846 research outputs found
"Poor Billy Bryan", MSS.1919
No full textAbstract: The collection contains a handwritten song, written by Charles K. Lombard, about a man named "Billy Bryan." The song is to the tune of "Old Uncle Ned."Scope and Content Note: The collection contains a handwritten song, written by Charles K. Lombard, about a man named "Billy Bryan." The song is to the tune of "Old Uncle Ned."Biographical/Historical Note
Jere Nash Interview with Billy Powell
No full textInterview conducted by author Jere Nash with former Mississippi Republican Party chair Billy Powell in the process of writing Mississippi Politics: The Struggle for Power, 1976-2006. Topics covered include Powell\u27s background; Billy Mounger; Mississippi Republican Party; involvement in a bond issue campaign for Rankin County in the early 1970s; working on Larry Swells for Rankin County supervisor; working on Kirk Fordice gubernatorial campaign and Phil Bryant\u27s state legislature campaign; organizing a county Republican precinct; the kitchen cabinet that meets regularly with Governor Fordice; Evelyn Gandy; Haley Barbour; Powell\u27s election as chair of the state Republican Party; getting politicians to switch to the Republican Party; battle over state party leadership; Eddie Briggs; Roger Wicker\u27s first congressional race; Chip Pickering\u27s first congressional race; Mike Parker switching parties; Ronnie Musgrove; various Republican candidates for state offices in the 1990s; and Amy Tuck and others switching parties
How to build value into the doctorate: ideas for PhD supervisors
No full textPhD graduates make valuable contributions to society and its organisations. But what ofthe value of the doctorate to the graduates themselves? Kay Guccione and Billy Bryan questioned how graduates, as individuals, experience benefit from their doctorate and how they perceive its value. Findings reveal that graduates do consider their doctorate to have been worth it – in ways beyond the skills accrued or the intrinsic worth of holding the qualification, such as the friendships, colleagues, and networks they established, or the positive impact on their views of themselves and their identities as people in a globally connected world. Supervisors are understandably mindful of reconciling timely completion of the research project with the freedom to explore and engage more widely but there are a number of pointers that may help to frame an allied approach to value-building in the doctorate
The Charles Faulkner Bryan Collection Finding Aid
No full textFinding aid for a collection. Collection description: This collection is .42 linear feet, one Hollinger box, of materials relating to Charles Faulkner Bryan and it includes photocopies of correspondence between Bryan and Donald Davidson, with whom he collaborated on the musical Singin' Billy.
Also in this collection is sheet music of pieces by Bryan and includes the Songs for Children Series, the Bell Witch Secular Folk Cantata, Tennessee Folk Songs and other music by Bryan. There are two 8 x 10 photographs of Bryan in this small collection.http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/speccol/bryancf.shtm
Billy E. Beard
No full textBust shot of Billy E. Beard, 34, candidate for state commissioner of agriculture was campaigning at the Cattlemen\u27s convention. He is a rancher and farmer from Bryan. Published in Fort Worth Star-Telegram evening edition March 19, 1952.https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/specialcollections_startelegram1950s/18362/thumbnail.jp
Billy Gartin with Johnny of Philip Morris
No full textInscribed: To my friend, Billy Gartin, from Johnnyhttps://egrove.olemiss.edu/gartin_photo/1071/thumbnail.jp
Billy Collins
No full textBilly Collins visited The College at Brockport in March 2000. He is a critically-acclaimed poet and professor.Archived web contentSUNY BrockportWriters Forum Author Photo
A Riff on Billy the Kid
No full textIn this essay the author discusses Billy Joel’s recording of Billy the Kid and that song\u27s history
Mrs. Bryant holding Billy Gandrud outside
No full textDescription on back: Mrs. Bryant and Billy Gandrud. Golden Wedding Anniv. Huntsville - 2-11-40
My Elvis Blackout and Neverland: Truth, Fiction and Celebrity in the Postmodernist Heterobiographical Composite Novel
No full textA PhD by publication comprising two of my books, My Elvis Blackout and Neverland, accompanied by a reflective and critical exegesis, which examines notions of truth, fiction and celebrity in the composite novel through a broadly analytical and practice-based methodology. The exegesis begins by exploring the links between the methodology of the fine artist and the new creative writer. It then demonstrates that My Elvis Blackout and Neverland represent an original contribution to knowledge in the way that they explore and develop literary form (the ‘composite’ novel), and, in their exploration of celebrity, myth-making and fictional hagiography, and that the two books function as performative critiques which probe the boundaries between fiction and the fabricated reality of celebrity culture. My exegesis analyses Linda Boldrini’s term ‘heterobiography’ (2012) with particular reference to Michael Ondaatje’s The Collected Works of Billy The Kid (1981), which as a bricolage relies upon the reader’s pre-conceived recognition of the historicity of its protagonist and continually tests the boundaries between fact and fiction. In this section of the exegesis, I propose that what sets My Elvis Blackout and Neverland apart from Billy The Kid is that whilst Ondaatje’s book certainly does exploit the confusions between fact, fiction, autobiography and history, it remains firmly set within the timeframe that its historical protagonist inhabits. My Elvis Blackout and Neverland remain grounded within their readers’ expectations of American settings contemporary to their nominative protagonists, but both books also feature dilations in both historical and geographical setting. Through analysis I have come to perceive ‘the celebrity persona’ as an identikit image assembled by thousands of witnesses. A photo fit photomontage tiered with impressions of subjective provenance, each layered transparency filtered through the fears and desires of fans and critics. Whereas other historiographic metafictions use historical figures as singular characters, My Elvis Blackout and Neverland can be seen to be utilising an ‘identikit’ concept to present their respective protagonists as manyheaded Hydras, or multiple probability ‘versions’ from parallel universes. By a conflation of terms, Hutcheon’s ‘historiographic metafiction’ (1988) and Boldrini’s ‘heterobiography’ (2012), My Elvis Blackout and Neverland are in fact historiobiographic metafictions. The exegesis concludes by establishing my own works’ live impact on the overarching celebrity metanarratives, and their inevitable organic status
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