Melancholy Baby
Author: Sheila Katherine Adams
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 84
ISBN-13: 9780573612008
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Author: Sheila Katherine Adams
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 84
ISBN-13: 9780573612008
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Robert B. Parker
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2004-09-23
Total Pages: 227
ISBN-13: 1101205024
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen Sunny Randall helps a young woman locate her birth parents, she uncovers the dark truth about her own past.
Author: Michael G. Garber
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Published: 2021-06-28
Total Pages: 367
ISBN-13: 1496834313
DOWNLOAD EBOOK2022 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Awards for Excellence—Certificate of Merit in the category of Best Historical Research in Recorded Rock and Popular Music Ten songs, from “Bill Bailey, Won’t You Please Come Home” (1902) to “You Made Me Love You” (1913), ignited the development of the classic pop ballad. In this exploration of how the style of the Great American Songbook evolved, Michael G. Garber unveils the complicated, often-hidden origins of these enduring, pioneering works. He riffs on colorful stories that amplify the rising of an American folk art composed by innovators both famous and obscure. Songwriters, and also the publishers, arrangers, and performers, achieved together a collective genius that moved hearts worldwide to song. These classic ballads originated all over the nation—Louisiana, Colorado, Illinois, Michigan—and then the Tin Pan Alley industry, centered in New York, made the tunes unforgettable sensations. From ragtime to bop, cabaret to radio, new styles of music and modes for its dissemination invented and reinvented the intimate, personal American love ballad, creating something both swinging and tender. Rendered by Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, and a host of others, recordings and movies carried these songs across the globe. Using previously underexamined sources, Garber demonstrates how these songs shaped the music industry and the lives of ordinary Americans. Besides covering famous composers like Irving Berlin, this history also introduces such little-known figures as Maybelle Watson, who had to sue to get credit and royalties for creating the central content of the lyric for “My Melancholy Baby.” African American Frank Williams contributed to the seminal “Some of These Days” but was forgotten for decades. The ten ballads explored here permanently transformed American popular song.
Author: Vasiliĭ Aksenov
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 248
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis celebrated Russian emigre novelist chronicles his encounter with America; through his eyes readers see the psyche, the landscape and the cultural life of the United States. Contains a new postscript on Gorbachev.
Author: Julia O'Faolain
Publisher:
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 172
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Christopher Durang
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9780802131300
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 'Laughing Wild, ' two comic monologues evolve into a man's and an woman's shared nightmare of modern life and the isolation it creates.
Author: Kate Jennings
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Published: 1986
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: László F. Földényi (Foldenyi)
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2016-04-26
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 0300220693
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlberto Manguel praises the Hungarian writer László Földényi as “one of the most brilliant essayists of our time.” Földényi’s extraordinary Melancholy, with its profusion of literary, ecclesiastical, artistic, and historical insights, gives proof to such praise. His book, part history of the term melancholy and part analysis of the melancholic disposition, explores many centuries to explore melancholy’s ambiguities. Along the way Földényi discovers the unrecognized role melancholy may play as a source of energy and creativity in a well-examined life. Földényi begins with a tour of the history of the word melancholy, from ancient Greece to the medieval era, the Renaissance, and modern times. He finds the meaning of melancholy has always been ambiguous, even paradoxical. In our own times it may be regarded either as a psychic illness or a mood familiar to everyone. The author analyzes the complexities of melancholy and concludes that its dual nature reflects the inherent tension of birth and mortality. To understand the melancholic disposition is to find entry to some of the deepest questions one’s life. This distinguished translation brings Földényi’s work directly to English-language readers for the first time.
Author: Robert Cohen
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2017-01-12
Total Pages: 385
ISBN-13: 162892537X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Writer's Reader is an anthology of essays on writing by major writers of the past and present and is designed to introduce beginning writers to the art of writing as well as the life of writing. It draws on the experiences and advice of many of the world's best writers, mainly from Britain and America, but also from Latin America, Asia, and Europe. These essays offer a wealth of insights into the varied ways in which writers approach writing and represent a practical resource as well as a source of inspiration for those who are hoping to become writers or who are, perhaps, just at the beginnings of their career. They include classic as well as less well-known essays, both historical and contemporary, and include, for example, essays on the vocation of writing by Natalia Ginzburg, Robert Louis Stevenson, Danilo Kis, and Jonathan Franzen; thoughts on preparing for writing by, among others, Saul Bellow, Jorge Luis Borges, Joan Didion, and Margaret Atwood; and essays on the craft of writing by writers such as Italo Calvino, Virginia Woolf, and David Foster Wallace. Taken together, this collection is a must-read for any student or devotee of writing.
Author: Mary Ann Lund
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-02-25
Total Pages: 271
ISBN-13: 1108838847
DOWNLOAD EBOOK400 years after The Anatomy of Melancholy, this book guides readers through Renaissance medicine's disease of the mind.