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Author: Tim Hornbaker
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Published: 2012-07
Total Pages: 569
ISBN-13: 1613210752
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDetails the lives and careers of the best professional wrestling figures of the last one hundred fifty years, including Bruno Sammartino, The Undertaker, and John Cena.
Author: Peter L'Official
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2020-07-21
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 0674238079
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA cultural history of the South Bronx that reaches beyond familiar narratives of urban ruin and renaissance, beyond the “inner city” symbol, to reveal the place and people obscured by its myths. For decades, the South Bronx was America’s “inner city.” Synonymous with civic neglect, crime, and metropolitan decay, the Bronx became the preeminent symbol used to proclaim the failings of urban places and the communities of color who lived in them. Images of its ruins—none more infamous than the one broadcast live during the 1977 World Series: a building burning near Yankee Stadium—proclaimed the failures of urbanism. Yet this same South Bronx produced hip hop, arguably the most powerful artistic and cultural innovation of the past fifty years. Two narratives—urban crisis and cultural renaissance—have dominated understandings of the Bronx and other urban environments. Today, as gentrification transforms American cities economically and demographically, the twin narratives structure our thinking about urban life. A Bronx native, Peter L’Official draws on literature and the visual arts to recapture the history, people, and place beyond its myths and legends. Both fact and symbol, the Bronx was not a decades-long funeral pyre, nor was hip hop its lone cultural contribution. L’Official juxtaposes the artist Gordon Matta-Clark’s carvings of abandoned buildings with the city’s trompe l’oeil decals program; examines the centrality of the Bronx’s infamous Charlotte Street to two Hollywood films; offers original readings of novels by Don DeLillo and Tom Wolfe; and charts the emergence of a “global Bronx” as graffiti was brought into galleries and exhibited internationally, promoting a symbolic Bronx abroad. Urban Legends presents a new cultural history of what it meant to live, work, and create in the Bronx.
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Published: 1974
Total Pages: 1292
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Author: Melanie Hemry
Publisher: Whitaker House
Published: 2013-09-02
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13: 1603749276
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMelanie Hemry and Gina Lynnes share true-life and personal experiences of many who have been dramatically saved, including: Debbie, whose marriage was shattered. Mac, an out-of-control drug dealer. Danielle, a self-declared atheist. Phillip, an enforcer with the Black Panthers. LuLu, who doubted that anyone could ever love her. Angelika, an occult bookstore owner. Barbara, who worshipped a New Age guru. These testimonies, and many others, provide stunning evidence that God can save our lost loved ones, no matter how hopeless they may seem.
Author: David V. Moskowitz
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2015-11-10
Total Pages: 803
ISBN-13: 1440803404
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis one-of-a-kind reference investigates the music and the musicians that set the popular trends of the last half century in America. Many rock fans have, at one time or another, ranked their favorite artists in order of talent, charisma, and musical influence on the world as they see it. In this same spirit, author and music historian David V. Moskowitz expands on the concept of "top ten" lists to provide a lineup of the best 100 musical groups from the past 60 years. Since the chosen bands are based on the author's personal taste, this two-volume set provokes discussion of which performers are included and why, offering insights into the surprising influences behind them. From the Everly Brothers, to the Ramones, to Public Enemy, the work covers a wide variety of styles and genres, clearly illustrating the connections between them. Entries focus on the group's history, touring, membership, major releases, selected discography, bibliography, and influence. Contributions from leading scholars in popular music shed light on derivative artists and underscore the overall impact of the performers on the music industry.
Author: Pete Prown
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780793540426
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents a comprehensive encyclopedia of rock guitar legends examining over three hundred artists beginning in the 1950s and covering a wide range of styles and includes performers such as Chuck Berry, Eric Clapton, Duane Eddy, Buddy Holly, Keith Richards, and more.
Author: John Willis
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Published: 2000-04
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9781557832030
DOWNLOAD EBOOKScenes from the plays and portraits of leading actors accompany a statistical record of the current season
Author: John A. Willis
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Published: 1997
Total Pages: 280
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Willis
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Published: 2004-01-01
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9781557835239
DOWNLOAD EBOOK(Theatre World). Highlights of this new Theatre World , now in its 57th year, include The Producers with Matthew Broderick and Nathan Lane, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest with Gary Sinise, Judgment at Nuremberg with Maximillian Schell, Design for Livin g with Alan Cumming, 42nd Street , A Class Act and Lily Tomlin's The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe . During the 2000-2001 season, Theatre World was awarded with a Special Tony Honor for Excellence in the Theatre. Theatre World , the statistical and pictorial record of the Broadway and Off-Broadway season, touring companies and professional regional companies throughout the United States, is a classic in its field. The book is complete with cast listings, replacements, producers, directors, authors, composers, opening and closing dates, song titles and much, much more. There are special sections with autobiographical data, obituary information and major drama awards. New features to this edition include: an introduction by editor John Willis; separate Off-Broadway and Off-Off Broadway sections; new Longest Runs listing; and an expanded Awards and Regionals section. "Nothing brings back a theatrical season better, or holds on to it more lovingly, than John Willis' Theatre World ." Harry Haun, Playbill
Author: Christopher Dickey
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2009-02-03
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 1416594388
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe NYPD is the best and most ambitious antiterror operation in the world. Its seat-of-the-pants intelligence is the gold standard for all others. Christopher Dickey, who has reported on international terrorism for more than twenty-five years, takes readers into the secret command center of the New York City Police Department's counterterrorism division, then onto the streets with cops ready for the toughest urban combat the twenty-first century can throw at them. But behind the tactical shows of force staged by the police, there lies a much more ambitious and controversial strategy: to go anywhere and use almost any means to keep the city from becoming, once again, Ground Zero. This is the story of the coming war in America's cities and New York's shadow war, waged around the globe to stop it before it begins. Drawing on unparalleled access to Police Commissioner Ray Kelly and other top officials, Dickey explores the most ambitious intelligence operation ever organized by a metropolitan police department. Headed by David Cohen, who ran the CIA's operations inside the United States in the 1980s and its global spying in the 1990s, the NYPD's counterterrorism division had uptotheminute details of new attacks set in motion to target Manhattan in 2002 and 2003. New York's finest are now seen by other police chiefs in the United States as the gold standard for counterterrorism operations and a model for even the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security. Yet as New Yorkers have come to feel safer, they've also grown worried about the NYPD's methods: sending its undercover agents to spy on Americans in other cities, rounding up hundreds of protesters preemptively before the 2004 Republican convention, and using confidential informants who may be more adept at plotting terror than the people they finger. Securing the City is a superb investigative reporter's stunning look inside the real world of cops who are ready to take on the world and at the ambiguous price we pay for the safety they provide.
