Don't Start Me Talking

2018-12-10 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Charles Radcliffe
Release : 2018-12-10
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 460/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Don't Start Me Talking written by Charles Radcliffe. This book was released on 2018-12-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his seminal socio history of Punk, “England’s Dreaming”, Jon Savage makes the bald assertion that “Charles Radcliffe laid the foundation for the next twenty years of sub-cultural theory”, referring in particular to his 1966 piece “the Seeds of Social Destruction’ that appeared in the first of two issues of Radcliffe’s co authored, insurrectionary street-zine, ‘Heatwave’ . Teddy Boys, Ton Up Kids, Mods and Rockers, Beats, Ban the Bombers,The Ravers ( jazz heads) : Radcliffe argued that the bank holiday bust ups, the demos, the riots, the sex drugs n rock n’ roll, these were all part of a “youth revolt... (that ) has left a permanent mark on this society, has challenged assumptions and status, and been prepared to vomit its’ disgust in the streets. The youth revolt has not always been comfortable, valid, to the point or helpful. It has however made its first stumbling political gestures with an immediacy that revolutionaries should not deny, but envy.” Radcliffe joined the International Situationists within the year, alongside (English founder ) Chris Gray, but by the time 1968 had ended, and youthful revolt had fed into wide pockets of political turmoil globally, Radcliffe had started to drift towards other poles of late 60s’s counterculture. He ended the 60’s in long hair and loon pants, banged up in a Belgian prison on hash smuggling charges. This epic ( 900 + pages) book follows Radcliffes’ trials and tribulations from public school beginnings, into the 60’s underground and the Mr Nice style large scale hash smuggling years (his friend, Howard Marks, pops up throughout) , on to prison, divorce, remarriage and beyond. It offers up important first hand perspectives on 60’s / 70’s counterculture, and an intimate portrait of a man who seemed to face the slings and arrows that fortune threw at him with a never ending supply of equanimity. And high grade hash.

Don't Start Me To Talking . . .

2016-05-30 Drama

Author : John O'Neal
Release : 2016-05-30
Genre : Drama
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Book Rating : 172/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Don't Start Me To Talking . . . written by John O'Neal. This book was released on 2016-05-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Nearly five decades of on-the-job training have equipped O'Neal with the skills and charm of a master storyteller."—The Drama Review "A dramatic tale spinner with a canny sense of humor and a winning, engaging stage presence. . . . O'Neal's shows mix folksiness, a sophisticated sense of theatricality and astute observation that are a pleasure to watch."—The Philadelphia Inquirer Artist and activist John M. O'Neal is best known for his Junebug Jabbo Jones cycle of plays, a remarkable collection of tales and anecdotes drawn from African American oral literature, which he has performed all over the globe. Four of these plays are included in this volume, along with four of O'Neal's other works: large-scale ensemble productions, first performed by his ensemble company Junebug Productions, as well as in collaboration with A Travelling Jewish Theater (San Francisco, California), Roadside Theater (Kentucky), and Pregones Theater (Bronx, New York). John M. O'Neal co-founded the Free Southern Theater in 1963 as a cultural arm of the southern Civil Rights movement, as well as Junebug Productions, a professional African American arts organization in New Orleans. For FST, O'Neal worked as a field director for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee and worked as national field program director with the Committee for Racial Justice. He has written eighteen plays, a musical comedy, poetry, and several essays, and has performed throughout the United States, Canada, France, and Scandinavia. He is the recipient of the Award of Merit from the Association of Performing Arts Presenters, the United States Artists Award, and a Ford Foundation Award.

Lorca Plays: 1

2014-03-10 Drama

Author : Federico Garcia Lorca
Release : 2014-03-10
Genre : Drama
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Book Rating : 234/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Lorca Plays: 1 written by Federico Garcia Lorca. This book was released on 2014-03-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These three tragedies were written at the height if Lorca's powers and display his innovative mix of Spanish popular tradition and modern dramatic technique. Blood Wedding tells the story of a couple drawn irresistibly together in the face of an arranged marriage; Doña Rosita the Spinster follows the appalling fate of a young woman beguiled into the expectation of marriage and left stranded for a lifetime whilst Yerma is possibly Lorca's harshest play following a woman's Herculean struggle against the curse of infertility. Set in and around his home territory, Granada, the plays return again and again to the lives of passionate individuals, particularly women, trapped by the social conventions of narrow peasant communities. The plays appear here in new playable translations.

Elvis Costello's Armed Forces

2005-04-28 Music

Author : Franklin Bruno
Release : 2005-04-28
Genre : Music
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Book Rating : 742/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Elvis Costello's Armed Forces written by Franklin Bruno. This book was released on 2005-04-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty-Three and a Third is a series of short books about critically acclaimedand much-loved albums of the past 40 years. Over 50,000 copies have been sold!"Passionate, obsessive, and smart." —Nylon"...an inspired new series of short books about beloved works of vinyl." —DetailsFranklin Bruno's writing about music has appeared inthe Village Voice, Salon, LA Weekly, and Best MusicWriting 2003 (Da Capo). He has a Ph.D. in Philosophyfrom UCLA, and his musical projects include Tempting:Jenny Toomey Sings the Songs of Franklin Bruno(Misra) and A Cat May Look At A Queen (AbsolutelyKosher), a solo album. He lives in Los Angeles.

The Little Hammer

2011-09-30 Fiction

Author : John Kelly
Release : 2011-09-30
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 057/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Little Hammer written by John Kelly. This book was released on 2011-09-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Would you believe me if I told you that I was only nine years of age when I killed him?' In a paint-splattered room, a young and successful Irish painter confronts his shocking and murderous past- a dark day on the beach at Bundoran, Co. Donegal, when he quietly dispatched a palaeontologist with his own geological hammer. His life is further disrupted by the beautiful Billy Maguire, an Ingrid Bergman lookalike who leads him all the way to Prague and involves him-and his beloved and devoutly paranoid grandmother-in yet another grievous crime. Struggling to keep reality and unreality apart, he wishes only to be taken seriously-as sinner and lover, artist and murderer.Featuring cameos from Elvis Presley, Shirley Temple and the Pope, the Little Hammer is a triumph of linguistic brio, dark imagination and wild wit from one of Ireland's most exciting new talents.

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