Flannery At The Grammys

Author : Irwin H. Streight
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 149685022X
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flannery at the Grammys written by Irwin H. Streight and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2024-06-20 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A devout Catholic, a visionary—and some say prophetic—writer, Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964) has gained a growing presence in contemporary popular culture. While O’Connor professed that she did not have an ear for music, allusions to her writing appear in the lyrics and narrative form of some of the most celebrated musicians on the contemporary music scene. Flannery at the Grammys sounds the extensive influence of this southern author on the art and vision of a suite of American and British singer-songwriters and pop groups. Author Irwin H. Streight invites critical awareness of O’Connor’s resonance in the products of popular music culture—in folk, blues, rock, gospel, punk, heavy metal, and indie pop songs by some of the most notable figures in the popular music business. Streight examines O'Connor's influence on the art and vision of multiple Grammy Award winners Bruce Springsteen, Lucinda Williams, R.E.M., and U2, along with celebrated songwriters Nick Cave, PJ Harvey, Sufjan Stevens, Mary Gauthier, Tom Waits, and others. Despite her orthodox religious, and at times controversial, views and limited literary output, O’Connor has left a curiously indelible mark on the careers of the successful musicians discussed in this volume. Still, her acknowledged influence and remarkable presence in contemporary pop and rock songs has not been well noted by pop music critics and/or literary scholars. Many years in the making, Flannery at the Grammys achieves groundbreaking work in cultural studies and combines in-depth literary and pop music scholarship to engage the informed devotee and the casual reader alike.

Author : Irwin H Streight
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781496825940
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flannery at the Grammys written by Irwin H Streight and published by . This book was released on 2024-07-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How a southern writer's power reverberates through acclaimed popular music

Author : Neil E. Clement
Publisher : MTCC Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 0998631175
Total Pages : 742 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Twentieth Century Music Writers - A Hyperlist written by Neil E. Clement and published by MTCC Publishing Company . This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How many composers, songwriters and lyricists wrote music in the twentieth century?? Who were they?? This first edition identifies more than 14,000 people who did so, and all are listed in this eBook alphabetically along with a hyperlink to their Wikipedia biographical data. Performers of blues, folk, jazz, rock & roll and R&B are included by default. PLEASE NOTE: THE HYPERLINKS IN THIS BOOK ONLY FUNCTION ON GOOGLE PLAY aka THE 'FLOWING' VERSION. The hyperlinks in this book DO NOT CURRENTLY FUNCTION on the GOOGLE BOOKS ' FIXED' version.

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Total Pages : 658 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Year Book Covering the Year ... written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas O'Neil
Publisher : Perigee Trade
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 732 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Grammys written by Thomas O'Neil and published by Perigee Trade. This book was released on 1999 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the first awards ceremony in 1958 to the last call on the party circuit in 1998, "The Grammys" gives readers the inside scoop on the music industry's highest honor.

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Total Pages : 654 pages
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Download or read book 1973 YEAR BOOK written by and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Timothy P. Lynch
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1604736720
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Strike Songs of the Depression written by Timothy P. Lynch and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2009-11-12 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Depression brought unprecedented changes for American workers and organized labor. As the economy plummeted, employers cut wages and laid off workers, while simultaneously attempting to wrest more work from those who remained employed. In mills, mines, and factories workers organized and resisted, striking for higher wages, improved working conditions, and the right to bargain collectively. As workers walked the picket line or sat down on the shop floor, they could be heard singing. This book examines the songs they sang at three different strikes- the Gastonia, North Carolina, textile mill strike (1929), Harlan County, Kentucky, coal mining strike (1931-32), and Flint, Michigan, automobile sit-down strike (1936-37). Whether in the Carolina Piedmont, the Kentucky hills, or the streets of Michigan, the workers' songs were decidedly class-conscious. All show the workers' understanding of the necessity of solidarity and collective action. In Flint the strikers sang: The trouble in our homestead Was brought about this way When a dashing corporation Had the audacity to say You must all renounce your union And forswear your liberties, And we'll offer you a chance To live and die in slavery. As a shared experience, the singing of songs not only sent the message of collective action but also provided the very means by which the message was communicated and promoted. Singing was a communal experience, whether on picket lines, at union rallies, or on shop floors. By providing the psychological space for striking workers to speak their minds, singing nurtured a sense of community and class consciousness. When strikers retold the events of their strike, as they did in songs, they spread and preserved their common history and further strengthened the bonds among themselves. In the strike songs the roles of gender were pronounced and vivid. Wives and mothers sang out of their concerns for home, family, and children. Men sang in the name of worker loyalty and brotherhood, championing male solidarity and comaraderie. Informed by the new social history, this critical examination of strike songs from three different industries in three different regions gives voice to a group too often deemed as inarticulate. This study, the only book-length examination of this subject, tells history "from the bottom up" and furthers an understanding of worker culture during the tumultuous Depression years.

Author : Julia A. Fesmire
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135721149
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beth Henley written by Julia A. Fesmire and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beth Henley was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Drama and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best American Play for her first full-length play, Crimes of the Heart, yet there has been no book-length consideration of her body of work until now. This volume includes original essays that contextualize and analyze her works from a variety of perspectives, focusing on her vexed status as a southern writer, her use of the comic grotesque, and her alleged feminist critiques of modern society. Receiving special attention are lesser-known plays which are crucial to understanding Henley's development as a playwright and postmodern thinker.

Author : James Rovira
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000688836
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women in Rock, Women in Romanticism written by James Rovira and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-10-07 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women in Rock, Women in Romanticism is the first book-length work to explore the interrelationships between contemporary female musicians and eighteenth- and nineteenth-century art, music, and literature by women and men. The music and videos of contemporary musicians including Erykah Badu, Beyoncé, The Carters, Hélène Cixous, Missy Elliot, the Indigo Girls, Janet Jackson, Janis Joplin (and Big Brother and the Holding Company), Natalie Merchant, Joni Mitchell, Janelle Monáe, Alanis Morrisette, Siouxsie Sioux, Patti Smith, St. Vincent (Annie Clark), and Alice Walker are explored through the lenses of pastoral and Afropresentism, Gothic, female Gothic, and the literature of William Blake, Beethoven, Arthur Schopenhauer, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Charlotte Dacre, Ralph Waldo Emerson, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Ann Radcliffe, William Shakespeare, Mary Shelley, her husband Percy Shelley, Henry David Thoreau, Horace Walpole, Jane Williams, Mary Wollstonecraft, and William Wordsworth to explore how each sheds light on the other, and how women have appropriated, responded to, and been inspired by the work of authors from previous centuries.

Author : Ruth Prigozy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781496828170
Total Pages : 314 pages
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Download or read book The Life of Dick Haymes written by Ruth Prigozy and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-18 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the superstar crooner, his rise, fall, and struggle for a second act