Entertainment > Music Education The blues had a baby and they called it rock-n-roll

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The Evolution from Country Blues to Rock and RollPre-WarThe American sheet music publishing industry produced a great deal of ragtime music. By 1912, the sheet music industry published three popular blues-like compositions, precipitating the Tin Pan Alley adoption of blues elements: "Baby Seals' Blues" by "Baby" F. Seals (arr... More..

Entertainment > Directors & Film Makers A guide to the best documentary filmmakers of all time

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Time for WisemanTechnological changes in the sixties led to the introduction of lightweight portable16 mm cameras , the new technology changing the nature of documentary film-making.Cinema Verite minimised voice-over commentary and non-diegestic music. The style and form appeared observational but in fact a film would be cull... More..

Politics, News & Issues > Politics in the UK Commentary: Pensions and the quality of life in the UK

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Quality of Life in Old Age ?At the time of going to press, 1,200 members of Amicus/Unite employed at Grangemouth oil refinery have just ended a 48 hours strike the first strike in a British oil refinery since 1935. The strike is over proposed changes to the Final Salary Pension scheme . It is the latest in a long line of prot... More..

Politics, News & Issues > News Industry Whatever happened to quality journalism?

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From George Orwell's' "Collected Essays"'Orwell, Politics and the English Language'Its over 60 years since Orwell wrote the essay Politics and the English Language' -yet its warnings are as relevant now as they were then . Orwell argued that the decline of the English language as a useful tool reflected the political conditio... More..

Entertainment > Music Genres, Trends & Scenes Blues music: Past, present and future

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Pre-War BluesIt was the fusion of blues with ragtime and Jazz in the early twenties by bandleaders like Handy that popularised the blues. His signature work was the St Louis blues. The other way blues reached White audiences was through the classic female blues performers, the music evolving from informal entertainment in bar... More..

Politics, News & Issues > War & Peace Russia enters new era of saber-rattling

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Post- Soviet RussiaAccording to Alexandr Buzgalin there has been a protracted period of decline in Russia in which 50% of GNP and 70% of investment were lost in the post-Soviet period. David Mandel in Labour after Communism' puts forward other key stats industrial production down 55%, capital investment down 80%, research and... More..

Arts & Humanities > Photography Photographer: Diane Arbus

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The DocumentCritics of early documentary photography repeated the same critique of the medium that had been made against the founding father of documentary film John Grierson - that working class people had been represented as passive victims of industrial capitalism . At best the photograph aimed to pressurise governments in... More..

Entertainment > Movie Genres A guide to the top documentaries in 2006

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Documentaries that changed the world !Micheal Moores' Fahrenheit 9/11 and Sicko have revived the documentary as a film form in recent years. The following recommended documentary films had the power to change the course of events in the real world .They have been either innovative in some aspect of film technique or led to ch... More..

Arts & Humanities > Literature (Other) Book reviews: First they Killed My Father, by Loung Ung

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"There's a riot going on, revolutionaries,rock Stars and the rise and fall of 60s counter-culture" by Peter Doggett'Peter Doggetts "There's a riot going on, revolutionaries, rock Stars and the rise and fall of 60's counter-culture was one of the best featured books at the recent Aye Write festival in Glasgow .The book recalls... More..

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