[PDF] The Albino Album eBook

Author : Chavisa Woods
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 45,43 MB
Release : 2013-03-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1609804767

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Emerging author Chavisa Woods has been noted for capturing a "strange, troubling vision of domestic life in the rural U.S." (Go Magazine). Here she presents a technicolored vision of rural adolescence, the story of a girl with an unpronounceable name—a fiery, unhinged, growling, big-hearted country girl in a dirty black tutu and combat boots who travels along all the bizarre yet familiar byways of human desire from the cornfields of Louisiana and the big brass sound of Mardi Gras to the heights of the Empire State Building. Turning the tradition of the southern gothic novel on its head, Woods presents a new land of contemporary misfits including fire-dancers, pseudo-Nazis who breed albino animals, Catholic workers, horse thieves, and the archangel Gabrielle.

Author : Nathan Brackett
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 948 pages
File Size : 35,59 MB
Release : 2004
Category : POPULAR MUSIC--DISCOGRAPHY.
ISBN : 0743201698

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Author : John Ayto
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 983 pages
File Size : 45,2 MB
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1408101602

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The average contemporary English speaker knows 50,000 words. Yet stripped down to its origins, this apparently huge vocabulary is in reality much smaller, derived from Latin, French and the Germanic languages. It is estimated that every year, 800 neologisms are added to the English language: acronyms (nimby), blended words (motel), and those taken from foreign languages (savoir-faire). Laid out in an A-Z format with detailed cross references, and written in a style that is both authoritative and accessible, Word Origins is a valuable historical guide to the English language.

Author : Eric Spitznagel
Publisher : Plume
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 42,78 MB
Release : 2016-04-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0142181617

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Old Records Never Die is a memoir of one man's search for his lost record collection. Journalist Eric Spitznagel sets out to scour every flea market and dusty attic in the country, every cluttered used record store, every hoarder's basement and eBay seller's home, and every radio station that employs a friend of a friend until he is reunited with the precious vinyl artifacts from his past. As he embarks on his hero's journey, he reminisces about the actual records, the music, and the people he listened to it with old girlfriends, his high school pals, and, most poignantly, his father, who died the year his son was born. He explores the magic of music and memory as he interweaves his adventures in record- culture with questions about our connection to our past, whether we can ever recapture it, and whether we would want to if we could.

Author : Paul Hegarty
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 46,69 MB
Release : 2021-12-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 1501370839

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The original edition of Beyond and Before extends an understanding of “progressive rock” by providing a fuller definition of what progressive rock is, was and can be. Called by Record Collector “the most accomplished critical overview yet” of progressive rock and one of their 2011 books of the year, Beyond and Before moves away from the limited consensus that prog rock is exclusively English in origin and that it was destroyed by the advent of punk in 1976. Instead, by tracing its multiple origins and complex transitions, it argues for the integration of jazz and folk into progressive rock and the extension of prog in Kate Bush, Radiohead, Porcupine Tree and many more. This 10-year anniversary revised edition continues to further unpack definitions of progressive rock and includes a brand new chapter focusing on post-conceptual trends in the 2010s through to the contemporary moment. The new edition discusses the complex creativity of progressive metal and folk in greater depth, as well as new fusions of genre that move across global cultures and that rework the extended form and mission of progressive rock, including in recent pop concept albums. All chapters are revised to keep the process of rethinking progressive rock alive and vibrant as a hybrid, open form.

Author : Martin Manser
Publisher : Heinemann
Page : 1234 pages
File Size : 14,36 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780435104245

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This text is aimed at students of all levels and provides straightforward definitions and help with pronunciation.