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Honorable Mention, 2019 Foreword INDIES Awards - Performing Arts
& Music Honorable Mention, Graphis 2021 Design Annual
Competition​ Popular music has long been a powerful force for
social change. Protest songs have served as anthems regarding war,
racism, sexism, ecological destruction, and so many other crucial
issues. Â Music Is Power takes us on a guided tour through
the past one hundred years of politically conscious music, from
Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie to Green Day and NWA. Covering a wide
variety of genres, including reggae, country, metal, psychedelia,
rap, punk, folk, and soul, Brad Schreiber demonstrates how
musicians can take a variety of approaches— angry rallying cries,
mournful elegies to the victims of injustice, or even humorous
mockeries of authority—to fight for a fairer world. While shining
a spotlight on Phil Ochs, Gil Scott-Heron, the Dead Kennedys and
other seminal, politicized artists, he also gives readers a new
appreciation of classic acts such as Lesley Gore, James Brown, and
Black Sabbath, who overcame limitations in their industry to create
politically potent music  Music Is Power tells fascinating
stories about the origins and the impact of dozens of
world-changing songs, while revealing political context and the
personal challenges of legendary artists from Bob Dylan to Bob
Marley. Supplemental material (Artist and Title
List):Â https://d3tto5i5w9ogdd.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/24001955/Music_Is_Power_Supplementary_Artist_Title_List.doc
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Award-Winner in the "Multicultural Non-Fiction" category of the
2017 International Book Awards Silver Award winner for True Crime
for the Independent Publisher Book Awards 2022 William Randolph
Hearst Awardee for Outstanding Service in Professional Journalism
from the Hearst Journalism Awards Program *** Forty years after the
Patty Hearst "trial of the century," people still don't know the
true story of the events. Revolution's End fully explains the most
famous kidnapping in US history, detailing Patty Hearst's
relationship with Donald DeFreeze, known as Cinque, head of the
Symbionese Liberation Army. Not only did the heiress have a sexual
relationship with DeFreeze while he was imprisoned; she didn't know
he was an informant and a victim of prison behavior modification.
Neither Hearst nor the white radicals who followed DeFreeze
realized that he was molded by a CIA officer and allowed to escape,
thanks to collusion with the California Department of Corrections.
DeFreeze's secret mission: infiltrate and discredit Bay Area
anti-war radicals and the Black Panther Party, the nexus of
seventies activism. When the murder of the first black Oakland
schools superintendent failed to create an insurrection, DeFreeze
was alienated from his controllers and decided to become a
revolutionary, since his life was in jeopardy. Revolution's End
finally elucidates the complex relationship of Hearst and DeFreeze
and proves that one of the largest shootouts in US history, which
killed six members of the SLA in South Central Los Angeles, ended
when the LAPD set fire to the house and incinerated those six
radicals on live television, nationwide, as a warning to American
leftists.
"Becoming Jimi Hendrix" traces "Jimmy's" early musical roots, from
a harrowing, hand-to-mouth upbringing in a poverty-stricken, broken
Seattle home to his early discovery of the blues to his stint as a
reluctant recruit of the 101st Airborne who was magnetically drawn
to the rhythm and blues scene in Nashville. As a sideman, Hendrix
played with the likes of Little Richard, Ike and Tina Turner, the
Isley Brothers, and Sam & Dave--but none knew what to make of
his spotlight-stealing rock guitar experimentation, the likes of
which had never been heard before. From 1962 to 1966, on the rough
and tumble club circuit, Hendrix learned to please a crowd, deal
with racism, and navigate shady music industry characters, all
while evolving his own astonishing style. Finally, in New York's
Greenwich Village, two key women helped him survive, and his
discovery in a tiny basement club in 1966 led to Hendrix instantly
being heralded as a major act in Europe before he returned to
America, appeared at the Monterey Pop Festival, and entered the
pantheon of rock's greatest musicians. "Becoming Jimi Hendrix" is
based on over one hundred interviews with those who knew Hendrix
best during his lean years, more than half of whom have never
spoken about him on the record. Utilizing court transcripts, FBI
files, private letters, unpublished photos, and U.S. Army
documents, this is the story of a young musician who overcame
enormous odds, a past that drove him to outbursts of violence, and
terrible professional and personal decisions that complicated his
life before his untimely demise.
Stop the Show! is the first book to assemble humorous, frightening
and bizarre anecdotes about the history of all that went wrong
during live theatrical productions in the U.S. and the United
Kingdom. It is the publishing equivalent of TV bloopers for the
legitimate stage. This book includes stories from top directors,
actors, playwrights and technicians from New York, Los Angeles, and
points in between, to the United Kingdom, from the 19th century to
today. There are stories about missed entrances and exits, onstage
unscripted fights between performers, improvised lines, accidental
pratfalls, falling scenery, and costume, lighting and makeup
screwups. The backstage provides sordid tales of practical jokes,
treachery, misplaced props, wild arguments, and generally the kinds
of things Michael Frayn created for his farce about a theatrical
disaster, Noises Off. This book doesn't leave out the theatergoers
either, who snore, fight with each other, talk back to the
performers, search for their seats, become suddenly ill, eat,
drink, make merry, and are yelled at by the performers -- all of
which sometimes prompts the show to stop, even though we've always
been told it must go on.
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