Between rock & a hard place: A memoir - Softcover

Rasch, Carsten

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1928420362 ISBN 13: 9781928420361

Verlag: Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

The &;80s in South Africa was a schmangled clusterfuck of a decade.Resistance against the apartheid government was mounting whileviolence swamped the beleaguered land. Change was undeniably in theair. As the country heaved and hummed with resistant energy, in Joburg,Cape Town and Durban, tiny pockets of anti-apartheid whiteys were usingmusic and parties to stage a punk-driven uprising against the tyrannicalgovernment. With guitars instead of guns and an insatiable hunger forfreedom, the state saw this bizarre subculture as a hive of hedonists anddrugged-up nihilists. However, this anarchic collection of guitar-wielding,pill-munching, dope-smoking musicians and their followers were in facta second front in the struggle against apartheid.This is history like you&;ve never read it. In brilliantly tragic and hilariousdetail, Between Rock & a Hard Place is an epic memoir by musician,promoter and enthusiastic participant Carsten Rasch. Rasch is a giftedstoryteller as he paints an untold history, detailing those tumultuous andgiddy times with heartfelt irreverence. Veering between lucid momentsof desperate innovation and psychotic adventures on the rim of sanity,all the time riding roughshod at delirious speeds over the potholes of&;culture&;, the reader is introduced to half-forgotten heroes, now fastdisappearing into the fog of time, and the band of misfits who attemptedto disrupt the system. Between Rock & a Hard Place is simultaneously ablow-for-blow rock &;n roll story told from the dubious vantage point ofbeing below the underbelly; an aberrant coming-of-age tale set in a timeof political madness and mad debauchery; and, finally, a lesson on horses.

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Carsten Rasch has been a video camera operator, club owner, maker of earrings, bongo player, poet, pizza maker, music promoter, props master, film director, impresario, film festival programmer, building contractor, occasional dealer in and smuggler of illicit substances, writer for Fair Lady&;s pop column, picture framer and the owner of a live music venue. He is presently a music curator and the drummer for a band of unapologetically ageing degenerates called The Time Flies.The main threads that run throughout his life, however, have been music and a rejection of authority (which has hindered and helped, but no doubt contributed, perhaps disproportionately so, to the person he is today). Between Rock & a Hard Place is his first attempt at writing a book.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1928420362
• ISBN 13: 9781928420361
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 260
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Buchpark GmbH; gpsr@buchpark.de; ; Krügerweg 1; Trebbin; Brandenburg; 14959; Deutschland