Rosanna. [A ballad.].
Title | Rosanna. [A ballad.]. PDF eBook |
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Pages | 1 |
Release | 1835* |
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Traditional Ballad Airs
Title | Traditional Ballad Airs PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 332 |
Release | 1881 |
Genre | Ballads |
ISBN |
The English Traditional Ballad
Title | The English Traditional Ballad PDF eBook |
Author | David Atkinson |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 374 |
Release | 2017-07-05 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1351544802 |
Ballads are a fascinating subject of study not least because of their endless variety. It is quite remarkable that ballads taken down or recorded from singers separated by centuries in time and by hundreds of kilometres in distance, should be both different and yet recognizably the same. In The English Traditional Ballad, David Atkinson examines the ways in which the body of ballads known in England make reference both to ballads from elsewhere and to other English folk songs. The book outlines current theoretical directions in ballad scholarship: structuralism, traditional referentiality, genre and context, print and oral transmission, and the theory of tradition and revival. These are combined to offer readers a method of approaching the central issue in ballad studies - the creation of meaning(s) out of ballad texts. Atkinson focuses on some of the most interesting problems in ballad studies: the 'wit-combat' in versions of The Unquiet Grave; variable perspectives in comic ballads about marriage; incest as a ballad theme; problems of feminine motivation in ballads like The Outlandish Knight and The Broomfield Hill; murder ballads and murder in other instances of early popular literature. Through discussion of these issues and themes in ballad texts, the book outlines a way of tracing tradition(s) in English balladry, while recognizing that ballad tradition is far from being simply chronological and linear.
The Girl in the Song
Title | The Girl in the Song PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Heatley |
Publisher | Portico |
Pages | 234 |
Release | 2014-11-24 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1909396885 |
The Girl in the Song tells the stories of 50 women who have inspired classic rock songs. Who was Emily in Pink Floyd's See Emily Play? What happened to Suzanne Verdal, immortalised in Leonard Cohen's Suzanne? Did life change for Prudence Farrow after John Lennon penned Dear Prudence? And whatever happened to 'the girl with mousy hair', an ex-girlfriend Bowie sings about in Life on Mars? This fascinating book explains how each song came about, when it was released, the impact it had on the charts and then gives a mini-biography of the song's muse. Suzanne Verdal was living a bohemian lifestyle by the river in Montreal when Cohen wrote his poem Suzanne, which he subsequently set to music. Later in life she tried to get in touch with the star who blanked her backstage at a gig. She was last heard of living in a car in California. Apart from songs, the book features sidebars on the performers who wrote about the women in their life - Syd Barrett famously included four girls in the same song. Other examples include:Under My Thumb - The Rolling Stones (Chrissie Shrimpton),She's Leaving Home - The Beatles, Layla - Derek and the Dominoes (Patti Boyd), Peggy-Sue - Buddy Holly (Peggy-Sue Gerron), Maggie May - Rod Stewart, Light of Day - Bruce Springsteen (Julianna Phillips), Sweet Caroline - Neil Diamond (Caroline Kennedy).
Blinded by the Lyrics
Title | Blinded by the Lyrics PDF eBook |
Author | Brent Mann |
Publisher | Citadel Press |
Pages | 212 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780806526959 |
Explores the fascinating and surprising stories behind the most mysterious and inscrutable lyrics in rock & roll history. In Billy Joel's famous tune Piano Man, he sings: "Now Paul is a real-estate novelist, who never had time for a wife". This strange lyric cries out for an explanation. What in the world is "a real estate novelist"? Blinded By The Lyrics has the unusual answer.
An excellent song, entitled, Rosanna; or, The Oxford tragedy
Title | An excellent song, entitled, Rosanna; or, The Oxford tragedy PDF eBook |
Author | Oxfordshire tragedy |
Publisher | |
Pages | 20 |
Release | 1821 |
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The Frontman
Title | The Frontman PDF eBook |
Author | Ron Bahar |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 2018-04-03 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1943006458 |
Ron Bahar is an insecure, self-deprecating, seventeen-year-old Nebraskan striving to please his Israeli immigrant parents, Ophira and Ezekiel, while remaining true to his own dreams. During his senior year of high school, he begins to date longtime crush and non-Jewish girl Amy Andrews—a forbidden relationship he hides from his parents. But that’s not the only complicated part of Ron’s life: he’s also struggling to choose between his two passions, medicine and music. As time goes on, he becomes entangled in a compelling world of sex, drugs, and rock and roll. Will he do the right thing? A fictionalized memoir of the author’s life as a young man in Lincoln, Nebraska, The Frontman is a coming-of-age tale of love and fidelity.