Anthems We Love

Author : Steve Baltin
Publisher : Harper Horizon
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780785290537

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Anthems We Love by Steve Baltin Pdf

"Anthems We Love is not just a tale of artistic adventure, it's also a manual for artists and fans alike. There is no formula. Just these inspiring stories of the heart . . . " —Cameron Crowe, Academy Award–nominated director, producer, and screenwriter (Jerry Maguire, Almost Famous, Say Anything, and Pearl Jam Twenty) From U2 to Carly Simon, the Temptations to TLC, artists describe in their own words how their songs became the soundtrack of your life in this celebration of music featuring original interviews by acclaimed music journalist Steve Baltin. Which Beach Boys’ song brings Paul McCartney to tears? What makes “Light My Fire” a rite-of-passage song for teens in every generation, according to Doors guitarist Robby Krieger? What is it about music that brings back so vividly the passion of our early loves, our deepest losses, our richest memories? Acclaimed music journalist Steve Baltin examines twenty-nine iconic songs of modern music to ultimately answer: what transforms a song into an anthem? How did these songs become such a part of our culture? Featuring original interviews with superstar musicians like the Beach Boys, Shania Twain, and Earth Wind and Fire, this book offers a detailed celebration of songwriting, fan connections, memorable live performances, and more. A must-have anthology for music fans, Anthems We Love showcases the most beloved and popular songs of all time, including Neil Diamond’s “Sweet Caroline,” the Jackson 5’s “ABC,” Aerosmith’s “Walk This Way,” and TOTO’s “Africa.” More so, it centers the artists behind these songs—and the songs that formed the soundtracks of their lives—as they share stories, for the first time, about how writing an anthem has changed their lives, those of their fans, and our world.

Author : Ayn Rand
Publisher : Ayn Rand Institute Press
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780996010139

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Anthem by Ayn Rand Pdf

About this Edition This 2021-2022 Digital Student Edition of Ayn Rand's Anthem was created for teachers and students receiving free novels from the Ayn Rand Institute, and includes a historic Q&A with Ayn Rand that cannot be found in any other edition of Anthem. In this Q&A from 1979, Rand responds to questions about Anthem sent to her by a high school classroom. About Anthem Anthem is Ayn Rand’s “hymn to man’s ego.” It is the story of one man’s rebellion against a totalitarian, collectivist society. Equality 7-2521 is a young man who yearns to understand “the Science of Things.” But he lives in a bleak, dystopian future where independent thought is a crime and where science and technology have regressed to primitive levels. All expressions of individualism have been suppressed in the world of Anthem; personal possessions are nonexistent, individual preferences are condemned as sinful and romantic love is forbidden. Obedience to the collective is so deeply ingrained that the very word “I” has been erased from the language. In pursuit of his quest for knowledge, Equality 7-2521 struggles to answer the questions that burn within him — questions that ultimately lead him to uncover the mystery behind his society’s downfall and to find the key to a future of freedom and progress. Anthem anticipates the theme of Rand’s first best seller, The Fountainhead, which she stated as “individualism versus collectivism, not in politics, but in man’s soul.”

Author : Andrew Ford,Anni Heino
Publisher : La Trobe University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781743821060

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The Song Remains the Same by Andrew Ford,Anni Heino Pdf

An illuminating history of the song for every kind of music lover Often today, the word ‘song’ is used to describe all music. A free-jazz improvisation, a Hindustani raga, a movement from a Beethoven symphony: apparently, they’re all songs. But they’re not. From Sia to Springsteen, Archie Roach to Amy Winehouse, a song is a specific musical form. It’s not so much that they all have verses and choruses – though most of them do – but that they are all relatively short and self-contained; they have beginnings, middles and ends; they often have a single point of view, message or story; and, crucially, they unite words and music. Thus, a Schubert song has more in common with a track by Joni Mitchell or Rihanna than with one of Schubert’s own symphonies. The Song Remains the Same traces these connections through seventy-five songs from different cultures and times: love songs, anthems, protest songs, lullabies, folk songs, jazz standards, lieder and pop hits; ‘When You Wish Upon a Star’ to ‘We Will Rock You’, ‘Jerusalem’ to ‘Jolene’. Unpicking their inner workings makes familiar songs strange again, explaining and restoring the wonder, joy (or possibly loathing) the reader experienced on first hearing. ‘As much about singing, musicianship and recording as it is about songwriting, this eclectic ride through a unique choice of songs (everyone will argue for alternatives) is cleverly curated and littered with intriguing details about the creators and their times, filled with loving cross-references to other songs and deft musical analysis. I defy anyone not to leap online to listen to the unfamiliar, or re-listen to old favourites in light of new detail. One of the best games in this book is figuring out why one song follows the other: there’s always an intelligent, often very funny, link.’ —Robyn Archer

Author : Josh O'Kane
Publisher : ECW Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781770908406

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Nowhere with You by Josh O'Kane Pdf

Joel Plaskett has earned an awful lot of honourifics in his career so far, counting folk hero, indie darling, and national treasure among them. And that's just since the Halifax musician started making records of his own in 1999. For a decade before that, he was one-quarter of Thrush Hermit, a band of scrappy Superchunk mimics who became hard-rock revivalists and one of the last survivors of the '90s pop "explosion" of major-label interest in Halifax. Canada's east coast has never been much of a pop-culture mecca. Most musicians from the region who've ever made it big moved away. But armed with a stubborn streak and a knack for great songwriting, Plaskett has kept Halifax as his home, building both a career and a music community there. Along the way, he's earned great respect: when he plays shows in Alberta, east-coast expats literally thank him for staying home. Nowhere With You is the study of how he pulled this off, from the origins of Canada's east-coast exodus to Plaskett's anointment as "Halifax's Rick Rubin." It's a story about what happens when you call a city "the new Seattle," about the lessons you learn playing to empty rooms in Oklahoma, and about defying radio-single expectations with rock operas and triple records. It's about doing what you want, where you want, no matter how much work it takes.

Author : United States. Office of Education
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1917
Category : Teachers
ISBN : UCAL:B3023734

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Teachers Leaflet by United States. Office of Education Pdf

Author : National Board for Historical Service
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1917
Category : History
ISBN : OSU:32435028435212

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Opportunities for History Teachers by National Board for Historical Service Pdf

Author : United States. Office of Education
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1917
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015035868200

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Teacher's Leaflet by United States. Office of Education Pdf

Author : United States. Office of Education
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1918 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1921
Category : Education
ISBN : CORNELL:31924106164472

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Bulletin by United States. Office of Education Pdf

Author : Arthur Jay Klein,Charles Robinson Toothaker,John Joseph Mahoney,National Education Association of the United States. Commission on the Reorganization of Secondary Education,National Education Association of the United States. Commission on the Reorganization of Secondary Schools,Samuel Paul Capen,United States. Office of Education
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 940 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : Adult education
ISBN : UIUC:30112059702040

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Reorganization of Science in Secondary Schools by Arthur Jay Klein,Charles Robinson Toothaker,John Joseph Mahoney,National Education Association of the United States. Commission on the Reorganization of Secondary Education,National Education Association of the United States. Commission on the Reorganization of Secondary Schools,Samuel Paul Capen,United States. Office of Education Pdf

Author : Alice Barrows,Arthur Jay Klein,Charles Robinson Toothaker,Hannah Margaret Harris,John Joseph Mahoney,Katherine Margaret Cook,National Education Association of the United States. Commission on the Reorganization of Secondary Education,Walton Colcord John,Walter Sylvanus Deffenbaugh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1558 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : Adult education
ISBN : MSU:31293009601521

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Training Teachers for Americanization by Alice Barrows,Arthur Jay Klein,Charles Robinson Toothaker,Hannah Margaret Harris,John Joseph Mahoney,Katherine Margaret Cook,National Education Association of the United States. Commission on the Reorganization of Secondary Education,Walton Colcord John,Walter Sylvanus Deffenbaugh Pdf

Author : Aleksandar Pavkovic,Christopher Kelen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780857726421

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Anthems and the Making of Nation States by Aleksandar Pavkovic,Christopher Kelen Pdf

Anthems are symbolic means through which nations present themselves to the world. Accordingly, creating seven new nation states out of the bones of Yugoslavia required new anthems. Why did these new states opt for century-old national songs or, failing this, for the anthems without words? What are the images and symbols that each of these states chose as their 'national signatures' and how were these chosen? This book explores a variety of images of nationhood (or the absence of them) in the lyrics of the official anthems and of competing national songs and traces their historical trajectory from the time of their conception to their legal entrenchment. This is the first full-length study into the symbolic representations of nationhood in the recently created nation states of the Balkans."

Author : John Shaw
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781610392242

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This Land that I Love by John Shaw Pdf

February, 1940: After a decade of worldwide depression, World War II had begun in Europe and Asia. With Germany on the march, and Japan at war with China, the global crisis was in a crescendo. America's top songwriter, Irving Berlin, had captured the nation's mood a little more than a year before with his patriotic hymn, “God Bless America.” Woody Guthrie was having none of it. Near-starving and penniless, he was traveling from Texas to New York to make a new start. As he eked his way across the country by bus and by thumb, he couldn't avoid Berlin's song. Some people say that it was when he was freezing by the side of the road in a Pennsylvania snowstorm that he conceived of a rebuttal. It would encompass the dark realities of the Dust Bowl and Great Depression, and it would begin with the lines: “This land is your land, this land is my land….” In This Land That I Love, John Shaw writes the dual biography of these beloved American songs. Examining the lives of their authors, he finds that Guthrie and Berlin had more in common than either could have guessed. Though Guthrie's image was defined by train-hopping, Irving Berlin had also risen from homelessness, having worked his way up from the streets of New York. At the same time, This Land That I Love sheds new light on our patriotic musical heritage, from “Yankee Doodle” and “The Star-Spangled Banner” to Martin Luther King's recitation from “My Country 'Tis of Thee” on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in August 1963. Delving into the deeper history of war songs, minstrelsy, ragtime, country music, folk music, and African American spirituals, Shaw unearths a rich vein of half-forgotten musical traditions. With the aid of archival research, he uncovers new details about the songs, including a never-before-printed verse for “This Land Is Your Land.” The result is a fascinating narrative that refracts and re-envisions America's tumultuous history through the prism of two unforgettable anthems.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1864
Category : Anthems
ISBN : BL:A0022609206

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Anthems, canticles, and hymns ... for congregational worship by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Music
ISBN : MINN:31951001935668D

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The Musical Standard by Anonim Pdf

Author : Rhian Jones,Eli Davies,Tamar Shlaim
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781910924686

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Under My Thumb by Rhian Jones,Eli Davies,Tamar Shlaim Pdf

Women write about their experiences of loving music that doesn’t love them back – a feminist 'guilty pleasures'.e - a kind of feminist guilty pleasures. In the majority of mainstream writing and discussions on music, women appear purely in relation to men as muses, groupies or fangirls, with our own experiences, ideas and arguments dismissed or ignored. But this hasn’t stopped generations of women from loving, being moved by and critically appreciating music, even – and sometimes especially – when we feel we shouldn’t. Under My Thumb: Songs that Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them is a study of misogyny in music through the eyes of women. It brings together stories from journalists, critics, musicians and fans about artists or songs we love (or used to love) despite their questionable or troubling gender politics, and looks at how these issues interact with race, class and sexuality. As much celebration as critique, this collection explores the joys, tensions, contradictions and complexities of women loving music – however that music may feel about them. Featuring: murder ballads, country, metal, hip hop, emo, indie, Phil Spector, David Bowie, Guns N’ Roses, 2Pac, the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, AC/DC, Elvis Costello, Jarvis Cocker, Kanye West, Swans, Eminem, Jay-Z, Taylor Swift, Combichrist and many more.