Jonestown Lullaby

Author : Teri Buford O'Shea
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-14
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1462037380

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Jonestown Lullaby by Teri Buford O'Shea Pdf

At age nineteen, author Teri O’Shea joined Peoples Temple in California led by Jim Jones. A member for seven years, she escaped Peoples Temple three weeks before the massacre in Jonestown, Guyana. The raw and powerful poems in Jonestown Lullaby explore her experience in Jonestown and the aftermath of her survival. A personal confidant to Jim Jones for seven years, O’Shea writes about the harrowing nightmare of Jonestown with an intensity and passion seldom captured in poetic form. Teri was the last person to escape Peoples’ Temple before the massacre in Jonestown; now, she turns to writing to help find her way back to a more peaceful life. Jonestown Lullaby records her voyage, with vivid, stark images of the bewildering world that was Jonestown and the pathological madness of Jim Jones. Teri includes photographs of some of the Peoples Temple members who lived and lost their lives there; revealing an aspect of Jonestown rarely seen. This is her tribute to those who died so tragically. I Write I write from the poor side of silence Of an unholy priesthood that Captured my soul for a time These poems Neither confession nor biography Follow the voyage of a lonely spirit Into a realm where there are no answers

Author : George D. Chryssides,Benjamin E. Zeller
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441198297

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The Bloomsbury Companion to New Religious Movements by George D. Chryssides,Benjamin E. Zeller Pdf

The Bloomsbury Companion to New Religious Movements covers key themes such as charismatic leadership, conversion and brainwashing, prophecy and millennialism, violence and suicide, gender and sexuality, legal issues, and the portrayal of New Religious Movements by the media and anti-cult organisations. Several categories of new religions receive special attention, including African new religions, Japanese new religions, Mormons, and UFO religions. This guide to New Religious Movements and their critical study brings together 29 world-class international scholars, and serves as a resource to students and researchers. The volume highlights the current state of academic study in the field, and explores areas in which future research might develop. Clearly and accessibly organised to help users quickly locate key information and analysis, the book includes an A to Z of key terms, extensive guides to further resources, a comprehensive bibliography, and a timeline of major developments in the field such as the emergence of new groups, publications, legal decisions, and historical events.

Author : Julia Scheeres
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781451628968

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A Thousand Lives by Julia Scheeres Pdf

In 1954, a pastor named Jim Jonesopened a church in Indianapolis called Peoples Temple Full Gospel Church. He was a charismatic preacher with idealistic beliefs, and he quickly filled his pews with an audience eager to hear his sermons on social justice. As Jones’s behavior became erratic and his message more ominous, his followers leaned on each other to recapture the sense of equality that had drawn them to his church. But even as the congregation thrived, Jones made it increasingly difficult for members to leave. By the time Jones moved his congregation to a remote jungle in Guyana and the US government began to investigate allegations of abuse and false imprisonment in Jonestown, it was too late. A Thousand Lives is the story of Jonestown as it has never been told. New York Times bestselling author Julia Scheeres drew from tens of thousands of recently declassified FBI documents and audiotapes, as well as rare videos and interviews, to piece together an unprecedented and compelling history of the doomed camp, focusing on the people who lived there. The people who built Jonestown wanted to forge a better life for themselves and their children. In South America, however, they found themselves trapped in Jonestown and cut off from the outside world as their leader goaded them toward committing “revolutionary suicide” and deprived them of food, sleep, and hope. Vividly written and impossible to forget, A Thousand Lives is a story of blind loyalty and daring escapes, of corrupted ideals and senseless, haunting loss.

Author : Eugene Field
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Children's poetry
ISBN : PRNC:32101067644292

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Lullaby Land by Eugene Field Pdf

Author : John Gimlette
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02-03
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781847654144

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Wild Coast by John Gimlette Pdf

Dolman Travel Book of the Year 2012 Between the Orinoco and the Amazon lies a fabulous forested land, barely explored. Much of Guiana seldom sees sunlight, and new species are often tumbling out of the dark trees. Shunned by the conquistadors, it was left to others to carve into colonies. Guyana, Suriname and Guyane Franaise are what remain of their contest, and the 400 years of struggle that followed. Now, award-winning author John Gimlette sets off along this coast, gathering up its astonishing story. His journey takes him deep into the jungle, from the hideouts of runaway slaves to penal colonies, outlandish forts, remote Amerindian villages, a 'Little Paris' and a space port. He meets rebels, outlaws and sorcerers; follows the trail of a vicious Georgian revolt, and ponders a love-affair that changed the face of slavery. Here too is Jonestown, where, in 1978, over 900 Americans, members of Reverend Jones's cult, committed suicide. The last traces are almost gone now, as the forest closes in. Beautiful, bizarre and occasionally brutal, this is one of the great forgotten corners of the Earth: the Wild Coast.

Author : Katherine L. Turner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317010548

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This is the Sound of Irony: Music, Politics and Popular Culture by Katherine L. Turner Pdf

The use of irony in music is just beginning to be defined and critiqued, although it has been used, implied and decried by composers, performers, listeners and critics for centuries. Irony in popular music is especially worthy of study because it is pervasive, even fundamental to the music, the business of making music and the politics of messaging. Contributors to this collection address a variety of musical ironies found in the ’notes themselves,’ in the text or subtext, and through performance, reception and criticism. The chapters explore the linkages between irony and the comic, the tragic, the remembered, the forgotten, the co-opted, and the resistant. From the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries, through America, Europe and Asia, this provocative range of ironies course through issues of race, religion, class, the political left and right, country, punk, hip hop, folk, rock, easy listening, opera and the technologies that make possible our pop music experience. This interdisciplinary volume creates new methodologies and applies existing theories of irony to musical works that have made a cultural or political impact through the use of this most multifaceted of devices.

Author : Diana Secker Larson
Publisher : Everyman's Library
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2002-04-30
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780375414190

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Lullabies and Poems for Children by Diana Secker Larson Pdf

In this enchanting and comprehensive collection, the lullabies we all were rocked to sleep with, such as “Rock-a-Bye Baby” and “Hush Little Baby, Don’t You Cry,” mingle with traditional lullabies from around the world. Here are beautiful lyrics to sing or read to little ones, from Shakespeare’s lullaby for the fairy queen, Titania, to Brahms’s “Lullaby”; and from Gershwin’s “Summertime” to Langston Hughes’s lovely lullaby for a “night black baby.” Here, too, are poems for children that range from tender to nonsensical, from quiet to raucous–from Walter de la Mare to T. S. Eliot to Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, and Ogden Nash. Whether the intent is to soothe or to amuse, there’s something here for every mood, every child, and the child in every adult. A delightful, gift-perfect collection.

Author : Danzy Senna
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780698172463

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New People by Danzy Senna Pdf

Named a BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, VOGUE, TIME MAGAZINE, NPR and THE ROOT Named A 2017 BEST SUMMER READ BY Vogue • Elle • Harper's Bazaar • Glamour • Buzzfeed • In Style • Men's Journal • Bustle • Ms. Magazine • Pop Sugar • Newsday • The Millions • Time Out • Bitch • CNN's The Lead • The Fader "[A] cutting take on race and class...part dark comedy, part surreal morality tale. Disturbing and delicious." -People "You’ll gulp Senna’s novel in a single sitting—but then mull over it for days.” –Entertainment Weekly "Everyone should read it." –Vogue From the bestselling author of Caucasia, a subversive and engrossing novel of race, class and manners in contemporary America. As the twentieth century draws to a close, Maria is at the start of a life she never thought possible. She and Khalil, her college sweetheart, are planning their wedding. They are the perfect couple, "King and Queen of the Racially Nebulous Prom." Their skin is the same shade of beige. They live together in a black bohemian enclave in Brooklyn, where Khalil is riding the wave of the first dot-com boom and Maria is plugging away at her dissertation, on the Jonestown massacre. They've even landed a starring role in a documentary about "new people" like them, who are blurring the old boundaries as a brave new era dawns. Everything Maria knows she should want lies before her--yet she can't stop daydreaming about another man, a poet she barely knows. As fantasy escalates to fixation, it dredges up secrets from the past and threatens to unravel not only Maria's perfect new life but her very persona. Heartbreaking and darkly comic, New People is a bold and unfettered page-turner that challenges our every assumption about how we define one another, and ourselves.

Author : Jesse Valencia
Publisher : Jawbone Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-28
Category : Music
ISBN : 1911036475

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Keep Music Evil by Jesse Valencia Pdf

The Brian Jonestown Massacre are probably best known for their leader Anton Newcombe’s incendiary persona, as captured in the controversial 2004 rockumentary Dig! - which won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance - but what isn’t known is the truth behind the making of the film, or the true story of the band since their formation in early 1990s San Francisco. Until now. Writer, actor, and musician Jesse Valencia spent ten years uncovering the mysteries of the band and the film, during which time he has traveled from San Francisco to Denver, Portland to Tucson, and beyond, gathering pieces of the band’s history and putting them together, clue by clue, until he found it. Presented as a personal narrative and compiled from hundreds of sources and interviews with key members of The Brian Jonestown Massacre - including Joel Gion, Rick Maymi, Frankie Emerson, Jeff Davies, Dean Taylor, Miranda Lee Richards, and Peter Hayes - as well as members of The Dandy Warhols, Dig! director Ondi Timoner, and countless other figures from both the film and from the band’s greater history, Keep Music Evil is the definitive work on the band and their enigmatic leader. Keep Music Evil also tells the stories of the creation of every album the band have released during their three-decade career, offering insight in Anton and his collaborators’ working methods, and provides an in-depth look at the making of Dig!, giving deeper context to the events as portrayed, correcting misinformation, and deconstructing the film as a whole. It also features rare, candid, and never-before-seen photographs of the band from throughout their career.

Author : Robin Danielle,Maggie Beth
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 43 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781414034942

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Lost Lullaby by Robin Danielle,Maggie Beth Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1925
Category : Lullabies
ISBN : UCAL:$B116332

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A Book of Lullabies by Anonim Pdf

Author : Tony Bradman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2002-05
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780689842955

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Daddy's Lullaby by Tony Bradman Pdf

A father takes his baby on a midnight stroll through the house, trying to get the baby to sleep.

Author : Lynn Estes Friess
Publisher : Mariposa Ranch Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05
Category : Bedtime
ISBN : 0615277721

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Western Lullaby by Lynn Estes Friess Pdf

"Combines the western outdoors with a nurturing family to tell the tale of a little cowgirl's bedtime surroundings"--Jacket

Author : Hollis Lynn Green
Publisher : Global Education Advance
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2008-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0979601940

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Sleepy Town Lullaby -Song and Story by Hollis Lynn Green Pdf

This children's book uses the Sleepy Town lullaby as a guide and builds on the value of school, learning and sharing what is learned with the family to establish a positive nighttime routine. The influence of the story will be experienced as the child learns to sing the song and the Sleepy Town Village story is read.

Author : Eugene Field
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1021712221

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Lullaby-Land by Eugene Field Pdf

This charming volume of children's poetry is a beloved classic of American literature. Written in 1894 by Eugene Field, a journalist and poet, it features a collection of lullabies, nursery rhymes, and songs, all with a gentle and soothing tone. The poems are accompanied by lovely illustrations, making it a feast for both the eyes and the ears. Perfect for bedtime reading or quiet moments of reflection, this book is a treasure for children of all ages. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.