Night Beat

Author : Mikal Gilmore
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0385500297
Total Pages : 723 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Night Beat written by Mikal Gilmore and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2000-01-04 with total page 723 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few journalists have staked a territory as definitively and passionately as Mikal Gilmore in his twenty-year career writing about rock and roll. Now, for the first time, this collection gathers his cultural criticism, interviews, reviews, and assorted musings. Beginning with Elvis and the birth of rock and roll, Gilmore traces the seismic changes in America as its youth responded to the postwar economic and political climate. He hears in the lyrics of Bob Dylan and Jim Morrison the voices of unrest and fervor, and charts the rise and fall of punk in brilliant essays on Lou Reed, The Sex Pistols, and The Clash. Mikal Gilmore describes Bruce Springsteen's America and the problem of Michael Jackson. And like no one else, Gilmore listens to the lone voices: Al Green, Marianne Faithfull, Sinead O'Connor, Frank Sinatra. Four decades of American life are observed through the inimitable lens of rock and roll, and through the provocative and intelligent voice of one of the most committed chroniclers of American music, and its powerful expressions of love, soul, politics, and redemption.

Author : Ed McMahon
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
ISBN 13 : 141857841X
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When Television Was Young written by Ed McMahon and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2007-09-09 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When television was young . . . Legendary movie producer Darryl Zanuck declared, "People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night. Before 5:30, there were only test patterns. Howdy Doody was the first show of the day. CBS agreed to put I Love Lucy on film only if Desi and Lucy paid part of the production fee. In return, CBS gave them ownership of the shows, including the right to rerun it forever. Kukla, Fran, and Ollie was the first network show broadcast in color. 50,000 fans showed up in a New Orleans department store to meet Hopalong Cassidy. Movie studios would not let motion icture stars appear on television for fear that if people saw the stars on TV, they wouldn't go to the movies. Filled with fascinating stories, When Television Was Young is a hilarious, entertaining, behind-the-scenes look at the world of the small screen.

Author : Vincent Terrace
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 078644925X
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Radio Program Openings and Closings, 1931-1972 written by Vincent Terrace and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2010-10-14 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The openings and closings to radio programs of all types, from comedies (Blondie, The Jack Benny Program, Lum and Abner) to mysteries (Inner Sanctum Mysteries, The Black Chapel) to game shows (Can You Top This?, Truth or Consequences) to serials (Second Husband, Bachelor's Children) to crime dramas (The Falcon, Eno Crime Clues, The Green Hornet, Mr. and Mrs. North) to westerns (Gunsmoke, Wild Bill Hickok, Hawk Larabee) that were aired between 1931 and 1972, are included in this work. Each entry has a brief introductory paragraph that provides information about the storyline, principal cast, sponsors and air dates. Commercials have been included if the programs were under regular sponsorship. Includes three appendices (sponsors; slogans and jingles; and World War II announcements) and an index.

Author : John V Pavlik
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315530759
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Masterful Stories written by John V Pavlik and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-02-24 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The early eras of radio storytelling have entered and continue to enter the public domain in large quantities, offering unprecedented access to the Golden Age of Radio. Author and Professor John Pavlik mines the best this age of radio has to offer in Masterful Stories, an examination of the masterpieces of audio storytelling. This book provides a chronological history of the best of the best from radio’s Golden Age, outlining a core set of principles and techniques that made these radio plays enduring examples of storytelling. It suggests that, by using these techniques, stories can engage audiences emotionally and intellectually. Grounded in a historical and theoretical understanding of radio drama, this volume illuminates the foundational works that proceeded popular modern shows such as Radiolab, The Moth, and Serial. Masterful Stories will be a powerful resource in both media history courses and courses teaching audio storytelling for modern radio and other audio formats, such as podcasting. It will appeal to audio fans looking to learn about and understand the early days of radio drama.

Author : Vincent Terrace
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476605289
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Radio Programs, 1924Ð1984 written by Vincent Terrace and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2009-11-23 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an encyclopedic reference work to 1,802 radio programs broadcast from the years 1924 through 1984. Entries include casts, character relationships, plots and storylines, announcers, musicians, producers, hosts, starting and ending dates of the programs, networks, running times, production information and, when appropriate, information on the radio show’s adaptation to television. Many hundreds of program openings and closings are included.

Author : Sir Richard Francis Burton
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1465541713
Total Pages : 12911 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night (Complete) written by Sir Richard Francis Burton and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on with total page 12911 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present is, I believe, the first complete translation of the great Arabic compendium of romantic fiction that has been attempted in any European language comprising about four times as much matter as that of Galland and three times as much as that of any other translator known to myself; and a short statement of the sources from which it is derived may therefore be acceptable to my readers. Three printed editions, more or less complete, exist of the Arabic text of the Thousand and One Nights; namely, those of Breslau, Boulac (Cairo) and Calcutta (1839), besides an incomplete one, comprising the first two hundred nights only, published at Calcutta in 1814. Of these, the first is horribly corrupt and greatly inferior, both in style and completeness, to the others, and the second (that of Boulac) is also, though in a far less degree, incomplete, whole stories (as, for instance, that of the Envier and the Envied in the present volume) being omitted and hiatuses, varying in extent from a few lines to several pages, being of frequent occurrence, whilst in addition to these defects, the editor, a learned Egyptian, has played havoc with the style of his original, in an ill-judged attempt to improve it, producing a medley, more curious than edifying, of classical and semi-modern diction and now and then, in his unlucky zeal, completely disguising the pristine meaning of certain passages. The third edition, that which we owe to Sir William Macnaghten and which appears to have been printed from a superior copy of the manuscript followed by the Egyptian editor, is by far the most carefully printed and edited of the three and offers, on the whole, the least corrupt and most comprehensive text of the work. I have therefore adopted it as my standard or basis of translation and have, to the best of my power, remedied the defects (such as hiatuses, misprints, doubtful or corrupt passages, etc.) which are of no infrequent occurrence even in this, the best of the existing texts, by carefully collating it with the editions of Boulac and Breslau (to say nothing of occasional references to the earlier Calcutta edition of the first two hundred nights), adopting from one and the other such variants, additions and corrections as seemed to me best calculated to improve the general effect and most homogeneous with the general spirit of the work, and this so freely that the present version may be said, in great part, to represent a variorum text of the original, formed by a collation of the different printed texts; and no proper estimate can, therefore, be made of the fidelity of the translation, except by those who are intimately acquainted with the whole of these latter. Even with the help of the new lights gained by the laborious process of collation and comparison above mentioned, the exact sense of many passages must still remain doubtful, so corrupt are the extant texts and so incomplete our knowledge, as incorporated in dictionaries, etc, of the peculiar dialect, half classical and half modern, in which the original work is written. One special feature of the present version is the appearance, for the first time, in English metrical shape, preserving the external form and rhyme movement of the originals, of the whole of the poetry with which the Arabic text is so freely interspersed. This great body of verse, equivalent to at least ten thousand twelve-syllable English lines, is of the most unequal quality, varying from poetry worthy of the name to the merest doggrel, and as I have, in pursuance of my original scheme, elected to translate everything, good and bad (with a very few exceptions in cases of manifest mistake or misapplication), I can only hope that my readers will, in judging of my success, take into consideration the enormous difficulties with which I have had to contend and look with indulgence upon my efforts to render, under unusually irksome conditions, the energy and beauty of the original, where these qualities exist, and in their absence, to keep my version from degenerating into absolute doggrel.

Author : Simon Furman
Publisher : ABDO
ISBN 13 : 9781599614762
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nightbeat written by Simon Furman and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nightbeat is searching for answers to problems big and small.

Author : Jonathan Scott
Publisher : Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 10229 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book One Thousand and One Nights. Illustrated written by Jonathan Scott and published by Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing. This book was released on 2022-03-31 with total page 10229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contents a complete collection of Middle Eastern folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age. It is often known in English as the Arabian Nights. The work was collected over many centuries by various authors, translators, and scholars. The thing common to all the editions of the Nights is the initial frame story of the ruler Shahryār and his wife Scheherazade and the framing device incorporated throughout the tales themselves. Jonathan Scott 1811 Translation John Payne 1884 Translation Richard Francis Burton 1885 Translation Andrew Lang 1885 Translation Julia Pardoe 1857 Adaptation

Author : Richard F. Burton
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3387027567
Total Pages : 613 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night written by Richard F. Burton and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-09-04 with total page 613 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 162793796X
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of the Thousand Nights and a written by Anonymous and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-11-27 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This last of nine volumes accurately translating the wonderful tales of the Arabian nights.