Dazzling Stranger

Author : Colin Harper
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781408831021

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The guitarists' guitarist and the songwriters' songwriter, the legendary Bert Jansch has influenced stars as diverse as Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, Paul Simon, Sandy Denny, Nick Drake, Donovan, Pete Townshend, Neil Young, Bernard Butler, Beth Orton and Laura Marling. Unassuming, enigmatic and completely focused on his music until his death in October 2011, he remained singularly resilient to the vagaries of fashion, being rediscovered and revered by new generations of artists every few years. Born in Edinburgh in 1943, Jansch became an inspirational and pioneering figure during Britain's 'folk revival' of the 1960s. In 1967 he formed folk/jazz fusion band Pentangle with John Renbourn and enjoyed international success until they split in 1973, when he returned to a solo career. In Dazzling Stranger, Colin Harper looks at the career Jansch enjoyed, which has secured his standing as one of the true originals of British music.

Author : Colleen Josephine Sheehy,Thomas Swiss
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780816660995

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Highway 61 Revisited by Colleen Josephine Sheehy,Thomas Swiss Pdf

The young man from Hibbing released Highway 61 Revisited in 1965, and the rest, as they say, is history. Or is it? From his roots in Hibbing, to his rise as a cultural icon in New York, to his prominence on the worldwide stage, Colleen J. Sheehy and Thomas Swiss bring together the most eminent Dylan scholars at work today--as well as people from such farreaching fields as labor history, African American studies, and Japanese studies--to assess Dylan's career, influences, and his global impact on music and culture.

Author : Colin Harper
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2006-08-21
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780747587255

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'An excellent biography of one of folk's cult figures.' - Independent on Sunday

Author : Dan Zanes,Claudia Eliaza
Publisher : Young Voyageur
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-11
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780760362020

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Dan Zanes' House Party! by Dan Zanes,Claudia Eliaza Pdf

In Dan Zanes' House Party!, the Grammy Award-winning children's artist presents a huge collection of folk songs along with inspiration to start your own family band. Too often, new parents eager to share their love of music with their young children feel their options are limited to cuddly singing dinosaurs and well-meaning humans whose understanding of children’s music starts with “Kumbaya” and ends with “Puff the Magic Dragon.” For many sane adults, these choices are more abrasive than the most aggro noise-rock of their college years. Dan Zanes has spent the past 20 years creating a truly compelling body of children's music that music-loving parents can also get behind. A former 1980s indie rocker, Zanes' 13 children's albums have gained wide praise for their authentic arrangements and preservation of America's folk traditions. In Dan Zanes' House Party!, the Grammy Award–winning Zanes has curated a rich selection of folk songs that comprise an essential musical cross-section of the American experience and its multicultural, immigrant underpinnings. The selections include the standard songs we all know and love, along with folk classics. Each song is accompanied by a brief narrative on its historical context, followed by lyrics, notation, and chords. Among the songs you'll learn to play: "Erie Canal," "Pay Me My Money Down," "Titanic," "Waltzing Matilda," "The Farmer Is the One," "Wabash Cannonball," "Sloop John B.," "Old Joe Clark," "Skip to My Lou," "King Kong Kitchie," and "We Shall Not Be Moved." Dan Zanes' House Party! also includes informational sidebars throughout to give families the basics needed to pick up instruments and learn to more fully enjoy music as a family band. And in the back of the book, you'll find chord charts for guitar, ukele, and mandolin. More than just a collection of songs, Dan Zanes’ House Party! is part music book, part history lesson, and a work that all families can enjoy—together.

Author : Nick Wisseman
Publisher : Nick Wisseman
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Outcasts: Short Stories by Nick Wisseman Pdf

A collection of short reads with elements of fantasy, science fiction, history, mystery, and horror. Unwilling saviors, fumbling gods, speechless leaders, helpless villains, misguided detectives, abandoned heroes, misled daughters, repentant adulterers, murdered authors, jilted conquerors ... These are my outcasts. And these are their stories. ~~~~ This anthology includes the following pieces: - "Branded Faith" first appeared in Bewildering Stories, issue 330, March 2009. - "Charted Waters" first appeared in Mysterical-E, Spring 2008. - "Ghost Writer" first appeared in Allegory Magazine, volume 7, issue 34, September 2008. - "Love and World Eaters" first appeared in Books to Go Now, August 2011. - "Low-Limb High" first appeared in Bewildering Stories, issue 339, June 2009. - "Permanence" first appeared in Perpetual Magazine, February 2009. - "Revisions" first appeared in Battered Suitcase, volume 1, issue 4, September 2008. - "Smile" first appeared in The Cynic Online Magazine, volume 10, issue 10, October 2008 and Bewildering Stories, issue 335, May 2009. - "Splintered" first appeared in Bewildering Stories, issue 443, August 2011. - "Time Trick" first appeared in Bewildering Stories, issue 351, August 2009.

Author : Paul Hegarty
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781789140231

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Peter Gabriel by Paul Hegarty Pdf

Peter Gabriel is one of contemporary music’s great experimenters. From his work in the progressive group Genesis, through his pioneering solo albums, to his enthusiastic embrace of world music and new technologies, Gabriel has remained steadfast in his commitment to redefining music’s boundaries and influence—geographical, virtual, and thematic. Peter Gabriel offers nuanced and trenchant insight into this enigmatic, questing musician and his works, into an artist whose constant traveling—through identities, influences, and media—defines him as one of modern culture’s truly global citizens. At the heart of Paul Hegarty’s analysis is the idea of locatedness: what it means to be in a specific place at a given time, and to reflect on that time and the changes which inevitably occur. Gabriel’s work, Hegarty argues, can be understood as a series of reflections on the “where” of being—a facet of existence that spans everything from politics to psychology, philosophy, psychogeography, and inward reflection.

Author : B. Markewitch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:V000633768

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The Neglected Question by B. Markewitch Pdf

Author : Boleslav Mikhaĭlovich Markevich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCD:31175021457786

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The Neglected Question [Zabytyĭ Vopros] by Boleslav Mikhaĭlovich Markevich Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1864
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IBNR:CR102006962

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The Select Poetical Works of William Wordsworth by Anonim Pdf

Author : Paul Hegarty,Martin Halliwell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781501370823

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Beyond and Before, Updated and Expanded Edition by Paul Hegarty,Martin Halliwell Pdf

The original edition of Beyond and Before extends an understanding of “progressive rock” by providing a fuller definition of what progressive rock is, was and can be. Called by Record Collector “the most accomplished critical overview yet” of progressive rock and one of their 2011 books of the year, Beyond and Before moves away from the limited consensus that prog rock is exclusively English in origin and that it was destroyed by the advent of punk in 1976. Instead, by tracing its multiple origins and complex transitions, it argues for the integration of jazz and folk into progressive rock and the extension of prog in Kate Bush, Radiohead, Porcupine Tree and many more. This 10-year anniversary revised edition continues to further unpack definitions of progressive rock and includes a brand new chapter focusing on post-conceptual trends in the 2010s through to the contemporary moment. The new edition discusses the complex creativity of progressive metal and folk in greater depth, as well as new fusions of genre that move across global cultures and that rework the extended form and mission of progressive rock, including in recent pop concept albums. All chapters are revised to keep the process of rethinking progressive rock alive and vibrant as a hybrid, open form.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 876 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112100550596

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New Catholic World by Anonim Pdf

Author : William Wordsworth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1020 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UVA:X030832841

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The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth Pdf

Author : William [poetical works] Wordsworth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1837
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:400262596

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The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth by William [poetical works] Wordsworth Pdf

Author : Aubrey De Vere
Publisher : London : Macmillan
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : English essays
ISBN : UOM:39015030739265

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Essays Chiefly on Poetry by Aubrey De Vere Pdf

Author : William Wordsworth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 740 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : English poetry
ISBN : NLS:V000705718

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Poetical Works ... by William Wordsworth Pdf