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Creighton invites the reader on the Beats journey toward deeper levels of understanding and provides insights into Kerouacs French-Canadian roots.
Author : David Creighton
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 27,41 MB
Release : 2007-09-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1550027344
Creighton invites the reader on the Beats journey toward deeper levels of understanding and provides insights into Kerouacs French-Canadian roots.
Author : Robert Jourdain
Publisher : William Morrow
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 24,16 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Music
ISBN :
At the evolution of music and introduces surprising new concepts of memory and perception, knowledge and attention, motion and emotion, all at work as music takes hold of us. Along the way, a fascinating cast of characters brings Jourdain's narrative to vivid life: "idiots savants" who absorb whole pieces on a single hearing, composers who hallucinate entire compositions, a psychic who claimed to take dictation from long-dead composers, and victims of brain damage who.
Author : Simon Reynolds
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 29,48 MB
Release : 2013-06-19
Category : Art
ISBN : 1136783164
In Generation Ecstasy, Simon Reynolds takes the reader on a guided tour of this end-of-the-millenium phenomenon, telling the story of rave culture and techno music as an insider who has dosed up and blissed out. A celebration of rave's quest for the perfect beat definitive chronicle of rave culture and electronic dance music.
Author : Simon Reynolds
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 11,71 MB
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 1593764774
Ecstasy did for house music what LSD did for psychedelic rock. Now, in Energy Flash, journalist Simon Reynolds offers a revved-up and passionate inside chronicle of how MDMA (“ecstasy”) and MIDI (the basis for electronica) together spawned the unique rave culture of the 1990s. England, Germany, and Holland began tinkering with imported Detroit techno and Chicago house music in the late 1980s, and when ecstasy was added to the mix in British clubs, a new music subculture was born. A longtime writer on the music beat, Reynolds started watching—and partaking in—the rave scene early on, observing firsthand ecstasy’s sense-heightening and serotonin-surging effects on the music and the scene. In telling the story, Reynolds goes way beyond straight music history, mixing social history, interviews with participants and scene-makers, and his own analysis of the sounds with the names of key places, tracks, groups, scenes, and artists. He delves deep into the panoply of rave-worthy drugs and proper rave attitude and etiquette, exposing a nuanced musical phenomenon. Read on, and learn why is nitrous oxide is called “hippy crack.”
Author : Matthew Collin
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 41,36 MB
Release : 2010-12-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1847656412
From its first publication in 1997, Altered State established itself as the definitive text on Ecstasy and dance culture. This new edition sees Matthew Collin cast a fresh eye on the heady events of the acid house 'Summer of Love' and the rave scene's euphoric escalation into commercial excess as MDMA became a mass-market narcotic. Altered State is the best-selling book on Ecstasy culture, using a cast of memorable characters to track the origins of the scene and its drug through psychedelic subcults, underground gay discos and the Balearic paradise of Ibiza, to the point where Tony Blair was using an Ecstasy anthem as an election campaign song. Altered State critically examines the ideologies and myths of the scene, documenting the criminal underside to the blissed-out image, shedding new light on the social history of the most spectacular youth movement of the twentieth century.
Author : Irvine Welsh
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 25,20 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393315813
A bestsellig romance author suffers a paralyzing stroke and her philandering husband wonders how this will affect his gambling and whoring budget; two young lovers must come to terms with their chemically induced deformity; Lloyd from Leith transfigures his passion for an unhappily married woman. These three tales confirm Irvine Welsh's position as a master of the "chemical" romance genre.
Author : Karla Fitzhugh
Publisher : Heinemann-Raintree Library
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 37,12 MB
Release : 2005-10-06
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781403470270
This title looks at Ecstasy and the pros and cons of making particular choices young people must make about their behavior. Up-to-date and detailed information make this a valuable books for understanding what is at stake.
Author : Thomas R. Bierowski
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 33,6 MB
Release : 2011-03-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786459674
This critical text considers Jack Kerouac as writer-shaman, exploring the content and ecstatic technique of the novels and two experimental volumes that represent critical phases of his development. Thomas Bierowski also examines the reception of Kerouac's work, arguing that his rise and fall reflect not only the usual changes in literary taste but the precarious position of the shamanic figure in modern America.
Author : Mike Doughty
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 16,62 MB
Release : 2012-01-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0306818779
Recounts the addiction and recovery of the world-renowned solo artist and former lead singer and songwriter of Soul Coughing.
Author : Eisner
Publisher : Ronin Publishing
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 32,60 MB
Release : 2013-01-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1579511457
The history of ecstasy, its discovery and use and social implications.