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Lit Riffs

Author : Jonathan Lethem
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416586458
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Lit Riffs written by Jonathan Lethem and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following in the footsteps of the late great Lester Bangs -- the most revered and irreverent of rock 'n' roll critics -- twenty-four celebrated writers have penned stories inspired by great songs. Just as Bangs cast new light on a Rod Stewart classic with his story "Maggie May," about a wholly unexpected connection between an impressionable young man and an aging, alcoholic hooker, the diverse, electrifying stories here use songs as a springboard for a form dubbed the lit riff. Alongside Bangs's classic work, you'll find stories by J.T. LeRoy, who puts a recovering teenage drug abuser in a dentist's chair with nothing but the Foo Fighters's "Everlong" -- blaring through the P.A. -- to fight the pain; Jonathan Lethem, whose narrator looks back on his lost innocence just as an extramarital affair careens to an end -- this to the tune "Speeding Motorcycle" as recorded by Yo La Tengo; and Jennifer Belle, who envisions a prequel to Paul Simon's "Graceland" -- one that takes place at a children's birthday party replete with a real live kangaroo. With original contributions from Tom Perrotta, Nelson George, Amanda Davis, Lisa Tucker, Aimee Bender, Darin Strauss, and many more -- riffing on everyone from Tom Waits and Bruce Springsteen to the White Stripes, Cat Power, and Bob Marley -- this is both an astounding collection of short stories and an extraordinary experiment in words and music. Soundtrack available from Saturation Acres Music & Recording Co.

Hermann Hesse's Global Impact

Author : Oscar Von Seth
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 164014160X
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Hermann Hesse's Global Impact written by Oscar Von Seth and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2024 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A timely collection of new essays arguing for the continuing relevance and impact of Hesse's works around the world. Hermann Hesse remains one of the great figures of world literature. He is the world's 35th most translated author, with more than 1,500 translations of his works currently listed on UNESCO's Index Translatorium. Our understanding of the reciprocal transcultural reception of literature has been radically transformed in the last two decades,starting with David Damrosch's What is World Literature? (2003). Meanwhile, some forty years have passed since Martin Pfeifer's anthology Hermann Hesses weltweite Wirkung (Hermann Hesse's Worldwide Impact) was published, which means it is time to consider Hesse's global impact again, though not in terms of a country-by-country study. Rather, this book explores Hesse's continuing global relevance more broadly. Hesse is "global" in the sense that his themes touch on the non-material side of human existence in a way that readers in different cultural communities respond to. His prose and poetry offer an oasis of calm, authenticity, and spirituality-a mental terrain of profound and genuine meaning. The present collection of new essays argues that this "spiritual capital" may help readers of Hesse in uncertain times, beyond the doctrines of organized religions or ideologies, assisting them in inhabiting creatively both the world of literature and the visceral world of the early 21st century. Edited by Ingo Cornils and NealeCunningham. Contributors: Flavia Arzeni, Zhan Chunhua, Thomas Cyron, Helga Esselborn-Krumbiegel, Carina Grèoner, Karl-Josef Kuschel, Thomas Taro Lennerfors, Volker Michels, Christopher Newton, Shrikant Arun Pathak, John Pizer, Adam Roberts, Oscar von Seth, Christiane Schèonfeld, Laszlo V. Szabo, Girissha Ameya Tilak, Jennifer Walker, Yoichi Yamamoto, Michal Zawadzki"

Riffs

Author : Rikky Rooksby
Publisher : Backbeat Books
ISBN 13 : 1476855471
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (768 download)

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Download or read book Riffs written by Rikky Rooksby and published by Backbeat Books. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Book). Rikky Rooksby's revised and updated bestseller explores more than 200 classic riffs, from Cream and Led Zeppelin, through Nirvana and Soundgarden, to Metallica, U2, and the White Stripes. The first half of the book analyzes classic rock riffs and reveals the stories behind their creation. Easy-to-read text describes and explains each riff, supported by illustrations and audio examples. The book's second section shows how to construct great riffs and why they work. Readers learn how to shape a melody, integrate a guitar riff with the rest of a song, enhance a riff with effects, and work with intervals and scales to build riffs.

Open Mic

Author : Mitali Perkins
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 0763667196
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (636 download)

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Download or read book Open Mic written by Mitali Perkins and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2013-09-10 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using humor as the common denominator, a multicultural cast of YA authors steps up to the mic to share stories touching on race. Listen in as ten YA authors — some familiar, some new — use their own brand of humor to share their stories about growing up between cultures. Henry Choi Lee discovers that pretending to be a tai chi master or a sought-after wiz at math wins him friends for a while — until it comically backfires. A biracial girl is amused when her dad clears seats for his family on a crowded subway in under a minute flat, simply by sitting quietly in between two uptight white women. Edited by acclaimed author and speaker Mitali Perkins, this collection of fiction and nonfiction uses a mix of styles as diverse as their authors, from laugh-out-loud funny to wry, ironic, or poingnant, in prose, poetry, and comic form.

Blueprints for Building Better Girls

Author : Elissa Schappell
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 074327671X
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)

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Download or read book Blueprints for Building Better Girls written by Elissa Schappell and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-07-10 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elissa Schappell, “a diva of the encapsulating phrase, capable of conveying a Pandora’s box of feeling in a single line” (The New York Times Book Review) delivers eight provocative, darkly funny linked stories that map America’s shifting cultural landscape from the late 1970s to the present day. Blueprints for Building Better Girls delves into the lives of an eclectic cast of archetypal female characters—from the high school slut to the good girl, the struggling artist to the college party girl, the wife who yearns for a child to the reluctant mother—mapping America’s shifting cultural landscape from the late 1970s to the present day. Its interconnected stories explore the commonly shared but rarely spoken of experiences that build girls into women and women into wives and mothers. In revealing all their vulnerabilities and twisting our preconceived notions of who they are, Elissa Schappell alters how we think about the nature of female identity and how it evolves.

Lit-Rock

Author : Ryan Hibbett
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 150135471X
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Lit-Rock written by Ryan Hibbett and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-08-11 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just as soon as it had got rolling, rock music had a problem: it wanted to be art. A mere four years separate the Beatles as mere kiddy culture from the artful geniuses of Sergeant Pepper's, meaning the very same band who represents the mass-consumed, "mindless" music of adolescents simultaneously enjoys status as among the best that Western culture has to offer. The story of rock music, it turns out, is less that of a contagious popular form situated in opposition to high art, but, rather, a story of high and low in dialogue--messy and contentious, to be sure, but also mutually obligated to account for, if not appropriate, one another. The chapters in this book track the uses of literature, specifically, within this relation, helping to showcase collectively its fundamental role in the emergence of the "pop omnivore."

Rewriting Ancient Jewish History

Author : Amram Tropper
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317247086
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Rewriting Ancient Jewish History written by Amram Tropper and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-20 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Half a century ago, the primary contours of the history of the Jews in Roman times were not subject to much debate. This standard account collapsed, however, when a handful of insights undermined the traditional historical method, the method long enlisted by historians for eliciting facts from sources. In response to these insights, a new historical method gradually emerged. Rewriting Ancient Jewish History critiques the traditional historical method and makes a case for the new one, illustrating how to write anew ancient Jewish history. At the heart of the traditional historical method lie three fundamental presumptions. The traditional historical method regularly presumes that multiple versions of a text or tradition are equally authentic; it presumes that many ancient Jewish sources are the products of largely immanent forces of cloistered Jewish communities; and, barring any local grounds for suspicion, it presumes that most ancient Jewish texts faithfully reflect their sources and reliably recount events. Rewriting Ancient Jewish History unfurls the failings of this approach; it promotes the new historical method which circumvents the flawed traditional presumptions while plotting anew the limits of rational argumentation in historical inquiry. This crucial reappraisal is a must-read for students of Jewish and Roman history alike, and a fascinating case-study in how historians should approach their ancient sources.

Van Halen - Easy Guitar with Riffs and Solos (with Tab)

Author : Van Halen
Publisher : Hal Leonard
ISBN 13 : 1480384100
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Van Halen - Easy Guitar with Riffs and Solos (with Tab) written by Van Halen and published by Hal Leonard. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Easy Guitar). Easy arrangements of 15 finger-flying favorites in standard notation and tab: Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love * Best of Both Worlds * Dance the Night Away * Finish What Ya Started * Jamie's Cryin' * Jump * Panama * Right Now * Unchained * and more.

Runaround

Author : Jonathan Hayes Edwards
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595250246
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (952 download)

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Download or read book Runaround written by Jonathan Hayes Edwards and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002-10 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fictional account of the the fifties and sixties music business, young Roger Denton becomes inspired to be a rock and roll performer as a youth in a small town. He eventually has a hit record and faces many career challenges as well as difficult choices in his personal life.

American Lit Remixed

Author : Melissa J. Strong
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498594786
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book American Lit Remixed written by Melissa J. Strong and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-04-30 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Lit Remixed identifies a new sound in literature emerging after the digital revolution. It reads works by Jennifer Egan, Sherman Alexie, and others through the lenses of remix theory -- the term Eduardo Navas coined to describe the remix as a form of artistic and cultural discourse -- and the music industry’s preoccupations with nostalgia and authenticity, arguing that digital-age fiction, poetry, and drama remix the music and technology of the past to offer new modes of connecting to self, others, and place. Musical features such as references to popular songs, structural similarities to music recordings, and thematic treatment of the riffing and borrowing endemic within popular music lend a retro sound, feel, and structure to contemporary American texts, even when they refer to life in the digital era. Through engaging with the musical past, literature resists nostalgia and remixes the twenty-first century’s dystopian, disconnected ethos to find possibility and hope for the future. Critics often focus on technology’s negative impact on the music industry, but American Lit Remixed emphasizes music as a source of creative potential in twenty-first-century literature, including new ways of storytelling and relating.

Book Review Index

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1080 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Book Review Index written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 1080 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every 3rd issue is a quarterly cumulation.

The Western Lit Survival Kit

Author : Sandra Newman
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101554088
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book The Western Lit Survival Kit written by Sandra Newman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-01-03 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A side-splitting tour that makes it a blast to read the Western literary canon, from the ancient Greeks to the Modernists. To many, the Great Books evoke angst: the complicated Renaissance dramas we bluffed our way through in college, the dusty Everyman's Library editions that look classy on the shelf but make us feel guilty because they've never been opened. On a mission to restore the West's great works to their rightful place (they were intended to be entertaining!), Sandra Newman has produced a reading guide like no other. Beginning with Greek and Roman literature, she takes readers through hilarious detours and captivating historical tidbits on the road to Modernism. Along the way, we find parallels between Rabelais and South Park, Jane Austen and Sex and the City, Jonathan Swift and Jon Stewart, uncovering the original humor and riskiness that propelled great authors to celebrity. Packed with pop culture gems, stories of literary hoaxes, ironic day jobs for authors, bad reviews of books that would later become classics, and more.

The Scots Magazine, Or, General Repository of Literature, History, and Politics

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 758 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Scots Magazine, Or, General Repository of Literature, History, and Politics written by and published by . This book was released on 1770 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for the Year ...

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 606 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for the Year ... written by and published by . This book was released on 1778 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

On China’s Cultural Transformation

Author : Keping Yu
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004308881
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book On China’s Cultural Transformation written by Keping Yu and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-11-24 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China’s economy and social system has witnessed tremendous transformations since late 1970s. So is China’s culture. Centering on the cultural transformations of China since late 1970s and covering diverse of topics in the field, this collection of articles presents a multi-dimensional narrative on the dynamics, dilemmas and characteristics involving this giant process.

The History of British Literature on Film, 1895-2015

Author : Greg M. Col�n Semenza
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1623560438
Total Pages : 489 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (235 download)

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Download or read book The History of British Literature on Film, 1895-2015 written by Greg M. Col�n Semenza and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-05-21 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A comprehensive history of British literature on film, analyzing the changing cinematic art and politics of adaptation between the years 1896 and 2010"--

Fretboard Theory

Author : Desi Serna
Publisher : Desi Serna
ISBN 13 : 0615226221
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (152 download)

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Download or read book Fretboard Theory written by Desi Serna and published by Desi Serna. This book was released on 2008-11 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you love sitting at home playing guitar, but find yourself playing the same old things over and over without making much progress? When other musicians invite you to jam, do you worry that you won’t be able to keep up? Are you a veteran guitarist who has played for years, but you’re embarrassed to admit you have no idea what you’re doing? If you want to take your guitar playing to the next level, compose songs like you hear on the radio, and improvise your own music, then you need Fretboard Theory. Fretboard Theory by Desi Serna teaches music theory for guitar including scales, chords, progressions, modes and more. The hands-on approach to theory shows you how music "works" on the guitar fretboard by visualizing shapes and patterns and how they connect to make music. Content includes: * Learn pentatonic and major scale patterns as used to play melodies, riffs, solos, and bass lines * Move beyond basic chords and common barre chords by playing the types of chord inversions and chord voicings used by music's most famous players * Chart guitar chord progressions and play by numbers like the pros * Identify correct scales to play over chords and progressions so you can improvise at will * Create new sounds with music modes and get to know Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian and Locrian * Add variety to your playing by using intervals such as thirds, fourths, and sixths * Increase your chord vocabulary by using added chord tones and extensions to play chord types such as major 7, minor 7, sus2, sus4, add9, and more * Learn how all the different aspects of music fit together to make a great song * See how theory relates to popular styles of music and familiar songs Fretboard Theory will have you mastering music like a pro easier and faster than you ever thought possible. Plus, it's the ONLY GUITAR THEORY RESOURCE in the world that includes important details to hundreds of popular songs. You learn how to play in the style of pop, rock, acoustic, blues, and more! This guitar instruction is perfect whether you want to jam, compose or just understand the music you play better. The material is suitable for both acoustic and electric guitar, plus it features many references to bass. Level: Recommended for intermediate level players on up. Video Fretboard Theory is also available as a 21-hour video series that is sold separately on the author's GuitarMusicTheory.com website. Visit the website and sign up for email lessons to sample the footage. Fretboard Theory Volume II When you're ready to take your playing to the next level, get the second book in the series, Fretboard Theory Volume II, which is also available as a 12-hour video series.