Sex. Drugs. Loud music. Wild costumes. Dazzling light shows. These words can all describe a great rock concert or a hot dance club, but they were also part and parcel of the ancient cultural phenomenon known as the “Mystery religions.” In this book, author Christopher Knowles shows how the Mystery religions got a secular reincarnation when a new musical form called rock 'n' roll burst onto the scene. The Secret History of Rock 'n' Roll traces the history of the Mysteries — their rise, their fall, and their survival through long centuries of repression. Knowles shows how the Mysteries prefigured subcultures as diverse as Santeria, Freemasonry, Mardi Gras and even the Holiness churches of the American frontier, and explains exactly how ancient rituals and music found their way to the New World. In the process, The Secret History of Rock 'n' Roll traces the development of rock's most popular genres such as punk and heavy metal, and reveals how many of rock's most iconic artists play the same archetypal roles as the ancient gods. You'll see how many of the rituals and customs and even musical styles of our postmodern society have stunning ancient parallels. You'll meet history's first pop
Read Christopher John Campion's posts on the Penguin Blog. Indie rock raconteur Chris Campion-one of the few patients ever to escape from Bellevue's locked ward-recalls his band's tumultuous ride, his plummet into addiction, and the strange road back to sobriety Chronicling more than twenty years in the life of a Long Island kid who became a hardcore fixture of Manhattan's indie rock scene, Escape from Bellevue is a coming-of-age tale like no other. As the lead singer of New York-based indie rock band Knockout Drops, Campion got a taste of fame (but, alas, no fortune) on a wild ride that lasted from the early 1980s through the 1990s. Escape from Bellevue puts the spotlight on the collective psychosis of twenty years spent in a rolling bacchanal. Just as the Knockout Drops reached the height of their success, Campion began his downward spiral. After finally coming to grips with his addictions, Campion molded his songs and stories into a sold-out off-Broadway musical. Now, presenting these tales in a memoir of madness and redemption, Campion once again proves to possess the creative genius of a die-hard front man.
Explores the visionary, mystical, and ecstatic traditions that influenced the music of the 1960s • Examines the visionary, spiritual, and mystical influences on the Grateful Dead, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, the Incredible String Band, the Left Banke, Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground, and others • Shows how the British Invasion acted as the “detonator” to explode visionary music into the mainstream • Explains how 1960s rock and roll music transformed consciousness on both the individual and collective levels The 1960s were a time of huge transformation, sustained and amplified by the music of that era: Rock and Roll. During the 19th and 20th centuries visionary and esoteric spiritual traditions influenced first literature, then film. In the 1960s they entered the realm of popular music, catalyzing the ecstatic experiences that empowered a generation. Exploring how 1960s rock and roll music became a school of visionary art, Christopher Hill shows how music raised consciousness on both the individual and collective levels to bring about a transformation of the planet. The author traces how rock and roll rose from the sacred music of the African Diaspora, harnessing its ecstatic power for evoking spiritual experiences through music. He shows how the British Invasion, beginning with the Beatles in the early 1960s, acted as the “detonator” to explode visionary music into the mainstream. He explains how 60s rock and roll made a direct appeal to the imaginations of young people, giving them a larger set of reference points around which to understand life. Exploring the sources 1960s musicians drew upon to evoke the initiatory experience, he reveals the influence of European folk traditions, medieval Troubadours, and a lost American history of ecstatic politics and shows how a revival of the ancient use of psychedelic substances was the strongest agent of change, causing the ecstatic, mythic, and sacred to enter the consciousness of a generation. The author examines the mythic narratives that underscored the work of the Grateful Dead, the French symbolist poets who inspired Bob Dylan, the hallucinatory England of the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper, the tale of the Rolling Stones and the Lord of Misrule, Van Morrison’s astral journeys, and the dark mysticism of Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground. Evoking the visionary and apocalyptic atmosphere in which the music of the 1960s was received, the author helps each of us to better understand this transformative era and its mystical roots.
Mick Jagger, le leader charismatique des Rolling Stones, a toujours vécu à cent à l'heure. Sa vie est explorée sans concession dans cette biographie explosive. Son passé bisexuel, sa relation ambiguë avec Keith Richard, la cocaïne, le LSD et ses liens avec la famille royale : au fil des révélations, ce livre dresse un portrait sulfureux de la star du plus grand groupe de rock de tous les temps.
Your Ultimate Guide to Boost Your Metabolism with 200 Healthy, Easy, Low-Fat Recipes, and Crispy Oil-Free Food That Everyone Can Cook and Family Will Love.
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When you talk about frying, you inevitably visualize two images in your minds almost automatically: one positive that describes fragrant and tasty dishes and one negative associated with fat and low diet. Because you know, the temptation is high when you think about the goodness of fried food, but so is the awareness that that same food can hurt you. The negative aspects of introducing even a minimum number of products cooked using boiling oil into your diet are many. Those related to the accumulation of fat, swelling, and skin imperfections such as pimples and cellulite are perhaps the best known because they are also the ones that affect most people most closely. You probably worry about your physical appearance every day, are careful not to get fat, and try to control the number of calories consumed. Eating fried foods can cause inflammation, heart problems, or even other types of serious diseases, such as cancers, not forgetting the hassles they can cause like bloating and constipation. But what to do then? Should you give up this kind of diet? Instant Vortex Air Fryer Oven reduces fats, eliminates bad smells, and improves people's lives by simplifying it. How? Making the frying process much easier and cleaner! In this book, you will: Have a Complete Overview of Instant Vortex Air Fryer Oven, to understand the effectiveness of this type of fryer as a tool to make fried food healthier, and why the air fryer is one of the best investments in your health. Find a Complete List of All the Necessary Accessories to make your cooking experience fun and unforgettable. They will amaze you with their ease of use, their flexibility in cooking, and the affordable price. Learn How the Control Panel Works and All the Programs You Can Choose to control over cooking, customize the cooking time and temperature so you can make your favorite meals the way you like them, with one simple touch. Be Amazed by 200 Tasty, Easy-to-Make, and Delicious Recipes always at hand! Find many delicious ideas, perfect for any type of diet you follow, whether it is balanced, healthy, genuine, vegetarian, or if you are on a diet! Discover a Useful and Well-Divided Recipes Catalog to facilitate Your Search: breakfast, beef, lamb, pork, fish & seafood, poultry, and snack & appetizer. The ingredients are simple and easily available in any market and grocery. ... & Lot More! Instant Vortex Air Fryer Oven is a real revolution for the possibility of making healthy and tasty recipes at home in a short time and with the utmost satisfaction. It is a multi-cooking appliance that allows you to fry, grill, bake, roast a large amount of food. With this must-have Instant Vortex Air Fryer Oven Cookbook in your hands, you will bring healthy dishes to the table every day, with a natural and full taste, which the whole family and guests will appreciate. Order Your Copy Now and Start Air Frying Like a Pro!
When thirteen-year-old Tim Daniels gets a chance to go to basketball camp, he is faced with trying to be accepted by the popular players and remaining true to his friend who has become the butt of practical jokes.
This book will bring laughter to your lungs, tears to your eyes, and thoughts to your mind. Writing My Pain will take you through the ups and downs of the life of Christopher Bonner. From dealing with social inequality to falling in and out of love, this book is that rollercoaster you are anxious to ride repeatedly but nervous every time you buckle up. Everyday someone will say, Nobody wants to hear about your problems because they have their own to deal with. Indeed, people read about others trails and tribulations on a regular basis. Whether it is in a book or on the internet, readers are continuously searching for material that they can relate to and debate about. Some of those readers hunt will end after they indulge in this book. It will bring laughter to your lungs, tears to yours eyes, and thoughts to your minds. Enjoy my pain. #ROL (read out loud)
When a new school year starts, and thirteen-year-old basketball star Julian feels a lot of pressure as he realizes he is the only remaining player from last year's winning team, a friend's health crisis helps him regain perspective.
For years, indie music producer Mayne Moore has happily hunted the clubs of the Sunset Strip, trolling for the next big thing. But when his former fiancee turns up dead in an alley behind a West Hollywood nightclub clutching his business card, his life turns sideways. Mayne delves deeper and finds that everything is not as it seems. Author Chris Moreau takes us on a darkly comic journey through LA's music scene, where jealous club owners guard their turf and everyone has an angle. Viewed through Mayne's eyes and filtered through the music that informs his life, Requiem slinks through LA like a snake through a rock and roll swamp where the business just might kill you.
In some places, and against prevailing trends, Christian belief and practice is not being chased out of the public square but rather, it is very active in stimulating new forms of civic and social engagement. Like two blades of scissors, an applied theology requiring both being grounded in biblical work as well as social policy, can create faith-based action that develop collaborative platforms that pass muster in today's secular culture. The theological grounding is incarnational; Incarnational suggests identification. The Identification Principle offers a new impetus to holistic and practical engagement by the church with our world. All too often, incarnational ministry is divorced from proclamation and prayer. The author, who is an Anglican minister, is responsible for a large and innovative Christian social project on the edge of city centre, which is developing new forms of community engagement in a way that does not lose the importance of spiritual formation. Word and work go hand in hand. This fresh take on incarnational life, church and society draws together recent academic research and cutting-edge ministry. It presents a renewed theology of Christian action for a new generation of evangelical leaders who have to intuitively hold together action with word and worship. The book offers both theology and praxis. Exploring the role of the atonement, the honour of God and His divine worth, the incarnation and the role of Christ. The author argues the effectiveness of proclamation, intercession, and the confronting of systemic and individual wrongs to create new types of communities that engage culture and re-focuses mission.
Structural linguists have focused on the morphological patternings of the Romance verb system, both from the point of view of systematizing variation and of mapping meaning on the form. Transformationalists, however, have tended to focus on the English auxiliaries. This book fills a gap in previous accounts by investigating the syntax of Romance verb-form usage, concerning both the verb itself and a simple sentence and such phenomena as sequence of tense in complex sentences. Adopting both a synchronic and diachronic perspective, and combining the approaches of structuralists and transformationalists, the author argues that there are still valid ideas to be drawn from the pre-Chomskyan concern with paradigmatic structure.
Modern Methods for Evaluating Your Social Science Data With recent advances in computing power and the widespread availability of political choice data, such as legislative roll call and public opinion survey data, the empirical estimation of spatial models has never been easier or more popular. Analyzing Spatial Models of Choice and Judgment with R demonstrates how to estimate and interpret spatial models using a variety of methods with the popular, open-source programming language R. Requiring basic knowledge of R, the book enables researchers to apply the methods to their own data. Also suitable for expert methodologists, it presents the latest methods for modeling the distances between points—not the locations of the points themselves. This distinction has important implications for understanding scaling results, particularly how uncertainty spreads throughout the entire point configuration and how results are identified. In each chapter, the authors explain the basic theory behind the spatial model, then illustrate the estimation techniques and explore their historical development, and finally discuss the advantages and limitations of the methods. They also demonstrate step by step how to implement each method using R with actual datasets. The R code and datasets are available on the book’s website.
He Walks Among Us: The “After” Life of Elvis Presley By: Christopher Wood Elvis Presley fakes his death with the help of the FBI and tries to live out his life in peace, but he knows his past and a determined private eye will catch up to him. The decision to pursue a new life takes great planning and eventually leads his new persona—Mr. Dale Gant—on a path to peace and redemption. The world is still fascinated by the King of Rock-n-Roll forty-five years after his "death." Readers of He Walks Among Us get a first-person view of what it is like to be famous, so famous that one would do anything to be normal, and learn that the price of fame is very steep indeed.
Four boys. One band. No Chance. Chris and George are best friends, and they want to be rockstars. Unfortunately, a childhood spent playing in the school orchestra and listening to Jimmy Nail has left them a little fluffy around the edges, and at the age of 23, their acoustic duo Satellite doesn’t resemble Bon Jovi nearly as much as they’d planned. So how do two ordinary boys from a sleepy village go about taking on the cut-throat world of rock ’n’ roll? They’re just going to have to fake it. True to life, funny and uplifting, Mockstars is a coming-of-age story about friendship and chasing the rock ’n’ roll dream. Inspired by the real-life tour diaries of the author’s band The Lightyears, Mockstars is a refreshingly different musical odyssey. Praise for Mockstars: ‘Very funny... Induced three inner chuckles and one belly laugh in just over four minutes.’ Kevin Sampson, author of Powder ‘Finally, a rock ’n’ roll novel that people can properly relate to.’ Ciaran Jeremiah, The Feeling ‘Hilarious – it’s The Inbetweeners meets Spinal Tap!’ Alex Marsh, author of Sex & Bowls & Rock and Roll What readers are saying about Mockstars: ‘...for all the folk I annoyed the hell out of with explosive laughter and giggling – I recommend that you read this in public and get your own back.’ ‘A really honest and amusing account of the camaraderie between the band members. A great read, funny yet poignant.’ ‘The new Bridget Jones brought to life in a male, aspiring rock star from the home counties. Littered in equal measure with laugh out loud and hide under the covers, did he really write that?, moments.’ ‘Very, very funny book. I had to stop reading it on the train as I was in a quiet compartment.’ ‘If Richard Curtis and Douglas Adams got together and wrote a book about a struggling rock-band you’d get this. Fast paced, brimming with charm and frankly hilarious. I laughed so hard I coughed tea through my nose and nearly ruined my iPad.’
Bread speaks to us of our daily reliance upon a Maker, writes Christopher Levan. Perhaps more than any other food it brings us close to our roots as fellow creatures of God's creation. Bread is an apt metaphor for the spiritual journey. Give Us This Day offers meditations for every day in Lent, inviting us to connect faith, "our daily bread," and the world in which we live, along with recipes that range from Shrove Tuesday "No-Fret Pancakes" to Easter Challah bread. Each of the 40 meditations begins with a scripture verse and a prayer.
Once a member of the most famous rock band in the world, Mick had a beautiful wife, houses on every continent, girlfriends in every house, and various business interests. But due to his of his own recklessness, ego and alcohol, he loses everything. Letting his arrogance get the better of him he declares himself to be so famous he could live on the streets. To much fanfare and media coverage he takes to the streets of New York to live as the most famous hobo in the world. Many years later and long forgotten, he still roams the streets, totally unrecognizable with long matted hair, ragged clothes, and near death. When he and a fellow hobo, also a former musician are hospitalized, he is re-discovered by the media. To help him and others like him, a music entrepreneur organizes a benefit concert to create a retirement home for aging rock musicians so they may quietly live out their last years in a beautiful country mansion. However, Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll does not seem to have an age barrier, and feeling rejuvenated in their new home, mayhem ensues!
Covina, Swept Away By Christopher S. Chenault, M. D. A number of towns in the Midwest and South have changed little over the last one hundred years. It is possible to return to ones hometown and see the town and many old landmarks little changed. This is not at all true of most of the towns of Southern California. Many areas of Southern California have been transformed from agricultural land to land for shopping centers and tract home over the past sixty years. The San Gabriel valley, east of Los Angeles, was the largest exporter of citrus fruit in the world in the 1930s and 1940s and had a hundred years history of agricultural use. In a period of fifteen years, 1950 to the mid-1960s, all of those vast acres of serene rural life were swept away in that wave of humanity that arrived after WW II to occupy the space for jobs, recreation, and raising families. There is now almost nothing left of that serenity. As a child in the 1940s and a teenager in the 1950s, I watched as this transformation progressed. We played hopscotch, marbles, and danced to the Mexican Hat Dance during grade school. We modified cars, went to the Sugar Bowl for sodas, and danced to Big Band sounds and Rock and Roll in high school. We watched drag races on Gladstone Avenue and at the Pomona drag strip. In poodle skirts and saddle shoes or corduroys and loafers, we live the 1950s in the residual of small town, agricultural Covina and witnessed a community go from one high school and two grammar schools in 1950 to add twenty-three new schools by the early 1960s. I have attempted to describe those years of tranquility, document our activities, and illustrated the varied attractions that would draw a family to that area. We were fortunate enough to experience swimming in the cool pacific, take trips to Arrowhead, Sequoia, and Kings Canyon, camp with the scouts at Cherry Cove on Catalina Island, Ski on Mount Baldy and go with groups of kids to Big Bear and the new Disneyland. We also endured the blackouts in Santa Barbara during WW II and sugar rations collected at the City Hall In an autobiographical format, I have presented the move of my family to California and included the stories of families of my schoolmates whose ancestors immigrated to Southern California. And I have documented the activities of the time to give flavor to the area during this period that was to be the end of the one hundred year agricultural use of the land.
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