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The Latin Hit Maker

Author : Rudy Pérez,Robert Noland
Publisher : HarperChristian + ORM
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780310353171

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The Latin Hit Maker by Rudy Pérez,Robert Noland Pdf

For the first time, music legend Rudy Pérez shares his remarkable journey from a poor refugee kid in Miami to composing the greatest hit songs on the world stage. Named the most successful Latin songwriter in history, Rudy Pérez is the creator behind some of the bestselling records of Beyoncé, Julio Iglesias, Christina Aguilera, and IL Divo. In his one-of-a-kind memoir, Rudy tells about his childhood in Cuba and the heart-gripping visits to his father in prison during the height of the communist revolution. Tracing his family's perilous escape on one of the last Freedom Flights to America, Rudy opens up about the years of poverty and growing up in a crime-ridden neighborhood. These memories contrast with tender moments of dancing to the stereo with his siblings, nodding along to his mother's classical favorites, and swaying to blues melodies with his father. At a young age, Rudy tried his hand at recreating the music he loved, and his talent led him to an unprecedented career with over 300 hit songs. With years of hard work, ceaseless creativity, and a strong faith, Rudy was the first Latin music artist to win Billboard Producer of the Decade. Looking back over his five-time Grammy winning legacy, Rudy shares little-known stories of faith and behind-the-scenes details of working with stars like Fergie, Jaci Velasquez, Michael Bolton, Simon Cowell, and Sam Moore. A must-read for every music lover, The Latin Hit Maker is a genuine rags-to-riches story filled with inspiration, fascinating details, and a powerful reminder of God's grace and transforming creativity.

Icons of Rock [2 volumes]

Author : Scott Schinder,Andy Schwartz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 675 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780313081903

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Icons of Rock [2 volumes] by Scott Schinder,Andy Schwartz Pdf

More than half a century after the birth of rock, the musical genre that began as a rebellious underground phenomenon is now acknowledged as America's-and the world's-most popular and influential musical medium, as well as the soundtrack to several generations' worth of history. From Ray Charles to Joni Mitchell to Nirvana, rock music has been an undeniable force in both reflecting and shaping our cultural landscape. Icons of Rock offers a vivid overview of rock's pervasive role in contemporary society by profiling the lives and work of the music's most legendary artists. Most rock histories, by virtue of their all-encompassing scope, are unable to cover the lives and work of individual artists in depth, or to place those artists in a broader context. This two-volume set, by contrast, provides extensive biographies of the 24 greatest rock n' rollers of all time, examining their influences, innovations, and impact in a critical and historical perspective. Entries inside this unique reference explore the issues, trends, and movements that defined the cultural and social climate of the artists' music. Sidebars spotlight the many iconic elements associated with rock, such as rock festivals, protest songs, and the British Invasion. Providing a wealth of information on the icons, culture, and mythology of America's most beloved music, this biographical encyclopedia will serve as an invaluable resource for students and music fans alike.

World Music: Latin and North America, Caribbean, India, Asia and Pacific

Author : Simon Broughton,Mark Ellingham,Richard Trillo
Publisher : Rough Guides
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Music
ISBN : 1858286360

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World Music: Latin and North America, Caribbean, India, Asia and Pacific by Simon Broughton,Mark Ellingham,Richard Trillo Pdf

The Rough Guide to World Musicwas published for the first time in 1994 and became the definitive reference. Six years on, the subject has become too big for one book- hence this new two-volume edition. World Music 2- Latin and North America, Caribbean, India, Asia and Pacifichas full coverage of everything from salsa and merengue to qawwali and gamelan, and biographies of artists from Juan Luis Guerra to The Klezmatics to Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. Features include more than 80 articles from expert contributors, focusing on the popular and roots music to be seen and heard, both live and on disc, and extensive discographies for each country, with biography-notes on nearly 2000 musicians and reviews of their best available CDs. It includes photos and album cover illustrations which have been gathered from contemporary and archive sources, many of them unique to this book, and directories of World Music labels, specialist stores around the world and on the internet.

Pop Culture in Latin America and the Caribbean

Author : Elizabeth Gackstetter Nichols,Timothy R. Robbins Ph.D.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781610697545

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Pop Culture in Latin America and the Caribbean by Elizabeth Gackstetter Nichols,Timothy R. Robbins Ph.D. Pdf

This insightful book introduces the most important trends, people, events, and products of popular culture in Latin America and the Caribbean. In recent times, Latin American influences have permeated American culture through music, movies, television, and literature. This sweeping volume serves as a ready-reference guide to pop culture in Central America, South America, and the Caribbean, focusing on Mexico, Brazil, Venezuela, Argentina, Haiti, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, and Costa Rica, among other areas. The work encourages hands-on engagement with the popular culture in these places, making such suggestions as Brazilian films to rent or where to find Venezuelan music on the Internet. To start, the book covers various perspectives and issues of these regions, including the influence of the United States, how the idea of machismo reflects on the portrayal of women in these societies, and the representation of Latino-Caribo cultures in film and other mediums. Entries cover key trends, people, events, and products from the beginning of the 20th century to the present day. Each section gives detailed information and profound insights into some of the more academic—and often controversial—debates on the subject, while the inclusion of the Internet, social media, and video games make the book timely and relevant.

Historical Dictionary of the American Music Industry

Author : Keith Hatschek,Veronica A. Wells
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781538111444

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Historical Dictionary of the American Music Industry by Keith Hatschek,Veronica A. Wells Pdf

Historical Dictionary of the American Music Industry contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 500 cross-referenced entries on important artists, managers, companies, industry terminology and significant trade associations.

The Complete Book of Pop Music Wit & Wisdom

Author : Tony Rufo
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Page : 703 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Bible
ISBN : 9781414307312

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The Complete Book of Pop Music Wit & Wisdom by Tony Rufo Pdf

People relate to popular music, and this book helps you use popular music to draw readers into the Gospel. The material in this book will provide insight that ties popular song lyrics to Scripture in such a way that non-believers will be drawn to the relevance and power of God's Word. The author, Tony Rufo, is a communications/ministry executive, marketing consultant, writer, and broadcaster who has over 20 years of experience working in the Christian and general markets. His published works include media and music articles, book reviews, radio and television commercials and scripts, and evangelistic essays. True Tunes Newsfeatured his article, "The Gospel According to John, Paul, George, and Ringo—Good Time Rock 'n Roll or Religion for the Undiscerning?" which was the inspiration for this book. He also authored the "Media Mix" column for the semimonthly Horizon Internationalmagazine, which included installments on popular music and the Beatles. Tony lives in the suburbs of Chicago with his family. Features: Alphabetically arranged topic guide Excerpts from 200 songs from the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s to today Profiles of the artists and the culture during the time-period of the song's release A great resource for relevant cultural anecdotes!

The History of Rock & Roll, Volume 2

Author : Ed Ward
Publisher : Flatiron Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781250169976

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The History of Rock & Roll, Volume 2 by Ed Ward Pdf

From rock and roll historian Ed Ward comes a comprehensive, authoritative, and enthralling cultural history of one of rock's most exciting eras. It's February 1964 and The Beatles just landed in New York City, where the NYPD, swarms of fans, and a crowd of two hundred journalists await their first American press conference. It begins with the question on everyone's mind: "Are you going to get a haircut in America?" and ends with a reporter tugging Paul McCartney's hair in an attempt to remove his nonexistent wig. This is where The History of Rock & Roll, Volume 2 kicks off. Chronicling the years 1964 through the mid-1970s, this latest volume covers one of the most exciting eras of rock history, which saw a massive outpouring of popular and cutting-edge music. Ward weaves together an unputdownable narrative told through colorful anecdotes and shares the behind-the-scenes stories of the megastars, the trailblazers, DJs, record executives, concert promoters, and producers who were at the forefront of this incredible period in music history. From Bob Dylan to Bill Graham, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, The Byrds, Aretha Franklin, The Rolling Stones, and more, everyone's favorite musicians of the era make an appearance in this sweeping history that reveals how the different players, sounds, and trends came together to create the music we all know and love today.

Double Agents

Author : Claire A Lees,Gillian R. Overing
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780708322321

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Double Agents by Claire A Lees,Gillian R. Overing Pdf

First printed in 2001 by the University of Pennsylvania Press, this book has been out of print for several years and is highly sought after by researchers in the field of Medieval cultural studies. "Double Agents" was the first book length study of women in Anglo-Saxon written culture that took on board the insights of contemporary critical theory, especially feminist theory, in order to elucidate the complex challenges of both the absence and presence of women in the historical record. That is to say, unlike the two earlier books on women in this period (by Fell, 1984, and by Chance, 1986), this is not a book about only those women in the written record (whether we think of it as historical or literary) of Anglo-Saxon England, it also tackles the question of how the feminine is modelled, used, and metaphorised in Anglo-Saxon texts, even when women themselves are absent.This book spans the entire Anglo-Saxon period from Aldhelm and Bede in the earliest centuries to Alfric and the anonymous homilists and hagiographers of the later tenth and eleventh centuries; it draws on Anglo-Saxon vernacular texts as well as Latin ones, and on those works most familiar to literary scholars (such as the "Exeter Book Riddles" or "Cadmon's Hymn", the first so-called poem in English, or the female "Lives of Saints") as well as historians (wills, charters, the cult of relics); it deliberately reconsiders, from the perspective of gender and women's agency, some of the key conceptual issues that studying Anglo-Saxon England presents (the relation of orality to literacy; that of poetry and sanctity to belief; and, the cultural significance of names, naming, and metaphors in Anglo-Saxon writing).

Arsenio Rodríguez and the Transnational Flows of Latin Popular Music

Author : David Garcia
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781592133871

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Arsenio Rodríguez and the Transnational Flows of Latin Popular Music by David Garcia Pdf

Arsenio Rodríguez was one of the most important Cuban musicians of the twentieth century. In this first scholarly study, ethnomusicologist David F. García examines Rodríguez's life, including the conjunto musical combo he led and the highly influential son montuno style of music he created in the 1940s. García recounts Rodríguez's battle for recognition at the height of "mambo mania" in New York City and the significance of his music in the development of salsa. With firsthand accounts from relatives and fellow musicians, Arsenio Rodríguez and the Transnational Flows of Latin Popular Music follows Rodríguez's fortunes on several continents, speculating on why he never enjoyed wide commercial success despite the importance of his music. García focuses on the roles that race, identity, and politics played in shaping Rodríguez's music and the trajectory of his musical career. His transnational perspective has important implications for Latin American and popular music studies.

Old English Literature

Author : R. M. Liuzza
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780300129113

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Old English Literature by R. M. Liuzza Pdf

Recognizing the dramatic changes in Old English studies over the past generation, this up-to-date anthology gathers twenty-one outstanding contemporary critical writings on the prose and poetry of Anglo-Saxon England, from approximately the seventh through eleventh centuries. The contributors focus on texts most commonly read in introductory Old English courses while also engaging with larger issues of Anglo-Saxon history, culture, and scholarship. Their approaches vary widely, encompassing disciplines from linguistics to psychoanalysis. In an appealing introduction to the book, R. M. Liuzza presents an overview of Old English studies, the history of the scholarship, and major critical themes in the field. For both newcomers and more advanced scholars of Old English, these essays will provoke discussion, answer questions, provide background, and inspire an appreciation for the complexity and energy of Anglo-Saxon studies.

Hitmaker

Author : Tommy Mottola
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-09
Category : MUSIC
ISBN : 1611131340

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Hitmaker by Tommy Mottola Pdf

One of the most powerful, famous executives in the history of the music industry, Tommy Mottola was there from Elvis to the iPod. He participated in the explosion of popular music when it had a personal, individual impact and a global, cultural influence on everything from fashion and advertising to politics and race.

Hebridean Song-maker

Author : Thomas A. McKean
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105021562546

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Hebridean Song-maker by Thomas A. McKean Pdf

Icons, Idols and Idiots of Hollywood - My Adventures in America’s First Boy Band

Author : Bruce Belland
Publisher : BearManor Media
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Icons, Idols and Idiots of Hollywood - My Adventures in America’s First Boy Band by Bruce Belland Pdf

The son of fundamentalist preacher sings his first solo in front of an audience at age four. The congregation’s enthusiastic response inspires his dream of becoming a singer. That dream comes true as front man of America’s first “Boy Band”, Capitol Records vocal group The Four Preps, whose classic hit “26 Miles (Santa Catalina)” lands them in the Vocal Group Hall of Fame. One bandmate will later create TV’s Knight Rider and another the rock classic “Tainted Love.” This is their story too. Set against the backdrop of vintage Hollywood in the Fab 50’s, “ICONS, IDOLS and IDIOTS of Hollywood” recounts adventures with greats from Ozzie and Harriet to Elvis, Sinatra to the Beatles, Bob Hope to the Beach Boys, as four pals from Hollywood High get dropped into the fast lane of Pop music stardom while still in their teens. Riveting tales one reviewer called “. . .wild, ribald, at times poignant and always hugely entertaining.” “The song ’26 Miles’ put Catalina on the map and made the Four Preps household name.” NBC Today Show “’26 Miles’, it was California, the ocean and girls—hell it was everything I wanted to be or do.” Jimmy Buffet “You could call it the first surfer hit.” Dick Clark

Revolution in the Head

Author : Ian MacDonald
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781556527333

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Revolution in the Head by Ian MacDonald Pdf

Assessment of the Beatles artistic achievement providing biographical, musical, and historical detail through a chronology of their songs.

Tu Ciudad Los Angeles

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Hispanic Americans
ISBN : STANFORD:36105133513403

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Tu Ciudad Los Angeles by Anonim Pdf