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Before Rodney King, There was Me. When One lies unto another. With the current increase of blacks being murdered by cops across the country and there seemingly being no revise to the method by which police practices are used when arresting blacks.. Here in this book you Will find an official deposition that expose and uncovers the true lies and how they sound when questions are directed to an officer concerning a fabricated police report.
Romeo and Juliet and West Side Story by Anonim Pdf
Two perennial classics--William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and the Broadway musical West Side Story--in a single volume! The tragedy of love thwarted by fate has always intrigued writers. In the sixteenth century, William Shakespeare took this theme and fashioned one of the world's great plays: Romeo And Juliet. In our own time, Shakespeare's drama has been used as a basis for the overwhelmingly successful musical play West Side Story. Though one of these works is set among the nobility of Verona, and the other among immigrant families of New York's West Side, both tell the story of the plight of young star-crossed lovers.
Did you know that babies come into the world with abilities that adults are unaware of? The Baby Gangs of Athens peels back the curtain and shows the lives of the babies who live in Athens and Athens County. We see the gangs with their alliances and rivalries that exist, especially the East Side and the West Side gangs in Athens. We watch with bated breath as they prepare for the big baby drag races held at the Athens County Fair. Adults do not know that each baby gang works toward winning the baby drag race and being proclaimed, ‘Athens County’s #1 Baby Gang’. Through rigorous training, each gang works toward putting the best team of babies into the big race. But like adults, the babies use intrigue and tricks as they maneuver to gain the upper hand. We see Baby Ben, a member of the East Side gang, being accused of crimes against puppies and kittens. Horrors! But Baby Ben, with the aid of his gang and especially his friend Jewell, may yet prevail and goodness might win the day. The gangs get together in their clubhouses and on social media using such platforms as Babybook and Babieslist. We follow their training regimen and the history of baby gangs in Athens.In fact, we learn of other baby gangs throughout Ohio and beyond. In the end, the babies race before thousands of spectators at the Fair. As each race narrows the field, the excitement builds. Betting on the babies reaches a new record and the results of each heat reaches viral proportions. Who will win the big prize of being the best baby drag racer and whose gang is proclaimed the best gang in Athens County?
Leonard Bernstein, West Side Story by Nigel Simeone Pdf
West Side Story is one of the few Broadway musicals that can make a genuine claim to transforming the genre. Nigel Simeone begins by exploring the long process of creating West Side Story, including a discussion of Bernstein's sketches, early drafts of the score and script, as well as cut songs. The core of the book is the commentary on the music itself. West Side Story is one of the very few Broadway musicals for which there is a complete published orchestral score, as well as two different editions of the piano-vocal score. The survival of the original copied orchestral score, and the reminiscences of Sid Ramin and Irwin Kostal, reveal details of the orchestration process, and the extent to which Bernstein was involved in this. Simeone concludes by placing West Side Story in the context of Bernstein's oeuvre as well as considering the lasting impact and reputation of the show.
Queen is the landmark biography of the brief, intensely lived life and soulful music of the great Dinah Washington. A gospel star at fifteen, she was discovered by jazz great Lionel Hampton at eighteen, and for the rest of her life was on the road, playing clubs, or singing in the studio--making music one way or another. Dinah's tart and heartfelt voice quickly became her trademark; she was a distinctive stylist, crossing over from the "race" music category to the pop and jazz charts. Known in her day as Queen of the Blues and Queen of the Juke Boxes, Dinah was regarded as that rare "first take" artist, her studio recordings reflecting the same passionate energy she brought to the stage. As Nadine Cohodas shows us, Dinah suffered her share of heartbreak in her personal life, but she thrived on the growing audience response that greeted her signature tunes: "What a Diff'rence a Day Makes," "Evil Gal Blues," and "Baby (You've Got What It Takes)," with Brook Benton. She made every song she sang her own. Dinah lives large in these pages, with her seven marriages; her penchant for clothes, cars, furs, and diets; and her famously feisty personality--testy one moment and generous the next. This biography, meticulously researched and gracefully written, is the first to draw on extensive interviews with family members and newly discovered documents. It is a revelation of Dinah's work and her life. Cohodas captures the Queen in all her contradictions, and we hear in this book the voice of a natural star, born to entertain and to be loved.
West Side Gangster Crip was the set she claimed, and Baby Doll rode hard for her gang on the west side of St. Louis. Her partners in crime were a pair of brothers, Alan and Al Snow, whom she’d known since she was a little kid. Baby Doll and Alan were best friends, but his brother, Al, was the one who caught Baby Doll’s eye and they instantly go right into a whirlwind romance. Until tragedy strikes and Baby Doll is sent to prison. After serving a ten-year prison sentence, Baby Doll re-emerges in St. Louis carrying a love for her West Side Gangsta Crips and a secret that she’s been hiding from Al. As she gets re-adjusted to living on the outside, her love for Al is still present and they don’t waste anytime getting back familiar with one another. A reunion at Alan’s club brings Al face to face with his first love, and Baby Doll is as beautiful as ever. Al becomes caught up in his old feelings for Baby Doll forgetting to disclose his current relationship status, being engaged to another woman. They get re-acquainted and the love is still real, but Baby Doll isn’t as naïve as Al would like to believe. She knows that Al is hiding his relationship with another woman, and feels that maybe she should explore her options. Then enters Dip, a dashingly handsome advisory, named Dip, who is also a Blood, from the other side of their hood who has his eyes on Baby Doll. She’s not feeling Dip, because her gang ties hold true to her heart, and she’s a loyalist. It’s West Side Gangsta Crip til the death of her. However, their first encounter left a lasting impression on an already lust-filled Dip, who desires to possess Baby Doll, and have her by his side. Even if it means an all out war in the streets.
West Side Story by Richard Barrios,Turner Classic Movies Pdf
A captivating, richly illustrated full account of the making of the ground-breaking movie classic West Side Story (1961). A major hit on Broadway, on film West Side Story became immortal-a movie different from anything that had come before, but this cinematic victory came at a price. In this engrossing volume, film historian Richard Barrios recounts how the drama and rivalries seen onscreen played out to equal intensity behind-the-scenes, while still achieving extraordinary artistic feats. The making and impact of West Side Story has so far been recounted only in vestiges. In the pages of this book, the backstage tale comes to life along with insight on what has made the film a favorite across six decades: its brilliant use of dance as staged by erstwhile co-director Jerome Robbins; a meaningful story, as set to Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim's soundtrack; the performances of a youthful ensemble cast featuring Natalie Wood, Rita Moreno, George Chakiris, and more; a film with Shakespearean roots (Romeo and Juliet) that is simultaneously timeless and current. West Side Story was a triumph that appeared to be very much of its time; over the years it has shown itself to be eternal.
West Side Story by Leonard Bernstein,Arthur Laurents Pdf
This series of contemporary plays includes structured GCSE assignments for use by individuals or groups. These include questions which involve close reading, writing and discussion. This play places the "Romeo and Juliet" story in a New York gang-warfare context.
“Detail[s] the grassroots interplay among the variety of ideologies, individuals, and organizations that made up the Chicano movement in San Antonio, Texas.” –Journal of American History In the mid-1960s, San Antonio, Texas, was a segregated city governed by an entrenched Anglo social and business elite. The Mexican American barrios of the west and south sides were characterized by substandard housing and experienced seasonal flooding. Gang warfare broke out regularly. Then the striking farmworkers of South Texas marched through the city and set off a social movement that transformed the barrios and ultimately brought down the old Anglo oligarchy. In Quixote’s Soldiers, David Montejano uses a wealth of previously untapped sources, including the congressional papers of Henry B. Gonzalez, to present an intriguing and highly readable account of this turbulent period. Montejano divides the narrative into three parts. In the first part, he recounts how college student activists and politicized social workers mobilized barrio youth and mounted an aggressive challenge to both Anglo and Mexican American political elites. In the second part, Montejano looks at the dynamic evolution of the Chicano movement and the emergence of clear gender and class distinctions as women and ex-gang youth struggled to gain recognition as serious political actors. In the final part, Montejano analyzes the failures and successes of movement politics. He describes the work of second-generation movement organizations that made possible a new and more representative political order, symbolized by the election of Mayor Henry Cisneros in 1981. “A most welcome addition to the growing literature on the Chicana/o movement of the 1960s and 1970s.” –Pacific Historical Review
Baby Doll believed she could fly and leaped off the side of Raise the Bar but, as usual, Al was there to catch her fall from grace. However, this time it lands Baby Doll in a psychiatric center for a thirty-day observation, along side her soon to be daughter-in-law, who’s been depressed and not talking to anyone since Alan’s death. With vengeance and anger raging through Baby Doll, she refuses to be counted among the broken, and wages war against all those who brought death at her doorstep; starting with her fiancé, Dip. Dip went missing when Baby Doll didn’t show up at Paulette’s house for their wedding. He figured she’d gotten cold feet and ran off to New York, so he saught refuge in his PCP habit, liquor and Red until Paulette came with the news of Baby Doll’s whereabouts. He couldn’t believe she tried to kill herself, and wanted to go be by her side and rescue her away from the crazy house. The first thing on his agenda, marry Baby Doll before she disappears again. Now out, and married, Baby Doll puts her plan into action and schemes to bring Dip down along with his cronies for the death of her beloved best friend. Baby Doll used Alan being a live to will Cleo back around, and she jumped on board after learning Caesar was the one who pulled the trigger. Dip’s attempts to keep Baby Doll away from Al fell on deaf ears. And, when Dip catches Baby Doll and Al at Alan’s house having sex, he knows now more than ever that Al must go! Tempers run high and blood shed occurs when Dip experiences the one thing that could drive any man over the edge. Who will be left to live happily ever after?
The most significant factor in the career of Aaron “T-Bone” Walker was his ability to bridge the worlds of blues and jazz. The guitar artistry of this early exponent of urban blues was not only admired by blues musicians like B.B. King, Gatemouth Brown, Albert King, and Albert Collins, and rock guitarists such as Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Duane Allman, and Stevie Ray Vaughan, but by such jazz greats as Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie, Lester Young, and many others with whom he recorded. Stormy Monday is the first biography of T-Bone Walker to be published. Using dozens of interviews with Walker, as well as with members of his family, close friends, fellow musicians, and business associates, the book offers a remarkable frank insider’s account of the life of a blues musician and compulsive gambler, from the wild living and hard drinking on the road to a solid and contented family life at home. “In a very real sense the modern blues is largely his creation.” blues authority Pete Welding has written about T-Bone Walker. “The blues was different before he came on the scene, and it hasn’t been the same since, and few men can lay claim to that kind of distinction. No one has contributed as much, as long, or as variously to the blues.”
Author : William Shaw Publisher : Simon and Schuster Page : 344 pages File Size : 41,8 Mb Release : 2000 Category : African American young men ISBN : 9780684865065
An acclaimed author explores the dreams and realities of seven young men trying to make it in South-central Los Angeles, the world capital of gangsta rap and West Coast hip hop.
Natalie Wood and “lovely” Richard Beymer, to the mercurial Jerome Robbins and “passionate” Rita Moreno, with whom Chakiris remains friends. “I know exactly where my gratitude belongs,” Chakiris writes, “and I still marvel at how, unbeknownst to me at the time, the joyful path of my life was paved one night in 1949 when Jerome Robbins sat Leonard Bernstein and Arthur Laurents down in his apartment and announced, ‘I have an idea.’"
