Author: Ian Bone Publisher: Penguin Group Australia ISBN: 0140299904 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 286
Book Description
Hostage. Nine-year-old Freda trapped in a restaurant with a fanatic and his gun. Survivor. No parents to protect her, two men dead. Ten years later. Live by the rules: keep yourself small, don't let them ask you questions. A dead man's words... 'Are you living a good life, Freda?' The answer lies in hunting down the ghosts of the past. Gripping and moving, The Song of an Innocent Bystander is a novel you won't easily forget.
Author: Ian Bone Publisher: Puffin ISBN: 9780142403938 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 276
Book Description
With the approach of the tenth anniversary of the time she was held hostage in a fast food restaurant, nineteen-year-old Freda Opperman struggles to make sense of her memories of the event and how they have shaped her life.
Author: Fred Bronson Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc. ISBN: 9780823076772 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 992
Book Description
Provides lists of hit songs by date with information on the artist, songwriter, producer, label, and offering interviews with popular artists.
Author: Insight Publications Staff Publisher: Insight Publications ISBN: 1921411953 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 146
Book Description
These innovative course books are based on the Australian Curriculum and develop an integrated approach to English. They also offer a special Learning Resource section to further build a wide range of competencies in English. INSIGHT ENGLISH SKILLS 8 presents a stimulating range of text types as the starting point for developing language, literacy and literary knowledge and skills. Units offer a themed approach - e.g. humour, bystanders and racism. Each unit retains the three sections: INTERACTIVE INTERPRETATION - text extracts introduce engaging and relevant issues and ideas; WORKING WITH TEXTS AND LANGUAGE - creative activities analyse text/s, literary techniques and language use; RESEARCH AND CREATING TEXTS - several ideas per unit offer diverse options over the 20 units. LEARNING RESOURCES - in Year 8 we introduce more advanced approaches for group work, developing interactive skills and building language and literacy skills.
Author: Elizabeth J. Rosenthal Publisher: Bpi Communications ISBN: 9780823088935 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 556
Book Description
A comprehensive overview of the musical career of Elton John provides the full story behind all of the musician's recordings, a complete chronicle of his concert tours, an assessment of his musical odyssey, and a study of his sometimes turbulent personal life, along with more than forty photographs and a complete discography.
Author: Barbara Ching Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0190283092 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 200
Book Description
This is the first study of "hard" country music as well as the first comprehensive application of contemporary cultural theory to country music. Barbara Ching begins by defining the features that make certain country songs and artists "hard." She compares hard country music to "high" American culture, arguing that hard country deliberately focuses on its low position in the American cultural hierarchy, comically singing of failures to live up to American standards of affluence, while mainstream country music focuses on nostalgia, romance, and patriotism of regular folk. With chapters on Hank Williams Sr. and Jr., Merle Haggard, George Jones, David Allan Coe, Buck Owens, Dwight Yoakam, and the Outlaw Movement, this book is written in a jargon-free, engaging style that will interest both academic as well as general readers.
Author: Sandra L. Beckett Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1135861307 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 360
Book Description
In Crossover Fiction, Sandra L. Beckett explores the global trend of crossover literature and explains how it is transforming literary canons, concepts of readership, the status of authors, the publishing industry, and bookselling practices. This study will have significant relevance across disciplines, as scholars in literary studies, media and cultural studies, visual arts, education, psychology, and sociology examine the increasingly blurred borderlines between adults and young people in contemporary society, notably with regard to their consumption of popular culture.
Author: Dick Weissman Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation ISBN: 1423442830 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 387
Book Description
Talkin' 'Bout A Revolution Is The Most Comprehensive Guide Yet to the fascinating relationship between American music, culture, and politics. Music expert Dick Weissman dares to take on this massive topic and presents it with ease. From the early days of the U. S. to the twenty-first century, Weissman draws upon and explains a vast amount of music, including songs by and about Native Americans, African Americans, women, and Latinos and spanning pop, punk, folk, "music of hate," music of war, and beyond. Unprecedented in its approach, this book offers a multidisciplinary discussion that is broad and diverse, and illuminates how social events impact music as well as how music impacts social events.
Author: Jeff Schroedl Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation ISBN: 1480346179 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 97
Book Description
(Guitar Tab Method). This innovative method for acoustic or electric guitar picks up where Book One leaves off. Learn notes up the fretboard with riffs like "Purple Haze" and "Sunshine of Your Love," lead guitar licks from Stevie Ray Vaughan and Eric Clapton, more chords with songs by the Beatles and Bob Dylan, and much more. The method's unique, well-paced, and logical teaching sequence will get students playing more easily than ever before, and music from popular artists like Jimi Hendrix, Metallica, and Pearl Jam will keep them playing and having fun. The accompanying online audio features demos of all 80 riffs and songs in the book.
Author: Mark Carroll Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1351557718 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 615
Book Description
This volume gathers together a cross-section of essays and book chapters dealing with the ways in which musicians and their music have been pressed into the service of political, nationalist and racial ideologies. Arranged chronologically according to their subject matter, the selections cover Western and non-Western musics, as well as art and popular musics, from the eighteenth century to the present day. The introduction features detailed commentaries on sources beyond those included in the volume, and as such provides an invaluable and comprehensive reading list for researchers and educators alike. The volume brings together for the first time seminal articles written by leading scholars, and presents them in such a way as to contribute significantly to our understanding of the use and abuse of music for ideological ends.
Author: Ian Bone
Author: Ian Bone
Author: Fred Bronson
Author: Insight Publications Staff
Author: Elizabeth J. Rosenthal
Author: Barbara Ching
Author: Sandra L. Beckett
Author: Dick Weissman
Author: Jeff Schroedl
Author: Mark Carroll