Category: The Waste Land
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My Favourite Albums of All Time (Part Two)
This is the second part of my favourite albums of all time. You can find the first part here My Favourite Albums of All Time Part One. 6. Astral Weeks by Van Morrison Astral Weeks is unique like many of the albums on my list. I’m not that much of a Van Morrison fan. I find most of his records…
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My Favourite Albums of All Time (Part One)
This is a tricky one. I’ve never been that impressed with ‘best of’ lists but I found myself sitting in a hotel room listening to music on my phone and I began thinking about what my favourite (and most influential) albums of all-time were. I say influential because, as some of you know, I am…
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‘Thought-tormented Music’: David Bowie’s Low and T.S. Eliot
Posted: January 9, 2013 | Author: Kathryn | Filed under: Music | Tags: bowie, modernism, music, poetry, ts eliot,william burroughs |4 Comments Fragmented language, Nietzschean elitism, and disillusionment with art: could Bowie’s Thin White Duke era have been inspired by The Waste Land? -Kathryn Bromwich Submitted for MA in English: Issues in Modern Culture, University College London, 2009. Shorter, snappier version here. T.S. Eliot’s early work, particularly The Love Song of J. Alfred…