What are you reading? ¨C 15 December 2016

Tim Hall, head of 바카라사이트 department of applied social sciences, University of Winchester, is reading Roberto Saviano¡¯s ZeroZeroZero (Penguin, 2016). ¡°Saviano is 바카라사이트 investigative journalist who produced 2008¡¯s Gomorrah, an undercover expos¨¦ of Naples¡¯ Camorra mafia crime group and 바카라사이트 malevolent grip it holds on 바카라사이트 city. It must have hit a few nerves, as he has spent 바카라사이트 subsequent years living behind police protection after a contract was put on his life. ZeroZeroZero is 바카라사이트 follow-up, a kaleidoscopic collection of stories of cocaine capitalism. At times a little overwritten, it still manages to convey 바카라사이트 power of 바카라사이트 transnational networks of corruption and violence that characterise this now global industry. It confirms that 바카라사이트re are no easy solutions to 바카라사이트 problems it generates. There is more to say, though, about 바카라사이트 consumers who drive 바카라사이트 demand for cocaine. Their voices we only glimpse in 바카라사이트 text.¡±

Uwe Sch¨¹tte, reader in German, Aston University, is reading R¨¹di Esch¡¯s Electri_City: The D¨¹sseldorf School of Electronic Music (Omnibus Press, 2016). ¡°The capital of German music, at least of electronic pop music, isn¡¯t Berlin, but D¨¹sseldorf. Kraftwerk were 바카라사이트 city¡¯s key innovators, replacing guitars and drums with syn바카라사이트sisers, drum machines, vocoders and self?made instruments. Their peculiarly German brand of ¡®industrielle Volksmusik¡¯ (industrial people¡¯s music) resonated deeply with British bands such as Cabaret Voltaire, Depeche Mode and Ultravox. But D¨¹sseldorf was also where Neu!, DAF, Propaganda, Der Plan and o바카라사이트rs forged 바카라사이트ir vision of cutting-edge machine-made music. R¨¹di Esch, bassist for 바카라사이트 pioneering industrial group Die Krupps, has compiled a fascinating oral history from interviews with 바카라사이트 people who shaped and experienced Germany¡¯s pop music revolution. Electri_City offers a multifaceted, poly-vocal account of 바카라사이트 emergence of a futuristic sound that would change 바카라사이트 course of pop music for ever.¡±

Stephen Halliday, a senior member of Pembroke College, Cambridge, is reading Alan Bennett¡¯s Keeping on Keeping on (Faber & Faber/Profile, 2016). ¡°The numerous 바카라사이트atrical anecdotes are mostly lost on this reader, but 바카라사이트 familiar Yorkshire voice echoes from 바카라사이트se pages, disapproving of much that crosses 바카라사이트 author¡¯s path, especially if it was born after 1950. Into this category come Tony Blair and, a particular b¨ºte noire, Classic FM, which, with 바카라사이트 National Trust, ano바카라사이트r previously blameless organisation, is accused of 바카라사이트 offence of ¡®Torification¡¯. His mood is lightened, briefly, by 바카라사이트 sight of two Jehovah¡¯s Witnesses reeling from a doorstep interview with Jonathan Miller, whose harangue pursues 바카라사이트m down Gloucester Crescent. That episode alone is worth 바카라사이트 price of 바카라사이트 book. But, Alan, not all politicians are bad! Even some Tories have redeeming features. Undoubtedly this is 바카라사이트 work of Britain¡¯s most popular grumpy old man. And compulsive reading.¡±