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Interpreting Popular Music: With a new preface by the author

Interpreting Popular Music: With a new preface by the author

David Brackett

David Brackett draws from the disciplines of cultural studies and music theory to demonstrate how listeners form opinions about popular songs, and how they come to attribute a rich variety of meanings to them.
November Veil

November Veil

Linda Hall

"I said, are you David Brackett?" "Who wants to know?" David was feeling uneasy . After his little sojourn into the police station, he hesitated on the question. "I want to know, or I wouldn't have asked the question, stupid." David was flustered.
Illustration processes and binding in the provinces: aspects ...

Illustration processes and binding in the provinces: aspects ...

British Book Trade Index. Seminar

In the 1 860s William Brackett's guides gave John Colbran a genuine rival. Brackett, from Essex, had settled in Tunbridge Wells around 1855, purchasing the Clifford business from Joseph Simpson. Five years or so later, in any case after 1858 ...
Keeping Score: Music, Disciplinarity, Culture

Keeping Score: Music, Disciplinarity, Culture

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NOTES For their help, comments, and suggestions about earlier drafts of this paper, I am grateful to Jane Sugarman, Robert Gjerdigen, Joseph Auner, Daniel Weymouth, Rob Walser, David Brackett, Krin Gabbard, and David Schwarz. 1.
Metalepsis in Popular Culture

Metalepsis in Popular Culture

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The importance, today, of studying popular music within the classroom has led to an outpouring of critical books and anthologies by scholars such as Frith, Middleton, Georgina Born, David Brackett, Reebee Garofalo, David Hesmondhalgh, ...
Listen Again: A Momentary History of Pop Music

Listen Again: A Momentary History of Pop Music

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David Hesmondhalgh and Keith Negus (London: Arnold, and New York: Oxford University Press, 2002), 65-83; and David Brackett, "Questions of Genre in Black Popular Music," Black Music Research Journal 25, no. 1 (2005): 65-84. 12.
The Pop, Rock, and Soul Reader: Histories and Debates

The Pop, Rock, and Soul Reader: Histories and Debates

David Brackett

The third edition brings together a vast array of selections from sources that include mainstream and specialized magazines, newspapers, scholarly journals, interviews, and autobiographies of musicians and other music industry insiders, ...
Categorizing Sound: Genre and Twentieth-Century Popular Music

Categorizing Sound: Genre and Twentieth-Century Popular Music

David Brackett

Categorizing Sound addresses the relationship between categories of music and categories of people, particularly how certain ways of organizing sounds becomes integral to how we perceive ourselves and how we feel connected to some people ...
Categorizing Sound: Genre and Twentieth-Century Popular Music

Categorizing Sound: Genre and Twentieth-Century Popular Music

David Brackett

5 (May 1905): 135, quoted in William Howland Kenney, Recorded Music in American Life: The Phonograph and Popular Memory, 1890–1945 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), 70–71. 3. This history is derived largely from William ...
Sketches of Brooks history

Sketches of Brooks history

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1896 M. E. Miller; T. A. Elliott; David Brackett; J. H. Gordon; Mrs. Blin Stantial, vests; Mrs F. E. Cook, vests. 1897 M. E. Miller; M. M. Colson; J. H. Gordon; Milo Colson. 1898-1900 M. E. Miller; M. M. Colson; J. H. Gordon. 1901 M. E. Miller; J. H. ...
Seven Secrets Cookbook: Healthy Cuisine Your Family Will Love

Seven Secrets Cookbook: Healthy Cuisine Your Family Will Love

Neva Brackett

Lose weight, lower cholesterol, reverse diabetes and enjoy delicious food at the same time. It's not too good to be true.
The Big Jump

The Big Jump

Leigh Brackett

And Arch Comyn is determined to be the one to solve the mystery. *** But is he, and the rest of mankind, ready for whatever awaits us beyond the Big Jump?
The Sword of Rhiannon

The Sword of Rhiannon

Leigh Brackett

Archaeologist-turned-looter Matthew Carse is flung back in Mars' history by the sword of a fallen god, where he allies with the Sea Kings and their psychic allies against the tyrannical people of the Serpent.
Publications of the Southern History Association ...

Publications of the Southern History Association ...

Colyer Meriwether

Aristocracy in Virginia in 1830, by Jeffrey R. Brackett; Edward Coate Pinck- ney, by Professor Charles Hunter Ross; Longstreet and the War between the States ( review of Longstreet's From Manassas to Appomattox), by S. S. P. Patteson; The  ...
Encyclopedia of the British Novel

Encyclopedia of the British Novel

Virginia Brackett

Further Information Battestin, Martin C.,and CliveT. Probyn, eds. TheCorrespondence of HenryandSarah Fielding. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993. Paulson, Ronald. The Life of Henry Fielding: A Critical Biography. Oxford: Blackwell, 2000.
Super Scrap Quilts

Super Scrap Quilts

That Patchwork Place

Be inspired by 10 stunning scrappy quilts from such expert designers as Gayle Bong, Kim Brackett, Lynn Roddy Brown, Kim Diehl, Judy Dafoe Hopkins, Sally Schneider, and Nancy J. Martin.
Bothell:

Bothell:

Margaret Turcott

Many people helped by providing photographs, documents, and stories: Sue Kienast, Ron Green, Don Bagnall, Karin Bagnall Poage, Robert Beckstrom, Barbara Ramey, Pam Johnson, Lucile M. Brackett/Dunn, Brian Wescott, Ellen Carnwath, ...
Run Caroline Run: Caroline Rose

Run Caroline Run: Caroline Rose

J Fulton

Caroline has no choice but to protect her family. The Barbosa's go on the run, and Brackett has a field day discrediting Caroline within the United States government as long-time allies and friends turn their backs on her.
Catalog

Catalog

University of Florida

... A. R. Halley, Mrs. Joseph Roemer, Maude Beatrice Davis, Nina McAllister Harris, Thomas P. Bailey, Annie Laurie Brackett, Edith Mc- Bride Cameron, Ruth Cazier, Lydia Sarah Cody, Elmer J. Emig, William A. Gager, Artley Tilghman Glisson, ...
The Pittsburgh Steelers

The Pittsburgh Steelers

Mark Stewart

Mark Stewart. a running play for Jerome Bettis. He was almost unstoppable at moments like this. Bettis tried to crash across the goal line for a touchdown. Linebacker Gary Brackett made a hard tackle, and the ball popped loose. Safety Nick ...
Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction

Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction

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... Brackett Edgar L. Chapman University of Kansas Bradley University Muriel W. Brailey John R. Clark Wilberforce University University of South Florida, Tampa Harold Branam Luther Bryan Clegg Temple University Texas Christian University , ...
Calkins family in America

Calkins family in America

Kenneth Wayne Calkins

... 355 Darrel Earl: 277 Darrel I Lorraine: 306 Darwin: 369 Darwin J.: 294 Daryl Lewis: 399 David: 120 David: 26 David: 7, ... 352 David Farrington: 226 David Hiram: 225 David Hugh Atkins: 146 David Ingalls: 246 David Ingalls: 246,345 David ...
Vermont Year Book, Formerly Walton's Register

Vermont Year Book, Formerly Walton's Register

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Calvin Morrill, Hop Inspector. Justices of the Pease. Bamet — Ebenezer Brewer, Walter Harvey, James Gilchrist Obed S Hatch, Jona F Skinner, Mordecai Hale, Solomon Stevens, Sam'l G Brackett, Benniah Sanborn, Hugh Somers, Petei Laird , ...
Catalogue

Catalogue

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... Maude Beatrice Davis, Nina McAllister Harris, Thomas P. Bailey, Annie Laurie Brackett, Edith McBride Cameron, Ruth Cazier, Lydia Sarah Cody, Elmer J. Emig, William A. Gager, Artley Tilghman Glisson, Ed William Harris, Arthur K. Hartzell, ...
Screen World

Screen World

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CAST Pee Wee Dan Monahan Billy Mark Hemer Tommy Wyatt Knight Mickey Roger Wilson Tim Cyril O'Reilly Meat Tony Ganios Wendy Kaki Hunter Honeywell Kim Cattrall Balbncker Brian Schwartz . Coach Brackett . Nancy Parsons Scott ...
Williams Alumni Review

Williams Alumni Review

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... Elijah Edwards Ralph Boerne Bettman Allan Manro Eldredge Herbert Bluthenthal Samuel B. Emery Herbert Fred Bohnet Francis Michael Fallon Charles Henry Breck Brackett Edwin Albert Fish Edward Henry Brockway John Welton Fisher, ...
Register

Register

Stanford University

... Elmer Bacon, Jr. Anne Hoyt Brackett 'Marshall James Brady 2Chin Chien Chang Merrill Judson Collett With distinction "Ruth Fisher "Eunice Helena Force John Cory Franklin Paul Friedlander John Mitchell Geer Evelyn Jane McKisick Carroll ...
The Star Wars trilogy

The Star Wars trilogy

George Lucas

A new hope / by George Lucas -- The Empire strikes back / by Donald F. Glut ; based on a story by George Lucas ; screenplay by Leigh Brackett and Lawrence Kasdan -- Return of the Jedi / by James Kahn ; based on a story by George Lucas ; ...

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