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For five short years in the 1980s, a four-piece Manchester band
released a collection of records that had undeniably profound
effects on the landscape of popular music and beyond. Today, public
and critical appreciation of The Smiths is at its height, yet the
most important British band after The Beatles have rarely been
subject to sustained academic scrutiny. Why pamper life's
complexities?: Essays on The Smiths seeks to remedy this by
bringing together diverse research disciplines to place the band in
a series of enlightening social, cultural and political contexts as
never before. Topics covered by the essays range from class,
sexuality, Catholicism, Thatcherism, regional and national
identities, to cinema, musical poetics, suicide and fandom. Lyrics,
interviews, the city of Manchester, cultural iconography and the
cult of Morrissey are all considered anew. The essays breach the
standard confines of music history, rock biography and pop culture
studies to give a sustained critical analysis of the band that is
timely and illuminating. This book will be of interest to scholars
and students in the fields of sociology, literature, geography,
cultural and media studies. It is also intended for a wider
audience of those interested in the enduring appeal of one of the
most complex and controversial bands. Accessible and original,
these essays will help to contextualise the lasting cultural legacy
of The Smiths. -- .
The grand narratives of European music history are informed by the
dichotomy of placements and displacements. Yet musicology has thus
far largely ignored the phenomenon of displacement and
underestimated its significance for musical landscapes and music
history. Music and Displacement: Diasporas, Mobilities, and
Dislocations in Europe and Beyond constitutes a pioneering volume
that aims to fill this gap as it explores the interactions between
music and displacement in theoretical and practical terms.
Contributions by distinguished international scholars address the
theme through a wide range of case studies, incorporating art,
popular, folk, and jazz music and interacting with areas, such as
gender and post-colonial studies, critical theory, migration, and
diaspora. The book is structured in three stages silence,
acculturation, and theory that move from silence to sound and from
displacement to placement. The range of subject matter within these
sections is deliberately hybrid and mirrors the eclectic nature of
displacement itself, with case studies exploring Nazi Anti-Semitism
in musical displacement; musical life in the Jewish community of
Palestine; Mahler, Jewishness, and Jazz; the Irish Diaspora in
England; and German Exile studies, among others. Featuring articles
from such scholars as Ruth F. Davis, Sean Campbell, Jim Samson,
Sydney Hutchinson, and Europea series co-editor Philip V. Bohlman,
the volume exerts an appeal reaching beyond music and musicology to
embrace all areas in the humanities concerned with notions of
displacement, migration, and diaspora."
For five short years in the 1980s, a four-piece Manchester band
released a collection of records that had undeniably profound
effects on the landscape of popular music and beyond. Today, public
and critical appreciation of The Smiths is at its height, yet the
most important British band after The Beatles have rarely been
subject to sustained academic scrutiny. Why pamper life's
complexities?: Essays on The Smiths seeks to remedy this by
bringing together diverse research disciplines to place the band in
a series of enlightening social, cultural and political contexts as
never before. Topics covered by the essays range from class,
sexuality, Catholicism, Thatcherism, regional and national
identities, to cinema, musical poetics, suicide and fandom. Lyrics,
interviews, the city of Manchester, cultural iconography and the
cult of Morrissey are all considered anew. The essays breach the
standard confines of music history, rock biography and pop culture
studies to give a sustained critical analysis of the band that is
timely and illuminating. This book will be of interest to scholars
and students in the fields of sociology, literature, geography,
cultural and media studies. It is also intended for a wider
audience of those interested in the enduring appeal of one of the
most complex and controversial bands. Accessible and original,
these essays will help to contextualise the lasting cultural legacy
of The Smiths. -- .
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Arm Tale (Hardcover)
Sean Campbell, Andrea Armstrong
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R547
Discovery Miles 5 470
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Arm Tale (Paperback)
Sean Campbell; Illustrated by Andrea Armstrong
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R402
Discovery Miles 4 020
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Shoe Fly (Hardcover)
Sean Campbell; Illustrated by Zoe Si
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R549
Discovery Miles 5 490
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Shoe Fly (Paperback)
Sean Campbell; Illustrated by Zoe Si
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R404
Discovery Miles 4 040
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Forever (Paperback)
Kenneth Sean Campbell
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R461
Discovery Miles 4 610
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The bleakest winter on record and a gruesome discovery bring DCI
David Morton to the Hackney Marshes in search of a clue, any clue,
as to the identity of a dead child found near the Old River Lea.
Meanwhile, closer to home, Morton's long suffering wife Sarah comes
to the conclusion that her man has been doing more than work during
his late nights at the office. As he closes in on the mystery of
the boy's identity his life begins to crumble and a terrible wrong
is done to someone he loves. With all of London watching, Morton's
impeccable ethics will be tested to their limit as he is forced to
choose between doing what is right and what is legal. Cleaver
Square is a stand-alone Police Procedural featuring DCI David
Morton.
In response to the near collapse of US securitization markets in
2008, the Federal Reserve created the Term Asset-Backed Securities
Loan Facility, which offered non-recourse loans to finance
investors' purchases of certain highly rated asset-backed
securities. We study the effects of this program and find that it
lowered interest rate spreads for some categories of asset-backed
securities but had little impact on the pricing of individual
securities. These findings suggest that the program improved
conditions in securitization markets but did not subsidize
individual securities. We also find that the risk of loss to the US
government was small.
Imagine an email describing the ultimate gay cruise on a brand new
ship called The Paradise-built especially for the gay community.
This ship has it all: shopping, Broadway shows, fabulous
restaurants and clubs, swimming pools and casinos. And the maiden
voyage is just about to depart from glamorous Singapore for the
South China Sea, Bali and Australia. It's a dream trip that would
be hard to resist. Who responds to these emails? What kind of
people will be on this ship? From California to Florida, from
Oregon to New York, from Arizona to Texas, Gangplank follows five
"couples" from across the country who have some very interesting
reasons for buying a ticket on The Paradise. Daisy and Oliver are
mother and son. As national president of GASP (Gay Allies Siblings
and Parents) she is determined to improve her gay son's love life
She doesn't know his love life has already improved without her
help Ed and Cliff have been together for 45 years. But Ed is
keeping a secret. Is an anniversary cruise part of it or a way out
of it? Mollianne and Van are a Texas debutante and her gay first
husband. Sometimes ex-wives make the best girlfriends and Van in
called upon to prove his friendship. When Mollianne experiences
some hard life lessons, Van puts his own budding romance on hold
for her. Dennis and Chad, two "theater people" in a May/September
romance, are headed for a high seas honeymoon if an old love from
the past doesn't sink the ship. It would be high drama if they
weren't so much in love. And finally, Mitch and Ronnie were college
roommates and have been best friends ever since. There friendship
is healthier than their love lives. A cruise will help them mend
their broken hearts and other body parts and prove that friendship
might be the best kind of love after all. There's plotting and
scheming, a few white lies and some shabby grey ones, too. There is
high romance and low comedy, Tom Ford sweaters and Botox, a vintage
Mustang and Neiman-Marcus. Five very different stories about love.
And what brings them all together? The promise of a fantastic
voyage where they can break and heal, cry and laugh, forget and
remember that ends with a poignant good-bye to one of them. And it
all happens before they even get on board the ship Remember that
this isn't a story about a cruise. We've already got The Love Boat
for that. This is a story about how to get to the Gangplank
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Home (Paperback)
Kenneth Sean Campbell
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R454
Discovery Miles 4 540
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The definition of home is different for everyone. For some, it's a
place, for others another person or a work of art or an old comfy
sofa. Connoly Bradshaw IV moved 1800 miles from all he knew of home
to avoid coming out to his family and friends. And Portland, Oregon
had welcomed him. He has a job he loves, good friends and he has
met his soulmate, Travis Craig. They are even thinking of buying a
home together but, in order to move forward, he must face his
family and the lies of omission. The miles are closing in on him
and the inevitable Texas showdown hangs over his head. Then he
receives word of his grandfather's death and he must return to East
Texas for the funeral. Putting his own life aside out of respect
for his grandfather and namesake, he decides to keep his secret a
little while longer when he returns to Madison, Texas and the
family he loves and fears. But on the day of the funeral, his aunt
gives him a package left for him by his grandfather. Inside is a
journal kept fifty years earlier when the elder Bradshaw was a
young man. The journal, the final gift of love, will change Con's
life forever, and the lives of everyone around him will be
affected. HOME is the story of two Connoly Bradshaws: one, a
contemporary story of love and coming out and acceptance. The other
is a fifty year old tale of romance, love and loss in the summer of
1959. The youngest Bradshaw is about to be caught up in his
grandfather's life in a way he never expected and comes to
understand that generations may differ in many ways but some things
never change and one of those is love.
In a gay twist on Brief Encounter, Charlie Morgan and Ben McSwain
meet on a train and are instantly drawn to each other. Charlie is a
gay writer and atheist. Ben is an evangelical Christian, widowed
with two children, who has never even thought about a relationship
with another man. While it appears that these two have nothing in
common, they find that they are "soulmates." It's a surprising and
joyous discovery for Charlie and a confusing one for Ben as they
try to bridge their vastly different lives. Ben has a full life
with his work as a nurse, his family and his devotion to his
church. His love for Charlie and a personal tragedy will test all
of those commitments and make him question everything in his life.
Charlie's work takes him to Texas to write a Broadway-bound show in
collaboration with his old college roommate, Lee, and sexy, young
country and western star, Luke Beecham. It looks like a smash hit
until a secret from Lee's past shatters everyone's chances for
happiness and brings Charlie to the loneliest place in his life.
Second-generation Irish musicians have played a vital role in the
history of popular music in England. This book explores the role of
Irish ethnicity in the lives and work of these musicians, focusing
on three high-profile projects: Kevin Rowland and Dexys Midnight
Runners, Shane MacGowan and The Pogues, and Morrissey/Marr and The
Smiths. The book locates these musicians in a hyphenated
'Irish-Englishness' marked by 'in-between-ness' and explores the
different ways that they engaged with this in-betweenness through
their creative work and their engagements with audiences, the media
and the music industry. The book draws on extensive archival
research of print and audio-visual media as well as original
interviews with the key figures, including Shane MacGowan, Johnny
Marr, Kevin Rowland and Cait O'Riordan. Combining its assiduous
research with fresh critical insights, the book offers new analyses
of the musicians, as well as previously undocumented accounts of
their lives and work. The book highlights the diversity and
complexity of second-generation Irish identities and experience and
details the diverse ways in which this generation has shaped
popular music in England. Accessible and original, 'Irish Blood,
English Heart' will be of interest to students and scholars in the
fields of popular music, media/cultural studies, and
ethnic/migration studies. It will also appeal to a wider audience
of those interested in the musicians with whom it deals.
Beautiful Day introduces representative songs from 1964 to the
present by a range of Irish popular musicians. The book combines
written text with photographs to produce an attractive volume that
is evocative, informative, and controversial, and that has
widespread, cross-demographic appeal. Music has played an important
role throughout the island of Ireland since ancient times, and it
continues to represent one of the principal cultural avenues for
the expression and exploration of contemporary Irish identities.
Beautiful Day: Forty Years of Irish Rock tells the story of modern
Ireland from the perspective of the music produced across the
island during a period of rapid, decisive change. The volume is
made up of an introductory essay (4,000 words) followed by short
essays (ca. 1,200 words) on forty-one songs (one from each year
between 1964 and 2004) interspersed with photographic images
relating to individual performers, songs and / or cultural context.
This book will place representative material by a variety of
artists - including U2, Enya, The Corrs, Thin Lizzy, Van Morrison,
and Sinead O'Connor - in their musical, cultural and historical
contexts, while also introducing a range of less well known, but no
less interesting, Irish popular musicians from the 1960s down to
the present. Although the style is accessible, the research is
thorough, and is intended to challenge many received ideas relating
to the development of Ireland during this key stage of its
political and cultural history. The overall intention is to combine
written text with photographs to produce an attractive book that is
evocative, informative, and controversial, and that has widespread,
cross-demographic appeal.
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