Rockin' in the New World

Rockin' in the New World
Author: Bob Tulipan
Publisher: Union Square & Co.
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2011-07-05
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1402789106

Part field guide, part artistic coaching session, this rockin book by a seasoned insider explains the ins and outs of the music industry in plain English. Bob Tulipan-who has worked with such bands as The Talking Heads and The Police-shares his expertise to help musicians protect both their art and their interests. Practical, accessible, and filled with engaging anecdotes, it addresses common hurdles that every band faces on the road to success.

Rockin' the Free World!

Rockin' the Free World!
Author: Sean Kay
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2016-12-29
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1442266058

In Rockin' the Free World, international relations expert Sean Kay takes readers inside “Bob Dylan’s America” and shows how this vision linked the rock and roll revolution to American values of freedom, equality, human rights, and peace while tracing how those values have spread globally. Rockin' the Free World then shows how artists have engaged in advancing change via opportunity and education; domestic and international issue advocacy; and within the recording and broader communications industry. The book is built around primary interviews with prominent American and international performing artists ranging from Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees and Grammy winners to regional and local musicians. The interviews include leading industry people, management, journalists, heads of non-profits, and activists. The book concludes with a look at how musical artists have defined the American experience and what that has meant for the world.

They Landed on Plymoth Rock! | The Thirteen Colonies of the New World and Their Origins | Grade 7 Children's American Histor

They Landed on Plymoth Rock! | The Thirteen Colonies of the New World and Their Origins | Grade 7 Children's American Histor
Author: Baby Professor
Publisher: Speedy Publishing LLC
Total Pages: 73
Release: 2022-12-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1541958527

There was a total of thirteen colonies established in the early history of the America. In this book, you will read about the way of life of each of these thirteen colonies. You will also learn how the community within each colony was structured. Step back in time. Grab a copy and start reading today.

RPM: Rockin' in the Free World

RPM: Rockin' in the Free World
Author: H. S. Means
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012-12
Genre:
ISBN: 9780988175204

"Once in awhile, right in the middle of ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale." So begins a gripping memoir written by a young Special Forces Army wife as her husband lay dying. Ryan Means grew up wanting to be a soldier. At age thirty-one, after the loss of his best friend in the 9/11 attacks, Ryan joined the US Army. He barely got to know his daughter Elizabeth when he was deployed to Iraq. In 2009, Ryan was diagnosed with an extremely rare form of liver cancer and quickly passed away due to complications. RPM Rockin' in the Free World is a raw and inspirational tale of modern love and war that reminds us to appreciate life and live it to its fullest. It is proof that grief does not have to prevail over eternal love. Portions of sales from this book will be donated to Special Operations Warrior Foundation.

New World Symphonies

New World Symphonies
Author: Jack Sullivan
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 1999-01-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780300072310

This groundbreaking book shows for the first time the profound and transformative influence of American literature, music, and mythology on European music. Although the impact of the European tradition on American composers is widely acknowledged, Jack Sullivan demonstrates that an even more powerful musical current has flowed from the New World to the Old. The spread of rock and roll around the world, the author contends, is only the latest chapter in a cross-cultural story that began in the nineteenth century with Gottschalk in Paris and Dvorák in New York. Sullivan brings popular and canonical culture into his wide-ranging discussion. He explores the effects on European music of American authors as diverse as Twain, DuBois, Melville, and Langston Hughes, examining in particular Dvorák's fascination with Longfellow, the obsession of Debussy and Ravel with Poe, and the inspiration Whitman provided for Holst, Vaughan Williams, and dozens more. Sullivan uncovers the African American musical influence on Europe, beginning with spirituals and culminating in the impact of jazz on Stravinsky, Bartók, Walton, and others. He analyzes the lure of Hollywood and Broadway for such composers as Weill, Korngold, and Britten and considers the power of the American landscape--from the remoteness of the prairie to the brutal energy of the American city. In European music, Sullivan finds, American culture and mythology continue to resonate.

New World Monkeys

New World Monkeys
Author: Alfred L. Rosenberger
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2020-09
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0691143641

"This book is a broad synthesis of new world monkey evolution, integrating their unique evolutionary story into the bigger picture of primate evolution and Amazon biodiversity. Capsule For more than 30 million years, New World monkeys have inhabited the forests of South and Central America. Whether these primates originally came from Africa by rafting across the Atlantic or crossing overland from North America, they soon flourished. This book tells the story of these New World monkeys. Integrating data from fossil and living animals, it explores the evolution of the three major New World monkey lineages as well as how they fit into the broader story of primate evolution and Amazon biodiversity. After providing readers with necessary background in primate taxonomy and systematics, Rosenberger shows that the notion of adaptive zones is central to our understanding of primate evolution. The idea of adaptive zones can explain how radiations evolve, morphological adaptations appear, and communities form. From here, Rosenberger synthesizes what is known about New World monkeys' unique ecological adaptations, including those involving feeding and locomotion, as well as their social behaviour. The book's concluding chapters explore theories of how primates first arrived in South America and what their future looks like given the threat of extinction. Biography Internal Use Only Alfred L. Rosenberger is Professor Emeritus of Biological Anthropology at Brooklyn College. An expert on the origin and evolution of New World Monkeys, Rosenberger has contributed numerous articles in edited volumes and his work is published in journals such as Nature, Journal of Human Evolution and American Journal of Primatology . Audience The audience for this book is scholars and graduate students in biological/physical anthropolog and primatology, and to a lesser extent conservation biology, evolutionary biology, and behavioral ecology . Rationale - no copy text Other Relevant Info - no copy text"--

The Southern Rock Revival

The Southern Rock Revival
Author: Jason T. Eastman
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2017-03-16
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1498531148

While some people find new opportunities in the postindustrial economy, many working-class men find their social and economic well-being collapse as blue-collar jobs are outsourced and offshored to the global labor market. Faced with limited options to earn a living-wage, many of these blue-collar workers are instead changing who they are, embracing a deviant, rebellious identity expressed by the contemporary southern rock revival musicians studied in this book. Although loosely based in the traditional culture and lifestyle of the southeastern United States, contemporary southerness has little to do with region but instead is a way to rebel from the very institutions blue-collar men traditionally used as the basis of their masculine pride: family, education, employment, military service, and religion. This contemporary form of southerness reflected in their music also involves deviance, as many of these men adorn themselves with the highly controversial confederate flag, binge drink alcohol, brawl with one another and use drugs. Combining interviews, participant observation and a lyrical analysis, this book explores these aspects of rebellious southerness through music as it exists in the ideal sense and as individual men try to live up to these subcultural ideals in their daily lives. The southern rock revival is a new social movement carving out a place for an alternative way to live while simultaneously perpetuating stereotypes about poor men, reinforcing social disadvantage and marginalization.

The Guitar and the New World

The Guitar and the New World
Author: Joe Gioia
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2014-03-12
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1438455038

The American guitar, that lightweight wooden box with a long neck, hourglass figure, and six metal strings, has evolved over five hundred years of social turmoil to become a nearly magical object—the most popular musical instrument in the world. In The Guitar and the New World, Joe Gioia offers a many-limbed social history that is as entertaining as it is informative. After uncovering the immigrant experience of his guitar-making Sicilian great uncle, Gioia's investigation stretches from the ancient world to the fateful events of the 1901 Buffalo Pan American Exposition, across Sioux Ghost Dancers and circus Indians, to the lives and works of such celebrated American musicians as Jimmy Rodgers, Charlie Patton, Eddie Lang, and the Carter Family. At the heart of the book's portrait of wanderings and legacies is the proposition that America's idiomatic harmonic forms—mountain music and the blues—share a single root, and that the source of the sad and lonesome sounds central to both is neither Celtic nor African, but truly indigenous—Native American. The case is presented through a wide examination of cultural histories, academic works, and government documents, as well as a close appreciation of recordings made by key rural musicians, black and white, in the 1920s and '30s. The guitar in its many forms has cheered humanity through centuries of upheaval, and The Guitar and the New World offers a new account of this old friend, as well as a transformative look at a hidden chapter of American history.

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson

Dwayne
Author: Alex Monnig
Publisher: ABDO
Total Pages: 51
Release: 2023-08-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1098277929

This book chronicles Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's childhood, education, and early career; his rise to success; and his current status. The Rock's personal and professional challenges and achievements are highlighted as is his impact on entertainment wrestling. Aligned to Common Core standards and correlated to state standards. A&D Xtreme is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

Rock-It

Rock-It
Author: Jane Beethoven
Publisher: Alfred Music
Total Pages: 52
Release:
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781457415357

A total teaching package for junior high general music classes that traces the history of American popular music. The material accommodates any course from six weeks to a full semester.