Journey to the Centre Of The Cramps

Author: Dick Porter
Publisher: Omnibus Press
ISBN: 1783233885
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 336

Book Description
Based upon work and materials compiled for the acclaimed and now much sought after 2007 Cramps biography A Short History of Rock'n'Roll Psychosis, Journey To The Centre Of The Cramps goes far beyond being a revised and updated edition: Completely overhauled, rewritten and vastly expanded, it now represents the definitive work on the group. In addition to unseen interview material from Ivy, Lux and other former band members, Journey To The Centre Of The Cramps also sees the Cramps' story through to its conclusion, recounting Lux's unexpected death in 2009, the subsequent dissolution of the group and their enduring legacy. The Cramps' history, influences and the cast of characters in and around the group are likewise explored in far greater depth. Features unseen first-hand interview material from Lux Interior and Poison Ivy. A wealth of new interview material with former band members and other key players in the band's history and never before seen/rare photographs and ephemera to help illustrate the book.

The Cramps, Beast and Beyond

Author: John Wombat
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781721757572
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 70

Book Description
As a founding member of the groundbreaking band The Cramps, Bryan Gregory was an exciting and captivating performer whose distinctive, unrefined sonic blasts of guitar noise became signature marks of the band's early records. Dispelling some of the popular myths that circulate about him, this book details the life of Bryan and shows him as the eccentric, unique, naturally gifted artist and kind, sensitive and caring man that he was.

The Cramps

Author: Dick Porter
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780859653985
Category : Punk rock music
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Lux Interior (Erick Purkhiser) and Poison Ivy Rorschach (Kristy Wallace) formed The Cramps in the late 1970s. They quickly gained acclaim, notoriety, and hitmaker status for campy, sexy studio LPs like Songs the Lord Taught Us and Gravest Hits, as well as for their legendary, over-the-top concerts that brought to mind circus freak shows. This illustrated book with exclusive interviews presents a detailed examination of The Cramps' strange and terrible journey from sleazy, theatrical inventors of a mutant fusion of punk, garage rock, psychobilly, and rock 'n' roll to genuine cult icons with devoted fan bases around the globe.

Roots Punk

Author: David A. Ensminger
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1496848438
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 303

Book Description
Punk rock evokes dissent and disruption, abrasive and anarchic musicality, and a host of countercultural aesthetics. Featuring original interviews and over one hundred images, Roots Punk: A Visual and Oral History by longtime music journalist and author David A. Ensminger focuses on how punk merged with roots music to create a rich style that incorporated honky-tonk, rockabilly, doo-wop, reggae, ska, jazz, folk, blues, and labor ballads. This engagement transformed the notion of punk to include a wide array of vintage source material that seems more aligned with bolo ties and Stetsons than Doc Martens and safety pins. Ensminger explores the music’s aesthetics, traits, and themes. He contextualizes, clarifies, maps, and probes roots punk’s hybrid nature as well as its diverse, queer-inclusive, and multicultural strains. By painting a broad, nuanced, and well-documented picture of the genre from its earliest incarnation, he forms a kind of people’s history of the movement. Roots Punk features original interviews with members of Minutemen, MDC, the Dicks, the Plimsouls, Tex and the Horseheads, Dils/Rank and File, X, the Flesh Eaters, Beatnigs, Alejandro Escovedo, Robert “El Vez” Lopez, Blasters, and more. Whether covering sarcastic novelty forms or sincere embraces, Ensminger reveals and revels in a punk tradition lined with blues records, acoustic ballads, country, and hillbilly romp. In a time of growing conformity, replication, and commercialization, roots punk (sometimes dubbed cow-punk) offers a tantalizing revitalization and reimagination of the American songbook.

Please Kill Me

Author: Legs McNeil
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802142641
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 496

Book Description
Now in paperback, this first oral history of the most nihilistic of all pop movements brings the sound of the punk generation chillingly to life with 50 new pages of depraved testimony. "Please Kill Me" reads like a fast-paced novel, but the tragedies it contains are all too human and all too real. photos.

Brave Punk World

Author: James Greene, Jr.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442269855
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 426

Book Description
Brave Punk World explores the evolution of punk scenes in countries outside of North American and the UK. It immerses the reader in foreign scenes, describing the lifestyles and art of passionate, hard-charging groups such as Ulster, Slime, Carte de Séjour, and many more.

Journey to the Center of the Earth-Voyage Au Centre de la Terre: English-French Parallel Text Edition

Author: Jules Verne
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0557443016
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 467

Book Description
Jules Verneâ€™s classic Journey to the Center of the Earthâ€”Voyage au centre de la Terre is presented in English-French parallel text, complete and unabridged. A learned professor deciphers ancient runes that lead him to the earthâ€™s coreâ€”and discoveries older than he dared imagined. With Ã‰douard Riou art, reproduced from the first 1867 illustrated edition.The Bilingual Library presents the worldâ€™s classics in parallel text. Each page in the original language is mirrored by its English translation on the facing page. Series editor D. Bannon is a member of the American Literary Translators Association and the American Translators Association.

Journey to the Center of the Earth

Author:
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1427017476
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 438

Book Description

Listen to Punk Rock!

Author: June Michele Pulliam
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 289

Book Description
Listen to Punk Rock! Exploring a Musical Genre discusses the evolution of punk from its inception in 1975 to the present, delving into the lasting impact of the genre throughout society today. Listen to Punk Rock! provides readers with a fuller picture of punk rock as an inclusive genre with continuing relevance. Organized in a roughly chronological manner, it starts with an introduction that explains the musical and cultural forces that shaped the punk genre. Next, 50 entries cover important punk bands and subgenres, noting female punk bands as well as bands of color. The final part of the book discusses how punk has influenced other musical genres and popular culture. The book will give those new to the genre an overview of important bands and products related to the movement in music, including publications, fashion, and films about punk rock. Notably, it pays special attention to diversity within the genre, discussing bands often overlooked or mentioned only in passing in most histories of the movement, which focus mainly on The Sex Pistols, The Clash, and The Ramones as the pioneers of punk.

Sophie's World

Author: Jostein Gaarder
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1466804270
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 544

Book Description
One day Sophie comes home from school to find two questions in her mail: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" Before she knows it she is enrolled in a correspondence course with a mysterious philosopher. Thus begins Jostein Gaarder's unique novel, which is not only a mystery, but also a complete and entertaining history of philosophy.