Author: Joseph Clarke (of Hull.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 598
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Power Ballads
Author: Will Boast
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1609380436
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Real musicians don’t sign autographs, date models, or fly in private jets. They spend their lives in practice rooms and basement clubs or toiling in the obscurity of coffee-shop gigs, casino jobs, and the European festival circuit. The ten linked stories in Power Ballads are devoted to this unheard virtuoso: the working musician. From the wings of sold-out arenas to hip-hop studios to polka bars, these stories are born out of a nocturnal world where music is often simply work, but also where it can, in rare moments, become a source of grace and transcendence, speaking about the things we never seem to say to each other. A skilled but snobby jazz drummer joins a costumed heavy metal band to pay his rent. A country singer tries to turn her brutal past into a successful career. A vengeful rock critic reenters the life of an emerging singer-songwriter, bent on wreaking havoc. The characters in Power Ballads—aging head-bangers, jobbers, techno DJs, groupies, and the occasional rock star (and those who have to live with them)—need music to survive, yet find themselves lost when the last note is played, the lights go up, and it’s time to return to regular life. By turns melancholy and hilarious, Power Ballads is not only a deeply felt look at the lives of musicians but also an exploration of the secret music that plays inside us all.
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1609380436
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Real musicians don’t sign autographs, date models, or fly in private jets. They spend their lives in practice rooms and basement clubs or toiling in the obscurity of coffee-shop gigs, casino jobs, and the European festival circuit. The ten linked stories in Power Ballads are devoted to this unheard virtuoso: the working musician. From the wings of sold-out arenas to hip-hop studios to polka bars, these stories are born out of a nocturnal world where music is often simply work, but also where it can, in rare moments, become a source of grace and transcendence, speaking about the things we never seem to say to each other. A skilled but snobby jazz drummer joins a costumed heavy metal band to pay his rent. A country singer tries to turn her brutal past into a successful career. A vengeful rock critic reenters the life of an emerging singer-songwriter, bent on wreaking havoc. The characters in Power Ballads—aging head-bangers, jobbers, techno DJs, groupies, and the occasional rock star (and those who have to live with them)—need music to survive, yet find themselves lost when the last note is played, the lights go up, and it’s time to return to regular life. By turns melancholy and hilarious, Power Ballads is not only a deeply felt look at the lives of musicians but also an exploration of the secret music that plays inside us all.
A catalogue of the subscription library, at Kingston upon Hull [signed J.C.]. A catalogue, containing the works admitted since 1836
Author: Joseph Clarke (of Hull.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 598
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A Catalogue of the Subscription Library at Kingston-upon-Hull; containing the works admitted since the publication of the Supplement to Mr. Clarke's Catalogue, in 1836. [Compiled by J. M. Stark.]
Author: John Mozley STARK
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 602
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 602
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Bent's Literary Advertiser and Register of Engravings, Works on the Fine Arts
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
The Cambridge History of English Literature
Author: Sir Adolphus William Ward
Publisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 694
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 694
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Love Letters of Mrs. Piozzi
Author: Hester Lynch Piozzi
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Category : Electronic book
Languages : en
Pages : 118
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Publisher:
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Category : Electronic book
Languages : en
Pages : 118
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The Athenaeum
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 1012
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 1012
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Bibliotheca Americana. A catalogue of a collection of books, pamphlets [&c.] for sale. [With]
Author: John Russell Smith
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Bibliotheca Americana. A Catalogue of a Valuable Collection of Books ... Manuscripts, Maps ... Illustrating ... America, Etc
Author: John Russell Smith
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Latin Literatures of Medieval and Early Modern Times in Europe and Beyond
Author: Francesco Stella
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN: 9027247293
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 726
Book Description
The textual heritage of Medieval Latin is one of the greatest reservoirs of human culture. Repertories list more than 16,000 authors from about 20 modern countries. Until now, there has been no introduction to this world in its full geographical extension. Forty contributors fill this gap by adopting a new perspective, making available to specialists (but also to the interested public) new materials and insights. The project presents an overview of Medieval (and post-medieval) Latin Literatures as a global phenomenon including both Europe and extra-European regions. It serves as an introduction to medieval Latin's complex and multi-layered culture, whose attraction has been underestimated until now. Traditional overviews mostly flatten specificities, yet in many countries medieval Latin literature is still studied with reference to the local history. Thus the first section presents 20 regional surveys, including chapters on authors and works of Latin Literature in Eastern, Central and Northern Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and the Americas. Subsequent chapters highlight shared patterns of circulation, adaptation, and exchange, and underline the appeal of medieval intermediality, as evidenced in manuscripts, maps, scientific treatises and iconotexts, and its performativity in narrations, theatre, sermons and music. The last section deals with literary “interfaces,” that is motifs or characters that exemplify the double-sided or the long-term transformations of medieval Latin mythologemes in vernacular culture, both early modern and modern, such as the legends about King Arthur, Faust, and Hamlet.
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN: 9027247293
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 726
Book Description
The textual heritage of Medieval Latin is one of the greatest reservoirs of human culture. Repertories list more than 16,000 authors from about 20 modern countries. Until now, there has been no introduction to this world in its full geographical extension. Forty contributors fill this gap by adopting a new perspective, making available to specialists (but also to the interested public) new materials and insights. The project presents an overview of Medieval (and post-medieval) Latin Literatures as a global phenomenon including both Europe and extra-European regions. It serves as an introduction to medieval Latin's complex and multi-layered culture, whose attraction has been underestimated until now. Traditional overviews mostly flatten specificities, yet in many countries medieval Latin literature is still studied with reference to the local history. Thus the first section presents 20 regional surveys, including chapters on authors and works of Latin Literature in Eastern, Central and Northern Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and the Americas. Subsequent chapters highlight shared patterns of circulation, adaptation, and exchange, and underline the appeal of medieval intermediality, as evidenced in manuscripts, maps, scientific treatises and iconotexts, and its performativity in narrations, theatre, sermons and music. The last section deals with literary “interfaces,” that is motifs or characters that exemplify the double-sided or the long-term transformations of medieval Latin mythologemes in vernacular culture, both early modern and modern, such as the legends about King Arthur, Faust, and Hamlet.