. It is a story of ambition and anger, glamor and grime, viewed through the prism of pop art and the radical leveling of high and low culture that it brought about—a drama that was aggressively performed by the band. Peter Stanfield lays down a path through the British pop revolution, its attitude, and style, as it was uniquely embodied by the Who: first, under the mentorship of arch-mod Peter Meaden, as they learned their trade in the pubs and halls of suburban London; and then with Kit Lambert and Chris Stamp, two aspiring filmmakers, at the very center of things in Soho. Guided by contemporary commentators—among them, George Melly, Lawrence Alloway, and most conspicuously Nik Cohn—Stanfield describes a band driven by belligerence and delves into what happened when Townshend, Daltrey, Moon, and Entwistle moved from back-room stages to international arenas, from explosive 45s to expansive concept albums. Above all, he tells of how the Who confronted their lost youth as it was echoed in punk.
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1830 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1972 with total page 1830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dylan Jones
Publisher : Picador
ISBN 13 : 1250031885
Total Pages : 1011 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The Biographical Dictionary of Popular Music written by Dylan Jones and published by Picador. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 1011 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Biographical Dictionary of Popular Music is an incredible and opinionated collection of celebrated cultural critic Dylan Jones's thoughts on more than 350 of the most important artists around the world—alive and dead, big and small, at length and in brief. This A to Z reference is the true musical heir to David Thomson's seminal The New Biographical Dictionary of Popular Film. Jones writes entertainingly about bands that have inspired, bedeviled, and fascinated him over the years.
Author : Ulf Lindberg
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9780820474908
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (749 download)
Download or read book Rock Criticism from the Beginning written by Ulf Lindberg and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2005 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rock Criticism from the Beginning is a wide-ranging exploration of the rise and development of rock criticism in Britain and the United States from the 1960s to the present. It chronicles the evolution of a new form of journalism, and the course by which writing on rock was transformed into a respected field of cultural production. The authors explore the establishment of magazines from Crawdaddy! and Rolling Stone to The Source, and from Melody Maker and New Musical Express to The Wire, while investigating the careers of well-known music critics like Robert Christgau, Greil Marcus, and Lester Bangs in the U.S., and Nik Cohn, Paul Morley, and Jon Savage in the U.K., to name just a few. While much has been written on the history of rock, this Bourdieu-inspired book is the first to offer a look at the coming of age of rock journalism, and the critics that opened up a whole new kind of discourse on popular music.
Author : Mark Wilkerson
Publisher : Omnibus Press
ISBN 13 : 0857120085
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (571 download)
Download or read book Who Are You: The Life Of Pete Townshend written by Mark Wilkerson and published by Omnibus Press. This book was released on 2009-10-28 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accurate, detailed and fascinating account of the life of a man whose story should have been told in this much detail long ago. Author Mark Wilkerson interviewed Townshend himself and several of Townshend's friends and associates for this biography.
Author : Nik Cohn
Publisher : Bedford Square Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1843445794
Total Pages : 37 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (434 download)
Download or read book The Noise From the Streets written by Nik Cohn and published by Bedford Square Publishers. This book was released on 2014-11-27 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book to read if you want to get some idea of the original primal energy of pop music. Nik Cohn: A Derry boy who became the omnipresent man in music's developing story from the 50s to the present; a self-styled rat, addicted to adventure, a rock legend, forever at the heart of the real action. This memoir provides a strong flavour of the person whose writing inspired Saturday Night Fever and several other pop-culture landmarks. Cohn leads us, in reverse order, through the decades of his musical life and times, meeting familiar heroes and rogues - let readers decide the categories to which Hendrix, Moon, Proby, Vicious et al belong. The Noise From The Streets is elegiac, charming and thoughtful - wallow in it. Nik Cohn recently headed Jarvis Cocker's top 10 music books in The Guardian (13 June 2014) for his title Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom. 'The original title for this book was ' Pop from the Beginning' and that pretty much sums it up. Nik Cohn was only just out of his teens when he wrote it and it's the book to read if you want to get some idea of the original primal energy of pop music. Loads of unfounded, biased assertions that almost always turn out to be right. He went on to provide the inspiration for Saturday Night Fever (Hurrah!) and Tommy (Boo!), but this is still his best book. Absolutely essential.'
Author : Linda Parent Lesher
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476603898
Total Pages : 489 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book The Best Novels of the Nineties written by Linda Parent Lesher and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reader’s guide provides uniquely organized and up-to-date information on the most important and enjoyable contemporary English-language novels. Offering critically substantiated reading recommendations, careful cross-referencing, and extensive indexing, this book is appropriate for both the weekend reader looking for the best new mystery and the full-time graduate student hoping to survey the latest in magical realism. More than 1,000 titles are included, each entry citing major reviews and giving a brief description for each book.
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 622 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Women Sports written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nigel Cawthorne
Publisher : Unanimous, Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781903318768
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (187 download)
Download or read book The Who and the Making of Tommy written by Nigel Cawthorne and published by Unanimous, Limited. This book was released on 2005 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1326 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book You're the Critic written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 1326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Pete Townshend
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Who's Tommy written by Pete Townshend and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 1993 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a history of Tommy from rock opera to its staging as a Broadway musical.
Author : Andrew Calcutt
Publisher : Prion (GB)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Cult Fiction written by Andrew Calcutt and published by Prion (GB). This book was released on 1998 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes a novel cult?: drink and drugs; sex and rock 'n' roll?; a window on subcultures?; the ability to tap into the zeitgeist? This book provides an insight into the cult canon assessing 250 authors who have pioneered experiments in style and content, from Kathy Acker and Nelson Algren via Burroughs and Bukowski to Tom Wolfe and Irvine Welsh.
