Meet James Vagabond, tasked by the Very-Secret Service with a mission so secret that even they don't know what the mission is James has saved the Earth before, but how can he do so again just by intuition? Can his friend Gordon Wells, the somnabulist writer, help? How can James escape from drowning and being eaten by predators due to the latest in total-involvement reality TV? When cyber-angels abduct James to Heaven, who is really sitting in the Celestial Throne? Is a talking snail a reliable guide? How does James come to owe several times the value of the Earth in taxes? Be amazed at how...
Meet James Vagabond, tasked by the Very-Secret Service with a mission so secret that even they don't know what the mission is James has saved the Ear...
Originally published in 1983. Song has always been a natural way to record everyday experiences an expression of celebration, commiseration, complaint and protest. This innovative book is a study of popular and working-class song combining several approaches to the subject. It is a history of working-class song in Britain which concentrates not simply on the songs and the singers but attempts to locate such song in its cultural context and apply principles of literary criticism to this essentially oral medium. It triggered controversy: some critics castigated its Marxist approach, others...
Originally published in 1983. Song has always been a natural way to record everyday experiences an expression of celebration, commiseration, compla...
