tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40018474575595815312024-02-07T19:54:13.373-08:00Communication and CultureLatest cultural news for all King Edward VI College Students in NuneatonSarah Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11274592889831612844noreply@blogger.comBlogger140125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001847457559581531.post-47986048930574649802013-02-02T01:34:00.001-08:002013-02-02T01:34:26.537-08:00Japanese pop star shaves head in apology – for night with boyfriend<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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As pop star misdemeanours go, Minami Minegishi's was tame in the extreme – breaking her group's strict dating ban to spend a night with her boyfriend.</div>
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Yet hours after a magazine published photographs of her leaving his home last month, Minegishi, a member of the <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jun/08/japan-election-pop-group-akb48" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="">wildly popular girl band AKB48</a>, went on to YouTube to issue <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=UlzrIgacADU%C2%A3!" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="">a tearful apology</a>.</div>
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"As a senior member of the group, it is my responsibility to be a role model for younger members," she said, before ending the four-minute mea culpa with a deep, lingering bow.</div>
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The most striking thing about her apology, however, was her appearance. She had shaved her head, a traditional act of contrition in<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/japan" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="More from guardian.co.uk on Japan">Japan</a>, but perhaps a step too far for a 20-year-old woman whose "crime" was to have found herself a boyfriend – 19-year-old Alan Shirahama, a dancer in a boyband.</div>
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Minegishi explained she had decided to cut off her long hair immediately after seeing her photograph, her face hidden behind a surgical mask and a baseball cap, in the weekly tabloid Shukan Bunshun on Thursday.</div>
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Her dramatic gesture underlined the strict rules to which Japan's young pop stars must adhere to project an image of unimpeachable morals.</div>
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In the YouTube video, which has been viewed more than 3m times, Minegishi said the assignation has been "thoughtless and immature".</div>
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"If it is possible, I wish from the bottom of my heart to stay in the band," she said. "Everything I did is entirely my fault. I am so sorry.</div>
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"I don't believe just doing this means I can be forgiven for what I did, but the first thing I thought was that I don't want to quit AKB48."</div>
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AKB48's management agency demoted her to "trainee level" starting on Friday, according to the band's official blog.<br />
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Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06534052322505628573noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001847457559581531.post-78010306661914841582012-11-22T15:16:00.002-08:002012-11-22T15:16:25.765-08:00Violence In Video Games<div style="text-align: center;">
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Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06534052322505628573noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001847457559581531.post-41182996768650280392012-10-26T12:54:00.002-07:002012-10-26T12:56:18.150-07:00Ken Loach to visit King Edward VI College on 16/11/12<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Ken Loach</b> is a f</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ormer student of King Edward VI Grammar School, a world renowned social realist filmmaker and he will be coming to Nuneaton on 16th November 2012 to revisit the college he attended in the 1950's. This is one of the first times he has returned to his hometown in recent years and it will be an excellent opportunity for current Film and Media students to gain inspiration from one of the most influential filmmakers that the UK has ever produced.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Loach's filmmaking career initially began in theatre and television, but he gained international fame <span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">in 1969 when he made </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kes_(film)" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Kes (film)">Kes</a></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">, the story of a troubled boy and his </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Kestrel" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Common Kestrel">kestrel</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">, based on the novel </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Kestrel_for_a_Knave" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="A Kestrel for a Knave">A Kestrel for a Knave</a></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"> by </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Hines" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Barry Hines">Barry Hines</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">.</span> </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">His most recent film <i>The Angel's Share</i> centres around a young Scottish troublemaker who is given one final opportunity to stay out of jail. The film competed for the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palme_d%27Or" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Palme d'Or">Palme d'Or</a> at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Cannes_Film_Festival" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="2012 Cannes Film Festival">2012 Cannes Film Festival</a> where Loach won the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_Prize_(Cannes_Film_Festival)" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Jury Prize (Cannes Film Festival)">Jury Prize</a>.</span></span><br />
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An entire generation of children could lose the cultural skills both they and the UK need if the government goes ahead with its <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/english-baccalaureate" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="More from guardian.co.uk on English baccalaureate">English Baccalaureate</a> plans without the arts as a core subject, the Tate director,<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/nicholas-serota" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="More from guardian.co.uk on Nicholas Serota">Nicholas Serota</a>, said on Thursday.</div>
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Serota used the launch of his organisation's annual report to urge ministers to rethink their plans for the EBacc certificates, which will replace <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/gcses" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="More from guardian.co.uk on GCSEs">GCSEs</a>.</div>
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He said the arts should be a fourth "R" alongside reading, writing and arithmetic. "The proposals do not provide for the arts as being one of the core subjects and the way in which the proposals have been formulated makes it very clear that art, design, music, drama and dance will be pushed to the margin with very little time in the curriculum for those subjects.</div>
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"We regard cultural learning as being more important than ever and we think that the arts have a primary role to play in a world that is dependent on literacy of all kinds, including visual."</div>
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Serota said it was a more important matter than even the debate about public cuts to arts spending because it affected every child in the country and "it is about the kind of society that we want to have in 20 years' time".</div>
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He added: "There is a real risk that fewer and fewer <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/schools" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="More from guardian.co.uk on Schools">schools</a> will provide learning opportunities in the arts. The UK's leading edge in creativity may be lost. We cannot deprive an entire generation of children of the cultural skills that they will need."</div>
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Serota is the latest of many to express concern at the proposals as they stand. Among the many voices <a href="http://www.ism.org/news/article/missed_opportunity_for_the_economy" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="">Deborah Annetts, the chief executive of the Incorporated Society of Musicians, said: "It is as if the Olympics never happened. Design – gone, technology – gone, music – gone. This shortsighted, wholesale attack on secondary music education will emasculate not only our world class music education system but also our entire creative economy."</a></div>
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That plan is still awaited. Serota said: "Everyone recognises there have been many things on the plate of the DCMS [Department for Culture, Media and Sport] over the summer of the Olympics, but we earnestly hope that the national plan will be published before Christmas."</div>
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Tate's annual report highlighted some of its 516 acquisitions to the collection over the past year. They include works gifted by artists, such as Martin Creed giving a neon work with the words "DON'T WORRY", and works purchased, such as nearly 10 cubic metres of Ai Weiwei's sunflower seeds and 58 photographs by Lewis Baltz, which make up a series called San Quentin Point 1982.</div>
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The chairman of trustees, Lord Browne, said Tate now got the majority of its funding, 61%, from private and not public sources. "Over the past five years Tate has increased its self-generated income by 15%, compared to the 5% increase in grant-in-aid."</div>
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It was also announced that it has raised three-quarters of the capital costs for its ongoing £215m extension while all the money was raised for the £45m Tate Britain redevelopment that will, among other things, allow the first floor to be opened to the public for the first time since 1928.</div>
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On Saturday 12 November 2011, all across Britain, people filmed the everyday events of their lives. The resulting 750 hours of footage have been edited into a 90 minute film by director Morgan Matthews. It will be shown on BBC2 at 9.00pm on Monday 11th June. For more information go to the BBC <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00kqz5p">website</a>, where you can see clips of the film.Sarah Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11274592889831612844noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001847457559581531.post-49042423413444141712012-06-06T14:18:00.000-07:002012-06-06T14:18:13.472-07:00An 18th Century Transvestite<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The <a href="http://www.npg.org.uk/">National Portrait Gallery</a> has bought, what is believed to be, it's first portrait of a man in
woman's clothing; an 18th century transvestite called Charles Geneviève Louis Auguste
André Timothée d'Éon de Beaumont. He was well known across all sections of society as a diplomat, soldier and spy. Read more about the portrait and it's subject on The Guardian <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/jun/06/portrait-18th-century-early-transvestite">website</a>.Sarah Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11274592889831612844noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001847457559581531.post-37157651088071607702012-05-29T01:59:00.000-07:002012-05-29T01:59:02.439-07:00RETROMANIA: Pop Culture's Addiction To Its Own Past By Simon Reynolds<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Dummy magazine's "The 10 Best Modern Music Books": #1. Retromania: Pop Culture’s Addiction To Its Own Past "There’s no doubting technology’s ability to reproduce and discover art and artists of the past has had an impact on the retrogressive eye of contemporary culture and music. Whether you agree with his polemical tract, Simon Reynolds’s era-defining book is as essential as it gets."<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">
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Turner Prize winning artist Grayson Perry hosts a new series on Channel 4 called 'In the Best Possible Taste' which starts on June 5th at 10pm. He looks at how our family background and class shape the way we define ourselves through what we wear and buy
and how we live. Each episode sees Grayson create a piece of artwork inspired by his experience. See more about the series <a href="http://www.senecaproductions.com/productions/grayson-perry-on-taste/">here</a>.<br />
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The song inspired by last year's riots has now become a film. Plan B, aka Ben Drew, explains why he was driven to make it.<br />
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Dark reality is, if anything, an understatement. The film is an unapologetic and at times unnerving and uncomfortable drama, a depiction of life in the most unloved and unforgiving streets of east London, seen through the interwoven lives of its dysfunctional characters, linked and part-narrated by six new Plan B tracks. Starring established British actors such as Riz Ahmed (aka rapper Riz MC) and Natalie Press alongside unknowns such as Keith Coggins (Drew's godfather in real life) and Ryan De La Cruz, it shows the spirals of hopelessness and violence that vulnerable individuals can easily be sucked in to.<br />
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ILL Manors is not a manifesto or a direct polemic, but, like many of the best protest artforms, concentrates on capturing a mood – of desolation and anxiety. Rather than judging or preaching, it's more concerned with encouraging debate about the root of the problems it presents and demonstrating how they can have a domino effect on people's lives. It's also a surprisingly accomplished piece of work for a directorial debut and Drew, you could argue, is becoming a much-needed spokesman for an alienated sector of our society that feels it doesn't have a voice.<br />
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"I just wanted to say, 'They're not all scum,'" says Drew of his characters. "They act the way they do because of the shit that happened to them that wasn't their fault. It's not your fault if your parents abandon you and put you in a home. It's not your fault, but there comes a time when you have to take responsibility for your actions. But for a lot of them, there's no one there saying, 'All that shit that happened to you in the past is fucked up, man, and I feel really sorry for you, but you're just repeating that bad and negative energy through what you're doing and you can't keep blaming the past for the way you're acting now.'"<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">Youth is wasted on the young, as jealous old George Bernard Shaw once said. But that didn't seem true of the subjects of <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2012/apr/12/readers-recommend-songs-teenagers" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="">many songs you suggested</a> last week. Anyway, with grownups hurling so many brickbats at them, who can blame teenagers for throwing the odd strop?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;"></span><br />
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"It's only teenage wasteland." So sang the Who on Baba O'Riley. Though as RR commenter <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/discussion/comment-permalink/15618961" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="">treefrogdemon</a> says, "Why is it a teenage wasteland? Dunno." But incoherence is part of the teenager's lot, and anyone who's been 15 will feel the uncontained rage in the song, happily rescued from Pete Townshend's abandoned concept album Lifehouse (abandoned because only Townshend understood the concept).</div>
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Rock'n'roll began life as music for teenagers, and progenitor Eddie Cochran knew his audience. Teenage Heaven consists of a list of demands that will strike a chord with all disaffected teens: "I want to stay up all night … Just give me some time on my hands/ I want to make my own private plans."</div>
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<a href="http://www.punk77.co.uk/groups/waspsgarywellmaninterview.htm" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="">Punk</a>, like rock'n'roll, was to a large extent teenagers making music for teenagers. Hence Teenage Treats by the Wasps, east London youths whose musical career was on the skids before they were old enough to vote.</div>
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You've got to hand it to Atari Teenage Riot, whose eponymous debut single gleefully imbued the thrills of rave with the snottiest punk attitude. Rave plays a role too in the Killers' When You Were Young: it's half stadium rock anthem, with a Bruce Springsteen-esque nostalgia for mythical youth, and half house euphoria. And Dire Straits' Romeo and Juliet may be self-consciously "classic", but recasts the age-old tale of star-crossed teen lovers to the rock era in a way even Springsteen must have envied.</div>
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The Beach Boys' hymn to teenage solitude, In My Room, was an early attempt by Brian Wilson to create music he described as "teenage symphonies to God". The Beach Boys also recorded <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uieE43uxur0" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="">So Young</a>, a cover of a 1958 hit by doowoppers the Students. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZX5YPpfOINQ" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="">The Ronettes</a>' version is right up there, Ronnie Spector's voice full of not-quite-innocent heartbreak, Phil Spector's production all heavenly strings and choirs of angels.</div>
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The Teenagers' F*ck Nicole ("so teenage, so French" as RR regular <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/discussion/comment-permalink/15621799" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="">Japanther</a> says) is full of surprises: backwards verses, superfluous swearing and a Gallic Lou Reed detailing an adolescent career off the rails. But hang on. Japanese popstrels Scandal were nominated by Hoshino Sakura, who says Beauteen's about "being a teenager, pretty and love … the perfect antidote to all the teenage angst from the Smiths!"</div>
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No Smiths in this week's playist, but the Flamin' Groovies are in garage rock mode on Teenage Head, focusing on sexual frustration and aggression. First line: "I'm a monster!" And there's more cartoon parent-worrying from the Ramones in Teenage Lobotomy: "Now I guess I'll have to tell 'em/ that I got no cerebellum." A contender, surely, for the best lyric ever. And I loved RR commenter <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/discussion/comment-permalink/15618416" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="">llamalpaca</a>'s description of adolescence as portrayed in the Regents' skinny-tie classic 7-Teen: "Knocking on the door of adulthood but not getting in."</div>
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udQ9M7OWhHY" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="">When You Were Young (Lindbergh Palace remix) – The Killers</a></div>
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* Listen to these songs on a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLF31632A808664486&feature=mh_lolz" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="">YouTube playlist</a></div>
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* Read all the readers' recommendations on <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2012/apr/12/readers-recommend-songs-teenagers" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="">last week's blog</a>, from which the songs above are selected</div>
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* Here's a <a href="http://open.spotify.com/user/guardianmusic/playlist/0sqQqEFI8pEBayO7qD5rr8" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="">Spotify playlist</a> containing readers' recommendations on this theme</div>
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Here are 2 chapters from <i><b>'The Sociology of Culture'</b></i> which you will find useful for applying theory to your coursework and exam assignments. They are concerned with 'Everyday Life and the Construction of Meaning': specifically <b>'Music and Social Experience'</b> and <b>'Consumer Culture'</b>. Taking and using a few selective quotes from these sections will add a theoretical perspective to your individual studies and strengthen your critical analysis of cultural practices and products.</div>
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Mean World Syndrome</b> is a phenomenon where the violence-related content of mass media convinces viewers that the world is more dangerous than it actually is, and prompts a desire for more protection than is warranted by any actual threat. Mean World Syndrome is one of the main conclusions of cultivation theory. The term <b>"Mean World Syndrome"</b> was coined by George Gerbner, a pioneer researcher on the effects of television on society, when he noted that people who watched a lot of TV tended to think of the world as an unforgiving and scary place.</span><br />
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The new version has been created for a special birthday celebration of Blake's life at the Vintage Festival hosted by Wayne Hemmingway at Boughton House, Northamptonshire, in July. Go to their <a href="http://www.vintagefestival.co.uk/news/42">website</a> to read more and see the full list of people included. The original artwork is pictured below.<br />
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Researchers have established a direct link between the number of friends you have on Facebook and the degree to which you are a "socially disruptive" narcissist, confirming the conclusions of many <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/social-media" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="More from guardian.co.uk on Social media">social media</a> sceptics.</div>
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People who score highly on the Narcissistic Personality Inventory questionnaire had more friends on Facebook, tagged themselves more often and updated their newsfeeds more regularly.</div>
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The latest study, published in the journal Personality and Individual Differences, also found that narcissists responded more aggressively to derogatory comments made about them on the <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/socialnetworking" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="More from guardian.co.uk on Social networking">social networking</a> site's public walls and changed their profile pictures more often.</div>
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A number of previous studies have linked narcissism with Facebook use, but this is some of the first evidence of a direct relationship between Facebook friends and the most "toxic" elements of narcissistic personality disorder.</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>PopCult</i></b> is an on-line magazine simply dedicated to pop culture. It is worth a look to get some solid discussion of contemporary artefacts and issues as, for the most part, other magazines are writing about entertainment products, not necessarily "culture." What you typically get in the regular press are articles interviewing celebrities who just happen to be selling something: a new movie, a new CD, a new TV show, or just their own fabulousness. Consequently, most of the media that's described as being about "pop culture" is really about the personalities of famous people. <br /><br />What comes across in <b><i>PopCult</i></b> is a genuine love and interest in popular culture, left-field arts, personal obsessions and a site that actually believes in what it writes about. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"><br /></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Take a look at your local newsstand and here's what you'll see: racks upon racks of magazines that look almost identical. Whether they focus on music, fashion, cigars, fitness, women, or men, most magazines typically feature a grinning celebrity on the cover peeking out from behind squadrons of coverlines. It wasn't always like this.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>From the "golden age" of magazine popularity in the 1920s-'30s and on through to the early '60s, even the most mainstream of magazines tried to lure in readers with distinctive design, original typography, and striking artwork. The cover was considered a canvas–rather than merely a billboard–by groundbreaking art directors like Mehemed Fehmy Agha (Vogue, House & Garden, Vanity Fair), Alexey Brodovitch (Harper's Bazaar), and Eleanor Treacy and Francis Brennan (Fortune). These and other designers of that era transformed magazines into works of art in themselves.</i></span></blockquote>Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06534052322505628573noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001847457559581531.post-68640991482284615782012-03-16T03:34:00.001-07:002012-04-04T03:26:22.914-07:00Off Book: Book Art<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Books are in a conflicted state. Should they still exist in a digital era? Will they all be replaced by Kindles and Nooks? These questions dominate the discussion of books in our time. A select group of artists, who use books as their medium, engage this discussion from another angle. From pop culture pop-ups, to surreal sculptural stories, to reformations of antique sacred texts, these creators re-envision what the experience of a book can be. At times playful, and other times profound, this episode explores the boundaries of one of the most important human creations.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For decades now, people have joined together online to communicate and collaborate around interesting imagery. In recent years, the pace and intensity of this activity has reached a fever pitch. With countless communities engaging in a constant exchange, building on each others’ work, and producing a prodigious flow of material, we may be experiencing the early stages of a new type of artistic and cultural collaboration. In this episode of Off Book, we’ll speak with a number of Internet experts and artists who'll give us an introductory look into this intriguing new world.</span><br />
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