Reluctant Rockstars
Reluctant Rockstars

Author: Michelle MacQueen

Publisher: Twin Rivers Press

Published: 2021-04-30

Total Pages: 528

ISBN-13:

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Perfect for fans of Jenny Han and Beth Reekles. Welcome to Defiance Academy, home to future professional athletes, politicians, and business titans. Oh, and troublemaking girls with famous brothers. Wylder Anderson never thought getting kicked out of her public school would be a good thing. Especially not when her newly famous brother gets in to the exclusive Defiance Academy. Now, it’s her senior year and music, the one thing that used to mean anything to her, is now part of her past, a past she’d rather keep in the rear view mirror. When her rock star idol’s twin brother, Logan, enrolls at the academy, she hates him on sight. He’s arrogant and cocky and way too good looking. Navigating an elitist school is a pain. Navigating a class music project with Logan is complicated. And the secrets the brothers keep buried… those are enough to bring their entire music empire crumbling to the ground. Wylder never wanted to stop hating Logan, but when working with him brings out the music in her for the first time in years, she can’t help wanting more. Of everything. Dive in to the three book Reluctant Rockstars series for a swoony sweet romantic comedy with fun characters, lots of laughs, and a heartwarming story.

Rock Star
Rock Star

Author: David R. Shumway

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2014-09-15

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 1421413930

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The nature and meaning of rock stardom—celebrities who embody the most important social and cultural conflicts of their era. "All stars are celebrities, but not all celebrities are stars," states David Shumway in the introduction to Rock Star, an informal history of rock stardom. This deceptively simple statement belies the complex definition and meaning of stardom and more specifically of rock icons. Shumway looks at the careers and cultural legacies of seven rock stars in the context of popular music and culture—Elvis Presley, James Brown, Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones, the Grateful Dead, Joni Mitchell, and Bruce Springsteen. Granted, there are many more names that fall into the rock icon category and that might rightfully appear on this list. Partly, that is the point: "rock star" is a familiar and desired category but also a contested one. Shumway investigates the rock star as a particular kind of cultural construction, different from mere celebrity. After the golden age of moviemaking, media exposure allowed rock stars more political sway than Hollywood's studio stars, and rock stars gradually replaced movie stars as key cultural heroes. Because of changes in American society and the media industries, rock stars have become much more explicitly political figures than were the stars of Hollywood’s studio era. Rock stars, moreover, are icons of change, though not always progressive, whose public personas read like texts produced collaboratively by the performers themselves, their managers, and record companies. These stars thrive in a variety of media, including recorded music, concert performance, dress, staging, cover art, films, television, video, print, and others. Filled with memorable photographs, Rock Star will appeal to anyone interested in modern American popular culture or music history.

The Reluctant Rockstar
The Reluctant Rockstar

Author: Mona Ingram

Publisher: Montlake Romance

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 9780803498532

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An experienced television journalist, Skye Cameron needs a big interview to propel her from weather person back into investigative reporting at her new television station. She's determined to get there and will do anything to reach her goal. Jason Williams, a world-renowned paleontologist, rarely does television interviews. When Skye has a chance to attend a field expedition led by Jason, she jumps at the chance, hoping to gain his confidence before approaching him about an interview. But when the two come face to face she's torn between her desire to further her career and her growing attraction to the reclusive scientist. Join Skye and Jason in the Canadian badlands as they learn to be true to each other, but more importantly, to themselves.

Death and the Rock Star
Death and the Rock Star

Author: Catherine Strong

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-03-03

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 1317154517

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The untimely deaths of Amy Winehouse (2011) and Whitney Houston (2012), and the ’resurrection’ of Tupac Shakur for a performance at the Coachella music festival in April 2012, have focused the media spotlight on the relationship between popular music, fame and death. If the phrase ’sex, drugs and rock’n’roll’ ever qualified a lifestyle, it has left many casualties in its wake, and with the ranks of dead musicians growing over time, so the types of death involved and the reactions to them have diversified. Conversely, as many artists who fronted the rock’n’roll revolution of the 1950s and 1960s continue to age, the idea of dying young and leaving a beautiful corpse (which gave rise, for instance, to the myth of the ’27 Club’) no longer carries the same resonance that it once might have done. This edited collection explores the reception of dead rock stars, ’rock’ being taken in the widest sense as the artists discussed belong to the genres of rock’n’roll (Elvis Presley), disco (Donna Summer), pop and pop-rock (Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Amy Winehouse), punk and post-punk (GG Allin, Ian Curtis), rap (Tupac Shakur), folk (the Dutchman André Hazes) and ’world’ music (Fela Kuti). When music artists die, their fellow musicians, producers, fans and the media react differently, and this book brings together their intertwining modalities of reception. The commercial impact of death on record sales, copyrights, and print media is considered, and the different justifications by living artists for being involved with the dead, through covers, sampling and tributes. The cultural representation of dead singers is investigated through obituaries, biographies and biopics, observing that posthumous fame provides coping mechanisms for fans, and consumers of popular culture more generally, to deal with the knowledge of their own mortality. Examining the contrasting ways in which male and female dead singers are portrayed in the media, the book

What Is Post-Punk?
What Is Post-Punk?

Author: Mimi Haddon

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 2023-02-06

Total Pages: 237

ISBN-13: 0472039210

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Is post-punk a genre? Where did it come from? And what does it mean?

Dating Him
Dating Him

Author: Ann Maree Craven

Publisher: Twin Rivers Press

Published: 2021-01-29

Total Pages: 705

ISBN-13:

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Dating Him is the complete sweet M/M series that includes Dating Nashville, Dating Washington, and Dating Texas. Dating Nashville How does a straight guy accidentally come out as gay to the entire country music world? The truth is, he doesn’t. It happened so fast. One moment, Beckett Anderson stood on stage watching his best friend’s little brother standing in a sea of people as his heart broke in two. The next, he’d jumped off stage to give him the kiss of his life—or maybe the kiss of Becks’ life. So, that question about the straight guy… well, maybe it’s not so black and white. Maybe when Beckett begs Nicky to play his boyfriend for the media, a part of him wants it all to be real. Dating Washington How does the president’s son fall for the closeted son of a senator? The truth is, he didn’t want to. The only home Asher Brooks has ever known is the white house--yes, that white house. As the son of two presidents, the expectations weigh on him. The only person who never made him feel like he needed to be someone different, someone better, was his best friend--a friend who abandoned him the moment Asher revealed who he truly was. But this is Washington, and there’s no avoiding Kenny Montgomery. So, that question about falling for the wrong person… maybe it’s not so black and white. Maybe when Kenny kisses him, he’s allowed to kiss him back. Dating Texas How does the future NHL goaltender fall for his tech nerd roommate? The truth is, he decided not to fight it. Killian “Killer” James doesn’t fit into the elite world of Defiance Academy. There on a hockey scholarship, his Texas ranch hand ways are foreign to his wealthy classmates. And then there’s Diego, the kid who never looks up from the computer screen in their shared dorm room, the one whose genius is intimidating. Boys like them aren’t supposed to be friends, they aren’t supposed to share secret smiles or distract each other from the goals that have gotten them this far. So that question about the jock and the nerd… maybe distractions aren’t such a bad thing. Maybe it’s time for Killian to step out of his own lonely world and join Diego in his. Dating Him contains plenty of M/M swoon in a clean package. Perfect for fans of Simon vs. the Homosapien Agenda, Red White & Royal Blue, and What if it's Us. Keywords: gay romance, gay romance books, rockstar romance, gay romance ebooks, bisexual romance, bisexual romance ebooks, bisexual romance books, rockstar romance ebooks, rockstar romance books, brothers best friend, friends to lovers, famous person romance, media relations, press

Dating Texas
Dating Texas

Author: Ann Maree Craven

Publisher: Twin Rivers Press

Published: 2019-11-08

Total Pages: 197

ISBN-13:

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How does the future NHL goaltender fall for his tech nerd roommate? The truth is, he decided not to fight it. Killian “Killer” James doesn’t fit into the elite world of Defiance Academy. There on a hockey scholarship, his Texas ranch hand ways are foreign to his wealthy classmates. And then there’s Diego, the kid who never looks up from the computer screen in their shared dorm room, the one whose genius is intimidating. Boys like them aren’t supposed to be friends, they aren’t supposed to share secret smiles or distract each other from the goals that have gotten them this far. So that question about the jock and the nerd… maybe distractions aren’t such a bad thing. Maybe it’s time for Killian to step out of his own lonely world and join Diego in his. Go all in with Killian and Diego in this opposites attract sweet romance about an adorable geek and his broody and intense hockey star roommate. Dating Texas is a standalone, clean MM novel in the complete Dating Him Series perfect for fans Love Simon, and What if it’s Us. (HEA guaranteed) The Dating Him series: Dating Nashville Dating Washington Dating Texas Keywords: gay romance, gay romance books, rockstar romance, gay romance ebooks, bisexual romance, bisexual romance ebooks, bisexual romance books, rockstar romance ebooks, rockstar romance books, brothers best friend, friends to lovers, famous person romance, media relations, press

Wyld Girls Can Defy
Wyld Girls Can Defy

Author: Michelle MacQueen

Publisher: Twin Rivers Press

Published: 2021-01-04

Total Pages: 219

ISBN-13:

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How much trouble does it take to forget your summer fling is now your English teacher? A lot. That’s right, Wylder Anderson, troublemaker extraordinaire, didn’t see this one coming. When she walks into class the first day of her senior year, Wylder’s ex is just a fond memory. Until she sees him. Sebastian Cook. Dating a teacher is so not on Wylder’s agenda for the year. Vowing to keep her distance and focus on school, she jumps headfirst into a music project with Logan—the twin brother of Wylder’s superstar nemesis—and also the younger brother of Sebastian. Yeah, that Sebastian. The Cook brothers are going to be the death of her. But they have a secret. A dangerous truth they’re hiding from the world that could burn their carefully constructed music empire to the ground. Is Wylder the spark that will ignite that fire? Or is she the solution? And is Logan Cook just an average high schooler, trying to make it to graduation? Or is he a secret rockstar, eager to disappear from the spotlight that was never meant to be his? One ex-boyfriend/teacher. One jerky superstar rocker. And a boy who is anything but what he seems. Who are these brothers? And why can’t Wylder stay away from them? Wyld Girls Can Defy is book four in About That Girl, a sweet YA romance series. If you like feisty women, enemies to lovers, and scandals in the world of music then this book is for you. Keywords: small town romance, rockstar romance, young adult, teen, sweet romance, clean and wholesome, romantic comedy, inspirational romance

Rock Star
Rock Star

Author: Roslyn Hardy Holcomb

Publisher: Genesis Press, Inc.

Published: 2009-04-01

Total Pages: 203

ISBN-13: 1585715301

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How does an LA sophisticate like rock star Bryan Spencer woo a small-town African-American girl like Callie Lawson? Bryan has come to a small Alabama town to recover after the death of his best friend. The small town is suffocating him until he meets Callie, triggering a contest between LA sin and Southern Sunday school. Bryan and Callie must overcome racial issues, the treacherous nature of the entertainment industry and the clash between urban sophistication and rural values if they are going to stay together.

How to Write a Bestselling Rockstar Romance
How to Write a Bestselling Rockstar Romance

Author: Just Bae

Publisher: Just Bae

Published:

Total Pages: 81

ISBN-13:

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Imagine the crowd’s roar as your number #1 rockstar romance takes center stage. In "How to Write a Bestselling Rockstar Romance," you'll master the art of writing the love story that's not just music to your readers' ears but a symphony of emotion, character, and rock and roll. This writer’s guide strikes a chord with writers of all levels, offering step-by-step instructions on how to create a rhythm of romance that resonates with the wildest of reader fans. Get the inside scoop on writing compelling narratives, creating heartthrob characters, and infusing your tale with the heady mix of love and music. Tune your romance writing skills to perfection and create the rockstar love story that soars to the top of bestsellers’ lis