Author: Brian Mallman Publisher: Bookbaby ISBN: 9781098306755 Category : Languages : en Pages : 52
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You and your child will explore stringed instruments from around the world with a group of animals preparing for Play Music on the Porch Day. With beautiful illustrations and a fun story, you and your child will be introduced to instruments such as the Taus, Erhu, Biwa, Sasando, Theorbo and many more. Read together as the animals prepare for Play Music on the Porch Day and ask, "What if for one day, everything stopped... and we all just listened to the music?" This book is a wonderful introduction to the world of stringed instruments. Kids 12 and under will love the instruments, story and illustrations. Older kids and adults will discover rare and unique instruments from around the world, and use the book as a starting point for their own exploration. It's perfect for anyone who is curious about the world and loves music!Play Music on the Porch Day is a real event that happens on the last Saturday in August in 70 countries and nearly 700 cities around the world. Learn more at playmusicontheporchday.comPlay Music on the Porch Day's Message:"The passion for music is powerful and universal. It doesn't matter if you play an Oud, a Guitarrón, a Nyckelharpa or a Guitar. When you pick up your instrument and start to play, the world disappears and you get lost in the sounds. Music ties us together like a thread through our hearts. Our skin is many colors but music is our blood, our bones and our soul."
Author: Weldon Barnes Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc. ISBN: 1636303056 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 135
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This book is a story about my life and several of the struggles and hardships that I have had to face. Everyone has a journey through life that takes them to different places, and everyone struggles with different issues unique to their own life. Every person could have a more blessed life if they would recognize what God is doing and could do for them in their everyday life to help smooth their pathway. It took me years to start seeing the full impact of how God was helping me along the way without me even being aware of it. My life’s journey has allowed me to become more aware and very thankful for the little everyday blessings that most people take for granted.
Author: W. Chase Peeler Publisher: University of Texas Press ISBN: 1477323643 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 256
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In sunbaked Terlingua, Texas (pop., a few hundred), residents joke that there is a musician under every rock. Located ten miles from Mexico in one of the remotest corners of the United States, the town had a recording studio before it had a school, a well-stocked grocery store, or even a water utility. Open jam sessions are a daily ritual, and some songwriters make a living from their craft despite being thousands of miles from New York or Nashville. Why does such a tiny and isolated place ring with singing and guitars? Based on more than two years of on-the-ground research, On the Porch tells the story of this small but remarkable community. Chase Peeler invites us into the music, introducing us to a cast of characters as unique as the town itself. He reveals how novices and experts perform together—a rarity in contemporary America. He recounts the devastation brought on by a border closure and describes how music is once again uniting people across the Rio Grande. He considers the impact of gentrification in an off-the-grid paradise, and how this threatens to transform a precarious musical ecosystem. On the Porch is a celebration of human musicality, of the role that music plays and can play in our lives, both in Terlingua and beyond.
Author: Dayton Duncan Publisher: Knopf ISBN: 0525520546 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 562
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The rich and colorful story of America's most popular music and the singers and songwriters who captivated, entertained, and consoled listeners throughout the twentieth century--based on the upcoming eight-part film series to air on PBS in September 2019 This gorgeously illustrated and hugely entertaining history begins where country music itself emerged: the American South, where people sang to themselves and to their families at home and in church, and where they danced to fiddle tunes on Saturday nights. With the birth of radio in the 1920s, the songs moved from small towns, mountain hollers, and the wide-open West to become the music of an entire nation--a diverse range of sounds and styles from honky tonk to gospel to bluegrass to rockabilly, leading up through the decades to the music's massive commercial success today. But above all, Country Music is the story of the musicians. Here is Hank Williams's tragic honky tonk life, Dolly Parton rising to fame from a dirt-poor childhood, and Loretta Lynn turning her experiences into songs that spoke to women everywhere. Here too are interviews with the genre's biggest stars, including the likes of Merle Haggard to Garth Brooks to Rosanne Cash. Rife with rare photographs and endlessly fascinating anecdotes, the stories in this sweeping yet intimate history will captivate longtime country fans and introduce new listeners to an extraordinary body of music that lies at the very center of the American experience.
Author: Greg MacArthur Publisher: Coach House Books ISBN: 1770561188 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 164
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Isolated brings together two inventive, disturbing plays by one of Canada’s most intriguing dramatic voices. In Recovery, people around the world are addicted to a mysterious substance. Large recovery centres are set up, promising refuge, treatment and healing to millions of addicts. But all is not what it seems. Following three residents of a facility in Antarctica, McArthur delivers a quirky and unsettling play that reveals the fear and isolation of the oppressed individual, and the consequences of a medicalized society. In Get Away, David finds two beautiful teenagers when he escapes to an isolated cabin where he hopes to cure his unusually persistent listlessness. Sensing that they might need protecting – and may be crucial to his survival – he invites them in, but the roles of predator and prey become unclear as the three become dangerously intertwined. Both fantastical and horrifying, Get Away provides a resonating look at the destructive nature of longing and our desperate need for love.
Author: Michael Kaufman Publisher: Page Publishing Inc ISBN: Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 55
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These stories were created during the pandemic when telling stories in person was not possible. The postal service delivered my stories daily to the grandchildren, which gave them something to look forward to while they were required to stay at home. These fictional tales generated phone calls and conversations with the kids about the various characters. Hopefully others will enjoy these stories and share their impressions with family and friends. Stimulating young readers is a great end result for any short story. Thank you!
Author: Clare James Publisher: Entangled: Brazen ISBN: 1633754510 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 245
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A sexy category romance from Entangled's Brazen imprint... Play. Or be played. The music should be enough. End of story. But Aaron Major is finding out it's not, and now his agent has hired a firm of suits to help launch his debut album, turning his life into a goddamn circus. Smile here. Play there. Be nice. Well, screw that. If Aaron wanted to spend his time shaking hands and kissing babies, he would've gone into politics. Helping launch the career of country singer Aaron Major should be a cakewalk for PR pro Melody Sharp. Aaron is charming, sexy, and oh-so-appealing when he's on stage. Off stage, though, he's her worst nightmare. A stubborn, ornery, reclusive nightmare without a lick of business-or fashion-sense. The only way he's going to make it in music is with a serious makeover-and quite possibly a personality transplant. Soon, they're engaged in a game of give and take, and though it's Melody calling the shots, it's Aaron who holds all control...
Author: Walter Kolosky Publisher: Abstract Logix.com ISBN: 9780976101604 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 204
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Girls Don?t Like Real Jazz is the funniest book ever written about jazz and its place of importance in American culture. But, GDLRJ is neither just funny nor just for American jazz fans. It is for anyone concerned that the United States is losing its cultural identity. The declining jazz business in America should be seen as a canary in a coal mine for our nation's overall decline. Jazz is being squeezed out by a modern culture that is turning its back on its own rich history. Through stories and suggestions on how to save jazz from impending doom, jazz writer and social commentator Walter Kolosky argues that the loss of jazz is a foreign policy issue. To let its American roots die away is tantamount to treason in Kolosky?s opinion. That being said, the author believes that if the ship is destined to go down, we may as well have a few laughs with our salt water. The author is hopeful that maybe we can bail fast enough. GDLRJ is a guide book for jazz fans and other socially conscious individuals to use in a battle to help save jazz. Use it wisely.ISBN 0-9761016-0-2
Author: Mark Childress Publisher: Overture Books ISBN: 1452463255 Category : Motion picture actors and actresses Languages : en Pages : 443
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Mark Childress's novel, Tender, is a little more than just a fine novel; it is a big, all-American, Technicolor dreamboat of a book, as vital and as intense as anything I've read in the last ten years. The legend is familiar to everyone who cares about pop music and rhythm and blues, but Mark Childress has invested it with an eerie mystery-train vitality that is only available to the talented novelist. There's something else as well; this is the first novel I've ever read in my life which is more inside rock and roll than about it; through the eyes of Leroy Kirby, Mark Childress has made the mad early days of rock and roll seem not just comphrensible but inevitable. Beneath the cool prose line of this minimalist epic there is the same raw and feverish drive that propelled the early rockabilly stars as they created a new kind of music. Childress's understanding and love of this new music lends Tender the sort of piney woods authenticity I associate with such American classics as Elmer Gantry and All The King's Men. If you care about rock and roll, Tender is going to knock your socks off. This is a great novel, and as Childress documents the meteoric rise of his talented child-monster-prodigy, Leroy Kirby, he never misses a beat. -- Stephen King
Author: Brian Mallman
Author: Weldon Barnes
Author: W. Chase Peeler
Author: Dayton Duncan
Author: Greg MacArthur
Author: Michael Kaufman
Author: Leonard J. Leff
Author: Clare James
Author: Walter Kolosky
Author: Mark Childress