Hayley was mentioned in a book

[stevemacdonald]

Hayley Westenra was mentioned on page 239 of the following book:

The Rose & the Briar: Death, Love and Liberty in the American Ballad
by Sean Wilentz

It was published in 2004.

Here's the link to that exact page: Google Books


You will have to copy and paste the whole thing into your browser for it to work.

[Dave]

Hi Steve,

I fixed the link but it only links to the book itself, no mention of Hayley I can see. It was the same before I touched the link (copy/pasting). Is there something else we have to do to see the mention of Hayley?

Oh, there were two problems with the link -
1) Proboards software doesn't like the "+" sign in a clickable url so you have to hide it like I've done.
2) Proboards software doesn't like very long urls, even if they are hidden!

The solution is to:

a) split the long url by inserting the tag halfway through and at the end.
b) hide the url as I did, using the tags shown when you click the Insert Hyperlink button.

EDIT - it looks like only people within North America may be able to see the sample pages for this book...

Cheers, Dave

[stevemacdonald]

Go to: books.google.com/advanced_book_search

Where it says "with the exact phrase" type Hayley Westenra in and leave the other fields blank.

That search should provide the link to the specific page.

Oh and by the way, there's a nice write-up in the Chicago Sun-Times today.

[gareth]

Sorry, but Google tells me:

Your search - Hayley Westenra - did not match any documents.

Gerrit

[stevemacdonald]

Hi Gerrit,

Try it again with the "all books" choice checked. If that doesn't do the trick see if you need to change your Google preferences to allow a broader range of content.

If I knew how to capture the screen itself I would send you the image of the page.

[alien]

I did manage to save the image from the book, but since it's "Copyrighted Material", I probably can't post it here

Anyway, here's a quote from the book "Rose & the Briar: Death, Love and Liberty in the American Ballad":

"Softness, and hence gentility, has never died. Most obviously in Britain, are the post-operatic soprano warblers like Sarah Brightman, Charlotte Church, and now Hayley Westenra. Add to them an ongoing undercurrent of female confessional rock--recently, Tori Amos, Sarah McLachlan, Liz Phair before she went pop, Jewel, Dido--and you have a persistent gentility, bubbling under in the age-old war with ruddy vulgarity. Female politesse versus crude, manly vigor.

Hope google doesn't kill me, they know everything... i.postimg.cc/9fYxy370/smilie-big-grin.gif

Allen

[Dave]

alien said:

I did manage to save the image from the book, but since it's "Copyrighted Material", I probably can't post it here

Anyway, here's a quote from the book "Rose & the Briar: Death, Love and Liberty in the American Ballad":

"Softness, and hence gentility, has never died. Most obviously in Britain, are the post-operatic soprano warblers like Sarah Brightman, Charlotte Church, and now Hayley Westenra. Add to them an ongoing undercurrent of female confessional rock--recently, Tori Amos, Sarah McLachlan, Liz Phair before she went pop, Jewel, Dido--and you have a persistent gentility, bubbling under in the age-old war with ruddy vulgarity. Female politesse versus crude, manly vigor.
Hope google doesn't kill me, they know everything... i.postimg.cc/9fYxy370/smilie-big-grin.gif
Allen

Thanks for that Allen! I've tried everything in Google Books to see that page, including logging in to my rarely used gmail account. Neither the book title, ISBN number or Hayley show up in the search results. However, the book is shown on Amazon.uk books.

I assume as Gerrit can't see it either (from The Netherlands, I'm in the UK) that this is some kind of restriction - or a bug - stopping people outside North America seeing it in Google Books. This is weird but thanks for the quote, I'm sure that limited quote is OK... for illustrative/review purposes!

Cheers, Dave

[Raymond]

dave said:

alien said:

I did manage to save the image from the book, but since it's "Copyrighted Material", I probably can't post it here

Anyway, here's a quote from the book "Rose & the Briar: Death, Love and Liberty in the American Ballad":

"Softness, and hence gentility, has never died. Most obviously in Britain, are the post-operatic soprano warblers like Sarah Brightman, Charlotte Church, and now Hayley Westenra. Add to them an ongoing undercurrent of female confessional rock--recently, Tori Amos, Sarah McLachlan, Liz Phair before she went pop, Jewel, Dido--and you have a persistent gentility, bubbling under in the age-old war with ruddy vulgarity. Female politesse versus crude, manly vigor.
Hope google doesn't kill me, they know everything... i.postimg.cc/9fYxy370/smilie-big-grin.gif
Allen

Thanks for that Allen! I've tried everything in Google Books to see that page, including logging in to my rarely used gmail account. Neither the book title, ISBN number or Hayley show up in the search results. However, the book is shown on Amazon.uk books.

I assume as Gerrit can't see it either (from The Netherlands, I'm in the UK) that this is some kind of restriction - or a bug - stopping people outside North America seeing it in Google Books. This is weird but thanks for the quote, I'm sure that limited quote is OK... for illustrative/review purposes!

Cheers, Dave

You are right, Dave. There is a restriction. I remember reading something about this a few months ago. Some of the books in Google books can be found in any parts of the world, some aren't. For example, a British book may only be found when you search in UK, so this time, a US book can only be found in the US.

Raymond

[Joe]

Thanks for the info, Steve...it was easy for me to find this page.

[Oksana]

Hi everybody!

What a great find! Thanks for the link, Steve.