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Barrelhouse Blues

Author : Paul Oliver
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465019897
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book Barrelhouse Blues written by Paul Oliver and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2009-08-25 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1920s, Southern record companies ventured to cities like Dallas, Atlanta, and New Orleans, where they set up primitive recording equipment in makeshift studios. They brought in street singers, medicine show performers, pianists from the juke joints and barrelhouses. The music that circulated through Southern work camps, prison farms, and vaudeville shows would be lost to us if it hadn't't been captured on location by these performers and recorders. Eminent blues historian Paul Oliver uncovers these folk traditions and the circumstances under which they were recorded, rescuing the forefathers of the blues who were lost before they even had a chance to be heard. A careful excavation of the earliest recordings of the blues by one of its foremost experts, Barrelhouse Blues expands our definition of that most American style of music.

Barrelhouse Words

Author : Stephen Calt
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252090713
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Barrelhouse Words written by Stephen Calt and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating compendium explains the most unusual, obscure, and curious words and expressions from vintage blues music. Utilizing both documentary evidence and invaluable interviews with a number of now-deceased musicians from the 1920s and '30s, blues scholar Stephen Calt unravels the nuances of more than twelve hundred idioms and proper or place names found on oft-overlooked "race records" recorded between 1923 and 1949. From "aggravatin' papa" to "yas-yas-yas" and everything in between, this truly unique, racy, and compelling resource decodes a neglected speech for general readers and researchers alike, offering invaluable information about black language and American slang.

Midnight at the Barrelhouse

Author : George Lipsitz
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452939292
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book Midnight at the Barrelhouse written by George Lipsitz and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2010-03-03 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considered by many to be the godfather of R&B, Johnny Otis—musician, producer, artist, entrepreneur, pastor, disc jockey, writer, and tireless fighter for racial equality—has had a remarkable life by any measure. In this first biography of Otis, George Lipsitz tells the largely unknown story of a towering figure in the history of African American music and culture who was, by his own description, “black by persuasion.” Born to Greek immigrant parents in Vallejo, California, in 1921, Otis grew up in an integrated neighborhood and identified deeply with black music and culture from an early age. He moved to Los Angeles as a young man and submerged himself in the city’s vibrant African American cultural life, centered on Central Avenue and its thriving music scene. Otis began his six-decade career in music playing drums in territory swing bands in the 1930s. He went on to lead his own band in the 1940s and open the Barrelhouse nightclub in Watts. His R&B band had seventeen Top 40 hits between 1950 and 1969, including “Willie and the Hand Jive.” As a producer and A&R man, Otis discovered such legends as Etta James, Jackie Wilson, and Big Mama Thornton. Otis also wrote a column for the Sentinel, one of L.A.’s leading black newspapers, became pastor of his own interracial church, hosted popular radio and television shows that introduced millions to music by African American artists, and was lauded as businessman of the year in a 1951 cover story in Negro Achievements magazine. Throughout his career Otis’s driving passion has been his fearless and unyielding opposition to racial injustice, whether protesting on the front lines, exposing racism and championing the accomplishments of black Americans, or promoting African American musicians. Midnight at the Barrelhouse is a chronicle of a life rich in both incident and inspiration, as well as an exploration of the complicated nature of race relations in twentieth-century America. Otis’s total commitment to black culture and transcendence of racial boundaries, Lipsitz shows, teach important lessons about identity, race, and power while encapsulating the contradictions of racism in American society.

Barrelhouse Boys

Author : Joel E. Williamsen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780615333168
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (331 download)

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Download or read book Barrelhouse Boys written by Joel E. Williamsen and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 1894, and Nebraska's glittering state capital draws young Bud Gardner away from drought and poverty towards a precarious existence within his uncle's saloon, extended family and eccentric circle of bootleggers. But amidst the whores, oddballs, and shady characters of Lincoln's Haymarket district, Bud discovers Anna Marie, a fiery Czech girl-and the deadly forces that connect Chicago 's railroad strikes, Omaha's slaughterhouse riots, a grisly Lincoln train wreck, and a local black man that has "conveniently" been accused of causing it. Weaving together an intriguing storyline with the real historical events and luminaries of turn-of-the-century Lincoln, Nebraska, including John J. Pershing (commanding the Nebraska Corps of Cadets), Willa Cather (reporter for the State Journal), and Charles Dawes (lawyer and future Nobel Peace laureate), Barrelhouse Boys is a fictional romp through the gaslight era that shouldn't be missed. Nebraska Life Magazine: "Full of unexpected twists...vivid detail and lively dialogue. One inspired novel." Omaha World-Herald: "A fascinating event in Nebraska history...refreshingly readable...great historical facts and a likable hero...with mystery, romance, bigotry and riots." Lincoln Journal Star: "Rookie author Joel Williamsen creates an intriguing work of historical fiction. "The Barrelhouse Boys" is a mystery about a fatal Lincoln train wreck that might be connected to slaughterhouse riots in Omaha and railroad riots in Chicago. ... His interest in and extensive research of the history of his home state is evident in his first novel." Fremont Daily Tribune: ..". Those who buy the book can see Williamsen's puzzle-solving and fact-ferreting skills. ... a puzzle -- an 1890s train wreck that remains a mystery ..."

Barrelhouse Kings

Author : Barry Callaghan
Publisher : McArthur
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Barrelhouse Kings written by Barry Callaghan and published by McArthur. This book was released on 1998 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BARRELHOUSE KINGS is the unique story of two Canadian writers, each well-known in his own way: Morley Callaghan and his son, Barry Callaghan. It is a stunningly written recollection of the world in which Barry Callaghan grew up—the world that was Morley’s milieu as a writer and became Barry’s as their lives dovetailed. Peopled with many unforgettable characters, this is an autobiography that will stand the test of time.

Negative Space

Author : Lilly Dancyger
Publisher : Santa Fe Writers Project
ISBN 13 : 1951631048
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Negative Space written by Lilly Dancyger and published by Santa Fe Writers Project. This book was released on 2021-05-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite her parents' struggles with addiction, Lilly Dancyger always thought of her childhood as a happy one. But what happens when a journalist interrogates her own rosy memories to reveal the instability around the edges? Dancyger's father, Joe Schactman, was part of the iconic 1980s East Village art scene. He created provocative sculptures out of found materials like animal bones, human hair, and broken glass, and brought his young daughter into his gritty, iconoclastic world. She idolized him—despite the escalating heroin addiction that sometimes overshadowed his creative passion. When Schactman died suddenly, just as Dancyger was entering adolescence, she went into her own self-destructive spiral, raging against a world that had taken her father away. As an adult, Dancyger began to question the mythology she'd created about her father—the brilliant artist, struck down in his prime. Using his sculptures, paintings, and prints as a guide, Dancyger sought out the characters from his world who could help her decode the language of her father's work to find the truth of who he really was.

Thanks and Sorry and Good Luck

Author : Lee Klein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780988994522
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (945 download)

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Download or read book Thanks and Sorry and Good Luck written by Lee Klein and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary Nonfiction. THANKS AND SORRY AND GOOD LUCK compiles a dozen years of disappointment transmitted via e-mail from a single editor to hundreds of writers around the world. Performative and funny one minute, respectful and constructive the next, these rejections both serve as entertaining writing tips (suitable for use in today's more adventuresome creative writing classrooms) and suggest a skewed story about a boy and his seminal literary website, Eyeshot.net, which Lee Klein founded in 1999. What started as a lark—sending playful rejection notes to writers who'd submitted work for the site—over ten years took on a life of its own, becoming an outlet for Klein to meditate on his aesthetic preferences, the purpose of literature, and the space between the ideal and the real.

Barrelhouse

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780976468011
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book Barrelhouse written by and published by . This book was released on 2005-12 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inside this literary magazine is fiction, poetry, essays, and interviews, including new writing from Matt Bell, Lee Klein, and Sean Beaudoin, poetry from Karen Schoenhals and John Repp, and an interview with Dischord and Fugazi founder Ian MacKaye. (Literary-Poetry/Journal)

Barrelhouse and Boogie Piano

Author : Eric Kriss
Publisher : Oak Publications
ISBN 13 : 1783235179
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (832 download)

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Download or read book Barrelhouse and Boogie Piano written by Eric Kriss and published by Oak Publications. This book was released on 1973-06-01 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the most important instruction guide to blues style piano playing in print. It covers all styles of playing from 1900 to the present day and includes transcriptions of the recordings of twenty-two of the greatest exponents of barrelhouse and boogie piano. Among these are such greats as Memphis Slim, Alex Moore, Kid Stormy Weather, Cow Cow Davenport, Jelly Roll Morton, to mention just a few. All the transcriptions are accompanied by historical notes. This book also shows you how to develop blues techniques, how to improvise and includes coordination and fingering exercises, besides much else of importance to the blues pianist. It also contains a discography of albums by the twenty-two artists whose work appears in the book.

How to Play Blues and Boogie Piano Styles

Author : Aaron Blumenfeld
Publisher : Shacor, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780943748702
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (487 download)

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Download or read book How to Play Blues and Boogie Piano Styles written by Aaron Blumenfeld and published by Shacor, Inc.. This book was released on 1995 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Tell Me If You're Lying

Author : Sarah Sweeney
Publisher : Barrelhouse
ISBN 13 : 9780988994546
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (945 download)

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Download or read book Tell Me If You're Lying written by Sarah Sweeney and published by Barrelhouse. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary Nonfiction. Essays. Growing up in an eccentric North Carolina home, with aging-hippie parents whose marriage was forever crumbling around her, author Sarah Sweeney was primed for trouble. For drugs and boys. For learning about sexuality from Madonna videos and prank-calling teachers and meeting celebrities--including a young Adrian Grenier. For escaping the South and even her own family. Funny, exuberant, and often heartbreaking, TELL ME IF YOU'RE LYING examines the lies we're told as children and the downright unbelievable--but true--stories that comprise Sweeney's colorful coming of age. "Sarah Sweeney's new essay collection is sharp, sensitive, and engaging. Even while describing some of the weirdest, darkest and most personal moments of her complicated coming-of-age, Sweeney's voice is vividly relatable--it's hard not to root for her, and identify with her." --Laura Barcella, author of Fight Like a Girl and editor of Madonna & Me "TELL ME IF YOU'RE LYING covers a wide selection of great subjects: sex, drugs, rebellion, youthful misadventures, not-so-youthful misadventures, family, death, cars, aliens, Madonna, the early career of Adrian Grenier. Sarah Sweeney has some kind of range; her writing can be hysterically funny one line and heartbreaking the next. This is a strikingly smart, self-aware, and empathetic book about a lot of things, but mostly love: for the people and places and decisions that make us who we are. Essays, memoir, whatever you want to call it, it's a hell of a good read." --Justin St. Germain, author of Son of a Gun "TELL ME IF YOU'RE LYING is Sweeney's reckoning with her father and her hometown, the place that shaped and confined her. Through her essays we come to intimately know her heartbreak but also her resilience, often rooted in humor, making for a well-rounded collection we should all read."--Kenny Torrella, Rain Taxi

The Voice of the Blues

Author : Jim O'Neal
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136707417
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book The Voice of the Blues written by Jim O'Neal and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Voice of the Blues brings together interviews with many pioneering blues men including Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Little Walter, Jimmy Reed, B.B. King, and many others.

The Art of Blues and Barrelhouse Piano Improvisation

Author : Aaron Blumenfeld
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book The Art of Blues and Barrelhouse Piano Improvisation written by Aaron Blumenfeld and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Cambridge Companion to Blues and Gospel Music

Author : Allan Moore
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107494532
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Blues and Gospel Music written by Allan Moore and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-03-13 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Robert Johnson to Aretha Franklin, Mahalia Jackson to John Lee Hooker, blues and gospel artists figure heavily in the mythology of twentieth-century culture. The styles in which they sang have proved hugely influential to generations of popular singers, from the wholesale adoptions of singers like Robert Cray or James Brown, to the subtler vocal appropriations of Mariah Carey. Their own music, and how it operates, is not, however, always seen as valid in its own right. This book provides an overview of both these genres, which worked together to provide an expression of twentieth-century black US experience. Their histories are unfolded and questioned; representative songs and lyrical imagery are analysed; perspectives are offered from the standpoint of the voice, the guitar, the piano, and also that of the working musician. The book concludes with a discussion of the impact the genres have had on mainstream musical culture.

What Falls Away is Always

Author : Katharine Haake
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781733378956
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (789 download)

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Download or read book What Falls Away is Always written by Katharine Haake and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Searing, poignant, and downright funny, What Falls Away Is Always brings together more than thirty writers of both prose and poetry to reflect on the experiences of aging and writing they share, along with the possibly more daunting question--what next?"--

Cassell's Dictionary of Slang

Author : Jonathon Green
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780304366361
Total Pages : 1600 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (663 download)

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Download or read book Cassell's Dictionary of Slang written by Jonathon Green and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 1600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its unparalleled coverage of English slang of all types (from 18th-century cant to contemporary gay slang), and its uncluttered editorial apparatus, Cassell's Dictionary of Slang was warmly received when its first edition appeared in 1998. 'Brilliant.' said Mark Lawson on BBC2's The Late Review; 'This is a terrific piece of work - learned, entertaining, funny, stimulating' said Jonathan Meades in The Evening Standard.But now the world's best single-volume dictionary of English slang is about to get even better. Jonathon Green has spent the last seven years on a vast project: to research in depth the English slang vocabulary and to hunt down and record written instances of the use of as many slang words as possible. This has entailed trawling through more than 4000 books - plus song lyrics, TV and movie scripts, and many newspapers and magazines - for relevant material. The research has thrown up some fascinating results

Historical Dictionary of Jazz

Author : John S. Davis
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810867575
Total Pages : 471 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Jazz written by John S. Davis and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2012-08-24 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes entries on jazz artists, record labels, and musical concepts in addition to providing a 20-page chronology of jazz and extensive bibliographies for different jazz styles and jazz artists.