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The Sweet Smell of B.S........2003-01-19
David F. Friedman was a pioneer in the world of exploitation movies, so I was quite excited when I found out he'd written (with Don Denevi's help) his biography. "A Youth in Babylon" is a fascinating and entertaining read, detailing Friedman's early years in the promotions department at Paramount, his association with roadshow titan Kroger Babb and his partnership with Hershell Gordon Lewis (a.k.a. The Wizard of Gore). Cheerfully chauvinistic and heartily embellished, it's hard not to be charmed by Friedman's story, even if you wouldn't buy a used car from him. The conversations and events recounted in "A Youth in Babylon" often read like they were lifted from a script to one of his movies. Friedman even details a conversation that occurred between his wife Carol and his business partner--while he was out of town! As interesting as Friedman's autobiography is, I was disappointed by what he chose to leave out. I could've done with less history on Kroger Babb and the "Forty Thieves" in favor of Friedman sharing his experiences on his post-Hershell Gordon Lewis movies like "A Smell of Honey, A Swallow of Brine" and "Brand of Shame." He hypes a sequel to his bio (called "Kings of Babylon") in the final pages of this book, but to my knowledge it's never been published. Nevertheless, "A Youth in Babylon" is a must-read for fans of the movies that were so trashy even Hollywood wouldn't make them.
Tall tales but true!.......2001-08-26
You can't help but love this book if you have any appreciation for trashy cinema and exploitation. Friedman lays out his whole life story and then some, giving a hilarious insight into the birth of low budget and sleaze cinema in the US. As another reviewer noted, it is impossible to tell what percentage of tales in the book are fact. Nevertheless it makes for a great read on a neglected area of modern culture, as well as providing a fascinating profile of a very interesting character!
With it and for it!.......2001-02-09
How factual is A Youth In Babylon? Considering Friedman is one of film's sweetest talking showmen, that's hard to say. But you're not going to get a first-hand account of working with Kroger Babb and H. G. Lewis, no matter how puffed up it may sound, anywhere else. In the end, like any well delivered Elliott Forbes routine, you'll feel inspired! It may be bull, but it's still quite entertaining.
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David Kopp's book develops a model of chromatic chord relations in nineteenth-century music by composers such as Schubert, Beethoven, Chopin, Schumann, and Brahms. The emphasis is on explaining chromatic third relations and the pivotal role they play in theory and practice. Drawing on tenets of nineteenth-century harmonic theory, contemporary transformation theory, and the author's own approach, the book presents a clear and elegant means for characterizing commonly acknowledged but loosely defined elements of chromatic harmony. The historical and theoretical argument is supplemented by many analytic examples.
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David Kopp's book develops a model of chromatic chord relations in nineteenth-century music by composers such as Schubert, Beethoven, Chopin, Schumann, and Brahms. The emphasis is on explaining chromatic third relations and the pivotal role they play in theory and practice. The book traces conceptions of harmonic system and of chromatic third relations from Rameau through nineteenth-century theorists such as Marx, Hauptmann, and Riemann, to the seminal twentieth-century theorists Schenker and Schoenberg and on to the present day. Drawing on tenets of nineteenth-century harmonic theory, contemporary transformation theory, and the author's own approach, the book presents a clear and elegant means for characterizing commonly acknowledged but loosely defined elements of chromatic harmony, and integrates them as fully-fledged entities into a chromatically-based conception of harmonic system. The historical and theoretical argument is supplemented by plentiful analytic examples.
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This volume is one of the first to examine in detail the numerous violin treatises of the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries. It provides a scholarly historical and technical guide to violin pedagogical method, technique and performance practice during the most critical period in the history of the instrument. Extracts in translation from the most significant and authoritative sources are presented with introductions, commentary, illustrations, extensive musical examples and a glossary of specific ornaments. It will be of interest and use to students, performers, and historians.
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In this second volume of nineteenth-century music analyses, Ian Bent provides a further selection of newly translated writings of nineteenth-century music critics and theorists, including composers such as Wagner, Schumann and Berlioz, and critics such as A. B. Marx and E. T. A. Hoffmann. Where Volume I, on Fugue, Form and Style, presented nineteen analyses of a technical nature, all the writing here involves a metaphorical style of verbalised description, some pure examples, and others hybrid forms mixed with technical analysis. The music analysed is amongst the best-known in the repertoire: Wagner writes on Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, E. T. A. Hoffmann on the Fifth, Schumann writes on Berlioz, and Berlioz on Meyerbeer. Professor Bent presents each analysis with its own detailed introduction and each is amplified by supporting information in footnotes.
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The most informed reference book on nineteenth-century music currently available, this comprehensive overview of music in the nineteenth century draws on the most recent scholarship in the field. Essays investigate the intellectual and socio-political history of the time, and examine topics such as nations and nationalism, the emergent concept of an avant garde, and musical styles and languages at the turn of the century. It contains a detailed chronology, and extensive glossaries.
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This comprehensive overview of music in the nineteenth century draws on the most recent scholarship in the field. It avoids mere repertory surveys, focusing instead on issues which illuminate the subject in novel and interesting ways. The book is divided into two parts (1800-1850 and 1850-1900), each of which approaches the major repertory of the period by way of essays investigating the intellectual and socio-political history of the time. The music itself - including popular repertories - is discussed in five central chapters within each part, amplified by essays on topics such as nationalism, genius, and the emergent concept of an avant garde. The book concludes with an examination of musical styles and languages around the turn of the century. The addition of a detailed chronology and extensive glossaries makes this the most informed reference book on nineteenth-century music currently available.
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The Contribution of Cambridge Ecclesiologists to the Revival of Anglican Choral Worship 1839-62 (Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain)
Dale Adelmann
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Dancer from the Dance: A Novel
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Release Date: 2001-12-18 |
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One of the most important works of gay literature, this haunting, brilliant novel is a seriocomic remembrance of things past -- and still poignantly present. It depicts the adventures of Malone, a beautiful young man searching for love amid New York's emerging gay scene. From Manhattan's Everard Baths and after-hours discos to Fire Island's deserted parks and lavish orgies, Malone looks high and low for meaningful companionship. The person he finds is Sutherland, a campy quintessential queen -- and one of the most memorable literary creations of contemporary fiction. Hilarious, witty, and ultimately heartbreaking, Dancer from the Dance is truthful, provocative, outrageous fiction told in a voice as close to laughter as to tears.
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Dated but still engaging and relevant.......2007-08-14
Written in the window between the Stonewall uprising and the discovery of HIV, the book brings to life a gay-ghettoed crew of colorful, fascinating characters, doing this better in my opinion than the Boys in the Band.
Lived to tell the tale.......2007-03-16
I lived through the era that AH writes of, it was an astonishing time, and he wrote an astonishing book. If you haven't read it, do yourself a big favor and do so immediately.
Beautiful and Magical.......2007-03-16
Holleran, Andrew. "Dancer from the Dance", Harper, 1978.
Beautiful and Magical
Amos Lassen and Literary Pride
I usually go back and reread Andrew Holleran every couple of years but this year I could not wait to reread him since he will be the official guest of the Arkansas Literary Festival and my book club, Literary Pride in Little Rock. Turning a spotlight on gay literature in Arkansas is a first and the man of letters that will do so is Andrew Holleran.
I remember reading Holleran's first book "Dancer from the Dance" when it was first published in 1978 and it moved me than as it has moved me every year of my life afterwards. It describes a world of magic and beauty in New York of the `70's; a world that I once yearned to be a part of. The book opens with death and tells of the life of beauty and drugs and sex--a scene which was to call for its own destruction. The death of the opening book seems to be a premonition of the AIDS epidemic which had not begun when the book was written. It was written some three years before the first cases were reported.
Rereading the book in successive years, I suddenly realize how unattractive this lifestyle really was. Everyone in the novel were legally of age before we were given the okay to be who we are by the American
Psychiatric Association and many years before homosexuality was no longer considered a crime in America. Looking back at it now, I see that the beauty (or what I thought was beautiful) now seems so shallow and so cellophane--it was a world that had the seeds of its own sad ending.
"Dancer from the Death" is a classic in describing the self-hate and bitterness which seemed to engulf the gay world in that period. It is almost hard to believe that we actually lived that way, Aside from that sad aspect of gay culture and life, Holleran captures fully the lives of gay men in a prose that is dark and racy. Some of the things he says are hurtful--but honest as we look at ourselves for whom we really are. But it is also comforting to know that during that decade of unabandoned joy and sex, we were not alone--many of us behaved very much the same.
This is a book to be read slowly and savored and pondered over--you do not want to miss a word. Suddenly you realize that you feel like you know the characters in the book (you surely know people just like them).
Holleran's style is what makes the book. I am stunned by the knowledge that it is as fresh and meaningful to me today as it was in 1978. Holleran dazzles with his use of the English language and the true beauty of the book is that regardless of what else changes in the world, the book "Dancer from the Dance" will always be there--unchanged and beautifully written to remind us of whom we are and where we came from and to where we have gone.
Malone, our main character, is a young man who has been raised in conservative America and decides to just give up everything and be a gay man living a gay life. He arrives in New York where he meets another guy named Sutherland, an older gay man who teaches Malone how to be gay. We see through the interaction of the two as well as the subsequent happenings what gay life became in New York City after the Stonewall Riots of 1868. We meet characters from all walks of gay life and we see how the path of one gay man in the 1970s--that of coming out, getting laid, joining he circuit, meeting other men, becoming a male prostitute and ultimately becoming bitter and old--so reflects the times it is written about.
Holleran exposes the gay world which was presented as glamorous and exciting as being no more than a step into oblivion.
There is no question that "Dancer from the Dance" is one of the best gay novels ever written and Andrew Holleran is a beautiful writer. When I first read this book I had never read anything quite like it before and that is still quite true. The novel is lush and rich and beautiful and happy and sad. As Holleran takes us through the wreckage and beauty of New York, way back then, we meet characters we will not forget and Holleran's ability to bring about lasting images of a world that was--a wlrd that provokes, that causes us to laugh and brings us to tears. To know this book is to add it to your all time favorite list. It is truly a work that has affected us profoundly and will continue to do so as long as man can read.
Heartbreaking Beauty.......2006-08-28
I read this at age 21, the summer I "came out", floating on an inflatable raft in a swimming pool in San Antonio. It described a world of magic and beauty in New York that I had to become part of, and soon did.
But the book opens with a death. The life of beauty and drugs and disco and dick could easily be seen by an Artist to contain the seeds of its own destruction. And the Death between the lines in hindsight seems a premonition of the AIDS on the way--this was published 3 years before the first cases appeared in the medical literature.
When I re-read it in my thirties, I was shocked at how unattractive this lifestyle seemed, whereas at 21 I just wanted to catch the next plane for Fire Island. But the men portrayed in this novel came of age before homosexuality was de-pathologized in 1973, and decades before it was decriminalized. (Has it been in every state? Probably not.)
And all life and beauty is transient, containing the seeds of its own demise. There is nothing uniquely gay about that fact of life.
Well worth reading for a glimpse into Pleasure Island. This book tells the truth. The prose is beautiful. Purple is a lovely, royal colour.
internalized homophobia at it's best.......2005-09-07
a classic excellent example of the bitterness and self-loathing which pervaded (some) of the gay world at the time. read it only to see how far we've come - then go watch 'sex in the city' to cleanse your palate
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The Queer Afterlife of Vaslav Nijinsky
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Why do men do ballet? What kinds of men become theatrical dancers? In this highly original piece of research, Michael Gard shows how the worlds of Western theatrical dance, gender relations and sexuality intermingle and, over time, produce different answers to these questions. Surveying both academic and popular writers, as well as drawing on life history interviews with twenty male dancers, Gard argues that the answers to these questions are inextricably linked to another question whose answer is never the same at any moment in history or any place in culture: What is a man?
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Dancer: Men in Dance
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Clement Crisp
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Bold move: female ballet dancers who take men's class.(TEACH-LEARN CONNECTION) : An article from: Dance Magazine
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Complexions: in perpetual motion.(DANCE MATTERS)(Ballet Company)(Company overview): An article from: Dance Magazine
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Title: Complexions: in perpetual motion.(DANCE MATTERS)(Ballet Company)(Company overview)
Author: Lori Ortiz
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Title: Dance is any language. (Young Dancer[R]).(Abdou N'Dir)(Biography)
Author: Katherine Millett
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legal review .......2007-09-21
The book's last publication was 1992...it's soooo far behind the times as far as the technology part is concerned. She did not even mention Legal Software that a lot of lawyers use now-a-days...called PRO DOC. SO it's a sort of good reference book if you overlook the date of it and it also being behind the times.
This book is great for LA's learning the ropes........2006-08-26
I really love this book. I've been a Legal Assistant for only 2 years and I find that this book gives a clear understanding as to the how and why legal documents are prepared. Especially when preparing documents with 3rd party defendents/plaintiffs and also headings for Infant Compromise cases. I've added it to my Legal Reference Library and sit's on my desk with my CPLR. I'm currently in school working on my associates degree in Paralegal Studies and at the ripe "young" age of 48...I think I've found my niche.
What a Great Helpful Book.......2005-08-27
This book is so wonderful and helpful. I just started working in a law firm doing litigation and I knew nothing. This was a total foreign language to me. The book is laid out so easy to read and is so interesting it keeps your attention. I highly recommend this book to everybody. Even just to keep as a reference book. It is very helpful. I hope one day they make a Strictly New York book.
reply to: Not completely satisfied but a good reference.......2004-08-24
... the reason it wouldn't show specific court documents is because each state has VERY different rules for how documents must be presented. Your local legal secretaries association should have a more explicit reference guide showing exactly how pleadings, etc. should look for your state. I think you're missing the point of the book if you're expecting that kind of information.
Very Good Beginner or Refresher Source.......2004-01-19
This comprehensive guide to the legal office offers much to those who are just starting their careers as legal secretaries or for those who have been away from the field for a few years and need a refresher. In addition, secretaries in general law offices may find the specialty sections helpful when preparing documents for unusual situations. The information is more current than not and is clearly presented, including short glossaries of Latin and English legal terms. However, Ms. DeVries omitted criminal law practice from her areas of specialty section and neglected to discuss the various legal-specific software programs available.
Recommended as a general source.
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