The Life Of Blur

Author : Martin Power
Publisher : Omnibus Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-14
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780857128621

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The Life of Blur by Martin Power Pdf

As with most great bands, it is difficult to remember a time when Blur weren’t a part of Britain’s rich musical landscape. From art-rock origins they went on to make four multi-platinum number one albums and produced some of the finest songs of the modern era: End of A Century, Girls And Boys, Parklife, Song 2, Beetlebum... And it might not be over yet! The Life Of Blur charts their story from shaky beginnings through to the full-blown superstardom of Parklife, The Great Escape and beyond. At the heart of this tale is the complex, sometimes explosive relationship between Blur’s four founding members: Damon Albarn, Graham Coxon, Dave Rowntree and Alex James. A rich soup of relentless ambition, dogged persistence, fraying tempers and a million clanging champagne bottles, the emotional chemistry that makes up Blur has been just as interesting to watch as the songs the band have produced. Author Martin Power has talked with band’s former managers, fellow musicians, old school teachers and close friends to shed new light on a group once called “the most intelligent, enduring and credible band to emerge from the Nineties”. With a concise critical commentary on their music, rare photographs and a complete discography, as well as shedding new light on the group's various solo activities - including Damon Albarn's Gorillaz and Graham Coxon's one-man assault on the indie charts - this is the definitive account of Blur’s epic journey.

Author : Bill Kovach,Tom Rosenstiel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781608193028

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Blur by Bill Kovach,Tom Rosenstiel Pdf

Amid the hand-wringing over the death of "true journalism" in the Internet Age-the din of bloggers, the echo chamber of Twitter, the predominance of Wikipedia-veteran journalists and media critics Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel have written a pragmatic guide to navigating the twenty-first century media terrain. Yes, old authorities are being dismantled, new ones created, and the very nature of knowledge has changed. But seeking the truth remains the purpose of journalism. How do we discern what is reliable? Blur provides a road map, or more specifically, reveals the craft that has been used in newsrooms by the very best journalists for getting at the truth. In an age when the line between citizen and journalist is becoming increasingly unclear, Blur is a crucial guide for those who want to know what's true.

Author : Alex James
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780748123292

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Bit Of A Blur by Alex James Pdf

I was the Fool-king of Soho and the number-one slag in the Groucho Club, the second drunkest member of the world's drunkest band. This was no disaster, though. It was a dream coming true.' For Alex James, music had always been a door to a more eventful life. But as bass player of Blur - one of the most successful British bands of all time - his journey was more exciting and extreme than he could ever have predicted. In Bit of a Blur he chronicles his journey from a slug-infested flat in Camberwell to a world of screaming fans and private jets - and his eventual search to find meaning and happiness (and, perhaps most importantly, the perfect cheese), in an increasingly surreal world.

Author : N. D. Wilson
Publisher : Yearling
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-28
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780449816769

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Boys of Blur by N. D. Wilson Pdf

Fans of Jerry Spinelli's Maniac Magee and Louis Sachar's Holes will enjoy this story about a boy and the ancient secrets that hide deep in the heart of the Florida everglades near a place called Muck City. When Charlie moves to the small town of Taper, Florida, he discovers a different world. Pinned between the everglades and the swampy banks of Lake Okeechobee, the small town produces sugar cane . . . and the fastest runners in the country. Kids chase muck rabbits in the fields while the cane is being burned and harvested. Dodging flames and blades and breathing smoke, they run down the rabbits for three dollars a skin. And when they can do that, running a football is easy. But there are things in the swamp, roaming the cane at night, that cannot be explained, and they seem connected to sprawling mounds older than the swamps. Together with his step-second cousin "Cotton" Mack, the fastest boy on the muck, Charlie hunts secrets in the glades and on the muck flats where the cane grows secrets as old as the soft earth, secrets that haunted, tripped, and trapped the original native tribes, ensnared conquistadors, and buried runaway slaves. Secrets only the muck knows.

Author : James R Sudakow
Publisher : Purple Squirrel Media Group
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0996503307

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Out of the Blur by James R Sudakow Pdf

A 2017 study by the Boston College Center for Work & Family found that all working dads across generations would like to spend more time with their children. But it's much easier said than done. Irreverent corporate author James Sudakow aims to detangle entrepreneurship and parenthood and demystify what it means to manage that much needed balance in his new book, Out of the Blur: A Delirious Dad's Search for The Holy Grail of Work-Life Balance (Purple Squirrel Media, September 2018). Sudakow, author of the humorous illustrated corporate glossary Picking the Low-Hanging Fruit... and Other Stupid Stuff We Say in the Corporate World (Purple Squirrel Media, 2016), brings his signature irreverent tone to the much discussed topic of work-life balance in Work-Life Blur. With illustrations from Todd Kale, Sudakow tells his story of building and running a small business while raising a family, and aims to help readers figure out how to define what they want their work-life balance to look like while identifying and solving the traps and habits many fall into that get in the way of truly reaching balance. Despite being told from an entrepreneurial dad's point of view, Out of the Blur seeks to discuss the challenges all parents face while trying to be everything they need and want to be for their families while achieving the successes they need and want to at work - whether their job be entrepreneurial or traditional.

Author : Mick St. Michael
Publisher : Omnibus Press& Schirmer Trade Books
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0711955441

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Blur by Mick St. Michael Pdf

Renowned for giving interesting interviews in their own inimitable style, the members of Blur have generated a wealth of quotable comments over the past few years. Led by charismatic heartthrob Damon Albarn, Blur have confounded more than one music journalist, and this book aims to set the record straight with the band's views on love, life, and music.

Author : David Nolan
Publisher : Bonnier Zaffre
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781784187613

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Damon Albarn by David Nolan Pdf

Damon Albarn is the frontman of Blur and the face of Britpop. While his peers have gradually fallen by the wayside, Albarn has reinvented himself as the mastermind behind Gorillaz. With his eclectic solo projects--such as the much-revered The Good, the Bad & the Queen--and his work with legends like Bobby Womack, he has proven that he is one of British music's most innovative and important personalities. With the 2015 release of Blur's first album for more than a decade, Damon Albarn took his place once more as an iconic jewel in the crown of the British music scene. This updated book covers his multiple musical personas in depth, with first-hand interviews by those close to Albarn in his formative years, as well as social and musical context that covers the Britpop era and Albarn's reemergence as the Godfather to the iPod generation.

Author : Fred Moten
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822372226

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Black and Blur by Fred Moten Pdf

"Taken as a trilogy, consent not to be a single being is a monumental accomplishment: a brilliant theoretical intervention that might be best described as a powerful case for blackness as a category of analysis."—Brent Hayes Edwards, author of Epistrophies: Jazz and the Literary Imagination In Black and Blur—the first volume in his sublime and compelling trilogy consent not to be a single being—Fred Moten engages in a capacious consideration of the place and force of blackness in African diaspora arts, politics, and life. In these interrelated essays, Moten attends to entanglement, the blurring of borders, and other practices that trouble notions of self-determination and sovereignty within political and aesthetic realms. Black and Blur is marked by unlikely juxtapositions: Althusser informs analyses of rappers Pras and Ol' Dirty Bastard; Shakespeare encounters Stokely Carmichael; thinkers like Kant, Adorno, and José Esteban Muñoz and artists and musicians including Thornton Dial and Cecil Taylor play off each other. Moten holds that blackness encompasses a range of social, aesthetic, and theoretical insurgencies that respond to a shared modernity founded upon the sociological catastrophe of the transatlantic slave trade and settler colonialism. In so doing, he unsettles normative ways of reading, hearing, and seeing, thereby reordering the senses to create new means of knowing.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1293463618

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Blur by Anonim Pdf

Author : Curt Petrovich
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-05
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 1459742931

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Blamed and Broken by Curt Petrovich Pdf

An in-depth expose of the Robert Dziekanski Taser death and the years of obstructed and bungled inquiries Robert Dziekanski died after being shocked multiple times with Tasers by RCMP officers, in a confrontation that took just 26 seconds. Dziekanski was unarmed and not taking hostile actions A multi-million-dollar inquiry went nowhere, and three of the four RCMP officers remain on the force Author is a CBC journalist who has covered the case since it began

Author : Stanley M. Davis,Christopher Meyer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1900961717

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Blur by Stanley M. Davis,Christopher Meyer Pdf

The implications of the information economy for our lives and businesses. Well reviewed.

Author : Stuart Maconie
Publisher : Virgin Books Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Music
ISBN : 0753502879

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Blur: 3862 Days by Stuart Maconie Pdf

The official story of the most significant British band of the 90s. Now updated with fresh interviews including insights into lead singer Damon's new act, Gorillaz, that is sweeping awards on both sides of the Atlantic. This is the story of bitter rows with record companies, farcical feuds with Oasis, fist fights with each other, struggles with the bottle, foundering romances and a love-hate relationship with America. Drawing on the hours of exclusive interviews he has done with the band since their early days, Stuart Maconie offers a gripping insight into this intense, hedonistic quartet. Updated with fresh interviews including insights into Damon's award-winning new act Gorillaz. The official story of Blur, told through exclusive interviews.

Author : Sarah Surface-Evans,Amanda E. Garrison,Kisha Supernant
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781805394198

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Blurring Timescapes, Subverting Erasure by Sarah Surface-Evans,Amanda E. Garrison,Kisha Supernant Pdf

What happens when we blur time and allow ourselves to haunt or to become haunted by ghosts of the past? Drawing on archaeological, historical, and ethnographic data, Blurring Timescapes, Subverting Erasure demonstrates the value of conceiving of ghosts not just as metaphors, but as mechanisms for making the past more concrete and allowing the negative specters of enduring historical legacies, such as colonialism and capitalism, to be exorcised.

Author : Karen Rivers
Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781459800359

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What Is Real by Karen Rivers Pdf

Dex Pratt’s life has been turned upside down. His parents have divorced and his mother has remarried. When his father attempts suicide and fails, Dex returns to their small town to care for him. But he’s not prepared for how much everything has changed. Gone are the nice house, new cars, fancy bikes and other toys. Now he and his wheelchair-bound dad live in a rotting rented house at the back of a cornfield. And, worse, his father has given up defending marijuana growers in his law practice and has become one himself. Unable to cope, Dex begins smoking himself into a state of surrealism. He begins to lose touch with what is real and what he is imagining. And then there are the aliens...and the girl-of-his-dreams...and the crop circle...

Author : Jeffrey Keuss
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780310514855

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Blur by Jeffrey Keuss Pdf

BETTER INFORMED, BETTER EQUIPPED TO MINISTER to today’s blurred youth culture Mobile. Connected. Wired in. This is a generation that skips over perceived cultural boundaries and resists definition. They are a mash-up of identity, a blur of old categories and classes. Creators and consumers of a rapidly changing culture. But how does one reach a demographic that is so difficult to pin down? Many of the most popular approaches to youth ministry today begin by portraying youth as collections of fixed snapshots, “profiles” based on sociological research studies. Yet according to Dr. Jeff Keuss, today’s teens cannot be adequately characterized by these simplistic and static descriptions. Keuss argues that what is needed, instead, is a qualitative approach to describing young people, one that recognizes the “blurred” nature of today’s mobile youth culture. Jeff Keuss presents an optimistic new way of thinking about youth, one that sees them more holistically and less clinically. As we learn to see youth culture through this new lens, we will become better informed and better equipped to minister to the teens of today’s rapidly changing world.