Hell Of A Hat

Author : Kenneth Partridge
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271090537
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hell of a Hat written by Kenneth Partridge and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late ’90s, third-wave ska broke across the American alternative music scene like a tsunami. In sweaty clubs across the nation, kids danced themselves dehydrated to the peppy rhythms and punchy horns of bands like The Mighty Mighty Bosstones and Reel Big Fish. As ska caught fire, a swing revival brought even more sharp-dressed, brass-packing bands to national attention. Hell of a Hat dives deep into this unique musical moment. Prior to invading the Billboard charts and MTV, ska thrived from Orange County, California, to NYC, where Moon Ska Records had eager rude girls and boys snapping up every release. On the swing tip, retro pioneers like Royal Crown Revue had fans doing the jump, jive, and wail long before The Brian Setzer Orchestra resurrected the Louis Prima joint. Drawing on interviews with heavyweights like the Bosstones, Sublime, Less Than Jake, and Cherry Poppin' Daddies—as well as underground heroes like Mustard Plug, The Slackers, Hepcat, and The New Morty Show—Kenneth Partridge argues that the relative economic prosperity and general optimism of the late ’90s created the perfect environment for fast, danceable music that—with some notable exceptions—tended to avoid political commentary. An homage to a time when plaids and skankin’ were king and doing the jitterbug in your best suit was so money, Hell of a Hat is an inside look at ’90s ska, swing, and the loud noises of an era when America was dreaming and didn’t even know it.

Author : Kenneth Partridge
Publisher : American Music History
ISBN 13 : 9780271090382
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hell of a Hat written by Kenneth Partridge and published by American Music History. This book was released on 2021-09-17 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the ska and swing music of the late 1990s as a pop-culture movement, telling the stories behind some of the era's most important bands.

Author : Mike Shropshire
Publisher : Diversion Books
ISBN 13 : 1626812616
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seasons in Hell written by Mike Shropshire and published by Diversion Books. This book was released on 2014-03-25 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A funny, revealing, Ball Four–like romp through mid-seventies baseball” from the longtime sports columnist and author of The Last Real Season (Booklist). You think your team is bad? In this “disastrously hilarious” work on one of the most tortured franchises in baseball, one reporter discovers that nine innings can feel like an eternity (USA Today). In early 1973, gonzo sportswriter Mike Shropshire agreed to cover the Texas Rangers for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, not realizing that the Rangers were arguably the worst team in baseball history. Seasons in Hell is a riotous, candid, irreverent behind-the-scenes account in the tradition of The Bronx Zoo and Ball Four, following the Texas Rangers from Whitey Herzog’s reign in 1973 through Billy Martin’s tumultuous tenure. Offering wonderful perspectives on dozens of unique (and likely never-to-be-seen-again) baseball personalities, Seasons in Hell recounts some of the most extreme characters ever to play the game and brings to life the no-holds-barred culture of major league baseball in the mid-seventies. “The single funniest sports book I have ever read.”—Don Imus “The locker-room shenanigans of a lousy team of the 1970s.”—Publishers Weekly

Author : Richard Wagner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tannhäuser written by Richard Wagner and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 672 pages
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Download or read book The Hat Industry written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1078 pages
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Author : J.D. Salinger
Publisher : Back Bay Books
ISBN 13 : 9780316450867
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Catcher in the Rye written by J.D. Salinger and published by Back Bay Books. This book was released on 2018-11-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anyone who has read J.D. Salinger's New Yorker stories, particularly A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut, The Laughing Man, and For Esme--With Love and Squalor, will not be surprised by the fact that his first novel is full of children. The hero-narrator of THE CATCHER IN THE RYE is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days. The boy himself is at once too simple and too complex for us to make any final comment about him or his story. Perhaps the safest thing we can say about Holden is that he was born in the world not just strongly attracted to beauty but, almost, hopelessly impaled on it. There are many voices in this novel: children's voices, adult voices, underground voices--but Holden's voice is the most eloquent of all. Transcending his own vernacular, yet remaining marvelously faithful to it, he issues a perfectly articulated cry of mixed pain and pleasure. However, like most lovers and clowns and poets of the higher orders, he keeps most of the pain to, and for, himself. The pleasure he gives away, or sets aside, with all his heart. It is there for the reader who can handle it to keep.

Author : Richard F. Selcer
Publisher : TCU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780875650883
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hell's Half Acre written by Richard F. Selcer and published by TCU Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes material on Luke Short, Bat Masterson, Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, Sam Bass, and Butch Cassiday.

Author : Will Christopher Baer
Publisher : MacAdam/Cage Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781931561822
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hell's Half Acre written by Will Christopher Baer and published by MacAdam/Cage Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short-story writer and novelist Baer goes for the gory in this follow-up to "Kiss Me, Judas" and "Penny Dreadful." Phineas Poe stumbles his way to San Francisco in search of ex-lover Jude who is under the spell of a wealthy sociopath, who's helping her play out a revenge fantasy.

Author : Thomas Davidson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1202 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chamber's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language written by Thomas Davidson and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 1202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: