Until the Music Fades Out

Until the Music Fades Out
Author: Poker Face Henry
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 511
Release: 2012-02-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1105532518

what seemed to be a regular Thursday afternoon for rapper/jacker, Dexter "Psycho" Quick, turned into a tune that was hard to dance to. A drive-by shooting on a dice game turned friends into enemies and enemies into friends as a convoluted plot introduced a chain link effect on strangers and associates alike. Follow Psycho through his conflicts of love, lifestyle and mental afflictions that write the theme music of his life. A melody that could very well have us all nodding our heads in unison... until the music fades out.

Dylan at 80

Dylan at 80
Author: Gary Browning
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2021-10-21
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1788360710

2021 marks Dylan's 80th birthday and his 60th year in the music world. It invites us to look back on his career and the multitudes that it contains. Is he a song and dance man? A political hero? A protest singer? A self-portrait artist who has yet to paint his masterpiece? Is he Shakespeare in the alley? The greatest living exponent of American music? An ironsmith? Internet radio DJ? Poet (who knows it)? Is he a spiritual and religious parking meter? Judas? The voice of a generation or a false prophet, jokerman, and thief? Dylan is all these and none. The essays in this book explore the Nobel laureate's masks, collectively reflecting upon their meaning through time, change, movement, and age. They are written by wonderful and diverse set of contributors, all here for his 80th birthday bash: celebrated Dylanologists like Michael Gray and Laura Tenschert; recording artists such as Robyn Hitchcock, Barb Jungr, Amy Rigby, and Emma Swift; and 'the professors' who all like his looks: David Boucher, Anne Margaret Daniel, Ray Monk, Galen Strawson, and more. Read it on your toaster!

Half Swimmer

Half Swimmer
Author: Katja Oskamp
Publisher: Peirene Press
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2024-09-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1916806015

Half Swimmer. Noun. A German term for one who has recently learnt to swim but hasn't yet mastered the technique. Growing up in 1980s East Germany, as the daughter of an army officer and a teacher, Tanja seems set to become a model citizen of the German Democratic Republic. Except she has other ideas. And so, it turns out, does the course of history. Half Swimmer is a collection of stories from one life, following a young girl as she attempts to forge her own identity under the social pressures of both the GDR, and the capitalism of a unified Germany.

My First Time

My First Time
Author: Ken Davenport
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
Total Pages: 73
Release: 2009
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0573663823

"My First Time features four actors in hysterical and heartbreaking stories about first sexual experiences written by real people."--P. [4] of cover.

Orpheus Descending

Orpheus Descending
Author: Tennessee Williams
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Total Pages: 92
Release: 1983
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780822208655

THE STORY: As The New York Times describes, The play tells of a woman storekeeper and a handsome, guileless youth who comes in off the highway. A guitar-player, he is a rural Orpheus who descends to rescue his love--not in Hades, precisely,

Writing Centres in Higher Education

Writing Centres in Higher Education
Author: Sherran Clarence
Publisher: AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2017-10-11
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1928357555

This collection of essays reflects on the ways in which writing centres in South Africa are working in and across disciplines. Institutional constraints and challenges that arise from these collaborations are addressed and opportunities for transforming teaching and learning spaces are explored. The chapters speak to the global move in higher education to reconsider how knowledge is made, who makes it, and how support and development opportunities for students and lecturers should be created and sustained across the disciplines. This volume contributes to the body of knowledge in the growing field of the scholarship of teaching and learning in higher education in South Africa. It builds on the work of the first collection of such essays: Changing Spaces: Writing Centres and Access to Higher Education (Eds. A Archer and R Richards, 2011, SUN PReSS) to understand why working within the disciplines is so critical for writing development in a South African context.

Between Opera and Cinema

Between Opera and Cinema
Author: Jeongwon Joe
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1136534075

Leading scholars of opera and film explore the many ways these two seemingly unrelated genres have come together from the silent-film era to today.