Patsy Cline

Author : Ellis Nassour
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2008-06-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781569764428

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Honky Tonk Angel by Ellis Nassour Pdf

Earthy, sexy, and vivacious, the life of beloved country singer, Patsy Cline, who soared from obscurity to international fame to tragic death in just thirty short years, is explored in colorful and poignant detail. An innovator--and even a hell-raiser--Cline broke all the boys' club barriers of Nashville's music business in the 1950s and brought a new Nashville sound to the nation with her pop hits and torch ballads like "Walking After Midnight," "I Fall to Pieces" and "Crazy." She is the subject of a major Hollywood movie and countless articles, and her albums are still selling 45 years after her death. Ellis Nassour was the very first to write about Cline and did so with the cooperation of the stars who knew and loved her--including Jimmy Dean, Jan Howard, Brenda Lee, Loretta Lynn, Roger Miller, Dottie West, and Faron Young. He was the only writer to interview Cline's mother and husbands. This updated edition features not only a complete discography and a host of never-before-published photographs, but includes an afterword that details controversial claims about her birth, the battle between Cline's siblings for her possessions, the amazing influence Cline had on a new generation of singers and, in Cline's own words from letters to a devoted friend, her excitement as her career soared to new heights and her marriage descended to new depths.

Author : Loretta Lynn
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781538701676

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Me & Patsy Kickin' Up Dust by Loretta Lynn Pdf

Discover the "important and inspiring" and never-before-told complete story of the remarkable relationship between country music icons Patsy Cline and Loretta Lynn (Miranda Lambert). Loretta Lynn and the late Patsy Cline are legends—country icons and sisters of the heart. For the first time ever Loretta tells their story: a celebration of their music and their relationship up until Patsy's tragic and untimely death. Full of laughter and tears, this eye-opening, heartwarming memoir paints a picture of two stubborn, spirited country gals who'd be damned if they'd let men or convention tell them how to be. Set in the heady streets of the 1960s South, this nostalgia ride shows how Nashville blossomed into the city of music it is today. Tender and fierce, Me & Patsy Kickin' Up Dust is an up-close-and-personal portrait of a friendship that defined a generation and changed country music indelibly—and a meditation on love, loss and legacy.

Author : Doug Hall
Publisher : Kingston, Ont. : Quarry Music Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Country musicians
ISBN : 1550822136

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The Real Patsy Cline by Doug Hall Pdf

Featuring never-before published family photographs and letters, this authorized biography includes exclusive interviews with Patsy's personal friends and colleagues.

Author : Douglas Gomery
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781426960123

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Patsy Cline: the Making of an Icon by Douglas Gomery Pdf

Patsy Cline remains a much beloved singer, even though she died in 1963. By 1996, Patsy Cline had become such an icon that The New York Times magazine positioned her among a pantheon of women celebrities who transcended any single cultural genre. A series of essays on "Heroine Worship" included Patsy Cline with such "feminine icons" as Eleanor Roosevelt, Martha Graham, Indira Gandhi, Aretha Franklin, and Jackie Onassis. The making of an icon is a cultural process that transcends traditional biographical analysis. One does not need to know the whole life story of the subject to understand how the subject became an icon. This book explores how Patsy Cline transcended class and poverty to become the country music singer that non-country music fans embraced. It goes beyond a traditional biography to explore the years beyond her death. This is the first thoroughly researched book on Patsy Cline. It is true to Patsy and her legacy. Judy Sue Huyett-Kempf President, Celebrating Patsy Cline The Patsy Cline Historic House Winchester, Virginia Douglas Gomery taught mass media history at the University of Wisconsin, Northwestern University, New York University, the University of Utrecht the Netherlands), and the University of Maryland. He retired in 2005 to become the Official Historian for Celebrating Patsy Cline and Resident Scholar at the Library of American Broadcasting.

Author : Charlotte L. Bartles,Charlotte Bartles
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2005-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780595373246

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Patsy Cline by Charlotte L. Bartles,Charlotte Bartles Pdf

For years, rumors have circulated about the identity of country music legend Patsy Cline's real father. In Patsy Cline: Our Father's Other Daughter, Charlotte Brannon Bartles breaks her silence and reveals the long-awaited truth. Charlotte's father, Chester Brannon, was also Patsy's father. Learn about Patsy's other family and the man she called Pop Brannon. Charlotte shares her memories of her famous half-sister and also talks about her efforts to penetrate the wall of secrecy surrounding the circumstances of Patsy's birth and her father's relationship with Patsy's mother, Hilda Hensley. Patsy Cline: Our Father's Other Daughter is the chapter of Patsy's life absent from all the other books and articles written about the late megastar. 'The true story will alter Patsy's official biography and will be difficult for some to accept. But I think the truth should prevail over someone's comfort level and the need to keep her life story 'as is." It should be a consolation to Patsy's fans to know that Patsy knew a father who loved and adored her, regardless of how limited his role had been." From Patsy Cline: Our Father's Other Daughter

Author : Margaret Jones
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1999-05-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 0306808862

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Patsy by Margaret Jones Pdf

More than thirty-five years after her tragic death in a plane crash at age thirty, Patsy Cline (1932–1963)remains one of the greatest voices of this century. Her soulful torch-song ballads—“Walkin' After Midnight,” “I Fall to Pieces,” “Crazy,” and “Sweet Dreams”—bought her worldwide fame as both a country and pop star, while her life and career were immortalized in the 1985 film, Sweet Dreams. InPatsy, Margaret Jones chronicles the life of Patsy Cline (nee Virginia Hensley) from her impoverished childhood and abuse by her father, through the struggle for her success and her exploitation by record producers to her phenomenal but short-lived recording career. The book is based on extensive interviews with country music's greatest—Loretta Lynn, June Carter, Dottie West, Barbara Mandrell, Faron Young, Roy Clark, Jimmy Dean, Johnny Western, Tompall Glaser, songwriters Harlan Howard and Donn Hecht, and record men Owen Bradley and Don Pierce. The result is the first fully drawn portrait of this crossover superstar, as well as a vivid picture of the ever-expanding country music world. Hard-living and hard-loving, bawdy and ballsy, Patsy Cline surmounted unimaginable odds in a male-dominated industry to become the most popular female country singer in recording history.

Author : David Dicaire
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-27
Category : Music
ISBN : 0786485582

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The First Generation of Country Music Stars by David Dicaire Pdf

This book focuses on 50 of the most important entertainers in the history of country music, from its beginnings in the folk music of early America through the 1970s. Divided into five distinct categories, it discusses the pioneers who brought mountain music to mass audiences; cowboys and radio stars who spread country music countrywide; honky-tonk and bluegrass musicians who differentiated country music during the 1940s; the major contributions that female artists made to the genre; and the modern country sound which dominated the genre from the late 1950s to the mid–1980s. Each entry includes a brief biography of the chosen artist with special emphasis on experiences which influenced their musical careers. Covered musicians include Fiddlin’ John Carson, Riley Puckett, Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, Bob Wills, Bill Monroe, Hank Williams, Sr., Dale Evans, June Carter Cash, Loretta Lynn, Buck Owens, Roy Clark, Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard.

Author : Curtiss Ann Matlock
Publisher : MIRA
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2009-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781426830747

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Sweet Dreams at the Goodnight Motel by Curtiss Ann Matlock Pdf

Looking for Real Life The scrawled graffito on the bathroom wall might be clichéd, but for Claire Wilder, it's a wake-up call. Divorced from her high school sweetheart, she's lost the flavor of life waiting for Andrew to come back. So Claire leaves everything behind and ends up in her father's hometown of Valentine, Oklahoma. Before she knows it, an overnight stay at the Goodnight Motel has turned into weeks, and she's found something she'd almost forgotten existed—a place to call home. Life is sweet again…until the day her ex-husband arrives in town. Now Claire has to figure out whether home is truly where the heart is…and if that's with Andrew or in the sleepy town that helped her remember her dreams.

Author : Carrie Havranek
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 569 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2008-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781573567831

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Women Icons of Popular Music [2 volumes] by Carrie Havranek Pdf

Popular music owes greatly to the spirit of rebellion. In all of its diversified, experimental, modern-day micro-genres, music's roots were first watered by good old-fashioned social dissension- its incendiary heights pushed heavenward by radicals and rogue revolutionaries. And perhaps none are more influential and non-conformist than women. Always first in line to give convention a sound thrashing, women in music have penned sonic masterpieces, championed sweeping social movements, and breathed life into sounds yet unimagined. Today's guitar-wielding heroines continue to blaze the trail, tapping reservoirs and soundscapes still unknown to their male counterparts- hell hath no fury like a woman with an amplifier. Women Icons of Popular Music puts the limelight on 24 legendary artists who challenged the status quo and dramatically expanded the possibilities of women in the highly competitive music world. Using critical acclaim and artistic integrity as benchmarks of success, this can't-put-down resource features rich biographical and musical analyses of a diverse array of musicians from country, pop, rock, R&B, soul, indie, and hip-hop. It goes beyond the shorter, less detailed biographical information found in many women in rock compendiums by giving readers a more in-depth understanding of these artists as individuals, as well as providing a larger context-social, musical, political, and personal-for their success and legacy. Highlighted in sidebars throughout are related trends, movements, events, and issues to give readers a broad perspective of the defining moments in music and pop culture history. With discographies, illustrations, and a print and electronic resource guide, Women Icons of Popular Music is a rousing, insightful resource for students and music fans alike.

Author : John Reinhard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015040638507

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On the Road to Patsy Cline by John Reinhard Pdf

Reinhard is a genuine American troubadour.

Author : Diane Pecknold,Kristine M. McCusker
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781628467031

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A Boy Named Sue by Diane Pecknold,Kristine M. McCusker Pdf

From the smiling, sentimental mothers portrayed in 1930s radio barn dance posters, to the sexual shockwaves generated by Elvis Presley, to the female superstars redefining contemporary country music, gender roles and imagery have profoundly influenced the ways country music is made and enjoyed. Proper male and female roles have influenced the kinds of sounds and images that could be included in country music; preconceptions of gender have helped to determine the songs and artists audiences would buy or reject; and gender has shaped the identities listeners made for themselves in relation to the music they revered. This interdisciplinary collection of essays is the first book-length effort to examine how gender conventions, both masculine and feminine, have structured the creation and marketing of country music. The essays explore the uses of gender in creating the personas of stars as diverse as Elvis Presley, Patsy Cline, and Shania Twain. The authors also examine how deeply conventions have influenced the institutions and everyday experiences that give country music its image: the popular and fan press, the country music industry in Nashville, and the line dance crazes that created the dance hall boom of the 1990s. From Hank Thompson's "The Wild Side of Life" to Johnny Cash's "A Boy Named Sue," from Tammy Wynette's "Stand by Your Man" to Loretta Lynn's ode to birth control, "The Pill," A Boy Named Sue demonstrates the role gender played in the development of country music and its current prominence.

Author : Steve Jones,Joli Jensen
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Celebrities
ISBN : 0820463655

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Afterlife as Afterimage by Steve Jones,Joli Jensen Pdf

The mass media make it possible for fame to be enhanced and transformed posthumously. What does it mean to fans when a celebrity dies, and how can death change the way that celebrities are perceived and celebrated? How do we mourn and remember? What can different forms of communication reveal about the role of media in our lives? Through a provocative look at the lives and legacy of popular musicians from Elvis to Tupac and from Louis Prima to John Lennon, Afterlife as Afterimage analyzes the process of posthumous fame to give us new insights into the consequences of mediation, and it illuminates the complex nature of fandom, community formation, and identity construction.

Author : Richard Leppert
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781000949391

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Sound Judgment by Richard Leppert Pdf

The essays in Sound Judgment span the full career of Richard Leppert, from his earliest to work that appears here for the first time, on subjects drawn from early modernity to the present concerning music both popular and classical, European and North American. Noted for his path-breaking interdisciplinary scholarship on music and visual culture, the collection includes key essays on music's visualization in art practices in virtually all visual media, including film. The fourteen essays comprising this volume demonstrate Leppert's many contributions to critical musicology, particularly in the areas of aesthetics as well as social and intellectual history, all of it grounded in a heterodox body of critical and cultural theory, with the work of Theodor W. Adorno particularly noteworthy. The collection is preceded by an introduction in which Leppert traces his intellectual development, defined in large part by the social, cultural, and political upheavals of the 1960s and their aftermath both in the academy and in society at large.

Author : Patsy Cline
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:62986784

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The Patsy Cline Story by Patsy Cline Pdf

Author : Patsy Cline
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1991-02-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781458466853

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The Best of Patsy Cline (Songbook) by Patsy Cline Pdf

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). Features 25 of her all-time classics, including: Back in Baby's Arms * Crazy * I Fall to Pieces * Leavin' on Your Mind * San Antonio Rose * She's Got You * Sweet Dreams * Three Cigarettes in an Ashtray * Walkin' After Midnight * The Wayward Wind * Why Can't He Be You * Your Cheatin' Heart * more!