Download or read book Something to Stand the Rain written by T.J. King and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Something to Stand the Rain is a biographical memoir that celebrates the often unrecognized worth of individuals beneath the radar of fame. At a time in our nation when faith in its leadership is at a low ebb, the components of a good man are laid out for review before being illustrated in the life of a man named David Dionisi, someone who rose to wealth as corporate executive before surrendering it to lift up those less fortunate than himself. Youthful longing to be a paratrooper carries him beyond a pancake landing without benefit of parachute from which, miraculously, he walks away. Military service as an intelligence officer ends when conflicting with love for the woman he marries. Though he rises rocket-like in the corporate world, his affluence leaves him dissatisfied. Moved to overwhelming compassion by the suffering of the poor and needy, he decides to devote his savings and his talents to their aid. Among the benefactions born of the foundation he launches are an orphanage in Africaand a writing career. This emerges from realization that one of the most effective ways to lift the impoverished from their plight rests in the exposure of its unrecognized root causes.

Download or read book Adele Set Fire To The Rain SATB written by Adele Adkins and published by Novello & Co Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-08-23 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set Fire To The Rain has a fantastic Piano accompaniment, strong, thick harmonies and bold unison parts. A setting of the song from Adele’s second studio album 21 is here arranged for SATB Choir and Piano arranged by Christopher Hussey. This is the perfect song for an overwhelming concert finale or to create a striking centre-piece for a dramatic choral programme.

Download or read book Phucked Up Philosophy written by Neimyiah Cornelis Jones and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2022-07-05 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don’t open this book unless you’re ready for a potent uncut reality from the perspective of an unbiased source, the victim. This book is designed to answer the questions or give insight into the ways some of us had to think from the inside from a survival standpoint and for those on the outside that have the questions of where this type of thinking came from so they can understand what the problem really is while providing therapy for both sides as well as a potential solution for all. This is a platform for understanding the forced reality—that’s the fact that it takes a village to tend to this properly. So I’m taking this fight head-on.

Download or read book The Little Black Book of 70s Hits written by Wise Publications and published by Wise Publications. This book was released on 2009-04-06 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition of The Little Black Songbook presents the complete lyrics and chords to a huge collection of the biggest Seventies hits! This handy chord songbook is perfect for any aspiring guitarist, ideal for group singalongs, a spot of busking or simply to explore the music of the era in all its beauty. This little book includes: - All The Young Dudes [Mott The Hoople] - American Girl [Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers] - Another Girl, Another Planet [The Only Ones] - Baker Street [Gerry Rafferty] - Band Of Gold [Freda Payne] - Don’t Stop [Fleetwood Mac] - In The Summertime [Mungo Jerry] - Jamming [Bob Marley & The Wailers] - Jet [Wings] - Layla [Derek & The Dominos] - Lean On Me [Bill Withers] - Let’s Stay Together [Al Green] - Lola [The Kinks] - My Sharona [The Knack] - New Rose [The Damned] - No More Heroes [The Stranglers] - Pretty Vacant [The Sex Pistols] - Roxanne [The Police] - Saturday Night’s Alright For Fighting [Elton John] - Teenage Kicks [The Undertones] - Tumbling Dice [The Rolling Stones] And many more!

Download or read book The Meaning of Soul written by Emily J. Lordi and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-24 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Meaning of Soul, Emily J. Lordi proposes a new understanding of this famously elusive concept. In the 1960s, Lordi argues, soul came to signify a cultural belief in black resilience, which was enacted through musical practices—inventive cover versions, falsetto vocals, ad-libs, and false endings. Through these soul techniques, artists such as Aretha Franklin, Donny Hathaway, Nina Simone, Marvin Gaye, Isaac Hayes, and Minnie Riperton performed virtuosic survivorship and thus helped to galvanize black communities in an era of peril and promise. Their soul legacies were later reanimated by such stars as Prince, Solange Knowles, and Flying Lotus. Breaking with prior understandings of soul as a vague masculinist political formation tethered to the Black Power movement, Lordi offers a vision of soul that foregrounds the intricacies of musical craft, the complex personal and social meanings of the music, the dynamic movement of soul across time, and the leading role played by black women in this musical-intellectual tradition.

Download or read book Satin Butterfly written by Sol and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2011-11 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Not in My Family written by Gil L. Robertson and published by Agate Publishing. This book was released on 2009-03-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this landmark collection of personal essays, stories, brief memoirs, and polemics, a broad swath of black Americans unite to bear witness to the devastation AIDS has wrought on their community. Not in My Family marks a new willingness on the part of black Americans—whether prominent figures from the worlds of politics, entertainment, or sports, or just ordinary folks with extraordinary stories — to face the scourge that has affected them disproportionately for years. Editor Gil Robertson has enlisted a remarkable group of contributors, including performers like Patti LaBelle, Mo’Nique, and Hill Harper; bestselling authors like Randall Robinson and Omar Tyree; political leaders like Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. and former U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Joycelyn Elders; religious leaders like Rev. Calvin Butts, and many, many more.

Download or read book The Fascist Groove Thing written by Hugh Hodges and published by PM Press. This book was released on 2023-02-21 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the late 1970s and ’80s as explained through the urgent and still-relevant songs of the Clash, the Specials, the Au Pairs, the Style Council, the Pet Shop Boys, and nearly four hundred other bands and solo artists. Each chapter presents a mixtape (or playlist) of songs related to an alarming feature of Thatcher’s Britain, followed by an analysis of the dialogue these artists created with the Thatcherite vision of British society. “Tell us the truth,” Sham 69 demanded, and pop music, however improbably, did. It’s a furious and sardonic account of dark times when pop music raised a dissenting fist against Thatcher’s fascist groove thing and made a glorious, boredom-smashing noise. Bookended with contributions by Dick Lucas and Boff Whalley as well as an annotated discography, The Fascist Groove Thing presents an original and polemical account of the era.

Download or read book Play It On My Radio written by Giselle Renarde and published by Giselle Renarde. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join award-winning queer Canadian author Giselle Renarde for a year's worth of music and memories. As we listen to songs from a variety of genres, Giselle shares anecdotes about growing up in the 80s, being a teen of the 90s, and listening to the radio on those long and lonely nights in her first apartment. Accompany Giselle on a musical journey as she revisits the days of her youth through song. From the introduction to Play It On My Radio: My name is Giselle and I'm your new best friend. Well, maybe not "best friend." A best friend usually listens in addition to talking, but that's not me. What I will do is be here every day to share whichever song pops into my head. Why? What's the point? Well, here's the thing: I'm a writer. It's a pretty lonely job. Over the years, I've become increasingly socially isolated and you know what? It sucks. It sucks bad. The truth of the matter is that a lot of us are socially isolated, these days. And not just older people—younger ones, too. There are "friendly visitor" programs for seniors, but those of us under 65 are kind of lost at sea. I speak from experience. If you need a no-pressure visit every day, let me be your friendly visitor. I'll bring a song—whichever song pops into my head, gets stuck in my head, or seems relevant to something that day. As a person with chronic depression, music has helped me more than anything. It's magic, I swear. I hope my little musical visits will give you something to look forward to every day, because they'll certainly do that for me.

Download or read book Growing Up King written by Dexter Scott King and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2003-01-07 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the bestselling tradition of such family portraits as Brooke Hayward's Haywire and Christopher Dickey's Summer of Deliverance comes a disarmingly candid memoir from the youngest son of Martin Luther King, Jr. Dexter King was only seven when an assassin's bullet took his father's life, shattering the boy's childhood. And as he stumbled into adolescence, both the tragedy and the weight of living up to "the King legacy" would exact an additional toll. Challenged with undiagnosed A.D.D. and rocked once again by his grandmother's murder, King became emotionally isolated and, in his early 30s, sought answers from an inspiring source: the teachings of Martin Luther King, Jr. Now, in this intimate portrait, Dexter King reveals for the first time what it was like growing up in the shadow of greatness, and how his father's lessons continue to inspire and inform his own ideas on race in America today.

Download or read book Still the Greatest written by Andrew Grant Jackson and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2012-07-20 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As recommended by USA Today and excerpted on Rolling Stone.com! More than forty years after breaking up, The Beatles remain the biggest-selling and most influential group in the history of popular music. Fans endlessly replay their songs, craving more, while thousands of cover versions of their songs have been recorded and performed. Band biographies, pop music histories, song books, and academic titles on the Fab Four clutter shelves. But never has there been a definitive guide to the finest songs of The Beatles after they called it quits. Still the Greatest is a love song to the songwriting and recording achievements of Paul, John, George, and Ringo after each struck out on his own. In this creative history, Jackson selects the best songs in each solo career and organizes them into fantasy albums they might have formed had the legendary group stayed together. This romp through the post–Beatles history of each artist delves into the circumstances behind the composition, recording, and reception of each work, offering a refreshing take on how spectacular much of The Beatles’ second act truly is. Jackson assesses the more than seventy albums and nine hundred songs the four collectively released, selecting the crème de la crème of their output. Still the Greatest brims with facts (release dates, writing and performing credits, and information about production techniques) and insightful analyses of the music and lyrics. In telling the stories behind the songs, Jackson recounts the remarkable influence the Post Fab Four continued to have long after the big split. Both a handy reference and an engrossing cover-to-cover read, Still the Greatest is an invaluable companion for those who thought it all ended with the 1970 album Let It Be.

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Download or read book Rap Lyrics written by Alex Ogg and published by Exclusive Distributors Music Sales. This book was released on 2002 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Sugarhill Gang to Eminem, from block party MCs to West Coast gangsta rap, this book charts the hip hop's journey from the streets of the Bronx to becoming 21st century America's dominant musical force.

Download or read book Heather s Piglets written by Harry Oulton and published by Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two young pigs wave farewell to their mum and set off on an epic journey to find their father. . . It's been two years since Heather got the farm in Scotland back for Isla and her dad, and she is struggling. As her piglets grow up, Heather is having to adjust not only to being a single mum, but also to having to deal with their adolescence. Over the years Heather has had many litters, but, not to put too fine a point on it, hitherto none of them made it past the suckling stage. But now Heather is no longer a working animal and is raising the two piglets she had with Aitor the stripey Bearded pig from London zoo. She's having to cope with the inevitable problems which come with being the mother of two cheeky, opinionated, adolescent piglets - Eder and her brother Tor. When a near disaster leaves Heather at death's door, her friend Rhona takes matters into her own hands. She decides the piglets need some discipline, and if Heather is too ill to provide it, she must find someone who can. She sends the piglets off to find Aitor, their father, last seen in a disused coalmine outside Gateshead some two years ago. . .

Download or read book Sabotage Silhouettes written by Rashida Basaria and published by Molding Messengers, LLC. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sabotage and Silhouettes has a deeper meaning that just two words thrown together to form a creative alliteration. Each word holds a significant meaning in the title of this book. Sabotage is the deliberate damage, destruction, or obstruction of something. In this instance, it relates to my life, and possibly even parts of yours. The traumas that we go through, lead us to specific actions and emotions. When we feed into those emotions, we start to create chaos, sometimes intentionally and sometimes, unintentionally. Either way, we begin to self-sabotage. Whether we sabotage potential or existing relationships, important friendships, or even our own growth. We start to get in our own way. Many times, after the many losses I’ve gone through, I found myself sabotaging the very things that were sent to heal me. Silhouettes are dark shapes or outlines of someone or something against a lighter background. Our dark parts. Especially in times of anguish or hardship. Through traumas, everything goes dark. The silhouettes represent the dark parts of our lives, our mentality, our soul. Even with light all around, a silhouette will remain dark, and the details are impossible to make out. This is exactly how I felt through all my dark times. I wasn’t myself for months, maybe even a year or so, but the silhouettes hid the details in the dark while the light was still shining all around me. It made it hard for people to ‘see’ me. And even harder for me to ‘show’ myself to those around me. I shut down. And everything became dark.

Download or read book The Little Black Songbook Soul written by Wise Publications and published by Wise Publications. This book was released on 2017-08-16 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Little Black Songbook returns with the ultimate collection of soul hits from the all-time masters. Presented in chord songbook format, this collection features Guitar chords, diagrams and complete lyrics. Ideal for strumming and singing, this collection places some of the most popular and well-respected soul artists at your disposal, including Marvin Gaye, Otis Redding, Aretha Franklin, Al Green, Etta James, Fontella Bass, Stevie Wonder, Nina Simone and many more! Perfect for any aspiring guitarist, these tunes are ideal for a group singalongs, a spot of busking or, using the Spotify playlist included within the book, simply to explore the rich history of the world's best soul music. Included within this little book are: - Ain't No Sunshine [Bill Withers] - Band Of Gold [Freda Payne] - Clean Up Woman [Betty Wright] - Cool Jerk [The Capitols] - Everybody Needs Somebody To Love [Solomon Burke] - Feeling Good [Nina Simone] - Green Onions [Booker T. & The M.G.'s] - Hard To Handle [Otis Redding] - Harlem Shuffle [Bob & Earl] - Hit The Road Jack [Ray Charles] - I Got You (I Feel Good) [James Brown] - I Say A Little Prayer [Aretha Franklin] - I'd Rather Go Blind [Etta James] - The "In" Crowd [Dobie Gray] - I've Been Loving You Too Long [Frederick Knight] - Knock On Wood [Eddie Floyd] - Lean On Me [Bill Withers] - Let's Stay Together [Al Green] - Midnight Train To Georgia [Gladys Knight & The Pips] - Mr. Big Stuff [Jean Knight] - Patches [Clarence Carter] - Rescue Me [Fontella Bass] - Respect [Aretha Franklin] - Rock The Boat [The Hues Corporation] - Rock Your Baby [George McCrae] - Shaft (Theme) [Isaac Hayes] - (Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay [Otis Redding] - The Snake [Al Wilson] - Soul Man [Sam & Dave] - Stay With Me Baby [The Walker Brothers] - (Take A Little) Piece Of My Heart [Erma Franklin] - Take Me To The River [Al Green] - Under The Boardwalk [The Drifters] - Walk Away, Renee [The Four Tops] - Walking The Dog [Rufus Thomas] ... And many more!

Download or read book Simply the Gest written by David Gest and published by Headline. This book was released on 2016-05-12 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part memoir, part his take on life, the universe and Hollywood, this is an all-round portrait of a true original. David Gest was the star of this year's I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! His tall tales, huge sense of fun and sheer likeability proved to be ratings gold and his stories and expressions have become national catchphrases. Not only did he win over the British public with his charm, flamboyance and amazing sense of humour, but he was revealed as someone who, despite the fact that he has had extraordinary experiences and moves in circles most of us can't even imagine, we can all relate to, someone who cares. This book that will broaden our perception of the person we all fell in love with on that show and will cover a wide range of topics from the humorous, to the celebrity, to the more serious and cultural: we are all longing to know his secret