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And Still I Rise is Maya Angelou's third volume of poetry. She studied and began writing poetry at a young age. [1] After her rape at the age of eight, as recounted in her first autobiography, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), she dealt with her trauma by memorizing and reciting great works of literature, including poetry, which helped bring her out of her self-imposed muteness.
The song is sung in a first-person narrative of an adolescent or adult raised by a single teenage mother during the early years of rock-and-roll. Despite the bleakness of their situation, whenever the child cries, the mother sings him to sleep with a 'sha-na-na-na-na-na-na, it'll be all right...sha-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na, just hold on tight'.
A Wurlitzer Caliola roll ready to be played. A music roll (French: Rouleau à musique) is a storage medium used to operate a mechanical musical instrument. They are used for the player piano, mechanical organ, electronic carillon and various types of orchestrion. The vast majority of music rolls are made of paper.
Angelou's autobiographies are distinct in style and narration, and "stretch over time and place", [2] from Arkansas to Africa and back to the US. They take place from the beginnings of World War II to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. [2] Angelou wrote collections of essays, including Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now (1993) and Even the Stars Look Lonesome (1997), which ...
Momma was influenced by alternative rock and grunge artists and bands from the 1990s while making this album, such as Liz Phair, Pavement, Nirvana, The Smashing Pumpkins and Veruca Salt. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] The band described their album as "the rise and fall of a rock star and the tropes and tribulations that come with the arc."
Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... "Momma Miss America" is an instrumental by Paul McCartney from his debut solo ...
The title, as printed on the sheet music — Mama From the Train (A Kiss, A Kiss) — and the first line of the refrain — "Throw Mama from the train a kiss, a kiss" — inspired two parodies: Homer and Jethro, a country music comedy team, recorded a parody of this song that included the lines "Throw mama from the train, but quick, but quick."
Keith Richards composed the music to "Mother's Little Helper" in September or October 1965, before the Rolling Stones left the UK for their fourth North American tour. [9] The song is a folk rock composition based around an Eastern-flavoured guitar riff .