Real Men Don't Sing

Real Men Don't Sing
Author: Allison McCracken
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 477
Release: 2015-09-17
Genre: Music
ISBN: 082237532X

The crooner Rudy Vallée's soft, intimate, and sensual vocal delivery simultaneously captivated millions of adoring fans and drew harsh criticism from those threatened by his sensitive masculinity. Although Vallée and other crooners reflected the gender fluidity of late-1920s popular culture, their challenge to the Depression era's more conservative masculine norms led cultural authorities to stigmatize them as gender and sexual deviants. In Real Men Don't Sing Allison McCracken outlines crooning's history from its origins in minstrelsy through its development as the microphone sound most associated with white recording artists, band singers, and radio stars. She charts early crooners’ rise and fall between 1925 and 1934, contrasting Rudy Vallée with Bing Crosby to demonstrate how attempts to contain crooners created and dictated standards of white masculinity for male singers. Unlike Vallée, Crosby survived the crooner backlash by adapting his voice and persona to adhere to white middle-class masculine norms. The effects of these norms are felt to this day, as critics continue to question the masculinity of youthful, romantic white male singers. Crooners, McCracken shows, not only were the first pop stars: their short-lived yet massive popularity fundamentally changed American culture.

The Moose That Roared

The Moose That Roared
Author: Keith Scott
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 468
Release: 2001-11-20
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780312283834

Read the behind-the-scenes history of the Rocky and Bullwinkle Show's creation in this text. These cultural icons emerged fully-formed from the wittiest, most irreverent and shamelessly subversive cartoons ever.

Paranoria, TX - The Radio Scripts Vol. 4

Paranoria, TX - The Radio Scripts Vol. 4
Author: George Jones
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2017-06-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1387022334

Presented here for the first time is the collected scripts of episodes 37 through 52 of the popular and long running science fiction, fantasy, comedy, adventure radio show called "Paranoria, TX" which is old school radio theater with a new and outrageous geeky spin! In this volume, things change even more for our would be heroes as they begin to learn what it means to go from wanna be conquerors to bona fide saviors.

The Engineering Index

The Engineering Index
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 554
Release: 1920
Genre: Engineering
ISBN:

Since its creation in 1884, Engineering Index has covered virtually every major engineering innovation from around the world. It serves as the historical record of virtually every major engineering innovation of the 20th century. Recent content is a vital resource for current awareness, new production information, technological forecasting and competitive intelligence. The world?s most comprehensive interdisciplinary engineering database, Engineering Index contains over 10.7 million records. Each year, over 500,000 new abstracts are added from over 5,000 scholarly journals, trade magazines, and conference proceedings. Coverage spans over 175 engineering disciplines from over 80 countries. Updated weekly.

The Future of the International Legal Order, Volume 4

The Future of the International Legal Order, Volume 4
Author: Cyril E. Black
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 657
Release: 2015-03-08
Genre: Law
ISBN: 140087307X

The issues of conflict management treated in this volume are relatively recent consequences of the scientific and technological revolution, and are in significant respects unprecedented in man's history: food distribution, population, ocean resources, air and water pollution. Such new global problems cannot be adequately solved except by international effort—effort that requires adjustments in the present international system. What adjustments arc practicable, and at least minimally necessary, are assessed by seventeen lawyers and specialists in international affairs. They approach the subject from two perspectives: the international legal aspects of man in his environment; and the institutions, agencies, and movements that must be further adapted to the rapidly changing needs of mankind. Contributors: Harold Lasswell, Mary Ellen Caldwell, Dennis Livingston, Howard J. and Rita F. Taubenfeld, L.F.E. Goldie. Leon Gordenker, John Carey, Hans Baade, Gidon Gotlieb, Richard B. Lillich, Joseph Nye, Donald McNemar, James Patrick Sewell, Gerald F. Sumida, Harold and Margaret Sprout. Originally published in 1972. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Praise from a Future Generation

Praise from a Future Generation
Author: John Kelin
Publisher: Wings Press
Total Pages: 613
Release: 2007-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 160940338X

Finely written and meticulously documented, this book describes how--very early on--a small group of ordinary citizens began extraordinary efforts to demonstrate that the JFK assassination could not have happened the way the government said it did. In time, their efforts had an enormous impact on public opinion, but this account concentrates on the months before the controversy caught fire, when people with skeptical viewpoints still saw themselves as lone voices. Material seldom seen by the public includes a suppressed photograph of the grassy knoll, an unpublished 1964 interview with an eyewitness, the earliest mention of the "magic bullet," and an analysis of the commotion surrounding New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison's charge that anti-Castro CIA operatives were involved.