Rockabilly: The Twang Heard 'Round the World

Rockabilly: The Twang Heard 'Round the World
Author: Greil Marcus
Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2011-05-23
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1610602536

It was the twang heard 'round the world: Rockabilly was born out of country, bluegrass, jazz, and the blues in the 1950s, becoming rock ’n’ roll and ruling the world. Here’s the story of Elvis Presley’s first Sun records that inspired all. And here’s Carl Perkins, Gene Vincent, Eddie Cochran, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, and many more rockabillies from the golden years of 1955–1959, in a book chock full of photos, collectible memorabilia, movie posters, rare records, fashion, and rebel lifestyle. Includes contributions from noted music journalists Greil Marcus, Peter Guralnick, Luc Sante, Robert Gordon, and more. The story continues today, with a rockabilly revival that began with stars, such as the Stray Cats and Robert Gordon, spreading around the globe from Europe to Japan. Today, rockabilly is better than ever, with bands like Rev. Horton Heat and others playing the music and living the life from Memphis to Helsinki to Tokyo. There’s still good rockin’ tonight!

EACH AND EVERY TIME

EACH AND EVERY TIME
Author: Nick Blake
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2020-01-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1838593179

This is the story of Danny-Lee, Essex boy and ex Old Skool, Hardcore raver, who, settled and approaching mid-life, is suddenly thrown back into the world-altering hedonism of his young life in the early 1990s by an unexpected funeral and by the discovery of a box of forgotten memorabillia. These events and the continuing succession of flashbacks and visions they provoke, inspire Danny-Lee to take a journey back to his old Essex home following the route he often took when travelling to and from raves. As Danny-Lee drives the memorabilia, the music and the country-side cause further flashbacks and surges of memory about life growing up in Essex and his raving years; these realities intersect with Danny Lee’s current reality and time melds. Danny-Lee moves between time streams, confused by the hurtling review of his life but by the end he has reached a new understanding of his young existence and of his place in the cultural outpouring of early 1990s rave. The book concludes with Danny-Lee making the return journey back to London, ultimately uplifted by the memories he has re-discovered, the ghosts he has exorcised, the pirate radio tapes he plays in the car and the glow of promise he feels for the future.

Five Years Ahead of My Time

Five Years Ahead of My Time
Author: Seth Bovey
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2019-06-10
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1789140943

Five Years Ahead of My Time: Garage Rock from the 1950s to the Present tells of a musical phenomenon whose continuing influence on global popular culture is immeasurable. The story begins in 1950s America, when classic rock ’n’ roll was reaching middle age, and teenaged musicians kept its primal rawness going with rough-hewn instrumentals, practicing guitar riffs in their parents’ garages. In the mid-1960s came the Beatles and the British Invasion, and soon every neighborhood had its own garage band. Groups like the Sonics and 13th Floor Elevators burnt brightly but briefly, only to be rediscovered by a new generation of connoisseurs in the 1970s. Numerous compilation albums followed, spearheaded by Lenny Kaye’s iconic Nuggets, which resulted in garage rock’s rebirth during the 1980s and ’90s. Be it the White Stripes or the Black Keys, bands have consistently found inspiration in the simplicity and energy of garage rock. It is a revitalizing force, looking back to the past to forge the future of rock ’n’ roll. And this, for the first time, is its story.

Rock Odyssey

Rock Odyssey
Author: Ian Whitcomb
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages: 396
Release: 1994
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780879101824

(Limelight). In 1965, Ian Whitcomb's novelty rocker "You Turn Me On" was number eight on the national charts, along with entries from the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Beach Boys. In 1966 he was nowheresville a certified rock 'n' roll flash in the pan. It is, then, with a survivor's humor that he tells both his and rock's story from its beginnings in the late fifties to 1969, the year of Woodstock and psychedelic dreams of universal peace and love. Here is the saga of the British Invasion, the genesis of folk rock, the blooming of Flower Power, the Summer of Love and the inner workings of the pop music biz, brought to life by a true insider who is also an uninhibitedly acute observer.

Aeneid

Aeneid
Author: Virgil
Publisher:
Total Pages: 150
Release: 1918
Genre:
ISBN:

Media,Technology and Society

Media,Technology and Society
Author: Brian Winston
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 389
Release: 2002-09-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1134766335

Challenging the popular myth of a present-day 'information revolution', Media Technology and Society is essential reading for anyone interested in the social impact of technological change. Winston argues that the development of new media forms, from the telegraph and the telephone to computers, satellite and virtual reality, is the product of a constant play-off between social necessity and suppression: the unwritten law by which new technologies are introduced into society only insofar as their disruptive potential is limited.

Guitar Method

Guitar Method
Author: Aaron Stang
Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing
Total Pages: 52
Release: 1994-06
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780898987355

Book 2 includes music theory, the keys of C, G and D, exploring the neck, second position, syncopation, rhythm and lead guitar techniques, cut time, solo guitar style, and pop and classical songs like: Fr Elise * Margaritaville * Romanza * Classical Gas.

Alpha Guardians

Alpha Guardians
Author: Kayla Gabriel
Publisher: KSA Publishing Consultants
Total Pages: 677
Release: 2020-05-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Powerful voodoo queens and kings, swaggering alpha male bear and dragon shifters, witches with untold and undiscovered powers, all under the sultry bayou moon.... 6 amazing love stories that will leave you breathless. Meet the Alpha Guardians, a group of six smoking-hot shifters who will do anything to protect the city of New Orleans from the evil rising within. Each romance pairs a cocky alpha male shifter with his fierce, wild fated mate... And each pair throws sparks that quickly combust, threatening not just their love but also the fate of mankind. Lovers of shifter romance, urban fantasy, and heart-pounding thrillers will be captivated by this wonderful series full of white-hot romance!

Misunderstanding Media

Misunderstanding Media
Author: Brian Winston
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 430
Release: 2016-10-04
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1315512203

The 1980s saw constant reports of an information revolution. This book, first published in 1986, challenges this view. It argues that the information revolution is an illusion, a rhetorical gambit, an expression of profound historical ignorance, and a movement dedicated to purveying misunderstanding and disseminating disinformation. In this historically based attack on the information revolution, Professor Winston takes a had look at the four central information technologies – telephones, television, computers and satellites. He describes how these technologies were created and diffused, showing that instead of revolution we just have ‘business as usual’. He formulates a ‘law’ of the suppression of radical potential – a law which states that new telecommunication technologies are introduced into society only insofar as their disruptive potential is contained. Despite the so-called information revolution, the major institutions of society remain unchanged, and most of us remain in total ignorance of the history of technology.