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Author : Irwin H Streight
Release : 2024-07-15
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Book Synopsis Flannery at the Grammys by : Irwin H Streight
Download or read book Flannery at the Grammys written by Irwin H Streight. This book was released on 2024-07-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How a southern writer's power reverberates through acclaimed popular music
Author : Irwin H. Streight
Release : 2024-06-20
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Flannery at the Grammys by : Irwin H. Streight
Download or read book Flannery at the Grammys written by Irwin H. Streight. This book was released on 2024-06-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A devout Catholic, a visionary—and some say prophetic—writer, Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964) has gained a growing presence in contemporary popular culture. While O’Connor professed that she did not have an ear for music, allusions to her writing appear in the lyrics and narrative form of some of the most celebrated musicians on the contemporary music scene. Flannery at the Grammys sounds the extensive influence of this southern author on the art and vision of a suite of American and British singer-songwriters and pop groups. Author Irwin H. Streight invites critical awareness of O’Connor’s resonance in the products of popular music culture—in folk, blues, rock, gospel, punk, heavy metal, and indie pop songs by some of the most notable figures in the popular music business. Streight examines O'Connor's influence on the art and vision of multiple Grammy Award winners Bruce Springsteen, Lucinda Williams, R.E.M., and U2, along with celebrated songwriters Nick Cave, PJ Harvey, Sufjan Stevens, Mary Gauthier, Tom Waits, and others. Despite her orthodox religious, and at times controversial, views and limited literary output, O’Connor has left a curiously indelible mark on the careers of the successful musicians discussed in this volume. Still, her acknowledged influence and remarkable presence in contemporary pop and rock songs has not been well noted by pop music critics and/or literary scholars. Many years in the making, Flannery at the Grammys achieves groundbreaking work in cultural studies and combines in-depth literary and pop music scholarship to engage the informed devotee and the casual reader alike.
Author : Liv Ullmann
Release : 2006
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis Liv Ullmann by : Liv Ullmann
Download or read book Liv Ullmann written by Liv Ullmann. This book was released on 2006. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of interviews which provides an unusually intimate look at how a major filmmaker has developed her craft, both in front of and behind the camera.
Author : Ruth Prigozy
Release : 2020-03-18
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis The Life of Dick Haymes by : Ruth Prigozy
Download or read book The Life of Dick Haymes written by Ruth Prigozy. This book was released on 2020-03-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the superstar crooner, his rise, fall, and struggle for a second act
Author : Perian Conerly
Release : 2023-11-15
Genre : Sports & Recreation
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Book Synopsis Backseat Quarterback by : Perian Conerly
Download or read book Backseat Quarterback written by Perian Conerly. This book was released on 2023-11-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before cable television and mega-contracts, professional jocks' lives were little different from those of the fans in the stands. Back then, the game they played was much simpler but far rougher than anything seen today. Ever cheering from the sidelines, Perian Conerly, wife of the New York Giants’ star quarterback Charlie Conerly, and the first female sportswriter in the National Sportswriters’ Association, wrote this lighthearted account of pro football during its heyday (1948–1961). Her husband led the Giants for fourteen seasons. As she describes the glory games, the players, and life on the road, she delivers from the inside the kind of personal reportage that fans adore. Her story begins with the hilarious misadventures of her wedding day in Clarksdale, Mississippi, “the Golden Buckle on the Cotton Belt.” It ends thirteen years later with Charlie's retirement at the age of forty. In between, there are vignettes of the closely knit cadre of Giants' wives, most of whom resided in the same Bronx hotel near Yankee Stadium. She also reports locker-room gossip and recounts amusing pro-ball anecdotes of a time before TV made athletes' images familiar in all households. Although their deeds on the gridiron were notable, their faces were not. Back then, players were so anonymous in public that many times they fell prey to imitators who stole their identities to mooch drinks and dinners from unsuspecting fans only for the thrill of passing as “somebody.” Along with her scoop reports on winning games, Mrs. Conerly paints an endearing portrait of her famous husband, an Ole Miss legend who, after retirement, was hired as the first Marlboro Man. Though her style is casual, she moves the reader painlessly through some of the finer points of the game. The Washington Evening Star touted her for “having written the best book on pro football in a long time.” The New York Times, for which Mrs. Conerly wrote occasional sports columns, said “Backseat Quarterback is exactly the kind of book that one would expect Perian Conerly to write. Its pages shine with her charm, gaiety, wit, intelligence, and sparkle.” Newsweek praised its “comic insight.” This reissue of a favorite book of 1963 has a foreword by the Conerlys' friend and teammate Frank Gifford.
