Author: Irwin H Streight
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ISBN: 9781496825940
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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How a southern writer's power reverberates through acclaimed popular music

Author: Irwin H Streight
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781496850218
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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How a southern writer's power reverberates through acclaimed popular music

Author: Irwin H. Streight
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 149685022X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 214

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A devout Catholic, a visionary—and some say prophetic—writer, Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964) has gained a growing presence in contemporary popular culture. While O’Connor professed that she did not have an ear for music, allusions to her writing appear in the lyrics and narrative form of some of the most celebrated musicians on the contemporary music scene. Flannery at the Grammys sounds the extensive influence of this southern author on the art and vision of a suite of American and British singer-songwriters and pop groups. Author Irwin H. Streight invites critical awareness of O’Connor’s resonance in the products of popular music culture—in folk, blues, rock, gospel, punk, heavy metal, and indie pop songs by some of the most notable figures in the popular music business. Streight examines O'Connor's influence on the art and vision of multiple Grammy Award winners Bruce Springsteen, Lucinda Williams, R.E.M., and U2, along with celebrated songwriters Nick Cave, PJ Harvey, Sufjan Stevens, Mary Gauthier, Tom Waits, and others. Despite her orthodox religious, and at times controversial, views and limited literary output, O’Connor has left a curiously indelible mark on the careers of the successful musicians discussed in this volume. Still, her acknowledged influence and remarkable presence in contemporary pop and rock songs has not been well noted by pop music critics and/or literary scholars. Many years in the making, Flannery at the Grammys achieves groundbreaking work in cultural studies and combines in-depth literary and pop music scholarship to engage the informed devotee and the casual reader alike.

Author: Liv Ullmann
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781578068234
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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A collection of interviews which provides an unusually intimate look at how a major filmmaker has developed her craft, both in front of and behind the camera.

Author: Ruth Prigozy
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781496828170
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 314

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A biography of the superstar crooner, his rise, fall, and struggle for a second act

Author: Perian Conerly
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1496853725
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 205

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Before cable television and mega-contracts, professional jocks' lives were little different from those of the fans in the stands. Back then, the game they played was much simpler but far rougher than anything seen today. Ever cheering from the sidelines, Perian Conerly, wife of the New York Giants’ star quarterback Charlie Conerly, and the first female sportswriter in the National Sportswriters’ Association, wrote this lighthearted account of pro football during its heyday (1948–1961). Her husband led the Giants for fourteen seasons. As she describes the glory games, the players, and life on the road, she delivers from the inside the kind of personal reportage that fans adore. Her story begins with the hilarious misadventures of her wedding day in Clarksdale, Mississippi, “the Golden Buckle on the Cotton Belt.” It ends thirteen years later with Charlie's retirement at the age of forty. In between, there are vignettes of the closely knit cadre of Giants' wives, most of whom resided in the same Bronx hotel near Yankee Stadium. She also reports locker-room gossip and recounts amusing pro-ball anecdotes of a time before TV made athletes' images familiar in all households. Although their deeds on the gridiron were notable, their faces were not. Back then, players were so anonymous in public that many times they fell prey to imitators who stole their identities to mooch drinks and dinners from unsuspecting fans only for the thrill of passing as “somebody.” Along with her scoop reports on winning games, Mrs. Conerly paints an endearing portrait of her famous husband, an Ole Miss legend who, after retirement, was hired as the first Marlboro Man. Though her style is casual, she moves the reader painlessly through some of the finer points of the game. The Washington Evening Star touted her for “having written the best book on pro football in a long time.” The New York Times, for which Mrs. Conerly wrote occasional sports columns, said “Backseat Quarterback is exactly the kind of book that one would expect Perian Conerly to write. Its pages shine with her charm, gaiety, wit, intelligence, and sparkle.” Newsweek praised its “comic insight.” This reissue of a favorite book of 1963 has a foreword by the Conerlys' friend and teammate Frank Gifford.

Author: Neil E. Clement
Publisher: MTCC Publishing Company
ISBN: 0998631175
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 742

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How many composers, songwriters and lyricists wrote music in the twentieth century?? Who were they?? This first edition identifies more than 14,000 people who did so, and all are listed in this eBook alphabetically along with a hyperlink to their Wikipedia biographical data. Performers of blues, folk, jazz, rock & roll and R&B are included by default. PLEASE NOTE: THE HYPERLINKS IN THIS BOOK ONLY FUNCTION ON GOOGLE PLAY aka THE 'FLOWING' VERSION. The hyperlinks in this book DO NOT CURRENTLY FUNCTION on the GOOGLE BOOKS ' FIXED' version.

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Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9781617035333
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 204

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Showcases a selection of 143 houses that exemplify Victorian tastes in residential design, revealing the high level of craftsmanship that went into their design and construction along with specific details such as spindlework, elaborate gable ornamentation, and striking dormers.

Author: Robert C. Harvey
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9780878057580
Category : Comic books, strips, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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A history of the comic book, in which a noted cartoonist demonstrates the aesthetics and power of the medium

Author: Flannery O'Connor
Publisher: Wyatt North Publishing, LLC
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 116

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Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964) was an American author. Wise Blood was her first novel and one of her most famous works.