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Author: George William Koon
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9781578062836
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn authoritative separation of myth from fact in the life of the great country music star
Author: Cecelia Tichi
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780807846087
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA close-up look at country music argues that it has become a national art form, reflecting the same themes that have characterized American art and literature over three centuries
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Published: 1959
Total Pages: 1054
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Louis J. Budd
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780822307594
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume in The Best from American Literature series presents articles and profiles the evolution of literary opinion and the shifts of critical emphasis. Beginning with an analysis of science in the thought of Mark Twain, the volume examines his indebtedness to literary comedians, such as George Horatio Derby, better known as John Phoenix; his contributions to the traditions of Southwestern humor; and how he employed images of endangered families. Other topics include: Twain as translator from the German; the composition and structure of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; the style of Huckleberry Finn; his first and only novel about a young girl, Joan of Arc; the four roles into which he cast Satan; the probable meaning of A Connecticut Yankee; and a thematic analysis of Pudd'nhead Wilson. ISBN 0-8223-0759-6: $33.50.
Author: Steven C. Tracy
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780252067099
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Barbara Ching
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 199
ISBN-13: 0195169425
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.
Author: Rodney Clapp
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 066423657X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Mark J. Curran
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Published: 2023-11-08
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 1698715706
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRURAL ODYSSEY V - TROUBLE IN A KANSAS RIVER TOWN is a return to fiction. It tells the latest in Curran's stories of Abilene, Kansas. Trouble comes to Abilene in an unexpected armed attack on the town and its residents in 1971 by KKK and "rugged individualists" out for revenge for the conviction and imprisonment in Abilene of their relatives and cronies in past years. Following the "troubles," the author writes of protagonists Mike and Mariah's teaching at the Dwight D. Eisenhower College in Abilene, the birth of their daughter Ariel Sarah O'Brien Palafox, and the Palafox family's travel to Spain. With the passage of time and events in Abilene, Mike and Marah make a life changing move back east and work and teaching at Harvard. Book Two - a Novella - Ballad of the "Smoky Hill River Rambler" tells the story of Abilene's Mickey Clancy's dream of performing (singing and playing guiitar, including classical guitar) in the restaurants and bars in Durango and other towns of Southwest Colorado. As his music evolves and the repertoire grows, he encounters romance and surprises, not always pleasant, as an itinerant musician.
Author: Byron Lehman
Publisher: Byron Lehman
Published: 2024-02-05
Total Pages: 270
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKRich Larsen sails from the coast of Chile and into the islands of the Southseas. He is confronted with danger and adventure. He overcomes thieves, pirates, Soviet agents, and his own fears.
Author: William MacEwen
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 2015-11-10
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 0316315060
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book that inspired the major motion picture I Saw the Light. In his brief life, Hank Williams created one of the defining bodies of American music. Songs such as "Your Cheatin' Heart," "Hey, Good Lookin'," and "Jambalaya" sold millions of records and became the model for virtually all country music that followed. But by the time of his death at age twenty-nine, Williams had drunk and drugged and philandered his way through two messy marriages and out of his headline spot on the Grand Ole Opry. Even though he was country music's top seller, toward the end he was so famously unreliable that he was lucky to get a booking in a beer hall. Colin Escott's enthralling, definitive biograph -- now the basis of the major motion picture I Saw the Light -- vividly details the singer's stunning rise and his spectacular decline, revealing much that was previously unknown or hidden about the life of this country music legend. Originally published as Hank William: The Biography.
