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Rocking Toward a Free World

Author : András Simonyi
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1538762234
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book Rocking Toward a Free World written by András Simonyi and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From renowned diplomat and musician András Simonyi -- whom Stephen Colbert calls "the only ambassador I know who can shred a mean guitar!" -- comes a timely and revealing memoir about growing up behind the Iron Curtain and longing for freedom while chasing the great power of rock and roll. In ROCKING TOWARD A FREE WORLD, Simonyi charts the struggle of growing up in 1960s Hungary, a world in which listening to his favorite music was a powerful but furtive endeavor: records were black-market bootlegs; concerts were held under strict control, even banned; protests were folded into song lyrics. Get caught listening to Western radio could mean punishment, maybe prison. That didn't matter to Simonyi, who from an early age felt the tremendous pull of rock and roll, the lure of American popular culture, and a burning desire to buck the system. Inspired by the protest music coming out of the West, he formed a band and became part of Hungary's burgeoning rock scene. Then came the setbacks: tightening of control by the state, the seemingly inescapable weight of an authoritarian system, and the collapse of Simonyi's own dreams of stardom. A story of youth, rebellion, and hope, ROCKING TOWARD A FREE WORLD sheds new light on two of the most powerful forces of the modern age: global democracy and rock and roll. Deeply vital and compelling, Simonyi's memoir chronicles how one man's tremendous connection to American and British popular music inspired him to make a difference in his country and, eventually, the world. It tells the story of a generation, as played out in song lyrics and guitar riffs.

Rocking in the Free World

Author : Nicholas Tochka
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197566510
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)

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Download or read book Rocking in the Free World written by Nicholas Tochka and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Progressive and libertarian, anti-Communist and revolutionary, Democratic and Republican, quintessentially American but simultaneously universal. By the late 1980s, rock music had acquired a dizzying array of political labels. These claims about its political significance shared one common thread: that the music could set you free. Rocking in the Free World explains how Americans came to believe they had learned the truth about rock 'n' roll, a truth shaped by the Cold War anxieties of the Fifties, the countercultural revolutions (and counter-revolutions) of the Sixties and Seventies, and the end-of-history triumphalism of the Eighties. How did rock 'n' roll become enmeshed with so many different competing ideas about freedom? And what does that story reveal about the promise-and the limits-of rock music as a political force in postwar America?

Punk Revolution!

Author : John Malkin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538171732
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Punk Revolution! written by John Malkin and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-06-15 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the most wide-ranging and provocative look at punk rock as a social change movement over the past forty-five years, told through first-hand accounts of roughly 250 musicians and activists. John Malkin brings together punk’s most famous figures as well as underground voices, creating a new and insightful history of punk throughout the ages.

Capitalism and the Senses

Author : Regina Lee Blaszczyk
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 1512824216
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book Capitalism and the Senses written by Regina Lee Blaszczyk and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2023-06-13 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Singing in a Strange Land

Author : Nick Salvatore
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316030775
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Singing in a Strange Land written by Nick Salvatore and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2007-10-15 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A prizewinning historian pens this biography of C.L. Franklin, the greatest African-American preacher of his generation, father of Aretha, and civil rights pioneer.

All Music Guide Required Listening

Author : Chris Woodstra
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780879309176
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book All Music Guide Required Listening written by Chris Woodstra and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2007 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects reviews for one thousand enduring classic rock albums ranging from the extremely popular to more obscure works.

Keepers of the Gate: Defenders of the Free World

Author : Adrian P. Stubbs
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 146534358X
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (653 download)

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Download or read book Keepers of the Gate: Defenders of the Free World written by Adrian P. Stubbs and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-08-02 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Keepers of the Gate" What began as a grand experiment to form a multi-national counter-terrorist special operations group (MCTSOG), to combat the global spread of terrorism in the 21st century, eventually became the worlds premier special ops organization. The SOG commandos tackle traditional terrorism as well as threats from beyond the skies leading up to December 2012. This special military command employs the use of traditional military hardware and technologies, as well as technology that some would refer to as, "Tools of the gods". Follow the commandos and watch them live up to their motto, "Defenders of the Free World". Video trailer link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STAWOqJf4hg

Quake Chasers

Author : Lori Polydoros
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1641606495
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (416 download)

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Download or read book Quake Chasers written by Lori Polydoros and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2022-04-26 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sharing perspectives on their journeys into the physical sciences, these heroes provide readers with advice about overcoming adversity. Quake Chasers: 15 Women Rocking Earthquake Science explores the lives of 15 diverse, contemporary female scientists with a variety of specialties related to earthquake science. Dr. Debbie Weiser travels to communities post-disaster, such as Japan and China, to evaluate earthquake damage in ways that might help save lives during the next Big One. Geologist Edith Carolina Rojas climbs to the top of volcanoes or searches barren deserts for volcanic evidence to measure seismic activity. Geophysicist Lori Dengler works with governments to provide guidance and protection against future tsunamis. With tenacity, intellect, and innovation, these women have crushed obstacles in society, in the lab, and out in the field. Their accomplishments leave aftershocks as they work toward revealing answers to the many riddles that lie behind earthquakes, saving lives by teaching us how to prepare for these terrifying disasters. Young scientists can take away inspiration and advice on following their own dreams like these inspiring women. Women of Power. Bold books to inspire bold moves. Women of Power is a timely, inclusive, international, modern biography series that profiles 15 diverse, modern women who are changing the world in their field while empowering others to follow their dreams.

The Welcome Chair

Author : Rosemary Wells
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1534429778
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book The Welcome Chair written by Rosemary Wells and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this story based on true events, a treasured wooden chair is passed down from family to family, with each new owner carving the word "welcome" in a new language.

The Boat Rocker

Author : Ha Jin
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 : 0307911624
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book The Boat Rocker written by Ha Jin and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2016 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the award-winning author of Waiting and War Trash: an urgent, timely novel that follows an aspiring author, an outrageous book idea, and a lone journalist's dogged quest for truth in the Internet age. New York, 2005. Chinese expatriate Feng Danlin is a fiercely principled reporter at a small news agency that produces a website read by the Chinese diaspora around the world. Danlin's explosive exposés have made him legendary among readers--and feared by Communist officials. But his newest assignment may be his undoing: investigating his ex-wife, Yan Haili, an unscrupulous novelist who has willingly become a pawn of the Chinese government in order to realize her dreams of literary stardom. Haili's scheme infuriates Danlin both morally and personally--he will do whatever it takes to expose her as a fraud. But in outing Haili, he is also provoking her powerful political allies, and he will need to draw on all of his journalistic cunning to emerge from this investigation with his career--and his life--still intact. A brilliant, darkly funny story of corruption, integrity, and the power of the pen, The Boat Rocker is a tour de force of modern fiction.

Can't Slow Down

Author : Michaelangelo Matos
Publisher : Hachette Books
ISBN 13 : 0306903350
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book Can't Slow Down written by Michaelangelo Matos and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Rolling Stone-Kirkus Best Music Book of 2020 The definitive account of pop music in the mid-eighties, from Prince and Madonna to the underground hip-hop, indie rock, and club scenes Everybody knows the hits of 1984 - pop music's greatest year. From "Thriller" to "Purple Rain," "Hello" to "Against All Odds," "What's Love Got to Do with It" to "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go," these iconic songs continue to dominate advertising, karaoke nights, and the soundtracks for film classics (Boogie Nights) and TV hits (Stranger Things). But the story of that thrilling, turbulent time, an era when Top 40 radio was both the leading edge of popular culture and a moral battleground, has never been told with the full detail it deserves - until now. Can't Slow Down is the definitive portrait of the exploding world of mid-eighties pop and the time it defined, from Cold War anxiety to the home-computer revolution. Big acts like Michael Jackson (Thriller), Prince (Purple Rain), Madonna (Like a Virgin), Bruce Springsteen (Born in the U.S.A.), and George Michael (Wham!'s Make It Big) rubbed shoulders with the stars of the fermenting scenes of hip-hop, indie rock, and club music. Rigorously researched, mapping the entire terrain of American pop, with crucial side trips to the UK and Jamaica, from the biz to the stars to the upstarts and beyond, Can't Slow Down is a vivid journey to the very moment when pop was remaking itself, and the culture at large - one hit at a time.

Fake Liar Cheat

Author : Tod Goldberg
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743400569
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (434 download)

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Download or read book Fake Liar Cheat written by Tod Goldberg and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2000-07 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lonnie is drawn by Claire from his ordinary life of theft and blackmail into the world of L.A.'s ritzy nightlife. Along the way, he becomes an underground legend.

STOP THE WAR!

Author : Roman Dr. Schreiber
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (119 download)

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Download or read book STOP THE WAR! written by Roman Dr. Schreiber and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

For the Benefit of Those Who See

Author : Rosemary Mahoney
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316248703
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book For the Benefit of Those Who See written by Rosemary Mahoney and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of Oliver Sacks's The Island of the Colorblind, Rosemary Mahoney tells the story of Braille Without Borders, the first school for the blind in Tibet, and of Sabriye Tenberken, the remarkable blind woman who founded the school. Fascinated and impressed by what she learned from the blind children of Tibet, Mahoney was moved to investigate further the cultural history of blindness. As part of her research, she spent three months teaching at Tenberken's international training center for blind adults in Kerala, India, an experience that reveals both the shocking oppression endured by the world's blind, as well as their great resilience, integrity, ingenuity, and strength. By living among the blind, Rosemary Mahoney enables us to see them in fascinating close up, revealing their particular "quality of ease that seems to broadcast a fundamental connection to the world." Having read For the Benefit of Those Who See, you will never see the world in quite the same way again. "In this intelligent and humane book, Rosemary Mahoney writes of people who are blind . . . She reports on their courage and gives voice, time and again, to their miraculous dignity." -- Andrew Solomon, author of Far From the Tree

The World's Best Orations

Author : David Josiah Brewer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The World's Best Orations written by David Josiah Brewer and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

This Chair Rocks

Author : Ashton Applewhite
Publisher : Celadon Books
ISBN 13 : 1250311489
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book This Chair Rocks written by Ashton Applewhite and published by Celadon Books. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Wow. This book totally rocks. It arrived on a day when I was in deep confusion and sadness about my age. Everything about it, from my invisibility to my neck. Within four or five wise, passionate pages, I had found insight, illumination, and inspiration. I never use the word empower, but this book has empowered me.” —Anne Lamott, New York Times bestselling author Author, activist, and TED speaker Ashton Applewhite has written a rousing manifesto calling for an end to discrimination and prejudice on the basis of age. In our youth obsessed culture, we’re bombarded by media images and messages about the despairs and declines of our later years. Beauty and pharmaceutical companies work overtime to convince people to purchase products that will retain their youthful appearance and vitality. Wrinkles are embarrassing. Gray hair should be colored and bald heads covered with implants. Older minds and bodies are too frail to keep up with the pace of the modern working world and olders should just step aside for the new generation. Ashton Applewhite once held these beliefs too until she realized where this prejudice comes from and the damage it does. Lively, funny, and deeply researched, This Chair Rocks traces her journey from apprehensive boomer to pro-aging radical, and in the process debunks myth after myth about late life. Explaining the roots of ageism in history and how it divides and debases, Applewhite examines how ageist stereotypes cripple the way our brains and bodies function, looks at ageism in the workplace and the bedroom, exposes the cost of the all-American myth of independence, critiques the portrayal of elders as burdens to society, describes what an all-age-friendly world would look like, and offers a rousing call to action. It’s time to create a world of age equality by making discrimination on the basis of age as unacceptable as any other kind of bias. Whether you’re older or hoping to get there, this book will shake you by the shoulders, cheer you up, make you mad, and change the way you see the rest of your life. Age pride!

This Is Not a Love Story

Author : Judy Brown
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316400718
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)

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Download or read book This Is Not a Love Story written by Judy Brown and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A razor-sharp, hilarious, and poignant memoir about growing up in the closed world of the ultraorthodox Jewish community. The third of six children in a family that harks back to a gloried Hassidic dynasty, Judy Brown grew up with the legacy of centuries of religious teaching, and the faith and lore that sustained her people for generations. But her carefully constructed world begins to crumble when her "crazy" brother Nachum returns home after a year in Israel living with relatives. Though supposedly "cured," he is still prone to retreating into his own mind or erupting in wordless rages. The adults' inability to make him better -- or even to give his affliction a name -- forces Judy to ask larger questions: If God could perform miracles for her sainted ancestors, why can't He cure Nachum? And what of the other stories her family treasured? Judy starts to negotiate with God, swinging from holy tenets to absurdly hilarious conclusions faster than a Talmudic scholar: she goes on a fast to nab coveted earrings; she fights with her siblings at the dinner table for the ultimate badge of honor ("Who will survive the next Holocaust?"); and she adamantly defends her family's reputation when, scandalously, her parents are accused of having fallen in love -- -which is absolutely not what pious people do. For all its brutal honesty about this insular community, This Is Not a Love Story is ultimately a story of a family like so many others, whose fierce love for each other and devotion to their faith pulled them through the darkest time in their lives.