Author : Owen Clark
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Jazz
ISBN : 0978498801
Musical Ghosts
Owen Clark
Musical Ghosts
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Music of the Ghosts
Vaddey Ratner
Author : Vaddey Ratner
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781476795805
Music of the Ghosts by Vaddey Ratner Pdf
This “novel of extraordinary humanity” (Madeleine Thien, author of Do Not Say We Have Nothing) from New York Times bestselling author Vaddey Ratner reveals “the endless ways that families can be forged and broken hearts held” (Chicago Tribune) as a young woman begins an odyssey to discover the truth about her missing father. Leaving the safety of America, Teera returns to Cambodia for the first time since her harrowing escape as a child refugee. She carries a letter from a man who mysteriously signs himself as “the Old Musician” and claims to have known her father in the Khmer Rouge prison where he disappeared twenty-five years ago. In Phnom Penh, Teera finds a society still in turmoil, where perpetrators and survivors of unfathomable violence live side by side, striving to mend their still beloved country. She meets a young doctor who begins to open her heart, confronts her long-buried memories, and prepares to learn her father’s fate. Meanwhile, the Old Musician, who earns his modest keep playing ceremonial music at a temple, awaits Teera’s visit. He will have to confess the bonds he shared with her parents, the passion with which they all embraced the Khmer Rouge’s illusory promise of a democratic society, and the truth about her father’s end. A love story for things lost and restored, a lyrical hymn to the power of forgiveness, Music of the Ghosts is a “sensitive portrait of the inheritance of survival” (USA TODAY) and a journey through the embattled geography of the heart where love can be reborn.
Ghosts of Country Music
Matthew L. Swayne
Author : Matthew L. Swayne
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-08
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780738751726
Ghosts of Country Music by Matthew L. Swayne Pdf
Strum a Spooky Banjo, Tip that Ten-Gallon Hat, and Meet Country Music’s Greatest Ghosts Jam out to this impressive compilation of haunted hot spots, creepy curses, and celebrity spirits of country and western music. Presenting the paranormal legacy behind one of America’s oldest and most popular genres, Ghosts of Country Music takes a captivating, in-depth look at legendary musicians and the places where they perform . . . even after death. Experience true stories of larger-than-life stars—including Hank Williams, Patsy Cline, and Johnny Cash—haunting their favorite homes and stages. Step inside the Music City Center, the Apollo Civic Theatre, Bobby Mackey’s Music World, and other iconic venues where ghosts love to roam. Explore the numerous recording studios, record shops, and radio stations that attract paranormal activity. This fascinating book will thrill you with much more than just a catchy tune.
Mozart's Ghosts
Mark Everist
Author : Mark Everist
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199344222
Mozart's Ghosts by Mark Everist Pdf
Mozart's Ghosts traces the many lives of this great composer that emerged following his early death in 1791. Crossing national boundaries and traversing two hundred years-worth of interpretation and reception, author Mark Everist investigates how Mozart's past status can be understood as part of today's veneration. Everist forges new paths to reach the composer, examining a number of ways in which Western culture has absorbed the idea of Mozart, how various cultural agents have appropriated, deployed, and exploited Mozart toward both authoritarian and subversive ends, and how the figure of Mozart and his impact illuminate the cultural history of the last two centuries in Europe, England, and America. Modern reverence for the composer is conditioned by earlier responses to his music, and Everist argues that such earlier responses are more complex than allowed by a simple "reception studies" model. Closely linking nine case studies in an innovative cultural and theoretical framework, the book approaches the developing reputation of the composer from death to the present day along three paths: "Phantoms of the Opera" deals with stage music, "Holy Spirits" addresses the trope of the sacred, and "Specters at the Feast" considers the impact of Mozart's music in literature and film. Mozart's Ghosts adeptly moves the study of Mozart reception away from hagiography and closer to cultural and historical criticism, and will be avidly read by Mozart scholars and students of eighteenth-century music history, as well as literary critics, historians of philosophy and aesthetics, and cultural historians in general.
Musical Record and Review
Dexter Smith,Lorin Fuller Deland,Philip Hale,Thomas Tapper
Author : Dexter Smith,Lorin Fuller Deland,Philip Hale,Thomas Tapper
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 858 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015025419261
Musical Record and Review by Dexter Smith,Lorin Fuller Deland,Philip Hale,Thomas Tapper Pdf
Gothic Music
Isabella Van Elferen
Author : Isabella Van Elferen
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780708325186
Gothic Music by Isabella Van Elferen Pdf
Gothic Music - The Sounds of the Uncanny traces sonic Gothic through history and genres from the eighteenth-century ghost story through the spooky soundtracks of cinema, television and video games to the dark music of the Goth subculture.
In The Shadow Of The Banyan
Vaddey Ratner
Author : Vaddey Ratner
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781849837613
In The Shadow Of The Banyan by Vaddey Ratner Pdf
A stunning, powerful debut novel set against the backdrop of the Cambodian War, perfect for fans of Chris Cleave and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie For seven-year-old Raami, the shattering end of childhood begins with the footsteps of her father returning home in the early dawn hours bringing details of the civil war that has overwhelmed the streets of Phnom Penh, Cambodia's capital. Soon the family's world of carefully guarded royal privilege is swept up in the chaos of revolution and forced exodus. Over the next four years, as she endures the deaths of family members, starvation, and brutal forced labour, Raami clings to the only remaining vestige of childhood - the mythical legends and poems told to her by her father. In a climate of systematic violence where memory is sickness and justification for execution, Raami fights for her improbable survival. Displaying the author's extraordinary gift for language, In the Shadow of the Banyanis testament to the transcendent power of narrative and a brilliantly wrought tale of human resilience. 'In the Shadow of the Banyanis one of the most extraordinary and beautiful acts of storytelling I have ever encountered' Chris Cleave, author of The Other Hand 'Ratner is a fearless writer, and the novel explores important themes such as power, the relationship between love and guilt, and class. Most remarkably, it depicts the lives of characters forced to live in extreme circumstances, and investigates how that changes them. To read In the Shadow of the Banyan is to be left with a profound sense of being witness to a tragedy of history' Guardian 'This is an extraordinary debut … as beautiful as it is heartbreaking' Mail on Sunday
The World of Musicals [2 volumes]
Mark A. Robinson
Author : Mark A. Robinson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 950 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781440800979
The World of Musicals [2 volumes] by Mark A. Robinson Pdf
This wide-ranging, two-volume encyclopedia of musicals old and new will captivate young fans—and prove invaluable to those contemplating staging a musical production. Written with high school students in mind, The World of Musicals: An Encyclopedia of Stage, Screen, and Song encompasses not only Broadway and film musicals, but also made-for-television musicals, a genre that has been largely ignored. The two volumes cover significant musicals in easily accessible entries that offer both useful information and fun facts. Each entry lists the work's writers, composers, directors, choreographers, and cast, and includes a song list, a synopsis, and descriptions of the original production and important revivals or remakes. Biographical entries share the stories of some of the brightest and most celebrated talents in the business. The encyclopedia will undoubtedly ignite and feed student interest in musical theatre. At the same time, it will prove a wonderful resource for teachers or community theatre directors charged with selecting and producing shows. In fact, anyone interested in theatre, film, television, or music will be fascinated by the work's tantalizing bits of historical and theatre trivia.
Ghosts & Gallows
Paul Adams
Author : Paul Adams
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-01
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780752477350
Ghosts & Gallows by Paul Adams Pdf
Murder and ghosts go hand-in-hand and vengeful spectres seeking justice or haunting the scene of the crime or their killers have adorned the pages of literature since before Shakespeare. This chilling collection of true-crime tales dating from the mid-eighteenth century to the present day all feature some element of the paranormal. Gathered from across the UK, cases include the discovery of a body by a spiritualist medium, a murder solved by a dream of the mother of the victim, and evidence at a Scottish murder trial provided by the ghost of the victim herself. Featuring visions, psychometry, ghosts, haunted prisons, possessions, and spiritualist detectives, this book is a fascinating look at criminology and ghost hunting.Paranormal historian Paul Adams has opened the case files of both the criminologist and the ghost hunter to compile a unique collection of crime from British history. No true-crime bookshelf is complete without Ghosts & Gallows.
Hammer Film Scores and the Musical Avant-Garde
David Huckvale
Author : David Huckvale
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786451661
Hammer Film Scores and the Musical Avant-Garde by David Huckvale Pdf
Music in film is often dismissed as having little cultural significance. While Hammer Film Productions is famous for such classic films as Dracula and The Curse of Frankenstein, few observers have noted the innovative music that Hammer distinctively incorporated into its horror films. This book tells how Hammer commissioned composers at the cutting edge of European musical modernism to write their movie scores, introducing the avant-garde into popular culture via the enormously successful venue of horror film. Each chapter addresses a specific category of the avant-garde musical movement. According to these categories, chapters elaborate upon the visionary composers who made the horror film soundtrack a melting pot of opposing musical cultures.
Toni Morrison and the Queer Pleasure of Ghosts
Juda Bennett
Author : Juda Bennett
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781438453576
Toni Morrison and the Queer Pleasure of Ghosts by Juda Bennett Pdf
Offers the first queer reading of all ten of Morrison's novels. Toni Morrison and the Queer Pleasure of Ghosts radically intervenes in one of the most established and sacred topics in Toni Morrison scholarship, love. Moving beyond Morrison’s representation of ghosts as the forgotten or occluded past, Juda Bennett uncovers how Morrison imagines the spectral sphere as always already queer, a provocation and challenge to heteronormativity—with the ghost appearing as an active participant in disruptions of compulsory heterosexuality, as a figure embodying closet desires, or as a disembodied emanation that counterpoints homophobia. From The Bluest Eye to Home, Morrison’s novels have included many queer ghosts that challenge our most cherished conceptions of love and speak to cultural anxieties about black sexualities, gay marriage, AIDS, lesbian visibility, and transgender identities. Not surprisingly, the scene-stealing ghost Beloved appears at the very heart of this book, but Bennett cautions against interpretative stasis, inviting readers to break free of the stranglehold Beloved has had on imaginations, so as not to miss the full force of Morrison’s lifelong project to queer love. Juda Bennett is Associate Professor of English at the College of New Jersey and author of The Passing Figure: Racial Confusion in Modern American Literature.
Ghost Stories from the Pacific Northwest
Margaret Read MacDonald
Author : Margaret Read MacDonald
Publisher : august house
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2005-12-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0874834376
Ghost Stories from the Pacific Northwest by Margaret Read MacDonald Pdf
Tales of ghosts inhabiting the Pacific Northwest include stories of haunted houses, departed loved ones, and disturbed Native American burial sites
Giving Up the Ghost
Katherine A. Fowkes
Author : Katherine A. Fowkes
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0814327214
Giving Up the Ghost by Katherine A. Fowkes Pdf
Arguing that our enjoyment of ghost films is linked to masochistic pleasure, Giving up the Ghost provides us with a new way of thinking about the relation between film viewing and gender. A deft but readable application of psychoanalytic theories, especially masochism (by way of Deleuze and Studlar), extends the utility of psychoanalysis to the understanding of film genre and film audiences. It is indispensable reading for scholars and students of film theory.
Chasing Ghosts
Marc Hartzman
Author : Marc Hartzman
Publisher : Quirk Books
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-28
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781683692782
Chasing Ghosts by Marc Hartzman Pdf
“A fantastic book.”—Ben Kissel, co-host of Last Podcast on the Left Take a spirited tour through the supernatural history of America—from haunted sites and famous ghosts to the paranormal investigations of The Conjuring’s real-life Ed and Lorraine Warren. Ghosts are everywhere—whether you believe in them or not. Every town has its local legends, and countless books, movies, and TV shows are haunted by their presence. But our obsession with ghosts runs deeper than we know—and is embedded in the very fabric of American history. Writer and historian Marc Hartzman dons the mantle of tour guide, taking readers on a fascinating journey through supernatural history, including: • The Fox Sisters and the rise of Spiritualism • The supernatural obsessions of famous figures like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle • Haunted Sites: Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia; LaLaurie House in New Orleans • Famous Ghosts: Bell Witch of Tennessee; Greenbrier Ghost of West Virginia • Paranormal Investigators: Ed and Lorraine Warren Deeply researched and highly entertaining, with archival images and black and white illustrations, Chasing Ghosts will satisfy believers and skeptics alike. “If you care about ghosts . . . this is the guide you've been waiting for.” —Grady Hendrix, New York Times bestselling author of The Final Girl Support Group
Popular Ghosts
Esther Peeren,Maria del Pilar Blanco
Author : Esther Peeren,Maria del Pilar Blanco
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781441109132
Popular Ghosts by Esther Peeren,Maria del Pilar Blanco Pdf
Haunting has long been a compelling element in popular culture, and has become an influential category in academic engagements with politics, economics, and aesthetics. While recent scholarship has used psychoanalysis and the Gothic as frameworks with which to study haunting, this volume seeks to situate ghosts in the cultural imagination. The chapters in Popular Ghosts are united by the impulse to theorize the cultural work that ghosts do within the trans-historical contexts that comprise our understanding of everyday life. These authors study the theoretical and aesthetic genealogies of the spectral, while also commenting on the multiple everyday spaces that this category occupies. Rather than looking to a single tradition or medium, the essays in Popular Ghosts explore film, novels, photography, television, music, social practices, and political structures from different cultures to reopen the questions that surround our haunted sense of the everyday.
