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Berlin Bromley
A revealing punk memoir from a member of the notorious Bromley Contingent. Bertie 'Berlin' Bromley cuts to the core of the 1976/77 punk sensibility, recounting his own adventures as a ubiquitous scenester and rent boy. The Bromley Contingent included Siouxsie Sioux, Steve Severin, Billy Idol and Jordan. Marshall, as a pivotal member of the Contingent, views the scene and its stars with the intimate eye of an insider, offering a vivid picture of the most important British music movement in the 20th century.
Pete's Underpants
Pete's Underpants is the seventh book by Bertie Marshall. It is equal parts memoir/essay/elegy/novella/vaudeville. It tells the tale of Marshall's complex affair with a young American man called Pete and with the city of New York at the close of the 20th century. Told in two parts; Part one recalls the events of 1998, their meeting, their dramas and an ending of sorts. Part two was written during the first six months of 2019 and maps out the intervening years; episodic, filmic, some scenes in repetition, conveying the way memory works, distorts, blurs, and makes fiction: Interweaving throughout the text is Marshall's pondering on the nature of glamour, cinema and what makes a muse, a muse. Whether hanging out with Warhol Superstar - Taylor Mead or receiving a note from Patti Smith, Marshall experiences his version of the American dream as it turns into nightmare.
The Peeler
The story of a middle aged writer, MONTY, a metaphysical pessimist undergoing an existential crisis, while house sitting a Sutton Place apartment on New York City's Upper East Side, in the late 1990s. And then there's, PETE, the Peeler, Monty's muse and obsession. From Marshall's preface of The Peeler: This novel is Psycho- Baroque; a car crashes through a dream and comes out the other side before it crashes. Where a pair of lover's tongues become saints in the church of gob, the death of the forest is halted by the killing of a jackdaw and face slapped many times begats wisdom...
Nowhere Slow
These collected writings contain poems, plays, novels, chapbooks and memoirs by Bertie Marshall, "Punk Legend," performer and writer. Some of the work here is published for the first time and a complete reprint of his 1997 debut novel 'Psychoboys' is included. - A diablerie of the grotesque scarred from slices of hilariously malicious wit, Bertie Marshall's work stands on its own four feet, horns and all. (Travis Jeppesen "The Suiciders") - Marshall's work creates an extended promenade of our fragmented contemporary culture in all its amorphousness. Little puddles of thrill in disassociation from one another (Bruce Benderson "The Romanian") - The memoirs take their place in that lineage of 'outsider memoirs' including the writings of Quentin Crisp and Jean Genet's The Thief's Journal (Michael Bracewell)
Secrets of the Steelpan
This book describes a truly remarkable musical instrument „o the Steelpan (Pan) „o a melodic percussion instrument that produces tones of immense beauty. This instrument is the National Instrument of the twin islands of Trinidad and Tobago. The concepts, the ideas, the theories, the physics and the mathematics contained in this book are the answers to the question the author asked himself as a little boy peering over the face of a ping pong steelpan, ¡¥how does it work?¡¦ Revealed, are the subtleties and secrets of the instrument¡¦s operation, its laws, its construction and details of its tuning. Contained herein is the information sought by pan musicians, pan makers, panists, pan researchers and ¡¥pan lovers¡¦ „o nothing is left out. The rigor of the analytical methods of this book matches, in depth and intensity, the expert craftsmanship of the Master Pan Maker and Tuner. There is a unifying force within this book that combines the stick-note impacts to the panist¡¦s creativity in his production of musical tones. This book doesn¡¦t dodge the difficult questions; it ends with a chapter on the exotic non-musical features of the steelpan.
Music from Behind the Bridge
'Music from behind the Bridge' tells the story of the steelband a symbol of Trinidadian culture, from the point of view of musicians who overcame disadvantages of poverty and prejudice with their extraordinary ambition.
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Steel Drums and Steelbands
Steel Drums and Steelbands: A History is a vivid account of the events that led to the “accidental” invention of the steel drum: the only acoustic musical instrument invented in the 20th century. Angela Smith walks readers through the evolution of the steel drum from an object of scorn and tool of violence to one of the most studied, performed, and appreciated musical instruments today. Smith explores the development of the modern steelband, from its roots in African slavery in early Trinidad to the vast array of experiments in technological innovation and to the current explosion of steelbands in American schools. The book offers insights directly from major contributors of the steelban...
Independence, Colonial Relics, and Monuments in the Caribbean
Independence, Colonial Relics, and Monuments in the Caribbean is a collection of critical perspectives on independence and the legacies of colonialism in the post-colonial Caribbean. The contributors examine themes relating to culture, identity, gender, nationhood, heritage and historic preservation in the post-independent Caribbean. In a twenty-first century context where calls for reparatory justice for the people of the Caribbean who have been disadvantaged by the effects of colonialism have intensified, this book is quite relevant as some chapters examine colonialism through relics, laws, statues and monuments, while other chapters explore the implications of African enslavement, the role of Indian indentureship, the Federation of the West Indies and the effect of the American based Black Lives Movement on the Caribbean.
