Dorian Lynskey: 3 books
33 Revolutions per Minute
A History of Protest Songs, from Billie Holiday to Green Day
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
Dorian Lynskey is one of the most prominent music critics writing today. With 33 Revolutions Per Minute, he offers an engrossing, insightful, and wonderfully researched history of protest music in the twentieth century and beyond. From Billie Holiday and Woodie Guthrie to Bob Dylan and the Clash to...
33 revoluciones por minuto
Historia de la canción protesta
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Una historia detallada de la canción protesta, uno de los géneros musicales que mejor han definido el siglo XX. Para Lynskey, la obra fundacional de este género es "Strange Fruit" que Billie Holiday interpretó por primera vez en 1939. En esa canción se reunían la calidad musical y la denuncia...
The Ministry of Truth
The Biography of George Orwell's 1984
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
**"Rich and compelling. . .Lynskey’s account of the reach of 1984 is revelatory.”
--George Packer, *The Atlantic *
An authoritative, wide-ranging, and incredibly timely history of 1984--its literary sources, its composition by Orwell, its deep and lasting effect on the Cold War,...