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Author: Rose Hewlett
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2016-07-15
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 1445651998
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInspired by the Gloucestershire Remembers WW1 project, this book looks into the effects of the First World War on the village and its inhabitants.
Author: Dave Tompkins
Publisher: Melville House
Published: 2011-11-08
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 1612190928
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe history of the vocoder: how popular music hijacked the Pentagon's speech scrambling weapon The vocoder, invented by Bell Labs in 1928, once guarded phones from eavesdroppers during World War II; by the Vietnam War, it was repurposed as a voice-altering tool for musicians, and is now the ubiquitous voice of popular music. In How to Wreck a Nice Beach—from a mis-hearing of the vocoder-rendered phrase “how to recognize speech”—music journalist Dave Tompkins traces the history of electronic voices from Nazi research labs to Stalin’s gulags, from the 1939 World’s Fair to Hiroshima, from artificial larynges to Auto-Tune. We see the vocoder brush up against FDR, JFK, Stanley Kubrick, Stevie Wonder, Neil Young, Kraftwerk, the Cylons, Henry Kissinger, and Winston Churchill, who boomed, when vocoderized on V-E Day, “We must go off!” And now vocoder technology is a cell phone standard, allowing a digital replica of your voice to sound human. From T-Mobile to T-Pain, How to Wreck a Nice Beach is a riveting saga of technology and culture, illuminating the work of some of music’s most provocative innovators.
Author: George Thomas Youngblood
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2006-08-09
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 0595839118
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt was the sober time of the Great Depression, World War II, and general want, but it was also a time to live and enjoy life as much as possible. The memories include two black men, our nearest neighbors, one of whom had a wife and a son. The hard times drew us together. My father was trying to succeed with his sawmill and store so he hired the black men to look after his farm and to look after us. Mama often helped in the store and or in the church so the black man's wife was often our housekeeper, cook, and second mother. The black couple's son was our playmate so the color line was indistinct and we lived on both sides of it. Segregation had crystallized around laws, customs, and public opinion. Some people made a science of it-unwritten but widespread views about what to do under various conditions. Jim Crow was harsh and we saw some horrible things making these memories all the more melancholy and all the more precious because we did some things right.
Author: Mary Frampton
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Published: 1886
Total Pages: 462
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Nick Goodman
Publisher: Lulu.com
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Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 0244805768
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Published: 1995
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: George Stade
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Published: 2010-05-12
Total Pages: 593
ISBN-13: 1438116896
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContains alphabetically arranged entries that provide biographical and critical information on major and lesser-known nineteenth- and twentieth-century British writers, and includes articles on key schools of literature, and genres.
Author: Allison Dolan
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2011-09-06
Total Pages: 271
ISBN-13: 1440316929
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Blast From the Past Take a trip down memory lane with this interactive trivia book of headlines, fads, sports, music and more from 1930 to 2010. Inside, you'll find year-by-year snapshots of the events and trends that shaped our lives. Family milestone fill-in pages for each year help you capture your memories of the things you loved and the events that touched your life. Involve the entire family for hours of interesting conversation. What was Grandpa's first job? Who was Mom's first crush? Relive the fun (or mishaps) of family vacations. Dust off your old music collection and replay the soundtrack of your youth. Pull out your photo album and marvel at the clothes you wore and the hairstyles you rocked. Travel back in time and relive some of your favorite memories with Remember That?
Author: Emma Kay
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2019-02-15
Total Pages: 166
ISBN-13: 1445687291
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEmma Kay explores the rich culinary heritage of Gloucestershire, through the history of its food and drink.
Author: Terry Wyke
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 2004-01-01
Total Pages: 533
ISBN-13: 0853235678
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPublic Sculpture of Greater Manchester is a complete catalog and illustrated guide to all of Greater Manchester's public sculptures and monuments. Manchester historian Terry Wyke provides detailed individual entries for each sculpture featured, including information about the artist and the commissioning agent, date of installation, and the sculpture's historical and artistic significance. More than 350 black-and-white photographs reveal the diversity and beauty of Manchester's many public monuments. The eighth volume in Liverpool University Press's highly acclaimed and prize-winning Public Sculpture of Britain series, Public Sculpture of Greater Manchester will be an incomparable resource for both armchair and actual travelers, as well as for English historians and art scholars alike. "These are excellent volumes in an outstanding and continuing series, one of the most original and important such projects under way. They set an international standard for the recording and publication of public sculpture."—Judging panel, 2003 William MB Berger Prize for British Art History, on the Public Sculpture of Britain series
