Rockfield is a recording studio that literally lives up to its name. Over the past thirty years, this rural Monmouthshire locale has played host to a bevy of British musical legends—from Robert Plant, Queen, and Black Sabbath to Oasis, the Stone Roses, Simple Minds to present day acts like The Darkness and Kasabian—as its unique acoustics have helped to define the sounds of many of rock’s most classic albums. A rich narrative history packed with previously unheard behind-the-scenes anecdotes, Rock Legends at Rockfield features recent interviews with legendary artists who tell the bizarre tales behind the recording of modern classics like Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” and Oasis’s “Live Forever.” Some accounts are from the musicians themselves, including Lemmy from Motorhead and Robert Plant, while others are told by those a step or two removed—the roadies, producers, photographers, and hangers-on that helped to coax the strange happenings that accompanied the otherwise mundane routine of day-to-day recording. Along the way, author Jeff Collins examines how this dilapidated set of farm buildings and their solid-stone studios rose to become one of the most famous brands in recording history—and a stage for musical excess and excellence. Not to be missed by any fan of British music or classic rock scholar, Rock Legends at Rockfield is an uproarious and eminently readable look at one of the most legendary studios in the world.

Rock Legends at Rockfield

Collins, Jeff

Biographies & Memoirs

University of Wales Press

The Stereophonics are surely one of the Welsh nation’s most best-known contributions to the contemporary music scene, and at the heart of their story is the rise and fall and re-emergence of Stuart Cable, the band’s original drummer, who was kicked out of the band in 2003, after their first run of success. This book presents an insider’s account of Cable’s life in music, detailing his rise from an obscure Welsh mining village to drumming for sold-out shows at stadiums worldwide. Jeff Collins engages Cable in rich replays of the past and narrates the debut of Cable’s new band, Killing for Company, from backstage, then turns to music legend Roger Daltrey for thoughts on the difficulties of making it in the world of rock and the possibilities of Cable’s succeeding one last time.

Stuart Cable: From Cwmaman to the Stereophonics and Beyond

Arts & Photography

Music

The Power of Words

In 1888, Mark Twain reflected on the writer's special feel for words to his correspondent, George Bainton, noting that "the difference between the almost-right word and the right word is really a large matter." We recognize differences between a politician who is "willful" and one who is "willing" even though the difference does not cross word-stems or parts of speech. We recognize that being "held up" evokes different experiences depending upon whether its direct object is a meeting, a bank, or an example. Although we can notice hundreds of examples in the language where small differences in wording produce large reader effects, the authors of The Power of Words argue that these examples are random glimpses of a hidden systematic knowledge that governs how we, as writers or speakers, learn to shape experience for other human beings.Over the past several years, David Kaufer and his colleagues have developed a software program for analyzing writing called DocuScope. This book illustrates the concepts and rhetorical theory behind the software analysis, examining patterns in writing and showing writers how their writing works in different categories to accomplish varying objectives. Reflecting the range and variety of audience experience that contiguous words of surface English can prime, the authors present a theory of language as an instrument of rhetorically priming audiences and a catalog of English strings to implement the theory. The project creates a comprehensive map of the speaker and writer's implicit knowledge about predisposing audience experience at the point of utterance. The book begins with an explanation of why studying language from the standpoint of priming--not just meaning--is vital to non-question begging theories of close reading and to language education in general. The remaining chapters in Part I detail the steps taken to prepare a catalog study of English strings for their properties as priming instruments. Part II describes in detail the catalog of priming categories, including enough examples to help readers see how individual words and strings of English fit into the catalog. The final part describes how the authors have applied the catalog of English strings as priming tools to conduct textual research.

The Power of Words: Unveiling the Speaker and Writer's Hidden Craft

Politics & Social Sciences

Kaufer, David S.

Butler, Brian S.

Ishizaki, Suguru

Social Sciences

Routledge

Provides an accessible introduction to Martin Heidegger's notoriously abstruse thinking, mapping out its historical contexts and exploring its resonances in ecology, theology, art, architecture, literature and other fields.

Introducing Heidegger

Philosophy

Icon,Totem Books

Jacques Derrida is one of the most influential figures in contemporary philosophy. Yet, Derrida has undermined the accepted rules of philosophy, rejected its methods and concepts, disrupted its boundaries and "contaminated" philosophy with other kinds of writings. Derrida's approach is an initially puzzling array of oblique, sliding and yet rigorous tactics for destabilising texts, meanings and identities. "Deconstructions" as these strategies have been called, has been reviled as a politically pernicious nihilism and celebrated as a liberatory politics of choice and difference. This work describes the key strategies of Derrida's writing, explains their controversial effects in philosophy, and shows how Derrida has put them to work in literature, art, architecture and politics. The book offers a starting point for an intellectual adventure that threatens to disturb some of the most comfortable habits of contemporary thought.

Introducing Derrida

Martin Heidegger’s enthusiastic advocacy of Nazism has left discordant traces in the political culture of postmodernity. As a philosopher, he proposed an extraordinary thinking calculated to ‘overcome’ Western philosophy. A major resource for the counter-philosophies, anti-essentialisms and deconstructive movements of the postmodern era, his work has proved attractive to thinkers such as Foucault, Lacan, Derrida, Deleuze and Baudrillard. Critics, however, have seen in their work some dangerous failures of political judgement and responsibility. Their applause for Heidegger seems crucially symptomatic. "Heidegger and the Nazis" reviews the facts and arguments surrounding Heidegger’s politics, and situates them within critical political debates as we move into the 21st century. Reason, modernity, humanism, subjectivity and identity – as well as the futures of Marxism and social democracy – are among the issues. At stake are not only philosophical reputations, but also the possibility of successful opposition to the resurgent nazisms of our own time.

Heidegger and the Nazis (Postmodern Encounters)

History

Europe

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Introducing Heidegger provides an accessible introduction to his difficult thinking, examining its historical contexts and its resonances in ecology, theology, art, literature and other fields.

Heidegger announced the end of philosophy and was vocal supporter of Nazism. Was he offering a deeply conservative mythology or a crucial deconstruction of philosophy as we have known it? Introducing Heidegger provides an accessible introduction to his notoriously abstruse thinking, mapping out its historical contexts and exploring its contemporary resonances.

Introducing Heidegger: A Graphic Guide (Graphic Guides)

Professionals & Academics

Icon Books

Jacques Derrida is the most famous philosopher of the late twentieth century. His philosophy is an array of rigorous tactics for destabilizing texts, meanings, and identities. Introducing Derrida introduces and explores his life and work and explains his influence within both philosophy and literature.

Introducing Derrida: A Graphic Guide (Graphic Guides)

Comics & Graphic Novels

Graphic Novels

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Rock Legends at Rockfield

Stuart Cable: From Cwmaman to the Stereophonics and Beyond

The Power of Words: Unveiling the Speaker and Writer's Hidden Craft

Introducing Heidegger

Introducing Derrida

Heidegger and the Nazis (Postmodern Encounters)

Introducing Derrida

Introducing Heidegger

Introducing Heidegger: A Graphic Guide (Graphic Guides)

Introducing Derrida: A Graphic Guide (Graphic Guides)