Apocalypse Calypso
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| Author / Creator: | Roos, Graham, 1966- |
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| Imprint: | London : University of Buckingham Press, The, 2012. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (137 pages) |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11955948 |
| Summary: | Themes of crisis and corruption come together to make this a collection of poems for our time. <p>The origins of this book are in the collaboration between The Royal Opera House, The London Sinfonietta, composer, Dominic Muldowney and author, Graham Roos, which culminated in a series of performances, sponsored by The Guardian , entitled The Arts of News at King's Place in 2009.</p> <p>The aim was to convert newspaper stories into songs without making them hieratic, instead retaining their tabloid feel. Two strands of work were created out of this commission: Songs of the Zeitgeist (a collaboration with Dominic Muldowney on the themes of celebrity, Binge Britain and ecological disaster) and Songs of Reckoning . Roos also created a verse cabaret set in the Media Suite in Hell where Lucifer stands for election accompanied by three Angels of the New Millennium.</p> <p>Much of the work in this book derives from Songs of the Zeitgeist and these other works; some are demotic and others hieratic, using more traditional forms.</p> |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (137 pages) |
| ISBN: | 1789551390 9781789551396 |