9781917516068
400 pp
PB 2197 x 130 mm
Mono
£10.99/$14.95
Music
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In Tough Breaks: The Story of Baltimore Club Music, music
journalist Al Shipley draws from 18 years’ worth of interviews with
dozens of DJs, producers, vocalists, party hosts, promoters, and the
founders of the clubs, labels and record stores that shaped the genre. With the untold stories behind labels like Unruly Records
and clubs like the Paradox, Shipley digs deep into big personalities,
obscure samples, profanely catchy chants, and friendship and feuds that drove a competitive scene to keep the 130BPM beats going for decades. Baltimore icons who died tragically young like Miss Tony and DJ K-Swift are remembered through the eyes of friends and collaborators, and producers like DJ Booman, DJ Class, and Diamond K reveal the inspirations behind some of their classic tracks.
AL SHIPLEY has covered the Baltimore music scene for over
20 years, winning awards from the Baltimore Crown Awards and
the Baltimore Sun. He’s written about a wide variety of music and
culture for Spin, Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, Vulture, Vice, and Complex.
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9781915672797
250 pp
PB 197 x 130 mm
Mono
£9.99/$11.95
History/Biography
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Dr. Chizhevsky’s Chandelier is a nonfiction experiment that tells the story of A.L. Chizhevsky, the inventor and father of the field of heliobiology, who — like his hero Galileo — was punished for daring to suggest that human history revolved around the sun. In biographical chapters recalling his experience as a refugee from
Soviet Russia, Elkind finds echoes of the exile of Emma Goldman and other political Undesirables from America to their “native” land in 1919.
DAN ELKIND'S work has appeared in Lapham’s Quarterly, the LA Review of Books, the Believer, Public Domain Review, and elsewhere. A former New Yorker, he is now based in Atlanta. In this book, Berardi analyses why this desertion is on the rise and why more people are quitting everything in our age of political impotence, the rise of the far-right, and climate collapse.