Space Waltz

Author : Ian Chapman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501389521
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alastair Riddell’s Space Waltz written by Ian Chapman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2023-02-09 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alastair Riddell's band Space Waltz was a short-lived one-album New Zealand rock act who hit gold with a #1 hit single in October 1974 with the song 'Out On The Street' but thereafter failed to achieve anything even close to that feat. While relegated to one-hit-wonder status in the eyes of many, to this day Riddell and Space Waltz epitomize the mid-1970s heyday of glam rock in New Zealand. But in truth their impact went far beyond this. Their generationally divisive nation-wide debut on the hugely popular MOR television talent quest Studio One/New Faces demonstrated the power of mass media exposure – they were instantly signed to a record deal with industry giant EMI – while Riddell's controversial gender-bending image provided a cultural crossroads that greatly impacted the wider youth culture of Aotearoa New Zealand. In addition, while the album's most famous track, 'Out On The Street,' is rightly regarded as New Zealand's glam rock anthem, the wider album demonstrates a compositional and musical depth that goes far beyond glam rock and into the realm of sophisticated progressive rock, ultimately providing an unlikely and highly unique musical amalgam.

Author : Ian Chapman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781501389542
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Space Waltz written by Ian Chapman and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Explores the career and one-album output of Space Waltz, a short-lived New Zealand glam rock band with a #1 hit song that was a vehicle for singer-songwriter Alastair Riddell"--

Author : Ian Chapman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317588185
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Glam and Popular Music written by Ian Chapman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-12 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first to explore style and spectacle in glam popular music performance from the 1970s to the present day, and from an international perspective. Focus is given to a number of representative artists, bands, and movements, as well as national, regional, and cultural contexts from around the globe. Approaching glam music performance and style broadly, and using the glam/glitter rock genre of the early 1970s as a foundation for case studies and comparisons, the volume engages with subjects that help in defining the glam phenomenon in its many manifestations and contexts. Glam rock, in its original, term-defining inception, had its birth in the UK in 1970/71, and featured at its forefront acts such as David Bowie, T. Rex, Slade, and Roxy Music. Termed "glitter rock" in the US, stateside artists included Alice Cooper, Suzi Quatro, The New York Dolls, and Kiss. In a global context, glam is represented in many other cultures, where the influences of early glam rock can be seen clearly. In this book, glam exists at the intersections of glam rock and other styles (e.g., punk, metal, disco, goth). Its performers are characterized by their flamboyant and theatrical appearance (clothes, costumes, makeup, hairstyles), they often challenge gender stereotypes and sexuality (androgyny), and they create spectacle in popular music performance, fandom, and fashion. The essays in this collection comprise theoretically-informed contributions that address the diversity of the world’s popular music via artists, bands, and movements, with special attention given to the ways glam has been influential not only as a music genre, but also in fashion, design, and other visual culture.

Author : Yale H. Ferguson
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791488133
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Political Space written by Yale H. Ferguson and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection brings together an unusually distinguished and diverse group of theorists of global politics, political geography, and international political economy who reflect on the concept of political space. Already familiar to political geographers, the concept of political space has lately received increased attention, arising out of the need for new ways of thinking about and describing the actors, structures, and processes that shape politics and patterns of governance in today's complex, post-Cold War world. The essays explore the frontiers of the field of global politics, and each deals imaginatively with some aspect of political space. Although the participants may be loosely classified as realists, neo-realists, constructivists, and postinternationalists, the essays are not fitted to the usual theoretical pigeonholes. What they do share is a continued faith in empirical research, and a collective sense of discovery.

Author : Thom Kuehls
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452901597
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond Sovereign Territory written by Thom Kuehls and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How should we think about politics in a world where ecological problems - from the deforestation of the Amazon to acid rain - transcend national boundaries? This is the timely and important question addressed by Thom Kuehls in Beyond Sovereign Territory. Contending that the sovereign territorial state is not adequate to contain or describe the boundaries of ecopolitics, the author reorients our thinking about government, nature, and politics. Kuehls argues that changes in technology and the scope of governmental aims have rendered conventional ecological and internationalist aims anachronistic - and ultimately ineffective - in the face of impending environmental collapse. He questions the process by which land is transformed into an object of sovereignty - into "territory" - demonstrating how representations of political space that are premised on territorial sovereignty fail to come to terms with much of what is involved in ecopolitics. Ultimately, Kuehls critiques an orientation that privileges a certain utilitarian relationship between humans and nonhuman nature, one in which the earth is largely interpreted as given to humans. Deeply humanistic and challenging conventional wisdom, Beyond Sovereign Territory will be of interest to readers of environmental politics, geography, international politics, and political theory.

Author : Alfred Guillaume Gabriel Orsay (comte d')
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Etiquette written by Alfred Guillaume Gabriel Orsay (comte d') and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alfred Guillaume Gabriel d' Orsay (Count.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Etiquette, Or, Guide to the Usages of Society. With a Glance at Bad Habits . To which is Added, The True Theory of the Rhenish Or Spanish Waltz and of the German Waltz À Deux Temps, Analysed and Explained for the First Time written by Alfred Guillaume Gabriel d' Orsay (Count.) and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 698 pages
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Download or read book Canadian Aeronautics and Space Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Beth Singler
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351587315
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Indigo Children written by Beth Singler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-18 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Indigo Child concept is a contemporary New Age redefinition of self. Indigo Children are described in their primary literature as a spiritually, psychically, and genetically advanced generation. Born from the early 1980s, the Indigo Children are thought to be here to usher in a new golden age by changing the world’s current social paradigm. However, as they are "paradigm busters", they also claim to find it difficult to fit into contemporary society. Indigo Children recount difficult childhoods and school years, and the concept has also been used by members of the community to reinterpret conditions such as Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD) and autism. Cynics, however, can claim that the Indigo Child concept is an example of "special snowflake" syndrome, and parodies abound. This book is the fullest introduction to the Indigo Child concept to date. Employing both on- and offline ethnographic methods, Beth Singler objectively considers the place of the Indigo Children in contemporary debates around religious identity, self-creation, online participation, conspiracy theories, race and culture, and definitions of the New Age movement.

Author : Graeme Turner
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 150138208X
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John Farnham's Whispering Jack written by Graeme Turner and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-03-10 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The album examined in this book transformed the singer John Farnham from a faded teen pop star into the most popular solo rock performer in Australia, in a career that has lasted for more than 30 years. Whispering Jack remains the top-selling album by an Australian artist in Australia, and constitutes the turning point in Farnham's bid to achieve credibility as an adult contemporary musician. The first single from the album, 'You're the Voice,' has achieved such iconic status that it is routinely referred to as Australia's unofficial national anthem. The book examines the album, its context and that history in order to recover a crucial conjuncture in the development of Australian rock and popular music, one that has previously been ignored in Australian popular music studies.