Black Velvet Elvis

Author : J. D. Black
Publisher : The Porcupine's Quill
ISBN 13 : 9780889842779
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Velvet Elvis written by J. D. Black and published by The Porcupine's Quill. This book was released on 2006 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The King himself puts in a cameo appearance at a rural Quebec Gas-Bar de la Nuit where the glowing ends of several dozen cigarettes counterpoint an urgent bass line to the syncopated doo-wap of several tens of thousands of fireflies.

Author : Rob Bell
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0310273080
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Velvet Elvis written by Rob Bell and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2006-06-29 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In order to find an authentic understanding of the Christian faith, Bell frees readers to consider God beyond the picture someone else painted.

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Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1604737956
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Velvet Art written by and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2011-01-19 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jesus, matadors, panthers, bandits, Indians, movie stars, waifs, and, of course, Elvis are recognized icons of the oft-despised, uber-kitsch art form of black velvet painting. In Black Velvet Art author Eric A. Eliason and photographer Scott Squire present a comprehensive overview of this covertly-loved and overtly-reviled tradition. In cooperation with a network of artists, collectors, importers, and gallery owners in Tijuana, Los Angeles, Seattle, and Calgary, this book draws from the largest survey of velvet painting ever undertaken. The book traces velvet's historical development as a folk art shaped by both indigenous traditions as well as Western consumer expectations in such markets as the South Pacific, Southeast Asia, and particularly the U.S./Mexico border and the black velvet capital of Tijuana. In black velvet, class and taste challenge art as a consumer phenomenon, democratic spirit faces down elitism, reproduction questions originality, and sexuality seduces and provokes religiosity. What is most significant about black velvet art to many Americans is its signaling of the nadir of bad taste. Black velvet is the "anti-art" in many ways. Eliason seeks to explore how and why black velvet serves this function and to examine ways it deserves a glowing redemption.

Author : Carl Baldwin
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 9780811862073
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Velvet Masterpieces written by Carl Baldwin and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2008-04-30 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains 275 reproductions of black velvet paintings. It traces the roots of the art form from ancient China and Japan through to Victorian England, the Pacific, Southeast Asia and the Americas.

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Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816520343
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Underground Heart written by and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The award-winning author returns to his roots in the Southwest, driving the highways of New Mexico and Texas, and writing about the changing landscape and a thriving and diverse border culture.

Author : Christopher Ward
Publisher : Random House Canada
ISBN 13 : 034581035X
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Is This Live? written by Christopher Ward and published by Random House Canada. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A fascinating, moving recollection that celebrates one of the great achievements in Canadian television." Elaine Lui, author of Listen to the Squawking Chicken "Ward celebrates...raw, forward-thinking, multicultural, multigender-produced content by finally freezing it in a compelling book where, occasionally he himself wonders, ‘How the hell did we do that?’” The Globe and Mail “What a blast! With a raucous mix of music and personalities, Christopher Ward has compiled the ultimate treasure trove of Canada’s 1980s rock scene. Everybody you remember is here. Revealing, entertaining, enlightening and, most all, fun.” Will Ferguson From the first Canadian VJ Christopher Ward, Is This Live? captures the pure fun and rock ’n’ roll rebellion of the early years of MuchMusic television. On August 31, 1984, the Nation’s Music Station launched, breaking ground as the Wild West of Canadian television—live, gloriously unpredictable, seat-of-the-pants TV, delivered fresh daily. The careers of Canadian legends like Blue Rodeo, Corey Hart, Jane Siberry, Bryan Adams, Platinum Blonde, Glass Tiger, Colin James, the Parachute Club, Honeymoon Suite, Barenaked Ladies, Maestro Fresh Wes and Sloan were launched when Much brought them closer to their fans. Much also gave us international acts (Duran, Duran, Tina Turner, Iggy Pop, David Bowie, Madonna, Motorhead, Guns N’ Roses, Nirvana, Red Hot Chili Peppers), and covered the second wave of music activism with events like Live Aid and the Amnesty International Human Rights Now! tour. Ranging from Toronto’s iconic studio at 299 Queen Street West, to Vancouver’s MuchWest, MuchMusic’s programming travelled across Canada and connected the Canadian music scenes in an unprecedented way. The dream child of TV visionary Moses Znaimer, and John Martin, the maverick creator of The New Music, Much was live and largely improvised, and an entire generation of Canadians grew up watching the VJs and embraced the new music that became the video soundtrack of our lives. With stories of the bands, the music, the videos, the specialty shows, the style and the improvisational approach to daily broadcast life at Much, Is This Live? is told by the people who were there—the colourful cast of on-air VJs, the artists who found their way into our living rooms of the nation as never before, and the people behind the cameras. As our tour guide to the first decade at MuchMusic Christopher Ward delivers a full-on dose of pop culture nostalgia from the 1980s and ’90s, when the music scene in Canada changed forever.

Author : Elvis Costello
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0399167250
Total Pages : 689 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink written by Elvis Costello and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 689 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A personal introspective by the influential pop songwriter and performer traces his Liverpool upbringing, artistic influences, creative pursuit of original punk sounds, and emergence in the MTV world.

Author : George Plasketes
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9781560249108
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Images of Elvis Presley in American Culture, 1977-1997 written by George Plasketes and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Was Al Gore only half-kidding at the 1992 Democratic Convention when he compared Bill Clinton to "the King?" Why does Elvis's name and image still pop up in so many movies, television shows, and songs? From black velvet paintings, comic books, and postage stamps to impersonators, movie characters, and sports stars, Images of Elvis Presley in American Culture, 1977--1997 provides a surprisingly broad vista from which to view American popular culture. An insightful exploration of America's overwhelming and enduring cultural fascination with the expanding and elusive Elvis myth, this book combines historical, textual, and sociocultural analysis with a wide range of resource materials to examine the many images of Elvis in American culture. Focusing on the period following his death in 1977 up to the present, Elvis Presley in American Culture, 1977--1997 informs and entertains popular readers and academicians in American studies, popular culture, radio/television/film, sociology, music, and 20th-century American history. Elvis fans ("Elfans") and collectors of Elvis Presley materials and memorabilia also need to add this perspective-enhancing book to your personal libraries. Author George Plasketes shows us how representations, reflections, responses, and references to Elvis in art, artifacts, film, video, television, music, performance, literature, memorabilia, and alleged sightings, continue to make American culture a "mystery terrain" of endless "Elvistas." The repetition of these images is a link to our cultural identity. Elvis Presley in American Culture, 1977--1997 provides the necessary critical analysis and the resource guide to the various representations of Elvis during the past 20 years, to give readers an engaging and informative way to pursue and interpret the expansive and ever-evolving Elvis myth and its importance to American popular culture.

Author : Greil Marcus
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300196644
Total Pages : 599 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Real Life Rock written by Greil Marcus and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 599 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Washington Post hails Greil Marcus as our greatest cultural critic. Writing in the London Review of Books, D. D. Guttenplan calls him probably the most astute critic of American popular culture since Edmund Wilson. For nearly thirty years, he has written a remarkable column that has migrated from the Village Voice to Artforum, Salon, City Pages, Interview, and The Believer and currently appears in the Barnes & Noble Review. It has been a laboratory where Marcus has fearlessly explored and wittily dissected an enormous variety of cultural artifacts, from songs to books to movies to advertisements, teasing out from the welter of everyday objects what amounts to a de facto theory of cultural transmission. Published to complement the paperback edition of The History of Rock & Roll in Ten Songs, Real Life Rock reveals the critic in full: direct, erudite, funny, fierce, vivid, astute, uninhibited, and possessing an unerring instinct for art and fraud. The result is an indispensable volume packed with startling arguments and casual brilliance.

Author : Charles Reagan Wilson
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820329659
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Judgment and Grace in Dixie written by Charles Reagan Wilson and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2007-06-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religion has permeated nearly every aspect of modern southern culture in the US, with results that range from portraits of Jesus on black velvet to the soul-stirring orations of Martin Luther King Jr. This work gives an appraisal of religion's influence on such expressions of regional life as literature, music and folk art.