Celine Dion: Beyond the Stage
Celine Dion: Beyond the Stage

Author: Daniel D. Lee

Publisher: SkyCuration

Published: 2024-06-25

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13:

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Step into the extraordinary life of one of the world's most celebrated music icons in "Celine Dion: Beyond the Stage." This meticulously detailed biography offers an in-depth exploration of Celine Dion's remarkable journey, capturing the essence of her unparalleled career and the personal experiences that have shaped her into the global phenomenon she is today. From her modest beginnings in Charlemagne, Quebec, where she was the youngest of 14 children in a musically gifted family, Celine's early years were marked by her prodigious talent and unyielding determination. Readers will gain insight into her initial steps into the music industry, including her first performance at her parents' piano bar and her victory at the 1988 Eurovision Song Contest, which catapulted her to international recognition. The book delves into her transformative partnership with René Angélil, the man who mortgaged his house to finance her first album and eventually became her husband and manager. Their love story, filled with mutual respect and shared dreams, is a testament to their unwavering bond and René's pivotal role in shaping Celine's career. Explore how René's guidance and Celine's relentless work ethic led to her breakthrough in the English-speaking market with albums like "Unison" and "The Colour of My Love." The biography provides a comprehensive look at Celine's iconic performances and tours, including her groundbreaking Las Vegas residencies, "A New Day..." and "Celine," which redefined live entertainment in Sin City. Through vivid descriptions and behind-the-scenes accounts, readers will experience the grandeur of these shows and understand the meticulous planning and dedication that went into every performance. Amidst the glitz and glamour, "Celine Dion: Beyond the Stage" also sheds light on the challenges Celine has faced. Her personal struggles, such as her battle with infertility, the loss of her beloved husband René, and her diagnosis with Stiff Person Syndrome, are portrayed with sensitivity and depth. The book reveals how these experiences have influenced her music, bringing a profound emotional resonance to her songs. Explore her evolution as an artist, from the powerful ballads that defined the 1990s to her recent explorations in contemporary pop and electronic music. Discover the stories behind her most beloved songs, the creative processes that drove her albums, and the collaborations with some of the industry's most renowned producers and songwriters. Throughout her career, Celine Dion has consistently delivered unforgettable performances and produced music that resonates deeply with audiences. These defining moments illustrate her extraordinary talent, her ability to connect with listeners, and her unwavering dedication to her craft. Each milestone in her career has contributed to her enduring legacy as one of the greatest voices in music history. Perfect for lifelong fans and new admirers alike, "Celine Dion: Beyond the Stage" offers a detailed, intimate portrait of Celine Dion's life, capturing the heart and soul of an artist who has transcended the boundaries of music to become a true global icon. Get ready to embark on an unforgettable journey through the life of Celine Dion—beyond the stage and into the heart of a legend.

Beyond the Sage on the Stage
Beyond the Sage on the Stage

Author: S. L. Seethaler

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2024-01-31

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13: 1487547528

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Communication failures are ubiquitous. Exacerbating the situation, much communication advice is superficial, and the vast research base that should inform best practices in communication is difficult to navigate. Beyond the Sage on the Stage translates lessons from carefully documented scholarship into lucid prose with meaningful examples that illustrate readily applicable communication strategies. This user-friendly guide provides a unique cross-disciplinary approach to developing the knowledge, skills, and habits of mind to achieve evolving communication goals. Topics include optimizing language and visuals, designing comparisons, composing logic stories, conveying authenticity, clarifying data and uncertainty, supporting reasoning and decision-making, avoiding backfires, reading body language, and cultivating empathy. The book is constructed with a clear progression of logic based on a proven educational framework and provides guidance for communication about both uncontroversial and controversial topics. Demonstrating how commonly dispensed communication advice is often counterproductive, Beyond the Sage on the Stage is an innovative toolkit for being understood, fostering trust and genuine connection, and building a foundation for more effective, inclusive communication.

Taking the Stage
Taking the Stage

Author: Judith Humphrey

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2014-10-13

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 1118870255

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Many women today wonder: what will it take to get that seat at the boardroom table? Earn that coveted promotion? Or simply have their voices heard? Taking the Stage provides a comprehensive, proven approach that enables women to come forward into the spotlight and speak up, stand out, and succeed. Based on a program from the Humphrey Group that has been delivered to over 400,000 women worldwide, Taking the Stage shows women—no matter their age, rank, or profession—how to communicate with courage and confidence in every situation, from formal speeches to brief hallway conversations. Judith Humphrey provides the inspiration and practical advice for women to “take the stage” mentally, verbally, vocally, and physically. Women can make the most of every opportunity by understanding how best to: Speak up confidently, even when others don’t agree; Convey their accomplishments without self-doubt; Be assertive but not aggressive; Deliver clear and convincing messages; Move beyond “minimizing” language and apology; Find their own powerful and authentic voice; Achieve confident body language and a leadership presence. By applying these techniques and others to every communication— whether making a presentation, speaking at meetings, conducting an elevator conversation, or selling themselves in job interviews—women will be recognized as the leaders they are and attain positions of influence. For women at all stages of their career, and for managers and executives committed to supporting and guiding women on their leadership journeys, Taking the Stage is the practical, broad-based solution that will allow women to speak up confidently, gain respect, earn the promotions they deserve, and secure their places at the boardroom table.

Occupying the Stage
Occupying the Stage

Author: Kate Bredeson

Publisher: Northwestern University Press

Published: 2018-11-15

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 0810138174

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Occupying the Stage: the Theater of May '68 tells the story of student and worker uprisings in France through the lens of theater history, and the story of French theater through the lens of May '68. Based on detailed archival research and original translations, close readings of plays and historical documents, and a rigorous assessment of avant-garde theater history and theory, Occupying the Stage proposes that the French theater of 1959–71 forms a standalone paradigm called "The Theater of May '68." The book shows how French theater artists during this period used a strategy of occupation-occupying buildings, streets, language, words, traditions, and artistic processes-as their central tactic of protest and transformation. It further proposes that the Theater of May '68 has left imprints on contemporary artists and activists, and that this theater offers a scaffolding on which to build a meaningful analysis of contemporary protest and performance in France, North America, and beyond. At the book's heart is an inquiry into how artists of the period used theater as a way to engage in political work and, concurrently, questioned and overhauled traditional theater practices so their art would better reflect the way they wanted the world to be. Occupying the Stage embraces the utopic vision of May '68 while probing the period's many contradictions. It thus affirms the vital role theater can play in the ongoing work of social change.

Amy Winehouse: Beyond Black
Amy Winehouse: Beyond Black

Author: Naomi Parry

Publisher:

Published: 2021-09-14

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780500024287

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The definitive story of Amy Winehouse's life and career told through key photographs, memorabilia and recollections by those who knew her best. Curated by Amy's stylist and close friend Naomi Parry.0Amy Winehouse left an indelible mark on both the music industry and pop culture with her soulful voice and bold 60s-inspired aesthetic. Featuring stories and anecdotes from a wide range of characters connected to Amy, specially commissioned photography of memorabilia, styled and dressed themed sets incorporating Amy's clothing, possessions and lyrics, and previously unseen archival images, this volume presents an intimate portrait that celebrates Amy's creative legacy. 0 Interspersed throughout are personal reflections on Amy's life and work, provided by her friends, colleagues and fans. These include Ronnie Spector, Vivienne Westwood, Bryan Adams, Little Simz, Carl Barat, close friend Catriona Gourlay, Douglas Charles-Ridler (owner of the Hawley Arms), tattooist Henry Hate, goddaughter Dionne Broomfield and DJ Bioux. Each one has a personal story to share and together their anecdotes and reflections build into a complex picture of a much admired but troubled star. Vice Culture Editor Emma Garland puts these insights into context with an introduction that highlights the principal events and achievements in Amy's life and work, and the key characters that played a part in it.

Vamping the Stage
Vamping the Stage

Author: Andrew N. Weintraub

Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

Published: 2017-07-31

Total Pages: 377

ISBN-13: 0824874196

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The emergence of modernity has typically focused on Western male actors and privileged politics and economy over culture. The contributors to this volume successfully unsettle such perspectives by emphasizing the social history, artistic practices, and symbolic meanings of female performers in popular music of Asia. Women surfaced as popular icons in different guises in different Asian countries through different routes of circulation. Often, these women established prominent careers within colonial conditions, which saw Asian societies in rapid transition and the vernacular and familiar articulated with the novel and the foreign. These female performers were not merely symbols of times that were rapidly changing. Nor were they simply the personification of global historical changes. Female entertainers, positioned at the margins of intersecting fields of activities, created something hitherto unknown: they were artistic pioneers of new music, new cinema, new forms of dance and theater, and new behavior, lifestyles, and morals. They were active agents in the creation of local performance cultures, of a newly emerging mass culture, and the rise of a region-wide and globally oriented entertainment industry. Vamping the Stage is the first book-length study of women, modernity, and popular music in Asia, showcasing cutting-edge research conducted by scholars whose methods and perspectives draw from such diverse fields as anthropology, Asian studies, cultural studies, ethnomusicology, and film studies. Led by an impressive introduction written by Weintraub and Barendregt, fourteen contributors analyze the many ways that women performers supported, challenged, and transgressed representations of existing gendered norms in the entertainment industries of China, Japan, India, Indonesia, Iran, Korea, Malaysia, and the Philippines. Placing women’s voices in social and historical contexts, the essays explore salient discourses, representations, meanings, and politics of “voice” in Asian popular music. Historicizing the artistic sounds, lyrical texts, and visual images of female performers, the essays reveal how women used popular music to shape the ideas, practices, and meanings of modernity in various Asian contexts and time frames. The ascendency of women as performers paralleled, and in some cases generated, developments in wider society such as suffrage, social and sexual liberation, women as business entrepreneurs and independent income earners, and particularly as models for new life styles. Women’s voices, mediated through new technologies of film and the phonograph, changed the soundscape of global popular music and resonate today in all spheres of modern life.

Music Business Careers
Music Business Careers

Author: Cheryl Slay Carr

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-03-13

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 1351058371

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The music industry offers the opportunity to pursue a career as either a creative (artist, producer, songwriter, etc.) or as a music business "logician" (artist manager, agent, entertainment attorney, venue manager, etc.). Though both vocational paths are integral to the industry’s success, the work of calling songs into existence or entertaining an audience differs from the administrative aspects of the business, such as operating an entertainment company. And while the daily activities of creatives may differ from those of the music business logician, the music industry careerist may sense a call to Career Duality, to work on both sides of the industry as a Career Dualist, a concept this book introduces, defines, and explores in the context of the music industry. This new volume speaks to the dilemma experienced by those struggling with career decisions involving whether to work in the industry using their analytical abilities, or to work as a creative, or to do both. The potential financial challenges encountered in working in the industry as an emerging artist may necessitate maintaining a second and simultaneous occupation (possibly outside the industry) that offers economic survival. However, this is not Career Duality. Likewise, attending to the business affairs that impact all creatives is not Career Duality. Rather, Career Duality involves the deliberate pursuit of a dual career as both a music industry creative and music business logician, which is stimulated by the drive to express dual proclivities that are simultaneously artistic and analytical. By offering a Career Duality model and other constructs, examining research on careers, calling, authenticity and related concepts, and providing profiles of music industry dualists, this book takes readers on a journey of self-exploration and offers insights and recommendations for charting an authentic career path. This is a practical examination for not only music industry professionals and the entertainment industry, but for individuals interested in expressing both the analytical and artistic self in the context of career.

Writing and the Modern Stage
Writing and the Modern Stage

Author: Julia Jarcho

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-04-18

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 1108165842

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It is time to change the way we talk about writing in theater. This book offers a new argument that reimagines modern theater's critical power and places innovative writing at the heart of the experimental stage. While performance studies, German Theaterwissenschaft, and even text-based drama studies have commonly envisioned theatrical performance as something that must operate beyond the limits of the textual imagination, this book shows how a series of writers have actively shaped new conceptions of theater's radical potential. Engaging with a range of theorists, including Theodor Adorno, Jarcho reveals a modern tradition of 'negative theatrics,' whose artists undermine the here and now of performance in order to challenge the value and the power of the existing world. This vision emerges through surprising new readings of modernist classics - by Henry James, Gertrude Stein, and Samuel Beckett - as well as contemporary American works by Suzan-Lori Parks, Elevator Repair Service, and Mac Wellman.