Beowulf to Beatles & Beyond
Author: David R. Pichaske
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Published: 1981
Total Pages: 624
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Author: David R. Pichaske
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Published: 1981
Total Pages: 624
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Greg Sterlace
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2015-07-26
Total Pages: 382
ISBN-13: 1329536525
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe cottage industry of Beatles publications is more prolific now than it ever was. As the band recedes into the mystic fog of 20th century history we get more and more documentation about their music, their love lives, their personalities, and their finances. I wanted to try to make sense of it by reviewing the best and the worst of the Beatles tomes as they stand side by side in bookstores everywhere. I spent 40 years reading about them knowing that one day I would share my accumulated knowledge with the fans in Pepperland. Having read the book, I'd love to turn you on.
Author: Simon Frith
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1998-02-06
Total Pages: 363
ISBN-13: 0674247310
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWho's better? Billie Holiday or P. J. Harvey? Blur or Oasis? Dylan or Keats? And how many friendships have ridden on the answer? Such questions aren't merely the stuff of fanzines and idle talk; they inform our most passionate arguments, distill our most deeply held values, make meaning of our ever-changing culture. In Performing Rites, one of the most influential writers on popular music asks what we talk about when we talk about music. What's good, what's bad? What's high, what's low? Why do such distinctions matter? Instead of dismissing emotional response and personal taste as inaccessible to the academic critic, Simon Frith takes these forms of engagement as his subject--and discloses their place at the very center of the aesthetics that structure our culture and color our lives. Taking up hundreds of songs and writers, Frith insists on acts of evaluation of popular music as music. Ranging through and beyond the twentieth century, Performing Rites puts the Pet Shop Boys and Puccini, rhythm and lyric, voice and technology, into a dialogue about the undeniable impact of popular aesthetics on our lives. How we nod our heads or tap our feet, grin or grimace or flip the dial; how we determine what's sublime and what's "for real"--these are part of the way we construct our social identities, and an essential response to the performance of all music. Frith argues that listening itself is a performance, both social gesture and bodily response. From how they are made to how they are received, popular songs appear here as not only meriting aesthetic judgments but also demanding them, and shaping our understanding of what all music means.
Author: Steven L. Hamelman
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780820325873
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTrash has been blowing across the rock'n'roll landscape since the first amplified guitar riff tore through American mass culture. Throwaway tunes, wasted fans, crappy reviews, junk bins of remaindered albums: much of rock's quintessence is handily conveyed in terms of disposability and impermanence. Steven L. Hamelman sums up these rubbishy affinities as rock's "trash trope." Trash is an obvious physical presence on the rock scene -- think of Woodstock's littered pastures or the many hotel rooms redecorated by the Who. More intriguingly, Hamelman says, trash is the catalyst for a powerful mode of rock composition and criticism. It is, for instance, both cause and effect when performers like the Ramones or Beck at once critique junk culture and revel in it. But Is It Garbage? spills over with challenging insights into how rock's creators, critics, and consumers transform, and are transformed by, trash as a fact and a concept. In the music's preoccupation with its own trashiness readers will perceive a wellspring of rock innovation and inspiration -- one largely overlooked and little understood until now.
Author: John Cusatis
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 1438134053
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCovers American literature during the postwar period.
Author: Gabriele Lusser Rico
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2000-04-03
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 0874779618
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWriting the Natural Way, first published fifteen years ago, has shown hundreds of thousands of readers how to turn the task of writing into the joy of writing. Completely revised, newly illustrated, and with a wealth of updated, field-tested exercises, this popular classic will help unlock natural writing styles and storytelling abilities.
Author: David De Leon
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 1994-06-22
Total Pages: 626
ISBN-13: 0313029172
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe throngs at Woodstock, Jane Fonda in Hanoi, I Have a Dream, burning draft cards, fire in the streets--these images of the 1960s are still very much alive today. What happened to the people and principles that dominated that decade? Which leaders from those turbulent years had the most lasting effect on our lives today? How well have the principles for which those leaders fought so strongly withstood the test of time? This thought-provoking biographical dictionary allows the reader to study the leaders, both conservative and liberal, their ideals, and their enduring influence. With major sections on racial democracy, peace and freedom, sexuality and gender, the environment, radical culture, and visions of alternative societies, Leaders from the 1960s includes entries on a wide selection of nationally prominent activists of the 1960s. In addition to those who dominated only the sixties, the volume includes earlier activists who came into prominence in the 1960s and activists of the era who came into prominence since the 1960s. Each entry provides a biographical sketch, but the focus of the entries is on the person's basic concepts or the essence of his or her work and the public response it generated. Included are extensive bibliographies on the individuals and the period.
Author: B. Lee Cooper
Publisher: Popular Press
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9780879725051
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn thirteen essays, this book probes ideas and themes that are prominent in contemporary song lyrics. The essays take social change, human interaction, technology, and intellectual development as points of departure for specific examinations of public education, railroads, death, automobiles, and rebels. The essays also examine humor, traditions, and historical events found in answer songs, cover recordings, nursery rhyme adaptations, and novelty tunes.
Author: Lloyd M. Davis
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780810818293
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLists over 5,200 titles of books published by American poets between 1973 and 1983.
Author: Europa Publications
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 536
ISBN-13: 9781857431780
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides up-to-date profiles on the careers of leading and emerging poets.