The Voices That Are Gone

Author : Jon W. Finson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780195113822

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The Voices that are Gone by Jon W. Finson Pdf

In this unique and readable study, Jon Finson views the mores and values of nineteenth-century Americans as they appear in their popular songs. The author sets forth lyricists' and composers' notions of courtship, technology, death, African Americans, Native Americans, and European ethnicity by grouping songs topically. He goes on to explore the interaction between musical style and lyrics within each topic. The lyrics and changing musical styles present a vivid portrait of nineteenth-century America. The composers discussed in the book range from Henry Russell ("Woodman, Spare That Tree"), Stephen Foster ("Oh! Susanna"), and Dan Emmett ("I Wish I Was in Dixie's Land"), to George M. Cohan and Maude Nugent ("Sweet Rosie O'Grady"), and Gussie Lord Davis ("In the Baggage Coach Ahead"). Readers will recognize songs like "Pop Goes the Weasel," "The Yellow Rose of Texas," "The Fountain in the Park," "After the Ball," "A Bicycle Built for Two," and many others which gain significance by being placed in the larger context of American history.

Author : Jon W. Finson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : IND:30000045066291

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The Voices that are Gone by Jon W. Finson Pdf

In this unique and readable study, Jon Finson views the mores and values of nineteenth-century Americans as they appear in their popular songs. Presenting a guided tour of topically arranged, select songs, he points out the most important landmarks, as well as lesser sights that provide color and context, and obscure but treasurable parts of the scenery previously overlooked. Setting forth lyricists' and composers' notions of courtship, technology, death, African Americans, Native Americans, and European ethnicity, Finson explores the interaction between musical style and lyrics within each topic, offering a vivid and novel portrait of nineteenth-century America. The composers discussed in the book range from Henry Russell ("Woodman! Spare That Tree!"), Stephen Foster ("Oh! Susanna"), and Dan Emmett ("I Wish I Was in Dixie's Land"), to George M. Cohan, Maude Nugent ("Sweet Rosie O'Grady"), and Gussie Lord Davis ("In the Baggage Coach Ahead"). Readers will recognize songs like "Pop Goes the Weasel", "The Yellow Rose of Texas", "The Fountain in the Park", "After the Ball", "A Bicycle Built for Two", and many others which gain significance by being placed in the larger context of American history.

Author : Adam Haslett
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316261364

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Imagine Me Gone by Adam Haslett Pdf

From a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, a ferociously intimate story of a family facing the ultimate question: how far will we go to save the people we love the most? When Margaret's fiancée, John, is hospitalized for depression in 1960s London, she faces a choice: carry on with their plans despite what she now knows of his condition, or back away from the suffering it may bring her. She decides to marry him. Imagine Me Gone is the unforgettable story of what unfolds from this act of love and faith. At the heart of it is their eldest son, Michael, a brilliant, anxious music fanatic who makes sense of the world through parody. Over the span of decades, his younger siblings -- the savvy and responsible Celia and the ambitious and tightly controlled Alec -- struggle along with their mother to care for Michael's increasingly troubled and precarious existence. Told in alternating points of view by all five members of the family, this searing, gut-wrenching, and yet frequently hilarious novel brings alive with remarkable depth and poignancy the love of a mother for her children, the often inescapable devotion siblings feel toward one another, and the legacy of a father's pain in the life of a family. With his striking emotional precision and lively, inventive language, Adam Haslett has given us something rare: a novel with the power to change how we see the most important people in our lives. "Haslett is one of the country's most talented writers, equipped with a sixth sense for characterization"-Wall Street Journal "Ambitious and stirring . . . With Imagine Me Gone , Haslett has reached another level."-New York Times Book Review

Author : Ken Steele,Claire Berman
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008-08-05
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780786724789

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The Day The Voices Stopped by Ken Steele,Claire Berman Pdf

For thirty-two years Ken Steele lived with the devastating symptoms of schizophrenia, tortured by inner voices commanding him to kill himself, ravaged by the delusions of paranoia, barely surviving on the ragged edges of society. In this powerful and inspiring story, Steele tells the story of his hard-won recovery from schizophrenia and how activism and advocacy helped him regain his sanity and go on to give hope and support to so many others like him. His recovery began with a small but intensely dramatic moment. One evening in the spring of 1995, shortly after starting on Risperdal, a new antipsychotic medicine, he realized that the voices that had tormented him for three decades had suddenly stopped. Terrified but also empowered by this new freedom, Steele rose to the challenge of creating a new life. Steele went on to become one of the most vocal advocates of the mentally ill, earning the respect not only of patients and families but also of professionals and policymakers all over America through his tireless devotion to a cause that transformed his life and that of countless others. The Day the Voices Stopped will endure as Ken Steele's testament for all who struggle with this heartbreaking disease.

Author : Work Projects Administration
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 7860 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9788026873778

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The Voices From The Past – Hundreds of Testimonies by Former Slaves In One Volume by Work Projects Administration Pdf

After the end of Civil War in 1865, more than four million slaves were set free. There were several efforts to record the remembrances of the living former slaves. The Federal Writers' Project was one such project by the United States federal government to support writers during the Great Depression by asking them to interview and record the myriad stories and experiences of slavery of former slaves. The resulting collection preserved hundreds of life stories from 17 US states that would otherwise have been lost in din of modernity and America's eagerness to deliberately forget the blot on its recent past. This edition brings to you the complete collection of first hand experiences and voices from the past that makes one question whether is it safe to forget or keep the memories alive for bigger battles ahead. A must read for everyone who is interested in US History, race relations and authentic historical research. Contents: Alabama Arkansas Florida Georgia Indiana Kansas Kentucky Maryland Mississippi Missouri North Carolina Ohio Oklahoma South Carolina Tennessee Texas Virginia

Author : Joelle Mann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000405668

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Mixed Media in Contemporary American Literature by Joelle Mann Pdf

Mixed Media in Contemporary American Literature: Voices Gone Viral investigates the formation and formulation of the contemporary novel through a historical analysis of voice studies and media studies. After situating research through voices of nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature, this book examines the expressions of a multi-media vocality, examining the interactions among cultural polemics, aesthetic forms, and changing media in the twenty-first century. The novel studies shown here trace the ways in which the viral aesthetics of the contemporary novel move language out of context, recontextualizing human testimony by galvanizing mixed media forms that shape contemporary literature in our age of networks. Through readings of American authors such as Claudia Rankine, David Foster Wallace, Jennifer Egan, Junot Díaz, Michael Chabon, Joseph O’Neill, Michael Cunningham, and Colum McCann, the book considers how voice acts as a site where identities combine, conform, and are questioned relationally. By listening to and tracing the spoken and unspoken voices of the novel, the author identifies a politics of listening and speaking in our mediated, informational society.

Author : Philip Antoine De Teissier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026366259

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Voices of the dead. (Sermons). by Philip Antoine De Teissier Pdf

Author : Janet Cardiff,Kitty Scott,Artangel (London, England)
Publisher : London : Artangel
Page : 71 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Art
ISBN : 1902201078

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Janet Cardiff by Janet Cardiff,Kitty Scott,Artangel (London, England) Pdf

This book documents Janet Cardiff's 1999 audio project, The Missing voice (Case Study B), and includes the full audio CD as well as images from this exploration of London's inner city. Part urban guide, part fiction, part film noir, her audio walk entwines the listener in a narrative that shifts through time and space. Intimate, even conspirational, Cardiff has created a psychologically absorbing experience for an audience of one at a time. You find yourself transported back in time. What was that sound? Who is speaking to you? Where does reality end, and what's imagined begin? Also included is an extended essay analyzing the artist's career to date. Born in 1957, in Brussels, Canada, Cardiff works and lives in Alberta and has shown internationally in, among others, London, New York, Berlin, and Vienna. Her work has been included in significant group exhibitions, notably Skulptur Projekte Munster, 1997; Present Tense: Nine Artists in the Nineties, at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the 1999 Carnegie International; and the Museum as Muse at New York's Museum of Modern Art.

Author : Flora Annie Steel
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781528788939

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Voices in the Night by Flora Annie Steel Pdf

“Voices in the Night” is a 1900 historical novel by Flora Annie Steel. Flora Annie Steel (1847 – 1929) was an English writer who notably lived in British India for 22 years and is best remembered for her books set or related to the sub-continent. Steel's historical novel “Voices in the Night” offers the reader a glimpse into colonial India that is typical of her fiction, weaving a delicate story to the backdrop of British imperialism in an exotic land. An entertaining and insightful novel, “Voices in the Night” is highly recommended for those with an interest in India's history and will not disappoint those who have read and enjoyed other works by this author. Also by this author: “Tales of the Punjab” (1894), “The Flower of Forgiveness” (1894), and “The Potter's Thumb” (1894). Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with the original text and artwork.

Author : Ann Herlong-Bodman
Publisher : Harbor House
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1891799193

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Voices Over Water by Ann Herlong-Bodman Pdf

In this novel of intrigue and clashing cultures, Sarah faces danger from all sides--suspicious Union soldiers, angry rebel raiders and resentful runaway slaves.

Author : Edgar S. Werner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Elocution
ISBN : CORNELL:31924066348099

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Werner's Voice Magazine by Edgar S. Werner Pdf

Author : Friedrich Waismann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2003-10-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134934683

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The Voices of Wittgenstein by Friedrich Waismann Pdf

This brings for the first time over one hundred short essays in philosophical logic and the philosophy of mind. It is an invaluable introduction to Wittgenstein's 'later philosophy'.

Author : Thomas Boyles Murray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : Missions
ISBN : KBNL:KBNL03000037484

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Pitcairn: the Island, the People, and the Pastor by Thomas Boyles Murray Pdf

Author : Margaret Mitchell
Publisher : Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
Page : 1730 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : PKEY:SMP2300000065060

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Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell Pdf

Gone With the Wind, a 1936 novel by Margaret Mitchell—winner of the Pulitzer Prize and one of the bestselling novels of all time—has been heralded by readers everywhere as The Great American Novel. Gone with the Wind is often placed in the literary subgenre of the historical romance novel. The epic romance tale set in and around Atlanta, Georgia during the American Civil War has remained a bestseller, even before the equally popular film starring Clark Gable and Vivian Leigh was made in 1939. The novel has also been described as an early classic of the erotic historical genre, because it is thought to contain some degree of pornography. The novel tells of archetypal Southern belle Scarlett O'Hara as she grows from a young woman into maturity against the backdrop of the American Civil War. Like many of the early 20th century Southern writers, Mitchell portrays an idyllic image of the antebellum South. While it can be legitimately criticized for its insensitivity to the treatment of African Americans who were enslaved, Mitchell's novel demonstrates how the South was decimated by the Civil War and continued to suffer under the Northern-sanctioned Restoration.

Author : Jennifer Brown,Yvonne Shell,Terri Cole
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783031286162

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Revealing Rape’s Many Voices by Jennifer Brown,Yvonne Shell,Terri Cole Pdf

By extending the cast list of roles implicated in rape’s hidden sphere of harm, this book attentively listens to experiential voices of complainant/witnesses, suspect/accused, police, lawyers, judges and jurors, therapists, advocates, partners, parents, family and friends during the criminal justice journey. Highlighting good and bad practices, it proposes a paradigm shift for inculcating policy reform, arguing the case for implementation science as a framework for embedding change. The book will be of interest to those involved in the policy, practice and delivery of criminal justice, the support and voluntary sector as well as giving valuable insight to students of forensic and investigative psychology, criminology, law, social policy, gender studies the new policing apprenticeship degree programmes.