Advertisement
| dead kennedys i fought the law: Dead Kennedys' Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables Michael Stewart Foley, 2015-05-21 In 1978, San Francisco, a city that has seen more than its share of trauma, plunged from a summer of political tension into an autumn cascade of malevolence that so eluded human comprehension it seemed almost demonic. The battles over property taxes and a ballot initiative calling for a ban on homosexuals teaching in public schools gave way to the madness of the Jonestown massacre and the murders of Mayor George Moscone and city supervisor Harvey Milk at the hands of their former colleague, Dan White. In the year that followed this season of insanity, it made sense that a band called Dead Kennedys played Mabuhay Gardens in North Beach, referring to Governor Jerry Brown as a zen fascist, calling for landlords to be lynched and yuppie gentrifiers to be sent to Cambodia to work for a bowl of rice a day, critiquing government welfare and defense policies, and, at a time when each week seemed to bring news of a new serial killer or child abduction, commenting on dead and dying children. But it made sense only (or primarily) to those who were there, to those who experienced the heyday of the Mab. Most histories of the 1970s and 1980s ignore youth politics and subcultures. Drawing on Bay Area zines as well as new interviews with the band and many key figures from the early San Francisco punk scene, Michael Stewart Foley corrects that failing by treating Dead Kennedys' first record, Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables, as a critical historical document, one that not only qualified as political expression but, whether experienced on vinyl or from the stage of the Mab, stimulated emotions and ideals that were, if you can believe it, utopian. |
| dead kennedys i fought the law: A Philosophy of Cover Songs P.D. Magnus, 2022-04-28 Cover songs are a familiar feature of contemporary popular music. Musicians describe their own performances as covers, and audiences use the category to organize their listening and appreciation. However, until now philosophers have not had much to say about them. In A Philosophy of Cover Songs, P.D. Magnus demonstrates that philosophy provides a valuable toolbox for thinking about covers; in turn, the philosophy of cover songs illustrates some general points about philosophical method. Lucidly written, the book is divided into three parts: how to think about covers, appreciating covers, and the metaphysics of covers and songs. Along the way, it explores a range of issues raised by covers, from the question of what precisely constitutes a cover, to the history and taxonomy of the category, the various relationships that hold between songs, performances, and tracks, and the appreciation and evaluation of covers. This unique and engaging book will be of interest to those working in philosophy of art, philosophy of music, popular music studies, music history, and musicology, as well as to readers with a general interest in popular music, covers, and how we think about them. |
| dead kennedys i fought the law: Lessons from the Identity Trail Ian Kerr, Carole Lucock, Valerie Steeves, 2009-03-18 During the past decade, rapid developments in information and communications technology have transformed key social, commercial and political realities. Within that same time period, working at something less than internet speed, much of the academic and policy debates arising from these new and emerging technologies have been fragmented. There have been few examples of interdisciplinary dialogue about the potential for anonymity and privacy in a networked society. Lessons from the Identity Trail fills that gap, and examines key questions about anonymity, privacy and identity in an environment that increasingly automates the collection of personal information and uses surveillance to reduce corporate and security risks. This project has been informed by the results of a multi-million dollar research project that has brought together a distinguished array of philosophers, ethicists, feminists, cognitive scientists, lawyers, cryptographers, engineers, policy analysts, government policy makers and privacy experts. Working collaboratively over a four-year period and participating in an iterative process designed to maximize the potential for interdisciplinary discussion and feedback through a series of workshops and peer review, the authors have integrated crucial public policy themes with the most recent research outcomes. |
| dead kennedys i fought the law: Punk Leadership: Leading schools differently Keziah Featherstone, 2024-08-30 School leadership is becoming awfully compliant; flat-pack headteachers and homogenised leadership teams. When did all this conformity ever bring about any lasting change? Drawing parallels between the fiercely independent punk spirit and the demands of modern school leadership, Punk Leadership offers a fresh perspective on how to navigate the complexities of the education system while staying true to your values and vision. This is not an anarchic book – it systematically looks at all aspects of school leadership, from curriculum development to managing staff, from inclusion to accountability, and finds the punk in them. Jam-packed with useful guidance to help you find your way through the complexities of senior leadership in schools, Punk Leadership is about finding your own solutions and empowering you to do what you know is right. Keziah Featherstone is a secondary headteacher in the West Midlands. She is a co-founder and strategic leader for WomenEd and a member of the Headteachers’ Roundtable. |
| dead kennedys i fought the law: I Shot a Man in Reno Graeme Thomson, 2008-08-15 Uses interviews with such notables as Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger, Ice T, and Richard Thompson to explore the celebration of death and destruction through popular music and includes a list of the forty greatest death records of all time. |
| dead kennedys i fought the law: The Resurrection of Johnny Cash Graeme Thomson, 2011-04 Details the late artist's life from 1986 to 1995, from being dropped from his record label following years of addiction, health ailments, and lackluster music sales to a revival of his career with the album, American Recordings. |
| dead kennedys i fought the law: The Rock Cover Song Doyle Greene, 2014-03-24 Cover songs operate as a form of cultural discourse across various musical genres and different societal, historical and political conditions. Case studies include a comparative analysis of Jimi Hendrix's and Whitney Houston's versions of The Star-Spangled Banner as well as a mapping of the trajectory of (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction from the original version by the Rolling Stones through cover versions by Otis Redding, Devo, and Britney Spears. The radical deconstruction of pop and rock songs by the Residents and Laibach is also examined, with additional studies of cover songs by such as Van Halen, Kim Wilde, Rufus Harley, the Four Tops, Pat Boone and Johnny Cash. Rather than questions of quality or how a cover song measures up as better or worse than other versions, this book focuses on the ideological implications and social stakes of the same old songs as they are reconfigured to consider, comment on and confront political issues of gender, sexuality, race, the nation-state and the generation gap. |
| dead kennedys i fought the law: Nashville Songwriter Jake Brown, 2014-09-09 You've heard them on the radio, listened to them on repeat for days, and sang along at the top of your lungs—but have you ever wondered about the real stories behind all your favorite country songs? Nashville Songwriter gives readers the first completely authorized collection of the true stories that inspired hits by the biggest multi-platinum country superstars of the last half century—recounted by the songwriters themselves. Award-winning music biographer Jake Brown gives readers an unprecedented, intimate glimpse inside the world of country music songwriting. Featuring exclusive commentary from country superstars and chapter-length interviews with today's biggest hit-writers on Music Row, this book chronicles the stories behind smash hits such as: Willie Nelson's Always on My Mind Tim McGraw's Live Like You Were Dying, Southern Voice, and Real Good Man George Jones's Tennessee Whiskey Carrie Underwood's Jesus Take the Wheel and Cowboy Casanova Brooks & Dunn's Ain't Nothing 'Bout You Lady Antebellum's We Owned the Night and Just a Kiss Brad Paisley's Mud on the Tires, We Danced, and I'm Still a Guy Luke Bryan's Play It Again, Crash My Party, and That's My Kind of Night The Oak Ridge Boys's American Made George Strait's Ocean Front Property and The Best Day, Rascal Flatts's Fast Cars and Freedom, and Take Me There Kenny Chesney's Living in Fast Forward and When the Sun Goes Down Ricochet's Daddy's Money Montgomery Gentry's If You Ever Stop Loving Me The Crickets's I Fought the Law Tom T. Hall's A Week in a County Jail and That Song Is Driving Me Crazy Trace Adkins's You're Gonna Miss This David Lee Murphy's Dust on the Bottle Jason Aldean's Big Green Tractor and Fly Over States And many more top country hits over the past 40 years! |
| dead kennedys i fought the law: No Common Sense: Lucy Furr, 2024-02-27 You are cordially invited to participate in my absurd but heartfelt attempt to help save this nation from corruption, stupidity, and evil beings of one sort or another. No Common Sense is a genre-bending political satire-based update of Founding Father Thomas Paine’s original Common Sense. An argument and a declaration for independence and freedom from a totalitarian king. Using my fake but funny original concept, a reality fairytale about Donald Trump and the big bad government, I try to enlighten and humor my readers about the need to stand up to a terminally corrupt and authoritarian federal government. Our unique freedoms and rights as American citizens are in danger. Like the classic Common Sense, No Common Sense is concise, around 34,000 words, and aspires to motivate Americans as the original did in 1776. A couple hundred million people either love or love to hate Donald Trump, and would be interested in this book. Whether you love or hate him, he is currently being piled on by our out-of-control federal government. He has been persecuted, harassed, and setup for the past eight years. If an ex-president of the United States and current front-runner for a second term can be targeted for prosecution, then who is safe? He has been spied on, fraudulently setup numerous times, had his property raided, family and associates, including his attorneys, harassed, and threatened. Trump is now uniquely charged with crimes no one else has ever been charged with. He is eligible for well over 700 years in prison, if convicted. Imagine what the government could do to any one of us. |
| dead kennedys i fought the law: Journal of Animal Law , 2005 |
| dead kennedys i fought the law: Phoenix Road Jon Kelly, 2014-09-22 TRAVEL WITH JON KELLY ON HIS ROAD TO REDEMPTION through the Postmodern Era into the nonconformity of the punk-rock eighties, rebellion, and occult worship in suburban Midwest America. Experience his transformation by Jesus Christ on Halloween of 1997, followed by a great consuming fire. Phoenix Road is a climactic personal narrative and theological discourse including over 400 footnotes and a detailed index of subject matter for quick reference on the road. |
| dead kennedys i fought the law: They Fought the Law Stan Soocher, 1999 This account of the most famous lawsuits in rock history ... traces the difficulties rockers have faced dealing with bad contracts, personnel problems, litigious fans, and crooked managers and accountants.--Jacket. |
| dead kennedys i fought the law: Gimme Something Better Jack Boulware, Silke Tudor, 2009-09-29 [An] endlessly fascinating and frankly addictive masterpiece of safety-pin journalism. -- Austin Chronicle An oral history of the modern punk-revival's West Coast Birthplace Outside of New York and London, California?s Bay Area claims the oldest continuous punk-rock scene in the world. Gimme Something Better brings this outrageous and influential punk scene to life, from the notorious final performance of the Sex Pistols, to Jello Biafra?s bid for mayor, the rise of Maximum RocknRoll magazine, and the East Bay pop-punk sound that sold millions around the globe. Throngs of punks, including members of the Dead Kennedys, Avengers, Flipper, MDC, Green Day, Rancid, NOFX, and AFI, tell their own stories in this definitive account, from the innovative art-damage of San Francisco?s Fab Mab in North Beach, to the still vibrant all-ages DIY ethos of Berkeley?s Gilman Street. Compiled by longtime Bay Area journalists Jack Boulware and Silke Tudor, Gimme Something Better chronicles more than two decades of punk music, progressive politics, social consciousness, and divine decadence, told by the people who made it happen. |
| dead kennedys i fought the law: Fire in the Water, Earth in the Air Christopher J. Oglesby, 2013-06-11 From Buddy Holly and the Crickets to the Flatlanders, Terry Allen, and Natalie Maines, Lubbock, Texas, has produced songwriters, musicians, and artists as prolifically as cotton, conservatives, and windstorms. While nobody questions where the conservatives come from in a city that a recent nonpartisan study ranked as America's second most conservative, many people wonder why Lubbock is such fertile ground for creative spirits who want to expand the boundaries of thought in music and art. Is it just that there's nothing else to do, as some have suggested, or is there something in the character of Lubbock that encourages creativity as much as conservatism? In this book, Christopher Oglesby interviews twenty-five musicians and artists with ties to Lubbock to discover what it is about this community and West Texas in general that feeds the creative spirit. Their answers are revealing. Some speak of the need to rebel against conventional attitudes that threaten to limit their horizons. Others, such as Joe Ely, praise the freedom of mind they find on the wide open plains. There is this empty desolation that I could fill if I picked up a pen and wrote, or picked up a guitar and played, he says. Still others express skepticism about how much Lubbock as a place contributes to the success of its musicians. Jimmie Dale Gilmore says, I think there is a large measure of this Lubbock phenomenon that is just luck, and that is the part that you cannot explain. As a whole, the interviews create a portrait not only of Lubbock's musicians and artists, but also of the musical community that has sustained them, including venues such as the legendary Cotton Club and the original Stubb's Barbecue. This kaleidoscopic portrait of the West Texas music scene gets to the heart of what it takes to create art in an isolated, often inhospitable environment. As Oglesby says, Necessity is the mother of creation. Lubbock needed beauty, poetry, humor, and it needed to get up and shake its communal ass a bit or go mad from loneliness and boredom; so Lubbock created the amazing likes of Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Butch Hancock, Terry Allen, and Joe Ely. |
| dead kennedys i fought the law: The American Book of the Dead Oliver Trager, 1997-12-04 Contains over 750 alphabetically-arranged entries that provide information about the rock group Grateful Dead, featuring profiles of band members and associated musicians, filmmakers, photographers, composers, and others, and descriptions of the band's albums and solo releases. |
| dead kennedys i fought the law: Punk Record Labels and the Struggle for Autonomy Alan O'Connor, 2008 This book describes the emergence of DIY punk record labels in the early 1980s. Based on interviews with sixty-one labels, including four in Spain and four in Canada, it describes the social background of those who run these labels. Using the ideas of French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, this book shows how the field of record labels operates. The choice of independent or corporate distribution is a major dilemma. Other tensions are about signing bands to contracts, expectations of extensive touring, and use of professional promotion. There are often rivalries between big and small labels over bands that have become popular and have to decide whether to move to a more commercial record label. Unlike approaches to punk that consider it a subcultural style, this book breaks new ground by describing punk as a social activity. One of the surprising findings is how many parents actually support their children's participation in the scene. Rather than attempting to define punk as resistance or commercial culture, this book shows the dilemmas that actual punks struggle with as they attempt to live up to what the scene means for them. Book jacket. |
| dead kennedys i fought the law: CMJ New Music Report , 2003-02-03 CMJ New Music Report is the primary source for exclusive charts of non-commercial and college radio airplay and independent and trend-forward retail sales. CMJ's trade publication, compiles playlists for college and non-commercial stations; often a prelude to larger success. |
| dead kennedys i fought the law: Pocket DJ Sarah Lewitinn, 2012-12-11 Written by Spin writer and professional DJ Sarah Lewitinn (aka Ultragrrl), THE POCKET DJ provides a comprehensive list of must-have songs and teaches readers how to create playlists for any situation or based on any theme. Playlists include absolute crowd pleasers (no matter what the crowd), songs to make you feel like you're in school (except cool now), songs to clean the house by, songs not-by-Prince-but-sound-like-it, the best mash-ups on the Web, best covers, best bootlegs, and so on. Lewitinn describes the finer points of DJing (even if you're the only one listening) and offers tips on everything from downloading to keeping your music organized. She also offers a peek at what music industry insiders, writers, performers and celebrities have on their iPods. This professionally guided tour of the digital music landscape is the perfect gift for anyone who owns an iPod or is thinking about getting one. Or anyone who simply likes good music. |
| dead kennedys i fought the law: The Clash Takes on the World Samuel Cohen, James Peacock, 2017-06-01 On their debut, The Clash famously claimed to be “bored with the USA,” but The Clash wasn't a parochial record. Mick Jones' licks on songs such as “Hate and War” were heavily influenced by classic American rock and roll, and the cover of Junior Murvin's reggae hit “Police and Thieves” showed that the band's musical influences were already wide-ranging. Later albums such as Sandinista! and Combat Rock saw them experimenting with a huge range of musical genres, lyrical themes and visual aesthetics. The Clash Takes on the World explores the transnational aspects of The Clash's music, lyrics and politics, and it does so from a truly transnational perspective. It brings together literary scholars, historians, media theorists, musicologists, social activists and geographers from Europe and the US, and applies a range of critical approaches to The Clash's work in order to tackle a number of key questions: How should we interpret their negotiations with reggae music and culture? How did The Clash respond to the specific socio-political issues of their time, such as the economic recession, the Reagan-Thatcher era and burgeoning neoliberalism, and international conflicts in Nicaragua and the Falkland Islands? How did they reconcile their anti-capitalist stance with their own success and status as a global commodity? And how did their avowedly inclusive, multicultural stance, reflected in their musical diversity, square with the experience of watching the band in performance? The Clash Takes on the World is essential reading for scholars, students and general readers interested in a band whose popularity endures. |
| dead kennedys i fought the law: Taboo Tunes Peter Blecha, 2004 In this extensively researched ode to scandal, historian and musician Blecha recounts the travails of the musicians and songs that have dared to push the hot-button topics that polite society has deemed unacceptable. |
| dead kennedys i fought the law: Damaged Evan Rapport, 2020-11-24 Damaged: Musicality and Race in Early American Punk is the first book-length portrait of punk as a musical style with an emphasis on how punk developed in relation to changing ideas of race in American society from the late 1960s to the early 1980s. Drawing on musical analysis, archival research, and new interviews, Damaged provides fresh interpretations of race and American society during this period and illuminates the contemporary importance of that era. Evan Rapport outlines the ways in which punk developed out of dramatic changes to America’s cities and suburbs in the postwar era, especially with respect to race. The musical styles that led to punk included transformations to blues resources, experimental visions of the American musical past, and bold reworkings of the rock-and-roll and rhythm-and-blues sounds of the late 1950s and early 1960s, revealing a historically oriented approach to rock that is strikingly different from the common myths and conceptions about punk. Following these approaches, punk itself reflected new versions of older exchanges between the US and the UK, the changing environments of American suburbs and cities, and a shift from the expressions of older baby boomers to that of younger musicians belonging to Generation X. Throughout the book, Rapport also explores the discourses and contradictory narratives of punk history, which are often in direct conflict with the world that is captured in historical documents and revealed through musical analysis. |
| dead kennedys i fought the law: Rock N Roll Gold Rush Maury Dean, 2003 An appreciation of Rock-n-Roll, song by song, from its roots and its inspriations to its divergent recent trends. A work of rough genius; DeanOCOs attempt to make connections though time and across genres is laudable. |
| dead kennedys i fought the law: Dead Kennedys: Fresh fruit for rotting vegetables Alex Ogg, 2018-12-21 A batida tribal, o baixo ameaçador, a guitarra fantasmagórica e finalmente a voz sarcástica que anuncia I am Governor Jerry Brown. Era um verdadeiro chamado para a batalha: um botão de alerta que, quando acionado, invertia os papéis da sociedade. Garotos populares para trás, desajustados para frente! Doce – e barulhenta – vingança dos rejeitados, tímidos, feios, nerds, punks, skatistas, enfim, de todos aqueles considerados diferentes. Esse épico começo de California Über Alles, reconhecível a quilômetros de distância, foi incorporado não apenas ao imaginário daquela geração que cresceu pulando com esse som: como um vírus, penetrou no sangue de todo e qualquer punk que nasceu nos anos seguintes. Corrigindo: décadas seguintes. Lá se vão 34 anos desde o lançamento de Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables, o primeiro e clássico álbum do Dead Kennedys. A edição nacional, em vinil branco, saiu pela gravadora Continental com seis anos de atraso e tornou-se um item sagrado para a juventude brasileira. Era tocado em festas, emprestado (com certo temor) para amigos, gravado em fitas K7, disputado a tapa em lojas quando o pôster estava intacto! Três décadas depois e quase nada mudou: as faixas do Fresh Fruit ainda animam muitas festas, ninguém gosta muito de emprestar esse disco, ele ainda marca presença em playlists ou mixtapes, e o LP com o pôster continua valendo o dobro do preço nas feirinhas de vinil. A influência do Dead Kennedys é atestada pela longevidade. Fresh Fruit permanece atual. Assim, o recorte histórico do escritor Alex Ogg é muito bem-vindo. Com a contextualização dos primeiros anos da banda e o acompanhamento minucioso do processo de composição e gravação do debut, o autor britânico consegue estabelecer um pouco de consenso numa história que é marcada por brigas, disputas judiciais e egos inflamados/feridos. É tarefa árdua (quase impossível) lançar algo que agrade todas as partes envolvidas nesse caso. E Alex Ogg conseguiu – com paciência e muito jogo de cintura, mas conseguiu (inclusive ele enumerou no apêndice o número de aspas atribuídas à cada um dos integrantes, para provar que todos tiveram a chance de defender a sua versão). Tretas à parte, a obra vai agradar os fãs, não apenas pelos depoimentos e fatos levantados, mas também pela riqueza gráfica: o livro é todo ilustrado com as artes de Winston Smith, o homem responsável pelo emblemático logo do DK e um dos grandes nomes na técnica da colagem punk, e com as fotografias de Ruby Ray, que estava agachado na beira do palco do Mabuhay Gardens, no fim dos anos 70/começo dos 80, registrando a efervescente cena punk que nascia em San Francisco. Mergulhe nas páginas desse livro e entenda com mais clareza o papel-chave do DK na transformação da retórica punk em algo genuinamente ameaçador – e incrivelmente divertido. Por Marcelo Viegas, editor brasileiro do livro e, orgulhosamente, um dos desajustados que pulava feito doido toda vez que ouvia California Über Alles numa festa nos anos 80. |
| dead kennedys i fought the law: My Life in a Jugular Vein Ben Snakepit, 2007 Ben, the hero and author, drinks, smokes, works, tours, and parties his way through life. 'Includes audio CD of the author's favorite music. |
| dead kennedys i fought the law: Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World , 2003-01-30 ‘This is an extraordinary achievement and it will become an absolutely vital and trusted resource for everyone working in the field of popular music studies. Even more broadly, anyone interested in popular music or popular music culture more generally will enjoy - and find many uses for - the wealth of information and insight captured in this volume.' Lawrence Grossberg, Morris Davis Professor of Communication Studies and Cultural Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill The first comprehensive reference work on popular music of the world Contributors are the world's leading popular music scholars Includes extensive bibliographies, discographies, sheet music listings and filmographies. Popular music has been a major force in the world since the nineteenth century. With the advent of electronic and advanced technology it has become ubiquitous. This is the first volume in a series of encyclopedic works covering popular music of the world. Consisting of some 500 entries by 130 contributors from around the world. Entries range between 250 and 5000 words, and is arranged in two Parts: Part 1: Social and Cultural Dimensions, covering the social phenomena of relevance to the practice of popular music. Part II: The Industry, covers all aspects of the popular music industry, such as copyright, instrumental manufacture, management and marketing, record corporations, studios, companies, and labels. Entries include bibliographies, discographies and filmographies, and an extensive index is provided. For more information visit the website at: www.continuumpopmusic.com |
| dead kennedys i fought the law: Die Auferstehung des Johnny Cash: Seine späten Jahre und die American Recordings Graeme Thomson, 2012-07-23 Die Auferstehung des Johnny Cash von Graeme Thomson schildert die Geschichte eines der beeindruckendsten Comebacks der Musikgeschichte. Anfang der 1990er Jahre war Johnny Cash ein arg mitgenommener und vom Leben gezeichneter Mann. Von ständigem Schmerz gebeutelt, mit Herzproblemen, gebrochenen Knochen und den Nachwirkungen eines weiteren Schubs von Drogenabhängigkeit geplagt, musste er mit ansehen wie sich seine einst schillernde Karriere mehr und mehr in Bedeutungslosigkeit auflöste. Bis etwas Außergewöhnliches geschah: Eine neue, junge Generation von Musikern und Fans, allen voran der der legendäre Hip Hop- und Metal-Produzent Rick Rubin, entdeckten Johnny Cash wieder neu und beförderten ihn wieder zurück auf den ihm gebührenden Ehrenplatz als Legende der amerikanischen Musik. Dieses wunderschön aufgearbeitete, aufschlussreiche Buch liefert bisher unbekannte, neue Interviews mit der Familie, Freunden und Mitwirkenden, darunter Rosanne Cash, Adam Clayton von U2, Will Oldham oder Nick Lowe. Indem es sechs Dekaden umspannt, zeichnet es Cashs Abkommen vom Weg, sein Hadern mit Krankheiten und Drogen sowie seine erstaunliche Rückkehr zu alter Bestform, zu Erfolg und zu begeisterten Kritiken in den letzten Jahren seines Lebens nach. |
| dead kennedys i fought the law: Delitti rock Ezio Guaitamacchi, 2012-07-18T00:00:00+02:00 Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison: quattro grandi star della “musica che ha cambiato il mondo” muoiono (in circostanze misteriose) nel giro di soli due anni. Tutti avevano una J nel nome. Tutti avevano 27 anni. Quella del “Club J27” purtroppo, non un’anomalia nella storia del rock. Prima e dopo Brian, Jimi, Janis e Jim, altre stelle luminose del firmamento musicale vedono le loro giovani vite stroncate da incidenti improvvisi, overdose vigliacche, atti violenti, veri e propri omicidi. Sempre, un alone di mistero circonda queste “morti celebri”. Da Elvis Presley a Kurt Cobain, da Marvin Gaye a Jeff Buckley, sono decine i casi irrisolti (a volte, ancora aperti) di una catena inquietante di delitti rock. Un libro accurato e puntuale racconta i casi più scottanti, le storie più scabrose, gli avvenimenti più scioccanti cercando di far luce sui misteri che aleggiano attorno ai nomi di alcuni dei più grandi miti del Novecento. La scena del crimine viene analizzata nel dettaglio così come minuziosamente sono approfonditi tutti gli accadimenti che accompagnano la tragica fine di ciascun personaggio. Il racconto trasporta l’ascoltatore in una zona “ai confini della realtà” nella quale si possono assaporare le varie storie quasi le si stesse rivivendo “in diretta”. Il tutto, ovviamente, “accompagnato” dalla miglior colonna sonora possibile: le musiche di artisti che hanno segnato la vita di più generazioni e che continuano a farlo. |
| dead kennedys i fought the law: The Snakepit Quarterly Ben Snakepit, 2004 |
| dead kennedys i fought the law: Les stars mortes trop vite Laurent Poret, « Ne jamais abandonner, ne jamais ralentir, ne jamais vieillir et ne jamais mourir jeune. » James Taylor. Les célébrités mortes sont un cliché aussi vieux que la mort et la célébrité elle-même. Parfois, les pressions de la gloire nous font courir des risques d’une manière que nous pouvons sentir venir. D’autres fois, la mort frappe de façon aussi aléatoire et soudaine que pour les gens « normaux ». Dans de tels cas, la presse et les gens n’arrivent tout simplement pas à se débarrasser de cette culture de la mort célèbre et cela double si la star en question nous quitte jeune. Des chansons inspirantes, des hommages et des marchandises qui chevauchent les lignes du goût, la mort d’une jeune célébrité est une grande affaire. En plus de renverser leurs portefeuilles, un décès prématuré peut laisser libre cours à l’imagination des fans et bientôt tout le monde aura des théories de conspiration sur ce qui s’est réellement passé. |
| dead kennedys i fought the law: Punk Rich Weidman, 2023-01-15 Punk: The Definitive Guide to the Blank Generation and Beyond |
| dead kennedys i fought the law: CMJ New Music Report , 2003-03-31 CMJ New Music Report is the primary source for exclusive charts of non-commercial and college radio airplay and independent and trend-forward retail sales. CMJ's trade publication, compiles playlists for college and non-commercial stations; often a prelude to larger success. |
| dead kennedys i fought the law: Nativo americano Marina Petrillo, 2010-09-15T06:00:00+02:00 Se è vero che la sua storia è stata raccontata tante volte, mi accingo a ripercorrerla con una mappa diversa, leggendo il rovescio della tela, decifrando il teatro dell’immaginazione dal quale è scaturita la sua ‘voce folk’. Sarà uno spazio abitato dai suoni che Springsteen ha colto premendo l’orecchio al terreno: gli scricchiolii della casa vuota di Nebraska, le foglie che stormiscono nelle foreste americane, le voci dei lavoratori e di coloro che li hanno cantati.Autore inquieto e osservatore attento dei meccanismi del successo, Bruce Springsteen ha influenzato generazioni di giovani, venduto milioni di dischi e respinto definizioni ed etichette. Accanto alla fama di irresistibile maestro di cerimonie del rock, ha maturato una sempre più consapevole identità acustica e si è fatto custode di un’antica tradizione popolare. I suoi personaggi sono operai, disoccupati, migranti, assassini, reduci di guerra, ex galeotti: tutti idealmente figli di Tom Joad, il protagonista di Furore di John Steinbeck. Marina Petrillo si lascia guidare dalla “voce folk”, quella con cui Springsteen sa rievocare i personaggi di Steinbeck, i paesaggi di Faulkner, le ballate di Woody Guthrie fino al blues, al gospel e allo spiritual. Dai boschi stregati di Nebraska al tour solitario di The ghost of Tom Joad, da Devils & Dust alle esperienze con la Seeger Sessions Band e la campagna elettorale di Barack Obama, la voce folk è quella in cui si materializza la voce del vero narratore. Da lì, e soprattutto da lì, dice Petrillo, affiora la voce del mistero e della passione civile. Rigoroso nella ricostruzione di uno Springsteen quasi inedito, Nativo americano è un libro avvincente come una ballata. |
| dead kennedys i fought the law: Queercore Curran Nault, 2017-08-07 Queercore is a queer and punk transmedia movement that was instigated in 1980s Toronto via the pages of the underground fanzine (zine) J.D.s. Authored by G.B. Jones and Bruce LaBruce, J.D.s. declared civil war on the punk and gay and lesbian mainstreams, consolidating a subculture of likeminded filmmakers, zinesters, musicans and performers situated in pointed opposition to the homophobia of mainline punk and the lifeless sexual politics and exclusionary tendencies of dominant gay and lesbian society. More than thirty years later, queercore and its troublemaking productions remain under the radar, but still culturally and politically resonant. This book brings renewed attention to queercore, exploring the homology between queer theory/practice and punk theory/practice at the heart of queercore mediamaking. Through analysis of key queercore texts, this book also elucidates the tropes central to queercore’s subcultural distinction: unashamed sexual representation, confrontational politics and shocking embodiments, including those related to size, ability and gender variance. An exploration of a specific transmedia subculture grounded in archival research, ethnographic interviews, theoretical argumentation and close analysis, ultimately, Queercore proffers a provocative, and tangible, new answer to the long-debated question, What does it mean to be queer? |
| dead kennedys i fought the law: Interdisciplinary Literary Studies , 2007 |
| dead kennedys i fought the law: Listen to Punk Rock! June Michele Pulliam, 2021-04-19 Listen to Punk Rock! Exploring a Musical Genre discusses the evolution of punk from its inception in 1975 to the present, delving into the lasting impact of the genre throughout society today. Listen to Punk Rock! provides readers with a fuller picture of punk rock as an inclusive genre with continuing relevance. Organized in a roughly chronological manner, it starts with an introduction that explains the musical and cultural forces that shaped the punk genre. Next, 50 entries cover important punk bands and subgenres, noting female punk bands as well as bands of color. The final part of the book discusses how punk has influenced other musical genres and popular culture. The book will give those new to the genre an overview of important bands and products related to the movement in music, including publications, fashion, and films about punk rock. Notably, it pays special attention to diversity within the genre, discussing bands often overlooked or mentioned only in passing in most histories of the movement, which focus mainly on The Sex Pistols, The Clash, and The Ramones as the pioneers of punk. |
| dead kennedys i fought the law: The Radio Right Paul Matzko, 2020 In this book, Paul Matzko tells the story of the emergence of ultra-conservative radio in the 1960s, and reveals the Kennedy administration's involvement in a censorship campaign against conservative broadcasters. The Radio Right provides the essential pre-history for the last four decades of conservative activism, as well as the historical context for current issues of political bias and censorship in the media. |
| dead kennedys i fought the law: Framed Robert F. Kennedy Jr., 2016-07-12 The New York Times bestseller – now in paperback, with a new afterword “A must-read for those who care about justice and integrity in our public institutions.” —Alan M. Dershowitz, Esq. The Definitive Story of One of the Most Infamous Murders of the Twentieth Century and the Heartbreaking Miscarriage of Justice That Followed On Halloween, 1975, fifteen-year-old Martha Moxley’s body was found brutally murdered outside her home in swanky Greenwich, Connecticut. Twenty-seven years after her death, the State of Connecticut spent some $25 million to convict her friend and neighbor, Michael Skakel, of the murder. The trial ignited a media firestorm that transfixed the nation. Now Skakel’s cousin Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., solves the baffling whodunit and clears Michael Skakel’s name. In this revised edition, which includes developments following the Connecticut Supreme Court decision, Kennedy chronicles how Skakel was railroaded amidst a media frenzy and a colorful cast of characters—from a crooked cop and a narcissistic defense attorney to a parade of perjuring witnesses. |
| dead kennedys i fought the law: Camion Blanc Alex Ogg, 2017-06-26 Dead Kennedys réunissait parfaitement les critiques de la presse et les votes des fans le consacrant plus grand groupe punk de sa génération. Leur premier album, Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables, est régulièrement cité parmi les disques essentiels du genre. Fresh Fruit proposait un mélange parfait d'humour et de polémiques attachés à un châssis musical aussi irritant et inventif que les diatribes cinglantes de Biafra. Ces paroles, cruelles dans leur précision, étaient une révélation. Mais ça n'aurait pas marché si la sonorité sous-jacente n'avait pas été d'une telle confusion, atténuant la flamme corrosive de Biafra. Leur inaltérable influence représente une réussite extraordinaire pour un groupe qui ne passait pratiquement pas en radio et ne sortit de disques que chez des labels indépendants. Non seulement existèrent-ils en dehors du courant dominant, mais ils furent également le premier groupe de cette ampleur à s'en prendre à l'industrie du disque et à l'attaquer. DKs fut à l'origine de tant de choses. Ils firent partie intégrante du réseau américain alternatif mettant aux groupes le pied à l'étrier, leur permettant de se produire ailleurs que dans leur petit jardin. Ils jouèrent un rôle en soutenant le concept de concerts intergénérationnels et en rejetant les avances des promoteurs de rock corporatiste et des toutous de l'industrie du disque. Ils légitimèrent la notion de groupe punk américain travaillant avec succès à l'étranger tout en racontant les horreurs de la politique étrangère de leur pays natal - servant de fait, dans leurs tournées, d'anti-ambassadeurs. Cet ouvrage regroupe des dizaines d'interviews à la source, dont certaines avec les cinq membres fondateurs, des photos et des oeuvres originales, proposant un nouveau regard sur une formation au coeur de la controverse dès ses débuts. Le groupe joua un rôle prépondérant dans la rhétorique punk, la transformant, tant sur le plan polémique que musical, en un univers profondément menaçant - et extrêmement drôle. L'auteur se propose de décrire les débuts de Dead Kennedys au sein de la trajectoire locale et globale du punk ; s'appliquant à retranscrire les points de vue différents des membres de DKs sur leur évolution, il se montre un fan passionné - ne rechignant pas à une certaine subjectivité. |
| dead kennedys i fought the law: The Wee Rock Discography Martin Strong, 1996 Based on Martin Strong's The Great Rock Discography, this is a compact version featuring 500 of the most influential figures in the history of popular music. It expands on the format of the previous title, in which full track listings for all albums, b-sides for all singles, labels, UK and US chart positions, band members, recommended listening, style analysis, band histories - from original line-ups to dissolution, solo projects, potted biographies, a pricing guide for rare albums and release dates are given. |
| dead kennedys i fought the law: Pésimas personas Mariño González, 2018-02-14 La variedad asombra. Las historias de un cleptómano, de una caricatura y de una invasión alienígena —sólo por mencionar algunas— huyen del lugar común y presentan una amplitud de intereses temáticos en la serie de relatos que, mediante un estilo irreverente, impío, chusco, desdeñoso, mordaz, descarado, creativo, ácido, filoso, ocurrente, malévolo y cáustico, Mariño González nos entrega. Todas las historias se nos presentan con una narrativa que busca renovarse conforme avanza el cuentario, donde habitan todas las especies del humor, menos las inocentes, y en la que el juego se lleva del cuento-cómic al diario, y del narrador protagonista al punk mascota. El autor alguna vez dijo: El humor es una forma de escapar de esto, de reflexión, de entendernos mejor a nosotros mismos y bajarle a los humos que traemos y al estrés. |
Features - Grateful Dead
Apr 30, 2025 · Be the first to know about the Grateful Dead’s exclusive limited-edition releases, breaking news on the band, community events, and so much more. It’s all happenin’!
Official Site Of The Grateful Dead | Grateful Dead
Be the first to know about the Grateful Dead’s exclusive limited-edition releases, breaking news on the band, community events, and so much more. It’s all happenin’!
The Official Grateful Dead Podcast
Gather round every Thursday as we tell the tales of Grateful Dead days of yore. Hosts Rich Mahan and Jesse Jarnow will take the lead, picking up special guests from the Dead universe …
Archive | Grateful Dead
Official Site Of The Grateful Dead
60 Years On - Grateful Dead
Apr 23, 2018 · The roses symbolize our deep love of the Dead. Inside the 60 I used a diamond like card, inspired from the gambling songs like Loser and Deal. The rays not only pull from …
News - Grateful Dead
Be the first to know about the Grateful Dead’s exclusive limited-edition releases, breaking news on the band, community events, and so much more. It’s all happenin’!
Grateful Dead May 5 - May 11, 2025
May 5, 2025 · Welcome back to the Tapers’ Section, where this week we have Grateful Dead music from 1974, 1984m and 1988. Our first stop this week is in Chicago on 7/25/74 with the …
Grateful Dead Stella Blue
Be the first to know about the Grateful Dead’s exclusive limited-edition releases, breaking news on the band, community events, and so much more. It’s all happenin’!
Grateful Dead May 19 - May 25, 2025
May 19, 2025 · Welcome back to the Tapers’ Section, where this week we have Grateful Dead music from 1969, 1981, and 1989. Our first stop this week is in Piedmont Park in Atlanta on …
Forums - Grateful Dead
Be the first to know about the Grateful Dead’s exclusive limited-edition releases, breaking news on the band, community events, and so much more. It’s all happenin’!
Features - Grateful Dead
Apr 30, 2025 · Be the first to know about the Grateful Dead’s exclusive limited-edition releases, breaking news on the band, community events, and so much more. It’s all happenin’!
Official Site Of The Grateful Dead | Grateful Dead
Be the first to know about the Grateful Dead’s exclusive limited-edition releases, breaking news on the band, community events, and so much more. It’s all happenin’!
The Official Grateful Dead Podcast
Gather round every Thursday as we tell the tales of Grateful Dead days of yore. Hosts Rich Mahan and Jesse Jarnow will take the lead, picking up special guests from the Dead universe …
Archive | Grateful Dead
Official Site Of The Grateful Dead
60 Years On - Grateful Dead
Apr 23, 2018 · The roses symbolize our deep love of the Dead. Inside the 60 I used a diamond like card, inspired from the gambling songs like Loser and Deal. The rays not only pull from …
News - Grateful Dead
Be the first to know about the Grateful Dead’s exclusive limited-edition releases, breaking news on the band, community events, and so much more. It’s all happenin’!
Grateful Dead May 5 - May 11, 2025
May 5, 2025 · Welcome back to the Tapers’ Section, where this week we have Grateful Dead music from 1974, 1984m and 1988. Our first stop this week is in Chicago on 7/25/74 with the …
Grateful Dead Stella Blue
Be the first to know about the Grateful Dead’s exclusive limited-edition releases, breaking news on the band, community events, and so much more. It’s all happenin’!
Grateful Dead May 19 - May 25, 2025
May 19, 2025 · Welcome back to the Tapers’ Section, where this week we have Grateful Dead music from 1969, 1981, and 1989. Our first stop this week is in Piedmont Park in Atlanta on …
Forums - Grateful Dead
Be the first to know about the Grateful Dead’s exclusive limited-edition releases, breaking news on the band, community events, and so much more. It’s all happenin’!
