Re: Phase 2 of The Great Big Fat URP Reading List Project! (slightly late)

Rhiannon S wrote:


So now I'd like you to tell me why you chose what you did.

_Been Down so Long It Looks Like Up to Me_ - Richard Farina

Several very strong personal associations: considered a 'sacred text' by the friend who introduced me to rock 'n roll (not AM radio, the good stuff)when I was a teenager; also a book a certain Brit and I exchanged notes on in another group (the magic rucksack).

_Bleak House_ - Charles Dickens

My favorite novel -- which matters because I teach lit of the period.

_From Dawn to Decadence_ - Jacques Barzun

An excellent history of modern western culture from the perspective of a Romantic.

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"I would extirpate heresy. and all learning and knowledge as inevitably tending thereunto. ... I would observe an austere propriety of conduct, and be especially careful not to loosen one rivet in the tremendous yoke I was forging for the minds and consciences of mankind." -- Lucifer in Richard Garnett's "The Demon Pope"
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Relevant Pages

  • Re: Help -Oldies Radio
    ... XM Satellite Radio "Decades Collection" ... Channel 4 The 40's Big Band/Swing ... It's Early Rock 'n Roll ...
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  • How the new copy looks
    ... In the latest installment of my major radio advertising campaign this ... the enlightened hosts will talk to me about: ... Is the Death of Classic Rock Imminent? ... roll will never die.” With the Woodstock Generation now in retirement ...
    (alt.guitar)
  • How the new copy looks
    ... In the latest installment of my major radio advertising campaign this ... the enlightened hosts will talk to me about: ... Is the Death of Classic Rock Imminent? ... roll will never die.” With the Woodstock Generation now in retirement ...
    (rec.music.gdead)
  • Re: Vid: Sister Rosetta Tharpe
    ... When I was a kid Big Joe Turner was Rock and Roll and I ... radio back then along the lines of is Rock and Roll the same thing as Race ...
    (rec.music.makers.guitar.jazz)
  • Re: Lennons remarks on Christianity
    ... Apparently the friend didn't turn out to be so much of a friend after ... rock and roll or Christianity". ...
    (rec.music.beatles)