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Bar yarns and manic-depressive mixtapes : Jim Walsh on music from Minneapolis to the Outer Limits
Bar Yarns and Manic Depressive Mix Tapes\" distills thirty delirious, jam-packed years of some of the best music writing ever to come out of the Twin Cities. As a writer and musician, the ever-curious Jim Walsh has lived a life immersed in music, and it all makes its way into his columns and feature articles, interviews and reviews, including personal essays on life, love, music, family, death, and, yes, the manic-depressive highs and lows that come with being an obsessive music lover and listener. From Minneapolis?s own Prince to such far-flung acts as David Bowie, the Waterboys, Lucinda Williams, Parliament-Funkadelic, L7, the Rolling Stones, the Ramones, U2, Hank Williams, Britney Spears, Elvis Presley and Nirvana, Walsh?s work treats us to a chorus of the voices and sounds that have made the music scene over the past three decades. The big names are here, from Rosanne Cash to Bruce Springsteen to Bob Marley and Jackson Browne, but so are those a little shy of superstardom, like the Tin Star Sisters and Uncle Tupelo, Son Volt, the Gear Daddies, Semisonic, and The Belfast Cowboys.
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Eating mud crabs in Kandahar
These sometimes harrowing, frequently funny, and always riveting stories about food and eating under extreme conditions feature the diverse voices of journalists who have reported from dangerous conflict zones around the world during the past twenty years. A profile of the former chef to Kim Jong Il of North Korea describes Kim's exacting standards for gourmet fare, which he gorges himself on while his country starves. A journalist becomes part of the inner circle of an IRA cell thanks to his drinking buddies. And a young, inexperienced female journalist shares mud crab in a foxhole with an equally young Hamid Karzai. Along with tales of deprivation and repression are stories of generosity and pleasure, sometimes overlapping. This memorable collection, introduced and edited by Matt McAllester, is seasoned by tragedy and violence, spiced with humor and good will, and fortified, in McAllester's words, with \"a little more humanity than we can usually slip into our newspapers and magazine stories.\"
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Keith Moon stole my lipstick : the swinging '60s, the glam'70s and me
Judith Wills tells her true story ... A star-struck, naive 17 year-old 'country bumpkin' leaves Mum, the cat and the budgie at home, and catches a coach bound for London and the swinging sixties! Days later, mascara running, itching in her prickly suit, stammering from shyness, she turns up for a job interview, takes dictation, can't read it back-- panics! --and on the strength of the letter she invents, is hired. Judith soon finds herself living her dream-- as a writer at the UK's first-ever pop magazine, the one-and-only \"FAB.\"
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A Boyhood Dream Realized
This collection of columns from the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal is Texas Folklore Society Extra Book #27. The editorial columns included herein tell stories, and tell about telling stories. They also reflect boyhood dreams . . . and foolishness, fears, beliefs, customs, traditions, and sometimes things that are no longer part of our culture but we wish were. All reflect what was—and for many, still is—important. If “the traditional knowledge of a culture” is how we define what folklore is, this volume provides an intimate look at the folklore of Lubbock, Texas, and the greater area of the South Plains. You don’t have to be an avid reader of the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, or even be from Lubbock or know where Moran is to relate to the issues covered in these pieces.
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Night moves
\"Written in taut, mesmerizing, often hilarious scenes, Night Moves captures the fierce friendships and small moments that form us all. Drawing on her personal journals from the aughts, Jessica Hopper chronicles her time as a DJ, living in decrepit punk houses, biking to bad loft parties with her friends, exploring Chicago deep into the night. And, along the way, she creates a homage to vibrant corners of the city that have been muted by sleek development. A book birthed in the amber glow of Chicago streetlamps, Night Moves is about a transformative moment of cultural history - and how a raw, rebellious writer found her voice\"--Good Reads.com.
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Intention as the Bridge Between the Ideal and Contingent: Rabea Basri and the Women of the Tablighi Jamaʿat
The itinerant men of the Tablighi Jamaʿat, an Islamic reform movement that urges
its followers to travel in the path of Allah, have drawn the attention of
journalists and scholars alike. Dressed in loose trousers that expose his
ankles, a long, flowing beard and a duffel bag slung over his shoulders, the
Tablighi man has been the subject of countless inquiries. The heightened
visibility of the proselytizing men in public spaces and in the media has taken
attention away from the fact that the Tablighi Jamaʿat is as much a movement of
women seeking to fashion a pious self. The unintended consequence of this bias
is that while public meetings of the Jamaʿat, especially the annual gathering of
men in Raiwind (Pakistan), Dhaka (Bangladesh), and Bhopal (India), draw a lot of
attention, an equally, if not more, important site of Tablighi self-fashioning,
namely the home where women convene for the weekly ijtima
(meeting), is barely considered a topic worthy of study. Drawing on ethnographic
fieldwork among the women of the Jamaʿat conducted in Bombay (Mumbai) between
2011 and 2012, this paper will make a case for foregrounding the domestic
space—in all its articulations, imaginations and contestations—in the study of
the Jamaʿat. Framing the Tablighi Jamaʿat as a piety movement rooted in the
domestic opens the intellectual space to theorize about modern female piety as a
balancing act between the ideal and the contingent. It also allows us, as this
paper demonstrates, to tease out the role of intention (niyat)
in the fashioning of the pious female self.
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