The Madonna Of Las Vegas

Author : Gregory Blake Smith
Publisher : Three Rivers Press (CA)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Madonna of Las Vegas written by Gregory Blake Smith and published by Three Rivers Press (CA). This book was released on 2005 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mixing elements of a classic whodunit with a very modern love story, "The Madonna of Las Vegas" is a truly original tale about an artist and the daughter of a local mob boss, who enter a world where meaning is often flipped, and where the fake and the real are interchangeable.

Author : Caroline Sullivan
Publisher : Carlton Books
ISBN 13 : 9781787391796
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Madonna written by Caroline Sullivan and published by Carlton Books. This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by acclaimed music journalist Caroline Sullivan, this in-depth, lavishly illustrated exploration of Madonna examines the superstar's music, style, and cultural influence. Madonna is the top-selling female recording artist of all time, and a fearless, boundary-pushing artist who constantly reinvents herself and her music. Updated to include Rebel Heart, this authoritative illustrated book examines all 13 of Madonna's studio albums in fine detail, placing each in context and charting the trendsetting musician's influence on fashion and popular culture. Covering every hit record and era-defining image, and featuring a wealth of rare and iconic photographs, Madonna takes a unique look at the legendary star's extraordinary output.

Author : Mary Gabriel
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316456446
Total Pages : 939 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Madonna written by Mary Gabriel and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2023-10-10 with total page 939 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Editors’ Choice, One of NPR’s Best Books of the Year In this “infinitely readable” biography, award-winning author Mary Gabriel chronicles the meteoric rise and enduring influence of the greatest female pop icon of the modern era: Madonna (People Magazine) With her arrival on the music scene in the early 1980s, Madonna generated nothing short of an explosion—as great as that of Elvis or the Beatles—taking the nation by storm with her liberated politics and breathtaking talent. Within two years of her 1983 debut album, a flagship Macy's store in Manhattan held a Madonna lookalike contest featuring Andy Warhol as a judge, and opened a department called “Madonna-land.” But Madonna was more than just a pop star. Everywhere, fans gravitated to her as an emblem of a new age, one in which feminism could shed the buttoned-down demeanor of the 1970s and feel relevant to a new generation. Amid the scourge of AIDS, she brought queer identities into the mainstream, fiercely defending a person's right to love whomever—and be whoever—they wanted. Despite fierce criticism, she never separated her music from her political activism. And, as an artist, she never stopped experimenting. Madonna existed to push past boundaries by creating provocative, visionary music, videos, films, and live performances that changed culture globally. Deftly tracing Madonna’s story from her Michigan roots to her rise to super-stardom, master biographer Mary Gabriel captures the dramatic life and achievements of one of the greatest artists of our time.

Author : John Talbot
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350232513
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Alcaic Metre in the English Imagination written by John Talbot and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-06-16 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reveals how a remarkable ancient Greek and Latin poetic form -- the alcaic metre -- found its way into English poetry, and continues shaping the imagination of poets today. English poets have always admired the extraordinary beauty and intricacy of the alcaic stanza (Tennyson called it 'the grandest of all measures') and their inventive responses to the ancient alcaic have generated remarkable innovations in the rhythms, sounds and shapes of modern poetry. This is the first book-length study of this neglected strand of English literary history and classical reception. Attending closely to the rhythm and texture of their verses, John Talbot reveals surprising connections between English poets across five centuries, among them Mary Shelley, Milton, Marvell, Tennyson, Edward FitzGerald, Wilfred Owen, W. H. Auden and Donald Hall. He gives special attention to a flourishing of English alcaics during the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and what it suggests about the changing place of classics and poetic form in contemporary culture.

Author : Dennis Rodman
Publisher : Dell
ISBN 13 : 0440222664
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bad as I Wanna Be written by Dennis Rodman and published by Dell. This book was released on 1997-05-12 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wild ride inside the glowing head of Dennis Rodman—the NBA's greatest rebounder and America's most outspoken and outrageous athlete. When Sports Illustrated put the man they call "America's most provocative athlete" on their cover, they sold more copies than any other issue they had sold in a decade (except the swimsuit issue). Why? Because Dennis Rodman has more in common with Mick Jagger than with his teammate Michael Jordan. With his body-covering tattoos and ever-changing fluorescent hair, Rodman's sideline antics and celebrated benchings captivated sports fans as much as his record-breaking on-court performances and earned him a reputation as a rebel with the same penchant for shocking behavior as his on-again off-again squeeze, Madonna. In Bad as I Wanna Be he shares his surprising and candid opinions on: • Mortality: “If I die young, everybody’s going to say they saw it coming.” • His game: “I never want to score. Never. I want to rebound.” • Having it all: “From the outside I had everything I could want. From the inside I had nothing but an empty soul and a gun in my lap.” . . . And so much more, including his life, from going to prison for stealing watches to his daughter, the light of his life. At a time when most celebrities and professional athletes try to control their public personas like politicians and refrain from expressing their true beliefs, Dennis Rodman is a refreshingly unique, uncompromising individual who both transcends his world and refuses to conform to it. Bad as I Wanna Be is as candid, intriguing, and unforgettable as he is.

Author : Estelle M. Hurll
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Madonna in Art written by Estelle M. Hurll and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Madonna in Art" by Estelle M. Hurll. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author : Cathy Schwichtenberg
Publisher : Westview Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Madonna Connection written by Cathy Schwichtenberg and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Various cultural theories (foremost among them, postmodernism) have figured in the debate over the politics of representation. These theories have tended to look at representation in the context of either audience enablement or commercial constraint; that is, do the images empower the public or inhibit it? One key area consistently overlooked has been the study of subcultural or subordinate groups that appropriate what is traditionally considered "mainstream". The Madonna Connection is the first book to address the complexities of race, gender, and sexuality in popular culture by using the influence of a cultural heroine to advance cultural theory. Madonna's use of various media - music, concert tour, film, and video - serves as a paradigm by which the contributors study how images and symbols associated with subcultural groups (multiracial, gay and lesbian, feminist) are smuggled into the mainstream. Using a range of critical and interpretive approaches to this evolving and lively cultural phenomenon, the contributors demonstrate the importance of personalities like Madonna to issues of enablement and constraint. Are "others" given voice by political interventions in mass popular culture? Or is their voice co-opted to provide mere titillation and maximum profit? What might the interplay of these views suggest? These are some of the questions the contributors attempt to answer. Some celebrate Madonna's affirmation of cultural diversity. Others criticize her flagrant self-marketing strategies. And still others regard her as only a provisional challenge to the mainstream.

Author : Paul Madonna
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780872867420
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On to the Next Dream written by Paul Madonna and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gentrification of San Francisco, forcing out everyone from artists to middle-income families, is captured in a first-person illustrated story.

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Madonna in Art written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Elizabeth Carter Vincent
Publisher : New York : T. Whittaker
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Madonna in Legend and History written by Elizabeth Carter Vincent and published by New York : T. Whittaker. This book was released on 1899 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: