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Book Synopsis Soulful Struttin' by : Julia Pierre Hammond
Download or read book Soulful Struttin' written by Julia Pierre Hammond and published by Free Spirit Publishing. This book was released on 2024-10-29 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A father and daughter's afternoon of cleaning becomes a celebration of the music, food, and culture of New Orleans. It's a quiet Sunday afternoon of chores at Clara's house. Until Clara's dad starts singing and dancing, that is! With a broom and an off-key voice, Dad brings Louisiana jazz to the drudgery of housecleaning. Together, they find music in every household object as they sing and dance through a combination of jazz, blues, soul, and African beats. The entire house transforms into a New Orleans parade, in a day filled with harmony, soul food, family heritage, and joyful memories. Soulful Struttin' is a joyful story about a father-daughter relationship full of humor and love. Inspired by her childhood with her Black father from New Orleans and Brazilian mother, author Julia Pierre Hammond has written a story that appeals to all the senses, using music, food, vivid visuals, rhythm, noises, dancing, and language. Additional material at the back of the book includes a cleanup playlist, a gumbo recipe, a game, and questions to help readers think about the story and themselves.
Book Synopsis One Thousand Novelty and Fad Dances by : Thomas L. Nelson
Download or read book One Thousand Novelty and Fad Dances written by Thomas L. Nelson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intercepted e-mails alert Homeland Security to the possibility of a terrorist attack on South Florida staged from a Bahamian island. Rhonda and Morgan Early are again recruited by the Drug Enforcement Administration to monitor suspicious activity on Bimini, located just fifty miles from Miami. Ahmed Atta needs money to implement his plan to kill sixty-five thousand Americans. He busts convicted cartel leader Victor Torres from jail for one million dollars. When Rhonda and Morgan learn of suspicious activity on Bimini, they rush to the island to thwart any potential danger. Torres inadvertently assists the terrorists by attempting to avenge his earlier capture by Morgan and Rhonda. He snatches their son and lures them to his trafficking headquarters on Plana Cay with the intent to brutally murder them. Meanwhile, Ahmed Atta's brilliant plan to kill an unfathomable number of Americans proceeds unabated.
Book Synopsis All Music Guide to Soul by : Vladimir Bogdanov
Download or read book All Music Guide to Soul written by Vladimir Bogdanov and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2003-08-01 with total page 4139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive guide is a must-have for the legions of fans of the beloved and perennially popular music known as soul and rhythm & blues. The latest in the definitive All Music Guide series, the All Music Guide to Soul offers nearly 8 500 entertaining and informative reviews that lead readers to the best recordings by more than 1 500 artists and help them find new music to explore. Informative biographies, essays and “music maps” trace R&B's growth from its roots in blues and gospel through its flowering in Memphis and Motown, to its many branches today. Complete discographies note bootlegs, important out-of-print albums, and import-only releases. “Extremely valuable and exhaustive.” – The Christian Science Monitor
Download or read book Hot & Heavy written by Judi Hollis and published by Health Communications. This book was released on 1998 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this groundbreaking book, Dr. Judi Hollis explores the connection between overeating and sexuality and shows women how to seek sexuality in the bedroom, not the kitchen.
Download or read book Song of My Soul written by Paul Evans and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-06-10 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Evans, a former Baltimore newspaperman, uses the power of poetry to present a unique look at the decency and respectability of black Americans' lives before, during, and after the Civil Rights Movement in tribute to the Harlem Renaissance. However, Mr. Evans does not stop there. Uniquely, writing as a black man, he also offers poems that express his desire to see a nation that is inclusive and fair to all Americans, not overlooking the working-class white people who have been left out of Martin Luther King's dream. The Harlem Renaissance has taken its rightful place alongside the many literary movements and eras that have comprised American Literature. Through expressive verse, Mr. Evans reflects on the simplicity of an earlier time in a black man's life such as tending a coal furnace, talking to the ice cream man, or in "A Colored Boy at the Ocean" when he writes, Ocean, ocean carry me away/I'm a little colored boy here at play/I care not where your waves might take me to go/As long as getting there is mighty awfully slow. He honors the spirited artists, musicians, and writers who created magic during a dazzling period in American culture. As the centennial of the Harlem Renaissance approaches in 2019, Mr. Evans encourages a revisiting to this special time, resulting in a new appreciation of the importance of the work of the renaissance's writers and poets, in particular, whose work urged America to be what it says it is.
Download or read book Soul Thang written by Lisa R. Dennis and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2022-06-16 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This soul stirring, heart moving gospel story is about a young adult lady who has a real resilient and passionate love for God and a deep-seated love for her childhood friends that lived in her neighborhood and that she went to school with to be saved from the evil temptations and the luring devices of this world system and pursue a life of promoting good and upholding righteousness through God’s grace and love. In one of the scenes there are Some Churchgoers who are gathered around the front of the church just before the services starts. Only with itching ears can you wait to hear what they have to say. It’s a soul culture. Another scene Friends (very special) who grew up together, and now years later are talking on the telephone about old times. They fell in love and then grew apart, but the love never faded. One has become very successful but has an emptiness inside searching for real love. Deep inside, it’s hard for him to love or trust anyone. So, he calls a friend who was a beauty queen, wore the latest styles and had a new boy toy every week. She learned over the years to put up a good front, but secretly, she was trying to find a true relationship with God. She was trying to hide her emptiness until she gave her life to God and filled all the empty spaces. The result of “Soul Thang” is when prayer and faith work together souls are reached. This is what true victory looks like especially when it comes from a message of hope.
Download or read book Fly written by Brittany J. Thurman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pure joy and the power of community radiate from this sweet picture book about a young Black girl’s perseverance and confidence in following her double Dutch dreams. Africa’s grandmother was a double Dutch legend, and Africa knows she can become the same. Her brother scoffs when she signs up for a double Dutch competition, though—how can she hope to compete when she’s never done it before? But Africa has all the tools she needs: memories of her grandmother, her bestie Bianca’s dance moves, her friend Omar’s rhythm, and her classmates’ Mary Mack timing and cartwheels. If Africa can pull everything together to jump some winning moves, she might just fly, but it’s the birthmark in the shape of her name that tells her she’s always been a winner.
Book Synopsis Soulful Struttin' by : Julia Pierre Hammond
Download or read book Soulful Struttin' written by Julia Pierre Hammond and published by Free Spirit Publishing. This book was released on 2024-10-29 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A father and daughter's afternoon of cleaning becomes a celebration of the music, food, and culture of New Orleans. It's a quiet Sunday afternoon of chores at Clara's house. Until Clara's dad starts singing and dancing, that is! With a broom and an off-key voice, Dad brings Louisiana jazz to the drudgery of housecleaning. Together, they find music in every household object as they sing and dance through a combination of jazz, blues, soul, and African beats. The entire house transforms into a New Orleans parade, in a day filled with harmony, soul food, family heritage, and joyful memories. Soulful Struttin' is a joyful story about a father-daughter relationship full of humor and love. Inspired by her childhood with her Black father from New Orleans and Brazilian mother, author Julia Pierre Hammond has written a story that appeals to all the senses, using music, food, vivid visuals, rhythm, noises, dancing, and language. Additional material at the back of the book includes a cleanup playlist, a gumbo recipe, a game, and questions to help readers think about the story and themselves.
Book Synopsis Talkin and Testifyin by : Geneva Smitherman
Download or read book Talkin and Testifyin written by Geneva Smitherman and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Smitherman makes a substantial contribution to an understanding of Black English by setting it in the larger context of Black culture and life style. In her book, Geneva Smitherman makes a substantial contribution to an understanding of Black English by setting it in the larger context of Black culture and life style. In addition to defining Black English, by its distinctive structure and special lexicon, Smitherman argues that the Black dialect is set apart from traditional English by a rhetorical style which reflects its African origins. Smitherman also tackles the issue of Black and White attitudes toward Black English, particularly as they affect educational policy. Documenting her insights with quotes from notable Black historical, literary and popular figures, Smitherman makes clear that Black English is as legitimate a form of speech as British, American, or Australian English.
Book Synopsis Ray Charles: Birth of Soul by : Mike Evans
Download or read book Ray Charles: Birth of Soul written by Mike Evans and published by Omnibus Press. This book was released on 2009-11-11 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a generation of musicians and fans, the late Ray Charles provided the catalyst that fused the previously largely exclusive genres of jazz, blues and gospel music. In an era when jazz and pop music were seemingly poles apart, the impact of Charles' music was truly revolutionary in that it brought together these strands and fans for the first time.This critically acclaimed biography traces Ray Charles' amazing story from the abject disadvantage of being orphaned, black and blind in the South of the 1930s to the height of international success.With many quotes and exclusive interviews, including several with Ray Charles himself as well as from those who worked with, or were simply influenced by, the man who more than anyone else could truly be called the founding father of soul music.Mike Evans was a regular contributor to Sounds, Cream, and Melody Maker. He is also the author of books on The Beatles, Elvis Presley and the music in New York.Paperback edition.
Book Synopsis Then Sings My Soul by : Philip D. Smith
Download or read book Then Sings My Soul written by Philip D. Smith and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2014-06-10 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Then Sings My Soul is a gritty, humorous, and ultimately loving story of a family shaken to the core by the death of their father. Cora and her children continue to struggle seven years after their father was killed during the D-Day invasion. Cora works two jobs in the oil town of Tulsa, Oklahoma. She's a waitress at the refinery diner and on her off days is employed as a domestic. Her eldest, Josh, works for the railroad by day and dreams of a baseball career at night. Her second son, Bobby, has just graduated high school and taken a job at a filling station. Sarah, only fourteen, goes to school, takes care of the home and looks after her six-year-old sister, Jonda. As her children spiral out of control, Cora undergoes a dreadful experience that could wreck the only thing she has left her faith. And so begins one of the most captivating and enthralling stories you will ever read.
Download or read book Songs for the Soul written by Preacher and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2008-02-12 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is an ole saying, Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, that is a truth. Words are that very truth to me. SONGS for the SOUL, is a collection of lyrical compositions, designed to evoke thoughts and feelings. An open door to hidden realities, guarded and unseen. Where: Love, hate, anger and despair become: Father and mother, sister and brother. A family all part of one entity, which is life. This is not a soft journey but more of a casual walk to see who we are and who we may be. How one sees life is a universal event, where all living things are connected. A never-ending chain reaction to the demands of living. Intertwining a conglomeration of lives intermingling through active and passive circumstances, causing dependence on each other, the proverbial domino effect. SONGS for the SOUL is direct and confrontational. Only those who are willing to accept the challenge to understand will appreciate the intent. Mankind is at a crucial stage of development. The good, the bad and the ugly of life exist, it is alive and well but so are love, peace and understanding. This is our time to solve meaningless differences and together forge a future, where the common bond is: Giving rather then taking, loving above hating and right never takes second to wrong. This is our time to become a better human being and in doing so we will learn, understand and in due time become HUMANE. Mankinds final epitaph should not be of death and destruction but rather a testament to Love and Peace and a helping hand to all who are in need. Then and only then will the question Am I my brothers keeper? be long lost and forgotten.
Download or read book Flavor and Soul written by John Gennari and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-03-18 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Gennari sets out on a quest to find tutti, the everythingness that sits on the edgenow smooth, now serratedbetween Italian America and African America. Tutti, a black friend of his says, the unshakeable belief in beauty, in overflow, in everythingness, the bursting, indelible beauty in a world where there is so much suffering and wounding and pain . . . . Frank Sinatra s legend has meanwhile grown through the idolatry of a new hip-hop generation, we see octogenarian Tony Bennett (Anthony Dominick Benedetto) undertaking concert tours with 20-something Lady Gag (Stefani Angelina Germanotta) while Mario Batali continues to imperialize and monetize Italian cuisine, and Rick Pitino and other Italian American coaches shape championship rounds of college basketball. The essential argument about American culture, Gennari persuasively insists, is the argument about racespecifically, whether blackness, as supporters of jazz exhorted, is an essential ingredient of American cultural reality, or whether, as white nativists warned, going back to the 1920s, it is a dangerous threat to national identity, a force of cultural degeneracy. By the early 60s, Motown had set up cross-racialism by modeling the figure of the Italian pop ballad singer (and Marvin Gaye cut four ballads-and-standards Motown albums, his touchstones being Nat King Cole but also Sinatra and Perry Como). Gennari deftly sketches the interweavings of Italian and African American popular music from jazz to doo wop, soul to hip hop, including the surprising history of Italians in New Orleans music early in the 20th century. Then there s Spike Lee s Do the Right Thing, evoking the racism of Howard Beach and Bensonhurst, but showcasing the untarnished Brooklyn neighborhoods of Cobble Hill and Carroll Gardens. New York and New Jersey and New Haven are at the center of this remarkable book about the intermingling, mergers, contact zones of African America and Italian America, a big space where territorial masculinity vibrates with robust matriarchal energy; where traditions of singing, dancing, and eating embrace the funky vitality and unembarrassed pleasures of the body; where ear-and-eye intensive sensibilities mark extroverted, charismatic presentations of the public self; a history, complicated to be sure, of collaboration, intimacy, hostility, and distancing. Gennari writes with passion, drawing on black and Italian cultural history, literature, food TV, performance art, and cultural criticism to explore the alterations of pain and pleasure, suffering and joy, deprivation and abundance which have produced so much music, cuisine, athletic prowess, and cinemafull of flavor and soulfulness intrinsic to the nation s spirit and psychic health. "
Download or read book Hang the DJ written by Angus Cargill and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2009-10-20 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The literary equivalent of a great dive bar jukebox--inspiring, provocative, irresistible, and the perfect gift for all music lovers. At the heart of all music fetishes, there are lists: ten essential female murder ballads, ten unsettling songs for a midwestern white guy to wake to from a coma, ten smutty Bob Dylan moments, and of course the ever-popular staple of all music lists (and listeners)--ten best breakup songs. Hang the DJ compiles what contributors might once have scribbled in the back of their textbooks or school folders, when they--like all of us at one point--were absolutely sure that they alone were the sole guardians of Musical Truth; that Sparks' number two hit, "This Town Ain't Big Enough for the Both of Us," really should have made it to the number one spot, that Gary Numan was merely a misshapen progeny of Bowie's Thin White Duke persona, that female singer-songwriters are better than their male equivalents. Mixing anecdote, humor, reference, and sheer dorkiness--but with the bizarre insight of an anthropological study in pop-culture protocol--Hang the DJ is a collection of lists about musical loves, hates, dreams, and nightmares from music-lovers such as Rick Moody, Jonathan Lethem, Simon Reynolds, Ali Smith, Amanda Petrusich, and many other bloggers, journalists, novelists, poets, and musicians.
Book Synopsis Old School Rap and Hip-hop by : Chris Woodstra
Download or read book Old School Rap and Hip-hop written by Chris Woodstra and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2008 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains brief reviews of over five hundred old school rap and hip-hop albums, as well as albums from the 1960s and 70s that provided inspiration for the development of rap; arranged alphabetically, some with cover art.
Book Synopsis My Soul Looks Back in Wonder by : Juan Williams
Download or read book My Soul Looks Back in Wonder written by Juan Williams and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most pivotal moments in American history is brought to light through stirring, thought-provoking eyewitness accounts from people who have played active roles in the civil rights movement over the past 50 years.
Book Synopsis Kinethic California by : Naomi Macalalad Bragin
Download or read book Kinethic California written by Naomi Macalalad Bragin and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2024-05-13 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kinethic California: Dancing Funk and Disco Era Kinships documents the emergence of new forms of black social and vernacular dance invented by youth living in 1970s California, who helped build the foundations of contemporary hip hop/streetdance culture. Naomi Macalalad Bragin weaves interviews and ethnographies of first-generation (1960s-70s) dancers of strutting, boogaloo, robotting, popping, locking, waacking, and punking styles, as it advances a theory of dance as kinetic kinship formation through a focus on techniques and practices of the dancers themselves. She offers that the term given to these collective movement practices is kinethic to bring attention to motion at the core of black aesthetics that generate dances as forms of kinship beyond blood relation. Kinethics reorient dancers toward kinetic kinship in ways that give continuity to black dance lineages under persistent conditions of disappearance and loss. As dancers engage kinethics, they reinvent gestural vocabularies that describe worlds they imagine into knowing-being. The stories in Kinethic California attend to the aesthetics of everyday movement, seen through the lens of young artists who, from childhood, listened to their family’s soul and funk records, observed the bent-leg strolls and rhythmic handshakes of people moving through their neighborhoods, and watched each other move at house parties, school gyms, and around-the-way social clubs. Their aesthetic sociality and geographic movement provided materials for collective study and creative play. Bragin attends to such multidirectional conversations between dancer, community, and tradition, by which California dance lineages emerge and take flight.
