by Nick Bromell (2000)
"Weaving together memoir and musicology, history, and politics, Bromell shows how millions of listeners mixed rock and psychedelics in a quest to make sense of themselves and their times. This combination was not mere escapism, he argues, but a vital public philosophy, one that we must do justice to in order to comprehend not just the past but the present."--BOOK JACKET.
David Marc
In Demographic Vistas, David Marc shows how we can take television seriously within the humanist tradition while enjoying it on its own terms. To deal with the barrage of messages from television's chaotic history, Marc adapts tools of theatrical and literary criticism to focus on key personalities and genres in ways that reward serious students and casual viewers alike.
Leslie Woodhead
The music of John, Paul, George, and Ringo played a part in waking up an entire generation of Soviet youth, opening their eyes to seventy years of bland official culture and rigid authoritarianism. Soviet leaders had suppressed most Western popular music since the days of jazz, but the Beatles and the bands they inspired-both in the West and in Russia-battered down the walls of state culture. Leslie Woodhead's How The Beatles Rocked the Kremlin tells the unforgettable-and endearingly odd-story of Russians who discovered that all you need is Beatles. By stealth, by way of whispers, through the illicit late night broadcasts on Radio Luxembourg, the Soviet Beatles kids tuned in. "Bitles," they whispered, "Yeah, Yeah, Yeah."
Sigmund von Birken
This volume presents 430 poems and poem groups written by Sigmund von Birken, typically on commission, for bourgeois patrons and members of the city of Nuremberg's patrician class. The first subvolume contains the texts; the second subvolume the philological apparatus and commentaries. The book reveals the activity of a "literary service provider," and will be of interest to historians, theologians, and scholars of cultural and literary studies.
Jula Wildberger
Just suppose someone wanted to teach the kind of love practiced in Latin love elegy. How would he do it? What difference does it make for 'elegiac love' if it becomes the subject matter of a do-it-yourself handbook? This is the leading question I've explored in this book, following the course step by step and analyzing the 'pedagogy' of Ovid, the Master of Love. Some readers might enjoy thinking about the logic of love by itself. For others, the book might provide something like a running commentary to a text the enjoy exploring. And if you are interested in the mechanics of literary devices, you can find here an in-depth discussion of a striking example of generic transformation, a transformation that would seem paradoxical or outright impossible: the metamorphosis of unhappy, always frustrated 'elegiac' love into the successful erotic practice of the Artists of Love. (The Author) P.S. The copyright for this book now belongs to me. Please feel free to use it for any non-commercial purpose.