For a Song and a Hundred Songs
Title | For a Song and a Hundred Songs PDF eBook |
Author | Yiwu Liao |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | 433 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0547892632 |
From the renowned Chinese poet in exile comes a gorgeous and shocking account of his years in prison following the Tiananmen Square protests.
The Corpse Walker
Title | The Corpse Walker PDF eBook |
Author | Liao Yiwu |
Publisher | Anchor |
Total Pages | 354 |
Release | 2009-05-05 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0307388379 |
The Corpse Walker introduces us to regular men and women at the bottom of Chinese society, most of whom have been battered by life but have managed to retain their dignity: a professional mourner, a human trafficker, a public toilet manager, a leper, a grave robber, and a Falung Gong practitioner, among others. By asking challenging questions with respect and empathy, Liao Yiwu managed to get his subjects to talk openly and sometimes hilariously about their lives, desires, and vulnerabilities, creating a book that is an instance par excellence of what was once upon a time called “The New Journalism.” The Corpse Walker reveals a fascinating aspect of modern China, describing the lives of normal Chinese citizens in ways that constantly provoke and surprise.
The American Song Treasury
Title | The American Song Treasury PDF eBook |
Author | Theodore Raph |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | 418 |
Release | 2012-12-19 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0486171337 |
Wonderful sing-along favorites with easy-to-play piano arrangements, guitar chords, and complete lyrics: Greensleeves, Auld Lang Syne, Down in the Valley, My Wild Irish Rose, Yellow Rose of Texas, and many more.
AFI's 100 Years, 100 Songs
Title | AFI's 100 Years, 100 Songs PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Hal Leonard Corporation |
Total Pages | 454 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780634089084 |
Presents a songbook featuring one hundred classic movie songs chosen by a jury of 1500 leaders from the creative industry, including such favorites as "Moon River," "New York, New York," and Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend."
The Four Hundred Songs of War and Wisdom
Title | The Four Hundred Songs of War and Wisdom PDF eBook |
Author | George L. Hart |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | 438 |
Release | 2002-08-21 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 023151252X |
Two prominent translators present the first complete English-language edition of one of India's greatest works of classical literature: the Purananuru. This anthology of four hundred poems by more than 150 poets between the first and third centuries CE in old Tamil—the literary language of ancient Tamilnadu—was composed before Aryan influence had penetrated the south. It is thus a unique testament to pre-Aryan India. Beyond its importance for understanding the development of South Asia's history, culture, religion, and linguistics, the Purananuru is a great work of literature, reflecting accurately and profoundly the life of southern India 2,000 years ago. One of the few works of classical India that confronts life without the insulation of a philosophical facade and that makes no basic assumptions about karma and the afterlife, the Purananuru has universal appeal. It faces the world as a great and unsolved mystery, delving into living and dying, despair, love, poverty, and the changing nature of existence. To this hidden gem of world literature George L. Hart and Hank Heifetz add a helpful appendix, an annotated bibliography, and an excellent introduction describing the work and placing it in its social and historical context.
One Hundred Lyrics and a Poem
Title | One Hundred Lyrics and a Poem PDF eBook |
Author | Neil Tennant |
Publisher | Faber & Faber |
Total Pages | 253 |
Release | 2018-10-30 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0571348912 |
Everything I've ever doneEverything I ever doEvery place I've ever beenEverywhere I'm going toOver a career that spans four decades and thirteen studio albums with Pet Shop Boys, Neil Tennant has consistently proved himself to be one of the most elegant and stylish of contemporary lyricists. Arranged alphabetically, One Hundred Lyrics and a Poem presents an overview of Neil Tennant's considerable achievement as a chronicler of modern life: the romance, the break-ups, the aspirations, the changing attitudes, the history, the politics, the pain. The landscape of Tennant's lyrics is recognisably British in character - restrained and preoccupied with the mundane, occasionally satirical, yet also yearning for escape and theatrical release. Often surprisingly revealing, this volume is contextualised by a personal commentary on each lyric and a fascinating introduction by the author which gives an insight into the process and genesis of writing. Flamboyant, understated, celebratory and elegiac, Neil Tennant's lyrics are a document of our times.
Song Book
Title | Song Book PDF eBook |
Author | Ffion Mercer |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 88 |
Release | 2017-07-05 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1351700642 |
Featuring large clear print, the "Song Book" contains the words to 100 popular songs that are ideal for group sing-along sessions. The book is divided into six sections: traditional folk songs, choruses from old time variety, songs from World War II, post-war evergreens, hymns, and Christmas songs.