Author: Jason Samuels
Publisher: Writers Republic LLC
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
When prison life fails you… you can always count on your crew to have your back. But, on the streets it’s a different story… Avanti left his pregnant girlfriend Staci on the streets for prison hoping their love would last forever. After meeting Xavier, Shellz, Tricks and Dice in prison they form a street bond that couldn’t be broken. Avanti also learn that you can’t hold on to anything while serving time and when his return to the streets causes chaos between Staci’s new love, a deadly kingpin name Gutterman, Avanti leans on his crew to have his back. But… there are secrets amongst the squad and Avanti’s first love, Staci. A secret that forces Avanti to question his loyalty to all of them. The Perfect Squad is based on two love stories into one. When one person love for his crew and a woman is tested… what do you do? Enjoy the truth about urban life and what’s it like to survive in the mean streets of Philly.
Jason Samuels
Author: Jason Samuels
Publisher: Writers Republic LLC
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
When prison life fails you… you can always count on your crew to have your back. But, on the streets it’s a different story… Avanti left his pregnant girlfriend Staci on the streets for prison hoping their love would last forever. After meeting Xavier, Shellz, Tricks and Dice in prison they form a street bond that couldn’t be broken. Avanti also learn that you can’t hold on to anything while serving time and when his return to the streets causes chaos between Staci’s new love, a deadly kingpin name Gutterman, Avanti leans on his crew to have his back. But… there are secrets amongst the squad and Avanti’s first love, Staci. A secret that forces Avanti to question his loyalty to all of them. The Perfect Squad is based on two love stories into one. When one person love for his crew and a woman is tested… what do you do? Enjoy the truth about urban life and what’s it like to survive in the mean streets of Philly.
Publisher: Writers Republic LLC
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
When prison life fails you… you can always count on your crew to have your back. But, on the streets it’s a different story… Avanti left his pregnant girlfriend Staci on the streets for prison hoping their love would last forever. After meeting Xavier, Shellz, Tricks and Dice in prison they form a street bond that couldn’t be broken. Avanti also learn that you can’t hold on to anything while serving time and when his return to the streets causes chaos between Staci’s new love, a deadly kingpin name Gutterman, Avanti leans on his crew to have his back. But… there are secrets amongst the squad and Avanti’s first love, Staci. A secret that forces Avanti to question his loyalty to all of them. The Perfect Squad is based on two love stories into one. When one person love for his crew and a woman is tested… what do you do? Enjoy the truth about urban life and what’s it like to survive in the mean streets of Philly.
Tap Dancing America
Author: Constance Valis Hill
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190225386
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Here is the vibrant, colorful, high-stepping story of tap -- the first comprehensive, fully documented history of a uniquely American art form. Writing with all the verve and grace of tap itself, Constance Valis Hill offers a sweeping narrative, filling a major gap in American dance history and placing tap firmly center stage.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190225386
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Here is the vibrant, colorful, high-stepping story of tap -- the first comprehensive, fully documented history of a uniquely American art form. Writing with all the verve and grace of tap itself, Constance Valis Hill offers a sweeping narrative, filling a major gap in American dance history and placing tap firmly center stage.
Wildflower
Author: Alecia Whitaker
Publisher: Poppy
ISBN: 0316251364
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
The best songs come from broken hearts. Bird Barrett has grown up on the road, singing backup in her family's bluegrass band and playing everywhere from Nashville, Tennessee, to Nowhere, Oklahoma. But one fateful night, when Bird fills in for her dad by singing lead, a scout in the audience offers her a spotlight all her own. Soon Bird is caught up in a whirlwind of songwriting meetings, recording sessions, and music-video shoots. Her first single hits the top twenty, and suddenly fans and paparazzi are around every corner. She's even caught the eye of her longtime crush, fellow roving musician Adam Dean. With Bird's star on the rise, though, the rest of her life falls into chaos as tradition and ambition collide. Can Bird break out while staying true to her roots? In a world of glamour and gold records, a young country music star finds her voice.
Publisher: Poppy
ISBN: 0316251364
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
The best songs come from broken hearts. Bird Barrett has grown up on the road, singing backup in her family's bluegrass band and playing everywhere from Nashville, Tennessee, to Nowhere, Oklahoma. But one fateful night, when Bird fills in for her dad by singing lead, a scout in the audience offers her a spotlight all her own. Soon Bird is caught up in a whirlwind of songwriting meetings, recording sessions, and music-video shoots. Her first single hits the top twenty, and suddenly fans and paparazzi are around every corner. She's even caught the eye of her longtime crush, fellow roving musician Adam Dean. With Bird's star on the rise, though, the rest of her life falls into chaos as tradition and ambition collide. Can Bird break out while staying true to her roots? In a world of glamour and gold records, a young country music star finds her voice.
I Need You To Kill Somebody
Author: Neil Swallow
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 132609596X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
Jason McAdam has a task to perform. If he can. A voice on the end of the telephone needs him to kill. But can he do it?
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 132609596X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
Jason McAdam has a task to perform. If he can. A voice on the end of the telephone needs him to kill. But can he do it?
Shout at the Day 2
Author: Steven H. Smith
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1665553219
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 888
Book Description
The Texicans ride again. Will they make it to the playoffs or will they fold their tents. High School football is king in the East Texas community of Lone Star. East Texans live and die for football. Winning teams put schools on the map and help bring about tremendous prosperity in rural East Texas. The average pay for a teacher during the seventies is just over $1000;00 per month. Winning makes people feel good about themselves, and the community. When they feel good about the community bond issues are passed that bring about better schools. This creates jobs for more people as businesses locate to the area helping the economy bloom like the flowers in spring.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1665553219
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 888
Book Description
The Texicans ride again. Will they make it to the playoffs or will they fold their tents. High School football is king in the East Texas community of Lone Star. East Texans live and die for football. Winning teams put schools on the map and help bring about tremendous prosperity in rural East Texas. The average pay for a teacher during the seventies is just over $1000;00 per month. Winning makes people feel good about themselves, and the community. When they feel good about the community bond issues are passed that bring about better schools. This creates jobs for more people as businesses locate to the area helping the economy bloom like the flowers in spring.
Broadway Musicals, 1943-2004
Author: John Stewart
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476603294
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 6404
Book Description
On March 31, 1943, the musical Oklahoma! premiered and the modern era of the Broadway musical was born. Since that time, the theatres of Broadway have staged hundreds of musicals--some more noteworthy than others, but all in their own way a part of American theatre history. With more than 750 entries, this comprehensive reference work provides information on every musical produced on Broadway since Oklahoma's 1943 debut. Each entry begins with a brief synopsis of the show, followed by a three-part history: first, the pre-Broadway story of the show, including out-of-town try-outs and Broadway previews; next, the Broadway run itself, with dates, theatres, and cast and crew, including replacements, chorus and understudies, songs, gossip, and notes on reviews and awards; and finally, post-Broadway information with a detailed list of later notable productions, along with important reviews and awards.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476603294
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 6404
Book Description
On March 31, 1943, the musical Oklahoma! premiered and the modern era of the Broadway musical was born. Since that time, the theatres of Broadway have staged hundreds of musicals--some more noteworthy than others, but all in their own way a part of American theatre history. With more than 750 entries, this comprehensive reference work provides information on every musical produced on Broadway since Oklahoma's 1943 debut. Each entry begins with a brief synopsis of the show, followed by a three-part history: first, the pre-Broadway story of the show, including out-of-town try-outs and Broadway previews; next, the Broadway run itself, with dates, theatres, and cast and crew, including replacements, chorus and understudies, songs, gossip, and notes on reviews and awards; and finally, post-Broadway information with a detailed list of later notable productions, along with important reviews and awards.
The Oxford Handbook of Improvisation in Dance
Author: Vida L. Midgelow
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199397007
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 833
Book Description
From the dance floor of a tango club to group therapy classes, from ballet to community theatre, improvised dance is everywhere. For some dance artists, improvisation is one of many approaches within the choreographic process. For others, it is a performance form in its own right. And while it has long been practiced, it is only within the last twenty years that dance improvisation has become a topic of critical inquiry. With The Oxford Handbook of Improvisation in Dance, dancer, teacher, and editor Vida L. Midgelow provides a cutting-edge volume on dance improvisation in all its facets. Expanding beyond conventional dance frameworks, this handbook looks at the ways that dance improvisation practices reflect our ability to adapt, communicate, and respond to our environment. Throughout the handbook, case studies from a variety of disciplines showcase the role of individual agency and collective relationships in improvisation, not just to dancers but to people of all backgrounds and abilities. In doing so, chapters celebrate all forms of improvisation, and unravel the ways that this kind of movement informs understandings of history, socio-cultural conditions, lived experience, cognition, and technologies.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199397007
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 833
Book Description
From the dance floor of a tango club to group therapy classes, from ballet to community theatre, improvised dance is everywhere. For some dance artists, improvisation is one of many approaches within the choreographic process. For others, it is a performance form in its own right. And while it has long been practiced, it is only within the last twenty years that dance improvisation has become a topic of critical inquiry. With The Oxford Handbook of Improvisation in Dance, dancer, teacher, and editor Vida L. Midgelow provides a cutting-edge volume on dance improvisation in all its facets. Expanding beyond conventional dance frameworks, this handbook looks at the ways that dance improvisation practices reflect our ability to adapt, communicate, and respond to our environment. Throughout the handbook, case studies from a variety of disciplines showcase the role of individual agency and collective relationships in improvisation, not just to dancers but to people of all backgrounds and abilities. In doing so, chapters celebrate all forms of improvisation, and unravel the ways that this kind of movement informs understandings of history, socio-cultural conditions, lived experience, cognition, and technologies.
I DANCE: A SIMPLE HANDBOOK FOR STARTING A SUCCESSFUL DANCE CAREER
Author: Danielle Hobbs
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 055713692X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
This handbook was written by Dance Renaissance performer, Danielle Hobbs, giving you great guidance to starting a professional dance career, and what to expect on the job.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 055713692X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
This handbook was written by Dance Renaissance performer, Danielle Hobbs, giving you great guidance to starting a professional dance career, and what to expect on the job.
Sound Changes
Author: Daniel Fischlin
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472128647
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Sound Changes responds to a need in improvisation studies for more work that addresses the diversity of global improvisatory practices and argues that by beginning to understand the particular, material experiences of sonic realities that are different from our own, we can address the host of other factors that are imparted or sublimated in performance. These factors range from the intimate affect associated with a particular performer’s capacity to generate a distinctive “voicing,” or the addition of an unexpected sonic intervention only possible with one particular configuration of players in a specific space and time. Through a series of case studies drawn from Africa, Asia, the Americas, and Oceania, Sound Changes offers readers an introduction to a range of musical expressions across the globe in which improvisation plays a key role and the book demonstrates that improvisation is a vital site for the production of emergent social relationships and meanings. As it does this work, Sound Changes situates the increasingly transcultural dimensions of improvised music in relation to emergent networks and technologies, changing patterns of migration and immigration, shifts in the political economy of music, and other social, cultural, and economic factors. Improvisation studies is a recently developed, but growing, interdisciplinary field of study. The discipline—which has only truly come into focus in the early part of the twenty-first century—has been building a lexicon of key terms and developing assumptions about core practices. Yet, the full breadth of improvisatory practices has remained a vexed, if not impossibly ambitious, subject of study. This volume offers a step forward in the movement away from critical tendencies that tend to homogenize and reduce practices and vocabularies in the name of the familiar. Chapter authors include John Corbett, Jason Robinson, Kirstie Dorr, Beverley Milton-Edwards, Sally MacArthur, Waldo Garrido, Jemma Decristo, Mike Heffley, Monica Dalidowicz, and Hafez Modirzadeh.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472128647
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Sound Changes responds to a need in improvisation studies for more work that addresses the diversity of global improvisatory practices and argues that by beginning to understand the particular, material experiences of sonic realities that are different from our own, we can address the host of other factors that are imparted or sublimated in performance. These factors range from the intimate affect associated with a particular performer’s capacity to generate a distinctive “voicing,” or the addition of an unexpected sonic intervention only possible with one particular configuration of players in a specific space and time. Through a series of case studies drawn from Africa, Asia, the Americas, and Oceania, Sound Changes offers readers an introduction to a range of musical expressions across the globe in which improvisation plays a key role and the book demonstrates that improvisation is a vital site for the production of emergent social relationships and meanings. As it does this work, Sound Changes situates the increasingly transcultural dimensions of improvised music in relation to emergent networks and technologies, changing patterns of migration and immigration, shifts in the political economy of music, and other social, cultural, and economic factors. Improvisation studies is a recently developed, but growing, interdisciplinary field of study. The discipline—which has only truly come into focus in the early part of the twenty-first century—has been building a lexicon of key terms and developing assumptions about core practices. Yet, the full breadth of improvisatory practices has remained a vexed, if not impossibly ambitious, subject of study. This volume offers a step forward in the movement away from critical tendencies that tend to homogenize and reduce practices and vocabularies in the name of the familiar. Chapter authors include John Corbett, Jason Robinson, Kirstie Dorr, Beverley Milton-Edwards, Sally MacArthur, Waldo Garrido, Jemma Decristo, Mike Heffley, Monica Dalidowicz, and Hafez Modirzadeh.
Tactile Learning Activities in Mathematics
Author: Julie Barnes
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
ISBN: 1470443511
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
Q: What do feather boas, cookies, and paper shredders have in common? A: They are all ingredients that have the potential to help your undergraduate students understand a variety of mathematical concepts. In this book, 43 faculty from a wide range of institutional settings share a total of 64 hands-on activities that allow students to physically engage with mathematical ideas ranging from the basics of precalculus to special topics appropriate for upper-level courses. Each learning activity is presented in an easy-to-read recipe format that includes a list of supplies; a narrative briefly describing the reasons, logistics, and helpful hints for running the activity; and a page that can be used as a handout in class. Purchase of the book also includes access to electronic printable versions of the handouts. With so many activities, it might be hard to decide where to start. For that reason, there are four indices to help the reader navigate this book: a concept index, a course index, an [Author]; index, and a main ingredient index. In addition to providing activities for precalculus, calculus, commonly required mathematics courses for majors, and more specialized upper-level electives, there is also a section describing how to modify many of the activities to fit into a liberal arts mathematics class. Whether you are new to using hands-on activities in class or are more experienced, the [Author];s hope that this book will encourage and inspire you to explore the possibilities of using more hands-on activities in your classes. Bon appetit!
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
ISBN: 1470443511
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
Q: What do feather boas, cookies, and paper shredders have in common? A: They are all ingredients that have the potential to help your undergraduate students understand a variety of mathematical concepts. In this book, 43 faculty from a wide range of institutional settings share a total of 64 hands-on activities that allow students to physically engage with mathematical ideas ranging from the basics of precalculus to special topics appropriate for upper-level courses. Each learning activity is presented in an easy-to-read recipe format that includes a list of supplies; a narrative briefly describing the reasons, logistics, and helpful hints for running the activity; and a page that can be used as a handout in class. Purchase of the book also includes access to electronic printable versions of the handouts. With so many activities, it might be hard to decide where to start. For that reason, there are four indices to help the reader navigate this book: a concept index, a course index, an [Author]; index, and a main ingredient index. In addition to providing activities for precalculus, calculus, commonly required mathematics courses for majors, and more specialized upper-level electives, there is also a section describing how to modify many of the activities to fit into a liberal arts mathematics class. Whether you are new to using hands-on activities in class or are more experienced, the [Author];s hope that this book will encourage and inspire you to explore the possibilities of using more hands-on activities in your classes. Bon appetit!