1981, hardcover edition, Holt, NY. Literary biography, 142 pages. Author James Kennaway was killed in a car crash at the age of 40. Kennaway left behind a set of diaries and unpublished correspondence. His wife has gone through that material and the result is this impressive volume.

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KENNAWAY, JAMES

HOLT. RINEHART AND WINSTON

Tunes of Glory

Penguin

'A fine fusion of science and imagination, this novel belongs on the same shelf as the books of William Golding and George Orwell's 1984.' - Washington Post  '[E]xciting . . . provides more than a few frissons and a story of considerable sophistication and fascination.' - Kirkus Reviews  'Kennaway's treatment of this nightmare and his horrifying suggestions for bending minds makes this a first-rate thriller.' - Times Literary Supplement  Why did Professor Sharpey, the Nobel Prize-winning scientist, commit suicide by throwing himself from a fast-moving train? And why were briefcases stuffed with cash found beside his shattered corpse? Major Hall of British Intelligence suspects Sharpey was a traitor selling secrets to the Communists. But Sharpey's colleague, Dr Harry Longman, believes his friend's strange behaviour is connected with his groundbreaking experiments using an isolation tank to test the effects of sensory deprivation. There's only one way for Longman to discover what really happened to Sharpey and clear his friend's name: he must subject himself to the same frightening experiments. But the terror he undergoes in the isolation tank is nothing compared to the horror that will follow: for what emerges from the lab is no longer Longman, but something else entirely . . .   A chilling and gripping story of espionage and mind control, James Kennaway's third novel, The Mind Benders (1963), was a critical success and the basis for a cult classic film version starring Dirk Bogarde. This edition, the first in decades, features a new introduction by Paul Gallagher.

The Mind Benders (Signet SF, P2515)

New American Library

Lt. Colonel Jock Sinclair is a rough talking, whisky drinking soldier's soldier, a hero of the desert campaign who rose to his position through the ranks. Colonel Barrow, an officer graduate of Oxford and Sandhurst, had a wretched war in Japanese prison camps. But he has come to take command of the Battalion he has long admired, the one that Jock Sinclair has served in since he was a boy. In the claustrophobic world of Campbell barracks, a conflict is inevitable between the two men and a tragedy unfolds with concentrated and ferocious power.
James Kennaway served in a Highland regiment himself, and his feeling for 'tunes of glory, for the glamour and brutality of army life gives added authenticity and humour to this, his first and most famous novel. He died in a car crash at the tragically early age of forty.

Tunes of Glory (Canongate Classics)

Literature & Fiction

Classics

CANONGATE BOOKS *

Mainstream Publishing

Household ghosts

Romance

Mainstream

Bad Vibrations: The History of the Idea of Music as a Cause of Disease (The History of Medicine in Context)

Music has been used as a cure for disease since as far back as King David's lyre, but the notion that it might be a serious cause of mental and physical illness was rare until the late eighteenth century. At that time, physicians started to argue that excessive music, or the wrong kind of music, could over-stimulate a vulnerable nervous system, leading to illness, immorality and even death. Since then there have been successive waves of moral panics about supposed epidemics of musical nervousness, caused by everything from Wagner to jazz and rock 'n' roll. It was this medical and critical debate that provided the psychiatric rhetoric of "degenerate music" that was the rationale for the persecution of musicians in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. By the 1950s, the focus of medical anxiety about music shifted to the idea that "musical brainwashing" and "subliminal messages" could strain the nerves and lead to mind control, mental illness and suicide. More recently, the prevalence of sonic weapons and the use of music in torture in the so-called War on Terror have both made the subject of music that is bad for the health worryingly topical. This book outlines and explains the development of this idea of pathological music from the Enlightenment until the present day, providing an original contribution to the history of medicine, music and the body.

Arts & Photography

Music

Routledge

Music has been used as a cure for disease since as far back as King David's lyre, but the notion that it might be a serious cause of mental and physical illness was rare until the late eighteenth century. At that time, physicians started to argue that excessive music, or the wrong kind of music, could over-stimulate a vulnerable nervous system, leading to illness, immorality and even death. Since then there have been successive waves of moral panics about supposed epidemics of musical nervousness, caused by everything from Wagner to jazz and rock 'n' roll. It was this medical and critical debate that provided the psychiatric rhetoric of "degenerate music" that was the rationale for the persecution of musicians in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. By the 1950s, the focus of medical anxiety about music shifted to the idea that "musical brainwashing" and "subliminal messages" could strain the nerves and lead to mind control, mental illness and suicide. More recently, the prevalence of sonic weapons and the use of music in torture in the so-called War on Terror have both made the subject of music that is bad for the health worryingly topical. This book outlines and explains the development of this idea of pathological music from the Enlightenment until the present day, providing an original contribution to the history of medicine, music and the body.

Ashgate

Tunes of GloryHousehold GhostsSilenceThis  volume collects three of the very best works by James Kennaway, the  brilliant young novelist and screenwriter who tragically died in a car  crash at the early age of forty.Memorably filmed with Alec Guinness and John Mills, Tunes of Glory  is a grippingly dramatic exploration of the glamour and the brutality  of post-war army life as the tensions and conflicts in the officers'  mess of a Highland regiment lead to shame and tragedy.Household Ghosts  is a claustrophobic tale of family tension, love triangles and the  persistence of the past-one of Kennaway's favourite themes. Set in a  country house in Scotland the book is haunted, like the privileged  family it describes, by the ghosts of Scotland's own turbulent history.Taken from completed drafts on the author's desk, Silence  tells of the accidental meeting and the complex union between a white  man and a black woman in times of racial tension and sexual violence.  Set in a North American city in midwinter Kennaway's last and  brilliantly succinct novel expands into a universal allegory of  suffering and death.

Household Ghosts: A James Kennaway Omnibus: Tunes of Glory; Household Ghosts; Silence (Canongate Classics)

Contemporary

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