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Author: Charlotte Vale Allen Publisher: Island Nation Press LLC ISBN: 9781892738028 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 232
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The neglected adopted child of an invalid mother and her devoted husband, Lisa Hamilton has grown up isolated, her one true love being her music.Most of the time, life is incomprehensible to Lisa. She is quietly alienated, becoming more and more lost to the only thing that makes sense to her: the music she hears in her head, and that she discovers she can perform to great public approval.Leaving home as a teenager to go on the road, Lisa becomes a vagabond troubador, singing in clubs, making love to lonely men; with no real life. Until the terrible assault by the man she'd elected to protect her results in a pregnancy. And suddenly there is within her grasp the possibility of the one thing she's never had: a family.Working at a luxury hotel in the Bahamas, Lisa begins, at last, to consider her life and her future, and decides she must now, finally, begin to take care of herself; to make plans. And then, Chas Clayton arrives to offer her the chance not only to have a recording career, but to complete the family portrait she has begun mentally to paint.
Author: Charlotte Vale Allen Publisher: Island Nation Press LLC ISBN: 9781892738028 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 232
Book Description
The neglected adopted child of an invalid mother and her devoted husband, Lisa Hamilton has grown up isolated, her one true love being her music.Most of the time, life is incomprehensible to Lisa. She is quietly alienated, becoming more and more lost to the only thing that makes sense to her: the music she hears in her head, and that she discovers she can perform to great public approval.Leaving home as a teenager to go on the road, Lisa becomes a vagabond troubador, singing in clubs, making love to lonely men; with no real life. Until the terrible assault by the man she'd elected to protect her results in a pregnancy. And suddenly there is within her grasp the possibility of the one thing she's never had: a family.Working at a luxury hotel in the Bahamas, Lisa begins, at last, to consider her life and her future, and decides she must now, finally, begin to take care of herself; to make plans. And then, Chas Clayton arrives to offer her the chance not only to have a recording career, but to complete the family portrait she has begun mentally to paint.
Author: Peter Guralnick Publisher: Little, Brown ISBN: 031620675X Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 655
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A gripping narrative that captures the tumult and liberating energy of a nation in transition, Sweet Soul Music is an intimate portrait of the legendary performers--Sam Cooke, Ray Charles, James Brown, Solomon Burke, Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding, and Al Green among them--who merged gospel and rhythm and blues to create Southern soul music. Through rare interviews and with unique insight, Peter Guralnick tells the definitive story of the songs that inspired a generation and forever changed the sound of American music.
Author: Gerry Fraser Bryant Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 0595000738 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 110
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This beautifully written book of poetry sets a new standard for poetic prose; it can actually be understood! Although, between the lines there can be found subtler shades of meaning, interwoven with words of strength and love. Lyrical and likeable; a broad range of emotions are covered here, that we can all relate to. The distant sounds of laughter can be heard, but also forewarning rumblings from the darker side of the human soul. This is a book for all seasons. Incredibly explicit yet soft and gentle; this book is destined to become a National bestseller!
Author: Jeanine Lauren Publisher: Jeanine Lauren ISBN: 1738834352 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 311
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Sometimes life’s sweetest melodies are found in the most unlikely of places. When her husband “takes a break” to figure out what he wants to do next in his life, Doris knows she must talk sense into him. The problem is that she isn’t exactly sure where he is, he’s not answering her calls, and she has obligations she has to take care of first. One of those obligations is to help her son Robert - more specifically her grandson Zack- by finding a childcare worker to take on all the chores and responsibilities she has been shouldering. The challenge? Robert, a single dad, has a bad track-record with nannies and she has two days to find someone who is good with kids, can start right away, and who is just desperate (or broke) enough, that they will stick with the job until the end of summer. Enter Kiran, a woman healing from divorce, who is talented, smart, musical, and bonds easily with Zack, but is she just a little too perfect? Despite his misgivings, Robert can’t afford to question Kiran’s suitability for the role because he has no choice but to work with her. His mother (and formerly reliable Plan B) has now flown the coop! Return to Sunshine Bay for a heartwarming story of friendship, love, and second chances in the second half of life.
Author: David Huron Publisher: MIT Press ISBN: 0262303302 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 477
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The psychological theory of expectation that David Huron proposes in Sweet Anticipation grew out of the author's experimental efforts to understand how music evokes emotions. These efforts evolved into a general theory of expectation that will prove informative to readers interested in cognitive science and evolutionary psychology as well as those interested in music. The book describes a set of psychological mechanisms and illustrates how these mechanisms work in the case of music. All examples of notated music can be heard on the Web. Huron proposes that emotions evoked by expectation involve five functionally distinct response systems: reaction responses (which engage defensive reflexes); tension responses (where uncertainty leads to stress); prediction responses (which reward accurate prediction); imagination responses (which facilitate deferred gratification); and appraisal responses (which occur after conscious thought is engaged). For real-world events, these five response systems typically produce a complex mixture of feelings. The book identifies some of the aesthetic possibilities afforded by expectation, and shows how common musical devices (such as syncopation, cadence, meter, tonality, and climax) exploit the psychological opportunities. The theory also provides new insights into the physiological psychology of awe, laughter, and spine-tingling chills. Huron traces the psychology of expectations from the patterns of the physical/cultural world through imperfectly learned heuristics used to predict that world to the phenomenal qualia we experienced as we apprehend the world.
Author: Albert M. Hayes Publisher: New Directions Publishing ISBN: 0811224392 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 100
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Awake the voice! Awake the string! Dark and dull night fly hence away, And give the honor of this day That sees December turned to May. —William Herrick Christmas Poems is a pleasing and diverse selection of classic holiday poems that goes all the way back to an eclogue of Virgil, moves along to a wide range of authors such as Chaucer, Herbert, Longfellow, Dickinson, Paul Dunbar, Rilke, Yeats, William Carlos Williams, Robert Frost, E. E. Cummings, Kenneth Patchen, Thomas Merton, Wallace Stevens, Marie Ponsot, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Frank O’Hara, Denise Levertov, and Bernadette Mayer. Beautifully designed, this New Directions gem (originally published in the 1940s and reissued in the 1970s) rings with the deep sentiments of the season and just the right splash of holiday cheer. Christmas Poems comes with French flaps and is the perfect size for a stocking stuffer. Christmas Poems was originally edited by Albert M. Hayes and New Directions founder and publisher James Laughlin as A Wreath of Christmas Poems, and published as part of the "Poets of the Year" series in 1942. The collection was updated and revised in 1972, and selections for this newly revised 2008 edition have been chosen by the editorial staff at New Directions.
Author: David Ware Stowe Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 9780674012905 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 366
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Stowe traces the evolution of sacred music from colonial times to the present, from the Puritans to Sun Ra, and shows how these cultural encounters have produced a rich harvest of song and faith.
Author: Charlotte Vale Allen
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