Author: Dame Emma AlbaniPublisher: Copp Clark Company
ISBN:
Category : Musicians
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Forty Years of Song
Author: Dame Emma AlbaniPublisher: Copp Clark Company
ISBN:
Category : Musicians
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Not Since Carrie
Author: Ken MandelbaumPublisher: St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN: 1466843276
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Not Since Carrie is Ken Mandelbaum's brilliant survey of Broadway's biggest flops. This highly readable and entertaining book highlights almost 200 musicals created between 1950 and 1990, framed around the notorious musical adaptation of Carrie, and examines the reasons for their failure. "Essential and hilarious," raves The New Yorker, and The New York Times calls the book "A must-read."
Wildings from the Field of Song. [Poems.]
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Author: Charles H. BarstowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Sixty Years of California Song
Author: Margaret Blake AlversonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
The Oxford Song Book
Author: The American Library of Art, Literature and Song
Author: Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin
Author: Calvin TrillinPublisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN: 0812982215
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
“Brilliant . . . The dean of American comic writers showcases his varied talents mocking the public and private lives of politicians, average citizens and himself.”—The Star-Ledger Calvin Trillin has committed blatant acts of funniness all over the place—in The New Yorker, in one-man off-Broadway shows, in his “deadline poetry” for The Nation, in comic novels, and in what USA Today called “simply the funniest regular column in journalism.” Now Trillin selects the best of his funny stuff and organizes it into topics like high finance (“My long-term investment strategy has been criticized as being entirely too dependent on Publishers Clearing House sweepstakes”) and the literary life (“The average shelf life of a book is somewhere between milk and yogurt”). He addresses the horrors of witnessing a voodoo economics ceremony and the mystery of how his mother managed for thirty years to feed her family nothing but leftovers (“We have a team of anthropologists in there now looking for the original meal”). He even skewers deserving political figures in poetry. In this, the definitive collection of his humor, Calvin Trillin is prescient, insightful, and invariably hilarious. “A literary treasure . . . There is only one Calvin Trillin, and if he didn’t exist we would have to invent him.”—The Washington Times “Funny is to Trillin what drinking is to Uncle Jed in Annie Get Your Gun—it’s what he does ‘natur’lly.’ He’s also a lot more than funny. Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin is the twenty-eighth book he’s published over not far short of a half-century, and their range of subjects is remarkable.”—Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post “Trillin made his reputation over four decades as the author of ‘U.S. Journal’ in the New Yorker [but he] is incapable of resisting the temptation of comedy. The jokes kept on welling up and Mr. Trillin made a parallel reputation as a writer of funny stuff.”—The Economist “Wry, whip-smart, understated, and entertaining.”—The Miami Herald
The Harvard Song Book
Author: Harvard Glee ClubPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices), Unaccompanied
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
The Strand Magazine
Author: Blues Before Sunrise
Author: Steve CushingPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252033019
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
This collection assembles the best interviews from Steve Cushing's long-running radio program Blues Before Sunrise, the nationally syndicated, award-winning program focusing on vintage blues and R&B. As both an observer and performer, Cushing has been involved with the blues scene in Chicago for decades. His candid, colorful interviews with prominent blues players, producers, and deejays reveal the behind-the-scenes world of the formative years of recorded blues. Many of these oral histories detail the careers of lesser-known but greatly influential blues performers and promoters. The book focuses in particular on pre–World War II blues singers, performers active in 1950s Chicago, and nonperformers who contributed to the early blues world. Interviewees include Alberta Hunter, one of the earliest African American singers to transition from Chicago's Bronzeville nightlife to the international spotlight, and Ralph Bass, one of the greatest R&B producers of his era. Blues expert, writer, record producer, and cofounder of Living Blues Magazine Jim O'Neal provides the book's foreword.