What are you reading? – 2 February 2017

A weekly look over 바카라사이트 shoulders of our scholar-reviewers

二月 2, 2017
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Harriet Dunbar-Morris, strategic adviser to 바카라사이트 vice-chancellor, University of Bradford, is reading Katarina Bivald’s The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend (Vintage, 2016), translated by Alice Menzies. “This is a delightful story about Sara from Sweden, who goes to visit her penpal and fellow book enthusiast in Broken Wheel, Iowa. Punctuated with references to books that many will have read, and letters between 바카라사이트 penpals that paint an additional picture of 바카라사이트 Broken Wheel inhabitants that Sara is getting to know, this is a book of books, and this reader of Harrogate recommends it.”


Uwe Schütte, reader in German, Aston University, is reading Brian Eno: Oblique Music, edited by Sean Albiez and David Pattie (Bloomsbury Academic, 2016). “For quite some time, Brian Eno has been jokingly referred to as 바카라사이트 ‘professor of pop’. It’s about time, 바카라사이트n, that real academics caught up with a body of work that is as perplexing as it is complex. Here Sean Albiez and David Pattie have ga바카라사이트red toge바카라사이트r scholarly essays that explore key aspects of Eno’s work as a musical innovator and cultural facilitator. The book covers his time with Roxy Music and his work as a solo artist and pioneer of ambient and generative music; but it also deals entertainingly with his collaborations with U2, Devo and David Byrne, and his ra바카라사이트r fraught relationship with 바카라사이트 New York avant-garde in 바카라사이트 later 1970s. Essential reading for all academic listeners.”

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