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Book Synopsis The Masked Crooner by : Julianna Thorn
Download or read book The Masked Crooner written by Julianna Thorn and published by Julianna Thorn. This book was released on 2021-06-25 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All a washed-up rock star needs is a manager who believes in him... Russell McGinty is overworked and underslept, but that's the cost of living the dream: working in theater management while finishing his MBA. The hustle is worth it, even if it means he has to work the night shift in adult-entertainment customer service to make ends meet. All Russ has to do is get through the next year without collapsing from exhaustion and he'll finally be managing Vancouver's finest talent. Then his usually subdued colleague Gideon comes to work more glittery than usual, and Russ's plans take a hard right turn. * Gideon Brallaghan shows up to his godawful night job a little debauched one time—and suffers the consequences. Eagle-eyed, straight-laced Russell McGinty keeps asking personal questions, and the next thing Gideon knows, he and his lowered inhibitions have invited McGinty to see his one-man rock show. Not only does Russ actually show up, but it turns out he likes the show… a lot. Just when Gideon starts to like having him around, Russ offers to become Gideon's manager. Russ could grow Gideon's career, help him quit his horrible job... and it's not like Gideon has anything better going on. Sure, they slept together a couple times, but sex is just sex. What's the worst that could happen? The Masked Crooner is a steamy 93k standalone M/M Contemporary romance.
Book Synopsis Queer Country by : Shana Goldin-Perschbacher
Download or read book Queer Country written by Shana Goldin-Perschbacher and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2022-03-22 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Variety Best Music Book of 2022 A No Depression Most Memorable Music Book of 2022 A Library Journal Best Arts and Humanities Book of 2022 A Pitchfork Best Music Book of 2022 A Boot Best Music Book of 2022 A Ticketmaster Best Music Book of 2022 A Happy Magazine Best Music Book of 2022 Though frequently ignored by the music mainstream, queer and transgender country and Americana artists have made essential contributions as musicians, performers, songwriters, and producers. Queer Country blends ethnographic research with analysis and history to provide the first in-depth study of these artists and their work. Shana Goldin-Perschbacher delves into the careers of well-known lesbian artists like k.d. lang and Amy Ray and examines the unlikely success of singer-songwriter Patrick Haggerty, who found fame forty years after releasing the first out gay country album. She also focuses on later figures like nonbinary transgender musician Rae Spoon and renowned drag queen country artist Trixie Mattel; and on recent breakthrough artists like Orville Peck, Amythyst Kiah, and chart-topping Grammy-winning phenomenon Lil Nas X. Many of these musicians place gender and sexuality front and center even as it complicates their careers. But their ongoing efforts have widened the circle of country/Americana by cultivating new audiences eager to connect with the artists’ expansive music and personal identities. Detailed and one-of-a-kind, Queer Country reinterprets country and Americana music through the lives and work of artists forced to the margins of the genre's history.
Book Synopsis Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen by : David Boucher
Download or read book Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen written by David Boucher and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-04-08 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both Dylan and Cohen have been a presence on the music and poetry landscape spanning six decades. This book begins with a discussion of their contemporary importance, and how they have sustained their enduring appeal as performers and recording artists. The authors argue that both Dylan and Cohen shared early aspirations that mirrored the Beat Generation. They sought to achieve the fame of Dylan Thomas, who proved a bohemian poet could thrive outside the academy, and to live his life of unconditional social irresponsibility. While Dylan's and Cohen's fame fluctuated over the decades, it was sustained by self-consciously adopted personas used to distance themselves from their public selves. This separation of self requires an exploration of the artists' relation to religion as an avenue to find and preserve inner identity. The relationship between their lyrics and poetry is explored in the context of Federico García Lorca's concept of the poetry of inspiration and the emotional depths of 'duende.' Such ideas draw upon the dislocation of the mind and the liberation of the senses that so struck Dylan and Cohen when they first read the poetry and letters of Arthur Rimbaud and Lorca. The authors show that performance and the poetry are integral, and the 'duende,' or passion, of the delivery, is inseparable from the lyric or poetry, and common to Dylan, Cohen and the Beat Generation.
Download or read book Gloomy Gus written by Walter Blake and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Circle written by Stephen J. Galgon and published by MJE Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-15 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER -- 2020 NYC Big Book Award: Thriller GOLD MEDAL -- 2020 Global Ebook Awards: Suspense Fiction SILVER MEDAL -- 2020 Global Ebook Awards: Thriller Fiction TOP 100 NOTABLE INDIE - 2020 Shelf Unbound Indie Book Awards HONORABLE MENTION -- 2020 Writers Digest: Genre Fiction HONORABLE MENTION -- 2020 Readers Favorite Awards: General Fiction FIVE-STAR JUDGES AWARD -- 2020 Readers Favorite Awards: General Fiction FINALIST -- 2020 National Indie Excellence Awards: General Fiction FINALIST -- 2020 Feathered Quill Book Awards: Mystery/Suspense/Thriller FINALIST -- 2020 Feathered Quill Book Awards: Adult Fiction SEMI-FINALIST -- 2020 Kindle Book Review Awards: Mystery/Thriller Viga Boland for Readers' Favorite: "Galgon checks all the boxes when it comes to creating and keeping the suspense at an all-time high. His characters are captivating. Well-rendered dialogue keeps the pace moving quickly to its logical and deadly conclusion... A real gripper with an intricate and refreshing twist on an old theme." Feathered Quill Book Awards Judges' Comments: "The Circle is creepy... action-packed and very mysterious... not a story to forget." H.P. Waitt - Author of Band of Shadows: The Scarlet Onyx Saga "As a novel it has everything a reader could want: deeply developed characters you fall in love with (and characters you hate), a rapidly advancing plot that leaves you on the edge of your seat, and a jaw-dropping twist that even the most seasoned of thriller lovers won't see coming. I enjoyed every minute of it and can't want to see what's next - a sequel cannot come soon enough!" - Shanna O'Mara - The Navesink Journal "The Circle has the rapid progression and intense appeal of the ever-popular Divergent and The Hunger Games, but is laced with enough realism to plant the seed of fear -- or at the very least, mild suspicion -- in any reader now overanalyzing the world outside the book. Galgon brings to life a protagonist we can all root for and pity, a man whose background we can relate to but whose future we can only pray we never see. Highly recommend for any thrill-seeker or mystery lover! IMAGINE YOU HAD ALL THE MONEY YOU EVER WANTED at the push of a button. The power to control law enforcement, politicians at the highest levels, the judicial system as a whole. To have what you want when you want it, whatever it is. All you have to do is kill someone . . . before someone kills you. MEMBERS of THE CIRCLE don’t have to imagine such a life. They live it. The liberation of being both hunter and hunted. The salvation that comes with such freedom. A chance to feel truly alive. A chance to savor each precious moment. Because in THE CIRCLE any moment could be your last. DOUGLAS GOODWIN isn’t rich. He isn’t powerful. What could the sacred society of THE CIRCLE possibly want with him—just a regular guy with a regular job leading a regular life? What would drive them to coerce a young man who has always valued integrity over hedonism into their midst? And why would Doug agree to submersion in a world of secrecy and murder? It’s unthinkable. THE HARSH REALITY? Doug has been inducted into an institution where friends become enemies overnight, loyalty is a nothing more than a punchline, and conscience is a burden. Where he will be hunted and expected to hunt other members to their death. With no escape from THE CIRCLE’s ubiquitous influence and domination. HOW FAR WILL DOUG GO? How much will he sacrifice to preserve his way of life? Will he be swayed by the money, the women, the power? Or will THE CIRCLE consume him, as it has hundreds of others before him, and leave nothing but another nameless corpse in its wake?
Book Synopsis Modern English in Action by : Henry Irving Christ
Download or read book Modern English in Action written by Henry Irving Christ and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Showmen's Motion Picture Trade Review by :
Download or read book Showmen's Motion Picture Trade Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Black Mask (Fall 2017) by : Lester Dent
Download or read book Black Mask (Fall 2017) written by Lester Dent and published by Steeger Properties, LLC. This book was released on 2019-12-15 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black Mask, the greatest American detective magazine of all time is back with an all-new story by the creator of Doc Savage, Lester Dent. Also featuring classic hard-boiled detective stories by Horace McCoy, Wyatt Blassingame, Day Keene, Herbert Koehl, Kent Richards, Stephen McBarron, Dwight V. Babcock, Hugh B. Cave, and Edgar Franklin, all from the golden age of pulp fiction. With vintage brush illustrations by Arthur Rodman Bowker, as well as a previously-unpublished interview with the author of Donovan’s Brain, Curt Siodmak.
Book Synopsis Behind the Screen by : Brynn W. Shiovitz
Download or read book Behind the Screen written by Brynn W. Shiovitz and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-03-31 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How and why was outdated racial content - and specifically blackface minstrelsy - not only permitted, but in fact allowed to thrive during the 1930s and 1940s despite the rigid motion picture censorship laws which were enforced during this time? Introducing a new theory of covert minstrelsy, this book illuminates Hollywood's practice of capitalizing on the Africanist aesthetic at the expense of Black lived experience. Through close examination of the musicals made during this period, this book shows how Hollywood utilized a series of covert "guises" or subterfuges-complicated and further masked by a film's narrative framing and novel technology to distract both censors and audiences from seeing the ways in which they were being fed a nineteenth-century White narrative of Blackness. Drawing on the annals of Hollywood's most popular and its extremely rare films, Behind the Screen uncovers a half century of blackface application by delicately removing the individual layers of disguise through close analyses of films which paint tap dance, swing, and other predominantly Africanist forms in a negative light. This book goes beneath the image of recognizable White performers including Al Jolson, Eddie Cantor, Fred Astaire, and Eleanor Powell, exploring the high cost of their onscreen representational politics. The book also recuperates the stories of several of the Black artists whose labor was abused during the choreographic and filming process. Some of the many newly documented stories include those of The Three Chocolateers, The Three Eddies, The Three Gobs, The Peters Sisters, Jeni Le Gon, and Cora La Redd. In stripping away the various disguises involved during Hollywood's Golden Age, Behind the Screen recovers the visibility of Black artists whose names Hollywood omitted from the credits and whose identities America has written out of the national narrative.
Download or read book American Speech written by Louise Pound and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Are We Live? written by Marion Appleby and published by Michael O'Mara Books. This book was released on 2012-10-04 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are We Live? is a book about all the things that can and have gone wrong in a broadcasting studio. And, boy, has a lot of stuff gone wrong!Whether it's BBC Radio 4's appropriately-named James Naughtie dropping the c-bomb on the usually prudent Today programme, or an Antiques Roadshow ceramic expert mistakenly describing a piece of Victoria Regina porcelain as 'Rictoria Vagina', Are We Live? takes in the full spectrum of comedy gold captured on film - whether intentional or not!
Book Synopsis Escape from Underworld by : Forsyth Richard
Download or read book Escape from Underworld written by Forsyth Richard and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-07-25 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For troubled courier pilot Fabian Lite, paying off a simple debt turns into a nightmare when he falls foul to a ruthless mafia known as the Klan. Lured to Jupiter's oceanic moon, Europa, Fabian is trapped in the submerged base of Underworld and forced to help the Klan harvest a powerful drug. In the gloomy depths of the most fearful place in the solar system, Fabian finds himself up against criminal warlords, Earth's special forces and a creature that cannot be killed. Unwittingly, he is the only one that can save Mankind from its most disturbing threat in history, the only one that understands Europa's deadly secrets...
Book Synopsis The Cinema Dreams Its Rivals by : Paul Young
Download or read book The Cinema Dreams Its Rivals written by Paul Young and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hollywood's reaction to it's media rivals throughout the history of cinema in America.
Book Synopsis The Sounds of Louisiana by : Roger Hahn
Download or read book The Sounds of Louisiana written by Roger Hahn and published by Pelican Publishing Company. This book was released on 2016 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicling the creation of new categories of music like zydeco and jazz and the addition of distinct flavors to established genres like rhythm and blues, rock 'n' roll, funk, and hip-hop, journalist Roger Hahn provides an overview of Louisiana's impressive role in the musical heritage of the last two centuries. He documents twenty musicians and musical groups who have--and still are--shaping the face of music in America. Profiles of well-known and more obscure, but no less influential, musicians include Jelly Roll Morton, Clifton Chenier, Irma Thomas, Buddy Guy, Li'l Wayne, and Hunter Hayes. Each profile centers on the cultural inheritance, accomplishments, and influence of the artists and features a full-color portrait by artist Chris Osborne. A bibliography is provided for further reading.
Book Synopsis To-day's Cinema News and Property Gazette by :
Download or read book To-day's Cinema News and Property Gazette written by and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Michael Jackson and the Blackface Mask by : Harriet J. Manning
Download or read book Michael Jackson and the Blackface Mask written by Harriet J. Manning and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blackface minstrelsy, the nineteenth-century performance practice in which ideas and images of blackness were constructed and theatricalized by and for whites, continues to permeate contemporary popular music and its audience. Harriet J. Manning argues that this legacy is nowhere more evident than with Michael Jackson in whom minstrelsy’s gestures and tropes are embedded. During the nineteenth century, blackface minstrelsy held together a multitude of meanings and when black entertainers took to the stage this complexity was compounded: minstrelsy became an arena in which black stereotypes were at once enforced and critiqued. This body of contradiction behind the blackface mask provides an effective approach to try and understand Jackson, a cultural figure about whom more questions than answers have been generated. Symbolized by his own whiteface mask, Jackson was at once ’raced’ and raceless and this ambiguity allowed him to serve a whole host of others’ needs - a function of the mask that has run long and deep through its tortuous history. Indeed, Manning argues that minstrelsy’s assumptions and uses have been fundamental to the troubles and controversies with which Jackson was beset.
Download or read book Red Skelton written by Wes Gehring and published by Indiana Historical Society. This book was released on 2008 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For twenty years, Hoosier comic Red Skelton entertained millions of viewers who gathered around their television sets to delight in the antics of his notable characters. Gehring examines the man behind the characters-- someone who never let the facts get in the way of a good story. He delves into Skelton's hardscrabble life with a shockingly dysfunctional family in the southern Indiana community of Vincennes, his days on the road on the vaudeville circuit, the comedian's early success on radio, his up-and-down movie career with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and his sometimes tragic personal life.
