Best known for his work in Talking Heads, Byrne writes with authority. In How Music Works, David Byrne goes beyond providing a historical overview of music by adding personal observations. Barry Kernfeld’s Pop Song Piracy: Disobedient Music Distribution since 1929 is another noteworthy example. Many of these, such as Matthew David’s Peer to Peer and the Music Industry and Patrik Wikström’s The Music Industry: Music in the Cloud, aim to contextualize the present day by delving deep into the past. N2 - In recent years, several books have been published which discuss changes in the recording industry as a result of the digital revolution, exploring technological issues such as piracy, copyright, remix culture, and playlists. T1 - Book review: How Music Works by David Byrne
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For all the answers stick your thumb to the stars. 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His mother died giving birth to him and since his father is a remote, forbidding figure, René takes refuge in an intense friendship with his sister Amélie and in long, solitary walks in the countryside around the castle. He tells of his lonely childhood in his father's castle in Brittany. It is a long time before he is persuaded to reveal the cause of his melancholy. René, a desperately unhappy young Frenchman, seeks refuge among the Natchez people of Louisiana. René enjoyed such immediate popularity that it was republished separately in 1805 along with Atala. René was first published as part of Chateaubriand's Génie du christianisme along with another novella, Atala although it was in fact an excerpt from a long prose epic the author had composed between 17 called Les Natchez, which would not be made public until 1826. Like the German novel, it deals with a sensitive and passionate young man who finds himself at odds with contemporary society. The work had an immense impact on early Romanticism, comparable to that of Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther. René is a short novella by François-René de Chateaubriand, which first appeared in 1802. “There are 16 bodies in the backyard, almost everyone Lydia loved in the world.” Only Lydia and her eight-year-old son, Luca, have survived, but there will be no justice, no protection: the police “do nothing, because that’s precisely what the cartel pays them to do”. Jeanine Cummins’s immoderately hyped third novel, American Dirt, opens with blood-sodden terror as The Owl takes revenge: a machine-gun slaughter at a family barbecue. When Sebastián publishes his exposé, Lydia’s darkest fears come to pass. There are few places on the planet more deadly to be a journalist, and the integrity that attracted Lydia to Sebastián terrifies her now that they have a child – it seems “sanctimonious, selfish”. 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Predictable execution hampers what could have been an intriguing exploration of the mechanics of corruption Characters are stock, and the prose sometimes overexplains, even stretching beyond Ani’s first-person voice to reveal other characters’ emotions. (Colony wardens, oddly, seem immune to the Scourge.) Ani and Weevil play Colony rabble-rousers, resisting unfair treatment and working to untangle the governor’s statement that “River People are the Scourge.” Nielsen provides two major plot twists, and both are robust and horrifying in content however, the method and pace of divulging them are meandering and vague, lacking punch. The governor diagnoses Ani and her best friend, Weevil, with the Scourge and sends them to the Colony, a quarantined island from which nobody returns. The ruling townsfolk, on the other hand, have no specified ethnicity and seem white. The River People-forbidden from voting or owning property, not bathing “often enough”-are a stereotypical blend of Romany and indigenous peoples. It’s clearly a pretext: before they found her, Ani heard them mention their assignment to “come get” several people of Ani’s ethnic group. She’s done nothing wrong, but the wardens say that the red stain on her arm from the vinefruit juice is a symptom of the Scourge, a deadly, contagious, always-fatal disease. A baffling illness threatens a fantasy land.Īni’s up in a tree picking a vinefruit when wardens capture her. |