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Book Synopsis Diva-Tudes by : Michelle McKinney Hammond
Download or read book Diva-Tudes written by Michelle McKinney Hammond and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a fresh perspective on divine wisdom paired with Hammond's contemporary style, this delightful devotional will help readers examine the foundation of making wise choices, instruct them on how to break unhealthy thought patterns, and equip them with habits that will enure an overcoming lifestyle.
Book Synopsis Unveiling the Diva Mystique by : Michelle McKinney Hammond
Download or read book Unveiling the Diva Mystique written by Michelle McKinney Hammond and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 2005 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following up her bestselling "The Diva Principle," Hammond serves up another rich treasure of intimate details on how to get and keep a victorious attitude, using divas from the Bible as examples.
Book Synopsis The Diva Principle by : Michelle McKinney Hammond
Download or read book The Diva Principle written by Michelle McKinney Hammond and published by Whitaker House. This book was released on 2024-05-14 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deep inside the heart of every woman is a diva just waiting to be released. It lies underneath all of the other things she has supposedly “learned” about herself—truth, fiction, deception, or just the superimposed bad feelings of others who’ve tried to smother the diva within. Although the word diva now evokes the image of a vain or undisciplined person, author Michelle McKinney Hammond takes diva back to its original meaning. It comes from the word prima donna or “first lady” and was used to describe the principal female singer in an opera or concert organization, who was the best of the best. The DIVA Principle: Divine Inspiration for Victorious Attitude shines a spotlight on fourteen women of the Bible who displayed diva-tude, including Deborah from the book of Judges, the Queen of Sheba, Wisdom, Ruth, Jacob's wives Rachel and Leah, Esther, Rahab, and more. In the process, Michelle encourages women to embrace their God-given qualities and assets with the understanding that they are fearfully and wonderfully made. With solid, practical advice, Michelle suggests ways for women to get their head, heart, life, and act together so that they will emerge happy and victorious as divas in the best sense of the word.
Download or read book Brass Diva written by Caryl Flinn and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2009-02-25 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive biography of the life and career of American star of stage and film musicals, Ethel Merman, that chronicles her childhood, family, early film appearances, and success in the entertainment industry.
Book Synopsis A Sassy Girl's Checklist for Living, Loving, & Overcoming by : Michelle McKinney Hammond
Download or read book A Sassy Girl's Checklist for Living, Loving, & Overcoming written by Michelle McKinney Hammond and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best-selling author of Sassy, Single, and Satisfied instructs every sassy girl--single or married--in the ways of dynamic living, offering biblical and personal insights, enthusiasm, and encouragement. Original.
Download or read book Kander and Ebb written by James Leve and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Composer John Kander and lyricist Fred Ebb collaborated for more than forty years, longer than any such partnership in Broadway history. Together they wrote over twenty musicals. Their two most successful works, Cabaret and Chicago, had critically acclaimed Broadway revivals and were made into Oscar-winning films. This book, the first study of Kander and Ebb, examines their artistic accomplishments as individuals and as a team. Drawing on personal papers and on numerous interviews, James Leve analyzes the unique nature of this collaboration. Leve discusses their contribution to the concept musical; he examines some of their most popular works including Cabaret, Chicago, and Kiss of the Spider Woman; and he reassesses their flops as well as their incomplete and abandoned projects. Filled with fascinating information, the book is a resource for students of musical theater and lovers of Kander and Ebbs songs and shows.
Book Synopsis Secrets of an Irresistible Woman by : Michelle McKinney Hammond
Download or read book Secrets of an Irresistible Woman written by Michelle McKinney Hammond and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 2007-10-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Secrets of an Irresistible Woman is required reading for any woman who wants to know how to capture a man’s heart for keeps—and enjoy a full life in the meantime...." Today's Christian Woman Now with a brand-new cover, Secrets of an Irresistible Woman (more than 185,000 copies sold) can reach even more women with its time-tested strategies for living full, complete lives and becoming more captivating. Michelle McKinney Hammond calls on Scripture, her own experiences, and the wisdom of others to help every reader become the woman God created her to be—beautiful, gracious, loving, and desirable. Women will discover... what true love really looks like ways to enhance their natural beauty and strengthen weak areas what to look for and what to avoid when dating Includes an insightful study guide readers can use to better understand themselves and how they relate to God and others.
Book Synopsis Right Attitudes for Right Living by : Michelle McKinney Hammond
Download or read book Right Attitudes for Right Living written by Michelle McKinney Hammond and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestselling author Michelle McKinney Hammond takes readers on a soulful journey of Proverbs to glean "be-attitudes" that every woman needs to embrace in order to walk wisely and overcome life's difficult circumstances with grace. Complete with a fresh perspective on divine wisdom paired with Michelle's contemporary style, this encouraging devotional will help readers examine what it takes to make wise choices release past poor choices once and for all break unhealthy thought patterns and create new ones develop habits that will ensure an overcoming lifestyle trust God's view and love for their worth Daily meditations are full of anecdotal stories, heartfelt confessions, questions for thought, and insightful prayers. Readers will be encouraged in their journey of renewed faith and better attitudes. Rerelease of DIVA-tudes
Book Synopsis Queering the Pitch by : Philip Brett
Download or read book Queering the Pitch written by Philip Brett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the first edition of Queering the Pitch was published in early 1994, it was immediately hailed as a landmark and defining work in the new field of Gay Musicology. In light of the explosion of Gay Musicology since 1994, a new edition of Queering the Pitch is timely and needed. In this new work, the editors are including a landmark essay by Philip Brett on Gay Musicology, its history and scope. The essay itself has become a cause celebre, and this will be its first full appearance in print. Along with this new historical essay, the editors are contributing a new introduction that outlines the changes that have occurred over the last decade as Gay Musicology has grown.
Book Synopsis The Arts of the Prima Donna in the Long Nineteenth Century by : Rachel Cowgill
Download or read book The Arts of the Prima Donna in the Long Nineteenth Century written by Rachel Cowgill and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Female characters assumed increasing prominence in the narratives of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century opera. And for contemporary audiences, many of these characters--and the celebrated women who played them--still define opera at its finest and most searingly affective, even if storylines leave them swooning and faded by the end of the drama. The presence and representation of women in opera has been addressed in a range of recent studies that offer valuable insights into the operatic stage as cultural space, focusing a critical lens at the text and the position and signification of female characters. Moving that lens onto the historical, The Arts of the Prima Donna in the Long Nineteenth Century sheds light on the singers who created and inhabited these roles, the flesh-and-blood women who embodied these fabled "doomed women" onstage before an audience. Editors Rachel Cowgill and Hilary Poriss lead a cast of renowned contributors in an impressive display of current approaches to the lives, careers, and performances of female opera singers. Essential theoretical perspectives reflect several broad themes woven through the volume-cultures of celebrity surrounding the female singer; the emergence of the quasi-mythical figure of the diva; explorations of the intricate and sundry arts associated with the prima donna, and with her representation in other media; and the diversity and complexity of contemporary responses to her. The prima donna influenced compositional practices, determined musical and dramatic interpretation, and affected management decisions about the running of the opera house, content of the season, and employment of other artists--a clear demonstration that her position as "first woman" extended well beyond the boards of the operatic stage itself. The Arts of the Prima Donna in the Long Nineteenth Century is an important addition to the collections of students and researchers in opera studies, nineteenth-century music, performance and gender/sexuality studies, and cultural studies, as well as to the shelves of opera singers and enthusiasts.
Download or read book The Soulful Divas written by David Nathan and published by New York : Billboard Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Personal portraits of over a dozen divine divas, from Nina Simone, Aretha Franklin, and Diana Ross to Patti LaBelle, Anita Baker, and Natalie Cole. 40 illustrations.
Book Synopsis Divining Divas by : Michael Montlack
Download or read book Divining Divas written by Michael Montlack and published by Lethe Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Editor Michael Montlack has assembled an anthology of a hundred gay poets--award winners and fresh voices--in thrall with female icons throughout the ages ranging from Gloria Swanson to Mary J, Blige, from Edith Piaf to Joni Mitchell, Bette Midler to Lady Gaga. These are not merely appreciations of the gorgeous and daring but poems that are confessional to bittersweet to witty.
Book Synopsis Moving Performances by : Jeanne Scheper
Download or read book Moving Performances written by Jeanne Scheper and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2016-12-13 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fabulous yet fierce, imperious yet impetuous, boss yet bitchy—divas are figures of paradox. Their place in culture is equally contradictory, as they are simultaneously venerated and marginalized, hailed as timeless but then frequently forgotten or exhumed as cult icons by future generations. Focusing on four early twentieth-century divas—Aida Overton Walker, Loïe Fuller, Libby Holman, and Josephine Baker—who were icons in their own time, Moving Performances considers what their past and current reception reveals about changing ideas of race and gender. Jeanne Scheper examines how iconicity can actually work to the diva’s detriment, reducing her to a fetish object, a grotesque, or a figure of nostalgia. Yet she also locates more productive modes of reception that reach to revive the diva’s moving performances, imbuing her with an affective afterlife. As it offers innovative theorizations of performance, reception, and affect, Moving Performances also introduces readers to four remarkable women who worked as both cultural producers and critics, deftly subverting the tropes of exoticism, orientalism, and primitivism commonly used to dismiss women of color. Rejecting iconic depictions of these divas as frozen in a past moment, Scheper vividly demonstrates how their performances continue to inspire ongoing movements.
Book Synopsis Dance Divas: Step It Up by : Sheryl Berk
Download or read book Dance Divas: Step It Up written by Sheryl Berk and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When drama and bickering get the best of the divas, a fed up Miss Toni organizes a camping retreat to help the girls learn valuable lessons in teamwork. By the best-selling author of the Cupcake Club series. Simultaneous.
Download or read book The Looks Book written by Rebecca Odes and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 2002 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gURLS behind the national bestseller, Deal With It!, are back - with a frank and fabulous look at teenage beauty, image, and style. As exciting to look at as it is to read, The Looks Bookis guaranteed to be a must-have book for teens and young women. A fascinating exploration of the history, culture, science, and business of beauty, this is the first book to empower women to simply have fun with their looks. Throughout the book, real-life examples of a stunning range of beauty archetypes help young women to re-define their concepts of beauty, while emphasizing self-expression, self-invention, and a healthy irreverence toward traditional ideals.
Book Synopsis Fabulous! Divas, Part 1 by : Alexander Doty
Download or read book Fabulous! Divas, Part 1 written by Alexander Doty and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Josephine Baker to Judy Garland to Elton John, the figure of the diva occupies a fascinating place in American culture. This special issue of Camera Obscura explores the impact of divas (and divos) in film and popular culture and considers their fraught psychic and social positioning. Contributors examine how divas are frequently portrayed as both victims and villains and how they can be figures of worship as well as of ridicule for their attempts to confront, transcend, or carve a new space within the patriarchal dominant culture. This collection looks at how divas cause "category trouble" by refusing to stay in their proper culturally assigned roles--gender, race, and class--in order to live life on their own terms, making them important figures for other groups at the margins of the dominant culture. The contributors to Fabulous! Divas I (the first in a two-part series) address how Baker's dual image as sexualized black woman and multicultural mother has been used to question and invert stereotypes, how the diva witches in the Broadway musical Wicked have developed a cult following among adolescent girls, and how fans mix irony and sincerity in their admiration of daytime soap divas. One contributor explores the cultural work of camp, while another considers hair as a fetish item for diva devotees. Among the diva appreciations are a look at the life of the cross-dressing black disco diva Sylvester, a reading of Garland as a lesbian diva par excellence, an examination of Courtney Love as a martyr diva, and a consideration of how loving Julie Andrews can make people queer. Contributors. Alexander Doty, Brett Farmer, Joshua Gamson, Chuck Jackson, Ramon Lobato, Edward R. O'Neill, Ann Pellegrini, Julie Levine Russo, Nick Salvato, Jeanne Scheper, Edward Baron Turk, Stacy Wolf
Download or read book Italo Balbo written by Claudio G. Segre and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pioneering aviator, blackshirt leader, colonial governor, confidante and heir-apparent to Benito Mussolini, the dashing and charismatic Italo Balbo exemplified the ideals of Fascist Italy during the 1920s and 30s. He earned national notoriety after World War I as a ruthless squadrista whose blackshirt forces crushed socialist and trade union organizations. As Minister of Aviation from 1926 to 1933, he led two internationally heralded mass trans-Atlantic flights. When his aerial armada reached the U. S., Chicago honored him with a Balbo Avenue, New York staged a ticker-tape parade, and President Roosevelt invited him to lunch. As colonial governor from 1933 to 1940, Balbo transformed Libya from backward colony to model Italian province. To many, Italo Balbo seemed to embody a noble vision of Fascism and the New Italy.
