Cruel Crazy Beautiful World
Author | : Johnny Clegg & Savuka |
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Release | : 1992 |
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Author | : Johnny Clegg & Savuka |
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Release | : 1992 |
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Author | : Troy Blacklaws |
Publisher | : Open Road Media |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2013-03-26 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1480410039 |
DIVTwo characters navigate the post-apartheid South African landscape in this haunting story of the injustice that still simmers below the country’s surfaceDIV /divIn Troy Blacklaws’s ambitious novel, the lives of two African men run parallel, exposing the tensions that rumble at South Africa’s post-apartheid core. Jerusalem is a young poet and student whose stubborn father will no longer pay for his rambling studies. Half Jewish, half Muslim, Jerusalem is forced from Cape Town to a distant harbor village by his father, who believes a stint selling curios to tourists will right his wandering ways. Meanwhile, Jabulani loses his teaching job in Zimbabwe after mocking President Mugabe and must move south to start a new life. But his life across the border is tainted by the harsh truth that racism isn’t gone; it’s just taken another form. As the two men’s lives merge, their stories reveal the paradoxes of the South African experience.DIV /div /div
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Author | : Caroline Leavitt |
Publisher | : Algonquin Books |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2017-08-08 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 161620737X |
“A seductive page-turner that ripples with an undercurrent of suspense.” —The Boston Globe “A seamless triumph of storytelling.” —Gail Godwin, author of Flora It’s 1969, and sixteen-year-old Lucy is about to run away with a much older man to live off the grid in rural Pennsylvania, a rash act that will have frightening repercussions for both her and her older sister, Charlotte. As Lucy’s default caretaker for most of their lives, Charlotte has always been burdened by having to be the responsible one, but never more so than when Lucy’s dream of a rural paradise turns into a nightmare. With precise, haunting prose and indelible characters, Cruel Beautiful World examines the infinitesimal distance between seduction and love, loyalty and duty, and most of all, tells a universal story of sisterhood and the complicated legacy of family. “Absorbing.” —The New York Times Book Review “Captivating.”—Los Angeles Times “Engrossing.” —People “Page-turning suspense.” —New York Journal of Books “Riveting.” —Marie Claire “Marvelous.”—The National Book Review “Hauntingly brilliant.” —Coastal Living “Gripping and suspenseful.” —BookPage “Moving.” —The Washington Post
Author | : Timothy D Taylor |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2014-08-13 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 113525415X |
Global Pop examines the rise of "world musics" and "world beat", and some of the musicians associated with these recent genres such as Peter Gabriel, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, and Johnny Clegg. Drawing on a wide range of sources - academic, popular, cyber, interviews, and the music itself - Global Pop charts an accessible path through many of the issues and contradictions surrounding the contemporary movement of people and musics worldwide. Global Pop examines the range of discourses employed in and around world music, demonstrating how the central concept of authenticity is wielded by musicians, fans, and other listeners, and looks at some of these musics in detail, examining ways they are caught up in forms of domination and resistance. The book also explores how some cross-cultural collaborations may fashion new musics and identities through innovative combinations of sounds and styles.
Author | : Timothy Dean Taylor |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Popular music |
ISBN | : 9780415918725 |
Western pop music draws heavily upon music from other cultures, bringing music and musicians from outside the west to a wide audience. The author surveys this phenomenon to provide the reader with a timely account of its impact on modern culture.
Author | : Colin Larkin |
Publisher | : Omnibus Press |
Total Pages | : 4183 |
Release | : 2011-05-27 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0857125958 |
This text presents a comprehensive and up-to-date reference work on popular music, from the early 20th century to the present day.
Author | : Dan Drollette, Jr. |
Publisher | : Crown |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2013-04-16 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0307955877 |
An engrossing, adventure-filled account of the rush to discover and save Vietnam's most extraordinary animals Deep in the jungle where the borders of Vietnam meet those of Laos and Cambodia is a region known as "the lost world." Large mammals never seen before by Western science have popped up frequently in these mountains in the last decade, including a half-goat/half-ox, a deer that barks, and a close relative of the nearly extinct Javan rhino. In an age when scientists are excited by discovering a new kind of tube worm, the thought of finding and naming a new large terrestrial mammal is astonishing, and wildlife biologists from all over the world are flocking to this dangerous region. The result is a race between preservation and destruction. Containing research gathered from famous biologists, conservationists, indigenous peoples, former POWs, ex-Viet Cong, and the first U.S. ambassador to Vietnam since the war's end, Gold Rush in the Jungle goes deep into the valleys, hills, and hollows of Vietnam to explore the research, the international trade in endangered species, the lingering effects of Agent Orange, and the effort of a handful of biologists to save the world's rarest animals.
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Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 1990-08 |
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Smart. Funny. Fearless."It's pretty safe to say that Spy was the most influential magazine of the 1980s. It might have remade New York's cultural landscape; it definitely changed the whole tone of magazine journalism. It was cruel, brilliant, beautifully written and perfectly designed, and feared by all. There's no magazine I know of that's so continually referenced, held up as a benchmark, and whose demise is so lamented" --Dave Eggers. "It's a piece of garbage" --Donald Trump.
Author | : Troy Blacklaws |
Publisher | : Open Road Media |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2013-03-26 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1480410012 |
Troy Blacklaws’s follow-up to his internationally acclaimed Karoo Boy is the bittersweet tale of a South African boy coming of age during apartheid Gecko’s childhood is one of sheltered, almost magical innocence on a farm in Natal. He spends his days taking barefoot expeditions with his dogs and his nights listening to Springbok Radio, unaware of the cruel force in his life that apartheid will soon become. With the start of high school in the Cape, Gecko is thrust into a political and personal awakening that is both tragic and heartfelt. With conscription into the South African army looming over him, Gecko’s future is as uncertain as his country’s. Blood Orange evokes the absurdity, longing, and fear of growing up white in the last decades of apartheid.