Download or read book Crys Delchant and the Stone of Life written by Allen Mabra and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-09-16 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a gang of modern-day terrorists attack their parents, twelve-year-old Crys Delchant and his older sister, Taylok, are forced back into Rockworld, a unique cavern where crystals are instruments of death and prehistoric beasts proliferate. It has been more than ten years since either has been inside the cavern, and things have deteriorated enormously. A Nehwisna man with a prime crystal has taken over and terrorized the inhabitants, who number in the tens of thousands. The man declared himself Egahiwa, the god of light, and has killed hundreds of those who resist his rule. Crys has been given a prime crystal as well, but he has only a short time to learn how to use it before he must face Egahiwa, as the Stone of Life predicted. And the Stone of Life is seldom wrong. But the children are not alone here. Driggett, a stalwart cavern friend, finds them and plots to overthrow Egahiwa. New friends Aracite, Topaz, and Cameo lead Crys to the Stone of Life. Even Taylok, whose skill with a sling is peerless, aids Crys until he is kidnapped by the Vedetta, a strange group of women. The Hutana, a gigantic wormlike creature and the Fisher Bats, descendants of Pteradactyals, all threaten to end Cryss short lifeif Egahiwa doesnt get him first. Crys Delchant and the Stone of Life is the third novel of a trilogy, following The Cavern and Escape from the Cavern.
Download or read book Taylok written by Allen Mabra and published by . This book was released on 2013-03 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taylok is a prequil to "The Cavern" by Allen Mabra. Set in Rockworld, the natives have been trapped in the cavern for thousands of years, no longer realizing that an outside world exists. By the age of three, Taylok is exceptional, having entered a sling contest with surprising results. Tragedy strikes when Taylok and her mother are captured by Xantopec, leader of the Sun God cult, bent on murder and blinding. If Taylok escapes death, she must learn to cope with blindness in the cavern. Her friend, Flint, and mentor, Shotai, help, but will she ever be "normal" again? Taylok is plagued with brutality from a few warriors and betrayal by some of her friends as she struggles through a difficult life in Rockworld. When Taylok saves a family from evil Pebblic, some consider her a hero, but others think she is a witch. Fourth level of Eldar Temple may offer a way out, but death is more likely.
Download or read book Memory and Re Creation in Troubadour Lyric written by Amelia E. Van Vleck and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1991.
Download or read book The Pop Rock and Soul Reader written by David Brackett and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on 20th and 21st century popular music: Irving Berlin, jazz, rhythm and blues, swing, hillbilly, big band, country, rock 'n' roll, folk, soul, funk, Beatles, Rolling Stones, Ray Charles, Jerry Wexler, Little Richard, Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan heavy metal and counterculture, reggae, disco, punk, new wave, Led Zeppelin, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Bruce Springsteen, Aretha Franklin, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Joni Mitchell, Stevie Wonder, postpunk, hip hop, rap, indie, alternative, grunge, electronica, boy bands, Lady Gaga.
Download or read book Escape from the Cavern written by Debs Allen Mabra and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2004-11-18 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gregory, Valea, their baby Crys and Taylok leave Rockworld and arrive in a small Wyoming town. Upon seeing Valea and Taylok, the clerk leaps to the conclusion that they are space aliens. He calls the town sheriff, but eventually tries to take matters into his own hands. The sheriff travels to Fairwater Lake to examine the remains of a prize bull and finds some surprising tracks at the scene. The search culminates in a deadly fight on a boat. Driggett and Leana are escorted to a Supreme Council meeting in Stonehaven Hall. Ambitious Gazer Stonemaker tells of a terrifying invasion of Rockworld by creatures identified only as the Kanan. Driggett is needed to locate and utilize the prime pyrite crystal, regarded as the single weapon that might save the Nehwisna. A small band sets out on a nearly impossible quest to find the weapon. Gregory is reunited with Driggett, but the expedition has proved deadly and only a handful of the original force remain, together with Arak, a half human whose motives remain unclear. Valea succumbs to the Kanan in battle and lies lifeless in Gregory's arms. Only one thing can save her, and its use remains illusive.
Download or read book The Songs of Jaufr Rudel written by Jaufré Rudel and published by PIMS. This book was released on 1978 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book All Shook Up written by Glenn C. Altschuler and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-08-07 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The birth of rock 'n roll ignited a firestorm of controversy--one critic called it "musical riots put to a switchblade beat"--but if it generated much sound and fury, what, if anything, did it signify? As Glenn Altschuler reveals in All Shook Up, the rise of rock 'n roll--and the outraged reception to it--in fact can tell us a lot about the values of the United States in the 1950s, a decade that saw a great struggle for the control of popular culture. Altschuler shows, in particular, how rock's "switchblade beat" opened up wide fissures in American society along the fault-lines of family, sexuality, and race. For instance, the birth of rock coincided with the Civil Rights movement and brought "race music" into many white homes for the first time. Elvis freely credited blacks with originating the music he sang and some of the great early rockers were African American, most notably, Little Richard and Chuck Berry. In addition, rock celebrated romance and sex, rattled the reticent by pushing sexuality into the public arena, and mocked deferred gratification and the obsession with work of men in gray flannel suits. And it delighted in the separate world of the teenager and deepened the divide between the generations, helping teenagers differentiate themselves from others. Altschuler includes vivid biographical sketches of the great rock 'n rollers, including Elvis Presley, Fats Domino, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Buddy Holly--plus their white-bread doppelgangers such as Pat Boone. Rock 'n roll seemed to be everywhere during the decade, exhilarating, influential, and an outrage to those Americans intent on wishing away all forms of dissent and conflict. As vibrant as the music itself, All Shook Up reveals how rock 'n roll challenged and changed American culture and laid the foundation for the social upheaval of the sixties.
Download or read book Upside Your Head written by Johnny Otis and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 1993-11-19 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intriguing memoir by the legendary bandleader.
Download or read book Honkers and Shouters written by Arnold Shaw and published by Macmillan Publishing Company. This book was released on 1986 with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rhythm And The Blues written by Jerry Wexler and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2012-11-07 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Atlantic Records partner and producer, Wexler presided over the evolution of the modern music business and made prodigious contributions through to our cultural history. Wexler has worked with the entire range of American genius: Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding, Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, and others. 75 photographs.
Download or read book Rock n Roll is Here to Pay written by Steve Chapple and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chuck Berry Songbook written by Chuck Berry and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 1986-09-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Guitar Recorded Versions). Guitar tab and notation for: Almost Grown * Around and Around * Back in the U.S.A. * Beautiful Delilah * Carol (O Carole) * Guitar Boogie * I'm Talking About You * Johnny B. Goode * Let It Rock * Little Queenie * Maybelline * Memphis, Tennessee * No Particular Place to Go * The Promised Land * Roll over Beethoven * School Day (Ring! Ring! Goes the Bell) * Sweet Little Rock and Roller.
Download or read book Chuck Berry written by Chuck Berry and published by Guitar Recorded Versions. This book was released on 1986 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rock music; for voice and guitar, with chord symbols.
Download or read book Brother Ray written by Ray Charles and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Instruments of Desire written by Steve Waksman and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2001-05-02 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work ranges across the history of the electric guitar by focusing on key performers such as Charlie Christian, Chet Atkins, Muddy Waters, Chuck Berry, Jimi Hendrix & Led Zeppelin, who have shaped the use & meaning of the instrument.
Download or read book The Life and Times of Little Richard written by Charles White and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Miss Rhythm written by Ruth Brown and published by Da Capo Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 1999-05-06 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Singer Ruth Brown, "Miss Rhythm", shares candid recollections of the early days of R&B, the racism she encountered on the road, and her chart-topping success despite seemingly impossible odds. 65 photos.
