The Oxford American Book Of Great Music Writing
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Author | : Marc Smirnoff |
Publisher | : University of Arkansas Press |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 2012-01-01 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9781610752992 |
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Not only have a breathtaking array of musical giants come from the South—think Elvis Presley, Robert Johnson, Louis Armstrong, Jimmie Rodgers, to name just obvious examples—but so have a breathtaking array of American music genres. From blues to rock & roll to jazz to country to bluegrass—and areas in between—it all started in the American South. Since its debut in 1996, The Oxford American's more-or-less annual Southern Music Issue has become legendary for its passionate and wide-ranging approach to music and for working with some of America's greatest writers. These writers—from Peter Guralnick to Nick Tosches to Susan Straight to William Gay—probe the lives and legacies of Southern musicians you may or may not yet be familiar with, but whom you'll love being introduced, or reintroduced, to. In one creative, fresh way or another, these writers also uncover the essence of music—and why music has such power over us. To celebrate ten years of Southern music issues, most of which are sold-out or very hard to find, the fifty-five essays collected in this dynamic, wide-ranging, and vast anthology appeal to both music fans and fans of great writing.
Author | : Marc Smirnoff |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : American literature |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Joyce Carol Oates |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 788 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780195092622 |
Download The Oxford Book of American Short Stories Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This volume offers a survey of American short fiction in 59 tales that combine classic works with 'different, unexpected gems', which invite readers to explore a wealth of important pieces by women and minority writers. Authors include: Amy Tan, Alice Adams, David Leavitt and Tim O'Brien.
Author | : Nick Hornby |
Publisher | : Da Capo Press |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 2001-10-03 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780306810664 |
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A new collection of essays and articles about music and its culture covers diverse modern styles--rock, pop, rap, jazz, blues, country, and more--and features works by Rick Moody, Camden Joy, Courtney Love, Richard Meltzer, Whitney Balliett, and other notables.
Author | : George Orwell |
Publisher | : Renard Press Ltd |
Total Pages | : 15 |
Release | : 2021-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1913724263 |
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George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding totalitarianism. While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic novels in the English language, this new series of Orwell’s essays seeks to bring a wider selection of his writing on politics and literature to a new readership. In Why I Write, the first in the Orwell’s Essays series, Orwell describes his journey to becoming a writer, and his movement from writing poems to short stories to the essays, fiction and non-fiction we remember him for. He also discusses what he sees as the ‘four great motives for writing’ – ‘sheer egoism’, ‘aesthetic enthusiasm’, ‘historical impulse’ and ‘political purpose’ – and considers the importance of keeping these in balance. Why I Write is a unique opportunity to look into Orwell’s mind, and it grants the reader an entirely different vantage point from which to consider the rest of the great writer’s oeuvre. 'A writer who can – and must – be rediscovered with every age.' — Irish Times
Author | : Linda Wagner-Martin |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 612 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780195132458 |
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"A sumptuous selection of short fiction and poetry. . . . Its invitation to share the passion of women's voices characterizes the entire volume."--"USA Today."
Author | : Christopher C. King |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2018-05-29 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 039324900X |
Download Lament from Epirus: An Odyssey into Europe's Oldest Surviving Folk Music Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
A Wall Street Journal Best Book of 2018 In the tradition of Patrick Leigh Fermor and Geoff Dyer, a Grammy-winning producer discovers a powerful and ancient folk music tradition. In a gramophone shop in Istanbul, renowned record collector Christopher C. King uncovered some of the strangest—and most hypnotic—sounds he had ever heard. The 78s were immensely moving, seeming to tap into a primal well of emotion inaccessible through contemporary music. The songs, King learned, were from Epirus, an area straddling southern Albania and northwestern Greece and boasting a folk tradition extending back to the pre-Homeric era. To hear this music is to hear the past. Lament from Epirus is an unforgettable journey into a musical obsession, which traces a unique genre back to the roots of song itself. As King hunts for two long-lost virtuosos—one of whom may have committed a murder—he also tells the story of the Roma people who pioneered Epirotic folk music and their descendants who continue the tradition today. King discovers clues to his most profound questions about the function of music in the history of humanity: What is the relationship between music and language? Why do we organize sound as music? Is music superfluous, a mere form of entertainment, or could it be a tool for survival? King’s journey becomes an investigation into song and dance’s role as a means of spiritual healing—and what that may reveal about music’s evolutionary origins.
Author | : Chris Offutt |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2017-04-11 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1501112473 |
Download My Father, the Pornographer Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
A memoir in which "writer Chris Offutt struggles to understand his recently deceased father based on his reading of the 400-plus novels [Andrew Offutt]--a well-known writer of pornography in the 1970s and 80s--left him in his will"--Publisher marketing.
Author | : Bryan A. Garner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780195135084 |
Download The Oxford Dictionary of American Usage and Style Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Covers basic grammar, punctuation, spelling, and idiomatic phrases of American English.
Author | : Jack Perricone |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0199967652 |
Download Great Songwriting Techniques Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
A thorough songwriting guide featuring lessons that cover melody, harmony, rhythm, lyric writing, and form, along with emphasis on loop-based and riff-based writing, with hundreds of examples from well-known songwriters and a companion accessible website to listen to audio samples.