Behind Closed Doors
Author: Alanna Nash
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 577
ISBN-13: 0815412584
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book represents 27 compelling conversations with the creme de la creme of country music. 27 photos.
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101 Songwriting Wrongs and How to Right Them
Author: Pat Luboff
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2007-10-30
Total Pages: 382
ISBN-13: 1440349428
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGive Your Songwriting a Competitive Edge This book takes you on the songwriter's journey from the first inspiration for a song to the collection of worldwide royalties. Experienced songwriters Pat and Pete Luboff point out the stumbling blocks you'll encounter along the way, and how to turn them into stepping stones to songwriting success. In 101 fun and easy-to-read chapters, you'll find tips on: • building solid, marketable song structures • creating the perfect lyrics accompanied by moving melodies • forming productive and profitable collaboration ventures • producing effective demos that you can pitch • tracking your royalty collection You'll also discover how new technology is changing songwriting and how to use that to your advantage. Plus, you'll get insider tips on traveling to and living in the songwriting centers of the country–Los Angeles, New York City, and Nashville. Everything you need to live and succeed at the songwriter's life can be found in this great resource.
Forbidden Fruits
Author: Ray Broadus Browne
Publisher: Popular Press
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780879722555
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume examines the concept of taboos and tabooism and a dozen powerful ones in our society and suggests the control they exert on our everyday lives.
Dissonant Identities
Author: Barry Shank
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 2012-01-01
Total Pages: 315
ISBN-13: 0819572675
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMusic of the bars and clubs of Austin, Texas has long been recognized as defining one of a dozen or more musical "scenes" across the country. In Dissonant Identities, Barry Shank, himself a musician who played and lived in the Texas capital, studies the history of its popular music, its cultural and economic context, and also the broader ramifications of that music as a signifying practice capable of transforming identities. While his focus is primarily on progressive country and rock, Shank also writes about traditional country, blues, rock, disco, ethnic, and folk musics. Using empirical detail and an expansive theoretical framework, he shows how Austin became the site for "a productive contestation between two forces: the fierce desire to remake oneself through musical practice, and the equally powerful struggle to affirm the value of that practice in the complexly structured late-capitalist marketplace."
Forgiving Jackson
Author: Alicia Hunter Pace
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2014-09-15
Total Pages: 390
ISBN-13: 1440581959
DOWNLOAD EBOOKComing home to Beauford Bend opens up old wounds for four sexy, successful brothers, but the love of a few good Southern women will heal their hearts and change their lives forever. Country music heartthrob Jackson Beauford isn’t used to hearing “no” for an answer. When a tragic fire at one of his concerts stirs memories of the blaze that claimed his family years ago, all he wants is to go back to his childhood home in Tennessee and wallow in his grief. But he arrives home to chaos . . . and a Southern magnolia with her heels dug in. After suffering a vicious attack in New York City, Emory Lowell returned to Beauford Bend, a place she’s loved since she was a teenager. Now in charge of Around the Bend Elegant Events, she’s not about to let a spoiled superstar take away her livelihood. The boutique artisan town of Beauford depends on this business, and so does she. With its high walls and around-the- clock security, Beauford Bend is the only place she’s ever truly felt safe. Jackson insists she close down his late aunt's business and leave him in peace, but quiet Emory refuses to budge, knowing this is a battle worth fighting. As a passionate attraction flares between these two wounded souls, they discover there’s much more at stake here than business. Jackson may be just the person to help Emory face her past, and if she can help him learn to forgive himself, their love might be the key to turning Beauford Bend back into a real home. Sensuality Level: Sensual
We Take Care of Our Own
Author: June Skinner Sawyers
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2024-09-15
Total Pages: 99
ISBN-13: 1978835728
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWe Take Care of Our Own traces the evolution of Bruce Springsteen’s beliefs, beginning with his New Jersey childhood and ending with his most recent works from Springsteen on Broadway to Letter to You. The author follows the singer’s life, examining his albums and a variety of influences (both musical and nonmusical), especially his Catholic upbringing and his family life, to show how he became an outspoken icon for working-class America—indeed for working-class life throughout the world. In this way, the author emphasizes the universality of Springsteen’s canon and depicts how a working-class sensibility can apply to anyone anywhere who believes in fairness and respect. In addition, the author places Springsteen in the historical context not only of literature (especially John Steinbeck) but also of the art world (specifically the work of Thomas Hart Benton and Edward Hopper). Among the themes explored in the book include community, a sense of place, America as the Promised Land, the myth of the West, and, ultimately, mortality.
Reasonable Degree of Certainty
Author: Richard Stein
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2013-01-11
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 147977720X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen Dr. George Weiss, the expert witness in a medical malpractice case, is bludgeoned to death in his Nashville hotel room, the law firm of Mason, Bradshaw, and Colson hires former singer-songwriter Elana Grey of Aaron and Associates to investigate the crime and keep the police from uncovering the firms secrets. Elana has secrets of her own and they surface as she attempts to find the killer and steer the police away from Tony Colson, a senior partner in the law firm. With the help of her husband, Nashville promoter and part-time investigator, Jonah Aaron, Elanas efforts lead her towards a potential showdown with someone far more dangerous than a cold-blooded killer her own narcissistic mother.
Wrong's What I Do Best
Author: Barbara Ching
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2001-07-19
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 0190283092
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first study of "hard" country music as well as the first comprehensive application of contemporary cultural theory to country music. Barbara Ching begins by defining the features that make certain country songs and artists "hard." She compares hard country music to "high" American culture, arguing that hard country deliberately focuses on its low position in the American cultural hierarchy, comically singing of failures to live up to American standards of affluence, while mainstream country music focuses on nostalgia, romance, and patriotism of regular folk. With chapters on Hank Williams Sr. and Jr., Merle Haggard, George Jones, David Allan Coe, Buck Owens, Dwight Yoakam, and the Outlaw Movement, this book is written in a jargon-free, engaging style that will interest both academic as well as general readers.
Sing Me Back Home
Author: Dana Jennings
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Published: 2008-05-27
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 1429996242
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe years from about 1950 to 1970 were the golden age of twang. Country music's giants all strode the earth in those years: Hank Williams and Johnny Cash, George Jones and Merle Haggard, Loretta Lynn and Tammy Wynette. And many of the standards that still define country were recorded then: "Folsom Prison Blues," "Your Cheatin' Heart," "Mama Tried," "Stand by Your Man," and "Coal Miner's Daughter." In Sing Me Back Home, Dana Jennings pushes past the iconic voices and images to get at what classic country music truly means to us today. Yes, country tells the story of rural America in the twentieth century—but the obsessions of classic country were obsessions of America as a whole: drinking and cheating, class and the yearning for home, God and death. Jennings, who grew up in a town that had more cows than people when he was born, knows all of this firsthand. His people lived their lives by country music. His grandmothers were honky-tonk angels, his uncles men of constant sorrow, and his father a romping, stomping hell-raiser who lived for the music of Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, and the other rockabilly hellions. Sing Me Back Home is about a vanished world in which the Depression never ended and the sixties never arrived. Jennings uses classic country songs to explain the lives of his people, and shows us how their lives are also ours—only twangier.
Face Off
Author: Alicia Hunter Pace
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2017-07-24
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 1507205627
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUSA TODAY bestselling author Alicia Hunter Pace launches a brand-new sports romance series, Nashville Sound, featuring some fan favorites finding true love. Emile Giroux has vowed he will be everything his stepfather is not: cultured, charming, sophisticated, and—above all else—a rich, successful NHL star. One of the top goalies in the league, the French Canadian strives for more, still haunted by his troubled childhood. Amy Callahan was a freelance professional organizer until an ambitious, domineering boyfriend took over her life and cleaned out her bank account. Once indispensable to the stars, Amy now finds herself with no money, no house, no phone, and nowhere to go. When Emile finds Amy literally kicked to the curb, he seizes his latest chance to rescue a damsel in distress—only Amy doesn’t want to play that game. In fact, she’s determined to put men on ice in her life permanently. Can they find a way to let love win? Sensuality Level: Sensual
