Melancholy Baby
Author | : Sheila Katherine Adams |
Publisher | : Samuel French, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 84 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Comedies |
ISBN | : 9780573612008 |
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Author | : Sheila Katherine Adams |
Publisher | : Samuel French, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 84 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Comedies |
ISBN | : 9780573612008 |
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 | : 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 | : Vasiliĭ Aksenov |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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 | : Christopher Durang |
Publisher | : Grove Press |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780802131300 |
In 'Laughing Wild, ' two comic monologues evolve into a man's and an woman's shared nightmare of modern life and the isolation it creates.
Author | : Kate Jennings |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1986 |
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Author | : László F. Földényi (Foldenyi) |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2016-04-26 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0300220693 |
Alberto Manguel praises the Hungarian writer László Földényi as “one of the most brilliant essayists of our time.” Földényi’s extraordinary Melancholy, with its profusion of literary, ecclesiastical, artistic, and historical insights, gives proof to such praise. His book, part history of the term melancholy and part analysis of the melancholic disposition, explores many centuries to explore melancholy’s ambiguities. Along the way Földényi discovers the unrecognized role melancholy may play as a source of energy and creativity in a well-examined life. Földényi begins with a tour of the history of the word melancholy, from ancient Greece to the medieval era, the Renaissance, and modern times. He finds the meaning of melancholy has always been ambiguous, even paradoxical. In our own times it may be regarded either as a psychic illness or a mood familiar to everyone. The author analyzes the complexities of melancholy and concludes that its dual nature reflects the inherent tension of birth and mortality. To understand the melancholic disposition is to find entry to some of the deepest questions one’s life. This distinguished translation brings Földényi’s work directly to English-language readers for the first time.
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 | : Robert Rawlins |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2015-11-15 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780996594905 |
In Tunes of the Twenties author Robert Rawlins discusses each of the 250 songs included in his previous publication The Real Dixieland Book, taking readers backstage to share the intriguing stories associated with their publication and subsequent history. Anyone who holds a fascination for the era of prohibition, flappers, and speakeasies will enjoy reading about the music that went along with it.
Author | : Joshua Wolf Shenk |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 538 |
Release | : 2006-10-02 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 054752689X |
A nuanced psychological portrait of Abraham Lincoln that finds his legendary political strengths rooted in his most personal struggles. Giving shape to the deep depression that pervaded Lincoln's adult life, Joshua Wolf Shenk’s Lincoln’s Melancholy reveals how this illness influenced both the President’s character and his leadership. Mired in personal suffering as a young man, Lincoln forged a hard path toward mental health. Shenk draws on seven years of research from historical record, interviews with Lincoln scholars, and contemporary research on depression to understand the nature of Lincoln’s unhappiness. In the process, Shenk discovers that the President’s coping strategies—among them, a rich sense of humor and a tendency toward quiet reflection—ultimately helped him to lead the nation through its greatest turmoil. A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice SELECTED AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Washington Post Book World, Atlanta Journal-Constituion, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette As Featured on the History Channel documentary Lincoln “Fresh, fascinating, provocative.”—Sanford D. Horwitt, San Francisco Chronicle “Some extremely beautiful prose and fine political rhetoric and leaves one feeling close to Lincoln, a considerable accomplishment.”—Andrew Solomon, New York Magazine “A profoundly human and psychologically important examination of the melancholy that so pervaded Lincoln's life.”—Kay Redfield Jamison, Ph.D., author of An Unquiet Mind