Download or read book Ethereal Voices written by Paul Weightman and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-09-23 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The luxurious Scottish Highlands, Blackstone Grand Hotel is a Aviemore institution that has entertained guests for more than a century and a half, offering some of the finest accommodations in the city. Famously haunted, the hotel draws tourists from around the world eager to encounter its numerous ghosts. The hotel is also known for being honeycombed with hidden doors and secret passages, enabling staff to appear and disappear quickly as they attend to the hotel's guests. Now some of the spirits in the Blackstone Grand have turned violent, even murderous. Elouise and Sandra must determine which ghost has become dangerous and remove it from the hotel before it can claim any more lives. They soon learn the hotel has secrets even darker than the notorious string of nineteenth-century murders that made it famous, and the powerful entities inhabiting it don't intend to leave without a fight.
Download or read book Entangled Voices written by Frederick J. Ruf and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1997-01-02 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Ruf tries to understand how the concepts of "voice" and "genre" function in texts, especially religious texts. To this end, he joins literary theorists in the discussion about "narrative." Ruf rejects the idea of genre as a fixed historical form that serves as a template for readers and writers; instead, he suggests that we imagine different genres, whether narrative, lyric, or dramatic, as the expression of different voices. Each voice, he asserts, possesses different key qualities: embodiment, sociality, contextuality, and opacity in the dramatic voice; intimacy, limitation, urgency in lyric; and a "magisterial" quality of comprehensiveness and cohesiveness in narrative. These voices are models for our selves, composing an unruly and unstable multiplicity of selves. Ruf applies his theory of "voice" and "genre" to five texts: Dineson's Out of Africa, Donne's Holy Sonnets, Primo Levi's The Periodic Table, Robert Wilson's Einstein on the Beach, and Coleridge's Biographia Literaria. Through these literary works, he discerns the detailed ways in which a text constructs a voice and, in the process, a self. More importantly, Ruf demonstrates that this process is a religious one, fulfilling the function that religions traditionally assume: that of defining the self and its world.
Download or read book Social Voices written by Levi S. Gibbs and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2023-09-05 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Singers generating cultural identity from K-Pop to Beverly Sills Around the world and across time, singers and their songs stand at the crossroads of differing politics and perspectives. Levi S. Gibbs edits a collection built around the idea of listening as a political act that produces meaning. Contributors explore a wide range of issues by examining artists like Romani icon Esma Redžepova, Indian legend Lata Mangeshkar, and pop superstar Teresa Teng. Topics include gendered performances and the negotiation of race and class identities; the class-related contradictions exposed by the divide between highbrow and pop culture; links between narratives of overcoming struggle and the distinction between privileged and marginalized identities; singers’ ability to adapt to shifting notions of history, borders, gender, and memory in order to connect with listeners; how the meanings we read into a singer’s life and art build on one another; and technology’s ability to challenge our ideas about what constitutes music. Cutting-edge and original, Social Voices reveals how singers and their songs equip us to process social change and divergent opinions. Contributors: Christina D. Abreu, Michael K. Bourdaghs, Kwame Dawes, Nancy Guy, Ruth Hellier, John Lie, Treva B. Lindsey, Eric Lott, Katherine Meizel, Carol A. Muller, Natalie Sarrazin, Anthony Seeger, Carol Silverman, Andrew Simon, Jeff Todd Titon, and Elijah Wald
Download or read book The Search for the Tyler Y Alphonse From the Investigative Files of Benoit Carter written by Gregory A. Pierson and published by Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late twenty-fifth century, a long-dormant mystery resurfaces involving the disappearance in deep space of a Pulvermacher-class supply freighter. Handed what appears to be another mundane “research and report” commission, Junior Agent Benoit Carter is about to have his well-ordered life profoundly change. Carter’s initial search shows that his investigative section has been infiltrated by clandestine alien moles. Then a retired Confederation senior agent is murdered, an entire Del Mar subdivision is destroyed, and Carter is gravely injured in an assassination attempt. After recuperating, Carter and his supervisor, Debra T. Stanton, follow a string of seemingly unconnected clues, eventually stumbling on some long-buried information. They learn how Terra (the Earth) was involved in a far-distant interstellar conflict, its cause, and the fact that their home world has been quietly invaded by enemy aliens, whose offspring have infiltrated vital levels of the Confederation’s governance. Another disclosure during their hunt for clues is the identity of a close associate who has been putting up a well-crafted façade. Carter remains doggedly on the case, following a trail of digital bread crumbs to uncover the cause of the mysterious disappearance of the Confederation fast supply vessel, the Tyler Y. Alphonse. This is the third book in an exciting trilogy.
Download or read book Media and the Apocalypse written by Kylo-Patrick R. Hart and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2009 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Responding to a plethora of media representing end times, this anthology of essays examines pop culture's fascination with end of the world or apocalyptic narratives. Essays discuss films and made-for-television movies - including Deep Impact, The Core, and The Day After Tomorrow - that feature primarily [hu]man-made catastrophes or natural catastrophes. These representations complement the large amount of mediated literature and films on religious perspectives of the apocalypse, the Left Behind series, and other films/books that deal with prophecy from the Book of Revelation in the Bible. This book will be useful in upper-level undergraduate/graduate courses addressing mass media, film and television studies, popular culture, rhetorical criticism, and special/advanced topics. In addition, the book will be of interest to scholars and students in disciplines including anthropology, history, psychology, sociology, and religious studies.
Download or read book Cultivating Perception Through Artworks written by Helen A. Fielding and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the ethical, political and cultural consequences of forgetting how to trust our senses? How can artworks help us see, sense, think, and interact in ways that are outside of the systems of convention and order that frame so much of our lives? In Cultivating Perception through Artworks, Helen Fielding challenges us to think alongside and according to artworks, cultivating a perception of what is really there and being expressed by them. Drawing from and expanding on the work of philosophers such as Luce Irigaray and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Fielding urges us to trust our senses and engage relationally with works of art in the here and now rather than distancing and systematizing them as aesthetic objects. Cultivating Perception through Artworks examines examples as diverse as a Rembrandt painting, M. NourbeSe Philip's poetry, and Louise Bourgeois' public sculpture, to demonstrate how artworks enact ethics, politics, or culture. By engaging with different art forms and discovering the unique way that each opens us to the world in a new and unexpected ways, Fielding reveals the importance of our moral, political, and cultural lives.
Download or read book Tune Up and Thrive written by Chicoine and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2011-04 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tune-Up and Thrive is a fictional story with a very real and powerful message. Co-authored by Dr. Ed Chicoine and Tim Scapillato, this book contains a compelling message: it offers a different way to look at health and wellness, and it outlines a strategy for dealing with the current health care crisis. The vast majority of people want to live a long life but nobody wants to grow old. Good health means different things for everyone, but one thing that is abundantly evident in our North American society is that, for many people, the health span does not equal the life span. Tune-Up and Thrive explains the crucial interplay among body, mind, emotions and soul. Nourish only one of them at the expense of the others and true wellness will never be achieved. But nourish all of them to the fullest and optimum health and wellness--and a long and healthy life--are within the reach of anyone. Tune-up and Thrive was created to inspire, entertain and inform. Follow our fictional characters on a journey of discovery. Along the way you will be given tools to create a life full of health and happiness.
Download or read book An Invitation to the Opera Revised Edition written by John Louis DiGaetani and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-11-16 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its revised third edition, this volume argues that an appreciation of opera is based on understanding of several key aspects: history, language, theatrical production, the power of the conductor, vocal tradition and standard repertory. This unique approach is intended for the newcomer curious about the art form. The author discusses how opera has changed in the last three decades and how it is now more easily enjoyed than ever before. Originally published in 1986, this book has been translated into four languages and has been used as an "Introduction to Opera" text in college classrooms around the world.
Download or read book Restoration of Blood written by Mark Smith and published by Mark Smith. This book was released on with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martin and Sophia live their idyllic lives isolated from the rest of humanity. Roaming the jungles of South America with their small group of children, snacking on the random logger or drug cartel member, theirs is a simple life. Simple until a fearful cry pierces Martin's mind. The Trieste family is in danger, and from an unexpected origin. A haemorrhagic virus is wiping out vast numbers of vampires with the blame squarely focused on Martin’s family. Stoking the flames of war is none other than Martin’s own son, aligning with the oldest vampire race to destroy House Trieste for perceived injustices. Can Martin save his family, and the rest of the vampire population?
Download or read book Marc Bolan The Rise And Fall Of A 20th Century Superstar written by Mark Paytress and published by Omnibus Press. This book was released on 2009-11-05 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marc Bolan was the very first superstar of the 1970s. As the seductive focus of T. Rex he revelled in fame and fortune, released a string of classic records before tragically losing his way. The fatal car accident in 1977 cut short his planned comeback as a punk rocker, but also served to fix Bolan as the definitive icon of the Glam years. Bolan's music and chameleonic style were to influence a generation of future bands. In his various guises he could be a beatnik, a mod, a punk, a hippie and a Glam hero. This biography of a pop obsessive draws from interviews with many friends and colleagues including broadcaster John Peel, brother Harry and band members Mickey Finn and Bill Legend.
Download or read book Wild Music written by Maria Sonevytsky and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recipient of the 2020 Lewis Lockwood Award from the American Musicological Society What are the uses of musical exoticism? In Wild Music, Maria Sonevytsky tracks vernacular Ukrainian discourses of "wildness" as they manifested in popular music during a volatile decade of Ukrainian political history bracketed by two revolutions. From the Eurovision Song Contest to reality TV, from Indigenous radio to the revolution stage, Sonevytsky assesses how these practices exhibit and re-imagine Ukrainian tradition and culture. As the rise of global populism forces us to confront the category of state sovereignty anew, Sonevytsky proposes innovative paradigms for thinking through the creative practices that constitute sovereignty, citizenship, and nationalism.
Download or read book Making Radio written by Shawn VanCour and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The opening decades of the twentieth century witnessed a profound transformation in the history of modern sound media, with workers in U.S. film, radio, and record industries developing pioneering production methods and performance styles tailored to emerging technologies of electric sound reproduction that would redefine dominant forms and experiences of popular audio entertainment. Focusing on broadcasting's initial expansion during the 1920s, Making Radio explores the forms of creative labor pursued for the medium in the period prior to the better-known network era, assessing their role in shaping radio's identity and identifying affinities with parallel practices pursued for conversion-era film and phonography. Tracing programming forms adopted by early radio writers and programmers, production techniques developed by studio engineers, and performance styles cultivated by on-air talent, it shows how radio workers negotiated a series of broader industrial and cultural pressures to establish best practices for their medium that reshaped popular forms of music, drama, and public oratory and laid the foundation for a new era of electric sound entertainment.
Download or read book Beyond Dolby Stereo written by Mark Kerins and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2010-11-23 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since digital surround sound technology first appeared in cinemas 20 years ago, it has spread from theaters to homes and from movies to television, music, and video games. Yet even as 5.1 has become the standard for audiovisual media, its impact has gone unexamined. Drawing on works from the past two decades, as well as dozens of interviews with sound designers, mixers, and editors, Mark Kerins uncovers how 5.1 surround has affected not just sound design, but cinematography and editing as well. Beyond Dolby (Stereo) includes detailed analyses of Fight Club, The Matrix, Hairspray, Disturbia, The Rock, Saving Private Ryan, and Joy Ride, among other films, to illustrate the value of a truly audiovisual approach to cinema studies.
Download or read book The Complete Opera Book written by Gustav Kobbé and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-07-24 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Complete Opera Book by Gustav Kobbé
Download or read book Top 15 Ghost Ships written by Jade Summers and published by Jade Summers. This book was released on 2024-06-13 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dive into the chilling world of ghost ships and maritime mysteries with "Phantom Vessels: Legends of the Deep." 🌊⚓ From the spectral glow of the Flying Dutchman to the eerie silence of the Mary Celeste, this book takes you on a journey through the world's most haunting nautical legends. Discover the untold stories of cursed crews, mysterious vanishings, and supernatural encounters that have captivated sailors and landlubbers alike for centuries. Highlights: 🛳️ Unravel the mystery of the ghost ship, Octavius, frozen in Arctic ice. 🌫️ Explore the spine-tingling encounters with the Phantom Mariner. 🚢 Learn about the tragic love story aboard the Lady Lovibond. 🧭 Discover the unexplained disappearance of the Kaz II crew. 👻 Experience the chilling legends of the Ourang Medan and more! Prepare to be enthralled by tales that blur the line between history and the supernatural. Perfect for fans of maritime history, ghost stories, and anyone fascinated by the mysteries of the sea.
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Download or read book Mother of Rock written by Robert Milliken and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She was the unchallenged queen of the New York rock scene...Dorothy Parker of Max's Kansas City' - Rolling Stone From the pubs of the Sydney Push to New York's legendary nightclubs, Lillian Roxon set the pace for an era that changed the world. Born in Mussolini's Italy, she arrived as a child in Brisbane at the height of the Second World War. Audacious, independent and fiercely intelligent, by eighteen she was cutting her writing teeth in the colourful world of Sydney tabloid journalism and was a key member of the Sydney Push. She moved to New York in 1960, just in time for a cultural revolution that celebrated youth, sexual freedom, women's liberation - and rock and roll. Embracing the new scene with gusto, she became the centre of a circle that included Andy Warhol, Lou Reed, Jim Morrison and David Bowie. Linda Eastman confided in her about her first date with Paul, and Germaine Greer dedicated The Female Eunuch to her. Her Rock Encycylopedia, published in 1969, was the first book of its kind and established Roxon as a leading critic and chronicler of rock culture. When she died suddenly in 1973, she left behind a body of work full of the energy, irreverence and idealism of her times. Drawing on Roxon's personal papers and extensive interviews with those who knew her, Mother of Rock is a riveting portrait of an Australian trailblazer. It also contains a generous selection of Roxon's own writing, including material from her Rock Encyclopedia, which revolutionised the way rock music was perceived.
