Beats: Book Reviews 2014

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Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1312941065
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)

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Book Synopsis Beats: Book Reviews 2014 by : Manuel Augusto Antão

Download or read book Beats: Book Reviews 2014 written by Manuel Augusto Antão and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-03-06 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What it means to me to be a critic/reviewer? For a lot of readers, a "reviewer" or "critic" is an embittered failed novelist or worse, a barely restrained serial rapist. Book critics may take the form of a dilettante, theorist, essayist, or even historian, but almost never reviewers, who sometimes lack the distancing from the text required by the demands of academia synthesis.

The Beats

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Publisher : powerHouse Books
ISBN 13 : 1576876896
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (768 download)

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Book Synopsis The Beats by : Larry Fink

Download or read book The Beats written by Larry Fink and published by powerHouse Books. This book was released on 2014 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 50s after an unsuccessful stint in college, Larry Fink dropped out and began an odyssey of hitchhiking through America. Striking out that great Beat mecca, New York City, Fink settled down on Minetta Lane with a chap who fancied himself a poet. Larry was quick to hit McDougal Street where he met Turk, Mary, Bobbie, Motha, Ambrose, Randy and Mike Stanley, and not to mention Hugh Romney (aka Wavy Gravy) and LeRoi Jones and so many more - they soon left New York to cross America for Mexico - in search of the freedoms of the road.

When the Beat Was Born

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Publisher : Roaring Brook Press
ISBN 13 : 1466844795
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Book Synopsis When the Beat Was Born by : Laban Carrick Hill

Download or read book When the Beat Was Born written by Laban Carrick Hill and published by Roaring Brook Press. This book was released on 2013-08-27 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before there was hip hop, there was DJ Kool Herc. On a hot day at the end of summer in 1973 Cindy Campbell threw a back-to-school party at a park in the South Bronx. Her brother, Clive Campbell, spun the records. He had a new way of playing the music to make the breaks—the musical interludes between verses—longer for dancing. He called himself DJ Kool Herc and this is When the Beat Was Born. From his childhood in Jamaica to his youth in the Bronx, Laban Carrick Hill's book tells how Kool Herc came to be a DJ, how kids in gangs stopped fighting in order to breakdance, and how the music he invented went on to define a culture and transform the world.

Making Beats

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Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 0819574821
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (195 download)

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Book Synopsis Making Beats by : Joseph G. Schloss

Download or read book Making Beats written by Joseph G. Schloss and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-20 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on ten years of research among hip-hop producers, Making Beats was the first work of scholarship to explore the goals, methods, and values of a surprisingly insular community. Focusing on a variety of subjects—from hip-hop artists’ pedagogical methods to the Afrodiasporic roots of the sampling process to the social significance of “digging” for rare records—Joseph G. Schloss examines the way hip-hop artists have managed to create a form of expression that reflects their creative aspirations, moral beliefs, political values, and cultural realities. This second edition of the book includes a new foreword by Jeff Chang and a new afterword by the author.

The Beats

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Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0809016494
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (9 download)

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Book Synopsis The Beats by : Harvey Pekar

Download or read book The Beats written by Harvey Pekar and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-04-13 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Details the history of the Beat movement, which began in the 1940s, and describes the lives of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William Burroughs; along with other writers, artists, and events in a graphic novel format.

Caminar

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Publisher : Candlewick Press (MA)
ISBN 13 : 0763665169
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (636 download)

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Book Synopsis Caminar by : Skila Brown

Download or read book Caminar written by Skila Brown and published by Candlewick Press (MA). This book was released on 2014 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caminar is the story of a boy who joins a small band of guerilla fighters who must decide what being a man during a time of war really means.

The Rolling Stone Book of the Beats

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Publisher : Hyperion
ISBN 13 : 9780786885428
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (854 download)

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Book Synopsis The Rolling Stone Book of the Beats by : Holly George-Warren

Download or read book The Rolling Stone Book of the Beats written by Holly George-Warren and published by Hyperion. This book was released on 2000-07-12 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive illustrated collection of Beat culture from the people who made the scene--now in paperback It's been nearly fifty years since Jack Kerouac took to the road, but Beat culture continues to be a popular and influential force in today's writing, music, and art. With more than 75 contributors, this celebratory potpourri of words, illustrations, and photography contains original and previously published essays by Richard Miller, Ann Douglas, Johnny Depp, Michael McClure, Hettie Jones, Hunter S. Thompson, Joyce Johnson, Richard Hell, and others. It includes rare pieces from the Rolling Stone archives by William Burroughs, Lester Bangs, and Robert Palmer as well as intimate photographs by Robert Frank, Annie Leibovitz, and rarely seen photos taken by the Beats themselves. A rich tapestry of voices and a visual treat, this treasury of Beat lore and literature is a true collector's item whose entertainment value will go on...and on. "A huge dim sum cart of a book...a first-rate companion." --Publishers Weekly "Compelling reading." --The Denver Post

Summer Beat

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416912371
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (169 download)

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Book Synopsis Summer Beat by : Betsy Franco

Download or read book Summer Beat written by Betsy Franco and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-04-24 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clackity-clack, clackity-clack. A skateboard flies over sidewalk squares. Whoosh pumf, whoosh pumf. Water balloons tossed through the air. Bizzle-bzzz, bizzle-bzzz. A bumblebee comes zipping by. Tzooooooooooo bang. Tzooooooooooo bang. Fireworks start for the Fourth of July! The sounds of summer sizzle and pop in this bouncing, swinging tribute to the best beats of every child's favorite season.

Beats to the Rhyme

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Publisher : Gingko Press
ISBN 13 : 9781584235385
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (353 download)

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Book Synopsis Beats to the Rhyme by : Albert D. Patterson

Download or read book Beats to the Rhyme written by Albert D. Patterson and published by Gingko Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author Al Patterson started collecting vinyl in school. He's since amassed a serious collection and deep knowledge of instrumental-only Hip Hop records. These, whether from the obscure depths of the underground or well-known Hip Hop acts, are catalogued alphabetically by artist and a photograph of the record's label. Each entry specifies the artist, title, format, producer, label, year and catalogue number as well as notes and anecdotes about the disc. Many were pressed in such small numbers that they'll never be seen outside the pages of this book.

Beats, Rhymes, and Classroom Life

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Publisher : Teachers College Press
ISBN 13 : 080777622X
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (77 download)

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Book Synopsis Beats, Rhymes, and Classroom Life by : Marc Lamont Hill

Download or read book Beats, Rhymes, and Classroom Life written by Marc Lamont Hill and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over a decade, educators have looked to capitalize on the appeal of hip-hop culture, sampling its language, techniques, and styles as a way of reaching out to students. But beyond a fashionable hipness, what does hip-hop have to offer our schools? In this revelatory new book, Marc Lamont Hill shows how a serious engagement with hip-hop culture can affect classroom life in extraordinary ways. Based on his experience teaching a hip-hop–centered English literature course in a Philadelphia high school, and drawing from a range of theories on youth culture, identity, and educational processes, Hill offers a compelling case for the power of hip-hop in the classroom. In addition to driving up attendance and test performance, Hill shows how hip-hop–based educational settings enable students and teachers to renegotiate their classroom identities in complex, contradictory, and often unpredictable ways. “One of the most profound, searching, and insightful studies of what happens to the identities and worldviews of high school students who are exposed to a hip-hop curriculum." —Michael Eric Dyson, author, Can You Hear Me Now? “Hill’s book is a beautifully written reminder that the achievement gaps that students experience may be more accurately characterized as cultural gaps—between them and their teachers (and the larger society). This is a book that helps us see the power and potential of pedagogy.” —From the Foreword by Gloria Ladson-Billings, University of Wisconsin–Madison “Beats, Rhymes, and Classroom Life offers a vibrant, rigorous, and comprehensive analysis of hip-hop culture as an effective pedagogy, cultural politics, and a mobilizing popular form. This book is invaluable for anyone interested in hip-hop culture, identity, education, and youth.” —Henry Giroux, McMaster University “This book marks the time where our modern literature changes from entertainment to education. A study guide for our next generation using the modern day struggle into manhood and beyond.” —M-1 from dead prez

Barakah Beats

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Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1338702076
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (387 download)

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Book Synopsis Barakah Beats by : Maleeha Siddiqui

Download or read book Barakah Beats written by Maleeha Siddiqui and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book about friendship and faith absolutely sings." -- Buzzfeed Perfect for fans of The First Rule of Punk or Save Me a Seat, this is a sweet, powerful, and joyous novel about a girl who finds her voice on her own terms. Twelve-year-old Nimra Sharif has spent her whole life in Islamic school, but now it's time to go to "real school." Nimra's nervous, but as long as she has Jenna, her best friend who already goes to the public school, she figures she can take on just about anything. Unfortunately, middle school is hard. The teachers are mean, the schedule is confusing, and Jenna starts giving hijab-wearing Nimra the cold shoulder around the other kids. Desperate to fit in and get back in Jenna's good graces, Nimra accepts an unlikely invitation to join the school's popular 8th grade boy band, Barakah Beats. The only problem is, Nimra was taught that music isn't allowed in Islam, and she knows her parents would be disappointed if they found out. So she devises a simple plan: join the band, win Jenna back, then quietly drop out before her parents find out. But dropping out of the band proves harder than expected. Not only is her plan to get Jenna back working, but Nimra really likes hanging out with the band—they value her contributions and respect how important her faith is to her. Then Barakah Beats signs up for a talent show to benefit refugees, and Nimra's lies start to unravel. With the show only a few weeks away and Jenna's friendship hanging in the balance, Nimra has to decide whether to betray her bandmates—or herself.

Wingbeats and Heartbeats

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Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN 13 : 0299294730
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (992 download)

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Book Synopsis Wingbeats and Heartbeats by : Dave Books

Download or read book Wingbeats and Heartbeats written by Dave Books and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2014-02-19 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wingbeats and Heartbeats is a wingshooter's odyssey to the wild places where, at the end of the day, the companionship of faithful gun dogs and good friends matters more than a bulging game bag. In this sometimes humorous and sometimes poignant collection of essays, Dave Books celebrates a time-honored connection to the land and the hard-earned hunting rewards of an outdoor life. Through these essays, readers tag along on adventures in the forests of Wisconsin and Minnesota, the fields of Iowa and North Dakota, the prairies of eastern Montana and Nebraska, the mountains of western Montana and Idaho, and the deserts of Arizona. Books also writes of the game birds that hunters pursue and admire: grouse, quail, woodcock, doves, chukars, Hungarian partridge, and waterfowl. A heartfelt tribute to the freedom and magic of the hunt, Wingbeats and Heartbeats is a book that has much to say about work and fun, success and failure, and the sights, sounds, and smells of a day afield.

Just a Drop of Water

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1632202115
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (322 download)

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Book Synopsis Just a Drop of Water by : Kerry O'Malley Cerra

Download or read book Just a Drop of Water written by Kerry O'Malley Cerra and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Crystal Kite Award, this touching story explores what it mean to be a good friend, how you should react to a bully, and makes the events of September 11th, 2001 personal. In this story about growing up in a difficult part of America’s history, Jake Green is introduced as a cross country runner who wants to be a soldier and an American hero when he grows up. Before he can work far towards these goals, September 11th happens, and it is discovered that one of the hijackers lives in Jake’s town. The children in Jake’s town try to process everything, but they struggle. Jake’s classmate Bobby beats up Jake’s best friend, Sam Madina, just for being an Arab Muslim. According to his own code of conduct, Jake wants to fight Bobby for messing with his best friend. The situation gets more complicated when Sam’s father is detained and interrogated by the FBI. Jake’s mother doubts Sam’s father’s innocence. Jake must choose between believing his parents and leaving Bobby alone or defending Sam.

The Rule of Three

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Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374355029
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (743 download)

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Book Synopsis The Rule of Three by : Eric Walters

Download or read book The Rule of Three written by Eric Walters and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping adventure about what happens in the first hours, days, and weeks after the world goes dark

This Beats Perfect

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Publisher : Atom Books
ISBN 13 : 9780349002729
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (27 download)

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Book Synopsis This Beats Perfect by : Rebecca Denton

Download or read book This Beats Perfect written by Rebecca Denton and published by Atom Books. This book was released on 2017-01-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amelie Ayres has impeccable taste in music. Bowie. Bush. Bob. So when she finds herself backstage at The Keep's only UK gig she expects to hate it; after all they are world's most tragic band. In fact she feels a grudging respect -- not (obviously) for their music, but for the work that goes in to making them megastars. And when lead singer, 'Maxx', is not dressed up as a cross between Elvis and a My Little Pony, he is actually rather normal, talented and has creative struggles not too dissimilar to her own.

Killer Instinct

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1481402854
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (814 download)

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Book Synopsis Killer Instinct by : S.E. Green

Download or read book Killer Instinct written by S.E. Green and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When seventeen-year-old Lane becomes involved in the search for a serial killer active in the Washington, D.C. area, she worries that her life-long fascination with such murderers has a very real and terrible cause.

Text and Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1441143033
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Book Synopsis Text and Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll by : Simon Warner

Download or read book Text and Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll written by Simon Warner and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Text and Drugs and Rock'n'Roll explores the interaction between two of the most powerful socio-cultural movements in the post-war years - the literary forces of the Beat Generation and the musical energies of rock and its attendant culture. Simon Warner examines the interweaving strands, seeded by the poet/novelists Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs and others in the 1940s and 1950s, and cultivated by most of the major rock figures who emerged after 1960 - Bob Dylan, the Beatles, Bowie, the Clash and Kurt Cobain, to name just a few. This fascinating cultural history delves into a wide range of issues: Was rock culture the natural heir to the activities of the Beats? Were the hippies the Beats of the 1960s? What attitude did the Beat writers have towards musical forms and particularly rock music? How did literary works shape the consciousness of leading rock music-makers and their followers? Why did Beat literature retain its cultural potency with later rock musicians who rejected hippie values? How did rock musicians use the material of Beat literature in their own work? How did Beat figures become embroiled in the process of rock creativity? These questions are addressed through a number of approaches - the influence of drugs, the relevance of politics, the effect of religious and spiritual pursuits, the rise of the counter-culture, the issue of sub-cultures and their construction, and so on. The result is a highly readable history of the innumerable links between two of the most revolutionary artistic movements of the last 60 years.