Searching For Harry Chapin S America

Author : Pat Fenton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1942762666

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Searching for Harry Chapin's America by Pat Fenton Pdf

In Searching for Harry Chapin's America, journalist Pat Fenton describes his road trips to the towns and people that inspired Harry Chapin's most renowned songs. Fenton's account includes exclusive interviews with Chapin's family and associates, and an excerpt from Chapin's unpublished writings. Harry Chapin (1942-1981) was a legendary top-charting American songwriter in the 1970s and '80s. During his lifetime, Chapin was nominated twice for a Grammy Award: in 1972 for Best New Artist, and in 1974 for Best Pop Male Vocal Performance. In 2011, thirty years after his untimely death, Chapin's Number One-charting song, "Cat's In the Cradle," was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. Searching for Harry Chapin's America is a fortieth-year commemoration of this musical icon's tragic death in a car crash in 1981, a tribute to his legacy of songs and philanthropy. "Searching for Harry Chapin's America is an invaluable book to celebrate Harry Chapin's music and his legacy. Like Don Quixote, or On the Road, Pat Fenton's classic book takes you on an unforgettable series of journeys and makes you feel that you are now welcome to be with the people and places that Harry Chapin memorialized in his timeless songs. It was worth waiting 30 years to have this story told so compellingly." -David Amram, composer/multi-instrumentalist/author "A portrait of an age as well as an artist. Chapin was an American original who combined Walt Whitman's lyric realism with Woody Guthrie's passionate truth-telling. Fenton's blend of sympathy, honesty and insight gives us the man in full. Fenton's talents as a master storyteller have never been on better display." -Peter Quinn, novelist/political historian "The perfect marriage of author and subject. Fenton doesn't just trace the roots of Harry Chapin's music; he dares to explore the American soul, extracting from it much of the pulmonary essence that made Chapin such a classic American troubadour. By illuminating the physical and spiritual landscape of Chapin's artistry as a songwriter and voice of the common American, Fenton delivers a gem. Get this book, read it, and pass it on to someone you care about." -T. J. English, New York Times bestselling author

Author : Thomas M. Kitts
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780739174852

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Finding Fogerty by Thomas M. Kitts Pdf

Essays on the 50-year career of American songwriter and composer, John Fogarty, which argue for hus musical and cultural significance.

Author : Kari A. Frederickson
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780817321109

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Deep South Dynasty by Kari A. Frederickson Pdf

Introduction: Family biography as regional history -- Ascension. Becoming the Bankheads of Alabama ; A slaveholder's son in the postwar South, 1865-1885 ; "He was a getter, and he got" : the making of a New South congressman ; Establishing the new order ; Political challenges, 1904-1907 ; Roads and redemption ; Party men, city women -- Succession. New directions ; Senator from Alabama ; Burning bridges, taking chances ; Mr. Speaker ; "A good soldier in politics" : the last campaign ; At the crossroads.

Author : Ira Kantor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798558354447

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I Was. I Am. and Now I Will Be by Ira Kantor Pdf

The life of Harry Chapin, charismatic musician and iconic humanitarian, was unexpectedly and tragically taken on July 16, 1981. He was 38 years old. A human dynamo whose sheer tenacity landed him on the Billboard charts, on Broadway, in the White House, and at the forefront of the world hunger movement, Chapin lived by the mantra of "When in doubt, do something." In following this mentality, Chapin's 10-year solo career encompassed more than 2,000 concerts, nine studio albums, the creation of global nonprofit World Hunger Year (now WhyHunger), and the love and respect of fans, fellow musicians, and key political influencers alike. Hailed as a consummate musical storyteller, Chapin is best known for his character-driven tunes - "Taxi," "Sniper," "W-O-L-D," "A Better Place to Be," "30,000 Pounds of Bananas," and "Cat's in the Cradle" included. Yet despite having only four Top 40 hits to his name, Chapin's songs remain one of a kind - elevating him to the same artistic status as classic singer-songwriters of the era like James Taylor, Jim Croce, Gordon Lightfoot, and John Denver. Now, nearly 40 years after his death, the following 10-chapter oral history seeks to tell Harry Chapin's story through the firsthand, on-the-record testimonies of the "characters" who knew him best - more than 60 family members, friends, business associates, and musical contemporaries. The result is a well-rounded retrospective of a man whose life, being, sense of accomplishment, and legacy remain unsurpassed to this day.

Author : Nancy Scheper-Hughes
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520911567

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Death Without Weeping by Nancy Scheper-Hughes Pdf

When lives are dominated by hunger, what becomes of love? When assaulted by daily acts of violence and untimely death, what happens to trust? Set in the lands of Northeast Brazil, this is an account of the everyday experience of scarcity, sickness and death that centres on the lives of the women and children of a hillside "favela". Bringing her readers to the impoverished slopes above the modern plantation town of Bom Jesus de Mata, where she has worked on and off for 25 years, Nancy Scheper-Hughes follows three generations of shantytown women as they struggle to survive through hard work, cunning and triage. It is a story of class relations told at the most basic level of bodies, emotions, desires and needs. Most disturbing - and controversial - is her finding that mother love, as conventionally understood, is something of a bourgeois myth, a luxury for those who can reasonably expect, as these women cannot, that their infants will live.

Author : Tom Key,Harry Chapin,Russell Treyz
Publisher : Dramatic Publishing
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1983-12
Category : Musicals
ISBN : 0871292440

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Cotton Patch Gospel by Tom Key,Harry Chapin,Russell Treyz Pdf

This "Greatest Story Ever Retold" is based on the book "The Cotton Patch Version of Matthew and John" in which the Gospel is presented in a setting of rural Georgia with country music songs, the final and perhaps best work of Harry Chapin.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1919
Category : Latin America
ISBN : MINN:319510028102625

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The South American by Anonim Pdf

Author : Peter M. Coan
Publisher : Citadel Press
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0806521910

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Taxi by Peter M. Coan Pdf

The definitive biography of musician Harry Chapin, a modern-day Woody Guthrie, selfless humanist, and poet laureate to cabdrivers, housewives, and commonfolk alike, written by a longtime friend and confidant. Chapin is known for his ballads and "story songs", among them his signature song, the hugely popular "Taxi". He died in an auto crash in 1981, just as his fame was burgeoning and his albums were selling out in record stores. Though the broader recognition due him has been late in coming, his music, his beliefs, and his social activism are now widely appreciated by increasing numbers of fans here and abroad.

Author : John C. Cothran
Publisher : Stardate Publishing
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 0963400207

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A Search of African American Life, Achievement and Culture by John C. Cothran Pdf

Reviews the accomplishments, courage and struggles of African Americans over the past 500 years.

Author : Charles Edward Chapin,Wolfgang E. Elston
Publisher : Geological Society of America
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780813721804

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Ash-flow Tuffs by Charles Edward Chapin,Wolfgang E. Elston Pdf

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1324 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Copyright
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119498389

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

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1384 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Law
ISBN : MINN:31951D01745373I

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Congressional Record Index by Anonim Pdf

Includes history of bills and resolutions.

Author : Margaret K. Rosenheim
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 571 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2002-03-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780226727837

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A Century of Juvenile Justice by Margaret K. Rosenheim Pdf

Systems for Youth in Trouble

Author : Tom Chapin,John Forster
Publisher : Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781534445321

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This Pretty Planet by Tom Chapin,John Forster Pdf

Based on the touching song “This Pretty Planet” by Tom Chapin and John Forster, this hopeful and whimsically illustrated picture book celebrates the pretty planet we call home. Winds blow. Tides flow. Shooting stars descend. Our lives begin, middle, and end on This pretty planet. From icy tundras to sandy beaches, lush forests to tall mountains, this exuberant picture book journeys around the globe and presents the natural wonders of the planet with a contagious sense of awe and whimsy. Young readers will get lost in the detailed illustrations as the narration serves as a gentle reminder of why we must care for and protect our pretty planet.

Author : United States. Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1432 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Law
ISBN : OSU:32437010710537

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Congressional Record by United States. Congress Pdf