In 1989, Bob Mould took a left turn. Already legendary before his 30th birthday for his noise-and-nuance work in Hüsker Dü, Mould had recently walked away from his old band. He re-emerged with his debut solo album: Workbook. Filled with chiming acoustic guitars, multitracked vocals, pristine production, and even a cello, Workbook was both admired and questioned for Mould’s perceived departure from his post-punk roots. Three decades later, the album has emerged as a key for understanding the nascent alternative rock genre and the concerns Mould would explore for the duration of his career. Fusing post-punk sound and confessional lyrics with a richer emotional and musical range, Mould’s Workbook merged worlds that seemed unbridgeable at the time. Alternative rock emerged from the wreckage of the 1980s, and Workbook was a model for the genre’s maturation. Workbook serves its title in two ways—as a map for musicians to follow into a new mode, and as a journal of Mould’s struggle toward adulthood. It opens conversations about rock, identity, spirituality, authenticity, and the perils and promises of mainstream culture. Walter Biggins and Daniel Couch, two critics who grew up with Workbook, extend these conversations—through letters and emails to each other, and through correspondence with Mould and Workbook’s musicians and producers. That crosstalk leads to, through this seminal album, a deeper understanding of “alternative rock” at the moment of its inception, just before it took over the radio.
Both Dylan and Cohen have been a presence on the music and poetry landscape spanning six decades. This book begins with a discussion of their contemporary importance, and how they have sustained their enduring appeal as performers and recording artists. The authors argue that both Dylan and Cohen shared early aspirations that mirrored the Beat Generation. They sought to achieve the fame of Dylan Thomas, who proved a bohemian poet could thrive outside the academy, and to live his life of unconditional social irresponsibility. While Dylan’s and Cohen’s fame fluctuated over the decades, it was sustained by self-consciously adopted personas used to distance themselves from their public selves. This separation of self requires an exploration of the artists’ relation to religion as an avenue to find and preserve inner identity. The relationship between their lyrics and poetry is explored in the context of Federico García Lorca’s concept of the poetry of inspiration and the emotional depths of ‘duende.’ Such ideas draw upon the dislocation of the mind and the liberation of the senses that so struck Dylan and Cohen when they first read the poetry and letters of Arthur Rimbaud and Lorca. The authors show that performance and the poetry are integral, and the ‘duende,’ or passion, of the delivery, is inseparable from the lyric or poetry, and common to Dylan, Cohen and the Beat Generation.
Both Dylan and Cohen have been a presence on the music and poetry landscape spanning six decades. This book begins with a discussion of their contemporary importance, and how they have sustained their enduring appeal as performers and recording artists. The authors argue that both Dylan and Cohen shared early aspirations that mirrored the Beat Generation. They sought to achieve the fame of Dylan Thomas, who proved a bohemian poet could thrive outside the academy, and to live his life of unconditional social irresponsibility. While Dylan’s and Cohen’s fame fluctuated over the decades, it was sustained by self-consciously adopted personas used to distance themselves from their public selves. This separation of self requires an exploration of the artists’ relation to religion as an avenue to find and preserve inner identity. The relationship between their lyrics and poetry is explored in the context of Federico García Lorca’s concept of the poetry of inspiration and the emotional depths of ‘duende.’ Such ideas draw upon the dislocation of the mind and the liberation of the senses that so struck Dylan and Cohen when they first read the poetry and letters of Arthur Rimbaud and Lorca. The authors show that performance and the poetry are integral, and the ‘duende,’ or passion, of the delivery, is inseparable from the lyric or poetry, and common to Dylan, Cohen and the Beat Generation.
Monsieur Ming a tu Bob Morane d'une balle en plein coeur... du moins en principe. J'imaginai donc que Bill Ballantine partait pour la Birmanie afin de traquer l'Ombre Jaune dans son repaire et venger son ami... La saga de l'Ombre Jaune ne faisait que commencer Henri Vernes au sujet de 'Le Ch timent de l'Ombre Jaune' Dans ce deuxi me recueil sign Henri Vernes: Le Ch timent de l'Ombre Jaune (38) Le Retour de l'Ombre Jaune (43) Les Sosies de l'Ombre Jaune (50) Le commandant Morane est mort, tu par l'Ombre Jaune elle-m me. Tout sa douleur, Bill Ballantine n'a plus qu'une pens e: venger son ami et, en m me temps, emp cher le sinistre Monsieur Ming de commettre de nouveaux forfaits. Et Bill, nanti de maigres indices, partira la recherche du repaire de Ming, situ en Haute Birmanie. A travers un pays farouche, contr l par les pillards et les bandes rebelles, le courageux Ecossais sera m l bien des intrigues, bien des myst res. Il devra affronter les daco ts, le redoutable serpent hamadryade, les sectes fanatiques hantant les monts Naga. A la recherche de l' nigmatique pays de Mi-Sing-Ling, il risquera de p rir plusieurs reprises. Mais un alli myst rieux se dressera chaque fois pour l'arracher ses ennemis, lui permettre enfin de ch tier l'odieuse Ombre Jaune. Un alli qui lui-m me r servera quelques surprises Bill Ballantine... Pourtant, l'Ombre Jaune tait bien morte ... Mais oui... Alors ? Alors, Henri Vernes a r ussi la faire revivre de fa on tellement inattendue que les plus imaginatifs de ses lecteurs en resteront pantois. Mais ne comptez pas sur nous pour vous d voiler ici ce secret. Ouvrez le livre et retrouvez, en plus du valeureux commandant Morane et de ses amis bien s r, le terrible Monsieur Ming et ses cr atures d moniaques. Aussi, sa charmante ni ce, Tania Orloff. L'Ombre Jaune nous r serve encore bien des surprises. Apr s avoir r ussi se faire revivre elle-m me, gr ce la grande science qu'elle poss de, elle se trouve en face d'un tonnant probl me. Car elle aura l'impression soudain de se regarder dans plusieurs glaces. Et Bob Morane aura bien du mal, tout comme le lecteur, ne pas perdre son latin devant cette brusque multiplication de Monsieur Ming, tous aussi redoutables les uns que les autres. Du myst re, de l'aventure. De l'Ombre Jaune l' tat pur. Qu'un homme soit assailli par son fr re jumeau alors qu'il ne poss de pas de fr re jumeau, ni m me de fr re du tout, cela pourrait para tre trange. Mais quand on sait que le terrible Monsieur Ming, mieux connu sous le surnom d'Ombre Jaune, tire les ficelles, cela ne manque pas de devenir inqui tant. Londres avec ses brouillards, ses quartiers sinistres, ses docks mal fam s, sera le th tre de cette nouvelle aventure de Bob Morane qui, toujours au service de l'humanit , n'h sitera pas se lancer au-devant des plus grands p rils pour tenter de vaincre d finitivement Monsieur Ming. Il sait s'assurer le concours d'alli s redoutables. Quels seront-ils cette fois ? Bob Morane a certes lutt d j contre beaucoup d'adversaires, mais jamais contre lui-m me. Bien des surprises vous attendent sur les berges de la River... quand l'Ombre Jaune m ne la danse. Rejoignez Les Editions Anank sur FACEBOOK ou Twitter (@EditionsAnanke) et soyez avertis des prochaines parutions, participez au choix des illustrations, d couvrez les anecdotes de l'auteur au sujet de sa cr ation... www.anankedigital.com
Errant travers l'univers d'Anank , Bob Morane pouvait s'attendre tout, et au pire... Mais il y rencontra des anges Pourtant, tout est r ellement possible dans ce "monde pourri". D'autant plus que les anges d'Anank n'ont rien avoir avec ceux du Paradis. On s'en serait bien un peu dout Rejoignez Les Editions Anank sur FACEBOOK ou Twitter (@EditionsAnanke) et soyez avertis des prochaines parutions, participez au choix des illustrations, d couvrez les anecdotes de l'auteur au sujet de sa cr ation... www.anankedigital.com
Qu'est-ce que les Murailles d'Anank ? C'est tout et c'est rien. O sont les Murailles d'Anank ? Partout et nulle part. Anank , c'est peut- tre la Fatalit . Une fatalit laquelle Bob Morane et Bill Ballantine sont livr s pieds et poings li s. Enfin, presque... On sait que, lorsqu'on parle de Bob Morane, l'expression pieds et poings li s, a ne veut pas dire grand-chose. Rejoignez Les Editions Anank sur FACEBOOK ou Twitter (@EditionsAnanke) et soyez avertis des prochaines parutions, participez au choix des illustrations, d couvrez les anecdotes de l'auteur au sujet de sa cr ation... www.anankedigital.com
The Wasters are all that remain at the end...except for Bob. At least that's what he thinks. After an extinction event wipes out much of the human race and leaves the rest mindless and crazy, Bob lives his life the best he can, surviving alone, until...he meets a girl. Bob's life is thrown into disarray when the girl he thinks he loves is taken away by the security forces loyal to her tyrant father. Desperate to find her, he begins a quest that takes him from his comfortable home in Forest Heights to the absurd and terrible end of civilization in Memphis. All of our obsessions and terrors of the present day are woven together into this weird epic that's equal parts action-adventure, slapstick farce, and love story, simultaneously impossible to believe and oddly plausible, and will pop up in your head when you least expect it.
Today is Bob Bumblebees first time to go to the flower garden close to where he lives. He wants to show off his flower dance and bring home nectar from the flowers. However, Bob is afraid of the enormous butterflies that swarm over the purple butterfly bush in the middle of the garden near the daylily bed. He wants to bring home some of the special nectar from the butterfly bush, but can he overcome his fear of butterflies in order to do so?Join Bob on his adventure in the flower garden and learn how he overcame his fear, and who helped him.
