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Power Ballads

Author : Will Boast
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609380436
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Power Ballads written by Will Boast and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2011-09-16 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Real musicians don’t sign autographs, date models, or fly in private jets. They spend their lives in practice rooms and basement clubs or toiling in the obscurity of coffee-shop gigs, casino jobs, and the European festival circuit. The ten linked stories in Power Ballads are devoted to this unheard virtuoso: the working musician. From the wings of sold-out arenas to hip-hop studios to polka bars, these stories are born out of a nocturnal world where music is often simply work, but also where it can, in rare moments, become a source of grace and transcendence, speaking about the things we never seem to say to each other. A skilled but snobby jazz drummer joins a costumed heavy metal band to pay his rent. A country singer tries to turn her brutal past into a successful career. A vengeful rock critic reenters the life of an emerging singer-songwriter, bent on wreaking havoc. The characters in Power Ballads—aging head-bangers, jobbers, techno DJs, groupies, and the occasional rock star (and those who have to live with them)—need music to survive, yet find themselves lost when the last note is played, the lights go up, and it’s time to return to regular life. By turns melancholy and hilarious, Power Ballads is not only a deeply felt look at the lives of musicians but also an exploration of the secret music that plays inside us all.

Power Ballads

Author : Garrett T. Caples
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781940696379
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (963 download)

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Download or read book Power Ballads written by Garrett T. Caples and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of candid, surreal, and wickedly funny poems and prose.

Power Ballads And The Stories Behind

Author : Vasileios Yfantis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781546723400
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (234 download)

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Download or read book Power Ballads And The Stories Behind written by Vasileios Yfantis and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-04 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Power Ballads is a term that derives from the 1970s and especially from an era when Led Zeppelin, Lynyrd Skynyrd and other associated acts conquered the airwaves with their electrified ballads. Millions of listeners were attracted to the songs that were a mix of slow tempo and electric guitar outbreaks to satisfy the fans. This book features exclusive interviews with rock artists that composed or performed in the recordings of popular Power Ballads. The artists discuss the stories behind the songs that were recorded in 1970s, 1980s, 1990s and beyond... You can read interviews with current or former members of: ALIEN, ARC ANGEL, ARGENT, ASIA, AXE, AXXIS, BRIGHTON ROCK, EVERY MOTHER'S NIGHTMARE, FIONA, GOTTHARD, GREAT WHITE, HARDLINE, HOOTERS, JEAN BEAUVOIR, LETCHEN GREY, LIONHEART, LITA FORD, MARTIN BRILEY, MR. BIG, PINK CREAM 69, PRAYING MANTIS, Q5, ROBERT TEPPER, ROBIN BECK, KEEL, STAGE DOLLS, STAN BUSH, STARZ, TALISMAN, TOUCH, TRIXTER, TYKETTO, WARRIOR SOUL, WHITE LION, Y&T and many more!

Brown William, The Power of the Harp, and Other Ballads

Author : Various
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Brown William, The Power of the Harp, and Other Ballads written by Various and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-04-24 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique ballad was written as a result of the execution of William Christian, generally called William Donn. He was shot at Hango Hill shortly after the Restoration for alleged betrayal of the Derby family.

The Ballad in American Popular Music

Author : David Metzer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107161525
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book The Ballad in American Popular Music written by David Metzer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-21 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to explore the ballad's history and emotional appeal, surveying seventy years of the genre in modern America.

Damage Incorporated

Author : Glenn Pillsbury
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136091149
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Damage Incorporated written by Glenn Pillsbury and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Damage Incorporated" is the first book about the legendary heavy metal band Metallica that provides a detailed exploration of the group’s music and its place within the wider popular music landscape. Written with a broad readership in mind, it offers an interdisciplinary study that incorporates a range of topics which intersect with the band’s music and cultural influence. For students of popular culture, mass media, and music, "Damage Incorporated" will be necessary reading, and sets a new standard for the study and exploration of metal within the field of popular music studies.

Power Ballad

Author : Timothy Minneci
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781475204834
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book Power Ballad written by Timothy Minneci and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-04-29 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Power Ballad: A Definitive Guide to Hard Rock's Softer Side Volume One revisits the decade of decadence like no other before, putting the big hair and spandex rockers' most significant pop culture contribution under the microscope. In Power Ballad, author Timothy D. Minneci dissects the history of the genre and the defining essential criteria before diving in track-by-track to determine the songs worthy of the title "Power Ballad." Born out of frustration with an internet culture that had allowed Celine Dion and other non-rock pop stars to be placed alongside Every Rose Has Its Thorn and When I See You Smile, Power Ballad seeks to reclaim the mantle for the worthy, deconstructing songwriting, influences and band histories with perceptive insight and biting humor. Because all Power Ballads were not created equal, even those who successfully survive the cut are not spared honest critiques, whether it's Aerosmith's heavy reliance on outside songwriters and Alicia Silverstone, Jon Bon Jovi's desire to write a Western concept album, or Great White's knack for writing cringe-inducing lyrics. Multi-platinum selling acts such as Def Leppard, Motley Crue and Whitesnake receive as much love (and scorn) as obscure lesser-knownand less successful bands like Craaft, Tyketto or Southgang, with every song getting a chance to prove its mettle. Fans of classic and hard rock can finally settle the age old debate of which songs are truly worthy of being called a Power Ballad.

The Broadside Ballads of Devonshire and Cornwall

Author : Thomas Nadauld Brushfield
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Broadside Ballads of Devonshire and Cornwall written by Thomas Nadauld Brushfield and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' Murder Ballads

Author : Santi Elijah Holley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501355163
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' Murder Ballads written by Santi Elijah Holley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-11-12 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a bar called The Bucket of Blood, a man shoots the bartender four times in the head. In the small town of Millhaven, a teenage girl secretly and gleefully murders her neighbors. A serial killer travels from home to home, quoting John Milton in his victims' blood. Murder Ballads, the ninth studio album from Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, is a gruesome, blood-splattered reimagining of English ballads, American folk and blues music, and classic literature. Most of the stories told on Murder Ballads have been interpreted many times, but never before had they been so graphic or profane. Though earning the band their first Parental Advisory warning label, Murder Ballads, released in 1996, brought Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds their biggest critical and commercial success, thanks in part to the award-winning single, “Where the Wild Roses Grow,” an unlikely duet with Australian pop singer, Kylie Minogue. Closely examining each of the ten songs on the album, Santi Elijah Holley investigates the stories behind the songs, and the numerous ways these ballads have been interpreted through the years. Murder Ballads is a tour through the evolution of folk music, and a journey into the dark secrets of American history.

Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Society of Writers to H.M. Signet in Scotland

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 634 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Society of Writers to H.M. Signet in Scotland written by and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mexican Ballads, Chicano Poems

Author : José E. Limón
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520911873
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Mexican Ballads, Chicano Poems written by José E. Limón and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1992-07-24 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mexican Ballads, Chicano Poems combines literary theory with the personal engagement of a prominent Chicano scholar. Recalling his experiences as a student in Texas, José Limón examines the politically motivated Chicano poetry of the 60s and 70s. He bases his analyses on Harold Bloom's theories of literary influence but takes Bloom into the socio-political realm. Limón shows how Chicano poetry is nourished by the oral tradition of the Mexican corrido, or master ballad, which was a vital part of artistic and political life along the Mexican-U.S. border from 1890 to 1930. Limón's use of Bloom, as well as of Marxist critics Raymond Williams and Fredric Jameson, brings Chicano literature into the arena of contemporary literary theory. By focusing on an important but little-studied poetic tradition, his book challenges our ideas of the American canon and extends the reach of Hispanists and folklorists as well.

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (A Hunger Games Novel)

Author : Suzanne Collins
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1338635182
Total Pages : 747 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (386 download)

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Download or read book The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (A Hunger Games Novel) written by Suzanne Collins and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2020-05-19 with total page 747 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ambition will fuel him. Competition will drive him. But power has its price. It is the morning of the reaping that will kick off the tenth annual Hunger Games. In the Capitol, eighteen-year-old Coriolanus Snow is preparing for his one shot at glory as a mentor in the Games. The once-mighty house of Snow has fallen on hard times, its fate hanging on the slender chance that Coriolanus will be able to outcharm, outwit, and outmaneuver his fellow students to mentor the winning tribute. The odds are against him. He's been given the humiliating assignment of mentoring the female tribute from District 12, the lowest of the low. Their fates are now completely intertwined - every choice Coriolanus makes could lead to favor or failure, triumph or ruin. Inside the arena, it will be a fight to the death. Outside the arena, Coriolanus starts to feel for his doomed tribute . . . and must weigh his need to follow the rules against his desire to survive no matter what it takes.

Ballads and Broadsides in Britain, 1500-1800

Author : Patricia Fumerton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317176375
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Ballads and Broadsides in Britain, 1500-1800 written by Patricia Fumerton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together diverse scholars to represent the full historical breadth of the early modern period, and a wide range of disciplines (literature, women's studies, folklore, ethnomusicology, art history, media studies, the history of science, and history), Ballads and Broadsides in Britain, 1500-1800 offers an unprecedented perspective on the development and cultural practice of popular print in early modern Britain. Fifteen essays explore major issues raised by the broadside genre in the early modern period: the different methods by which contemporaries of the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries collected and "appreciated" such early modern popular forms; the preoccupation in the early modern period with news and especially monsters; the concomitant fascination with and representation of crime and the criminal subject; the technology and formal features of early modern broadside print together with its bearing on gender, class, and authority/authorship; and, finally, the nationalizing and internationalizing of popular culture through crossings against (and sometimes with) cultural Others in ballads and broadsides of the time.

Pop Goes the Decade

Author : Thomas Harrison
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book Pop Goes the Decade written by Thomas Harrison and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-08-24 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating overview of popular culture in the 1980s describes the decade of excess that resulted from the social, political, and economic conditions of the time, documenting why so many milestones in entertainment, arts, and technology occurred the 80s. Popular culture in the United States in the 1980s—as reflected in film, television, music, technology, and art—serves to illustrate the general feeling of American citizens during this decade that the sky was the limit, and the only thing better than "big" was "bigger." This title provides readers with an engaging, in-depth study of the 1980s and supplies the larger historical and social context of popular culture in an era when the extraordinary seemed normal and all the rules were being rewritten. The book's wide scope includes the concepts, fashions, foods, sports, television, movies, and music that became popular in the 1980s. Readers will see how specific elements of the decade, such as visual art and architecture, reflect the sense of change in the 1980s, often through excessive displays of expression that helped further movements into the avant-garde. The technological advances, entertainment developments, and "game changers" that were essential to establishing the popular culture of the decade are highlighted, as is the trend of how personal expression in the 80s began to penetrate a wider segment of American culture, spanning across all ages. The book also calls attention to the standout events and individuals who influenced society in the 1980s, with emphasis on the figures who intentionally used pop culture as an avenue for change as well as the influences from the 1980s that are still felt today.

The Western Antiquary

Author : William Henry Kearley Wright
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The Western Antiquary written by William Henry Kearley Wright and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Reprinted after revision and correction from the 'Weekly Mercury, '" Mar. 1881-May 1884.

The Western Antiquary; Or, Devon and Cornwall Note-book

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Western Antiquary; Or, Devon and Cornwall Note-book written by and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Iron Maiden

Author : Martin Popoff
Publisher : Voyageur Press
ISBN 13 : 076036088X
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Iron Maiden written by Martin Popoff and published by Voyageur Press. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Required reading for any metalhead, Iron Maiden is a compendium of in-depth, entertaining, and profusely illustrated conversations about all sixteen of the legendary metal band’s studio albums. This new book from prolific rock journalist Martin Popoff pays tribute to the Iron Maiden’s studio discography through a series of in-depth, frank, and entertaining conversations about all sixteen of the legendary heavy metal band’s studio albums. Inside, the author gathers together metal journalists, authors, and musicians, who offer insights, opinions, and anecdotes about every release. Together, the conversations comprise a unique historical overview of the band, covering everything from early albums with original lead singer Paul Di’Anno; the songwriting of founder and bassist Steve Harris; the impeccable talents of drummer Nicko McBrain and guitarists Dave Murray, Adrian Smith, and Janick Gers; mega tours undertaken in support of the LPs; fights within the band; and much more. Even their iconic mascot Eddie is sure to make an appearance or two! Popoff also includes loads of sidebars that provide complete track listings, details on album personnel, and information on where and when the albums were recorded. Every page is illustrated with thoughtfully curated performance and offstage photography, as well as rare memorabilia.