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Download or read book Peppermint Twist written by John Johnson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-11-13 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The never-before-told story of The Peppermint Lounge, the famed Manhattan nightspot and mobster hangout that launched an era The Peppermint Lounge was intended to be nothing more than a front for gambling and other rackets but the club became a sensation after Dick "Cami" Camillucci began to feature a new kind of music, rock and roll. The mobsters running the place found themselves juggling rebellious youths alongside celebrities like Greta Garbo and Shirley MacLaine. When The Beatles visited the club, Cami's uncle-in-law had to restrain a hitman who was after Ringo because his girlfriend was so infatuated with the drummer. Working with Dick Cami himself, Johnson and Selvin unveil this engrossing story of the go-go sixties and the club that inspired the classic hits "Twisting the Night Away" and "The Peppermint Twist."
Book Synopsis Dancing with the Mob by : M. S. Reed
Download or read book Dancing with the Mob written by M. S. Reed and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-12 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Falling in love with the enemy wasn't in my plans. It all started as a game. Now he's my newfound addiction.It's like nothing I had ever experienced before. But what about our families? In a never-ending war since I can remember. Sworn mob enemies and not allowed to be seen together, let alone be together. But our want for one another will be the least of our worries. There is a puzzle of lies and deception that will change us all. Every one of us, in the labyrinth of this strange, untouchable world. Can we ever really be together, or is fate destined to destroy us all?
Download or read book The Last Dance written by Eldon Ham and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-02-28 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Retired Chicago Homicide Detective James Jimmy Jack grew up in the Chicago neighborhoods with many of Chicagos future crime figures, and later he investigated or arrested many during his years on the force. I have known Jimmy Jack for over fifteen years, and his personal memoir The Last Dance offers many personal behind the scenes stories regarding the personalities and events behind the great Family Secrets mob trial. It is a must read for anyone interested in organized crime, especially the Chicago Outfit and names like Giancana to Spilotro, Calabrese, Lombardo, and many more. Scott Cassidy Special Assistant to the Cook County Sheriff; Former Chief, Cook County Special Prosecutions Unit
Book Synopsis This Way to Paradise by : Willard Manus
Download or read book This Way to Paradise written by Willard Manus and published by Lycabettus Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mob Culture written by Lee Grieveson and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mob Culture offers a long-awaited, fresh look at the American gangster film, exposing its hidden histories from the Black Hand gangs of the early twentieth century to The Sopranos. Departing from traditional approaches that have typically focused on the "nature" of the gangster, the editors have collected essays that engage the larger question of how the meaning of criminality has changed over time. Grouped into three thematic sections, the essays examine gangster films through the lens of social, gender, and racial/ethnic issues.
Download or read book Amateur Media written by Dan Hunter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rise of Web 2.0 has pushed the amateur to the forefront of public discourse, public policy and media scholarship. Typically non-salaried, non-specialist and untrained in media production, amateur producers are now seen as key drivers of the creative economy. But how do the activities of citizen journalists, fan fiction writers and bedroom musicians connect with longer traditions of extra-institutional media production? This edited collection provides a much-needed interdisciplinary contextualisation of amateur media before and after Web 2.0. Surveying the institutional, economic and legal construction of the amateur media producer via a series of case studies, it features contributions from experts in the fields of law, economics and media studies based in the UK, Europe and Singapore. Each section of the book contains a detailed case study on a selected topic, followed by two further pieces providing additional analysis and commentary. Using an extraordinary array of case studies and examples, from YouTube to online games, from subtitling communities to reality TV, the book is neither a celebration of amateur production nor a denunciation of the demise of professional media industries. Rather, this book presents a critical dialogue across law and the humanities, exploring the dynamic tensions and interdependencies between amateur and professional creative production. This book will appeal to both academics and students of intellectual property and media law, as well as to scholars and students of economics, media, cultural and internet studies.
Book Synopsis Inside the White Cube by : Brian O'Doherty
Download or read book Inside the White Cube written by Brian O'Doherty and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays explicitly confront a particular crisis in postwar art, seeking to examine the assumptions on which the modern commercial and museum gallery was based.
Book Synopsis We Come with this Place by : Debra Dank
Download or read book We Come with this Place written by Debra Dank and published by Footnote Press. This book was released on 2023-11-02 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction Indigenous Writers' Prize UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing Longlisted for the 2023 Stella Prize Prime Minister's Summer Reading List 2022, Grattan Institute We Come with This Place is a remarkable book, as rich, varied and surprising as the vast landscape in which it is set. Debra Dank has created an extraordinary mosaic of vivid episodes that move about in time and place to tell an unforgettable story of country and people. There is great pain in these pages, and anger at injustice, but also great love, in marriage and in family, and for the land. Dank faces head on the ingrained racism, born of brutal practice and harsh legislation, that lies always under the skin of Australia, the racism that calls a little Aboriginal girl names and beats and rapes and disenfranchises the generations before hers. She describes sudden terrible violence, between races and sometimes at home. But overwhelmingly this is a book about strong, beloved parents and grandparents, guiding and teaching their children and grandchildren what country means, about joyful gatherings and the pleasures of eating food provided by the place that nourishes them, both spiritually and physically. We Come with This Place is deeply personal, a profound tribute to family and the Gudanji Country in Australia, to which Debra Dank belongs, but it is much more than that. Here is Australia as it has been for countless generations, land and people in effortless balance, and Australia as it became, but also Australia as it could and should be.
Book Synopsis Gendered Bodies and Leisure by : Rachel Kraus
Download or read book Gendered Bodies and Leisure written by Rachel Kraus and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its roots in Middle Eastern and North African dance, belly dance is a popular leisure activity in the West with women (and some men) of all ages and body types pursing the activity for diverse reasons. Drawing on empirical research, fieldwork, and interviews with participants, this book investigates the social world and small group cultures of American belly dance, examining the various ways in which people use leisure to construct the self and social relationships. With attention to gender expectations, body image, sexuality, community, spiritual experiences, and the process of identifying with a leisure activity, this book shows how people engage in the same pursuit in a variety of ways. It sheds light on the manner in which dancers strive to deal with the challenges presented by internal power struggles and legitimacy bids, public beliefs, narrow cultural ideals of beauty and often sexualized assumptions about their art. A fascinating study of identity work and the reproduction and challenging of gender norms through a gendered leisure activity, Gendered Bodies and Leisure: The Practice and Performance of American Belly Dance will be of interest to students and scholars researching gender and sexuality, the sociology of leisure, the sociology of the body and interactionist thought.
Download or read book The Belt written by Paul Field Sifton and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Dancing with the Devil by : Louis Diaz
Download or read book Dancing with the Devil written by Louis Diaz and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-08-30 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes Diaz's daring undercover effort to stop New York City kingpin Leroy "Nicky" Barnes, describing his infiltration of the dangerous drug operation and sharing details from other front-page cases
Download or read book Perpetual Motion written by Harmony Bench and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new exploration of how digital media assert the relevance of dance in a wired world How has the Internet changed dance? Dance performances can now be seen anywhere, can be looped endlessly at user whim, and can integrate crowds in unprecedented ways. Dance practices are evolving to explore these new possibilities. In Perpetual Motion, Harmony Bench argues that dance is a vital part of civil society and a means for building participation and community. She looks at how, after 9/11, it became a crucial way of recuperating the common character of public spaces. She explores how crowdsourcing dance contributes to the project of performing a common world, as well as the social relationships forged when we look at dance as a gift in the era of globalization. Throughout, she asks how dance brings people together in digital spaces and what dance’s digital travels might mean for how we experience and express community. From original research on dance today to political economies of digital media to the philosophy of dance, Perpetual Motion provides an ambitious, invigorating look at a commonly shared practice.
Book Synopsis Unruly Rhetorics by : Jonathan Alexander
Download or read book Unruly Rhetorics written by Jonathan Alexander and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2018-10-26 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What forces bring ordinary people together in public to make their voices heard? What means do they use to break through impediments to democratic participation? Unruly Rhetorics is a collection of essays from scholars in rhetoric, communication, and writing studies inquiring into conditions for activism, political protest, and public assembly. An introduction drawing on Jacques Rancière and Judith Butler explores the conditions under which civil discourse cannot adequately redress suffering or injustice. The essays offer analyses of “unruliness” in case studies from both twenty-first-century and historical sites of social-justice protest. The collection concludes with an afterword highlighting and inviting further exploration of the ethical, political, and pedagogical questions unruly rhetorics raise. Examining multiple modes of expression – embodied, print, digital, and sonic – Unruly Rhetorics points to the possibility that unruliness, more than just one of many rhetorical strategies within political activity, is constitutive of the political itself.
Download or read book Tandem Dances written by Julia M. Ritter and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-27 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tandem Dances: Choreographing Immersive Performance is the first book to propose dance and choreography as frames through which to examine immersive theatre, more broadly known as immersive performance. Indicative of a larger renaissance in storytelling during the digital age, immersive performance is influenced by emerging computer technologies, such as virtual reality and advances in video-gaming, as well as increased interest in new forms of experiential entertainment. The idea of tandemness suggesting motion that is achieved by two bodies working together and acting in conjunction with one another is critical throughout the book. Author Julia M. Ritter persuasively argues that practitioners of immersive productions deploy choreography as a structural mechanism to mobilize the bodies of cast and audience members to perform together. Furthermore, choreography is contextualized as an effective tool for facilitating audience participation towards immersion as an affect. Through a focus on Western dance histories, theories, and practices, Ritter's close choreographic analysis of immersive productions, along with unique insights from choreographers, directors, performers, and spectators, enlivens discourse across dramaturgy, kinesthesia, affect, and co-authorship. By foregrounding the choreographic in order to examine its specific impact on the evolution of immersive theater, Tandem Dances explores choreography as a discursive domain that is fundamentally related to creative practice, agendas of power and control, and concomitant issues of freedom and agency.
Book Synopsis Perspectives on American Dance by : Jennifer Atkins
Download or read book Perspectives on American Dance written by Jennifer Atkins and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dancing embodies cultural history and beliefs, and each dance carries with it features of the place where it originated. Influenced by different social, political, and environmental circumstances, dances change and adapt. American dance evolved in large part through combinations of multiple styles and forms that arrived with each new group of immigrants. Perspectives on American Dance is the first anthology in over twenty-five years to focus exclusively on American dance practices across a wide span of American culture. This volume and its companion show how social experience, courtship, sexualities, and other aspects of life in America are translated through dancing into spatial patterns, gestures, and partner relationships. This volume of Perspectives on American Dance features essays by a young generation of authors who write with familiarity about their own era, exploring new parameters of identity and evaluating a wide variety of movement practices being performed in spaces beyond traditional proscenium stages. Topics include "dorky dancing" on YouTube; same-sex competitors on the TV show So You Think You Can Dance; racial politics in NFL touchdown dances; the commercialization of flash mobs; the connections between striptease and corporate branding; how 9/11 affected dance; the criminalization of New York City club dancing; and the joyous ironies of hipster dance. This volume emphasizes how dancing is becoming more social and interactive as technology opens up new ways to create and distribute dance. The accessible essays use a combination of movement analysis, thematic interpretation, and historical context to convey the vitality and variety of American dance. They offer new insights on American dance practices while simultaneously illustrating how dancing functions as an essential template for American culture and identity. Contributors: Jennifer Atkins | Jessica Berson | J. Ellen Gainor | Patsy Gay | Ansley Jones | Kate Mattingly | Hannah Schwadron | Sally Sommer, Ph.D. | Ina Sotirova | Dawn Springer | Michelle T. Summers | Latika L. Young | Tricia Henry Young
Book Synopsis Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man by : Harold Bloom
Download or read book Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man written by Harold Bloom and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of interpretations of Ralph Ellison's novel, "Invisible man."
Download or read book Issue 8 written by Connor Whiteley and published by CGD Publishing. This book was released on 2022-11-04 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 85,000 words of gripping, enthralling fiction from best-selling writer Connor Whiteley in one amazing collection. Featuring two novellas and 6 short stories from some of his most popular series, you know you’re in for an amazing treat and will be reading late into the night. Issue 8’s Intriguing Short Stories Includes: · Past, Theft and Team: A Bettie Private Eye Mystery Short Story · Christmas Innocence; A Christmas Private Eye Mystery Short Story · You Better Watch Out: A Christmas Crime Short Story · An Awful Way To Go: A Kendra Detective Mystery Short Story · The Royal Code: An Urban Fantasy Short Story · Dragon Coins: An Urban Fantasy Short Story Also includes two action packed short novels: · Freedom: A Fantasy Adventure Short Novel · Vigilance: Science Fiction Mystery Short Novel BUY NOW!
