Author: Writers AlliancePublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1446146278
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
The Stars That Entertain Us
Author: Writers AlliancePublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1446146278
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Entertain Us
Author: Craig SchuftanPublisher: HarperCollins Australia
ISBN: 0730497569
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 585
Book Description
The Rise and Fall of Alternative Rock in the Nineties In 1990 alternative music was where it belonged - underground. It left the business of rock stardom to rock stars. But by 1992 alternative rock had spawned a revolution in music and style that transformed youth culture and revived a moribund music industry. Five years later, alternative rock was over, leaving behind a handful of dead heroes, a few dozen masterpieces, and a lot more questions than answers. What, if anything, had the alternative revolution meant? And had it been possible - as so many of its heroes had insisted - for it to be both on MtV and under the radar? Had it used the machinery of corporate rock to destroy corporate rock? In ENtERtAIN US! Craig Schuftan takes you on a journey through the nineties - from Sonic Youth's 'Kool thing' to Radiohead's 'Kid A', NEVERMIND to ODELAY, Madchester to Nu-Metal, Lollapalooza to Woodstock '99 - narrated in the voices of the decade's most important artists. this is the story of alternative rock - the people who made it, the people who loved it, the industry that bought and sold it, and the culture that grew up in its wake - in the last decade of the twentieth century.
Entertain Us
Author: Gillian G. GaarPublisher: Jawbone Press
ISBN: 9781906002893
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Nirvana are one of the most influential bands in rock history, and even now, nearly 20 years after Kurt Cobain's death, the reverence in which they are held is undiminished. Books have been written about Nirvana before, but they tend to concentrate on the band's superstar period and Kurt Cobain's demise, while skating over the early years. In Entertain Us, Gillian Gaar redresses the balance by examining in forensic detail the band's rise to fame, and their first album, Bleach. Seattle native Gaar was one of the first journalists to write about Nirvana, and covered the band's career closely, offering her a unique perspective to write this book. Drawing on extensive interviews with the key characters in the story, including bassist Krist Novoselic, drummer Chad Channing, and producers Jack Endino and Butch Vig, the book charts the band's formation and early years as well as their role at the center of the grunge gold rush. By critiquing every song the band recorded in this period, tracing influences and unpicking complex relationships between band members, associates and record labels, Gaar gets to the heart of a compelling story.
Woodworth's American Miscellany of Entertaining Knowledge
Author: Francis Channing WoodworthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's stories, American
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
A Compendium of Authentic and Entertaining Voyages Digested in a Chronological Series...
Author: A Collection of Scarce and Valuable Tracts on the Most Entertaining Subjects: Reign of King James II
Author: Still Bored in a Culture of Entertainment
Author: Richard WinterPublisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 0830823085
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
Richard Winter's critique of our "culture of entertainment" explores the nature, causes and effects of boredom and counteracts it with practical suggestions for living with passion and wonder.
Generation X and the Rise of the Entertainment Subject
Author: Robert SamuelsPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1793642354
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 117
Book Description
Generation X and the Rise of the Entertainment Subject defines Gen X as the first generation to be dominated by entertainment subjectivity. A social and psychological feedback loop is created as entertainment caters to adolescent consumers while the consumer, in turn, is shaped by the entertainment they internalize. While the paradigmatic latchkey young adults are immersed in media consumption, they see the world through the lens of popular culture products that seek to capitalize on the free time and disposable income of the unoccupied viewer. This book argues that Gen X entertainment subjectivity lays the foundations for contemporary society where handheld devices and other technologies detach their users from the world around them.
Theatre and Entertainment
Author: Jim DavisPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1137321075
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
What do we mean by entertainment? How does this concept relate to theatre? Should theatre be for pleasure or instruction? Can it not be both? In this stimulating book, Jim Davis examines the relationship between theatre and entertainment by assessing audience reception, political theatre and melodrama. He explores definitions of entertainment, arguing that it can be found embedded in all forms of theatre, not just the 'popular'. Davis concludes with a review of contemporary perspectives on the topic and questions the limits of entertainment in theatrical performance.
Post-History
Author: Vilém FlusserPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1937561305
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Is there any room left for freedom in a programmed world? This is the essential question that Vilém Flusser asks in Post-History. Written as a series of lectures to be delivered at universities in Brazil, Israel, and France, it was subsequently developed as a book and published for the first time in Brazil in 1983. This first English translation of Post-History brings to an anglophone readership Flusser’s first critique of apparatus as the aesthetic, ethical, and epistemological model of present times. In his main argument, Flusser suggests that our times may be characterized by the term “program,” much in the same way that the seventeenth century is loosely characterized by the term “nature,” the eighteenth by “reason,” and the nineteenth by “progress.” In suggesting this shift in worldview, he then poses a provocative question: If I function within a predictable programmed reality, can I rebel and how can I do it? The answer comes swiftly: Only malfunctioning programs and apparatus allow for freedom. Throughout the twenty essays of Post-History, Flusser reminds us that any future theory of political resistance must consider this shift in worldview, together with the horrors that Western society has brought into realization because of it. Only then may we start to talk again about freedom.