Author: Boston Symphony orchestraPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Concert programs
Languages : en
Pages : 1224
Book Description
Beats and Blow
Author: Shaun SinclairPublisher: Dafina
ISBN: 1496728688
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
With an exceptional voice that combines the explosive drama of Kiki Swinson and the lyrical writing style of Devon Scott, Shaun Sinclair – Army veteran and originator of the Gangsterotica subgenre - follows Dirty Music with the fourth Crescent Crew installment. In this crew, friendships are rocked by successful music careers, brutal gang assassinations and love lost, all while offering a unique glimpse into the rise of hip-hop in the South. His empire is worth a billion thanks to the drug-fueled wealth of his infamous Dirty South crew. But with unanticipated enemies gathering for a final devastating hit, will there be anyone left to rule? Even near-fatal business and body blows can’t keep the Crescent Crew down for long. From lockdown, their founder and leader Qwess negotiates an unlimited supply of product that’s tripling the profits lost when the Feds swept in. But his treacherous second-in-command, Bone, has a secret agenda at play that's sparking a brutal internal war. And when Qwess’s old rival, New York mogul Diamond, comes gunning to finish him and his kingdom for good, betrayal and payback will win the day—and could leave nothing and no one standing . . .
Programs
Author: Boston Symphony orchestraPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Concert programs
Languages : en
Pages : 1224
Book Description
Blows Like a Horn
Author: Preston WhaleyPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674045125
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Reopening the canons of the Beat Generation, Blows Like a Horn traces the creative counterculture movement as it cooked in the heat of Bay Area streets and exploded into spectacles, such as the scandal of the Howl trial and the pop culture joke of beatnik caricatures. Preston Whaley shows Beat artists riding the glossy exteriors of late modernism like a wave. Participants such as Lawrence Lipton, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and at great personal cost, even Jack Kerouac, defied the traditional pride of avant-garde anonymity. They were ambitious to change the culture and used mass-mediated scandal, fame, and distortion to attract knowing consumers to their poetry and prose. Blows Like a Horn follows the Beats as they tweaked the volume of excluded American voices. It watches vernacular energies marching through Beat texts on their migration from shadowy urban corners and rural backwoods to a fertile, new hyper-reality, where they warped into stereotypes. Some audiences were fooled. Others discovered truths and were changed. Mirroring the music of the era, the book breaks new ground in showing how jazz, much more than an ambient soundtrack, shaped the very structures of Beat art and social life. Jazz, an American hybrid--shot through with an earned-in-the-woodshed, African American style of spontaneous intelligence--also gave Beat poetry its velocity and charisma. Blows Like a Horn plumbs the actions and the art of celebrated and arcane Beat writers, from Allen Ginsberg to ruth weiss. The poetry, the music, the style--all of these helped transform U.S. culture in ways that are still with us. Table of Contents: Introduction: Opening Measures 1. Horn of Fame 2. On the Brink 3. Celluloid Beatniks 4. Ready for Breakfast 5. Howl of Love Conclusion: The Horn Keeps Blowing Notes Credits Index Mr. Whaley, in this book, takes an academic approach to a subject that is just now beginning to attract scholarly interest. He thoroughly fleshes out a range of sources that span the artistic spectrum in order to give balance and objectivity to his treatment of American culture during the bebop and beat eras. The 1960s, with the Civil Rights Movement, the advent of hippie culture, and the protests against the Vietnam War, has long garnered attention from scholars, writers, musical historians, and filmmakers alike. In the popular conception of pop culture, the 1950s are often labeled boring or drab by comparison. Preston Whaley's analysis, however, will go a long way toward identifying the cultural movements of the 1940s and 1950s as part of a linear whole, a direct predecessor of the cultural revolution of the late 1960s. --Douglas Brinkley, author of World War II: the Axis Assault, 1939-1942 This book has a nice exuberance and conviction, a consistent vision and a persuasively engaging tone. It has a winsome, masculinist, optimistic, expansive style that is reminiscent of beat literature itself. --Maria Damon, author of The Dark End of the Street: Margins in American Vanguard Poetry Whaley's Blows Like a Horn made me want to read ruth weiss, see The Subterraneans, reread Visions of Cody and well, I already listen to Coltrane and read Howl all the time .. but these are signs to me of a very effective book. Whaley wants to find a new way of talking about the Beats and post-Beat culture, one that doesn't fall into the rhetoric of liberation and resistance that is so common in the analyses of this genre, or to the cultural studies critiques of the beats that have pointed out the movement's appropriation by the hegemonic structures of Western, white, patriarchal, hetero capitalism and left it there. Whaley looks for a hitherto ignored space in Beat culture in which the aspirations, experiments and prejudices of the Beats can be directly related to precisely the kind of struggles that cultural studies itself is engaged in as a field. The Beats may not solve all problems, but they are aware of many of them, to varying degrees. There's a subtle, improvisatory quality to Whaley's writing that mirrors the kind of in situ politics and aesthetics that he's trying to evoke in Beat culture. He moves between high and low, personal and theoretical as the situation needs. He talks to the reader directly. There's a refreshing directness here, a willingness to address fundamental human situations. --Marcus Boon, author of The Road of Excess: A History of Writers on Drugs
The Page's Plea
Author: Derrick L. McFaddenPublisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1434372960
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
THE PLOT WAS PUT TOGETHER WHEN MY BROTHER FAIL TO KEEP THE BOND AGREEMENT. THE OPPORTUNITY WAS SIEZED TO CONVINCE HIM THAT IT WAS ME WHO WANTED TO SURRENDER HIS BOND. THIS WOULD MAKE HIM ANGRY AND HE AND HIS WIFE WOULD HELP GET ME OUT OF THE BONDING BUSINESS. FIRST THE BOUNTY HUNTER WOULD MAKE SURE I HAD MY WEAPON THE WIFE WOULD PUSH ME AT THE JAIL, I WAS SUPPOSE TO PULL MY WEAPON AND BE ARRESTED FOR POSSESSION OF A WEAPON BY A CONVICTED FELONY. IF THAT FAILED MY BROTHER WOULD THEN WRITE A LETTER TO THE INSURANCE DEPT. OF THE FELONY CHARGE AND THAT I WAS ALSO CARRYING A FIREARM. THE BOUNTY HUNTER HAD ALREADY RESEARCHED AND FOUND THE COURT DOCUMENT AND TO SUPPORT MY BROTHER'S ALLEGATION HE WOULD CONVENIENTLY DROP A COPY OFF TO THE INSURANCE DEPARTMENT A COPY OF A TWENTY EIGHT YEAR OLD FELONY CHARGE THE OWNER OF THE COMPANY I WORKED FOR KNEW ABOUT BEFORE HE HIRED ME AND GAVE ME A LICENSE. HE KNEW THE LAW CHANGED SIX MONTHS BEFORE HE GOT ME A LICENSE AND TOOK OUT TEN YEAR PRIOR AND PUT IN IF EVER HAD A FELONY. THIS WOULD BE INFORMATION HE WOULD HOLD ON TO JUST IN CASE HE NEEDED TO USE IT LATER AND HE DID. AND ALSO USED MY BROTHER AS A PASTY TO SET IT IN MOTION. HE WOULD THEN AVOID THE COURT HEARING AND TURN HIS BUSINESS OVER TO SOMEONE ELSE. IT DIDN'T BECOME MANDATORY FOR ME TO STUDY LAW TWO AND A HALF YEARS LATER WHEN I RAN ACROSS THE LAW CHANGE I BROUGHT IT TO HIS ATTENTION, HE IN RETURN HAD ME TO READ THE PARAGRAPH UNDERNEATH IN PARENTHESIS THAT STATED ; UNLESS PRESENTLY LICENSE AS A BAIL AGENT. HE THEN REMINDED ME THAT I HAD HELD A LICENSE FOR TWO AND A HALF YEARS, THEREFORE THIS LAW DID NOT APPLY TO ME. THE CONSPIRACY WAS EVERYONE KNEW THAT THIS FELONY CHARGE WAS A PROBLEM BUT ME AND EVERYONE HAD A PART TO PLAY TO ENFORCE THE LAW AND MAKE SURE I NEVER BOND AGAIN. WHAT THEY DIDN'T KNOW WAS THIS WAS MORE OF A PERSONAL ISSUE THAN LEGAL. THAT I HAD AN INTIMATE RELATIONSHIP WITH MY BOSS FOR SOME YEARS UNTIL HE BECAME TO ILL TO TRAVEL WHEN HE BECAME ANGRY WITH ME HE USED THE INFORMATION HE LEAD ME TO BELIEVE DID NOT APPLY TO ME AGAINST ME. HE USED EVERYONE AROUND HIM SO IT WOULD NOT APPEAR THAT HE HAD ANYTHING TO DO WITH THIS. HE USED THE BOUNTY HUNTER TO OBTAIN A COPY OF THE COURT DOCUMENT BECAUSE HE KNEW ABOUT THE CHARGE. HE USED MY BROTHER TO WRITE THE LETTER BECAUSE HE DIDN'T WANT ME TO KNOW HOW DIRTY HE WAS. HE HIDE BEHIND THESE PEOPLE AND THE WOMEN AT HOME OFFICE COVERED FOR HIM I WANT HIM TO KNOW THAT I KNOW AND NOW THE WHOLE WORLD WILL KNOW WHAT YOU DID TO ME.
Programme
Author: Boston Symphony OrchestraPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1240
Book Description
Nature
Author: Sir Norman LockyerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
My Infamous Life
Author: Albert "Prodigy" JohnsonPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439103194
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
"A memoir about a life almost lost and a revealing look at the dark side of hip hop's golden era ... a story of struggle, survival, and hope down the mean streets of New York City" --
Blow Me Down
Author: Katie MacalisterPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101098465
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
In the Internet game of "Buckling Swashes," two die-hard enemies find themselves comrades at arms against a merciless rival, and discover that-on the virtual high seas and in real life-love can tame the most fearsome of pirates.
Basix Recorder Method
Author: Morton ManusPublisher: Alfred Music Publishing
ISBN: 9780882847597
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Learn how to play the recorder through an easy-to-understand system. Covers how to read music and includes music from all time periods, duets and popular contemporary songs. The CD includes songs and exercises with great-sounding accompaniment.
Testing and Measurement: Techniques and Applications
Author: Kennis ChanPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1315684934
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 477
Book Description
Testing and Measurement: Techniques and Applications is divided into 6 sections: Microwave, Ultrasonic and Acoustic Measurement and Application; Material Performance and Measuring and Testing Technique; Laser, Optics Fiber and Sensor; Industrial Autoimmunization and Measurement; Artificial Intelligence and Application; and Image, Signal and In