Download or read book Flowers in the Dustbin written by Jim Miller and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richly anecdotal and always provocative, this sharp, insightful, opinionated book explores the rise--and arrested development--of rock and roll over the last half century.
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 The ripped flower written by Gladys Rovini and published by Youcanprint. This book was released on 2016-02-01 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sex is a beautiful thing, romantic, fulfilling ... it's a flower. But when it comes immediately with violence it becomes ugly, vulgar, devastating ... It becomes a torn flower. In this novel, the lives of four "normal" people revolve around a single, heavy reality ... Lavinia, struggling with the first crush, the grades are not always brilliant at school, love for music and for "his" Vasco ... Camilla, mysterious, charming, intriguing girl who gave a cut net to his past ... Federica, a pediatrician in love with her profession, but who, almost mockingly, can not become a mother ...
Download or read book Book Reports written by Robert Christgau and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-04 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this generous collection of book reviews and literary essays, legendary Village Voice rock critic Robert Christgau showcases the passion that made him a critic—his love for the written word. Many selections address music, from blackface minstrelsy to punk and hip-hop, artists from Lead Belly to Patti Smith, and fellow critics from Ellen Willis and Lester Bangs to Nelson George and Jessica Hopper. But Book Reports also teases out the popular in the Bible and 1984 as well as pornography and science fiction, and analyzes at length the cultural theory of Raymond Williams, the detective novels of Walter Mosley, the history of bohemia, and the 2008 financial crisis. It establishes Christgau as not just the Dean of American Rock Critics, but one of America's most insightful cultural critics as well.
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 The Sketch written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book From My Soul written by Anjandev Roy and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anjandev Roy is an Indian poet. His poems deal with the realities of human emotions and behaviours. His style is simple and striking. The poet aspires for freedom. This is one of the notable features of his poems. His portrayal of nature is lively and vivid.
Download or read book Hamlet and the Baker s Son written by Augusto Boal and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hamlet and the Baker's Son is the autobiography of Augusto Boal, inventor of the internationally renowned Forum Theatre system, and 'Theatre of the Oppressed' and author of Games for Actors and Non-Actors and Legislative Theatre. Continuing to travel the world giving workshops and inspiration to teachers, prisoners, actors and care-workers, Augusto Boal is a visionary as well as a product of his times - the Brazil of military dictatorship and artistic and social repression and was once imprisoned for his subversive activities. From his early days in Brazil's political theatre movement to his recent experiments with theatre as a democratic political process, Boal's story is a moving and memorable one. He has devised a unique way of using the stage to empower the disempowered, and taken his methods everywhere from the favelas of Rio to the rehearsal studios of the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Download or read book Psychotic States in Children written by Alex Dubinsky and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-06-27 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since it was founded in 1920, the Tavistock Clinic has developed a wide range of psychotherapeutic approaches to community mental-health which have always been strongly influenced by psychoanalysis. In the last thirty years it has also developed systemic family therapy as a new theoretical model and clinical approach to family problems. The Clinic has become the largest training im3titUtion in Britain for work of this kind, providing post-graduate and qualifying courses in social work, psychology, psychiaay, child, adolescent and adult psychotherapy and, latterly, in nursing. It trains about 1200 student each year in over 45 courses.
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Download or read book Anandmath written by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2020-01-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 1927 romantic novel by Warwick Deeping, 'Doomsday' revolves around a girl with aspirations to leave her small town as well as her relationship with a man living on a local acreage, known as the Doomsday Farm.
Download or read book Hollywood s Last Golden Age written by Jonathan Kirshner and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-15 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1967 and 1976 a number of extraordinary factors converged to produce an uncommonly adventurous era in the history of American film. The end of censorship, the decline of the studio system, economic changes in the industry, and demographic shifts among audiences, filmmakers, and critics created an unprecedented opportunity for a new type of Hollywood movie, one that Jonathan Kirshner identifies as the "seventies film." In Hollywood's Last Golden Age, Kirshner shows the ways in which key films from this period—including Chinatown, Five Easy Pieces, The Graduate, and Nashville, as well as underappreciated films such as The Friends of Eddie Coyle, Klute, and Night Moves—were important works of art in continuous dialogue with the political, social, personal, and philosophical issues of their times. These "seventies films" reflected the era's social and political upheavals: the civil rights movement, the domestic consequences of the Vietnam war, the sexual revolution, women's liberation, the end of the long postwar economic boom, the Shakespearean saga of the Nixon Administration and Watergate. Hollywood films, in this brief, exceptional moment, embraced a new aesthetic and a new approach to storytelling, creating self-consciously gritty, character-driven explorations of moral and narrative ambiguity. Although the rise of the blockbuster in the second half of the 1970s largely ended Hollywood’s embrace of more challenging films, Kirshner argues that seventies filmmakers showed that it was possible to combine commercial entertainment with serious explorations of politics, society, and characters’ interior lives.
Download or read book Doomsday written by Warwick Deeping and published by Namaskar Books. This book was released on 2024-10-17 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prepare yourself for an unforgettable journey into the depths of human emotion with Warwick Deeping's powerful novel, "Doomsday." This gripping narrative explores the complexities of love, sacrifice, and the consequences of our choices in a world on the brink of collapse. As the story unfolds, you’ll be drawn into the lives of characters faced with insurmountable challenges. Their struggles and triumphs will resonate with you, making you reflect on the true nature of humanity when faced with adversity. But here’s a question to consider: What lengths would you go to protect the ones you love when everything is at stake? Deeping’s exploration of this theme will keep you on the edge of your seat, eager to discover how each character confronts their impending doom. Immerse yourself in a richly crafted narrative that combines vivid storytelling with profound insights into the human spirit. Deeping's writing will captivate you, inviting you to ponder the moral dilemmas that define our existence. Are you ready to confront the shadows of despair and the light of hope within the pages of "Doomsday"? This book is not just a story; it's a poignant reflection on the fragility of life and the enduring power of love. With every turn of the page, you'll find yourself increasingly invested in the fate of its characters. Seize this opportunity to delve into a tale that challenges the very essence of humanity. Will you dare to uncover the truth behind the looming doomsday? Get your copy of "Doomsday" today, and embark on a journey that will linger in your heart and mind long after the last page is turned!
