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Dying in the City of the Blues

Author : Keith Wailoo
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469617412
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book Dying in the City of the Blues written by Keith Wailoo and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014-06-30 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking book chronicles the history of sickle cell anemia in the United States, tracing its transformation from an "invisible" malady to a powerful, yet contested, cultural symbol of African American pain and suffering. Set in Memphis, home of one of the nation's first sickle cell clinics, Dying in the City of the Blues reveals how the recognition, treatment, social understanding, and symbolism of the disease evolved in the twentieth century, shaped by the politics of race, region, health care, and biomedicine. Using medical journals, patients' accounts, black newspapers, blues lyrics, and many other sources, Keith Wailoo follows the disease and its sufferers from the early days of obscurity before sickle cell's "discovery" by Western medicine; through its rise to clinical, scientific, and social prominence in the 1950s; to its politicization in the 1970s and 1980s. Looking forward, he considers the consequences of managed care on the politics of disease in the twenty-first century. A rich and multilayered narrative, Dying in the City of the Blues offers valuable new insight into the African American experience, the impact of race relations and ideologies on health care, and the politics of science, medicine, and disease.

Blues City

Author : Ishmael Reed
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Blues City written by Ishmael Reed and published by Crown. This book was released on 2003 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers can take a walk through the vibrant multicultural stew of Oakland, California, conducted by one of America's most distinguished intellectuals and satirists.

Blues City

Author : Ishmael Reed
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307419940
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Blues City written by Ishmael Reed and published by Crown. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oakland is a blues city, brawling and husky . . . Often overshadowed by San Francisco, its twinkling sister city across the Bay, Oakland is itself an American wonder. The city is surrounded by and filled with natural beauty—mountains and hills and lakes and a bay—and architecture that mirrors its history as a Spanish mission, Gold Rush outpost, and home of the West’s most devious robber barons. It’s also a city of artists and blue-collar workers, the birthplace of the Black Panthers, neighbor to Berkeley, and home to a vibrant and volatile stew of immigrants and refugees. In Blues City, Ishmael Reed, one of our most brilliant essayists, takes us on a tour of Oakland, exploring its fascinating history, its beautiful hills and waterfronts, and its odd cultural juxtapositions. He takes us into a year in the life of this amazing city, to black cowboy parades and Indian powwows, to Black Panther reunions and Gay Pride concerts, to a Japanese jazz club where a Lakota musician plays Coltrane’s “Naima.” Reed provides a fascinating tour of an un-tamed, unruly western outpost set against the backdrop of political intrigues, ethnic rivalries, and a gentrification-obsessed mayor, opening our eyes not only to a singular city, but to a newly emerging America.

Mexico City Blues

Author : Jack Kerouac
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0802195687
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Mexico City Blues written by Jack Kerouac and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the renowned Beat writer’s most formally inventive books, Mexico City Blues is Jack Kerouac’s essential work of lyric verse, now reissued following his centenary celebration Written between 1954 and 1957, and published originally by Grove Press in 1959, Mexico City Blues is Kerouac’s most important verse work. It incorporates all the elements of his theory of spontaneous composition and his interest in Buddhism. Memories, fantasies, dreams, and surrealistic free association are lyrically combined in the loose format inspired by jazz and the blues. Written while Kerouac was living in Mexico City, and with references to William S. Burroughs, Gregory Corso, and Bill Garver, this exciting book in Kerouac’s oeuvre is an original and moving epic of sound, rhythm, and religion.

Kill City Blues

Author : Richard Kadrey
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062094602
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Kill City Blues written by Richard Kadrey and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-07-30 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling author Richard Kadrey’s fifth Sandman Slim adventure. James Stark, aka Sandman Slim, has lost the Qomrama Om Ya, an all-powerful weapon from the banished older gods. Older gods who are returning and searching for their lost power. The hunt leads Stark to an abandoned shopping mall infested with tribes of squatters. Somewhere in this kill zone is a dead man with the answers Stark needs. All Stark has to do is find the dead man, recover the artifact, and outwit and outrun the angry old gods—and natural-born killers—on his tail. But not even Sandman Slim is infallible, and any mistakes will cost him dearly.

New York City Blues

Author : Larry Simon
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496834720
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book New York City Blues written by Larry Simon and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2021-07-29 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A first-ever book on the subject, New York City Blues: Postwar Portraits from Harlem to the Village and Beyond offers a deep dive into the blues venues and performers in the city from the 1940s through the 1990s. Interviews in this volume bring the reader behind the scenes of the daily and performing lives of working musicians, songwriters, and producers. The interviewers capture their voices — many sadly deceased — and reveal the changes in styles, the connections between performers, and the evolution of New York blues. New York City Blues is an oral history conveyed through the words of the performers themselves and through the photographs of Robert Schaffer, supplemented by the input of Val Wilmer, Paul Harris, and Richard Tapp. The book also features the work of award-winning author and blues scholar John Broven. Along with writing a history of New York blues for the introduction, Broven contributes interviews with Rose Marie McCoy, “Doc” Pomus, Billy Butler, and Billy Bland. Some of the artists interviewed by Larry Simon include Paul Oscher, John Hammond Jr., Rosco Gordon, Larry Dale, Bob Gaddy, “Wild” Jimmy Spruill, and Bobby Robinson. Also featured are over 160 photographs, including those by respected photographers Anton Mikofsky, Wilmer, and Harris, that provide a vivid visual history of the music and the times from Harlem to Greenwich Village and neighboring areas. New York City Blues delivers a strong sense of the major personalities and places such as Harlem’s Apollo Theatre, the history, and an in-depth introduction to the rich variety, sounds, and styles that made up the often-overlooked New York City blues scene.

Windy City Blues

Author : Renée Rosen
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1101991127
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Windy City Blues written by Renée Rosen and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1960s Chicago, a young woman stands in the middle of a musical and social revolution. A new historical novel from the bestselling author of White Collar Girl and What the Lady Wants. “The rise of the Chicago Blues scene fairly shimmers with verve and intensity, and the large, diverse cast of characters is indelibly portrayed with the perfect pitch of a true artist.” —Melanie Benjamin, New York Times bestselling author of The Swans of Fifth Avenue Leeba Groski doesn’t exactly fit in, but her love of music is not lost on her childhood friend and neighbor, Leonard Chess, who offers her a job at his new record company in Chicago. What starts as answering phones and filing becomes more than Leeba ever dreamed of, as she comes into her own as a songwriter and crosses paths with legendary performers like Chuck Berry and Etta James. But it’s Red Dupree, a black blues guitarist from Louisiana, who captures her heart and changes her life. Their relationship is unwelcome in segregated Chicago and they are shunned by Leeba’s Orthodox Jewish family. Yet in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement, Leeba and Red discover that, in times of struggle, music can bring people together. READERS GUIDE INSIDE

Book of Blues

Author : Jack Kerouac
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101548800
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Book of Blues written by Jack Kerouac and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1995-09-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best known for his "Legend of Duluoz" novels, including On the Road and The Dharma Bums, Jack Kerouac is also an important poet. In these eight extended poems, Kerouac writes from the heart of experience in the music of language, employing the same instrumental blues form that he used to fullest effect in Mexico City Blues, his largely unheralded classic of postmodern literature. Edited by Kerouac himself, Book of Blues is an exuberant foray into language and consciousness, rich with imagery, propelled by rythm, and based in a reverent attentiveness to the moment. "In my system, the form of blues choruses is limited by the small page of the breastpocket notebook in which they are written, like the form of a set number of bars in a jazz blues chorus, and so sometimes the word-meaning can carry from one chorus into another, or not, just like the phrase-meaning can carry harmonically from one chorus to the other, or not, in jazz, so that, in these blues as in jazz, the form is determined by time, and by the musicians spontaneous phrasing & harmonizing with the beat of time as it waves & waves on by in measured choruses." —Jack Kerouac

Chicago Blues

Author : Mike Rowe
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Chicago Blues written by Mike Rowe and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 1981-08-22 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chicago has always had a reputation as a "wide open town" with a high tolerance for gangsters, illegal liquor, and crooked politicians. It has also been the home for countless black musicians and the birthplace of a distinctly urban blues-more sophisticated, cynical, and street-smart than the anguished songs of the Mississippi delta--a music called the Chicago blues. This is the history of that music and the dozens of black artists who congregated on the South and Near West Sides. Muddy Waters, Big Bill Broonzy, Howlin' Wolf, Elmore James, Tampa Red, Little Walter, Jimmy Reed, Otis Rush, Sonny Boy Williamson, Junior Wells, Eddie Taylor--all of these giants played throughout the city and created a musical style that had imitators and influence all over the world.

Inner City Blues: A Charlotte Justice Novel (Charlotte Justice Novels)

Author : Paula L. Woods
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393338371
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book Inner City Blues: A Charlotte Justice Novel (Charlotte Justice Novels) written by Paula L. Woods and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2009-07 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Charlotte Justice novel.

Poka City Blues

Author : A.L. Gibson
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1365374939
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (653 download)

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Download or read book Poka City Blues written by A.L. Gibson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-10-17 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poka City Blues is a period drama and family saga that takes place in the small town of Loachapoka, Alabama. Sedelia, a witty and tenacious woman, recounts her days of growing up and living in what is known to most locals as Poka City. While living in Poka City, Sedelia endures a number of ill-fated mishaps, but through it all she remains indomitable. In this emotional and heart-rending story inspired by real life events, Sedelia bravely shows how one can make the best out of a bad situation and overcome insurmountable odds.

Nickel City Blues

Author : Gary Earl Ross
Publisher : Seg Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781732939493
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Nickel City Blues written by Gary Earl Ross and published by Seg Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York's "Nickel City" is host to a treacherous cocktail of sex, high-stakes corruption, and murder. Private investigator Gideon Rimes, a black Iraq War vet and a retired Army CID detective, thought he'd left behind the danger of the battlefield. He serves subpoenas, finds witnesses, and provides background checks for better pay and little use of his trusty Glock. But then he's hired to protect sultry, young blues singer Indigo Waters from her stalker ex-boyfriend-a hotheaded cop and the mayor's bodyguard. After a very public altercation, the ex-boyfriend's body is found bludgeoned in a city park and Rimes wakes up as the prime suspect and tagged cop killer. Determined to prove his innocence, he begins his own hunt to expose the truth. What he uncovers is a vast plot involving city leaders, a sinister drug lord, corrupt cops, and a dark family secret that someone will do anything to keep hidden, regardless of who they have to kill. Rimes must tap into his former training and survival instincts. It's personal now, and the one thing you don't do is threaten those he loves. . . . A compulsive series from Edgar Award-winning author, Gary Earl Ross.

Blues for New Orleans

Author : Roger Abrahams
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812201000
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Blues for New Orleans written by Roger Abrahams and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2010-11-24 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, as the citizens of New Orleans regroup and put down roots elsewhere, many wonder what will become of one of the nation's most complex creole cultures. New Orleans emerged like Atlantis from under the sea, as the city in which some of the most important American vernacular arts took shape. Creativity fostered jazz music, made of old parts and put together in utterly new ways; architecture that commingled Norman rooflines, West African floor plans, and native materials of mud and moss; food that simmered African ingredients in French sauces with Native American delicacies. There is no more powerful celebration of this happy gumbo of life in New Orleans than Mardi Gras. In Carnival, music is celebrated along the city's spiderweb grid of streets, as all classes and cultures gather for a festival that is organized and chaotic, individual and collective, accepted and licentious, sacred and profane. The authors, distinguished writers who have long engaged with pluralized forms of American culture, begin and end in New Orleans—the city that was, the city that is, and the city that will be—but traverse geographically to Mardi Gras in the Louisiana Parishes, the Carnival in the West Indies and beyond, to Rio, Buenos Aires, even Philadelphia and Albany. Mardi Gras, they argue, must be understood in terms of the Black Atlantic complex, demonstrating how the music, dance, and festive displays of Carnival in the Greater Caribbean follow the same patterns of performance through conflict, resistance, as well as open celebration. After the deluge and the finger pointing, how will Carnival be changed? Will the groups decamp to other Gulf Coast or Deep South locations? Or will they use the occasion to return to and express a revival of community life in New Orleans? Two things are certain: Katrina is sure to be satirized as villainess, bimbo, or symbol of mythological flood, and political leaders at all levels will undoubtedly be taken to task. The authors argue that the return of Mardi Gras will be a powerful symbol of the region's return to vitality and its ability to express and celebrate itself.

Black Lightning: Brick City Blues

Author : Tony Isabella
Publisher : DC Comics
ISBN 13 : 1401288006
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Black Lightning: Brick City Blues written by Tony Isabella and published by DC Comics. This book was released on 2019-02-26 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The worldÕs a very different place from the one school teacher Jefferson Pierce once knew, and Black Lightning isnÕt the same hero he was. Older and wiser, Black Lightning resurfaces with a ferocious new look and a dangerous edge in a city desperately needing a hero. Collects Black Lightning #1-13 and a tale from DC Universe Holiday Bash #2.

Model City Blues

Author : Mandi Isaacs Jackson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Model City Blues written by Mandi Isaacs Jackson and published by . This book was released on 2008-05-18 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Model City Blues tells the story of how regular people, facing a changing city landscape, fought for their own model of the “ideal city” by creating grassroots plans for urban renewal. Filled with vivid descriptions of significant moments in a protracted struggle, it offers a street-level account of organized resistance to institutional plans to transform New Haven, Connecticut in the 1960s. Anchored in the physical spaces and political struggles of the city, it brings back to center stage the individuals and groups who demanded that their voices be heard. By reexamining the converging class- and race-based movements of 1960s New Haven, Mandi Jackson helps to explain the city's present-day economic and political struggles. More broadly, by closely analyzing particular sites of resistance in New Haven, Model City Blues employs multiple academic disciplines to redefine and reimagine the roles of everyday city spaces in building social movements and creating urban landscapes.

Oregon Blue Book

Author : Oregon. Office of the Secretary of State
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Oregon Blue Book written by Oregon. Office of the Secretary of State and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dick Tracy

Author : John Moore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781853862045
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Dick Tracy written by John Moore and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: