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In Germany the decade beginning in the mid-1990s brought an unprecedented "confusion of the spheres" of literature and popular music. Popular musicians "crossed over" into the literary field, editors and writers called for contemporary German literature to become more like popular music, writers attempted to borrow structural aspects from music or paid new attention to popular music at the thematic level. Others sought to raise their profiles ...

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Jazz has had a peculiar and fascinating history in Germany. The influential but controversial German writer, broadcaster, and record producer, Joachim-Ernst Berendt (1922-2000), author of the world's best-selling jazz book, labored to legitimize jazz in West Germany after its ideological renunciation during the Nazi era. German musicians began, in a highly productive way, to question their all-too-eager adoption of American culture and how the...

Hailed as "a masterful excursion into terror" by the Sunday Times-the eerie, suspenseful debut novel from the author of Devil's Day and Starve Acre.Winner of the Costa First Novel Award A Best Book of the Year, London Times and Daily Mail"The terrors of this novel feel timeless . . . There are abominations here, and miracles."-New York Times Book Review "An amazing piece of fiction."-Stephen King "Completely terrifying."-Paula Hawkins "Vibrant...

Per la voce narrante di questo romanzo Loney vuoi dire tante cose insieme: uno strano nulla sulla costa del Lancashire, una stagione della vita, una dimora che cela segreti, la memoria delle vacanze di Pasqua trascorse laggiù insieme ai genitori, al fratello maggiore Hanny e a una piccola comunità fanatica in cerca di un miracolo impossibile. Loney è il tempo del legame esclusivo con il silenzioso, oscuro Hanny, fatto di muti scambi attraverso...

Andrew Hurley is Professor of History at the University of Missouri-St.Louis. He is the author of Diners, Bowling Alleys, and Trailer Parks: Chasing the American Dream in Postwar Consumer Culture and Environmental Inequalities: Class, Race, and Industrial Pollution in Gary, Indiana, 1945-1980.

A framework for stabilizing and strengthening inner-city neighbourhoods through the public interpretation of historic landscapes

An entertaining and revealing history that charts the hopes, dreams, fears, and frustrations of Americans as they pursued the good life in an age of affluence.