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| Author | : Bruce A. Hawes |
| Publisher | : Mawa.com Incorporated Publishing House Division |
| Total Pages | : 221 |
| Release | : 2015-05-18 |
| Genre | : African American musicians |
| ISBN | : 9780615689463 |
This is the paperback edited version of the book and story of Bruce Hawes being a consistent hit music songwriter from a teenager in the recording industry, starting at Philadelphia International Records company, up to the present day in 2015. As in many stories there were triumphs and tragedies. In my story however, there were many lessons as well. And there were greater lessons that I learned after being deceived, and cheated many times. But I became successful in spite of those obstructions that stood in my way. My tragedies did not start nor stop once I was immersed in the business. But I found out along the way that there were a lot of wasted efforts and opportunities. This was not the case in the Jefferson, Hawes and Simmons writing team office and many other offices. But yes, there was one team who saw their chance at success just pass-them-by. You see this group took the casting couch approach. The only things they produced were a lot of moans, groans and unfulfilled promises of stardom. With hindsight always being 20-20, I look back now and see the loss of the one true love of my life, Barbara Ingram, as having a life changing effect upon me. Barbara was not only my life partner, but also my one woman cheering squad. No matter where I had to go, for whatever reason, I could close my eyes and see her smile of encouragement. To this day I can still hear her infectious giggle saying, "Wait until the world hears what you can do " The first tragedy I experienced, was when I came home from New York with Rena Sinakin, my life long friend and Co-Producer of Gladys Knight and the Pips, to find that my step daughter, Barbara's daughter "De'neen," had died that day at the tender age 11 from a ruptured appendix. Barbara had a nervous breakdown and so did our relationship over the next ten years. But as fate would have it, our paths brought us together again, only to be separated by two separate acts of violence and unexpected illness. I was attacked in my home. I jumped from a loft area and shattered both feet. The doctors incorrectly predicted that I would never walk again. Through great determination I proved them wrong. My dearest Barbara didn't fare as well. She had an aneurysm and died from a hemorrhage of the brain. A part of me died with her. Through the grace and strength of will inspired by Barbara and my faith in God, like the Phoenix I rose from the ashes that my life had disintegrated into. I have had my share of triumphs and tragedies but all in all, I truly grew up in The Sound Of Philadelphia. - Bruce Hawes
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| Total Pages | : 140 |
| Release | : 2000-10-07 |
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In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.
| Author | : Craig Werner |
| Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
| Total Pages | : 489 |
| Release | : 2021-07-20 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 0472129627 |
". . . extraordinarily far-reaching. . . . highly accessible." —Notes "No one has written this way about music in a long, long time. Lucid, insightful, with real spiritual, political, intellectual, and emotional grasp of the whole picture. A book about why music matters, and how, and to whom." —Dave Marsh, author of Louie, Louie and Born to Run: The Bruce Springsteen Story "This book is urgently needed: a comprehensive look at the various forms of black popular music, both as music and as seen in a larger social context. No one can do this better than Craig Werner." —Henry Louis Gates, Jr., W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University "[Werner has] mastered the extremely difficult art of writing about music as both an aesthetic and social force that conveys, implies, symbolizes, and represents ideas as well as emotion, but without reducing its complexities and ambiguities to merely didactic categories." —African American Review A Change Is Gonna Come is the story of more than four decades of enormously influential black music, from the hopeful, angry refrains of the Freedom movement, to the slick pop of Motown; from the disco inferno to the Million Man March; from Woodstock's "Summer of Love" to the war in Vietnam and the race riots that inspired Marvin Gaye to write "What's Going On." Originally published in 1998, A Change Is Gonna Come drew the attention of scholars and general readers alike. This new edition, featuring four new and updated chapters, will reintroduce Werner's seminal study of black music to a new generation of readers. Craig Werner is Professor of Afro-American Studies at the University of Wisconsin, and author of many books, including Playing the Changes: From Afro-Modernism to the Jazz Impulse and Up Around the Bend: An Oral History of Creedence Clearwater Revival. His most recent book is Higher Ground: Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Curtis Mayfield, and the Rise and Fall of American Soul.
| Author | : Susan Eckelmann Berghel |
| Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
| Total Pages | : 288 |
| Release | : 2019 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0820356638 |
Growing Up America brings together new scholarship that considers the role of children and teenagers in shaping American political life during the decades following the Second World War. Growing Up America places young people-and their representations-at the center of key political trends, illuminating the dynamic and complex roles played by youth in the midcentury rights revolutions, in constructing and challenging cultural norms, and in navigating the vicissitudes of American foreign policy and diplomatic relations. The authors featured here reveal how young people have served as both political actors and subjects from the early Cold War through the late twentieth-century Age of Fracture. At the same time, Growing Up America contends that the politics of childhood and youth extends far beyond organized activism and the ballot box. By unveiling how science fairs, breakfast nooks, Boy Scout meetings, home economics classrooms, and correspondence functioned as political spaces, this anthology encourages a reassessment of the scope and nature of modern politics itself.
| Author | : Dr. Barbara Ward Farmer |
| Publisher | : AuthorHouse |
| Total Pages | : 115 |
| Release | : 2014-08-19 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1496933427 |
Im Still Singing is Pastor Farmers life journey in the Gospel singing world since the age of 4. At age 63, she denotes her beginning experiences from her school, radio, composing and arranging,recording, and teaching days in a field that has seen its ups and downs. You will enjoy her consistency in singing Gospel even when financially it was not popular. She maps out for every reader that her musical journey had a path of its own before the age of 11 years old from singing simply because she could until she had an encounter with Jesus Christ, before she was 12 years old, that not only changed her singing style, but also her understanding of lifes purpose and meaning, which kept her singing even when the song and the music changed from a gospel singer to a gospel preacher,in the key of B natural---born again!
| Author | : Soul Sound Sonny Hopson |
| Publisher | : Author House |
| Total Pages | : 451 |
| Release | : 2012-01-10 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1467857645 |
I don't know how many forwards start out as a letter, but I figured it would be the best way to get your attention. Im sure many of the books youve read and have added to your collection on Philadelphia history and local greats have had excellent insight to the workings of our fair city. But every story has a side story that often has as much or more importance to the outcome of that story Many heroes never get their 15 minutes of fame and are forgotten in the shadows of the decades. My father has had many adventures that are not in this book, and that still need to be heard. My dad has a way of giving you just enough information and just enough humor that when he finally finishes his shorts, you just yearn for more. Maybe one day he will enlighten us with all the rest of his experiences that have made him a great man and made me want for such greatness.
| Author | : Yaron Weitzman |
| Publisher | : Grand Central Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 308 |
| Release | : 2020-03-17 |
| Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
| ISBN | : 1538749742 |
Enter the City of Brotherly Love and see how the NBA's Philadelphia 76ers trusted The Process–using a bold plan to get to first by becoming the worst. When a group of private equity bigwigs purchased the Philadelphia 76ers in 2011, the team was both bad and boring. Attendance was down. So were ratings. The Sixers had an aging coach, an antiquated front office, and a group of players that could best be described as mediocre. Enter Sam Hinkie—a man with a plan straight out of the PE playbook, one that violated professional sports' Golden Rule: You play to win the game. In Hinkie's view, the best way to reach first was to embrace becoming the worst—to sacrifice wins in the present in order to capture championships in the future. And to those dubious, Hinkie had a response: Trust The Process, and the results will follow. The plan, dubbed "The Process," seems to have worked. More than six years after handing Hinkie the keys, the Sixers have transformed into one of the most exciting teams in the NBA. They've emerged as a championship contender with a roster full of stars, none bigger than Joel Embiid, a captivating seven-footer known for both brutalizing opponents on the court and taunting them off of it. Beneath the surface, though, lies a different story, one of infighting, dueling egos, and competing agendas. Hinkie, pushed out less than three years into his reign by a demoralized owner, a jealous CEO, and an embarrassed NBA, was the first casualty of The Process. He'd be far from the last. Drawing from interviews with nearly 175 people, Tanking to the Top brings to life the palace intrigue incited by Hinkie's proposal, taking readers into the boardroom where the Sixers laid out their plans, and onto the courts where those plans met reality. Full of uplifting, rags-to-riches stories, backroom dealings, mysterious injuries, and burner Twitter accounts, Tanking to the Top is the definitive, inside story of the Sixers' Process and a fun and lively behind-the-scenes look at one of America's most transgressive teams. Including exclusive interviews with Joel Embiid, Ben Simmons, and Coach Brett Brown, Sam Hinkie, and more.
| Author | : Paul Zollo |
| Publisher | : Da Capo Press |
| Total Pages | : 674 |
| Release | : 2016-11-08 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 030682244X |
The long-awaited sequel to Songwriters on Songwriting, often called "the songwriter's bible," More Songwriters on Songwriting goes to the heart of the creative process with in-depth interviews with many of the world's greatest songwriters. Covering every genre of popular music from folk, rock 'n' roll, Broadway, jazz, pop, and modern rock, this is a remarkable journey through some sixty years of popular songwriting: from Leiber & Stoller's genius rock 'n' roll collaborations and Richard Sherman's Disney songs to Kenny Gamble's Philly Sound; Norman Whitfield's Motown classics; Loretta Lynn's country standards; expansive folk music from Peter, Paul, and Mary; folk-rock from Stephen Stills; confessional gems from James Taylor; poetic excursions form Patti Smith; Beatles magic from Ringo Starr; expansive brilliance from Paul Simon; complex melodic greatness from Brian Wilson; the most untrustworthy narrator alive in Randy Newman; the dark rock theater of both Alice Cooper and Rob Zombie; the sophisticated breadth of Elvis Costello; the legendary jazz of Herbie Hancock; the soulful swagger of of Chrissie Hynde; the funny-poignant beauty of John Prine; the ancient wisdom fused with hip-hop and reggae of Matisyahu; and much more. In all of it is the collective wisdom of those who have written songs for decades, songs that have impacted our culture forever.
| Author | : Margaret Lamberts Bendroth |
| Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
| Total Pages | : 216 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9780813530147 |
Home and family are key, yet relatively unexplored, dimensions of religion in the contemporary United States. American cultural lore is replete with images of saintly nineteenth-century American mothers and their children. During the twentieth century, however, the form and function of the American family have changed radically, and religious beliefs have evolved under the challenges of modernity. As these transformations took place, how did religion manage to "fit" into modern family life? In this book, Margaret Lamberts Bendroth examines the lives and beliefs of white, middle-class mainline Protestants (principally northern Presbyterians, Baptists, Methodists, and Congregationalists) who are theologically moderate or liberal. Mainliners have pursued family issues for most of the twentieth century, churning out hundreds of works on Christian childrearing. Bendroth's book explores the role of family within a religious tradition that sees itself as America's cultural center. In this balanced analysis, the author traces the evolution of mainliners' roles in middle-class American culture and sharpens our awareness of the ways in which the mainline Protestant experience has actually shaped and reflected the American sense of self.
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| Total Pages | : 752 |
| Release | : 1898 |
| Genre | : Coal trade |
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