Download or read book A Diva s Forte written by Amy Marie Erickson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of poetry that reflects different stages in my life and can be categorized with the words Love, Passion, Hate and Spirit.
Download or read book American Diva Extraordinary Unruly Fabulous written by Deborah Paredez and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2024-05-21 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An impassioned homage to the divas who shake up our world and transform it with their bold, dazzling artistry. What does it mean to be a “diva”? A shifting, increasingly loaded term, it has been used to both deride and celebrate charismatic and unapologetically fierce performers like Aretha Franklin, Divine, and the women of Labelle. In this brilliant, powerful blend of incisive criticism and electric memoir, Deborah Paredez—scholar, cultural critic, and lifelong diva devotee—unravels our enduring fascination with these icons and explores how divas have challenged American ideas about feminism, performance, and freedom. American Diva journeys into Tina Turner’s scintillating performances, Celia Cruz’s command of the male-dominated salsa world, the transcendent revival of Jomama Jones after a period of exile, and the unparalleled excellence of Venus and Serena Williams. Recounting how she and her mother endlessly watched Rita Moreno’s powerhouse portrayal of Anita in West Side Story and how she learned much about being bigger than life from her fabulous Tía Lucia, Paredez chronicles the celebrated and skilled performers who not only shaped her life but boldly expressed the aspiration for freedom among brown, Black, and gay communities. Paredez also traces the evolution of the diva through the decades, dismayed at the mid-aughts’ commodification and juvenilizing of its meaning but finding its lasting beauty and power. Filled with sharp insights and great heart, American Diva is a spirited tribute to the power of performance and the joys of fandom.
Download or read book Redefining Diva written by Sheryl Lee Ralph and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-03-13 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tony Award-winning actress addresses personal experiences with empowerment, healthy relationships, and style while sharing her perspectives on the highs and lows of her life and career.
Download or read book Diana s Dogs written by Ed Ifkovic and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007-10 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Guinness Book of World Records calls her the best-selling female singer in history. Billboard named her the Celebrity of the Century. Diana Ross, lead singer of the most popular girl group of the 1960s and later a consummate solo artist, has been in the public eye for over four decades. From 1964-when "Where Did Our Love Go?" rose to number one on the pop charts-to the present day, she has been the ultimate diva, an artist worshiped by fanatical fans, yet pilloried in the press for her temper tantrums and untoward demands. Ed Ifkovic delivers his own spin on this international celebrity, an idiosyncratic collection of short pieces that create a portrait of the mercurial star. From a Detroit housing project to a Connecticut mansion-who is this woman who exacts such loyalty from her fans and such vitriol from her detractors? There are pieces on Diana's tantrums, true, but also jottings on the homes she's lived in, the food she eats, the cars she drives, even her role as muse for writers. There is a collection of poetic similes commentators have employed to describe her, as well as a mind-boggling catalogue of garish tabloid headlines. This off-beat book, admittedly an obsessive fan's unembarrassed send-up-equal parts delight and censure-is a spirited yet sardonic tale that also explores the integration of black music into the white mainstream. Frankly, Diana led that noble charge. What the author delights in is the unorthodox observation and gossipy tidbit that accompanied that revolution.
Download or read book The Diva s Mouth written by Susan J. Leonardi and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Sirens to Madonna, from castrati to Callas, from opera stage to drag shows to TV commercials, from George Eliot to writers of detective fiction, the diva has been worshipped, feared, maligned, parodied, and appropriated. This text examines how and why, from the 18th century to the present, divas have been talked about with so much passion and written about with such ambiguity and contradiction. It explores the myriad roles the diva plays in masculinist, feminist, and queer imaginations - in opera itself and in other fictions, films, and fantasies - including the divas' and authors' own. Finally, it examines how and why pop singers like Madonna and Annie Lennox, in very explicit ways, flirt with, fling off, and fulfil the fantasy of the woman with a voice.
Download or read book 40 Rules to Being a True Diva Best in State written by Jamila W. Harris and published by . This book was released on 2016-12-23 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A DIVA IS A STATE OF MIND; IT IS AN ATTITUDE; IT IS A FEMALE WHO IS STRONG, CONFIDENT, AND SURE. THIS WOMAN CAN BE RICH OR POOR, SINGLE OR MARRIED, A MOTHER OR A DAUGHTER, A TEACHER OR A STUDENT. SHE HOLDS HER HEAD HIGH; SHE KNOWS WHO SHE IS AND WHAT SHE WANTS. SHE WILL NEVER SETTLE FOR LESS AND NO ONE OR NOTHING WILL EVER DESTROY HER SELF PRIDE. HER SWAGGER IS ALWAYS ON ONE TRILLION AND SHE HAS TRIUMPHED THROUGH ALL OF LIFE'S ODDS. SHE HAS FALLEN AND RISEN. SHE HAS BEEN BRUISED AND SCARRED YET SHE CONTINUES TO STRIDE. SHE IS INDEED A TRUE HUSTLER, BUT NOT ONLY A HUSLTER OF MONIES BUT OF LIFE Itself...and so let's begin with the first rule shall we?
Download or read book 40 Rules to Being a True Diva written by Jamila W. Harris and published by . This book was released on 2014-06-27 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A DIVA IS A STATE OF MIND; IT IS AN ATTITUDE; IT IS A FEMALE WHO IS STRONG, CONFIDENT, AND SURE. THIS WOMAN CAN BE RICH OR POOR, SINGLE OR MARRIED, A MOTHER OR A DAUGHTER, A TEACHER OR A STUDENT. SHE HOLDS HER HEAD HIGH; SHE KNOWS WHO SHE IS AND WHAT SHE WANTS. SHE WILL NEVER SETTLE FOR LESS AND NO ONE OR NOTHING WILL EVER DESTROY HER SELF PRIDE. HER SWAGGER IS ALWAYS ON ONE TRILLION AND SHE HAS TRIUMPHED THROUGH ALL OF LIFE'S ODDS. SHE HAS FALLEN AND RISEN. SHE HAS BEEN BRUISED AND SCARRED YET SHE CONTINUES TO STRIDE. SHE IS INDEED A TRUE HUSTLER, BUT NOT ONLY A HUSLTER OF MONIES BUT OF LIFE Itself...and so let's begin with the first rule shall we? Jamila W. Harris is a published poet and author of the five stars The Year We Didn't Vote and When The Roses Smell Like Pooh-Pooh, both available at BarnesandNoble.com Amazon.com & Booksamiilion.com. She is a freelance writer with several publications including "My Birthday From Hell," 'I Miss The Days Of Hopscotch," and "Living In The Darkness." She has survived through some of life's greatest challenges and battles including several divorces, addiction, incarceration and yet remains a strong, beautiful, optimistic, woman. She is a survivor who has helped mentored other urban females facing the same difficulties. She is a young black woman from Philadelphia, PA, USA, who promotes freedom of speech, ISLAM, particularly the knowledge of Salafiyyah, and the Hip-Hop Movement. This third novel is about her struggle and journey in life, which took her about forty years to learn. It includes all of the positive energy that friends, family, celebrities such as the late, great Maya Angelo, Nikki Giovanni, Michelle Obama, Kerry Washington, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Angela Davis (to name a few), designers, strangers, foes, "PEOPLE," who brought something inspirational or may have said something enlightening and or constructive to her that kept her strong, and her helped her to remain STANDING, a Survivor. This is her convictions of The "True Rules" to surviving in this life and possibly making it to Eternal Bliss Forever in the Hereafter.
Download or read book Fabulous Divas Part 1 written by Alexander Doty and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Josephine Baker to Judy Garland to Elton John, the figure of the diva occupies a fascinating place in American culture. This special issue of Camera Obscura explores the impact of divas (and divos) in film and popular culture and considers their fraught psychic and social positioning. Contributors examine how divas are frequently portrayed as both victims and villains and how they can be figures of worship as well as of ridicule for their attempts to confront, transcend, or carve a new space within the patriarchal dominant culture. This collection looks at how divas cause "category trouble" by refusing to stay in their proper culturally assigned roles--gender, race, and class--in order to live life on their own terms, making them important figures for other groups at the margins of the dominant culture. The contributors to Fabulous! Divas I (the first in a two-part series) address how Baker's dual image as sexualized black woman and multicultural mother has been used to question and invert stereotypes, how the diva witches in the Broadway musical Wicked have developed a cult following among adolescent girls, and how fans mix irony and sincerity in their admiration of daytime soap divas. One contributor explores the cultural work of camp, while another considers hair as a fetish item for diva devotees. Among the diva appreciations are a look at the life of the cross-dressing black disco diva Sylvester, a reading of Garland as a lesbian diva par excellence, an examination of Courtney Love as a martyr diva, and a consideration of how loving Julie Andrews can make people queer. Contributors. Alexander Doty, Brett Farmer, Joshua Gamson, Chuck Jackson, Ramon Lobato, Edward R. O'Neill, Ann Pellegrini, Julie Levine Russo, Nick Salvato, Jeanne Scheper, Edward Baron Turk, Stacy Wolf
Download or read book A Divas Thoughts written by Juanita Johnson and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Divas Thoughts Volume One Diva Commandment No 1 – Thou Shalt have Me Time “How we speak to ourselves and what we believe about ourselves is the foundation of our relationships and interaction with others and most importantly ourselves.” Take a journey to Diva with the award winning authenticity coach Juanita Johnson and explore the wonder that is you. A Diva Thoughts Vol 1 is the first book release exploring the first Diva Commandment – Thou Shalt Have Me Time. It takes the reader on a journey of self discovery while telling snippets of the sometimes humorous and very touching human experience of the author Juanita Johnson's journey up until now.Juanita uses the term Diva as a noun, as a concept and a guiding principle. Reclaiming it from many of the negative connotations it has found itself associated with in latter years. Because in it's original intent and use, Diva describes a woman of extraordinary talent and presence.Johnson wants women around the world to indulge and celebrate being a woman. Asking us to harness the power of our femininity.The much awaited book displays empathy and an understanding of the vulnerabilities and shortfalls encountered in the pursuit of happiness. Supporting women everywhere to begin the necessary practice of loving themselves first.It demonstrates how we often make bad decisions, choose questionable lifestyles and nurse broken hearts. But in all the heartbreak, joy and sorrow we are still a Diva and worthy of sincere celebration.
Download or read book The Soulful Divas written by David Nathan and published by New York : Billboard Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Personal portraits of over a dozen divine divas, from Nina Simone, Aretha Franklin, and Diana Ross to Patti LaBelle, Anita Baker, and Natalie Cole. 40 illustrations.
Download or read book Hollywood Divas written by James Robert Parish and published by McGraw-Hill Companies. This book was released on 2003 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the birth of the silver screen, "It Girls" laid down a sequined trail of self-indulgence and scandalous bad behavior. "Hollywood Divas" traces that glittering path from legendary icons to today's most high-maintenance celebrities of film and TV. 70 photos.
Download or read book Fabulous written by Alexander Doty and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book M Harp s Little Book of Inspirational Quotes for Sophisticated Divas written by Maria S. Harper and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This little book encompasses powerful inspirational messages that will help all women achieve excellence and success in both their personal and business lives.
Download or read book From Doormat to Diva written by Merci Miglino and published by Pagefree Pub Incorporated. This book was released on 2004-03 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From Doormat to Divea" recognizes every woman's secret desire to take center stage. Merci Miglino, life strategist and Jacqueline-of-all trades, takes you on a journey - from back stage to center stage in 10 simple steps. With a Perspective Makeover, Merci challenges you to forget the bad rap Divas get and consider the true and divine nature of the Diva in you! Use Diva vision and adopt a Diva-tude, says the author, to re-define selfishness, empowerment and extreme self-care. With humor-laced truth, enthusiasm, and an energy that pops off the page, Merci escorts you from the back row of your life, straight down the aisle to center stage!
Download or read book Roses for a Diva written by Rick Blechta and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2014-09-24 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A music star attracts a secret admirer, who turns into a dangerous stalker, and then, perhaps, a killer. When soprano Marta Hendriks finds a bouquet of red roses in her dressing room after a performance, she’s surprised as well as charmed. The card only says "Roses for a Diva." And as miles and performances rack up in her globe-hopping career, the bouquets continue to mysteriously appear. But then strange things start happening in her private life. She’s certain someone has been in her apartment, breaking her most treasured possession. After calling in private investigator Shannon O’Brien, Marta is shocked to discover her entire life has been invaded. When one of the other stars in a Roman production of Tosca is murdered, everyone realizes the situation is more dire than they had imagined. Who Marta’s stalker? What does he want? And where will he stop?
Download or read book Return of the Diva written by James Robert Parish and published by Blake Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the release of her spectacular new album, I Look to You, it's been confirmed: the diva is back When Sony announced that Whitney Houston was returning to the studio to record her first new album for almost seven years, the music industry and her fans held their breath. Had the legendary singer really overcome the recent problems that had threatened to destroy her career? In this unauthorized and in-depth biography, James Robert Parish charts Whitney's amazing career, from her childhood in a rough New Jersey neighborhood to her thrilling comeback.
Download or read book M Harp s Little Book of Inspirational Quotes for Sophisticated Divas written by Maria S. Harper and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2013-03-17 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This little book encompasses powerful inspirational messages that will help all women achieve excellence and success in both their personal and business lives.
