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The Faith of Dolly Parton: Lessons from Her Life to Lift Your Heart
By Dudley Delffs. 2018
Dolly Parton has entertained, educated, and inspired millions of fans for over five decades. Whether she’s writing songs, performing live,…
recording new albums, acting in or producing new movies and TV programs, expanding her wildly successful Dollywood amusement park, helping children around the world learn to read with her Imagination Library nonprofit, or donating millions of dollars to schools, charities, and people in need, the Queen of Country Music has never been shy about crediting her Christian faith for her success.“A belief in God is essential,” Dolly shares. “You have to believe in something bigger than yourself. We grew up believing that through God all things are possible.” Growing up in the little mountain church where her grandfather preached, Dolly started singing hymns and playing guitar at services when she was only six. Consequently, she has never been shy about discussing her faith and relationship with God. “People say, ‘Well, I am surprised that you talk about your faith,’ and I say, ‘Why not? That’s who I am. That’s what keeps me going,’” she explains. Tennessee native, Dolly fanboy, and award-winning writer Dudley Delffs now spotlights ten faith lessons as evidenced in Dolly’s life, music, interviews, and attitude. The Faith of Dolly Parton focuses on the ways Dolly’s life can inspire us all to be more authentic, to trust God during hard times, to stay grounded during the good times, and to always keep our sense of humor. Sometimes poignant, sometimes funny, frequently surprising, and always true to Dolly’s down-home spirit of joyful generosity, this book will delight her millions of fans as well as anyone seeking a fresh faith-filled role model.Strange Stars: How Science Fiction and Fantasy Transformed Popular Music
By Jason Heller. 2018
A Hugo Award-winning author and music journalist explores the weird and wild story of when rock ’n’ roll met the…
sci-fi world of the 1970sAs the 1960s drew to a close, and mankind trained its telescopes on other worlds, old conventions gave way to a new kind of hedonistic freedom that celebrated sex, drugs, and rock ’n’ roll. Derided as nerdy or dismissed as fluff, science fiction rarely gets credit for its catalyzing effect on this revolution.In Strange Stars, Jason Heller recasts sci-fi and pop music as parallel cultural forces that depended on one another to expand the horizons of books, music, and out-of-this-world imagery.In doing so, he presents a whole generation of revered musicians as the sci-fi-obsessed conjurers they really were: from Sun Ra lecturing on the black man in the cosmos, to Pink Floyd jamming live over the broadcast of the Apollo 11 moon landing; from a wave of Star Wars disco chart toppers and synthesiser-wielding post-punks, to Jimi Hendrix distilling the “purplish haze” he discovered in a pulp novel into psychedelic song. Of course, the whole scene was led by David Bowie, who hid in the balcony of a movie theater to watch 2001: A Space Odyssey, and came out a changed man…If today’s culture of Comic Con fanatics, superhero blockbusters, and classic sci-fi reboots has us thinking that the nerds have won at last, Strange Stars brings to life an era of unparalleled and unearthly creativity—in magazines, novels, films, records, and concerts—to point out that the nerds have been winning all along.Strange Footing: Poetic Form and Dance in the Late Middle Ages
By Seeta Chaganti. 2018
For premodern audiences, poetic form did not exist solely as meter, stanzas, or rhyme scheme. Rather, the form of a…
poem emerged as an experience, one generated when an audience immersed in a culture of dance encountered a poetic text. Exploring the complex relationship between medieval dance and medieval poetry, Strange Footing argues that the intersection of texts and dance produced an experience of poetic form based in disorientation, asymmetry, and even misstep. Medieval dance guided audiences to approach poetry not in terms of the body’s regular marking of time and space, but rather in the irregular and surprising forces of virtual motion around, ahead of, and behind the dancing body. Reading medieval poems through artworks, paintings, and sculptures depicting dance, Seeta Chaganti illuminates texts that have long eluded our full understanding, inviting us to inhabit their strange footings askew of conventional space and time. Strange Footing deploys the motion of dance to change how we read medieval poetry, generating a new theory of poetic form for medieval studies and beyond.La sinfonía de la libertad: Música y política
By Antoni Batista. 2018
Esta obra ofrece una gran panorámica de la música política de todos los tiempos, compositores e intérpretes. Si eres amante…
de la música, disfrutarás con esta faceta de Antoni Batista en un viaje inédito por el arte de los sonidos. Mozart hizo política. Beethoven es el legado de la Revolución Francesa a la Unión Europea. Chopin, Verdi, Sibelius, Falla reivindicaron patrias libres. Dvorak inventó el federalismo sinfónico. La inmensa creatividad de Shostakóvich venció al estalinismo. Casals desafió a Franco y a Hitler. Celibidache se rebeló contra la industria discográfica. Barenboim unió a palestinos y a judíos... La música y la política se han ido entrelazando a lo largo de la historia, pero es una relación poco menos que desconocida. La sinfonía de la libertad recoge sus encuentros más significativos. Además de abundante información, que sorprenderá a muchos, este libro contiene aportaciones musicológicas originales de un autor que logra aunar el desafío intelectual del ensayo con el ritmo trepidante de la narrativa.100 Best-selling Albums of the 90s
By Peter Dodd, Justin Cawthorne, Chris Barrett, Dan Auty. 2018
Find your nirvana in this list of best-selling albums of the 1990s.The music scene got a bit grungier in the…
1990s, but these Top 100 albums wrapped up the 20th century with a big finish. From the Dixie Chicks and Spice Girls to Sheryl Crow and Alanis Morissette, women stepped up during this decade to make sure their voices were heard. Nirvana, Matchbox 20, Green Day, and the Backstreet Boys all had vastly different sounds, but were united in their popularity. Each listing features the full-color original sleeve artwork, and is packed with information about the musician lineup, track listings, and number one-singles that resulted.The Beatles' Second Album
By Dave Marsh. 2007
The Beatles' Second Album runs only 22 minutes, with just 11 songs--many of which the group didn't write. Despite all…
that, the album personifies the Beatles: the world's greatest rock'n'roll band, according to well-known rock'n'roll critic and author Dave Marsh. With its overload of rock'n'roll, R&B, and early soul influence, including "Roll Over Beethoven," and "Long Tall Sally", The Beatles' Second Album - the book and the album - offers a great vantage point from which to see the group's enormous impact on pop music and culture. Marsh breaks new ground by focusing on the Beatles' US recordings and how they evolved from British releases at a time when the two nations' approaches to rock'n'roll production were vastly different.The Moon Opera
By Howard Goldblatt, Bi Feiyu, Sylvia Li-chun Lin. 2007
The debut novel of one of China's rising young literary talents--a gem of a book that takes a piercing look…
into the world of Chinese opera and its female stars In a fit of diva jealousy, Xiao Yanqiu, star of The Moon Opera, disfigures her understudy with boiling water. Spurned by the troupe, she turns to teaching. Twenty years later, a rich cigarette-factory boss offers to underwrite a restaging of the cursed opera, but only on the condition that Xiao Yanqiu return to the role of Chang'e. So she does, this time believing she has fully become the immortal moon goddess. Set against the drama, intrigue, jealousy, retribution, and redemption of backstage Peking opera, The Moon Opera is a stunning portrait of women in a world that simultaneously reveres and restricts them. Bi Feiyu, one of China's young literary stars, re-creates all the temptations and triumphs of the stage the world over in this gem of a novel.The Moon Opera
By Howard Goldblatt, Bi Feiyu, Sylvia Li-chun Lin. 2007
The debut novel of one of China's rising young literary talents--a gem of a book that takes a piercing look…
into the world of Chinese opera and its female stars In a fit of diva jealousy, Xiao Yanqiu, star of The Moon Opera, disfigures her understudy with boiling water. Spurned by the troupe, she turns to teaching. Twenty years later, a rich cigarette-factory boss offers to underwrite a restaging of the cursed opera, but only on the condition that Xiao Yanqiu return to the role of Chang'e. So she does, this time believing she has fully become the immortal moon goddess. Set against the drama, intrigue, jealousy, retribution, and redemption of backstage Peking opera, The Moon Opera is a stunning portrait of women in a world that simultaneously reveres and restricts them. Bi Feiyu, one of China's young literary stars, re-creates all the temptations and triumphs of the stage the world over in this gem of a novel.The Moon Opera
By Howard Goldblatt, Bi Feiyu, Sylvia Li. 2007
The debut novel of one of China's rising young literary talents--a gem of a book that takes a piercing look…
into the world of Chinese opera and its female stars In a fit of diva jealousy, Xiao Yanqiu, star of The Moon Opera, disfigures her understudy with boiling water. Spurned by the troupe, she turns to teaching. Twenty years later, a rich cigarette-factory boss offers to underwrite a restaging of the cursed opera, but only on the condition that Xiao Yanqiu return to the role of Chang'e. So she does, this time believing she has fully become the immortal moon goddess. Set against the drama, intrigue, jealousy, retribution, and redemption of backstage Peking opera, The Moon Opera is a stunning portrait of women in a world that simultaneously reveres and restricts them. Bi Feiyu, one of China's young literary stars, re-creates all the temptations and triumphs of the stage the world over in this gem of a novel.A Newfoundlander in Canada: Always Going Somewhere, Always Coming Home
By Alan Doyle. 2017
Following the fantastic success of his bestselling memoir, Where I Belong, Great Big Sea front man Alan Doyle returns with…
a hilarious, heartwarming account of leaving Newfoundland and discovering Canada for the first time.Armed with the same personable, candid style found in his first book, Alan Doyle turns his perspective outward from Petty Harbour toward mainland Canada, reflecting on what it was like to venture away from the comforts of home and the familiarity of the island. Often in a van, sometimes in a bus, occasionally in a car with broken wipers "using Bob's belt and a rope found by Paddy's Pond" to pull them back and forth, Alan and his bandmates charted new territory, and he constantly measured what he saw of the vast country against what his forefathers once called the Daemon Canada. In a period punctuated by triumphant leaps forward for the band, deflating steps backward and everything in between—opening for Barney the Dinosaur at an outdoor music festival, being propositioned at a gas station mail-order bride service in Alberta, drinking moonshine with an elderly church-goer on a Sunday morning in PEI—Alan's few established notions about Canada were often debunked and his own identity as a Newfoundlander was constantly challenged. Touring the country, he also discovered how others view Newfoundlanders and how skewed these images can sometimes be. Asked to play in front of the Queen at a massive Canada Day festival on Parliament Hill, the concert organizers assured Alan and his bandmates that the best way to showcase Newfoundland culture was for them to be towed onto stage in a dory and introduced not as Newfoundlanders but as "Newfies." The boys were not amused. Heartfelt, funny and always insightful, these stories tap into the complexities of community and Canadianness, forming the portrait of a young man from a tiny fishing village trying to define and hold on to his sense of home while navigating a vast and diverse and wonder-filled country.Right to the Juke Joint: A Personal History of American Music (Music in American Life)
By Patrick B Mullen. 2018
The cowboy songs and dusty Texas car rides of his youth set Patrick B. Mullen on a lifelong journey into…
the sprawling Arcadia of American music. That music fused so-called civilized elements with native forms to produce everything from Zydeco to Conjunto to jazz to Woody Guthrie. The civilized/native idea, meanwhile, helped develop Mullen's critical perspective, guide his love of music, and steer his life's work. Part scholar's musings and part fan's memoir, Right to the Juke Joint follows Mullen from his early embrace of country and folk to the full flowering of an idiosyncratic, omnivorous interest in music. Personal memory merges with a lifetime of fieldwork in folklore and anthropology to provide readers with a deeply informed analysis of American roots music. Mullen opens up on the world of ideas and his own tireless fandom to explore how his cultural identity--and ours--relates to concepts like authenticity and "folkness." The result is a charming musical map drawn by a gifted storyteller whose boots have traveled a thousand tuneful roads.Black Opera: History, Power, Engagement
By Naomi Andre. 2018
From classic films like Carmen Jones to contemporary works like The Diary of Sally Hemmings and U-Carmen eKhayelitsa, American and…
South African artists and composers have used opera to reclaim black people's place in history. Naomi André draws on the experiences of performers and audiences to explore this music's resonance with today's listeners. Interacting with creators and performers, as well as with the works themselves, André reveals how black opera unearths suppressed truths. These truths provoke complex, if uncomfortable, reconsideration of racial, gender, sexual, and other oppressive ideologies. Opera, in turn, operates as a cultural and political force that employs an immense, transformative power to represent or even liberate. Viewing opera as a fertile site for critical inquiry, political activism, and social change, Black Opera lays the foundation for innovative new approaches to applied scholarship.Archivo José Agustín: Y otros (muchos) textos sobre rock.
By José Agustín. 2018
"José Agustín es una de las más notables manifestaciones del rock mexicano, probablemente mucho más potente y más significativa que…
buena parte de las bandas que han surgido en este país" RULO, tomado del prólogo José Agustín es una de las plumas más potentes de la literatura mexicana, representante de una generación de escritores cuyas letras fueron el instrumento ideal para dar voz a una época marcada por el rock, la psicodelia y el relajo. Este volumen, primero de una serie de textos poco conocidos del autor, reúne crónicas y ensayos de José Agustín. Del blues del Misisipi a las tornamesas de Tijuana, de la melancolía de José Alfredo al cine de Orson Welles, José Agustín explora con su libertad y estilo característicos los derroteros de la música, las letras y, por qué no, del cine para ofrecer al lector un atisbo a su visión personalísima del mundo. El resultado es un libro ecléctico y desmadroso, cuyo eje es la pasión incansable que su autor tiene por la música y la palabra.Lament from Epirus: An Odyssey Into Europe's Oldest Surviving Folk Music
By Christopher C. King. 2018
In the tradition of Patrick Leigh Fermor and Geoff Dyer, a Grammy-winning producer discovers a powerful and ancient folk music…
tradition. In a gramophone shop in Istanbul, renowned record collector Christopher C. King uncovered some of the strangest—and most hypnotic—sounds he had ever heard. The 78s were immensely moving, seeming to tap into a primal well of emotion inaccessible through contemporary music. The songs, King learned, were from Epirus, an area straddling southern Albania and northwestern Greece and boasting a folk tradition extending back to the pre-Homeric era. To hear this music is to hear the past. Lament from Epirus is an unforgettable journey into a musical obsession, which traces a unique genre back to the roots of song itself. As King hunts for two long-lost virtuosos—one of whom may have committed a murder—he also tells the story of the Roma people who pioneered Epirotic folk music and their descendants who continue the tradition today. King discovers clues to his most profound questions about the function of music in the history of humanity: What is the relationship between music and language? Why do we organize sound as music? Is music superfluous, a mere form of entertainment, or could it be a tool for survival? King’s journey becomes an investigation into song and dance’s role as a means of spiritual healing—and what that may reveal about music’s evolutionary origins.La causa nacional: Historias del rock en Colombia
By Jacobo Miguel Celnik. 2018
Por primera vez alguien se arriesga a poner sobre el papel las principales historias de 50 años de rock nacional…
Hace 60 años se grabó "Very, Very Well", el primer rock and roll hecho en Colombia. Hace 50 años Los Speakers produjeron un disco de otro planeta. Hace 40 años Crash mantuvo viva la llama del rock en el país. Hace 30 años el rock en español nos conquistó. Hace 20 años Rock al Parque demostró que Bogotá estaba preparada para grandes gestas. Este libro es una extensa crónica sobre la llegada, auge, desarrollo y consolidación del rock en Colombia y el contexto de su evolución. El lector encontrará testimonios de todos los quienes han estado involucrados en este proceso quienes ayudan a construir una mirada global e incluyente del desarrollo del rock nacional. Un homenaje a visionarios, emprendedores, soñadores que decidieron vivir del rock en un país tropical. Una causa justa, una Causa Nacional.Un llibre de cuina que ens fa viatjar a través de la música de tots els temps. 30 receptes senzilles…
i saboroses que dialoguen amb les melodies més exquisides. Quina relació hi ha entre els macarrons amb formatge i Beethoven, el consomé i Verdi o les últimes creacions del Celler de Can Roca i la música d'Erik Satie? La història de la cuina i la de la música ha seguit camins paral·lels. En cada moment històric i en cada indret del món, compositors i cuiners han compartit una mateixa manera de veure el món i han desenvolupat les seves creacions amb un esperit comú. En aquest llibre, Jaume Biarnés explora la relació entre la gastronomia i la música a partir de trenta receptes que estableixen un diàleg entre aquests dos mons. Algunes oblidades durant anys en vells llibres de cuina, d'altres, creacions dels xefs més actuals. Des dels primers receptaris de l'antiguitat fins a les més agosarades partitures dels nostres temps, l'autor ens convida a degustar i a escoltar d'una manera fàcil i deliciosa.The State of Music
By Virgil Thomson. 2016
Virgil Thomson had already established himself as one of the nation's leading composers when he published The State of Music…
(1939), the book that made his name as a writer and won him a fourteen-year stint as chief music reviewer at the New York Herald Tribune. This feisty, often hilarious polemic, presented here in the extensively revised edition of 1962, surveys the challenges confronting the American composer in a hide-bound world where performance and broadcast outlets are controlled by institutions shocked by the new and suspicious of homegrown talent. For Aaron Copland, The State of Music was not just "the most original book on music that America has produced," but "the wittiest, the most provocative, the best written."Curtain, Gong, Steam: Wagnerian Technologies of Nineteenth-Century Opera
By Gundula Kreuzer. 2018
In this innovative book Gundula Kreuzer argues for the foundational role of technologies in the conception production …
and study of nineteenth-century opera She shows how composers increasingly incorporated novel audiovisual effects in their works and how the uses and meanings of the required apparatuses changed through the twentieth century sometimes still resonating in stagings performance art and popular culture today Focusing on devices which she dubs Wagnerian technologies intended to amalgamate opera s various media while veiling their mechanics Kreuzer offers a practical counternarrative to Wagner s idealist theories of total illusionism At the same time Curtain Gong Steam s multifaceted exploration of the three titular technologies repositions Wagner as catalyst more than inventor in the history of operatic production With its broad chronological and geographical scope this book deepens our understanding of the material and mechanical conditions of historical operatic practice as well as of individual works both well known and obscureJustin Bieber Quiz Book
By Tim Luka, Felix Lai. 2017
Are you good at doing quiz? Could you take part in TV programs? Are you ready to take the challenge…
to test you intelligence? How much do you know about Justin Bieber? Here are 200 questions to test you knowledge in the Justin Bieber! How many of them can you answer? Maybe you would learn something from them. Maybe you would discuss the questions with someone next to you (Of course answers are provided) Can you answer the following questions: What was Justin Bieber's debut single? What is Justin Bieber's first tattoo? Which ice hockey team is Justin's favorite team?Dylan on Dylan: Interviews and Encounters (Musicians in Their Own Words)
By Jeff Burger. 2018
In a 1969 conversation with Rolling Stone editor Jann Wenner, Dylan proclaims, "I don't give interviews." But in truth, Dylan…
has given numerous press conferences, spoken at length with print publications large and small and with broadcast media around the world and even answered listeners' questions on call-in radio shows. Dylan can be as evasive and abstruse as he is witty; he can be cranky and sarcastic. But in the right moments, he offers candid, revealing commentary about his groundbreaking music and creative process. Those conversations reveal glimpses into the mind of one of the most important performers and songwriters of the last hundred years. Dylan on Dylan is an authoritative, chronologically arranged anthology of interviews, speeches and press conferences, as well as excerpts from nearly a hundred additional Q&As spanning Dylan's entire career—from 1961 through 2016. The majority have not been previously available in print. The material comes from renowned publications like Rolling Stone and from obscure periodicals like Minnesota Daily, a student newspaper at Dylan's alma mater. Interviewers include some of the top writers of our time, such as Jonathan Lethem, Douglas Brinkley, and Mikal Gilmore, as well as musicians like Pete Seeger and Happy Traum. Introductions put each piece in context and, in many cases, include the interviewer's reminiscences about the encounter.