The Singer on the Shore

The Singer on the Shore PDF Author: Gabriel Josipovici
Publisher: Carcanet Press
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 372

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From the tittle essay, which examines the relationship between artists' works and their beliefs, to the concluding meditations on memory and the Holocaust, The Singer on the Shore is unified by the two themes of Jewish experience, with its consciousness of exile and the time bound nature of human activity, and of the role of the work of art as a toy, to be played with and dreamed about." "Josipovici's critical writing is informed by his own experience as a writer, and is thus both authoritative and undogmatic. This is a volume that, like a book of poems, rewards repeated reading, for it not only illuminates the topics with which it deals, it also raises the larger question of the place of art in life and of the possibilities open to art today."--Jacket.

The Singer on the Shore

The Singer on the Shore PDF Author: Gabriel Josipovici
Publisher: Carcanet Press
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 372

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From the tittle essay, which examines the relationship between artists' works and their beliefs, to the concluding meditations on memory and the Holocaust, The Singer on the Shore is unified by the two themes of Jewish experience, with its consciousness of exile and the time bound nature of human activity, and of the role of the work of art as a toy, to be played with and dreamed about." "Josipovici's critical writing is informed by his own experience as a writer, and is thus both authoritative and undogmatic. This is a volume that, like a book of poems, rewards repeated reading, for it not only illuminates the topics with which it deals, it also raises the larger question of the place of art in life and of the possibilities open to art today."--Jacket.

Fifty Sides of the Beach Boys

Fifty Sides of the Beach Boys PDF Author: Mark Dillon
Publisher: ECW Press
ISBN: 1770901981
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 484

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“A vivid account . . . Young and old fans alike will enjoy” (Publishers Weekly). This book offer a unique journey through The Beach Boys’ long, fascinating history by telling the stories behind fifty of the band’s greatest songs from the perspective of group members, collaborators, fellow musicians, and notable fans. Filled with new interviews with music legends such as Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Alan Jardine, Bruce Johnston, David Marks, Blondie Chaplin, Randy Bachman, Roger McGuinn, John Sebastian, Lyle Lovett, Alice Cooper, and Al Kooper, and commentary from a younger generation such as Matthew Sweet, Carnie Wilson, Daniel Lanois, Cameron Crowe, and Zooey Deschanel, this story of pop culture history both explores the darkness and difficulties with which the band struggled, and reminds us how their songs could make life feel like an endless summer.

Language, the Singer and the Song

Language, the Singer and the Song PDF Author: Richard J. Watts
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107112710
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 391

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The relationship between language and music has much in common - rhythm, structure, sound, metaphor. Exploring the phenomena of song and performance, this book presents a sociolinguistic model for analysing them. Based on ethnomusicologist John Blacking's contention that any song performed communally is a 'folk song' regardless of its generic origins, it argues that folk song to a far greater extent than other song genres displays 'communal' or 'inclusive' types of performance. The defining feature of folk song as a multi-modal instantiation of music and language is its participatory nature, making it ideal for sociolinguistic analysis. In this sense, a folk song is the product of specific types of developing social interaction whose major purpose is the construction of a temporally and locally based community. Through repeated instantiations, this can lead to disparate communities of practice, which, over time, develop sociocultural registers and a communal stance towards aspects of meaningful events in everyday lives that become typical of a discourse community.

The Figure of the Singer

The Figure of the Singer PDF Author: Daniel Karlin
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191650439
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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Why did poets continue to call themselves singers, and their poems songs, long after the formal link between poetry and music had been severed? Daniel Karlin explores the origin and meaning of the 'figure of the singer', tracing its roots in classical mythology and in the Bible, and following its rise from the 'adventurous song' of Milton's Paradise Lost to its apotheosis in the nineteenth century-by which time it had also become an oppressive cliché. Poets might embrace, or resist, this dominant figure of their art, but could not ignore it. Shadowing the metaphor is another figure, that of the literal singer, a source of fascination, and rivalry, to poets who are confined to words on the page. The book opens with an emblematic figure of the greatest of all 'singers': Homer, playing his lyre, at the centre of the frieze of poets on the Albert Memorial in London. Chapters on the tragicomic rise and fall of 'the bard', on the link between female song and suffering, and on the metaphor of poetry as birdsong, are followed by detailed readings of poems by Tennyson, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Walt Whitman, and Thomas Hardy. The final chapter, on the songs of Bob Dylan, suggests that recording technology has given fresh impetus to the quarrel (which is also a love-affair) between poetic language and song. The Figure of the Singer offers a profound and stimulating analysis of the idea of poetry as song and of the complex, troubled relations between voice and text

The Singer's Own Book: a ... Collection of the Most Popular ... Songs

The Singer's Own Book: a ... Collection of the Most Popular ... Songs PDF Author: SINGER.
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 350

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The Singer's Own Book

The Singer's Own Book PDF Author:
Publisher:
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Category : Ballads, American
Languages : en
Pages : 338

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The Singer's Souvenir

The Singer's Souvenir PDF Author:
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Category : Songbooks
Languages : en
Pages : 270

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Kafka on the Shore

Kafka on the Shore PDF Author: Haruki Murakami
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 1400079276
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 481

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the New York Times bestselling author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and one of the world’s greatest storytellers comes "an insistently metaphysical mind-bender” (The New Yorker) about a teenager on the run and an aging simpleton. Now with a new introduction by the author. Here we meet 15-year-old runaway Kafka Tamura and the elderly Nakata, who is drawn to Kafka for reasons that he cannot fathom. As their paths converge, acclaimed author Haruki Murakami enfolds readers in a world where cats talk, fish fall from the sky, and spirits slip out of their bodies to make love or commit murder, in what is a truly remarkable journey. “As powerful as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.... Reading Murakami ... is a striking experience in consciousness expansion.” —The Chicago Tribune

The Pacific Coast Musician

The Pacific Coast Musician PDF Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 1070

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Seaside Songs and Woodland Whispers

Seaside Songs and Woodland Whispers PDF Author: Oscar Emery Young
Publisher:
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Category : Poets, American
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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