Bøger af Barbara Browning

A very true love story, told in counterpoint, about friendship, politics and rock n roll. In Barbara Browning's eyes, Imre Lodbrog is the greatest aging French rock star you've never heard of, with the appeal of "Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan or Serge Gainsbourg on shrooms." For Imre Lodbrog, music is an alter-ego experience--a late-in-life outlet for a mild-mannered screenwriter deeply shaped by the generation of May '68. Both ask the same questions: What revolution has wreaked more havoc and beauty than rock 'n' roll? And why do a certain few geniuses inside every revolution go silent and unrecognized?

Infectious Rhythm identifies and explores the metaphor of 'contagion' that both celebrates the diasporic spread of African culture, and serves as the justification of its repression. The study includes the association with the AIDS pandemic.

For three years, an unremarkable woman has been carrying on with an internationally recognized artist, largely via email. Fame contaminates things. There are those who stand to profit from information about this affair, and others who stand to lose. So she creates a series of correspondent, alternative lovers in a kind of self-destructing roman clef.

A sometimes funny, sometimes catastrophically sad story of performance art, ukuleles, dance, and our attempts and failures to make contact.

A unique perspective on the social history and cultural complexity of Afro-Brazilian dance.