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David Keenan
David Keenan (born April 1971) is a Scottish writer and author of four novels. Career He used to run the Glasgow record shop, distribution company and record label Volcanic Tongue. Journalism His work for ''The Wire'' (who he wrote for from 1996 to 2015) was highly influential, helping to focus the magazine more towards coverage of new experimental rock, noise, folk, industrial and psychedelic music. His most frequently cited article is a cover story that appeared in the August 2003 issue entitled "New Weird America", where Keenan coined the phrase "free folk", later bastardised to include "freak folk" and "wyrd folk" and used to describe everyone from Jack Rose and Charalambides through Devendra Banhart. In an August 2009 piece for ''The Wire'', Keenan coined "hypnagogic pop" to describe a group of musicians whose work resembled "pop music refracted through the memory of a memory". His article incited a slew of hate mail that derided hypnagogic pop as the "worst genre creat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margarita Rudomino All-Russia State Library For Foreign Literature
The Margarita Rudomino All-Russian State Library For Foreign Literature, historically known as the All-Union Library of Foreign Literature under the Soviet Union is a special library that focuses primarily on the acquisition of foreign literature and material, it is based in Moscow. It is also known by its nickname, "Foreigner" due to the nature of its collection. The library was founded by Margarita Ivanovna Rudomino. History The library was founded by Margarita Ivanovna Rudomino in 1921 in an old building in central Moscow. It opened as a small Neophilological Library that started with a collection of only 100 books in German, French and English located on the 5th floor of the building. It was not the first special library in the Soviet Union preceded by the Fundamental Library of the Social Libraries in 1918 and the State Central Scientific Medical Library in 1919. In 1948 the library was conferred by the U.S.S.R Council of Ministers the status of an "All Union Central Libr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |