Author: Charles R. Cross
Publisher: Hachette Books
ISBN: 1401382819
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
It has been more than thirty-five years since Jimi Hendrix died, but his music and spirit are still very much alive for his fans everywhere. Charles R. Cross vividly recounts the life of Hendrix, from his difficult childhood and adolescence in Seattle through his incredible rise to celebrity in London's swinging sixties. It is the story of an outrageous life--with legendary tales of sex, drugs, and excess--while it also reveals a man who struggled to accept his role as idol and who privately craved the kind of normal family life he never had. Using never-before-seen documents and private letters, and based on hundreds of interviews with those who knew Hendrix--many of whom had never before agreed to be interviewed--Room Full of Mirrors unlocks the vast mystery of one of music's most enduring legends.
Room Full of Mirrors
Author: Charles R. Cross
Publisher: Hachette Books
ISBN: 1401382819
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
It has been more than thirty-five years since Jimi Hendrix died, but his music and spirit are still very much alive for his fans everywhere. Charles R. Cross vividly recounts the life of Hendrix, from his difficult childhood and adolescence in Seattle through his incredible rise to celebrity in London's swinging sixties. It is the story of an outrageous life--with legendary tales of sex, drugs, and excess--while it also reveals a man who struggled to accept his role as idol and who privately craved the kind of normal family life he never had. Using never-before-seen documents and private letters, and based on hundreds of interviews with those who knew Hendrix--many of whom had never before agreed to be interviewed--Room Full of Mirrors unlocks the vast mystery of one of music's most enduring legends.
Publisher: Hachette Books
ISBN: 1401382819
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
It has been more than thirty-five years since Jimi Hendrix died, but his music and spirit are still very much alive for his fans everywhere. Charles R. Cross vividly recounts the life of Hendrix, from his difficult childhood and adolescence in Seattle through his incredible rise to celebrity in London's swinging sixties. It is the story of an outrageous life--with legendary tales of sex, drugs, and excess--while it also reveals a man who struggled to accept his role as idol and who privately craved the kind of normal family life he never had. Using never-before-seen documents and private letters, and based on hundreds of interviews with those who knew Hendrix--many of whom had never before agreed to be interviewed--Room Full of Mirrors unlocks the vast mystery of one of music's most enduring legends.
Such Freedom, If Only Musical
Author: Peter J Schmelz
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190450991
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Following Stalin's death in 1953, during the period now known as the Thaw, Nikita Khrushchev opened up greater freedoms in cultural and intellectual life. A broad group of intellectuals and artists in Soviet Russia were able to take advantage of this, and in no realm of the arts was this perhaps more true than in music. Students at Soviet conservatories were at last able to use various channels--many of questionable legality--to acquire and hear music that had previously been forbidden, and visiting performers and composers brought young Soviets new sounds and new compositions. In the 1960s, composers such as Andrey Volkonsky, Edison Denisov, Alfred Schnittke, Arvo Pärt, Sofia Gubaidulina, and Valentin Silvestrov experimented with a wide variety of then new and unfamiliar techniques ranging from serialism to aleatory devices, and audiences eager to escape the music of predictable sameness typical to socialist realism were attracted to performances of their new and unfamiliar creations. This "unofficial" music by young Soviet composers inhabited the gray space between legal and illegal. Such Freedom, If Only Musical traces the changing compositional styles and politically charged reception of this music, and brings to life the paradoxical freedoms and sense of resistance or opposition that it suggested to Soviet listeners. Author Peter J. Schmelz draws upon interviews conducted with many of the most important composers and performers of the musical Thaw, and supplements this first-hand testimony with careful archival research and detailed musical analyses. The first book to explore this period in detail, Such Freedom, If Only Musical will appeal to musicologists and theorists interested in post-war arts movements, the Cold War, and Soviet music, as well as historians of Russian culture and society.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190450991
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Following Stalin's death in 1953, during the period now known as the Thaw, Nikita Khrushchev opened up greater freedoms in cultural and intellectual life. A broad group of intellectuals and artists in Soviet Russia were able to take advantage of this, and in no realm of the arts was this perhaps more true than in music. Students at Soviet conservatories were at last able to use various channels--many of questionable legality--to acquire and hear music that had previously been forbidden, and visiting performers and composers brought young Soviets new sounds and new compositions. In the 1960s, composers such as Andrey Volkonsky, Edison Denisov, Alfred Schnittke, Arvo Pärt, Sofia Gubaidulina, and Valentin Silvestrov experimented with a wide variety of then new and unfamiliar techniques ranging from serialism to aleatory devices, and audiences eager to escape the music of predictable sameness typical to socialist realism were attracted to performances of their new and unfamiliar creations. This "unofficial" music by young Soviet composers inhabited the gray space between legal and illegal. Such Freedom, If Only Musical traces the changing compositional styles and politically charged reception of this music, and brings to life the paradoxical freedoms and sense of resistance or opposition that it suggested to Soviet listeners. Author Peter J. Schmelz draws upon interviews conducted with many of the most important composers and performers of the musical Thaw, and supplements this first-hand testimony with careful archival research and detailed musical analyses. The first book to explore this period in detail, Such Freedom, If Only Musical will appeal to musicologists and theorists interested in post-war arts movements, the Cold War, and Soviet music, as well as historians of Russian culture and society.
Selected Suites
Author: Federico García Lorca
Publisher: Aris and Phillips Hispanic Cla
ISBN: 1786941074
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 485
Book Description
A generous selection and fresh translation of Lorca's suites, work that might have taken its place beside Songs (1927) and Poem of the Deep Song (1931) as a trilogy of Lorca's early modernist lyric. More personal than the other two works, Lorca's suites explore a 'heart without echo' in his time.
Publisher: Aris and Phillips Hispanic Cla
ISBN: 1786941074
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 485
Book Description
A generous selection and fresh translation of Lorca's suites, work that might have taken its place beside Songs (1927) and Poem of the Deep Song (1931) as a trilogy of Lorca's early modernist lyric. More personal than the other two works, Lorca's suites explore a 'heart without echo' in his time.
The Twin Mirrors
Author: J. Lennington
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 148363700X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Rachel Walters thought she had everything she ever wanted until it all came crashing down around her. It had to be The Pickett Curse. Nana and her family were cursed by her twin sister, Carrie, to live unhappy lives before Carrie hung herself in the barn. Rachel believed in the curse until she gazed into Carries wedding mirror at the reflection of Nana in an identical mirror built for Nana on her wedding day. Rachel suddenly found herself in The Valley of the Dead Trees when Nana and Carrie were mere children. Rachel was soon to learn that all was not as she had been led to believe.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 148363700X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Rachel Walters thought she had everything she ever wanted until it all came crashing down around her. It had to be The Pickett Curse. Nana and her family were cursed by her twin sister, Carrie, to live unhappy lives before Carrie hung herself in the barn. Rachel believed in the curse until she gazed into Carries wedding mirror at the reflection of Nana in an identical mirror built for Nana on her wedding day. Rachel suddenly found herself in The Valley of the Dead Trees when Nana and Carrie were mere children. Rachel was soon to learn that all was not as she had been led to believe.
The New Mirror
Author: George Pope Morris
Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
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Languages : en
Pages : 530
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The Aunt's Mirrors
Author: Damien Freeman
Publisher: Brandl & Schlesinger
ISBN: 1921556773
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
On the top shelf in his aunt's dressing room, Damien Freeman discovered a collection of family memorabilia that told a story he had always assumed to be perfectly unexceptional. The Aunt's Mirrors reveals an unexpected story of how an immigrant family from Poland made a new life - whilst continuing an old one - in 19th century Beechworth, Grafton, Rylstone and Sydney through the shared sense of meaningfulness that permeated the lives of seven generations of this Australian Jewish family.
Publisher: Brandl & Schlesinger
ISBN: 1921556773
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
On the top shelf in his aunt's dressing room, Damien Freeman discovered a collection of family memorabilia that told a story he had always assumed to be perfectly unexceptional. The Aunt's Mirrors reveals an unexpected story of how an immigrant family from Poland made a new life - whilst continuing an old one - in 19th century Beechworth, Grafton, Rylstone and Sydney through the shared sense of meaningfulness that permeated the lives of seven generations of this Australian Jewish family.
The Homestead
Author:
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Category : Home economics
Languages : en
Pages : 748
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Home economics
Languages : en
Pages : 748
Book Description
Catalogue
Author: Montgomery Ward
Publisher:
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Category : Commercial catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Commercial catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
The Sketch
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 756
Book Description
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Languages : en
Pages : 756
Book Description
Popular Physics ... From “the Museum of Science and Art.”
Author: Dionysius Lardner
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 312
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