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Postmodern Blues

2020-06-12 Fiction
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Release : 2020-06-12
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Book Synopsis Postmodern Blues by : Victor Cabas

Download or read book Postmodern Blues written by Victor Cabas . This book was released on 2020-06-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postmodern Blues tells the story of Jack Shock, an English professor from Virginia who we find at the novel’s opening on unofficial sabbatical, living in alcoholic oblivion in the highlands of Guatemala. Fleeing a bad marriage and doomed academic career, Shock is lured home after learning his estranged father, a retired Air Force General, is on his way out. His return to the mainland sets off a mad-cap chain of events and the unearthing of a family secret that threatens to undo him. Along the way, Shock encounters a confetti of memorable characters in academia and the late-night bars of Charlottesville who illuminate this rollicking tragicomic adventure. Honest, not cynical, Postmodern Blues is a story about perseverance in the face of mortality, and the redemptive power of love.

Curing the Postmodern Blues: Reading Grant Morrison and Chris Weston's the Filth in the 21st Century

2013-02-01 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2013-02-01
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Curing the Postmodern Blues: Reading Grant Morrison and Chris Weston's the Filth in the 21st Century by : Tom Shapira

Download or read book Curing the Postmodern Blues: Reading Grant Morrison and Chris Weston's the Filth in the 21st Century written by Tom Shapira. This book was released on 2013-02-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 2002-2003, Grant Morrison and Chris Weston's THE FILTH is disgusting, deeply disturbing, and a comic-book masterpiece that inoculates readers against the problems of the postmodern condition. So says Tom Shapira, who also explores THE FILTH's relationship to Morrison's THE INVISIBLES, to the 1999 film THE MATRIX, and to the work of Alan Moore. The book also includes interviews with Grant Morrison, Chris Weston, and inker Gary Erskine, plus art from Weston illuminating the design of the series and containing imagery censored in the printed comic. From Sequart Research & Literacy Organization. More info at http: //Sequart.org

Post-Modern Blues

2020-10-05
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Release : 2020-10-05
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Download or read book Post-Modern Blues written by . This book was released on 2020-10-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: well thought out looks at difficult human emotions

Book of Blues

1995-09-01 Poetry
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Release : 1995-09-01
Genre : Poetry
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Book Rating : 800/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Book of Blues by : Jack Kerouac

Download or read book Book of Blues written by Jack Kerouac. This book was released on 1995-09-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best known for his "Legend of Duluoz" novels, including On the Road and The Dharma Bums, Jack Kerouac is also an important poet. In these eight extended poems, Kerouac writes from the heart of experience in the music of language, employing the same instrumental blues form that he used to fullest effect in Mexico City Blues, his largely unheralded classic of postmodern literature. Edited by Kerouac himself, Book of Blues is an exuberant foray into language and consciousness, rich with imagery, propelled by rythm, and based in a reverent attentiveness to the moment. "In my system, the form of blues choruses is limited by the small page of the breastpocket notebook in which they are written, like the form of a set number of bars in a jazz blues chorus, and so sometimes the word-meaning can carry from one chorus into another, or not, just like the phrase-meaning can carry harmonically from one chorus to the other, or not, in jazz, so that, in these blues as in jazz, the form is determined by time, and by the musicians spontaneous phrasing & harmonizing with the beat of time as it waves & waves on by in measured choruses." —Jack Kerouac

Mo' Meta Blues

2013-06-18 Social Science
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Release : 2013-06-18
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis Mo' Meta Blues by : Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson

Download or read book Mo' Meta Blues written by Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson. This book was released on 2013-06-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "You have to bear in mind that [Questlove] is one of the smartest motherf*****s on the planet. His musical knowledge, for all practical purposes, is limitless." --Robert Christgau A punch-drunk memoir in which Everyone's Favorite Questlove tells his own story while tackling some of the lates, the greats, the fakes, the philosophers, the heavyweights, and the true originals of the music world. He digs deep into the album cuts of his life and unearths some pivotal moments in black art, hip hop, and pop culture. Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson is many things: virtuoso drummer, producer, arranger, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon bandleader, DJ, composer, and tireless Tweeter. He is one of our most ubiquitous cultural tastemakers, and in this, his first book, he reveals his own formative experiences--from growing up in 1970s West Philly as the son of a 1950s doo-wop singer, to finding his own way through the music world and ultimately co-founding and rising up with the Roots, a.k.a., the last hip hop band on Earth. Mo' Meta Blues also has some (many) random (or not) musings about the state of hip hop, the state of music criticism, the state of statements, as well as a plethora of run-ins with celebrities, idols, and fellow artists, from Stevie Wonder to KISS to D'Angelo to Jay-Z to Dave Chappelle to...you ever seen Prince roller-skate?!? But Mo' Meta Blues isn't just a memoir. It's a dialogue about the nature of memory and the idea of a post-modern black man saddled with some post-modern blues. It's a book that questions what a book like Mo' Meta Bluesreally is. It's the side wind of a one-of-a-kind mind. It's a rare gift that gives as well as takes. It's a record that keeps going around and around.

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