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From the Baillie Gifford and Orwell Prize longlisted author of The Ministry of Truth, an equally original and revealing exploration of one of the central concerns of our times: fantasies and nightmares of the end of the world, from Mary Shelley¿s The Last Man to the Manic Street Preachers¿ Everything Must Go

From the Baillie Gifford and Orwell Prize longlisted author of The Ministry of Truth, an equally original and revealing exploration of one of the central concerns of our times: fantasies and nightmares of the end of the world, from Mary Shelley¿s The Last Man to the Manic Street Preachers¿ Everything Must Go

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Everything you wanted to know about 1984 but were too busy misusing the word "Orwellian" to ask.' Caitlin Moran George Orwell's 1984 has become an iconic narrative of the modern world. Its cultural influence can be observed in some of the most notable creations of the past seventy years, from Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale to the reality TV landmark Big Brother, while ideas such as 'thought police', 'doublethink', and 'newspeak' are ing...

Praise for 33 Revolutions Per Minute: A History of Protest Songs‘Lynskey’s excellent and exhaustive history of protest music could not be more timely . . . A fascinating journey’ Sunday Times‘Lucid and authoritative’ Guardian ‘[An] agile, many-tentacled writer . . . Mr. Lynskey has an eye for fetching detail.’ New York Times‘Part of me would have liked a glorious multimedia version of the book . . . but that could detract from the strength of ...

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Praise for 33 Revolutions Per Minute: A History of Protest Songs‘Lynskey’s excellent and exhaustive history of protest music could not be more timely . . . A fascinating journey’ Sunday Times‘Lucid and authoritative’ Guardian ‘[An] agile, many-tentacled writer . . . Mr. Lynskey has an eye for fetching detail.’ New York Times‘Part of me would have liked a glorious multimedia version of the book . . . but that could detract from the strength of ...

33 Revolutions Per Minute tracks the turbulent relationship between popular music and politics, through 33 pivotal songs that span seven decades and four continents, from Billie Holiday singing 'Strange Fruit' to Green Day raging against the Iraq war.

From one of the United Kingdom’s most prominent music critics, a page-turning and wonderfully researched history of 33 songs that have transformed the world through the twentieth century and beyond.When pop music meets politics, the results are often thrilling, sometimes life-changing, and never simple. The protest songs of such great artists as Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, Stevie Wonder, U2, Public Enemy, Fela Kuti, R.E.M., Rage Against the Mach...

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