Author: Colin Larkin
Publisher: Omnibus Press
ISBN: 0857125958
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 4183
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This text presents a comprehensive and up-to-date reference work on popular music, from the early 20th century to the present day.
Author: Gerald Hansen
Publisher: Mint Books
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 454
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When Fionnuala Flood delivers her first child Moira, it's a very difficult birth, the memory of which will haunt Fionnuala always. More difficult for her to come to terms with is what Moira eventually reveals herself to be (at least in Fionnuala's mind): useless. Fionnuala can only breathe a sigh of relief when teenaged Moira finally flees Derry. Twenty-five years later, third son Padraig is catching hell on the mean streets of the Moorside housing estate. Desperate to help, Fionnuala puts into motion her most audacious plan yet, a plan that will unleash a chain reaction which leads her straight back to Moira and the girl's shocking new scientist job in Switzerland. Throw into the mix Fionnuala's arch enemies, Ursula and Jed Barnett, and you have a touching and uproarious darkly comic tale with a little science, a lot of family dysfunction and hopefully some reconciliation. Contains the previously-released prequel A Difficult Birth. Although this novel is part of the DERRY WOMEN SERIES, it's a complete story and can be enjoyed without having read the previous books.
Author: Fred Bronson
Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.
ISBN: 9780823076772
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 992
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Provides lists of hit songs by date with information on the artist, songwriter, producer, label, and offering interviews with popular artists.
Author: Michele Kennerly
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271091525
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 273
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Like every discipline, Rhetorical Studies relies on a technical vocabulary to convey specialized concepts, but few disciplines rely so deeply on a set of terms developed so long ago. Pathos, kairos, doxa, topos—these and others originate from the so-called classical world, which has conferred on them excessive authority. Without jettisoning these rhetorical terms altogether, this handbook addresses critiques of their ongoing relevance, explanatory power, and exclusionary effects. A New Handbook of Rhetoric inverts the terms of classical rhetoric by applying to them the alpha privative, a prefix that expresses absence. Adding the prefix α- to more than a dozen of the most important terms in the field, the contributors to this volume build a new vocabulary for rhetorical inquiry. Essays on apathy, akairos, adoxa, and atopos, among others, explore long-standing disciplinary habits, reveal the denials and privileges inherent in traditional rhetorical inquiry, and theorize new problems and methods. Using this vocabulary in an analysis of current politics, media, and technology, the essays illuminate aspects of contemporary culture that traditional rhetorical theory often overlooks. Innovative and groundbreaking, A New Handbook of Rhetoric at once draws on and unsettles ancient Greek rhetorical terms, opening new avenues for studying values, norms, and phenomena often stymied by the tradition. In addition to the editor, the contributors include Caddie Alford, Benjamin Firgens, Cory Geraths, Anthony J. Irizarry, Mari Lee Mifsud, John Muckelbauer, Bess R. H. Myers, Damien Smith Pfister, Nathaniel A. Rivers, and Alessandra Von Burg.
Author: PJ Adams
Publisher: James Grieve Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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"Tonight on stage, Ray Sandler was all those old fantasies come back to life. Emily Rivers soaked up his every move and she felt alive again for the first time in what felt like years. She never thought he would actually notice her, though." Emily is a successful woman in the tail end of a failing marriage. Ray is the reformed wild boy of rock, back on stage again for the first time in years. As a teenager Emily had Ray's posters all over her bedroom wall so when she gets backstage tickets it's as if her dreams have come true. Actually meeting him is an unexpected highlight of the evening, but that's as far as it could ever go. They come from such different worlds: what could an international star ever see in a grounded, curvy woman like Emily? And how long could they ever keep such a relationship private when everyone from jealous fans to intrusive reporters wants a piece of Ray? As things turn out to be even more complicated than she had first believed, and when tragedy and angry exes threaten to pull them apart and their secret affair threatens to go spectacularly public, can Emily do anything or has it all gone way beyond her control? And when one of the sweetest things a man has ever done for Emily turns out to be a lie, will she ever be able to trust him again? A story of secret romance in the world of the super-rich: an international celebrity and his unlikely BBW love. Steamy and passionate and full of the twists and turns familiar to readers of PJ Adams' work, including the bestsellers Winner Takes All and Black Widow. "It's our song, Emily. It's your song. It's for you. Everything's for you, now." Reader reviews of the serialized version: "I loved this book! It really left me wanting more." "WOW what a great book! This is a seriously juicy romance." "PJ Adams does a fine job of taking these raw ingredients of a rock star fantasy and making them real and believable. The fantasy is grounded in the real world, and Emily's personality comes through strongly as she tries to navigate these tricky new waters. I loved this, and will be looking for more by this author."
Author: I.M. Solomon
Publisher: Writers Republic LLC
ISBN: 1637284721
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 174
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It was supposed to be a summer with family. It ends up being a summer of survival, trust, and mystery as the alarms ring at the death of the king. Young Westley Jameson and his cousin, Sophia, find themselves caught in a kingdom wide battle royale tournament to crown a new king.
Author: Christa Faust
Publisher: Titan Books (US, CA)
ISBN: 0857683926
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 236
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THEY THOUGHT SHE’D BE EASY. THEY THOUGHT WRONG. It all began with the phone call asking former porn star Angel Dare to do one more movie. Before she knew it, she’d been shot and left for dead in the trunk of a car. But Angel is a survivor. And that means she’ll get to the bottom of what’s been done to her even if she has to leave a trail of bodies along the way…
Author: Gerald Hansen
Publisher: Mint Books
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 578
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Five new works of family dysfunction and dark humor with the Flood and Barnett families. Written during the pandemic, these two full length novels (Useless and Wind Chill), two novellas (A Difficult Birth and It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like...Fionnuala) and a short story (A Backstitch in Spacetime) will have you laughing and gasping and cringing as Fionnuala, Paddy, Ursula, Jed and company get up to all sorts.
Author: Fabian Leibfried
Publisher: NikMa Musikbuch Verlag
ISBN: 3938155051
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 514
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Author: Robert Burnett
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134872100
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 186
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Popular music is with us constantly. It is part of our everyday enviroment and in global terms it is now perhaps the most universal means of communication. The Global Jukebox is the first comprehensive study of the international music industry at a time of great change, as the entertainment industry acknowledges its ever growing global audience. Robert Burnett provides an international overview of the music business and its future prospects in the UK, Northern Europe and the United States and Canada. He examines the relationship between local and global cultures and between concentration of ownership (Sony, Warner and the rest of the `big six') and the diversity of music production and consumption. The Global Jukebox not only illuminataes the workings of the contemporary entertainment industries, it captures the dynamics at work in the production of musical culture between the transnational media conglomerates, the independent music companies and the public. It is essential reading for anyone studying popular music.
