Author : Ian Bone
Publisher : Puffin
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 38,84 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780142403938
With the approach of the tenth anniversary of the time she was held hostage in a fast food restaurant, nineteen-year-old Freda Opperman struggles to make sense of her memories of the event and how they have shaped her life.
Author : Ian Bone
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : pages
File Size : 25,49 MB
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780606346177
Author : Fred Bronson
Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
Page : 992 pages
File Size : 50,15 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780823076772
Provides lists of hit songs by date with information on the artist, songwriter, producer, label, and offering interviews with popular artists.
Author : Insight Publications Staff
Publisher : Insight Publications
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 29,7 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Education
ISBN : 1921411953
These innovative course books are based on the Australian Curriculum and develop an integrated approach to English. They also offer a special Learning Resource section to further build a wide range of competencies in English. INSIGHT ENGLISH SKILLS 8 presents a stimulating range of text types as the starting point for developing language, literacy and literary knowledge and skills. Units offer a themed approach - e.g. humour, bystanders and racism. Each unit retains the three sections: INTERACTIVE INTERPRETATION - text extracts introduce engaging and relevant issues and ideas; WORKING WITH TEXTS AND LANGUAGE - creative activities analyse text/s, literary techniques and language use; RESEARCH AND CREATING TEXTS - several ideas per unit offer diverse options over the 20 units. LEARNING RESOURCES - in Year 8 we introduce more advanced approaches for group work, developing interactive skills and building language and literacy skills.
Author : Elizabeth J. Rosenthal
Publisher : Bpi Communications
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 39,14 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780823088935
A comprehensive overview of the musical career of Elton John provides the full story behind all of the musician's recordings, a complete chronicle of his concert tours, an assessment of his musical odyssey, and a study of his sometimes turbulent personal life, along with more than forty photographs and a complete discography.
Author : Dick Weissman
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 28,81 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Music
ISBN : 1423442830
Talkin' 'Bout A Revolution Is The Most Comprehensive Guide Yet to the fascinating relationship between American music, culture, and politics. Music expert Dick Weissman dares to take on this massive topic and presents it with ease. From the early days of the U. S. to the twenty-first century, Weissman draws upon and explains a vast amount of music, including songs by and about Native Americans, African Americans, women, and Latinos and spanning pop, punk, folk, "music of hate," music of war, and beyond. Unprecedented in its approach, this book offers a multidisciplinary discussion that is broad and diverse, and illuminates how social events impact music as well as how music impacts social events.
Author : Sandra L. Beckett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 42,11 MB
Release : 2010-11-24
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1135861307
In Crossover Fiction, Sandra L. Beckett explores the global trend of crossover literature and explains how it is transforming literary canons, concepts of readership, the status of authors, the publishing industry, and bookselling practices. This study will have significant relevance across disciplines, as scholars in literary studies, media and cultural studies, visual arts, education, psychology, and sociology examine the increasingly blurred borderlines between adults and young people in contemporary society, notably with regard to their consumption of popular culture.
Author : Barbara Ching
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 15,61 MB
Release : 2001-07-19
Category : Music
ISBN : 0190283092
This is the first study of "hard" country music as well as the first comprehensive application of contemporary cultural theory to country music. Barbara Ching begins by defining the features that make certain country songs and artists "hard." She compares hard country music to "high" American culture, arguing that hard country deliberately focuses on its low position in the American cultural hierarchy, comically singing of failures to live up to American standards of affluence, while mainstream country music focuses on nostalgia, romance, and patriotism of regular folk. With chapters on Hank Williams Sr. and Jr., Merle Haggard, George Jones, David Allan Coe, Buck Owens, Dwight Yoakam, and the Outlaw Movement, this book is written in a jargon-free, engaging style that will interest both academic as well as general readers.
Author : John R. Downes
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 34,22 MB
Release : 2005-12-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1412239524
Gifted siblings Jane and Kenny Palmer yearn for a normal family life when Papa returns from WWI as a maimed hero, but a labor riot and subway shooting change everything. Chapin Hall a Chicago orphanage becomes their new home, where Jane discovers her star quality and passion for singing on the world stage, while Kenny exhibits his math prodigy and physical toughness. This tale of fearsome premonitions, separate adoptions, journey on an orphan train, and Vaudeville venues is set in gangland Chicago and rural Nebraska during the Roaring Twenties ending with the Great Market Crash of 1929.
Author : Mark Carroll
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 615 pages
File Size : 49,65 MB
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1351557718
This volume gathers together a cross-section of essays and book chapters dealing with the ways in which musicians and their music have been pressed into the service of political, nationalist and racial ideologies. Arranged chronologically according to their subject matter, the selections cover Western and non-Western musics, as well as art and popular musics, from the eighteenth century to the present day. The introduction features detailed commentaries on sources beyond those included in the volume, and as such provides an invaluable and comprehensive reading list for researchers and educators alike. The volume brings together for the first time seminal articles written by leading scholars, and presents them in such a way as to contribute significantly to our understanding of the use and abuse of music for ideological ends.
