Author: Jon SavagePublisher:
ISBN: 9780571368549
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A reissue of Jon Savage's landmark book on punk culture.
Author: Jon SavageEngland's Dreaming
Author: Jon SavagePublisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571261191
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
WINNER OF THE RALPH J. GLEASON AWARD INCLUDES FOREWORD BY JOHNNY MARR Award-winning, Sunday Times bestselling author Jon Savage's definitive history of punk, its progenitors, the Sex Pistols, and their time: the late 1970s. A pop-culture classic full of anecdote, insight and exclusive interviews, England's Dreaming tells the sensational story of the meteoric rise and rapid decline of the last great rock 'n' roll band and the cultural moment they came to define. 'The definitive history of the English punk movement.' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW 'Still the strongest history of punk.' GUARDIAN 'The best book about punk rock and pop culture ever.' NME
England's Dreaming, Revised Edition
Author: Jon SavagePublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312288220
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 657
Book Description
England's Dreaming is the ultimate book on punk, its progenitors, the Sex Pistols, and the moment they defined for music fans in England and the United States. Savage brings to life the sensational story of the meteoric rise and rapid implosion of the Pistols through layers of rich detail, exclusive interviews, and rare photographs. This fully revised and updated edition of the book covers the legacy of punk twenty-five years later and provides an account of the Pistols' 1996 reunion as well as a freshly updated discography and a completely new introduction.
Nick Drake
Author: Nathan Wiseman-TrowsePublisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 178023211X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Since his death in 1974 at the age of twenty-six, singer-songwriter Nick Drake has gained a huge international audience and come to be thought of as the epitome of English romanticism. But while his small body of work has evoked poetic comparisons with Blake and Keats, closer inspection of Drake’s music reveals many global and cosmopolitan influences that confound his status as an archetypal English troubadour. In this book, Nathan Wiseman-Trowse unravels the myths surrounding Drake and his work and explores how ideas of Englishness have come to be intimately associated with the cult musician. Probing deeply into Drake’s music for clues, Wiseman-Trowse finds hints of the English landscape that Drake would have wandered through during his lifetime, but he also uncovers traces of blues, jazz, and eastern mysticism that hint at a broader conception of English national identity in the late 1960s, one far removed from parochial nostalgia. Wiseman-Trowse then looks at how Drake’s music has been framed since his death, showing how Drake has been situated as a particular kind of English artist that integrates American counterculture, the English class system, and a nostalgic reimagining of the hippie era. An appealing story of folk music and English national identity, this book is essential reading for any fan of Nick Drake.
England's Dreaming
Author: Justine ElyotPublisher: Totally Entwined Group (USA+CAD)
ISBN: 0857159763
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
On the day of Queen Elizabeth's Silver Jubilee, worlds collide, and so do bodies. A pearl-wearing girl and a punk boy—can it ever work? Everybody in Camberwick Square is thrilled to be celebrating the Queen's Silver Jubilee—everyone, that is, except the punk-rock squatters at number forty-one. When auction-house assistant Emily tries to interest art student Ciaran in joining in the jamboree, he ends up much more personally involved than he ever envisaged. They aren't exactly the best-matched couple in the world, but somehow their breathless passion takes them through street parties and fetishwear shops, towards their final destination of a rather special boat trip on the Thames. But will passion be enough to keep this pearl-wearing princess and Irish punk boy together against the odds? Or will convention prevail and hold them apart?
Visions of England
Author: Roy StrongPublisher: Random House
ISBN: 1409029360
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
Why do we still get misty-eyed about England's green and pleasant land? What explains our obsession with country houses - from the National Trust to Downton Abbey? Why do we still dream of a place in the country? In this delightul book Roy Strong explores the definition of Englishness. Celebrating our literature, music, art, gardening and drama, Strong identifies those icons and traditions that still speak to us - it is a vision of England that is inclusive and relevant for everybody living in the country today.
Dreaming the English Renaissance
Author: C. LevinPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230615732
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
Dreaming the English Renaissance examines ideas about dreams, actual dreams people had and recorded, and the many ways dreams were used in the culture and politics of the Tutor/Stuart age in order to provide a window into the mental life and the most profound beliefs of people of the time.
Utopia Ltd.
Author: Matthew BeaumontPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047407091
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
This literary-historical account of late-nineteenth century utopianism offers a fascinating rereading of the fin de siècle in terms of the political futures that were produced in England during a period of cultural upheaval, and marks an original contribution to the Marxist critique of utopian ideology.
The Dream Dragon
Author: Kathyrn EnglandPublisher: Xist Publishing
ISBN: 1623957966
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 31
Book Description
A dragon protects a child’s dreams from nightmares in this picture book perfect for bedtime. Bedtime stories inspires a series of dream protectors for a little boy. The dream dragon keeps the nightmares away and is joined by dinosaurs, pirates, super heroes and more in the quest to keep nighttime safe.
