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I oiu-i-imi AUTHOR EVENINGS REVOLUTIONARY Tuesday 17 May: Edwin Morgan Poetry Reading RUMBLINGS
Wednesday 18 May: Allan Massie Byron‘s Travels
No Telephone to Heaven Michelle ‘ ( litfixfethiien. Lions) "II he 7pm for 7.30pm. Admission free. national language is lznglish and you “hm will be SC[wed
can drink the water. ' .laniaica.
described for the :‘xtttei'icans yy ho ntake it their piiiy-gmiiia. is — ey'er-pi'esent in this noy cl; though
the action inoy'es to Britain. l-‘rance
Forces in Motion (.ir'ihllm 1 Mk I and America. the island remains in (,(),*(l()}l ksn'cef’ (r](lsg}()ui I ‘ .10 ‘ .8" _ . the thoughtsof the characters. ey'en , , , ‘ ) ) C I) ) (Quartet. L- )Ant on_y raxton is Mme-me to Mr?!“ H. (hm h [Clo/)bwne'. (’]([5K(\}()llt __ 1 ()H 6‘-
one of the unsung heroes of contemporary music. an innovator who unites within himself the traditions ofjazz. free improvisation
light-skinned and could escape Jamaica‘s problems of
underdeyelopement but her iMonday—Salurday
. . . ex ieriences abroad radicalise her and modern notated music. \\ riter mid 101d hm m Mn [hc 77171736103) (’mhi‘lm Lock mined Bruxmn S reyolutionary nioy einent when she Sunday
scintillating 1985 quartet tourof England. and Forces in Motion chronicles that journey. The meat of ._ . _ . . . r v . . characteii/ation. the maior
thebookliesina long seriesof ‘ _ _. ’ . . . ~ . , characteisney ei impressthenisely es intery'iews with Braxton. in which he _ ._ .
. onto the reader s consciousness and explains the musical and mystical
. . . . they seem rather nebuloUs as a philosophies which inform his ' . . y _
. . result. 1 he noy el though. makes up unique music. a complex web of . _ . . ‘ . a. . . . for such technical inadequacies by its ideas leayened by Lock soften '
returns. 'l‘here are weaknesses in the noy'el. principally in
forceful. coherent and ultimately
amusing 'iccount oflife on the road ‘ ' ~ ‘ moy'ing adyocaey of the need for a I n
for penurious musicians. 'l‘he book . . . . . ieyolutionary consciousness to includes an inyaluable catalogue of '
. . . liberate Jamaica from its status as a compositions(Braxton sworksare A. . e. . ‘ ‘ . ... . tourist paradise. Its final lines are an identified by diagrams rather than . .- ~ . . amalganiof languagesand sounds titlesl.andis required readingfor _ ‘. ‘ . . d . ~ . exposingthe difficultiesof
anyone eyen remotely interested in _. f V , . . [h' I t. t. describing the emerging New \\ oifd = J
en ore exo ic reac es o ‘ * ‘ . ...
1ntheoldcofoniallanguages. ( liff - &
contemporary music. Pester your _ _ I . . . - . — ney ei iesoly es the problem but in local library to get a copy. ifonly as a . . . . : r , - . - poetical .laniaican slang she coniures public seryice. (fsenny .‘yfathiesonl “ - up an emergent national
consciousness to set against the
rey‘olutionary failure that concludes The Crash Mihir Bose (Bloomsbury {his rule. (Allen Rice) £13.95) In this remarkably readable
exposition of financial jargon. Bose
describes the effect of Big Bang and Lime Misunderstandings 0' N0 the 34—hour electronic marketplace. Imponance Mmmm ,hhucchi
"I‘h ‘th 'o ’s ssa' ; ‘r's ' would . .. _ L .k n I ldm um.“ I 1‘ (( hatto ck \\ indus. Hilfb) An be safely spread worldwide. but last ( . ~ ‘ y ,- —‘ ‘ . author snoteslippedcoyly intothe ()ctober s ( rash proved it to be - - ‘ _ ~ ,' ' .- . , trontof this collectionstiggests.with dangerously unstable. with a tidal , ._ H. . .. s V - , ambiguous irony . that ambiguity is at “aw 01wmputcr'kdscnmg the heart of”I"ib-ucchi‘scone rns v v sweeping the world.
, ‘ ‘ .. it‘s as if ( iod had scribbled down a l he ( rash does not merely afford _, ‘ . .y . . r preface to ( ienesis explaining that
us the grim satisfaction of seeing , . . I _ '- ~ , . . . ~ perhaps he d only made us in order , hordes of\ uppies being giyen a . ' , ' -. ., " .- . , ‘ s s to tell us about it afterwards. colonic layage . Bose argues that the . t ‘ _ . ‘- r - ~ .. x .. Such ciicunilocution haunts the world haslostconfidence in at SA I . . . . . . 3 . snail s-trail of seyeral of his which in 1956 became the biggest , . . U narratiy es. lnthe title-talethe past debtor nation. 1 he system needs a . , - . . grips the present in its laws. biting new regulatory authority to enforce . .‘ ‘ . . ~ ' - i for good measure the impotent minimal stock-exchange standards i I . . . . . ~ . . . . narrator who witnesses old friends in and a mechanism to stabilise y'olatile . ‘ , . acourtroom fandango—onebeing exchange rates. The C rash showed s ~ ~. . . . the accused. the other the iudge. lts economicand politicalleadersthatit . . . 7 ~ .y. . Fellini-esque imagery. soundlessly is in the nature of a bubble to burst .. * - ' f engulfing both reader and
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