Download or read book The Hypocrisy of Disco written by Clane Hayward and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2012-11-09 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This memoir of girlhood among California’s hippie communities is an “offbeat tale of preadolescence [written] with remarkable honesty and respect” (Publishers Weekly). Born in San Francisco just before the Summer of Love, Clane Hayward grew up on hippie communes throughout the west. Her poignantly funny, sometimes melancholy, and always riveting memoir recounts her extraordinary life up until her thirteenth birthday. School was a particularly happy event—it meant a hot lunch and clothes that matched! But Clane’s mother warned her that schools are just zoos run by the government. From a world of complex relationships, uncertain rules, and constant surprises, Clane forged a childhood. She did it sometimes with, sometimes without, her bong-puffing, Buddha-quoting, macrobiotic mother and her wild-haired, redneck father. Hypocrisy of Disco is an honest, direct, and truly unforgettable tale, and a tribute to the resilience of youth.
Download or read book In the Closet of the Vatican written by Frederic Martel and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-21 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times Bestseller - Revised and Expanded "[An] earth-shaking exposé of clerical corruption" - National Catholic Reporter The arrival of Frédéric Martel's In the Closet of the Vatican, published worldwide in eight languages, sent shockwaves through the religious and secular world. The book's revelations of clericalism, hypocrisy, cover-ups and widespread homosexuality in the highest echelons of the Vatican provoked questions that the most senior Vatican officials--and the Pope himself--were forced to act upon; it would go on to become a New York Times bestseller. Now, almost a year after the book's first publication, Frédéric Martel reflects in a new foreword on the effect the book has had and the events that have come to light since it was first released. In the Closet of the Vatican describes the double lives of priests--including the cardinals living with their young "assistants" in luxurious apartments whilst professing humility and chastity--the cover-up of numerous cases of sexual abuse; sinister scheming in the Vatican; political conspiracy overseas in Argentina and Chile, and the resignation of Benedict XVI. From his unique position as a respected journalist with uninhibited access to some of the Vatican's most influential people and private spaces, Martel presents a shattering account of a system rotten to its very core.
Download or read book The Genuine Works of R Leighton written by Robert Leighton and published by . This book was released on 1818 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The select works of Robert Leighton written by Robert Leighton (abp. of Glasgow.) and published by . This book was released on 1823 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Genuine Works of Robert Leighton D D Archbishop of Glasgow written by Robert Leighton and published by . This book was released on 1822 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Book of Illustrations Or Scripture Truths Exhibited by the Aid of Similes Original and Selected written by Henry George SALTER and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Last Days of Disco written by David F. Ross and published by Disco Days Trilogy. This book was released on 2015 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early in the decade that taste forgot, Fat Franny Duncan is on top of the world. He is the undoubted King of the Ayrshire Mobile Disco scene, controlling and ruling the competition with an iron fist. From birthdays to barn dances, Franny is the man to call. He even played 'My Boy Lollipop' at a funeral and got away with it. But the future is uncertain. A new partnership is coming and is threatening to destroy the big man's Empire ... Bobby Cassidy and Joey Miller have been best mates since Primary School. Joey is an idealist; Bobby just want to get laid and to avoid following his brother Gary to the Falklands. A partnership in their new mobile disco venture seems like the best way for Bobby to do both at the same time ... With compensation from an accident at work, Bobby's dad Harry invests in the fledgling business. His marriage to Ethel is coming apart at the seams and the disco has given him something to focus on. Tragic news from the other side of the world brings all three strands together in a way that no one could have predicted. The Last Days Of Disco is a eulogy to the beauty and power of the 45rpm vinyl record and the small but significant part it played in a small town Ayrshire community in 1982.
Download or read book The Book of Illustrations Or Scripture Truths Exhibited by the Aid of Similes written by Henry George Salter (A.M., Curate of Glastonbury.) and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Who Are You The Life Of Pete Townshend written by Mark Wilkerson and published by Omnibus Press. This book was released on 2009-10-28 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accurate, detailed and fascinating account of the life of a man whose story should have been told in this much detail long ago. Author Mark Wilkerson interviewed Townshend himself and several of Townshend's friends and associates for this biography.
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Download or read book Ain t I a Womanist Too written by Monica A. Coleman and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2013-04-24 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Third wave womanism is a new movement within religious studies with deep roots in the tradition of womanist religious thought—while also departing from it in key ways. After a helpful and orienting introduction, this volume gathers essays from established and emerging scholars whose work is among the most lively and innovative scholarship today. The result is a lively conversation in which 'to question is not to disavow; to depart is not necessarily to reject' and where questioning and departing are indications of the productive growth and expansion of an important academic and religious movement.
Download or read book The Disco Files 1973 78 written by Vince Aletti and published by Djhistory.com. This book was released on 2009 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The records, the charts, the clubs, the stories"--Cover.
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Competition written by Dr. Sherril Dodds and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the twenty-first century, values of competition underpin the free-market economy and aspirations of individual achievement shape the broader social world. Consequently, ideas of winning and losing, success and failure, judgment and worth, influence the dance that we see and do. Across stage, studio, street, and screen, economies of competition impact bodily aesthetics, choreographic strategies, and danced meanings. In formalized competitions, dancers are judged according to industry standards to accumulate social capital and financial gain. Within the capitalist economy, dancing bodies compete to win positions in prestigious companies, while choreographers hustle to secure funding and attract audiences. On the social dance floor, dancers participate in dance-offs that often include unspoken, but nevertheless complex, rules of bodily engagement. And the media attraction to the drama and spectacle of competition regularly plays out in reality television shows, film documentaries, and Hollywood cinema. Drawing upon a diverse collection of dances across history and geography, The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Competition asks how competition affects the presentation and experience of dance and, in response, how dancing bodies negotiate, critique, and resist the aesthetic and social structures of the competition paradigm.
Download or read book Postcolonial Plays written by Helen Gilbert and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of contemporary postcolonial plays demonstrates the extraordinary vitality of a body of work that is currently influencing the shape of contemporary world theatre. This anthology encompasses both internationally admired 'classics' and previously unpublished texts, all dealing with imperialism and its aftermath. It includes work from Canada, the Carribean, South and West Africa, Southeast Asia, India, New Zealand and Australia. A general introduction outlines major themes in postcolonial plays. Introductions to individual plays include information on authors as well as overviews of cultural contexts, major ideas and performance history. Dramaturgical techniques in the plays draw on Western theatre as well as local performance traditions and include agit-prop dialogue, musical routines, storytelling, ritual incantation, epic narration, dance, multimedia presentation and puppetry. The plays dramatize diverse issues, such as: *globalization * political corruption * race and class relations *slavery *gender and sexuality *media representation *nationalism
Download or read book Report of the trial and preliminary proceedings in the case of the queen on the prosecution of G Achilli v dr Newman with an intr by W F Finlason written by William Francis Finlason and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Humor 2 0 written by Salvatore Attardo and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2023-08-15 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book shows how humor has changed since the advent of the internet: new genres, new contexts, and new audiences. The book provides a guide to such phenomena as memes, video parodies, photobombing, and cringe humor. Included are also in-depth discussions of the humor in phenomena such as Dogecoin, the joke currency, and the use of humor by the alt-right. It also shows how the cognitive mechanisms of humor remain unchanged. Written by a well-known specialist in humor studies, the book is engaging and readable, but also based on extensive scholarship.
Download or read book One Sound Two Worlds written by Michael Rauhut and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For all of its apparent simplicity—a few chords, twelve bars, and a supposedly straightforward American character—blues music is a complex phenomenon with cultural significance that has varied greatly across different historical contexts. One Sound, Two Worlds examines the development of the blues in East and West Germany, demonstrating the multiple ways social and political conditions can shape the meaning of music. Based on new archival research and conversations with key figures, this comparative study provides a cultural, historical, and musicological account of the blues and the impact of the genre not only in the two Germanys, but also in debates about the history of globalization.
