Nothing Has Been Done Before

Author : Robert Loss
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781501322044

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Nothing Has Been Done Before by Robert Loss Pdf

Is there such a thing today as music that's meaningfully new? In our contemporary era of remixing and retro styles, cynics and romantics alike cry "It's all been done before" while record labels and media outlets proclaim that everything is new. Coded into our daily conversations about popular music, newness as an artistic and cultural value is too often taken for granted. Nothing Has Been Done Before instigates a fresh debate about newness in American pop, rock 'n' roll, rap, folk, and R&B made since the turn of the millennium. Utilizing an interdisciplinary approach that combines music criticism, philosophy, and the literary essay, Robert Loss follows the stories of a diverse cast of musicians who seek the new by wrestling with the past, navigating the market, and speaking politically. The transgressions of Bob Dylan's "Love and Theft". The pop spectacle of Katy Perry's 2015 Super Bowl halftime show. Protest songs against the war in Iraq. Nothing Has Been Done Before argues that performance heard in a historical context always creates a possibility for newness, whether it's Kendrick Lamar's multi-layered To Pimp a Butterfly, the Afrofuturist visions of Janelle Monáe, or even a Guided By Voices tribute concert in a local dive bar. Provocative and engaging, Nothing Has Been Done Before challenges nothing less than how we hear and think about popular music-its power and its potential.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 818 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112089395013

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The Japan Daily Mail by Anonim Pdf

Author : Incorporated Gas Institute, London
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Gas manufacture and works
ISBN : UOM:39015063869856

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Report of Proceedings of the Annual Meeting by Incorporated Gas Institute, London Pdf

9th-39th contain list of members.

Author : George Orwell
Publisher : Renard Press Ltd
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781913724269

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Why I Write by George Orwell Pdf

George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding totalitarianism. While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic novels in the English language, this new series of Orwell’s essays seeks to bring a wider selection of his writing on politics and literature to a new readership. In Why I Write, the first in the Orwell’s Essays series, Orwell describes his journey to becoming a writer, and his movement from writing poems to short stories to the essays, fiction and non-fiction we remember him for. He also discusses what he sees as the ‘four great motives for writing’ – ‘sheer egoism’, ‘aesthetic enthusiasm’, ‘historical impulse’ and ‘political purpose’ – and considers the importance of keeping these in balance. Why I Write is a unique opportunity to look into Orwell’s mind, and it grants the reader an entirely different vantage point from which to consider the rest of the great writer’s oeuvre. 'A writer who can – and must – be rediscovered with every age.' — Irish Times

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 908 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Justices of the peace
ISBN : UOM:35112100154824

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Justice of the Peace and Local Government Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Great Britain. Parliament
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 918 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : MINN:31951D01069816R

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The Parliamentary Debates by Great Britain. Parliament Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11602159

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The Quarterly review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Insurance
ISBN : UIUC:30112084270450

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The Weekly Underwriter by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Christian union
ISBN : NYPL:33433068199938

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Evangelical Christendom by Anonim Pdf

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : OSU:32435063207484

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Parliamentary Papers by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 892 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : American literature
ISBN : IND:32000000482002

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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1042 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11576223

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Parliamentary Debates by Anonim Pdf

Author : John William Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 982 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : UOM:35112104456811

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A Selection of Leading Cases on Various Branches of the Law by John William Smith Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 842 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112110963052

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The Living Age by Anonim Pdf

Author : Madeleine Thien
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780771084102

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Dogs at the Perimeter by Madeleine Thien Pdf

“Remember this night,” he said. “Mark it in your memories because tomorrow everything changes.” One starless night, a girl’s childhood was swept away by the terrors of the Khmer Rouge. Exiled from the city, she and her family were forced to live out in the open under constant surveillance. Each night, people were taken away. Caught up in a political storm which brought starvation to millions, tore families apart, and changed the world forever, she lost everyone she loved. Three decades later, Janie’s life in Montreal is unravelling. Haunted by her past, she has abandoned her husband and son and taken refuge in the home of her friend, the brilliant, troubled scientist, Hiroji Matsui. In 1970, Hiroji’s brother, James, travelled to Cambodia and fell in love. Five years later, the Khmer Rouge came to power, and James vanished. Brought together by the losses they endured, Janie and Hiroji had found solace in each another. And then, one strange day, Hiroji disappeared. Engulfed by the memories she thought she had fled, Janie must struggle to find grace in a world overshadowed by the sorrows of her past. Beautifully realized, deeply affecting, Dogs at the Perimeter evokes totalitarianism through the eyes of a little girl and draws a remarkable map of the mind’s battle with memory, loss, and the horrors of war. It confirms Madeleine Thien as one of the most gifted and powerful novelists writing today.