Author: W. I. Whiting
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Hardscrabble, Or Ballad of the Free Lunch Bar
Author: W. I. Whiting
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Ballad of the Green Beret
Author: Marc Leepson
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0811765687
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
The rough-and-tumble life of Special Forces vet and Sixties pop star Barry Sadler The top Billboard Hot 100 single of 1966 wasn’t “Paint It Black” or “Yellow Submarine”--it was “The Ballad of the Green Berets,” a hyper-patriotic tribute to the men of the Special Forces by Vietnam vet Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler. But Sadler’s clean-cut, all-American image hid a darker side, a Hunter Thompson-esque life of booze, girls, and guns. Unable to score another hit song, he wrote articles for Soldier of Fortune and pulp novels that made “Rambo look like a stroll through Disneyland.” He killed a lover’s ex-boyfriend in Tennessee. Settling in Central America, Sadler ran guns, allegedly trained guerrillas, provided medical care to residents, and caroused at his villa. In 1988 he was shot in the head by a robber on the streets of Guatemala and died a year later. This life-and-times biography of an American character recounts the sensational details of Sadler’s life vividly but soberly, setting his meteoric rise and tragic fall against the big picture of American society and culture during and after the Vietnam War.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0811765687
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
The rough-and-tumble life of Special Forces vet and Sixties pop star Barry Sadler The top Billboard Hot 100 single of 1966 wasn’t “Paint It Black” or “Yellow Submarine”--it was “The Ballad of the Green Berets,” a hyper-patriotic tribute to the men of the Special Forces by Vietnam vet Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler. But Sadler’s clean-cut, all-American image hid a darker side, a Hunter Thompson-esque life of booze, girls, and guns. Unable to score another hit song, he wrote articles for Soldier of Fortune and pulp novels that made “Rambo look like a stroll through Disneyland.” He killed a lover’s ex-boyfriend in Tennessee. Settling in Central America, Sadler ran guns, allegedly trained guerrillas, provided medical care to residents, and caroused at his villa. In 1988 he was shot in the head by a robber on the streets of Guatemala and died a year later. This life-and-times biography of an American character recounts the sensational details of Sadler’s life vividly but soberly, setting his meteoric rise and tragic fall against the big picture of American society and culture during and after the Vietnam War.
The American Catalogue
Author:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 958
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 958
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Bob Dylan
Author: Timothy Hampton
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1942130554
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
A career-spanning account of the artistry and politics of Bob Dylan’s songwriting Bob Dylan’s reception of the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature has elevated him beyond the world of popular music, establishing him as a major modern artist. However, until now, no study of his career has focused on the details and nuances of the songs, showing how they work as artistic statements designed to create meaning and elicit emotion. Bob Dylan: How the Songs Work (originally published as Bob Dylan's Poetics) is the first comprehensive book on both the poetics and politics of Dylan’s compositions. It studies Dylan, not as a pop hero, but as an artist, as a maker of songs. Focusing on the interplay of music and lyric, it traces Dylan’s innovative use of musical form, his complex manipulation of poetic diction, and his dialogues with other artists, from Woody Guthrie to Arthur Rimbaud. Moving from Dylan’s earliest experiments with the blues, through his mastery of rock and country, up to his densely allusive recent recordings, Timothy Hampton offers a detailed account of Dylan’s achievement. Locating Dylan in the long history of artistic modernism, the book studies the relationship between form, genre, and the political and social themes that crisscross Dylan’s work. Bob Dylan: How the Songs Work offers both a nuanced engagement with the work of a major artist and a meditation on the contribution of song at times of political and social change.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1942130554
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
A career-spanning account of the artistry and politics of Bob Dylan’s songwriting Bob Dylan’s reception of the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature has elevated him beyond the world of popular music, establishing him as a major modern artist. However, until now, no study of his career has focused on the details and nuances of the songs, showing how they work as artistic statements designed to create meaning and elicit emotion. Bob Dylan: How the Songs Work (originally published as Bob Dylan's Poetics) is the first comprehensive book on both the poetics and politics of Dylan’s compositions. It studies Dylan, not as a pop hero, but as an artist, as a maker of songs. Focusing on the interplay of music and lyric, it traces Dylan’s innovative use of musical form, his complex manipulation of poetic diction, and his dialogues with other artists, from Woody Guthrie to Arthur Rimbaud. Moving from Dylan’s earliest experiments with the blues, through his mastery of rock and country, up to his densely allusive recent recordings, Timothy Hampton offers a detailed account of Dylan’s achievement. Locating Dylan in the long history of artistic modernism, the book studies the relationship between form, genre, and the political and social themes that crisscross Dylan’s work. Bob Dylan: How the Songs Work offers both a nuanced engagement with the work of a major artist and a meditation on the contribution of song at times of political and social change.
Overland Monthly and the Out West Magazine
Author: Bret Harte
Publisher:
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Category : West (U.S.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1014
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : West (U.S.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1014
Book Description
Overland Monthly and The Out West Magazine
Author:
Publisher:
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 412
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Overland Monthly
Author:
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Rock N Roll Gold Rush
Author: Maury Dean
Publisher: Algora Publishing
ISBN: 0875862276
Category : Rock music
Languages : en
Pages : 730
Book Description
An appreciation of Rock-n-Roll, song by song, from its roots and its inspriations to its divergent recent trends. A work of rough genius; DeanOCOs attempt to make connections though time and across genres is laudable."
Publisher: Algora Publishing
ISBN: 0875862276
Category : Rock music
Languages : en
Pages : 730
Book Description
An appreciation of Rock-n-Roll, song by song, from its roots and its inspriations to its divergent recent trends. A work of rough genius; DeanOCOs attempt to make connections though time and across genres is laudable."
A Chronological Index to Historical Fiction
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368718584
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368718584
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Class List for English Prose Fiction
Author: Boston Public Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
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