L’Assommoir is part of a twenty-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart published in the 1876.
This work of fiction resonated with reality, by its depiction of harsh working class life and alcoholism in Paris at that time.
The novel is really the…
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The imagery of the 1960’s would not be complete without the art of The Fool Design Collective.
Producing art , clothes and photography - many of their pieces becoming part of pop culture and instantly recognizable today.
Bright colors and…
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Kevin Nix owner of L. Nix Mastering has had 30 years of experience working on every style of music imaginable.
L. Nix Mastering was born out of the heart and soul of Memphis music.
His family background is really an…
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This inspiring book of poetry contains hundreds of poems and limericks.
The big names are here William Blake, William Wordsworth ,Lord Tennyson, and Robert Louis Stevenson , however it was aimed at young readers and the poems were mostly brief…
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Aaron James writes beautiful gentle songs that explore the human condition.
We as humans are extremely complex sensitive beings and in his writing he challenges himself through vulnerability and overcoming those fears and awkward episodes with the art of creation.
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Ian Dury was a fixture in UK Punk and New Wave culture in the late 70’s.
With his bands Kilburn and The High Roads and The Blockheads (featuring ex Dr Feelgood guitar legend Wilko Johnson) - Dury created an amazing…
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This fantastic book by Colin Harper chronicles the life and influence of guitarist and songwriter Bert Jansch.
He is known as the guitarist's guitarist with a technique and songwriting style, that influenced artists as diverse as: Jimi Hendrix, Paul Simon…
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Aaron Brame is a Memphis musician, writer, and photographer.
Heres how it began:
"I started carrying my 35mm film camera to punk and rock shows when I was a teenager, taking photographs of the musicians that I loved.
Today, I…
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Linton Kwesi Johnson is a British based Jamaican born dub poet and activist born in 1952.
Following Jamaican independence in 1962 he moved to England to join his family.
They were part of a large diaspora of families “The Windrush…
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Odetta often referred to as "The Voice of the Civil Rights Movement” (especially after her appearance at The March on Washington in 1963) - was a hugely influential interpreter of American Roots Folk Blues Spirituals and Gospel songs.
She influenced…
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