Download or read book Satirical Americana written by Francis Murray and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2004-11-23 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty naughty satires that break new ground and brighten your day with tongue-in-cheek observations you can't find anywhere else, not even on "Saturday Night Live" or "Mad TV: " *Politics and Politicians *Famous Writers *Child Beauty Pageants *Modern Art *TV Commercials *Canadian Shopping *TV Reality Shows *Liberals and Left-Wingers *Public Television *Famous Talk-Show Hosts *Government Bureaucrats *Modern Music *Miss America Pageant *Home Shopping Network *Pornography *Religion *Movie and TV Stars *Travel Articles *Sports *And Much, Much More...

Download or read book Satirical Americana written by Francis Murray and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2004-11-23 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty naughty satires that break new ground and brighten your day with tongue-in-cheek observations you can't find anywhere else, not even on "Saturday Night Live" or "Mad TV: " *Politics and Politicians *Famous Writers *Child Beauty Pageants *Modern Art *TV Commercials *Canadian Shopping *TV Reality Shows *Liberals and Left-Wingers *Public Television *Famous Talk-Show Hosts *Government Bureaucrats *Modern Music *Miss America Pageant *Home Shopping Network *Pornography *Religion *Movie and TV Stars *Travel Articles *Sports *And Much, Much More...

Download or read book So Who Will Inherit the Lobster written by Francis Murray and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2006 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book George Gershwin written by Howard Pollack and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 937 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive biography of George Gershwin (1898-1937), describing his family, childhood, and education; his early career as a pianist; his friendships and romantic life; his relation to various musical trends; his writings on music; his working methods; and his tragic death at the age of 38.

Download or read book The Great American Symphony written by Nicholas Tawa and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-26 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The years of the Great Depression, World War II, and their aftermath brought a sea change in American music. This period of economic, social, and political adversity can truly be considered a musical golden age. In the realm of classical music, Aaron Copland, Samuel Barber, Howard Hanson, Virgil Thompson, and Leonard Bernstein -- among others -- produced symphonic works of great power and lasting beauty during these troubled years. It was during this critical decade and a half that contemporary writers on American culture began to speculate about "the Great American Symphony" and looked to these composers for music that would embody the spirit of the nation. In this volume, Nicholas Tawa concludes that they succeeded, at the very least, in producing music that belongs in the cultural memory of every American. Tawa introduces the symphonists and their major works from the romanticism of Barber and the "all-American" Roy Harris through the theatrics of Bernstein and Marc Blitzstein to the broad-shouldered appeal of Thompson and Copland. Tawa's musical descriptions are vivid and personal, and invite music lovers and trained musicians alike to turn again to the marvelous and lasting music of this time.

Download or read book Nabokov in America written by Robert Roper and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-12-13 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born to an eminent Russian family, Vladimir Nabokov came to America fleeing the Nazis and remembered his time here as the richest of his life. Indeed, his best work flowed from his response to this storied land. With charm and insight, Robert Roper fills out this period in the writer's life: his friendship with Edmund Wilson, his time at Cornell, his role at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology. But Nabokov in America finds its narrative heart in his and his family's serial sojourns into the West. Roper has mined fresh sources to bring detail to these journeys, and traces their significant influence in Nabokov's work: on two-lane highways and in late-'40s motels and cafés, we feel Lolita draw near, and understand Nabokov's seductive familiarity with the American mundane. Nabokov in America is also a love letter to U.S. literature, in Nabokov's broad embrace of it from Melville to the Beats. Reading Roper, we feel anew the rich learning and the Romantic mind behind some of Nabokov's most beloved books.

Download or read book Stars of the American Musical Theater in Historic Photographs written by Stanley Appelbaum and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 361 portraits, from 1860s to 1950 of over 400 stars. Informative captions. An illustrious collection, long overdue.

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Download or read book Pax Americana written by Kurt Baumeister and published by . This book was released on 2017-03-15 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2034: Evangelical secret agents, fast food moguls, the voice of God in computer software, violence in the Bermuda Triangle! George W. Bush's foreign policy vindicated by a quick victory in Iraq, lucrative invasions of Egypt and Syria followed, bringing unparalleled prosperity to America and setting off thirty years of right-wing rule. But when a war in Iran goes bad--and the resulting cover-up goes worse--the democrats reclaim the presidency. This is the time of Pax Americana and its zealous anti-hero, government agent Tuck Squires. Reading the ironic silences between the lines of the thriller, and roaring like a jet engine, Pax Americana is a sacrilegious, conspiratorial monster; like a literary dogfight between Martin Amis and Robert Anton Wilson, loaded with prophecy, Baumeister's debut is an exorcism and an antidote for our era. 'Like an episode of Archer written by Kurt Vonnegut, Baumeister takes us into a hilarious and high-velocity world of espionage and global politics in this send-up of god, country, and the possibility of doing good in a world gone bad. It's fast-paced fun, watch out for paper cuts as the pages fly by.' -Shya Scanlon 'If there is to be an American peace, it's certainly not going to come on the pages of this lit match of a novel. Kurt Baumeister has fashioned exactly the old school pre- and post-Bond techno x-travaganza everyone bored with explorations of the louvre has been waiting for. Pax Americana is both dark satire and deeply satisfying, an adrenaline rush that runs through suspect politics, spirituality software, and the sacredly profane. It's a blast. Buy it now.' -Sean Beaudoin

Download or read book An Autobiography written by George Grosz and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1998-04-17 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This acclaimed autobiography by one of the twentieth century's greatest satirical artists is as much a graphic portrait of Germany in chaos after the Treaty of Versailles as it is a memoir of a remarkable artist's development. Grosz's account of a world gone mad is as acute and provocative as the art that depicts it, and this translation of a work long out of print restores the spontaneity, humor, and energy of the author's German text. It also includes a chapter on Grosz's experience in the Soviet Union—omitted from the original English-language edition—as well as more writings about his twenty-year self-imposed exile in America, and a fable written in English.

Download or read book Hirschfeld written by and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 1999 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caricatures, photographs, and other works from throughout the artist's career are accompanied by his own comments and essays by family members and associates

Download or read book Studies in American Humor written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The George Gershwin Reader written by Robert Wyatt and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of articles, biographical reminiscences, reviews, musical analyses, and letters relating to the life and music of George Gershwin.

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Download or read book A Critical Dictionary of Composers and Their Music written by Percy Marshall Young and published by London : D. Dobson. This book was released on 1954 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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