Assassinated Beauty

Author : Kevin Cummins
Publisher : Faber & Faber Social
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0571312136

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Assassinated Beauty by Kevin Cummins Pdf

An iconic selection of photographs of the most iconoclastic British band of the late twentieth century, Manic Street Preachers. In the early nineties, a group of disaffected and fiercely political young men from the Welsh valleys exploded onto a British music scene still in thrall to rave and acid house. With their early singles Motown Junk, You Love Us and Stay Beautiful the Manics reminded us at a moment of great hedonistic indulgence that pop is an instrument to provoke and destabilise. It was the legendary photographer Kevin Cummins who captured James, Sean, Richie and Nicky in their most uncompromising, glam-fixated early years. (Title) is a unique record of a band on a mission to reclaim rock n roll through literature, image and thrilling guitar pop. Working at the NME and already famous for his association with the classic images of Joy Division, The Smiths and Stone Roses, Cummins was the ideal photographer to capture the essence of a band who understood and manipulated androgynous and decadent imagery. These photographs document the period just before the release of Generation Terrorists (1992) up to Holy Bible (1995) and the subsequent disappearance of guitarist and lyricist, Richie Edwards. A revealing mix of studio shots and never-seen-before behind the scenes photographs of a band at arguably their creative zenith, (title) is the ultimate portrait of one of the last great British rock n roll bands.

Author : David Evans
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781501331725

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Manic Street Preachers’ The Holy Bible by David Evans Pdf

In August 1994, Manic Street Preachers released The Holy Bible, a dark, fiercely intelligent album that explored such themes as mental illness, murder and war. Richey Edwards, the band's lyricist and motive force, vanished five months later; he was never found. In his absence The Holy Bible entered the rock canon alongside Joy Division's Closer and Nirvana's In Utero, the valedictory works of troubled young men. This book tells the dramatic story of Manic Street Preachers' masterpiece. Tracing the album's origins in the Valleys, an industrialised region of South Wales where the band spent their formative years, the author argues that The Holy Bible can be seen as a meditation on the uses and abuses of history.

Author : Larissa Wodtke,Rhian E. Jones
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-21
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781910924891

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Triptych by Larissa Wodtke,Rhian E. Jones Pdf

The UK alternative rock band, Manic Street Preachers, were and remain one of the most interesting, significant, and best-loved bands of the past thirty years. Their third album The Holy Bible (1994) is generally acknowledged to be their most enduring and fascinating work, and one of the most compelling and challenging records of the nineties. Triptych reconsiders The Holy Bible from three separate, intersecting angles, combining the personal with the political, history with memory, and popular accessibility with intellectual attention to the album's depth and complexity.

Author : Mathijs Peters
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030431006

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Popular Music, Critique and Manic Street Preachers by Mathijs Peters Pdf

This book explores the ways in which popular music can criticise political, social and economic structures, through the lens of alternate rock band Manic Street Preachers. Unlike most recent work on popular music, Peters concentrates largely on lyrical content to defend the provocative claim that the Welsh band pushes the critical message shaped in their lyrics to the forefront. Their music, this suggests, along with sleeve art, body-art, video-clips, clothes, interviews and performances, serves to emphasise this critical message and the primary role played by the band’s lyrics. Blending the disciplines of popular music studies, culture studies and philosophy, Peters confronts the ideas of German philosopher and social critic Theodor W. Adorno with the entire catalogue of Manic Street Preachers, from their 1988 single ‘Suicide Alley’ to their 2018 album Resistance is Futile. Although Adorno argues that popular music is unable to resist the standardising machinery of consumption culture, Peters paradoxically uses his ideas to show that Manic Street Preachers releases shape ‘critical models’ with which to formulate social and political critique. This notion of the ‘critical model’ enables Peters to argue that the catalogue of Manic Street Preachers critically addresses a wide range of themes, from totalitarianism to Holocaust representation, postmodern temporality to Europeanism, and from Nietzsche’s ideas about self-overcoming to reflections on digimodernism and post-truth politics. The book therefore persuasively shows that Manic Street Preacher lyrics constitute an intertextual network of links between diverse cultural and political phenomena, encouraging listeners to critically reflect on the structures that shape our lives.

Author : Marc Burrows
Publisher : White Owl
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781399016223

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Manic Street Preachers by Marc Burrows Pdf

In a career that’s spanned thirty-five years and generated fourteen albums, fifty-three singles (two of them UK number ones), four Brit Awards, two Ivor Novellas and inspired literally hundreds of university dissertations, quite a few PhD’s and the odd specialist subject on Mastermind, Manic Street Preachers have become, in the words of their 2011 singles collection, national treasures. The Welsh trio (who, to many, will always be a quartet) have a uniquely intense impact on their fans; educating them as much as they entertain and inspire. This book collects fourteen brand new essays, one for each Manics album, from fourteen different writers from diverse backgrounds, tracing the band’s impact on fans and culture and setting each of their works, from 1992’s Generation Terrorists to 2018’s Resistance Is Futile and beyond, into context. The essays are linked by a detailed month-by-month biography by music critic and Manics fan Marc Burrows (The Guardian, The Quietus, Drowned In Sound), who compiled and edited the book, tracing the band’s development from glamourpuss upstart intellectuals to the elder statesmen of British indie rock, via an era-defining run of hits, an historic trip to Cuba and one vanished genius. Manic Street Preachers: Album by Album includes a complete discography and is sourced from in-depth archival research, making it one of the most comprehensive and detailed works devoted to the band yet compiled.

Author : Robert P Desjardins
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2007-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780595441716

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The Mistral by Robert P Desjardins Pdf

In 2002, a neo-fascist party nearly seized control of the French government in an electoral shocker. The Mistral was conceived to expose the roots of that movement, which still exists today. Noel Marquis, a beautiful young woman, is aided by Jean Francois, a former boyfriend; Father Routhier, a Catholic priest in the historic tradition of Cardinal Richelieu; and Lieutenant Flanagan, a retired detective in tracing her father's mysterious life through three decades and across two continents. But Noel becomes the target of a fascist killer when she unearths the conspiracy to murder her uncle and the attempted assassination of her father, Marius Marquis. With Noel's support, Marius can finally understand a thirty-year-old plot-the by-product of a political malignancy that caused his wife's death-and start on a journey that will transform his life. From Algeria, the south of France, the United States, and Canada, The Mistral is a thrilling story of mystery, love, and international political conspiracy on both sides of the Atlantic.

Author : Kevin Cummins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0571312152

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Assassinated Beauty by Kevin Cummins Pdf

In the early nineties, a group of fiercely political young men from the Welsh valleys exploded onto a British music scene. It was the legendary photographer Kevin Cummins who captured James, Sean, Richey and Nicky in their most uncompromising, glam-fixated early years. Assassinated Beauty is a unique record of a band on a mission to reclaim rock 'n roll through literature, image and thrilling guitar pop. Working at the NME and already famous for his association with the classic images of Joy Division, The Smiths and Stone Roses, Cummins was the ideal photographer to capture the essence of a band who understood and manipulated androgynous and decadent imagery. These photographs document the period just before the release of Generation Terrorists (1992) up to Holy Bible (1995) and the subsequent disappearance of guitarist and lyricist, Richey Edwards. A revealing mix of studio shots and never-seen-before behind the scenes photographs and the ultimate portrait of one of the last great British rock n roll bands.Assassinated Beauty Limited Edition100 copies are available to buy at £250 on the Faber & Faber website.Spec details - 192pp as per standard edition, plus tipped-in signed numbered limitation page - Book to be full-bound in dark grey cloth, large debossed area on front panel containing printed image of Richie on art paper, title blocked on front and spine in white foil. The book will be signed by the members of Manic Street Preachers and Kevin Cummins - Head & Tail bands, gold endpapers - Package to contain exclusive high-quality print, signed by Kevin Cummins, numbered - Printed paper-covered slipcase (leopard skin pattern), supermatt lamination and white foil blocking - Brown paper wrapped and numbered label

Author : Estados Unidos. President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCM:5317650915

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Hearings Before the President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy by Estados Unidos. President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy Pdf

Author : Wu Mao
Publisher : Funstory
Page : 917 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781636455907

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Beauty's Personal Expert by Wu Mao Pdf

He was originally one of the top Shadow Guards in China, but after being framed by a traitor, he was sent to prison. However, due to his good fortune, he managed to obtain an ancient martial arts technique. The Goddess of Gold, the commoner school beauty, the long-legged policewoman, the flirtatious CEO ... Powerful men were like the sun, they would always attract the love and love of thousands.

Author : Fei XiangDeQingWa
Publisher : Funstory
Page : 843 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781636668635

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Campus Beauty's Genius Master by Fei XiangDeQingWa Pdf

A genius abandoning the young, being treated as a servant by a beautiful female student, being stepped on by a tyrant, being bullied by his friends and relatives, being beaten up by his friends for the sake of his friends and being thrown to the ground to die.

Author : Qi TianDaHeng
Publisher : Funstory
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781649356307

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Beauty CEO's Personal Bodyguard by Qi TianDaHeng Pdf

He had both martial arts and medical skills, and went down the mountain to carry out the tasks assigned to him by his master. However, in the city, there were too many grudges and conflicts of influence. The youth that just left the mountain relied on his medical skills and ancient martial arts to protect his master's daughter from harm!

Author : Roger Stone
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781628735086

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The Man Who Killed Kennedy by Roger Stone Pdf

Lyndon Baines Johnson was a man of great ambition and enormous greed, both of which, in 1963, would threaten to destroy him. In the end, President Johnson would use power from his personal connections in Texas and from the underworld and from the government to escape an untimely end in politics and to seize even greater power. President Johnson, the thirty-sixth president of the United States, was the driving force behind a conspiracy to murder President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. In The Man Who Killed Kennedy, you will find out how and why he did it. Political consultant, strategist, and Libertarian Roger Stone has gathered documents and used his firsthand knowledge to construct the ultimate tome to prove that LBJ was not only involved in JFK’s assassination, but was in fact the mastermind. With 2013 being the fiftieth anniversary of JFK’s assassination, this is the perfect time for The Man Who Killed Kennedy to be available to readers. The research and information in this book is unprecedented, and as Roger Stone lived through it, he’s the perfect person to bring it to everyone’s attention.

Author : Michael Edward Stanfield
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780292745582

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Of Beasts and Beauty by Michael Edward Stanfield Pdf

All societies around the world and through time value beauty highly. Tracing the evolutions of the Colombian standards of beauty since 1845, Michael Edward Stanfield explores their significance to and symbiotic relationship with violence and inequality in the country. Arguing that beauty holds not only social power but also economic and political power, he positions it as a pacific and inclusive influence in a country “ripped apart by violence, private armies, seizures of land, and abuse of governmental authority, one hoping that female beauty could save it from the ravages of the male beast.” One specific means of obscuring those harsh realities is the beauty pageant, of which Colombia has over 300 per year. Stanfield investigates the ways in which these pageants reveal the effects of European modernity and notions of ethnicity on Colombian women, and how beauty for Colombians has become an external representation of order and morality that can counter the pathological effects of violence, inequality, and exclusion in their country.

Author : Arthur Marwick
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2007-06-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826439451

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A History of Human Beauty by Arthur Marwick Pdf

If Cleopatra's nose had been half an inch longer, neither Caesar nor Mark Antony would have fallen in love with her. It: A History of Human Beauty treats outstanding physical attractiveness as a quality or possession, comparable to power, intelligence, strength, wealth, education or family, that had a marked effect on history. Beauty in men and women opened opportunities to its possessors not available to the ordinary looking or ugly. While in the past women have had to use the lure of sex to achieve power or wealth, epitomised by royal mistresses or the Grandes Horizontales of the nineteenth century, modern film stars (male and female) can acquire great wealth simply by the use of their images, while attractiveness on television is an essential modern qualification for power, as shown by Ronald Reagan and Tony Blair.

Author : Zhixin Lin
Publisher : Zhixin Lin
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Martial Arts Collection: Beauty Like Jade, Sword Like a Rainbow by Zhixin Lin Pdf