Download or read book With Amusement for All written by LeRoy Ashby and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2006-05-12 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Amusement for All is a sweeping interpretative history of American popular culture. Providing deep insights into various individuals, events, and movements, LeRoy Ashby explores the development and influence of popular culture -- from minstrel shows to hip-hop, from the penny press to pulp magazines, from the NBA to NASCAR, and much in between. By placing the evolution of popular amusement in historical context, Ashby illuminates the complex ways in which popular culture both reflects and transforms American society. He demonstrates a recurring pattern in democratic culture by showing how groups and individuals on the cultural and social periphery have profoundly altered the nature of mainstream entertainment. The mainstream has repeatedly co-opted and sanitized marginal trends in a process that continues to shift the limits of acceptability. Ashby describes how social control and notions of public morality often vie with the bold, erotic, and sensational as entrepreneurs finesse the vagaries of the market and shape public appetites. Ashby argues that popular culture is indeed a democratic art, as it entertains the masses, provides opportunities for powerless and disadvantaged individuals to succeed, and responds to changing public hopes, fears, and desires. However, it has also served to reinforce prejudices, leading to discrimination and violence. Accordingly, the study of popular culture reveals the often dubious contours of the American dream. With Amusement for All never loses sight of pop culture's primary goal: the buying and selling of fun. Ironically, although popular culture has drawn an enormous variety of amusements from grassroots origins, the biggest winners are most often sprawling corporations with little connection to a movement's original innovators.

Download or read book Gwine to Run All Night Or De Camptown Races written by Stephen Collins Foster and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Camptown Ladies written by Mari SanGiovanni and published by Bywater Books. This book was released on 2011-12-13 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Santora family ride again in the side-splitting sequel to Greetings From Jamaica, Wish You Were Queer

Download or read book The Song Index of the Enoch Pratt Free Library written by Ellen Luchinsky and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-23 with total page 1384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Song Index features over 150,000 citations that lead users to over 2,100 song books spanning more than a century, from the 1880s to the 1990s. The songs cited represent a multitude of musical practices, cultures, and traditions, ranging from ehtnic to regional, from foreign to American, representing every type of song: popular, folk, children's, political, comic, advertising, protest, patriotic, military, and classical, as well as hymns, spirituals, ballads, arias, choral symphonies, and other larger works. This comprehensive volume also includes a bibliography of the books indexed; an index of sources from which the songs originated; and an alphabetical composer index.

Download or read book Folksongs written by Hal Leonard Corp. and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2002-09-01 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Guitar Chord Songbook). A strummer's cornucopia of 80 folk favorites! Includes lyrics and chords for: Au Clair De La Lune * Aura Lee * Banks of the Ohio * Beautiful Dreamer * Bury Me Beneath the Willow * Camptown Races * Deep River * Dixie * Frankie and Johnny * Git Along, Little Dogies * Home on the Range * Hush, Little Baby * I've Been Working on the Railroad * I've Got Peace like a River * John Henry * Lonesome Valley * Man of Constant Sorrow * Mule Skinner Blues * My Old Kentucky Home * Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen * Scarborough Fair * When the Saints Go Marching In * more.

Download or read book Puppet written by Joy Fielding and published by Seal Books. This book was released on 2012-04-17 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this new page-turner by New York Times bestselling author Joy Fielding, the life of a beautiful young defense attorney is thrown into turmoil when she is called back to her hometown to defend her disturbed, estranged mother, who publically shot and killed a man. High-powered, twenty-eight-year-old defense attorney Amanda Travis likes several things: the colour black, lunchtime Spinning classes at the fitness centre on Clematis Street in downtown Palm Beach; her all-white one-bedroom, oceanfront condo; a compliant jury; men whose wives don’t understand them. Some of the things she doesn’t: the colour pink; when the temperature outside her condo’s floor-to-ceiling windows falls below sixty-five degrees; clients who don’t follow her advice; being asked to show I.D. when she goes to a bar; nicknames of any shape or size. Something else Amanda Travis doesn’t like: memories. But when Ben, the first of her two ex-husbands, calls from her hometown of Toronto with the alarming news that her mother has shot and killed a man in the lobby of the Four Seasons Hotel, it becomes more and more difficult for Amanda to continue running from her past. Now she must return to face her demons and the life she left behind — a love that once consumed her and a mother who holds a strange, dark power over everyone she encounters. “Puppet” is the nickname Amanda’s mother once called her. But now Amanda is determined to fight her mother’s fatal whims — even if it kills her.

Download or read book Lost written by Joy Fielding and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Julia Carver disappears without a trace after an audition with a powerful Hollywood director. Cindy, Julia's mother, begins a frantic search for her daughter. Secrets are revealed and lives are forever altered.

Download or read book Notes and Queries written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Look What Do You See written by Bing Xu and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A puzzle, a work of art, and a collection of classic American songs, all in an innovative book by one of the world's foremost contemporary artists. Every page of this book is filled with secret code. It seems like Chinese calligraphy, but it’s not. It seems like you can’t read it, but you can. Once the pieces of the puzzle start falling into place, you will understand it all. And some of it may even strike you as strangely familiar . . . Twelve traditional American songs, such as "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" and "Yankee Doodle," as well as five classic songs from Chinese culture, are written here in artist Xu Bing's unique "square word calligraphy," which uses one-block words made of English letters. From a distance, these pieces are beautiful but unintelligible art. Up close, they are a mystery just waiting to be solved—like the fine art version of "Magic Eye." For readers ages 7 and up, Look! What Do You See? is perfect for long car rides or coded notes to friends. Incredibly intricate and visually engaging, this is a book that children and adults will return to again and again.

Download or read book Her Kind of Man written by Ammanda McCabe and published by Belgrave House. This book was released on 2010-09-14 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heiress Evie Carlisle escaped New York’s constricting high society and her greedy fiancé for Dead Dog, New Mexico, where she intended to write Buckaroo Bill-type dime novels. But when her unorthodox research included Sophie’s Pleasure Palace and the Golden Garter, she found herself confronting handsome saloon owner Connor Morgan. Historical Romance by Ammanda McCabe; originally published by Kensington

Download or read book The American Nightmare written by Phillip Hayes Dean and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 2007 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: THUNDER IN THE INDEX. The action takes place in the psychiatric ward of a large city hospital, where Joshua Noon, a hip young black man, lies bound in a straitjacket. His pleas to be unshackled lead to a sharp, funny and exacerbating ver

Download or read book 80 Done With Straight Girls written by Mari SanGiovanni and published by Bywater Books. This book was released on 2022-07-26 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third book in Marie Santora's search for true love finds her big Italian family still serving the up the fun, Italian style: Loud, lusty, and volatile—overflowing with lots of love and laughter. What's funny about losing everything you love? Plenty, if you're a member of the Santora family. Marie Santora has always suffered from an enormous case of good luck/bad luck when it comes to women, and the past six years have been no exception. When Marie's love life hits the skids—again—her irrepressible sister Lisa begins to wonder if this is the time that her sister's loss is too great for even their eccentric Italian family to heal. To help Marie escape the painful memories, Lisa ditches her gay campground for a family lake house, and Marie vows to be done with straight girls once and for all. But just as the Santora clan descends upon Marie to "help", a surprise house call changes her good luck to bad luck once again, putting Mari's willpower to the ultimate test. The family motto has always been "Either you're IN, or you're OUT!" and this newest family crisis means the Santora's are ALL IN—even though Marie wants them out!

Download or read book Stephen Foster Song Book written by Stephen Collins Foster and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1974-01-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Old favorites such as Beautiful Dreamer and Oh! Susanna as well as patriotic, plantation, and minstrel songs by the American composer are presented along with reproductions of original covers

Download or read book Body Aesthetics written by Sherri Irvin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The body is a rich object for aesthetic inquiry. We aesthetically assess both our own bodies and those of others, and our felt bodily experiences—as we eat, have sex, and engage in other everyday activities—have aesthetic qualities. The body, whether depicted or actively performing, features centrally in aesthetic experiences of visual art, theatre, dance and sports. Body aesthetics can be a source of delight for both the subject and the object of the gaze. But aesthetic consideration of bodies also raises acute ethical questions: the body is deeply intertwined with one's identity and sense of self, and aesthetic assessment of bodies can perpetuate oppression based on race, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, size, and disability. Artistic and media representations shape how we see and engage with bodies, with consequences both personal and political. This volume contains sixteen original essays by contributors in philosophy, sociology, dance, disability theory, critical race studies, feminist theory, medicine, and law. Contributors take on bodily beauty, sexual attractiveness, the role of images in power relations, the distinct aesthetics of disabled bodies, the construction of national identity, the creation of compassion through bodily presence, the role of bodily style in moral comportment, and the somatic aesthetics of racialized police violence.

Download or read book Musical Theater written by Alyson McLamore and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-18 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Musical Theater: An Appreciation, Second Edition offers a history of musical theater from its operating origins to the Broadway shows of today, combined with an in-depth study of the musical styles that paralleled changes on stage. Alyson McLamore teaches readers how to listen to both the words and the music of the stage musical, enabling them to understand how all the components of a show interact to create a compelling experience for audiences. This second edition has been updated with new chapters covering recent developments in the twenty-first century, while insights from recent scholarship on musical theater have been incorporated throughout the text. The musical examples discussed in the text now include detailed listening guides, while a new companion website includes plot summaries and links to audio of the musical examples. From Don Giovanni to Hamilton, Musical Theater: An Appreciation both explores the history of musical theater and develops a deep appreciation of the musical elements at the heart of this unique art form.

Download or read book Are We There Yet written by Wise Publications and published by Wise Publications. This book was released on 2011-01-13 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are We There Yet? is a collection of classic songs to keep children of all ages entertained while on the road. This book gives you the lyrics, vocal melody and even backing chords for 24 entertaining children’s songs to keep you and your young one occupied, engaged and learning, no matter where you are. Never more will your child’s restlessness be a problem or a long journey a chore. Songlist: - Alice The Camel - The Alphabet Song - The Camptown Races - Do Your Ears Hang Low? - Ging Gang Goolie - The Grand Old Duke Of York - I Know An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly - London’s Burning - Merrily We Roll Along - Nellie The Elephant - Oh Dear! What Can The Matter Be? - Old Macdonald - One Man Went To Mow - The Owl And The Pussycat - Pop Goes The Weasel - Row, Row, Row Your Boat - She’ll Be Coming ‘Round The Mountain - Sing A Song Of Sixpence - Ten Green Bottles - There’s A Hole In My Bucket - There Were Ten In The Bed - This Old Man - Three Blind Mice - The Wheels On The Bus

Download or read book Producing Great Sound for Film and Video written by Jay Rose and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Make your film and video projects sound as good as they look with this popular guide. Learn practical, timesaving ways to get better recordings, solve problems with existing audio, create compelling tracks, and boost your filmmaking to the next level! In this fourth edition of Producing Great Sound for Film and Video, audio guru Jay Rose revises his popular text for a new generation of filmmakers. You'll find real world advice and practical guidelines for every aspect of your soundtrack: planning and budgeting, field and studio recording, editing, sound effects and music, audio repair and processing, and mixing. The combination of solid technical information and a clear, step-by-step approach has made this the go-to book for producers and film students for over a decade. This new edition includes: - Insights and from-the-trenches tips from film and video professionals - Advice on how to get the best results from new equipment including DSLRs and digital recorders - Downloadable diagnostics and audio examples you can edit on your own computer - Instruction for dealing with new regulations for wireless mics and broadcast loudness - Techniques that work with any software or hardware - An expanded "How Do I Fix This?" section to help you solve problems quickly - An all new companion website (www.GreatSound.info) with audio and video tutorial files, demonstrations, and diagnostics Whether you're an aspiring filmmaker who wants rich soundtracks that entertain and move an audience, or an experienced professional looking for a reference guide, Producing Great Sound for Film and Video, Fourth Edition has the information you need"--