Let Me Clear My Throat

Author : Elena Passarello
Publisher : Sarabande Books
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781936747504

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Let Me Clear My Throat by Elena Passarello Pdf

“A remarkably entertaining and thought-provoking look at the human voice and all of its myriad functions and sounds . . . Wonderful” (Library Journal, starred review). From Farinelli, the eighteenth-century castrato who brought down opera houses with his high C, to the recording of Johnny B. Goode affixed to the Voyager spacecraft, Let Me Clear My Throat dissects the whys and hows of popular voices, making them hum with significance and emotion. There are murders of punk rock crows, impressionists, and rebel yells; Howard Dean’s “BYAH!” and Marlon Brando’s “Stellaaaaa!” and a stock film yawp that has made cameos in movies from A Star is Born to Spaceballs. The voice is thought’s incarnating instrument and Elena Passarello’s essays are a riotous deconstruction of the ways the sounds we make both express and shape who we are—the annotated soundtrack of us giving voice to ourselves. “Standout pieces include a biography of the most famous scream in Hollywood history; a breakdown of the relationship between song and birdsong; and an analysis of the sounds of disgust. Akin to: A dinner party at which David Sedaris, Mary Roach and Marlon Brando are trying to out-monologue one another.” —Philadelphia Weekly “The beauty of Ellen Passarello’s voice is that it’s so confidently its own . . . I began randomly with her essay wondering what the space aliens will make of ‘Johnny B. Goode’ on the Voyager gold record and couldn’t stop after that.” —John Jeremiah Sullivan, author of Pulphead

Author : Elena Passarello
Publisher : Sarabande Books
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781936747450

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Let Me Clear My Throat by Elena Passarello Pdf

A rollicking, wide-reaching annotated soundtrack of pop stars, phone psychics, Elvis impersonators, and other marvels of the human voice.

Author : John Boyer
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-05
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781441467119

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Strange Stories and Theories by One Odd Man by John Boyer Pdf

Delve into the zanny brain of John Boyer with this book: Strange Thoughts & Theories by One Odd Man. What is this book about, everything and nothing all at once. Most of the stories are only one or two pages each...so if you don't like to read, this is the book for you.

Author : Gerald T. Dolphus
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-26
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781483609348

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Translated by Gerald T. Dolphus Pdf

TRANSLATED Are you ready for promotion? Can your life use an upgrade? If so, read the simple, no-nonsense, biblical answers in this book. It will teach you how to augment every aspect of your life-your marriage, your personal relationships, your finances, and your business. You'll learn: How to plateau your happiness. How to retrain your brain. How to replace problem consciousness with solution consciousness. How to activate spiritual discernment in business transactions. How to increase your marital intimacy. How to transport your marriage from worship to ecstasy. How to maximize your faith and finances, when you're unmarried. It's all here! You will learn, as you turn the pages of this book, the significance of metacognition (awareness of ones thinking processes) and bi-dimensional living (living in Heaven and on Earth, simultaneously). In fact, you will learn how it is possible to actualize Ephesians 2:6, in everything you do! And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. Do yourself a favor; get lifted! Get Translated!

Author : Chuck D
Publisher : Black Dog & Leventhal
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780316430982

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Chuck D Presents This Day in Rap and Hip-Hop History by Chuck D Pdf

A one-of-a kind survey of rap and hip hop history from 1973 to today by Chuck D, arguably the most influential rapper in the world. In the more than 40 years since the days of DJ Kool Herc and "Rapper's Delight," hip hop and rap have become a billion-dollar worldwide phenomenon. Yet there is no definitive history of the genre-until now. Based on Chuck's long-running show on Rapstation.com, this massive compendium details the most iconic moments and influential songs in the genre's recorded history, from Kurtis Blow's "Christmas Rappin'" to The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill to Kendrick Lamar's ground-breaking verse on "Control." Also included are key events in hip hop history, from Grandmaster Flash's first scratch through Tupac's holographic appearance at Coachella. Throughout, Chuck offers his insider's perspective on the chart toppers and show stoppers as he lived it. Illustrating the pages are more than 100 portraits from the talented artists specializing in hip hop.

Author : David V. Moskowitz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1194 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9798216040583

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The 100 Greatest Bands of All Time [2 volumes] by David V. Moskowitz Pdf

This one-of-a-kind reference investigates the music and the musicians that set the popular trends of the last half century in America. Many rock fans have, at one time or another, ranked their favorite artists in order of talent, charisma, and musical influence on the world as they see it. In this same spirit, author and music historian David V. Moskowitz expands on the concept of "top ten" lists to provide a lineup of the best 100 musical groups from the past 60 years. Since the chosen bands are based on the author's personal taste, this two-volume set provokes discussion of which performers are included and why, offering insights into the surprising influences behind them. From the Everly Brothers, to the Ramones, to Public Enemy, the work covers a wide variety of styles and genres, clearly illustrating the connections between them. Entries focus on the group's history, touring, membership, major releases, selected discography, bibliography, and influence. Contributions from leading scholars in popular music shed light on derivative artists and underscore the overall impact of the performers on the music industry.

Author : melissa christine goodrum
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781300894513

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The OR Panthology: Ocellus Reseau by melissa christine goodrum Pdf

The OR Panthology (Ocellus Reseau) is Other Rooms Press's first print anthology, edited by melissa christine goodrum and featuring work by Nora Almeida, David B. Applegate, L. S. Asekoff, Joshua Baldwin, Drew Baughman, Tamiko Beyer, Rose Marie Boehm, V.L. Bond, Michelle Brule, Daveo Crish, Joe Robitaille, Sarah Feeley, Alan Gilbert, Ed Go, melissa christine goodrum, Whit Griffin, j/j hastain, Andrea Henchey, Luke Janka, Lisa Jarnot, Jim Juletid, Yelena Kolova, A.P. Lewis, Susan Lewis, Chip Livingston, Travis Macdonald, Dolan Morgan, Sean Mullin, Sarah Pearlstein, Richard Pearse, Maya Pindyck, Beni Ransom, Matt Reeck, Michael Karl (Ritchie), Ariella Ruth, William Sanders, Sapphire, Sarah Sarai, Michael Schiavo, Pietro Scorsone, Nicole Steinberg, L. Sze, Samantha Taylor, Rodrigo Toscano, Douglas Watson, Michael Whalen and John Sibley Williams.

Author : Thomas YH Chan
Publisher : Red Publish
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789881391667

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Journey to the West by Thomas YH Chan Pdf

This is a trilogy chronicling the amorous, intellectual and artistic adventure of a college student from Hong Kong called Tom, portraying him exchanging ideas and knowledge relating to western visual art from the Gothic Period through the Romantic Period with his fellow female student Sonia and the two developing at first a very good intellectual relationship and eventually a love relationship as they go through an intellectual and artistic experience from start to finish. Tom and Sonia have their own dream lovers, Tom being infatuated with a Eurasian girl called Anastasia (half Russian and half Vietnamese) with whom he had a kind of a one-night-stand in Berlin during the summer vacation before the current term began, and Sonia being attached to her boyfriend who is still studying in Cambridge, England. As the story unfolds, because Anastasia has disappeared from Tom’s world with neither explanation nor any contact details, Tom has been trying to track her down ever since his return from Europe, succeeding at last with the help of a friend to re-establish contact with her; and surprisingly Anastasia asks Tom to come over to join her in Greifswald, a small university town on the Baltic coast where she is studying art history, which Tom does at once to find himself joining Anastasia on an artistic trip to explore the famous fairy-tale castle of Neuschwanstein in Bavaria before heading for Greifswald, where the two lovers, their love rekindled, enjoy their sojourn in this Nordic land, loving each other and attending lectures on Romantic artists such as Caspar David Friedrich at the university, until one fine day Anastasia is called back to Russia to attend to her sick mother, leaving Tom all alone in this Viking land. To deal with his plight Tom soon meets up with Sonia in England. On his way flying to London via Iceland Tom stopovers in Reykjavik and has a great time, experiencing the Icelandic landscape and seascape and even bumping there into a friend from Hong Kong! Sonia soon joins Tom in London and then goes up to Cambridge to see her boyfriend, only to find him already attached to another lover, leaving her broken-hearted to return to London, to whole-heartedly start an artistic exploratory journey with Tom in London and then all the way, by train, to Vienna, where Tom has been the previous year with his father. While still in London the two go to museums and galleries to study great works by such great artists as William Turner, John Constable and William Blake, which got them ready for the next stage of their artistic exploration of Romantic painters in Vienna. Remarkably, once in Vienna Tom takes Sonia first of all on a culinary trip rather than on an artistic one, to savour Viennese specialities in pastry and coffee, while Sonia, beginning to fall in love with Tom, signals to him her affection before they actually go for museums and art galleries. The city fascinates Sonia and their last days there are spent happily studying works by Dürer, the Dutch Masters and Gustav Klimt; waltzing all night long in Stadtpark (City Park); visiting the Vienna Boys Choir in their Augarten home and enjoying Andre Rieu’s concert in Schönbrunn Palace just hours before flying home, with their mutual affection definitely reaffirmed at Vienna Airport!

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1821
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555012244

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The Pocket magazine of classic and polite literature. [Continued as] The Pocket magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Paige Toon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781471162572

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The Last Piece of My Heart by Paige Toon Pdf

'Wonderfully heartfelt... her best book yet!' heat, five star review 'A gorgeous, warm novel' ADELE PARKS When life feels like a puzzle, sometimes it's the small pieces that make up the bigger picture... Join Bridget on a journey to put her world back together. A successful travel journalist, Bridget has ambitions to turn her quirky relationship blog about the missing pieces of her heart into a book. But after a spate of rejections from publishers, she accepts an alternative proposition. Nicole Dupré died leaving behind a bestselling novel and an incomplete sequel. Tasked with finishing the book, Bridget is thankful to have her foot in the publishing door, even if it means relocating to Cornwall for the summer and answering to Nicole's grieving husband, Charlie... ‘You’ll laugh, you’ll cry and be hooked from page one. A beautifully written, heart-wrenching journey of love and loss’ OK! ‘Poignant and lovely, warm and wise’ MILLY JOHNSON ‘Paige’s writing is brilliant’ MHAIRI McFARLANE ‘I loved it’ LINDSEY KELK ‘Interrupting my weekend away from Twitter to say… I’ve just finished The Last Piece of my Heart. Bravo. Bravo’ @owlsandstags ‘5 of 5 stars to The Last Piece of My Heart by Paige Toon’ @overflowingklc ‘I just finished The Last Piece of my Heart and it was AMAZING!!! I love it SO much!’@Livsescape Praise for The One We Fell in Love with: 'You'll love it, cry buckets and be uplifted' MARIAN KEYES 'I blubbed, I laughed and I fell in love... utterly heart-wrenching' GIOVANNA FLETCHER

Author : Frederic Will
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527509436

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Downloading the Poetic Self by Frederic Will Pdf

This volume presents an autobiography of one writer’s existence in poetry, the tracks left by a clumsy bear taming himself in public; it is also a forum in which to act out and discover oneself. It will serve to light fires, the can-do drive others can surpass, finding in themselves language as daring as their lives, and more daring than the author’s. It endeavours to allow every reader of this text to leave it feeling better, more able to do things by him- or herself, and more convinced that poetry is essential to a good life. The text itself is the eighth title in the 10-volume series Inside Selfhood and History.

Author : Donald F. Roberts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Adulthood
ISBN : PURD:32754071067700

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Substance Use in Popular Movies and Music by Donald F. Roberts Pdf

Author : Carlos Bayne
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781329844834

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Napkin Nights: The Crunk Chronicles by Carlos Bayne Pdf

Napkin Nights: The Crunk Chronicles is the story of two young guys living it up in the Seattle club scene. This historical fiction story is written in mostly "street" slang and lingo that is delicately blended with standard English. The two guys are; the older yet not street wise Derek, and his younger friend, Juan. Please join them as they hit the streets of the Seattle to find crazy adventures and perhaps find themselves as well.

Author : Rex Ogle
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-27
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780369721747

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Curse of the Werewolves by Rex Ogle Pdf

“Monsters have never been so much fun.” —Stuart Gibbs, New York Times bestselling author of the Spy School series on The Supernatural Society Welcome back to East Emerson, a town chock-full of monsters, in this spooky and hilarious middle grade series about three kids who must unravel centuries of secrets to save the day. Things are starting to look up for Will Hunter in East Emerson: He’s pretty much used to seeing monsters all over the place He’s become best friends with neighbors Ivy and Linus (the only people who can see what he sees) Together, they saved the town from a pet-napping vampire! But Will’s problems are far from over. Because there’s a werewolf on the loose in East Emerson, turning people into dangerous, mind-controlled animals left and right. And Will is one of them. Can Will, Ivy, and Linus find out who is behind this shapeshifter army before it’s too late, or will our hero be stuck as a werewolf forever? Read all the books in The Supernatural Society series! The Supernatural Society Curse of the Werewolves Rise of the Undead Praise for The Supernatural Society “Frightening and fun!” —Neil Patrick Harris, New York Times bestselling author of The Magic Misfits “Three friends on an action-packed, monster-filled adventure? And laughs? Sign me up!” —Max Brallier, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Kids on Earth series

Author : Alex T. Wolf
Publisher : Tracey Literary Agency
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-03
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9798625323871

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Society In Repair by Alex T. Wolf Pdf

It seems like a fairy tale, but not too long ago, there were rational people who ran the Republican Party. In these divisive times, we don’t have very bright politicians to look up to anymore. How did the party of Lincoln become the party of right-wing nut-jobs? Republicans have gone crazy, who keep on convincing themselves that the Democrats are evil, and the Democrats with their ugly threats have become what they claim to hate.With SOCIETY IN REPAIR, it will prove that no one is immune to stupidity. As a whole nation, we have been divided so politically that we hate anyone who disagrees with our own personal views. But what if a common human emotion could unite America as a whole again… like humor? Society In Repair takes a non-partisan view on the issues that really matter. Issues including sexual abuse, climate change, drug addiction, and most importantly… why Americans have lost their sense of humor. The constant degradation of humanity in America shows a clear insight into these dramatic days of our Nation’s life. Society In Repair is here to remind us what it means to be American, even though the American story has not always been great. But the belief in Americans of progress and change keeps America going in the darkest of times.