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The Andrews Sisters

Author : H. Arlo Nimmo
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786432608
Total Pages : 527 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book The Andrews Sisters written by H. Arlo Nimmo and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2007-05-01 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Andrews Sisters, the legendary singing trio of the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s are the most successful female singing group in history and were the world's top selling group until the Beatles arrived. Of the 605 songs they recorded, 113 charted. They also made 18 movies, appeared regularly on radio and television, and entertained three generations of GIs. Based on extensive research, unpublished letters, and interviews with family, friends, and colleagues, this book documents not only the lives and work of the Andrews Sisters but also the popular culture spanned by their long careers. The book contains a complete discography of their released, unreleased, and solo recordings, including recording dates, record numbers, and accompaniment. Also included are a filmography and documentation of their radio and television appearances.

Before Elvis

Author : Larry Birnbaum
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0810886383
Total Pages : 475 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Before Elvis written by Larry Birnbaum and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential work for rock fans and scholars, Before Elvis: The Prehistory of Rock 'n' Roll surveys the origins of rock 'n' roll from the minstrel era to the emergence of Bill Haley and Elvis Presley. Unlike other histories of rock, Before Elvis offers a far broader and deeper analysis of the influences on rock music. Dispelling common misconceptions, it examines rock's origins in hokum songs and big-band boogies as well as Delta blues, detailing the embrace by white artists of African-American styles long before rock 'n' roll appeared. This unique study ranges far and wide, highlighting not only the contributions of obscure but key precursors like Hardrock Gunter and Sam Theard but also the influence of celebrity performers like Gene Autry and Ella Fitzgerald. Too often, rock historians treat the genesis of rock 'n' roll as a bolt from the blue, an overnight revolution provoked by the bland pop music that immediately preceded it and created through the white appropriation of music till then played only by and for black audiences. In Before Elvis, Birnbaum daringly argues a more complicated history of rock's evolution from a heady mix of ragtime, boogie-woogie, swing, country music, mainstream pop, and rhythm-and-blues--a melange that influenced one another along the way, from the absorption of blues and boogies into jazz and pop to the integration of country and Caribbean music into rhythm-and-blues. Written in an easy style, Before Elvis presents a bold argument about rock's origins and required reading for fans and scholars of rock 'n' roll history.

Tap Dancing America

Author : Constance Valis Hill
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190225386
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Tap Dancing America written by Constance Valis Hill and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-12 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the vibrant, colorful, high-stepping story of tap -- the first comprehensive, fully documented history of a uniquely American art form. Writing with all the verve and grace of tap itself, Constance Valis Hill offers a sweeping narrative, filling a major gap in American dance history and placing tap firmly center stage.

A Renaissance in Harlem

Author : Lionel Bascom
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1430321830
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book A Renaissance in Harlem written by Lionel Bascom and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-06-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of lost stories about the Harlem Renaissance. They are the voices of ordinary people who came to Harlem to start new lives. They created a new culture, the first generation of African-Americans.

Brief

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Brief written by and published by . This book was released on 1944-06 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Soundies

Author : Mark Cantor
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476646422
Total Pages : 2077 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book The Soundies written by Mark Cantor and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2023-04-19 with total page 2077 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1940s saw a brief audacious experiment in mass entertainment: a jukebox with a screen. Patrons could insert a dime, then listen to and watch such popular entertainers as Nat "King" Cole, Gene Krupa, Cab Calloway or Les Paul. A number of companies offered these tuneful delights, but the most successful was the Mills Novelty Company and its three-minute musical shorts called Soundies. This book is a complete filmography of 1,880 Soundies: the musicians heard and seen on screen, recording and filming dates, arrangers, soloists, dancers, entertainment trade reviews and more. Additional filmographies cover more than 80 subjects produced by other companies. There are 125 photos taken on film sets, along with advertising images and production documents. More than 75 interviews narrate the firsthand experiences and recollections of Soundies directors and participants. Forty years before MTV, the Soundies were there for those who loved the popular music of the 1940s. This was truly "music for the eyes."

Designing with Javascript

Author : Nick Heinle
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
ISBN 13 : 9781565923607
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (236 download)

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Download or read book Designing with Javascript written by Nick Heinle and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2002 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide for beginners offers an overview of JavaScript basics and explains how to create Web pages, identify browsers, and integrate sound, graphics, and animation into Web applications.

First-Person America

Author : Ann Banks
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504028821
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book First-Person America written by Ann Banks and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-11-24 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1938 and 1942 the Federal Writers’ Project set out to create a first-person portrait of America by sending young writers—many of whom later became famous—around the country to interview people from all occupations and backgrounds. This book presents 80 of these diverse life histories, including the stories of a North Carolina patent-medicine pitchman, a retired Oregon prospector, a Bahamian midwife from Florida, a Key West smuggler, recent immigrants to New York, and Chicago jazz musicians. Historian Eric Foner called First-Person America “the finest example yet of an increasingly important genre of oral history.”

Hi-de-ho

Author : Alyn Shipton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199931747
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book Hi-de-ho written by Alyn Shipton and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-07 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With his catchphrase "Hi-de-ho" and his dramatic singing and dancing, Cab Calloway became the highest-earning African American bandleader of the 1930s. This book traces his remarkable career, his vocal innovations and his bandleading triumphs. It then follows his later career as a star of musical theater.

Something to Live for

Author : Walter van de Leur
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195124480
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Something to Live for written by Walter van de Leur and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full study of Billy Strayhorn's music offers a revealing reassessment of his 30-year collaboration with Duke Ellington. 11 halftones. 69 line illustrations.

Sinclair Lewis - Ultimate Collection

Author : Sinclair Lewis
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 7904 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book Sinclair Lewis - Ultimate Collection written by Sinclair Lewis and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-23 with total page 7904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: E-artnow presents to you the complete novels and the greatest short stories of the master of his craft and Nobel prize winner, Sinclair Lewis. This edition includes: Novels: Babbitt Free Air Main Street The Trail of the Hawk The Innocents The Job Our Mr. Wrenn Arrowsmith Mantrap Elmer Gantry The Man Who Knew Coolidge Dodsworth Ann Vickers Work of Art It Can't Happen Here The Prodigal Parents Bethel Merriday Gideon Planish Cass Timberlane Kingsblood Royal World So Wide Short Stories: Things Moths in the Arc Light The Willow Walk Nature, Inc. The Cat of the Stars The Ghost Patrol The Kidnaped Memorial Speed Young Man Axelbrod Seven Million Dollars Let's Play King Land A Letter From the Queen The Hack Driver Go East, Young Man Little Bear Bongo...

Cooking Tips for Desperate Fishwives

Author : Margot Fedoruk
Publisher : Heritage House Publishing Co
ISBN 13 : 1772033960
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Cooking Tips for Desperate Fishwives written by Margot Fedoruk and published by Heritage House Publishing Co. This book was released on 2022-11-02 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted, Taste Canada Awards 2023 - Culinary Narratives Part love story, part survival story, part meditation on family dysfunction, this offbeat memoir chronicles the unpredictable life of a young wife and mother on Gabriola Island. In 1989, twenty-three-year-old Margot Fedoruk left Winnipeg and her volatile Slavic-Jewish family for the wilds of BC to work as a tree planter and to contemplate her mother’s untimely death from cancer. There, she met Rick Corless, a burly, red-headed sea urchin diver, and soon found herself pregnant and cooking vegetarian meals for meat-eating divers on Rick’s boat, The Buckaroo, as they travelled along the rugged northern BC coastline. Eventually, the unlikely couple settled on Gabriola Island to raise two girls, dig for clams, keep chickens, clean houses, and make soap to sell at the local market. As she washed windows with stunning ocean views, Margot also wiped away lonely tears, determined not to repeat the same mistakes as she had witnessed during her parents’ marriage made in hell. Through dark humour, vivid descriptions, and quirky characters, Margot’s reflections on marriage, motherhood, isolation, food, and family paint an unforgettable portrait of a modern-day fishwife left behind to keep the home fires burning. True to its title, Cooking Tips for Desperate Fishwives is a memoir infused with recipes, from the hearty Eastern European fare of Margot’s childhood to more adventurous coastal BC cuisine.

The American Musical and the Performance of Personal Identity

Author : Raymond Knapp
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400832683
Total Pages : 489 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The American Musical and the Performance of Personal Identity written by Raymond Knapp and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-21 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American musical has long provided an important vehicle through which writers, performers, and audiences reimagine who they are and how they might best interact with the world around them. Musicals are especially good at this because they provide not only an opportunity for us to enact dramatic versions of alternative identities, but also the material for performing such alternatives in the real world, through songs and the characters and attitudes those songs project. This book addresses a variety of specific themes in musicals that serve this general function: fairy tale and fantasy, idealism and inspiration, gender and sexuality, and relationships, among others. It also considers three overlapping genres that are central, in quite different ways, to the projection of personal identity: operetta, movie musicals, and operatic musicals. Among the musicals discussed are Camelot, Candide; Chicago; Company; Evita; Gypsy; Into the Woods; Kiss Me, Kate; A Little Night Music; Man of La Mancha; Meet Me in St. Louis; The Merry Widow; Moulin Rouge; My Fair Lady; Passion; The Rocky Horror Picture Show; Singin' in the Rain; Stormy Weather; Sweeney Todd; and The Wizard of Oz. Complementing the author's earlier work, The American Musical and the Formation of National Identity, this book completes a two-volume thematic history of the genre, designed for general audiences and specialists alike.

Goldmine Record Album Price Guide

Author : Martin Popoff
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440229163
Total Pages : 4838 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Goldmine Record Album Price Guide written by Martin Popoff and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-09-08 with total page 4838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether you're cleaning out a closet, basement or attic full of records, or you're searching for hidden gems to build your collection, you can depend on Goldmine Record Album Price Guide to help you accurately identify and appraise your records in order to get the best price. • Knowledge is power, so power-up with Goldmine! • 70,000 vinyl LPs from 1948 to present • Hundreds of new artists • Detailed listings with current values • Various artist collections and original cast recordings from movies, televisions and Broadway • 400 photos • Updated state-of-the-market reports • New feature articles • Advice on buying and selling Goldmine Grading Guide - the industry standard

Brotherhood in Rhythm

Author : Constance Valis Hill
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197523986
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)

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Download or read book Brotherhood in Rhythm written by Constance Valis Hill and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Nicholas Brothers danced, uptown at the Cotton Club, downtown at the Roxy, in segregated movie theatres in the South, and dance halls across the country, audiences cheered, clapped, stomped their feet, and shouted out uncontrollably. Their exuberant style of American theatrical dance--a melding of jazz, tap, acrobatics, black vernacular dance, and witty repartee--was dazzling. Though daredevil flips, slides, and hair-raising splits made them show-stoppers, the Nicholas Brothers were also highly sophisticated dancers who refined a centuries-old tradition of percussive dance into the rhythmic brilliance of jazz tap. In Brotherhood in Rhythm, author Constance Valis Hill interweaves an intimate portrait of these great performers with a richly detailed history of jazz music and jazz dance, both bringing their act to life and explaining their significance through a colourful analysis of their eloquent footwork, their full-bodied expressiveness, and their changing style. Hill vividly captures their soaring careers, from the Cotton Club appearances with Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, and Jimmy Lunceford, to film-stealing big-screen performances with Chick Webb, Tommy Dorsey, and Glenn Miller. Drawing on a deep well of research and endless hours of interviews with the Nicholas brothers themselves, she also documents their struggles against the nets of racism and segregation that constantly enmeshed their careers and denied them the recognition they deserved. More than a biography of two immensely talented but underappreciated performers, Brotherhood in Rhythm offers a profound understanding of this distinctively American art and its intricate links to the history of jazz.

Legend of the Lancasters

Author : Martin W. Bowman
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1781598649
Total Pages : 1249 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (815 download)

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Download or read book Legend of the Lancasters written by Martin W. Bowman and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2009-08-19 with total page 1249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a riveting account told in ten big chapters of the young RAF crews who flew Lancasters in RAF Bomber Command from 1942 to the end of the war in Europe in April 1945. It is unique in that the story is told using first person accounts from RAF aircrew and German night fighter crews who fought each other on raids on occupied Europe and Germany from 1942 onwards. Details of what it was like to be on the receiving end in Hamburg, Berlin, Cologne etc are also included. A whole host of incredible first-hand accounts by British, Commonwealth, American and German air crews permeate the action and describe the aerial battles as only they can. This unique book also includes many accounts and photos that have not previously been seen before while the rich mix of combat accounts from all sides are brought together for the first time in one volume.

Ella Fitzgerald

Author : J. Wilfred Johnson
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786446900
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Ella Fitzgerald written by J. Wilfred Johnson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2010-08-19 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ella Fitzgerald was one of America's greatest jazz singers. This volume is as complete a discography of her recorded songs as currently seems possible to compile. This volume also contains a complete discography (1927-1939) for drummer and bandleader Chick Webb, with whom Ella began her recording career in 1935. Part One includes a chronological listing of all known recorded performances of both Chick Webb and Ella. Part Two gives the complete contents of Ella's LPs and CDs, including track listings, titles (with lyricists and composers) and timings. Part Three is an annotated alphabetical listing of all songs contained on all of Fitzgerald's records, with detailed information on each song's composer, lyricist, and history. Reviews of the movies in which Ella appeared and surveys of her career with the Decca, Verve and Pablo music companies are included. The book also has an index of album and CD recordings, and composers, lyricists and musicians.