Melancholy Baby, and Other Stories
Author | : Julia O'Faolain |
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Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Ireland |
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Author | : Julia O'Faolain |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Ireland |
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Author | : Michael G. Garber |
Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 367 |
Release | : 2021-06-28 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1496834313 |
2022 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Awards for Excellence—Certificate of Merit in the category of Best Historical Research in Recorded Rock and Popular Music Ten songs, from “Bill Bailey, Won’t You Please Come Home” (1902) to “You Made Me Love You” (1913), ignited the development of the classic pop ballad. In this exploration of how the style of the Great American Songbook evolved, Michael G. Garber unveils the complicated, often-hidden origins of these enduring, pioneering works. He riffs on colorful stories that amplify the rising of an American folk art composed by innovators both famous and obscure. Songwriters, and also the publishers, arrangers, and performers, achieved together a collective genius that moved hearts worldwide to song. These classic ballads originated all over the nation—Louisiana, Colorado, Illinois, Michigan—and then the Tin Pan Alley industry, centered in New York, made the tunes unforgettable sensations. From ragtime to bop, cabaret to radio, new styles of music and modes for its dissemination invented and reinvented the intimate, personal American love ballad, creating something both swinging and tender. Rendered by Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, and a host of others, recordings and movies carried these songs across the globe. Using previously underexamined sources, Garber demonstrates how these songs shaped the music industry and the lives of ordinary Americans. Besides covering famous composers like Irving Berlin, this history also introduces such little-known figures as Maybelle Watson, who had to sue to get credit and royalties for creating the central content of the lyric for “My Melancholy Baby.” African American Frank Williams contributed to the seminal “Some of These Days” but was forgotten for decades. The ten ballads explored here permanently transformed American popular song.
Author | : Kate Jennings |
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Release | : 1986 |
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Author | : Tim Burton |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 138 |
Release | : 2002-10-22 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0060526491 |
From breathtaking stop-action animation to bittersweet modern fairy tales, filmmaker Tim Burton has become known for his unique visual brilliance -- witty and macabre at once. Now he gives birth to a cast of gruesomely sympathetic children -- misunderstood outcasts who struggle to find love and belonging in their cruel, cruel worlds. His lovingly lurid illustrations evoke both the sweetness and the tragedy of these dark yet simple beings -- hopeful, hapless heroes who appeal to the ugly outsider in all of us, and let us laugh at a world we have long left behind (mostly anyway).
Author | : Vasiliĭ Aksenov |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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This celebrated Russian emigre novelist chronicles his encounter with America; through his eyes readers see the psyche, the landscape and the cultural life of the United States. Contains a new postscript on Gorbachev.
Author | : Gail Godwin |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 2001-01-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0380729865 |
The novels of Gail Godwin are contemporary classics--evocative, powerfully affecting, beautifully crafted fiction alive with endearing, unforgettable characters. Her critically acclaimed work has placed her among the ranks of Eudora Welty, Pat Conroy, and Carson McCullers, firmly establishing Godwin as a Southern literary novelist for the ages. Father Melancholy's Daughter, is widely recognized as one of the author's most poignant and accomplished novels -- a bittersweet and ultimately transcendent story of a young girl's devotion to her father, the rector of a small Virginia church, and of the hope, dreams, and love that sustain them both in the wake of the betrayal and tragedy that diminished their family.
Author | : Maurice Sendak |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 1989-02-28 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0064431851 |
With Papa off to sea and Mama despondent, Ida must go outside over there to rescue her baby sister from goblins who steal her to be a goblin's bride.
Author | : S. K. Adams |
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Release | : 1978 |
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Author | : Robert B. Parker |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 2004-09-23 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1101205024 |
When Sunny Randall helps a young woman locate her birth parents, she uncovers the dark truth about her own past.
Author | : Megan Milks |
Publisher | : Emergency Press |
Total Pages | : 138 |
Release | : 2014-03-11 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0989473686 |
Kill Marguerite and Other Stories collects thirteen risk-taking stories obsessed with crossing boundaries, whether formal or corporeal. Narrative genres are giddily mongrelized: the Sweet Valley twins get stuck in a choose-your-own-adventure story; Mean Girls-like violence gets embedded within a classic video game. Protagonists cycle through a series of startling, sometimes violent, changes in gender, physiology, and even species, occasionally blurring into other characters or swapping identities entirely. One woman metamorphoses into a giant slug; another quite literally eats her heart out; a wasp falls in love with an orchid; and a Greek god impregnates a man’s thigh with a sword. More than just a straightforward celebration of the carnivalesque, though, these fictions are deeply engaged, both critically and politically, with the ways that social power operates on, and through, queer bodies.