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The Acid House

Author : Irvine Welsh
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393352404
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book The Acid House written by Irvine Welsh and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1995-04-17 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irvine Welsh's scintillating, disturbing, and altogether outrageous collection of stories—the basis for the 1998 cult movie directed by Paul McGuigan. He is called "the Scottish Celine of the 1990s" (Guardian) and "a mad, postmodern Roald Dahl" (Weekend Scotsman). Using a range of approaches from bitter realism to demented fantasy, Irvine Welsh is able to evoke the essential humanity, well hidden as it is, of his generally depraved, lazy, manipulative, and vicious characters. He specializes particularly in cosmic reversals—God turn a hapless footballer into a fly; an acid head and a newborn infant exchange consciousnesses with sardonically unexpected results—always displaying a corrosive wit and a telling accuracy of language and detail. Irvine Welsh is one hilariously dangerous writer who always creates a sensation.

The True Story of Acid House: Britain’s Last Youth Culture Revolution

Author : Luke Bainbridge
Publisher : Omnibus Press
ISBN 13 : 0857128639
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (571 download)

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Download or read book The True Story of Acid House: Britain’s Last Youth Culture Revolution written by Luke Bainbridge and published by Omnibus Press. This book was released on 2014-02-10 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The arrival of a new style of music and a new type of drug in 1988 ignited a revolution. To coincide with the 25th anniversary of the second summer of love, this is the definitive story of the seismic movements in music and youth culture that changed the cultural landscape forever. Luke Bainbridge is uniquely positioned to tell this story, having connections both in the industry, through nearly two decades as a music journalist, and on the dancefloor, through two decades of dancing, promoting and DJing. Bainbridge has interviewed most of the protagonists who led the revolution, from the DJs and musicians to the promoters, gangsters and ravers, and built up a relationship of trust and mutual respect. This will be true story of acid house, from the DJ box to the dance floor. He examines the legacy and lasting impact of acid house, and how the second summer of love is viewed 25 years on. How has acid house been assimilated into mainstream culture? How did the change in drugs, away from ecstasy towards other drugs, affect the music and the party scene? Why has the free party scene never really been replicated, despite new technology greater capacity to organise events and disseminate information? Did the summer of 1988 leave us with a generation of drug users? Has there been any lasting effect of such an explosion in drug use? Who were the real winners and casualties in the story? Do the world's current biggest DJs Tiesto, Swedish House Mafia, David Guetta have any connection to the original scene? Where next for house and dance music in general?

Altered State

Author : Matthew Collin
Publisher : Profile Books
ISBN 13 : 1847656412
Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (476 download)

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Download or read book Altered State written by Matthew Collin and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2010-12-09 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its first publication in 1997, Altered State established itself as the definitive text on Ecstasy and dance culture. This new edition sees Matthew Collin cast a fresh eye on the heady events of the acid house 'Summer of Love' and the rave scene's euphoric escalation into commercial excess as MDMA became a mass-market narcotic. Altered State is the best-selling book on Ecstasy culture, using a cast of memorable characters to track the origins of the scene and its drug through psychedelic subcults, underground gay discos and the Balearic paradise of Ibiza, to the point where Tony Blair was using an Ecstasy anthem as an election campaign song. Altered State critically examines the ideologies and myths of the scene, documenting the criminal underside to the blissed-out image, shedding new light on the social history of the most spectacular youth movement of the twentieth century.

Marabou Stork Nightmares

Author : Irvine Welsh
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393315639
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book Marabou Stork Nightmares written by Irvine Welsh and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1997 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While lying in a coma in an Edinburgh hospital, Roy Strang experiences strange hallucinatory adventures that recount how he came to be in his current state, from his struggles with his disturbed family to a bizarre quest in Africa.

Trip City

Author : Trevor Miller
Publisher : Velocity Press
ISBN 13 : 1913231097
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book Trip City written by Trevor Miller and published by Velocity Press. This book was released on 2021-05-20 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 1989, when Trip City was first released with a soundtrack by A Guy Called Gerald, there had been no other British novel like it. This was the down and dirty side of London nightclubs, dance music and the kind of hallucinogenic drug sub-culture that hadn’t really been explored since Tom Wolfe’s The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. Maybe this is why Trip City is still known as “the acid house novel” and an underground literary landmark. A nightclub promoter returns to town and is thrown into an insidious world of designer drugs, psychosis and murder. Filled with mind-bending hallucinogenic moments, Trip City by Trevor Miller veers into the realm of Alphaville and neo-noir of the French new wave.

Adventures In Wonderland

Author : Sheryl Garratt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781838063351
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (633 download)

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Download or read book Adventures In Wonderland written by Sheryl Garratt and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive history of the acid house explosion and its reverberations across popular culture, Adventures In Wonderland has been out of print for more than 20 years. This new edition has been updated slightly, with a new introduction and final chapter. This is the acid house and rave explosion, as told by the people who lived it: door staff, dancers and drug dealers; gangsters, blaggers and promoters. From the real stories behind the huge illegal raves of 1989 to insider accounts from DJs such as Norman Jay, Trevor Nelson, Paul Oakenfold, Danny Rampling, Graeme Park, Mike Pickering, Carl Cox, Sasha and John Digweed. But this isn't just a book about the music. It's about being up for it. Out of it. And right in the middle of it. It's about the Paradise Garage in New York, about dancing under the stars in Ibiza or Goa, about the house we built in the UK at Future, Shoom, Spectrum. Clink Street and the Haçienda. It's about Ecstasy and community and a scene that grew with breath-taking speed because we needed to feel that the world was changing. It's about dodging the police to get the party started, and the joy of dancing all night in the British countryside, with thousands of others on the same high. About Madchester, Blackburn, and a new understanding between rock and dance music. And about what came after, from drum'n'bass to the rise of superclubs such as Ministry of Sound, Renaissance and Cream. But most of all, it's about having the time of your life. And who wouldn't want that? "Adventures In Wonderland is the ultimate, definitive account of the scene. Precise factually and perfectly articulated, it transports the reader to that unique, life-changing period. Sheryl Garratt was there, reporting from the core energy of the scene that we collectively created." - Danny Rampling "Gripping and vivid.. Garratt writes with the style and attitude of the feistiest club diva... Her personal memories are wedged between layers of insightful comment and thorough research." - The Times "She has spoken to everyone involved - from the Chicago DJs of the 80s to the rave promoters and club moguls of the 90s ¬ and shows that it's possible to write popular culture without insulting our intelligence." - Daily Mirror "The definitive account of contemporary dance culture.. If you weren't at Shoom in '87, then this is the best way to make up for it." - The Face Long-listed for the 2021 Penderyn Prize for music books.

Class of 88

Author : Wayne Anthony
Publisher : Virgin Books Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780753502402
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book Class of 88 written by Wayne Anthony and published by Virgin Books Limited. This book was released on 1998 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What went on behind the Acid House dream? The raves and huge dance parties of the late-1980s changed the face of popular culture, as hundreds of thousands of youngsters enjoyed the illicit thrills of ecstacy and vast, illegal all-nighters. Yet beneath the bright surface was a world of drug deals, violence, exploitation, protection rackets and armed robbery. In this book, Wayne Anthony tells the story of his two years as an illegal dance party organizer and promoter. In those two years he was beaten up, menaced by criminals and blackmailers, confronted with sawn-off shotguns, kidnapped and threatened with murder.

Ecstasy

Author : Irvine Welsh
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393315813
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (158 download)

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Download or read book Ecstasy written by Irvine Welsh and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1996 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bestsellig romance author suffers a paralyzing stroke and her philandering husband wonders how this will affect his gambling and whoring budget; two young lovers must come to terms with their chemically induced deformity; Lloyd from Leith transfigures his passion for an unhappily married woman. These three tales confirm Irvine Welsh's position as a master of the "chemical" romance genre.

The Irvine Welsh Omnibus

Author : Irvine Welsh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book The Irvine Welsh Omnibus written by Irvine Welsh and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Acid House

Author : Irvine Welsh
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393312805
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book The Acid House written by Irvine Welsh and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1995 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Irvine Welsh's scintillating, disturbing, and altogether outrageous collection of stories—the basis for the 1998 cult movie directed by Paul McGuigan"--

Acid House

Author : Ivine Welsh
Publisher : Guanda
ISBN 13 : 8823503590
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (235 download)

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Download or read book Acid House written by Ivine Welsh and published by Guanda. This book was released on 2012-10-25T00:00:00+02:00 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ventun racconti che rivelano un Welsh fulmineo, straordinariamente incisivo e capace di sorprendere con la varietà delle invenzioni. Storie in cui accanto all’umanità trash cara all’autore di Trainspotting, sempre in giro tra pub, stadio e stazioni di polizia, e costantemente tormentata da una sessualità prepotente o repressa, troveremo anche le atmosfere più tese e rarefatte della suspense. Una miscela esplosiva di umorismo graffiante e situazioni drammatiche, un linguaggio sempre crudo e diretto, un gusto per il paradosso portato al limite. Tutta la forza corrosiva di un autore, ormai considerato di culto, che ci provoca di continuo con l’energia trasgressiva di ciò che assolutamente non è politically correct.

Irvine Welsh

Author : Aaron Kelly
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719066511
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (665 download)

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Download or read book Irvine Welsh written by Aaron Kelly and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2005-10-07 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first full-length study of Irvine Welsh's fiction and provides a sustained textual and contextual analysis and evaluation of his work

The Oxford Handbook of Music Making and Leisure

Author : Roger Mantie
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190244704
Total Pages : 697 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Music Making and Leisure written by Roger Mantie and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 697 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Music has been a vital part of leisure activity across time and cultures. Contemporary commodification, commercialization, and consumerism, however, have created a chasm between conceptualizations of music making and numerous realities in our world. From a broad range of perspectives and approaches, this handbook explores avocational involvement with music as an integral part of the human condition. The chapters in The Oxford Handbook of Music Making and Leisure present myriad ways for reconsidering and refocusing attention back on the rich, exciting, and emotionally charged ways in which people of all ages make time for making music. The contexts discussed are broadly Western, including an eclectic variety of voices from scholars across fields and disciplines, framing complex and multifaceted phenomena that may be helpfully, enlighteningly, and perhaps provocatively framed as music making and leisure. This volume may be viewed as an attempt to reclaim music making and leisure as a serious concern for, amongst others, policy makers, scholars, and educators who perhaps risk eliding some or even most of the ways in which music - a vital part of human existence - is integrated into the everyday lives of people. As such, this handbook looks beyond the obvious, asking readers to consider anew, "What might we see when we think of music making as leisure?""--publisher's website

The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English

Author : Tom Dalzell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317372522
Total Pages : 864 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English written by Tom Dalzell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-26 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Booklist Top of the List Reference Source The heir and successor to Eric Partridge's brilliant magnum opus, The Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, this two-volume New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English is the definitive record of post WWII slang. Containing over 60,000 entries, this new edition of the authoritative work on slang details the slang and unconventional English of the English-speaking world since 1945, and through the first decade of the new millennium, with the same thorough, intense, and lively scholarship that characterized Partridge's own work. Unique, exciting and, at times, hilariously shocking, key features include: unprecedented coverage of World English, with equal prominence given to American and British English slang, and entries included from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, India, South Africa, Ireland, and the Caribbean emphasis on post-World War II slang and unconventional English published sources given for each entry, often including an early or significant example of the term’s use in print. hundreds of thousands of citations from popular literature, newspapers, magazines, movies, and songs illustrating usage of the headwords dating information for each headword in the tradition of Partridge, commentary on the term’s origins and meaning New to this edition: A new preface noting slang trends of the last five years Over 1,000 new entries from the US, UK and Australia New terms from the language of social networking Many entries now revised to include new dating, new citations from written sources and new glosses The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English is a spectacular resource infused with humour and learning – it’s rude, it’s delightful, and it’s a prize for anyone with a love of language.

The Acid House

Author : Irvine Welsh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book The Acid House written by Irvine Welsh and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Pursuit of Ecstasy

Author : Jerome Beck
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791418178
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (181 download)

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Download or read book Pursuit of Ecstasy written by Jerome Beck and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors have produced the first "on the ground" study (not just clinical or chemical) of MDMA (3, 4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine), or "ecstasy" as it is frequently designated. A psychoactive substance related to both the amphetamines and mescaline, MDMA has become popular in recent years as one of the new "designer" drugs. First used in therapeutic treatment, its recreational or street use has increased in recent years. The authors track the efforts (with psychiatrists and researchers in opposition) of the DEA to ban the drug.

Youth Media

Author : Bill Osgerby
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134557388
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book Youth Media written by Bill Osgerby and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-09-30 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of the successful Routledge Introductions to Media and Communications series which provides concise introductions to key areas in contemporary communications, Bill Osgerby's innovative Youth Media traces the development of contemporary youth culture and its relationship with the media. From the days of diners, drive-ins and jukeboxes, to today's world of iPods and the Internet, Youth Media examines youth media in its economic, cultural and political contexts and explores: youth culture and the media the 'Fab Phenomenon': markets, money and media generation and degeneration in the media: representations, responses and 'effects' media, subculture and lifestyle global media, youth culture and identity youth and new media. Analyzing the nature of different forms of communication as well as reviewing their production and consumption, this is an essential introduction to this key area in communication and cultural studies.