Rocket City Rock Soul

Author : Jane DeNeefe
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781625841353

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Rocket City Rock & Soul by Jane DeNeefe Pdf

In a state widely considered ground zero for civil rights struggles, Huntsville became an unlikely venue for racial reconciliation. Huntsville's recently formed NASA station drew new residents from throughout the country, and across the world, to the Rocket City. This influx of fresh perspectives informed the city's youth. Soon, dozens of vibrant rock bands and soul groups, characteristic of the era but unique in Alabama, were formed. Set against the bitter backdrop of segregation, Huntsville musicians--black and white--found common ground in rock and soul music. Whether playing to desegregated audiences, in desegregated bands or both, Huntsville musicians were boldly moving forward, ushering in a new era. Through interviews with these musicians, local author Jane DeNeefe recounts this unique and important chapter in Huntsville's history.

Author : Richard Paul,Steven Moss
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780292772519

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We Could Not Fail by Richard Paul,Steven Moss Pdf

This “surprising and insightful” history profiles ten African American engineers, mathematicians, and others who worked for NASA’s space program (Lauren Helmuth, New York Times Book Review). The Space Age began just as the struggle for civil rights forced Americans to confront the bitter legacy of slavery, discrimination, and violence against African Americans. NASA itself became an agent of social change, with President Kennedy opening its workplaces to African Americans. In We Could Not Fail, Richard Paul and Steven Moss profile ten pioneer African American space workers whose stories illustrate the role NASA and the space program played in promoting civil rights. Paul and Moss recount how these technicians, mathematicians, engineers, and an astronaut candidate surmounted barriers and navigated being the sole African American in a NASA work group. These brave and determined men went on to help transform Southern society by integrating colleges, patenting new inventions, holding elective office, and reviving and governing defunct towns. Adding new names to the roster of civil rights heroes and a new chapter to the story of space exploration, We Could Not Fail demonstrates how African Americans broke the color barrier by competing successfully at the highest level of American intellectual and technological achievement.

Author : Philip Porteous
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798454314675

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Rocket City of Huntsville by Philip Porteous Pdf

Huntsville, Alabama musicians are a wonderful way to personalize an event and set the tone for the festivities. From weddings to intimate dinner parties, musicians of all genres create a specific mood while also entertaining your guests. Huntsville's recently formed NASA station drew new residents from throughout the country, and across the world, to the Rocket City. This influx of fresh perspectives informed the city's youth. Soon, dozens of vibrant rock bands and soul groups, characteristic of the era but unique in Alabama, were formed. Set against the bitter backdrop of segregation, Huntsville musicians black and white' found common ground in rock and soul music. Whether playing to desegregated audiences, in desegregated bands, or both, Huntsville musicians were boldly moving forward, ushering in a new era. Through interviews with these musicians, local author Jane DeNeefe recounts this unique and important chapter in Huntsville's history.

Author : Barbara Norton Kuroff
Publisher : Writer's Digest Books
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1982-10
Category : Music
ISBN : 0898790867

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Songwriter's Market, 1983 by Barbara Norton Kuroff Pdf

Author : William Brohaugh,Adria Haley,Cris Freese
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 814 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Popular music
ISBN : UCAL:B4324646

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Songwriter's Market by William Brohaugh,Adria Haley,Cris Freese Pdf

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1054 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Copyright
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119497829

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Catalog of Copyright Entries by Library of Congress. Copyright Office Pdf

Author : Nicholas Tochka
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780197566510

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Rocking in the Free World by Nicholas Tochka Pdf

Progressive and libertarian, anti-Communist and revolutionary, Democratic and Republican, quintessentially American but simultaneously universal. By the late 1980s, rock music had acquired a dizzying array of political labels. These claims about its political significance shared one common thread: that the music could set you free. Rocking in the Free World explains how Americans came to believe they had learned the truth about rock 'n' roll, a truth shaped by the Cold War anxieties of the Fifties, the countercultural revolutions (and counter-revolutions) of the Sixties and Seventies, and the end-of-history triumphalism of the Eighties. How did rock 'n' roll become enmeshed with so many different competing ideas about freedom? And what does that story reveal about the promise-and the limits-of rock music as a political force in postwar America?

Author : Raymond A. Patton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-04
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190872373

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Punk Crisis by Raymond A. Patton Pdf

In March 1977, John "Johnny Rotten" Lydon of the punk band the Sex Pistols looked over the Berlin wall onto the grey, militarized landscape of East Berlin, which reminded him of home in London. Lydon went up to the wall and extended his middle finger. He didn't know it at the time, but the Sex Pistols' reputation had preceded his gesture, as young people in the "Second World" busily appropriated news reports on degenerate Western culture as punk instruction manuals. Soon after, burgeoning Polish punk impresario Henryk Gajewski brought the London punk band the Raincoats to perform at his art gallery and student club-the epicenter for Warsaw's nascent punk scene. When the Raincoats returned to England, they found London erupting at the Rock Against Racism concert, which brought together 100,000 "First World" UK punks and "Third World" Caribbean immigrants who contributed their cultures of reggae and Rastafarianism. Punk had formed networks reaching across all three of the Cold War's "worlds". The first global narrative of punk, Punk Crisis examines how transnational punk movements challenged the global order of the Cold War, blurring the boundaries between East and West, North and South, communism and capitalism through performances of creative dissent. As author Raymond A. Patton argues, punk eroded the boundaries and political categories that defined the Cold War Era, replacing them with a new framework based on identity as conservative or progressive. Through this paradigm shift, punk unwittingly ushered in a new era of global neoliberalism.

Author : Malgorzata Fidelis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780197643402

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Imagining the World from Behind the Iron Curtain by Malgorzata Fidelis Pdf

The Sixties occupy a prominent place in popular culture and scholarship as an era of global upheavals, including the Civil Rights Movement, de-colonization, radical social movements, student and youth protests, and the Vietnam War. This pioneering book explores the seemingly isolated Eastern bloc and a non-capitalist context, demonstrating the impact of those global upheavals on young people in Poland in the form of international youth culture, protest movements, and counterculture.

Author : Cathryn Alpert
Publisher : Unbridled Books
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781609530785

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Rocket City by Cathryn Alpert Pdf

Marilee journeys from Los Angeles to New Mexico to surprise her fiancé, Larry, who has taken a job on the Alamogordo Air Force Base to gain, in one of his antithetical Zen experiments, an understanding of peace. Sympathy for Enoch, a hitchhiking dwarf, disrupts her orderly plans. In a separate voyage, Figman, an insurance claims adjuster on the run, relocates to New Mexico after surviving a lethal car crash that results in an unfair lawsuit against him. Now prone to migraines and the conviction that he is dying, Figman embarks on new adventures. Late in the novel, these two distinct love stories converge on a highway in near collision.

Author : Amanda Ann Klein
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781478012870

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Millennials Killed the Video Star by Amanda Ann Klein Pdf

Between 1995 and 2000, the number of music videos airing on MTV dropped by 36 percent. As an alternative to the twenty-four-hour video jukebox the channel had offered during its early years, MTV created an original cycle of scripted reality shows, including Laguna Beach, The Hills, The City, Catfish, and Jersey Shore, which were aimed at predominantly white youth audiences. In Millennials Killed the Video Star Amanda Ann Klein examines the historical, cultural, and industrial factors leading to MTV's shift away from music videos to reality programming in the early 2000s and 2010s. Drawing on interviews with industry workers from programs such as The Real World and Teen Mom, Klein demonstrates how MTV generated a coherent discourse on youth and identity by intentionally leveraging stereotypes about race, ethnicity, gender, and class. Klein explores how this production cycle, which showcased a variety of ways of being in the world, has played a role in identity construction in contemporary youth culture—ultimately shaping the ways in which Millennial audiences of the 2000s thought about, talked about, and embraced a variety of identities.

Author : Thomas Curtis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 804 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1829
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : UOM:39015068379471

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A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art, Literature and Practical Mechanics by Thomas Curtis Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 808 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Popular music
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131921020

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The Official Price Guide to Records by Anonim Pdf

Author : Justin Gage,Melissa Gage
Publisher : The Countryman Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2009-05-04
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781581579239

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Explorer's Guide Memphis & the Delta Blues Trail: A Great Destination (Explorer's Great Destinations) by Justin Gage,Melissa Gage Pdf

This innovative guide will lead you through the birthplace of the blues, covering the world-famous attractions, historic sites, funky shops, and gold record legacies of Memphis and the surrounding Mississippi Delta. With a strong focus on modern-day arts and music enclaves, as well as the storied sites where the blues got their start; hundreds of top-notch dining, lodging, and recreational recommendations; over one hundred illuminating photos and maps; and travel logistics, this is the most comprehensive guide to the region to-date.

Author : Grady Hendrix
Publisher : Quirk Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781683690214

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We Sold Our Souls by Grady Hendrix Pdf

“A gloriously over-the-top scare fest that has hidden depths. Readers will root for Kris all the way to the explosive, poignant finale.”—Publishers Weekly From the New York Times best-selling author of The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires. Only a girl with a guitar can save us all. Every morning, Kris Pulaski wakes up in hell. In the 1990s she was lead guitarist of Dürt Würk, a heavy-metal band on the brink of breakout success until lead singer Terry Hunt embarked on a solo career and rocketed to stardom, leaving his bandmates to rot in obscurity. Now Kris works as night manager of a Best Western; she’s tired, broke, and unhappy. Then one day everything changes—a shocking act of violence turns her life upside down, and she begins to suspect that Terry sabotaged more than just the band. Kris hits the road, hoping to reunite Dürt Würk and confront the man who ruined her life. Her journey will take her from the Pennsylvania rust belt to a celebrity rehab center to a satanic music festival. A spine-tingling horror novel, We Sold Our Souls is an epic journey into the heart of a conspiracy-crazed, pill-popping, paranoid country that seems to have lost its very soul.