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The Best of LCD

Author : Dave the Spazz
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2007-10-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 1568987153

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Named the best radio station in America by Rolling Stone magazine four years running, WFMU is considered the alternative radio station. LCD (Lowest Common Denominator), the station's program guide—begun in 1986 as a visual counterpart to WFMU’s oddball programming—was a wicked cocktail of satire, cultural news, alternative history, and provocative artwork that has earned its own devoted cult followers. It ceased publication in 1998 and its back issues have become treasured—and valuable—collector’s items. Dave the Spazz has spent the past twenty years hosting a weekly radio show on WFMU, self-publishing, freelance writing, making artwork, singing in punk-rock bands, and holding down one crummy job after another.

Apostles of Rock

Author : Jay R. Howard,John M. Streck
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-21
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780813183961

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Apostles of Rock is the first objective, comprehensive examination of the contemporary Christian music phenomenon. Some see CCM performers as ministers or musical missionaries, while others define them as entertainers or artists. This popular musical movement clearly evokes a variety of responses concerning the relationship between Christ and culture. The resulting tensions have splintered the genre and given rise to misunderstanding, conflict, and an obsessive focus on self-examination. As Christian stars Amy Grant, Michael W. Smith, DC Talk, and Sixpence None the Richer climb the mainstream charts, Jay Howard and John Streck talk about CCM as an important movement and show how this musical genre relates to a larger popular culture. They map the world of CCM by bringing together the perspectives of the people who perform, study, market, and listen to this music. By examining CCM lyrics, interviews, performances, web sites, and chat rooms, Howard and Streck uncover the religious and aesthetic tensions within the CCM community. Ultimately, the conflict centered around Christian music reflects the modern religious community's understanding of evangelicalism and the community's complex relationship with American popular culture.

Wyndham Lewis and British Art Rock

Author : Thomas Keller
Publisher : Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
Page : 738 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2024-02-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783381108534

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Wyndham Lewis and British Art Rock by Thomas Keller Pdf

This study connects the idiosyncratic modernism of Wyndham Lewis, co-founder of the Vorticist art movement, with works of several artists from the British art rock tradition, among them Bryan Ferry, David Bowie, art-punk pioneers Wire and electronic pop musician John Foxx. By taking a transdisciplinary and intermedial approach to texts from two fields normally studied in isolation and staking out the elements of a shared modernist ethos, the book presents a new perspective on both fields relevant to scholars of literature, popular culture, and the visual arts alike. While the book rests on sound research from the fields of literary criticism, art history, and pop theory, the structure and writing of the book is fundamentally designed to be accessible and comprehensible to non-scholarly readers.

The Devil’s Music

Author : Randall J. Stephens
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-19
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780674919723

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When rock ’n’ roll emerged in the 1950s, ministers denounced it from their pulpits and Sunday school teachers warned of the music’s demonic origins. The big beat, said Billy Graham, was “ever working in the world for evil.” Yet by the early 2000s Christian rock had become a billion-dollar industry. The Devil’s Music tells the story of this transformation. Rock’s origins lie in part with the energetic Southern Pentecostal churches where Elvis, Little Richard, James Brown, and other pioneers of the genre worshipped as children. Randall J. Stephens shows that the music, styles, and ideas of tongue-speaking churches powerfully influenced these early performers. As rock ’n’ roll’s popularity grew, white preachers tried to distance their flock from this “blasphemous jungle music,” with little success. By the 1960s, Christian leaders feared the Beatles really were more popular than Jesus, as John Lennon claimed. Stephens argues that in the early days of rock ’n’ roll, faith served as a vehicle for whites’ racial fears. A decade later, evangelical Christians were at odds with the counterculture and the antiwar movement. By associating the music of blacks and hippies with godlessness, believers used their faith to justify racism and conservative politics. But in a reversal of strategy in the early 1970s, the same evangelicals embraced Christian rock as a way to express Jesus’s message within their own religious community and project it into a secular world. In Stephens’s compelling narrative, the result was a powerful fusion of conservatism and popular culture whose effects are still felt today.

Popular Music

Author : Roman Iwaschkin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 670 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-14
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317223443

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This is a comprehensive guide to popular music literature, first published in 1986. Its main focus is on American and British works, but it includes significant works from other countries, making it truly international in scope.

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Rock Music Research

Author : Allan Moore,Paul Carr
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 682 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-09
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781501330476

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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Rock Music Research by Allan Moore,Paul Carr Pdf

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Rock Music Research is the first comprehensive academic survey of the field of rock music as it stands today. More than 50 years into its life and we still ask - what is rock music, why is it studied, and how does it work, both as music and as cultural activity? This volume draws together 37 of the leading academics working on rock to provide answers to these questions and many more. The text is divided into four major sections: practice of rock (analysis, performance, and recording); theories; business of rock; and social and culture issues. Each chapter combines two approaches, providing a summary of current knowledge of the area concerned as well as the consequences of that research and suggesting profitable subsequent directions to take. This text investigates and presents the field at a level of depth worthy of something which has had such a pervasive influence on the lives of millions.

Thumbing a Ride

Author : Linda Mahood
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774837361

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As a national network of roads and hostels spread across Canada, so did the practice of hitchhiking. Thumbing a Ride examines its rise and fall in the 1970s, drawing on records from the time. Many equated adventure travel with freedom and independence, but a counter-narrative emerged of girls gone missing and other dangers. Town councillors, community groups, and motorists demanded a clampdown on a transient youth movement they believed was spreading anti-establishment nomadism. Linda Mahood asks new questions about hitchhiking as a rite of passage, and about adult intervention that turned a subculture into a pressing moral and social issue.

Civil Rights Crossroads

Author : Steven F. Lawson
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 575 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813181585

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Civil Rights Crossroads by Steven F. Lawson Pdf

Over the past thirty years, Steven F. Lawson has established himself as one of the nation's leading historians of the black struggle for equality. Civil Rights Crossroads is an important collection of Lawson's writings about the civil rights movement that is essential reading for anyone concerned about the past, present, and future of race relations in America. Lawson examines the movement from a variety of perspectives—local and national, political and social—to offer penetrating insights into the civil rights movement and its influence on contemporary society. Civil Rights Crossroads also illuminates the role of a broad array of civil rights activists, familiar and unfamiliar. Lawson describes the efforts of Martin Luther King Jr. and Lyndon Johnson to shape the direction of the struggle, as well as the extraordinary contributions of ordinary people like Fannie Lou Hamer, Harry T. Moore, Ruth Perry, Theodore Gibson, and many other unsung heroes of the most important social movement of the twentieth century. Lawson also examines the decades-long battle to achieve and expand the right of African Americans to vote and to implement the ballot as the cornerstone of attempts at political liberation.

The Achievement of American Liberalism

Author : William H. Chafe
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2002-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0231533896

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The Achievement of American Liberalism by William H. Chafe Pdf

The New Deal established the contours and character of modern American democracy. It created an anchor and a reference point for American liberal politics through the struggles for racial, gender, and economic equality in the five decades that followed it. Indeed, the ways that liberalism has changed in meaning since the New Deal provide a critical prism through which to understand twentieth-century politics. From the consensus liberalism of the war years to the strident liberalism of the sixties to the besieged liberalism of the eighties and through the more recent national debates about welfare reform and Social Security privatization, the prominent historians gathered here explore the convoluted history of the complex legacy of the New Deal and its continuing effect on the present. In its scope and variety of subjects, this book reflects the protean quality of American liberalism. Alan Brinkley focuses on the range of choices New Dealers faced. Alonzo Hamby traces the Democratic Party's evolving effort to incorporate New Deal traditions in the Cold War era. Richard Fried offers a fresh look at the impact of McCarthyism. Richard Polenberg situates Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb, in a tradition of liberal thought. And Melvin Urosfsky shows how the Roosevelt Court set the legal dimensions within which the debate about the meaning of liberalism would be conducted for decades. Other subjects include the effect of the Holocaust on relations between American Jews and African Americans; the limiting effects of racial and gender attitudes on the potential for meaningful reform; and the lasting repercussions of the tumultuous 1960s. Provocative, illuminating and sure to raise questions for future study, The Achievement of American Liberalism testifies to a vibrant and vital field of inquiry.

Music in the Age of Anxiety

Author : James Wierzbicki
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780252098277

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Music in the Age of Anxiety by James Wierzbicki Pdf

Derided for its conformity and consumerism, 1950s America paid a price in anxiety. Prosperity existed under the shadow of a mushroom cloud. Optimism wore a Bucky Beaver smile that masked worry over threats at home and abroad. But even dread could not quell the revolutionary changes taking place in virtually every form of mainstream music. Music historian James Wierzbicki sheds light on how the Fifties' pervasive moods affected its sounds. Moving across genres established--pop, country, opera--and transfigured--experimental, rock, jazz--Wierzbicki delves into the social dynamics that caused forms to emerge or recede, thrive or fade away. Red scares and white flight, sexual politics and racial tensions, technological progress and demographic upheaval--the influence of each rooted the music of this volatile period to its specific place and time. Yet Wierzbicki also reveals the host of underlying connections linking that most apprehensive of times to our own uneasy present.

The Black Musician and the White City

Author : Amy Absher
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472119172

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The Black Musician and the White City by Amy Absher Pdf

An exploration of the history of African American musicians in Chicago during the mid-20th century

Rush FAQ

Author : Max Mobley
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781617136054

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Rush FAQ by Max Mobley Pdf

RUSH FAQ: ALL THAT'S LEFT TO KNOW ABOUT ROCK'S GREATEST POWER TRIO

English / Portuguese Dictionary

Author : Joseph D. Lesser
Publisher : Joseph D. Lesser
Page : 3657 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-13
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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English / Portuguese Dictionary by Joseph D. Lesser Pdf

This practical dictionary of the Portuguese language contains over 65,000 entries in a concise, easy-to-use format. The direction of the translation is from English to Portuguese. It offers a broad vocabulary from all areas as well as numerous idioms for holidays or for use as a classic reference work.

Witnessing Suburbia

Author : Eileen Luhr
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009-02-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0520943570

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Witnessing Suburbia by Eileen Luhr Pdf

Witnessing Suburbia is a lively cultural analysis of the conservative shift in national politics that transformed the United States during the Reagan-Bush era. Eileen Luhr focuses on two fundamental aspects of this shift: the suburbanization of evangelicalism and the rise of Christian popular culture, especially popular music. Taking us from the Jesus Freaks of the late 1960s to Christian heavy metal music to Christian rock festivals and beyond, she shows how evangelicals succeeded in "witnessing" to America's suburbs in a consumer idiom. Luhr argues that the emergence of a politicized evangelical youth culture in fact ranks as one of the major achievements of "third wave" conservatism in the late twentieth century.

DIAMONDS OR ROCKS

Author : José Ramírez
Publisher : Palibrio
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-09
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781463383190

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DIAMONDS OR ROCKS by José Ramírez Pdf

Diamonds or Rocks is about the awareness of your inner self because that is where we find the balance of our lives, and that is also where the origin of most of our problems is found. As kids we were very happy, yet it is in our childhoods that most of our problems started. Through this book you are going to learn that there are elements the author calls "rocks," which are not a natural part of you, but due to your lack of awareness of them, they are harming you. They managed to get in your mind and take up residence there, and now these intruders have got to be stopped. Through the concept behind the book Diamonds or Rocks, you will gain the tools that have the power to get rid of them and stop the damage they are doing to you. The author says, "I may be the first human being to figure this out, but when you read this book you are going to realize that it all makes sense. These intruders are crushing your mind just like viruses and malware cause a computer to crash." Diamonds or Rocks was created to be as simple as possible so anyone can take advantage of it and understand it. The book uses analogies through which you will be able to distinguish such an intrusion of these elements, or rocks.