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Book Synopsis Queen of the Blues by : Jennifer Warner
Download or read book Queen of the Blues written by Jennifer Warner and published by BookCaps Study Guides. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nicknamed the Queen of the Blues, Bessie Smith rose up from poverty in the American South to become one of the most famous and respected recording artists of her generation. Smith was at the forefront of transitioning blues music from a rural novelty to a legitimate art form that critics and audiences took seriously. Behind the scenes of her success, though, Bessie navigated a story family and personal life. She had adult sisters who depended on her for a living and yet disrespected her when she wasn’t around. Likewise, she settled with a husband, Jack Gee, who mistreated her in every possible way. This book looks at the incredible and influential life of Bessie Smith.
Book Synopsis Queen of the Blues by : James Haskins
Download or read book Queen of the Blues written by James Haskins and published by New York : William Morrow. This book was released on 1987 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A candid portrait of legendary blues singer Dinah Washington, who, despite her successes, was never able to erase her poverty mentality or insecurity, and whose life ended in tragedy as a result. 12 black-and-white photographs.
Book Synopsis The Queen Sings the Blues by : Ronald Baytan
Download or read book The Queen Sings the Blues written by Ronald Baytan and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Ella Queen of Jazz by : Helen Hancocks
Download or read book Ella Queen of Jazz written by Helen Hancocks and published by Frances Lincoln Children's Books. This book was released on 2018-10-04 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ella Fitzgerald sang the blues and she sang them good. Ella and her fellas were on the way up! It seemed like nothing could stop her, until the biggest club in town refused to let her play… and all because of her colour. But when all hope seemed lost, little did Ella imagine that a Hollywood star would step in to help. This is the incredible true story of how a remarkable friendship between Ella Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe was born – and how they worked together to overcome prejudice and adversity. An inspiring story, strikingly illustrated, about the unlikely friendship between two celebrated female icons of America’s golden age.
Download or read book Gwendolyn Brooks written by Harold Bloom and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides insight into six of Brooks' most influential works along with a short biography of the poet.
Book Synopsis Going to Cincinnati by : Steven C. Tracy
Download or read book Going to Cincinnati written by Steven C. Tracy and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Original Blues written by Lynn Abbott and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2017-02-27 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blues Book of the Year —Living Blues Association of Recorded Sound Collections Awards for Excellence Best Historical Research in Recorded Blues, Gospel, Soul, or R&B–Certificate of Merit (2018) 2023 Blues Hall of Fame Inductee - Classic of Blues Literature category With this volume, Lynn Abbott and Doug Seroff complete their groundbreaking trilogy on the development of African American popular music. Fortified by decades of research, the authors bring to life the performers, entrepreneurs, critics, venues, and institutions that were most crucial to the emergence of the blues in black southern vaudeville theaters; the shadowy prehistory and early development of the blues is illuminated, detailed, and given substance. At the end of the nineteenth century, vaudeville began to replace minstrelsy as America’s favorite form of stage entertainment. Segregation necessitated the creation of discrete African American vaudeville theaters. When these venues first gained popularity, ragtime coon songs were the standard fare. Insular black southern theaters provided a safe haven, where coon songs underwent rehabilitation and blues songs suitable for the professional stage were formulated. The process was energized by dynamic interaction between the performers and their racially-exclusive audience. The first blues star of black vaudeville was Butler “String Beans” May, a blackface comedian from Montgomery, Alabama. Before his bizarre, senseless death in 1917, String Beans was recognized as the “blues master piano player of the world.” His musical legacy, elusive and previously unacknowledged, is preserved in the repertoire of country blues singer-guitarists and pianists of the race recording era. While male blues singers remained tethered to the role of blackface comedian, female “coon shouters” acquired a more dignified aura in the emergent persona of the “blues queen.” Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, and most of their contemporaries came through this portal; while others, such as forgotten blues heroine Ora Criswell and her protégé Trixie Smith, ingeniously reconfigured the blackface mask for their own subversive purposes. In 1921 black vaudeville activity was effectively nationalized by the Theater Owners Booking Association (T.O.B.A.). In collaboration with the emergent race record industry, T.O.B.A. theaters featured touring companies headed by blues queens with records to sell. By this time the blues had moved beyond the confines of entertainment for an exclusively black audience. Small-time black vaudeville became something it had never been before—a gateway to big-time white vaudeville circuits, burlesque wheels, and fancy metropolitan cabarets. While the 1920s was the most glamorous and remunerative period of vaudeville blues, the prior decade was arguably even more creative, having witnessed the emergence, popularization, and early development of the original blues on the African American vaudeville stage.
Book Synopsis The Blues Parade by : Terry Abrahamson
Download or read book The Blues Parade written by Terry Abrahamson and published by . This book was released on 2019-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ON THE SEVENTH HOUR OF THE SEVENTH DAY,ONE-NOSE WILLIE HEARD PORKCHOP SAY:"THE GYPSY WOMAN TOLD ME'A CLOUD UP IN THE SKIESGON' PART JUST LIKE A CURTAINAND YOU WON'T BELIEVE YOUR EYES!'"And with the same rollin', rhymin' verse that's driven many a classic Blues song, "The Blues Parade" follows best buds Pork Chop and One Nose Willie's journey of discovery from the Mighty Tribes of Africa thru the Middle Passage, Emancipation, the Great Northern Migration and the British Invasion to the streets of Wang Dang Doodle City in a celebration of the language, legends and legacy of America's most resonant art form.Yes, the cloud DOES part like a curtain, revealing Captain Eddie Shaw's paper ship, from which, unrolling like a carpet, descends Beale Street. And down Beale Street, into the heart of a cheering Wang Dang Doodle City they roll: Howlin' Wolf, Lightnin' Hopkins, Muddy Waters, Bo Diddley?.WILD CATS WITH WILD NAMESGONE WILD ON GUITARS.LIKE A CIRCUS IN A GUMBOON A FERRIS WHEEL TO MARS.Grammy-Winner Terry Abrahamson draws on his life among the Blues greats to capture all the magic of the larger-than-life heroes who gave us Rock & Roll. Page after page, he weaves a broad and seamless tapestry rich with vibrant and engaging celebrations of history, Black studies, music, divergence of the English language, and Art as a Tool for Survival.WITNESS: Furry Lewis presented not just as a Blues singer/guitarist, but as a Memphis street sweeper, cueing a moment of reverent recognition forDr. King's involvement with the Memphis Sanitation Workers.WITNESS: Ruthie Foster's disrupting a plantation English class as the narrative explains:THE MIGHTY TRIBES OF AFRICATOOK EACH NEW WORD TO HEART.THEY'D LIST 'EM, THEN THEY'D TWIST 'EM,TURNIN' TALKIN' INTO ART."The Blues Parade" explodes with whimsy, color, music and a resonance that translates to virtually any medium, enlivens a cross-section of school curricula, and benefits from live interactive presentations of both "The Booksibition," - an art installation featuring blow-ups of the 32 pages, with read-along study guides.
Book Synopsis The Language of the Blues by : Debra Devi
Download or read book The Language of the Blues written by Debra Devi and published by True Nature Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive dictionary of blues lyrics invites listeners to interpret what they hear in blues songs and blues culture, including excerpts from original interviews with Dr. John, Bonnie Raitt, Hubert Sumlin, Buddy Guy, and many others.
Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of the Blues by : Edward M. Komara
Download or read book Encyclopedia of the Blues written by Edward M. Komara and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 1274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive two-volume set brings together all aspects of the blues from performers and musical styles to record labels and cultural issues, including regional evolution and history. Organized in an accessible A-to-Z format, the Encyclopedia of the Blues is an essential reference resource for information on this unique American music genre. For a full list of entries, contributors, and more, visit the Encyclopedia of the Blues website.
Download or read book The Art of the Blues written by Bill Dahl and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This stunning book charts the rich history of the blues, through the dazzling array of posters, album covers, and advertisements that have shaped its identity over the past hundred years. The blues have been one of the most ubiquitous but diverse elements of American popular music at large, and the visual art associated with this unique sound has been just as varied and dynamic. There is no better guide to this fascinating graphical world than Bill Dahl—a longtime music journalist and historian who has written liner notes for countless reissues of classic blues, soul, R&B, and rock albums. With his deep knowledge and incisive commentary—complementing more than three hundred and fifty lavishly reproduced images—the history of the blues comes musically and visually to life. What will astonish readers who thumb through these pages is the amazing range of ways that the blues have been represented—whether via album covers, posters, flyers, 78 rpm labels, advertising, or other promotional materials. We see the blues as it was first visually captured in the highly colorful sheet music covers of the early twentieth century. We see striking and hard-to-find label designs from labels big (Columbia) and small (Rhumboogie). We see William Alexander’s humorous artwork on postwar Miltone Records; the cherished ephemera of concert and movie posters; and Chess Records’ iconic early albums designed by Don Bronstein, which would set a new standard for modern album cover design. What these images collectively portray is the evolution of a distinctively American art form. And they do so in the richest way imaginable. The result is a sumptuous book, a visual treasury as alive in spirit as the music it so vibrantly captures.
Book Synopsis Chasing the Blues by : Josephine Matyas
Download or read book Chasing the Blues written by Josephine Matyas and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-09-15 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chasing the Blues explores the roots of the blues---the music birthed in the Mississippi Delta by African Americans who fashioned a new form of musical expression grounded in their shared experience of brutal oppression. They used the power of music to survive that oppression, creating a simple-in-structure, emotionally complex form that transformed and upended culture and became the bedrock of popular song. Tracing the music back to its geographical and cultural origins in the Delta is key to understanding how the blues were shaped. Over time, the Delta blues have touched virtually every form of popular music (rock and roll, soul, R&B, country-western, gospel), creating the soundscape of our lives. What makes this book unique? Fathoming how the music flowed from living and working conditions in the heart of the Deep South; appreciating how life-changing events like the Flood of 1927 sparked a mass migration away from plantation life, spreading the blues to the cities in the North and becoming the soundtrack to the civil rights movement; how blues musicians interacted, "cross-fertilizing" their music by learning, influencing, and imitating each other. The habits of travel are shifting, and there is more interest and a larger market for diving deep into destinations closer to home. Interest in Black history and culture and the role Black Americans played in shaping America is at an all-time high. By appreciating the roots of this most American style of music, readers will have a richer experience listening to songs and visiting blues' holy and sacred sites.
Book Synopsis The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings by : Tony Russell
Download or read book The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings written by Tony Russell and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 2006 with total page 972 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its roots in the American South to today's world stage, the journey of the blues has encompassed countless artists and recordings. But how can you find the best of them? The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordingsis a uniquely informative, insightful and easy-to-use guide through the jungles of the record shop and the online music store. It surveys the recorded work of more than a thousand blues artists, from towering figures of the past like Charley Patton, Bessie Smith and Robert Johnson to stars of the modern era such as B.B. King, Buddy Guy and Stevie Ray Vaughan, providing crisp, expert and witty reviews of almost six thousand CDs. Whether you're a blues aficionado or just starting a collection, this is required reading.
Book Synopsis The Second Set, Vol. 2 by : Sascha Feinstein
Download or read book The Second Set, Vol. 2 written by Sascha Feinstein and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1996-10-22 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embracing a wide variety of poems informed by jazz, The Second Set includes statements of poetics by many of the poets anthologized.
Book Synopsis Black Pearls by : Daphne Duval Harrison
Download or read book Black Pearls written by Daphne Duval Harrison and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some singers included in this book are Sippie Wallace, Victoria Spivey, Edith Wilson, and Alberta Hunter.
Book Synopsis Humming the Blues by : Cass Dalglish
Download or read book Humming the Blues written by Cass Dalglish and published by CALYX Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Inspired by Nin-me-'sar-ra, Enheduanna's song to Inanna."
Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of the Blues: K-Z, index by : Edward M. Komara
Download or read book Encyclopedia of the Blues: K-Z, index written by Edward M. Komara and published by Taylor & Francis US. This book was released on 2006 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
