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Books by David Keenan






The Wire Primers(1st Edition)
A Guide to Modern Music
by Rob Young, Contributor-Nick Cain, Contributor-Louise Gray, Contributor-David Keenan, Contributor-Mike Barnes, Contributor-Art Lange, Contributor-Stewart Lee, Contributor-Alan Licht, Contributor-Edwin Pouncey, Contributor-Ben Ratliff, Contributor-Simon Reynolds, Contributor-Peter Shapiro, Contributor-John Szwed, Contributor-Derek Walmsley, Contributor-Barry Witherden
Paperback, 200 Pages, Published 2009 by Verso
ISBN-13: 978-1-84467-427-5, ISBN: 1-84467-427-4

"An essential handbook to the most advanced modern music from the Bible of experimental sounds. Since it was founded in 1982, The Wire magazine has covered a vast range of alternative, experimental, underground and non-mainstream music. Now some of that knowledge has been distilled into The Wire Primers: a comprehensive guide to the core recordings of some of the most visionary and inspiring, subversive and radical musicians on the plan ..."






Advancing Excellence and Public Trust in Government
by Caleb M. Clark, Contributor-David Anderson, Contributor-Keenan Grenell, Contributor-Christopher Hoene, Contributor-George Amedee, Contributor-Richard Greene, Contributor-Kenneth Penn, Contributor-Irene Rubin, Contributor-Christa Slaton, Contributor-Sheila Smoot, Contributor-John Thomas, Contributor-Juan Williams, Don-Terry Veal, Sandra Fabry Wirtz, Maria T. Folmar, Suzanne J. Piotrowski, Professor Michael B. Smith, Harold G. Moore, Harold C. Moore, William I. Sauser
Hardcover, 122 Pages, Published 2011 by Lexington Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-7391-4544-9, ISBN: 0-7391-4544-4

"Over the last four decades the public trust in government in the United States has fallen dramatically due to a "perfect storm" of contributing factors, such as a seemingly never ending string of political scandals, partisan polarization and toxic attack politics, and miserable failures to respond to natural disasters or the devastation of the Great Recession. This book contains the academic presentations that were made at the Symposium ..."






This Is Memorial Device
by David Keenan
Digital, 352 Pages, Published 2017 by Faber & Faber
ISBN-13: 978-0-571-33084-3, ISBN: 0-571-33084-3

""Brilliant stuff. It captures the terrific, obsessive, ludicrous pomposity of every music fans youth in an utterly definitive way." Irvine Welsh"I wanted to live in this book." ― Kim GordonRoss Raymond and Johnny McLaughlin are two fanboys dedicated to the Airdrie post-punk scene of the early ’80s – the glory years – when anything and everything seemed possible. Looking back on that time – the people, the bands, the underground legends ..."






England's Hidden Reverse(2nd Edition)
A Secret History of The Esoteric Underground (Strange Attractor Press)
by David Keenan
Paperback, 464 Pages, Published 2014 by Strange Attractor Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-907222-17-7, ISBN: 1-907222-17-0

"An obsessively researched biography of the three seminal music groups Coil, Current 93, and Nurse With Wound that also illuminates the history of the English underground scene.Based on hundreds of hours of interviews with members of the seminal music groups Coil, Current 93, and Nurse With Wound, England's Hidden Reverse illuminates a shadowy but deeply influential underground scene. Together these artists and their many associates acce ..."






England's Hidden Reverse
Coil-Current 93-Nurse with Wound with CD (Audio)
by David Keenan, Dave Keenan, Dave Halberry
Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2003 by Saf Publishing, Ltd
ISBN-13: 978-0-946719-40-2, ISBN: 0-946719-40-3

"Birthed in the fall-out from legendary "Industrial" units Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV, David Tibet’s Current 93, John Balance and Peter Christopherson’s Coil and Steven Stapleton’s Nurse With Wound represent the real English underground in all its sexual, cultural, and artistic variety. An individually numbered limited edition, lavishly illustrated with photographs and original artworks, complete with previously unreleased CD, this ..."






Hazing
Destroying Young Lives
by Hank Nuwer, Travis Apgar, Ray Begovich, Brian Crow, Douglas Fieberg, David Hovde, Morgan Kinney, Malinda Matney, Colleen Mcglone, Chloe Neely, Norman Polland, Debbie Smith, Ashley Stone, Susan Stuart, David Westol, Edward Whipple, Sarah Wild, Elizabeth Allan, Robert A. Biggs, James F. Keenan, Gina Lee-Olukoya, Allison Swick-Duttine
Paperback, 370 Pages, Published 2018 by Indiana University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-253-03004-7, ISBN: 0-253-03004-8

"For decades, hazing rituals–such as excessive drinking, drug use, paddling, and sexual abuse–have been required by many teams and organizations as a rite of passage, while administration and department heads have turned a blind eye. In recent years, several young men and women have lost their live from hazing-related practices in Pennsylvania, New York, Texas, California, Louisiana, Virginia, and Massachusetts. But these practices and r ..."






For The Good Times
by David Keenan
Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 2020 by Faber & Faber
ISBN-13: 978-0-571-34052-1, ISBN: 0-571-34052-0

"Sammy and his three friends live in the Ardoyne, an impoverished, predominantly Catholic area of North Belfast that has become the epicentre of a country intent on cannibalising itself. They love sharp clothes, a good drink, and the songs of Perry Como - whose commitment to clean living holds up a dissonant mirror to their own attempts to rise above their circumstances. They dream of a Free State, and their methods for achieving this ar ..."






Xstabeth
A Guardian Book of the Day
by David Keenan
Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2020 by Orion Publishing Co, United Kingdom, London
ISBN-13: 978-1-4746-1705-5, ISBN: 1-4746-1705-0

"It builds on the female voices first radicalised in Keenan's award-winning debut novel, This is Memorial Device."






FOR THE GOOD TIMES.
by David. Keenan
Published 2019
ISBN-13: 978-0-571-34051-4, ISBN: 0-571-34051-2

"They dream of a Free State, and their methods for achieving this are uncompromising, even as they fully indulge in the spoils of war."






This Is Memorial Device
by David Keenan, Vv.Aa, Sin Autor
Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2018 by Faber & Faber
ISBN-13: 978-0-571-33085-0, ISBN: 0-571-33085-1

"ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE MONTHLRB BOOK OF THE WEEKCAUGHT BY THE RIVER BOOK OF THE MONTH 'Beautifully believable and appallingly sad ... One of the most acute, affecting and aphoristic novels of recent years ... A hallucinatory and haunting vision.' (The Guardian) This Is Memorial Device, the debut novel by David Keenan, is a love letter to the small towns of Lanarkshire in the west of Scotland in the late 1970s and early 80s as they w ..."






This Is Memorial Device
A Novel
by David Keenan
Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2018 by Faber & Faber Social
ISBN-13: 978-0-571-34017-0, ISBN: 0-571-34017-2

"The story of a cast of misfits, drop-outs, small town visionaries and would-be artists and musicians through a period of time where anything seemed possible. This Is Memorial Device, the debut novel by David Keenan, is a love letter to the small working class towns in western Scotland in the late 1970s and early 80s as they were temporarily transformed by the endless possibilities that came out of the freefall from punk rock. At its cor ..."






This is Memorial Device
An Hallucinated Oral History of the Post-Punk Music Scene in Airdrie, Coatbridge and Environs 1978-1986
by David Keenan
Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2017 by Faber & Faber
ISBN-13: 978-0-571-33083-6, ISBN: 0-571-33083-5

"SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2017ONE OF THE TELEGRAPH'S BEST BOOKS OF 2017ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE MONTHLRB BOOK OF THE WEEKCAUGHT BY THE RIVER BOOK OF THE MONTH'Beautifully believable and appallingly sad ... One of the most acute, affecting and aphoristic novels of recent years ... A hallucinatory and haunting vision.' (The Guardian)This Is Memorial Device, the debut novel by David Keenan, is a love letter to the small towns of ..."






Mr & Mrs Asia(1st Edition)
by Andrew Keenan, Contributor-Adrian Lowe, Contributor-Anirudha Dutta, Contributor-Nick Cashmore, Contributor-David Murphy, Contributor-Jessie Wilson, Contributor-Shaun Cochran, Contributor-Alfred Dy, Contributor-Neel Sinha, Chee Wei Loong
Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2008 by Clsa Asia-Pacific Markets
ISBN-13: 978-988-98942-0-7, ISBN: 988-98942-0-3

"Who are Asia s middle class? How much do they earn? How much do they invest? How much do they spend, on what and why? And what do they still want? Asia s extensive middle class is driving changes in consumer spending throughout the region and globally, as well being a significant force in economic and societal change. Yet, until now, there has been no comprehensive, reliable study of what drives this increasingly influential demographi ..."






Shadows in a Chinese Landscape
Chi Yun's Notes from a Hut for Examining the Subtle : Chi Yun's Notes from a Hut for Examining the Subtle
by Chi Yun, David Keenan
188 Pages, Published 2016 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-315-29311-0, ISBN: 1-315-29311-0

"Keenan, David L. The Forms and Uses of the Chinese Ghost Story as Recorded in the Yüeh-wei ts'ao-t'ang pi-chi of Chi Yün . Doctoral dissertation Harvard University, 1987. Lai Fang-ling , Yüeh-wei ts'ao-t'ang ... Shih Liang-ju , translator. Pai-hua Yüeh-wei ts'ao-t'angpi-chi . Peking: Nung-ts'untu-wuch'u-panshe, 1989. Su Shih , Su Wen-chung Kung shih-chi . Annotated by Chi Yün Shanghai: Sao- yeh shan-fang . 1917. Sun Chih-chung . Chi ..."






How Can Man Die Better(Updated)
The Secrets of Isandlwana Revealed
by Colonel Mike Snook, David Keenan
Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2011 by Frontline Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-84832-581-4, ISBN: 1-84832-581-9

"Wednesday 22 January 1879 was one of the most dramatic days in the long and distinguished history of the British Army. At noon a massive Zulu host attacked the 24th Regiment in its encampment at the foot of the mountain of Isandlwana, a distinctive feature that bore an eerie resemblance to the Sphinx badge of the outnumbered redcoats. Disaster ensued. Later that afternoon the victorious Zulus would strike the tiny British garrison at Ro ..."






Krautrock(1st Edition)
Cosmic Rock and It's Legacy
by Nikolaos Kotsopoulos, Nikos Kotsopoulos, Erik Davis, David Keenan, Michel Faber, Ken Hollings, David Stubbs, Brian Morton, Archie Patterson, Leon Muraglia, Mark Pilkington.
Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2010 by Black Dog Publishing
ISBN-13: 978-1-906155-66-7, ISBN: 1-906155-66-6

"Krautrock: Cosmic Rock and its Legacy charts the history of this influential music genre, from its roots in free jazz, psychedelia and the music of Karlheinz Stockhausen, to the groundbreaking experiments of Faust, Kraftwerk and Can. The late 1960s in West Germany was a period of profound breakthroughs, upheavals and reversals. Out of this climate, a music scene exploded that would forever change the face of western rock; at times anarc ..."






England's Hidden Reverse(2nd Edition)
Coil - Current 93 - Nurse with Wound
by David Keenan
Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2010 by Saf Publishing
ISBN-13: 978-0-946719-73-0, ISBN: 0-946719-73-X

"“A sumptuous, high-art production, astonishing photographs. An essential book, a magnet to attract new listeners with its compelling field of gravity.”—Record CollectorDavid Keenan’s book miraculously weaves the history of Coil, Current 93, and Nurse with Wound into one fascinating narrative. Working almost entirely outside the framework of the music industry, all three bands have courted controversy, experimented with the fringes of da ..."






New edition of Coil, Current 93, Nurse with Wound(1st Edition)
England's Hidden Reverse - A Secret History of the Esoteric Underground
by David Keenan, Dave Keenan
Paperback, 332 Pages, Published 2009 by Saf Publishing Ltd
ISBN-13: 978-0-946719-67-9, ISBN: 0-946719-67-5

"Definitive history of Coil, Current 93 and Nurse With Wound-a peculiarly English underground phenomenon. Deluxe paperback edition of last season's bestseller, written with full co-operation of all three bands. Lavishly illustrated with color and black & white photos, including a CD of material from Nurse With Wound, Current 93 and Coil. Cover designed by Stephen Stapleton."A superb document that effortlessly unravels the intricacies of ..."






My Bloody Valentine's Loveless(1st Edition)
(33 1/3)
by Mike Mcgonigal, David Keenan
Paperback, 136 Pages, Published 2007 by Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN-13: 978-0-8264-1548-6, ISBN: 0-8264-1548-2

"My Bloody Valentine’s Loveless is one of the most revered albums of the 1990s. Highly influential, shrouded in mystery, it has – so far – been an impossible album to follow up for its chief creator, Kevin Shields. Here, Mike McGonigal pieces together the often painful process behind the writing and recording of Loveless, and tries to separate fact from fiction in a story that involves (among other things) chinchillas, chicken-eating con ..."






How Can Man Die Better(1st Edition)
The Secrets of Isandlwana Revealed
by Mike Snook, Major Gerhard Engel, David Keenan
Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2006 by Greenhill Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-85367-656-7, ISBN: 1-85367-656-X

"Wednesday 22 January 1879 was one of the most dramatic days in the long and distinguished history of the British Army. At noon a massive Zulu host attacked the 24th Regiment in its encampment at the foot of the mountain of Isandlwana, a distinctive feature that bore an eerie resemblance to the Sphinx badge of the outnumbered redcoats. Disaster ensued. Later that afternoon the victorious Zulus would strike the tiny British garrison at Ro ..."



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