Scheming And Dreaming In Los Angeles

Author : Donna Del Oro
Publisher : Devine Destinies
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011-07-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781554879199

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Scheming and Dreaming in Los Angeles by Donna Del Oro Pdf

Tess MacIntosh is 29, a professional R&B singer in a nightclub in Los Angeles, owned by her fifty-something fiance, Porter Hunt. She�s as cynical and as hardnosed as Porter, due to her own difficult childhood, and is marrying Porter for his money and connections. Porter, in turn, is one of those middle-aged men whose wealth and power in his little world make him feel invincible and entitled to any beautiful woman he wants. Tess�s good friend and once teenage crush, Aaron Peterson, a musician and composer with dreams of seeing one of his musical plays on Broadway, needs her to join him for a cruise gig. He�s loved Tess since he was nineteen and she was sixteen. He sees this cruise gig as his last chance to win her over before she takes a path in life that he�s convinced will lead to misery. So which path will Tess choose? Millions of dollars if she marries Porter? Or Aaron�s love and Broadway dreams?

Author : Brian Rust
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1072 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Dance orchestra music
ISBN : UOM:39015009645790

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The American Dance Band Discography 1917-1942: Arthur Lange to Bob Zurke by Brian Rust Pdf

Author : James Stanley
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781728365640

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Behind the Scenes by James Stanley Pdf

Behind the Scenes takes place during a time referred to as the Golden Age of Hollywood, bookended by the end of silent films and the advent of television. Follow the meeting and subsequent lives of LA transients, the strikingly beautiful Dinah Nolan from Chicago and the high-ranking mobster David Abrams from New York; and the peripheral influences of the beginning and end of Prohibition, the Great Depression, and World War II, along with the growth of Las Vegas as the gambling capital of America. Three members of the mob community: David Abrams, Aaron “Crackers” Cohen, and Sara Balin bond on the streets of New York, rise in the underworld, and move to the West Coast at the request of the “Commission”, the mob’s governing body. Unexpected circumstances await the three and Dinah Nolan. Their world meets an unexpected end in 1952 for two of the four...as well as a new beginning...for the remaining two. Follow Stanley’s suspenseful and sensual story in Behind the Scenes...

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Industrial design
ISBN : UCSD:31822022374490

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International Design by Anonim Pdf

Author : Eric Nusbaum
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-24
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781541742192

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Stealing Home by Eric Nusbaum Pdf

A story about baseball, family, the American Dream, and the fight to turn Los Angeles into a big league city. Dodger Stadium is an American icon. But the story of how it came to be goes far beyond baseball. The hills that cradle the stadium were once home to three vibrant Mexican American communities. In the early 1950s, those communities were condemned to make way for a utopian public housing project. Then, in a remarkable turn, public housing in the city was defeated amidst a Red Scare conspiracy. Instead of getting their homes back, the remaining residents saw the city sell their land to Walter O'Malley, the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Now LA would be getting a different sort of utopian fantasy -- a glittering, ultra-modern stadium. But before Dodger Stadium could be built, the city would have to face down the neighborhood's families -- including one, the Aréchigas, who refused to yield their home. The ensuing confrontation captivated the nation - and the divisive outcome still echoes through Los Angeles today.

Author : Oro Donna Del (author)
Publisher : eXtasy Books
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1901
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781487432591

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Saving la Familia by Oro Donna Del (author) Pdf

A smart, scrappy teacher is called upon by her traditional Mexican-American grandmother to help a relative in Mexico escape the clutches of a dangerous cartel. Reluctantly, she agrees, but in coming to her grandmother’s aid, she needs the help of The Hated One, an ex-fiancé who broke her heart years before. Together, they must devise a plan to rescue her desperate, long-lost cousin and her cousin’s child. To do so, Dina Salazar must enter the dreaded turf of the Zetas, a ruthless Mexican drug cartel. Such a mission is not for the faint of heart!

Author : Kevin Starr
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0195118022

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Endangered Dreams by Kevin Starr Pdf

Kevin Starr's portrait of California during the Great Depression is both detailed and panoramic. The study offers a vivid look at the personalities and events that shaped a decade of explosive tension.

Author : Robert D. McChesney
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2004-03-01
Category : Current Events
ISBN : 9781583671061

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The Problem of the Media by Robert D. McChesney Pdf

The symptoms of the crisis of the U.S. media are well-known—a decline in hard news, the growth of info-tainment and advertorials, staff cuts and concentration of ownership, increasing conformity of viewpoint and suppression of genuine debate. McChesney's new book, The Problem of the Media, gets to the roots of this crisis, explains it, and points a way forward for the growing media reform movement. Moving consistently from critique to action, the book explores the political economy of the media, illuminating its major flashpoints and controversies by locating them in the political economy of U.S. capitalism. It deals with issues such as the declining quality of journalism, the question of bias, the weakness of the public broadcasting sector, and the limits and possibilities of antitrust legislation in regulating the media. It points out the ways in which the existing media system has become a threat to democracy, and shows how it could be made to serve the interests of the majority. McChesney's Rich Media, Poor Democracy was hailed as a pioneering analysis of the way in which media had come to serve the interests of corporate profit rather than public enlightenment and debate. Bill Moyers commented, "If Thomas Paine were around, he would have written this book." The Problem of the Media is certain to be a landmark in media studies, a vital resource for media activism, and essential reading for concerned scholars and citizens everywhere.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1422 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : Copyright
ISBN : UCAL:B3421209

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Catalog of Copyright Entries by Anonim Pdf

Author : Robert W. McChesney
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 587 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2008-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781583671610

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The Political Economy of Media by Robert W. McChesney Pdf

One of the foremost media critics provides a comprehensive analysis of the economic and political powers that are being mobilized to consolidate private control of media with increasing profit--all at the expense of democracy.

Author : Sherman D. Manning
Publisher : American Dream Online Books
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-11
Category : Corruption
ISBN : 9780974326009

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American Dream, a Search for Justice by Sherman D. Manning Pdf

Rush (to judgment?) Limbaugh, Michael Jackson, R. Kelly and Kobe Bryant will all be shocked and amazed by this book. This book is a bombshell, scathing and horrifying. Is Rush a drug addict? Is Michael a molester? Is Kobe a rapist? What is true justice? Are our prisons working? Should we build more prisons? How do we really fight crime? These questions are methodically answered in this book. Is the California Department of Corrections corrupted? Can "The Terminator" save California? Can Rod Hickman clean up C.D.C.' Find out in this book.

Author : Mina Yang
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780252092978

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California Polyphony by Mina Yang Pdf

What does it mean to be Californian? To find out, Mina Yang delves into multicultural nature of musics in the state that has launched musical and cultural trends for decades. In the early twentieth century, an orientalist fascination with Asian music and culture dominated the popular imagination of white Californians and influenced their interactions with the Asian Other. Several decades later, tensions between the Los Angeles Police Department and the African American community made the thriving jazz and blues nightclub scene of 1940s Central Avenue a target for the LAPD's anti-vice crusade. The musical scores for Hollywood's noir films confirmed reactionary notions of the threat to white female sexuality in the face of black culture and urban corruption while Mexican Americans faced a conflicted assimilation into the white American mainstream. Finally, Korean Americans in the twenty-first century turned to hip-hop to express their cultural and national identities. A compelling journey into the origins of musical identity, California Polyphony explores the intersection of musicology, cultural history, and politics to define Californian.

Author : Paula Mejia
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-20
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781628929522

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The Jesus and Mary Chain's Psychocandy by Paula Mejia Pdf

The Jesus and Mary Chain's swooning debut Psychocandy seared through the underground and through the pop charts, shifting the role of noise within pop music forever. Post-punk and pro-confusion, Psychocandy became the sound of a generation poised on the brink of revolution, establishing Creation Records as a tastemaking entity in the process. The Scottish band's notorious live performances were both punishingly loud and riot-spurring, inevitably acting as socio-political commentary on tensions emergent in mid-1980s Britain. Through caustic clangs and feedback channeling the rage of the working-class who'd had enough, Psychocandy gestures toward the perverse pleasure in having your eardrums exploded and loudness as a politics within itself. Yet Psychocandy's blackened candy heart center – calling out to phantoms Candy and Honey with an unsettling charm – makes it a pop album to the core, and not unlike the sugarcoated sounds the Ronettes became famous for in the 1960s. The Jesus and Mary Chain expertly carved out a place where depravity and sweetness entwined, emerging from the isolating underground of suburban Scotland grasping the distinct sound of a generation, apathetic and uncertain. The irresistible Psychocandy emerged as a clairvoyant account of struggle and sweetness that still causes us to grapple with pop music's relation to ourselves.

Author : Ricardo Flores Mag�n
Publisher : AK Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9781904859246

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Dreams of Freedom by Ricardo Flores Mag�n Pdf

The words of this Mexican American working-class hero brought to English-language readers for the first time.

Author : Karen Sternheimer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136829727

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Celebrity Culture and the American Dream by Karen Sternheimer Pdf

"... a good book to add to an introduction to sociology course if you want to give your students a good sense of how sociology analyzes culture and media....There is a lot in the book and Sternheimer does a good job of weaving together hard sociological data on stratification, inequalities, wage and labor trends to the narrative promoted by the celebrity culture along with changes in the structure and power relations in the industry itself. The book is an easy read with a lot of illustrations from celebrity magazines and so is very appropriate for undergraduate audiences."—Global Sociology Using examples from the first celebrity fan magazines of 1911 to the present, Celebrity Culture and the American Dream considers how major economic and historical factors shaped the nature of celebrity culture as we know it today. Equally important, the book explains how and why the story of Hollywood celebrities matters, sociologically speaking, to an understanding of American society, to the changing nature of the American Dream, and to the relation between class and culture. This book: Explores the relationship between celebrity culture, consumption, class, and social mobility Discusses social changes pertaining to class, gender, marriage and divorce, and race Includes numerous pictures from fan magazine articles and ads Examines the connections between celebrity culture and economic, political, and social changes Considers the importance of the structure of the entertainment industry to understand how celebrity culture is manufactured