Tales, Rumors, and Gossip
Title | Tales, Rumors, and Gossip PDF eBook |
Author | Gail de Vos |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Pages | 426 |
Release | 1996-04-15 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0313069875 |
Explore the stories and themes that capture the imagination of young people today. A sampling of tales is organized into broad subject areas, such as contaminated food, threats to children, and satanic legends, and the tales are analyzed according to function, structure, and international variants. De Vos also discusses film and literary adaptions and offers suggestions for adapting tales for the junior high and high school curriculum. Explore the stories and themes that capture the imagination of young people today. After a fascinating overview and discussion of contemporary legends (commonly referred to as modern urban legends and often told as true), de Vos examines them in their relationship to rumors and gossip, ostension (acting out the legends), the role of the media in formulation and dissemination, and related tales (e.g., literary horror tales). A sampling of tales is organized into broad subject areas, such as contaminated food, threats to children, and satanic legends, and the legends are analyzed according to function, structure, and international variants. De Vos discusses some of the literary and visual adaptations in popular culture and offers suggestions for adapting tales for the junior high and high school curriculum. A fascinating professional book, this is a great resource to use with young adults.
Rumors
Title | Rumors PDF eBook |
Author | Jean-Noël Kapferer |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 284 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9780887383250 |
Deals with aspects of rumor and gossip
Making Rumours
Title | Making Rumours PDF eBook |
Author | Ken Caillat |
Publisher | Turner Publishing Company |
Pages | 340 |
Release | 2012-03-05 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1118282361 |
Inside the making of one of the biggest-selling albums of all time: Fleetwood Mac's Rumours Fleetwood Mac's classic 1977 Rumours album topped the Billboard 200 for thirty-one weeks and won the Album of the Year Grammy. More recently, Rolling Stone named it the twenty-fifth greatest album of all time and the hit TV series Glee devoted an entire episode to songs from Rumours, introducing it to a new generation. Now, for the first time, Ken Caillat, the album's co-producer, tells the full story of what really went into making Rumours—from the endless partying and relationship dramas to the creative struggles to write and record "You Make Loving Fun," "Don't Stop," "Go Your Own Way," "The Chain," and other timeless tracks. Tells the fascinating, behind-the-music story of the making of Fleetwood Mac's Rumours, written by the producer who saw it all happen Filled with new and surprising details, such as Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham's screaming match while recording "You Make Loving Fun," how the band coped with the pressures of increasing success, how the master tape nearly disintegrated, and the incredible attention paid to even the tiniest elements of songs, from Lindsey playing a chair to Mick breaking glass Includes eighty black-and-white photographs
The Rumor
Title | The Rumor PDF eBook |
Author | Anushka Ravishankar |
Publisher | Random House Digital, Inc. |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Gossip |
ISBN | 9781770492806 |
In the village of Baddbaddpur, the people like to tell tales, "so tall that if you put them one on top of the other, they would reach the stars." Pandurang is so dour that he can make milk turn sour. One day he coughs up a feather. As the story of Pandurang's feather is passed from one person to another it grows and grows and grows until it can hardly be recognized. And that's when the story weaves its magic on the ill-tempered Pandurang. An international version of "broken telephone" this is a funny cautionary tale about the nature of rumors.
Did You Hear?
Title | Did You Hear? PDF eBook |
Author | Frank J. Sileo |
Publisher | Magination Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | Conduct of life |
ISBN | 9781433827204 |
Gives examples of serious and silly gossip, leading to what hurtful gossip feels like, how it is like bullying, and what to do to stop it. Ages 4-8.
Speaking with Vampires
Title | Speaking with Vampires PDF eBook |
Author | Luise White |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 374 |
Release | 2023-04-28 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0520922298 |
During the colonial period, Africans told each other terrifying rumors that Africans who worked for white colonists captured unwary residents and took their blood. In colonial Tanganyika, for example, Africans were said to be captured by these agents of colonialism and hung upside down, their throats cut so their blood drained into huge buckets. In Kampala, the police were said to abduct Africans and keep them in pits, where their blood was sucked. Luise White presents and interprets vampire stories from East and Central Africa as a way of understanding the world as the storytellers did. Using gossip and rumor as historical sources in their own right, she assesses the place of such evidence, oral and written, in historical reconstruction. White conducted more than 130 interviews for this book and did research in Kenya, Uganda, and Zambia. In addition to presenting powerful, vivid stories that Africans told to describe colonial power, the book presents an original epistemological inquiry into the nature of historical truth and memory, and into their relationship to the writing of history.
Wives Tales:
Title | Wives Tales: PDF eBook |
Author | Anne Oakley |
Publisher | |
Pages | 40 |
Release | 2021-06-08 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
This book is a nod to Mad Women; the men who loved them, the ones who destroyed them, and the hens who gossip.