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Author : Gérard Herzhaft
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 9781610751391
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (513 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of the Blues-2nd (p) written by Gérard Herzhaft and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gérard Herzhaft
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 9781557282521
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (825 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of the Blues written by Gérard Herzhaft and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The popular Encyclopedia of the Blues, first published by the University of Arkansas Press in 1992 and reprinted six times, has become an indispensable reference source for all involved with or intrigued by the music. The work alphabetizes hundreds of biographical entries, presenting detailed examinations of the performers and of the instruments, trends, recordings, and producers who have created and popularized this truly American art form.
Author : Dick Weissman
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0816069751
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Blues written by Dick Weissman and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents brief entries covering the history, significant artists, styles and influence of blues music.
Author : Cynthia Barnett
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1524609161
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (246 download)
Download or read book Treasure written by Cynthia Barnett and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2016-08-23 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I wrote this book to inspire others like myself. I have been appointed to deliver such a book by doing the works of the master, telling everything of himself, I haven't written a book or novel nor children books. From the Psalm (poems) I wrote novel of poetry of everyday life. The poems are telling a story within itself. Some people don't recognize a God given talent until a wakeup call comes. I was one of those people, I wrote many poems as a youngster and in my teens. I cast them away in my closet shelf or trash them. My baby sister Alisa always told me I had a God given gift, my baby sister Alisa reminded me of a little bitty person with a old soul young but had insight like she been here before. She had been getting my poems off the shelves and making her boyfriend cards with them. He was thinking she was writing them, she told me again, you got to keep writing them because he liked them. I was shocked, but nevertheless I said ok to my baby sister, calling herself in love. And my milestone started that day. Who would want to listen to what I had to say. The answer came later on, who would listen other than my baby sister. The same people that went down the same path and has experienced spiritual struggles, racism and was a victim of rape, gang bangers, prisoners, addicts, childhood dreama of becoming or a sense of want to belong. This book is inspired for all generations as well as the young, past, present and future. A reflection of fathers leaving homes leaving mothers taking care of homes as single parents, not to mention separated, that lead to divorce. In each of our lives we all are searching for our own path. Through our experience we live and learn, either we make mistakes ourselves or wise up or simply learn from the mistakes and trials of others as well as self. I’ve always felt that in the company of others, I find my heart to be captivated through another’s experience. Be it joy, pain, Hope or hardship. In my travels near or far in my hope of Mississippi or eve strange lands this defined me through and through. This when the journey began. We are one people, one love, one people with rainbow color of God. The color purple couldn’t have said it any better coming from Whoppi Goldberg. She said I might be ugly, I might even be black, I might even been misunderstood, but thank God am STILL HERE... We’re just ordinary people, why one kill because of the color of our skin. I never understand that. There is a time and purpose of our being. Know that there is a GOD... who hears and sees all GOD bless hope you enjoy....
Author : Zane
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416571655
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)
Download or read book Blackgentlemen.com written by Zane and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-10-30 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zane, Shonda Cheekes, J.D. Mason, and Eileen M. Johnson collaborate on this thrilling collection of novellas about the women who search for the man of their dreams on the internet. This anthology edited by Zane features stories penned by some of the hottest female novelists, following the women who meet men on Blackgentlemen.com, the fictional premier website showcasing black bachelors. Women throughout the country are scrolling through in the hopes of finding true love. The search is thrilling, but the real fun doesn’t begin until these women meet the men in person. In "Duplicity," Zane shows us what happens when twins end up sharing a little bit more than they morally should. "Your Message Has Been Sent" by J.D. Mason, a lonely widow finds her way back to truly living in the most sensual of ways. Shonda Cheekes entices us with a trail of lies and their ultimate consequences in "Lessons Learned." In "The Adventures of the Bold and Bourgeois," Eileen M. Johnson introduces us to a sister with issues that she finally decides to resolve with the aid of the right brother. Finally, Zane rounds out the collection with "Delusions" about a woman on the brink of disaster with the man who seemingly stepped right out of her dreams. Entertaining, witty, humorous, and not to mention extremely sexy, the five novellas in Blackgentlemen.com will keep you riveted and yearning for more.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Blues Unlimited written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Erich Nunn
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 082034737X
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Sounding the Color Line written by Erich Nunn and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sounding the Color Line explores how competing understandings of the U.S. South in the first decades of the twentieth century have led us to experience musical forms, sounds, and genres in racialized contexts. Yet, though we may speak of white or black music, rock or rap, sounds constantly leak through such barriers. A critical disjuncture exists, then, between actual interracial musical and cultural forms on the one hand and racialized structures of feeling on the other. This is nowhere more apparent than in the South. Like Jim Crow segregation, the separation of musical forms along racial lines has required enormous energy to maintain. How, asks Nunn, did the protocols structuring listeners' racial associations arise? How have they evolved and been maintained in the face of repeated transgressions of the musical color line? Considering the South as the imagined ground where conflicts of racial and national identities are staged, this book looks at developing ideas concerning folk song and racial and cultural nationalism alongside the competing and sometimes contradictory workings of an emerging culture industry. Drawing on a diverse archive of musical recordings, critical artifacts, and literary texts, Nunn reveals how the musical color line has not only been established and maintained but also repeatedly crossed, fractured, and reformed. This push and pull--between segregationist cultural logics and music's disrespect of racially defined boundaries--is an animating force in twentieth-century American popular culture.
Author : Jermaine Cordell Rosser
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 143436156X
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (343 download)
Download or read book Poetry written by Jermaine Cordell Rosser and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2008-02-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1428 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 1428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Jelani Cobb
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814716709
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)
Download or read book To the Break of Dawn written by William Jelani Cobb and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2007-02 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With roots that stretch from West Africa through the black pulpit, hip-hop emerged in the streets of the South Bronx in the 1970s and has spread to the farthest corners of the earth. This book examines this freestyle verbal artistry on its own terms. Music critic Cobb, who spent his youth at the epicenter of the new art form, takes readers inside the beats, the lyrics, and the flow of hip-hop, separating mere corporate rappers from the creative MCs that forged the art in the crucible of the street jam. Unlike books that focus on hip-hop as a social movement or a commercial phenomenon, this book tracks the music's aesthetic, stylistic, and thematic evolution from its inception to today's distinctly regional sub-divisions and styles. Written with an insider's ear, it illuminates hip-hop's innovations in a freestyle form that speaks to both aficionados and newcomers to the art.--From publisher description.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Staffrider written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jeff Todd Titon
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252061301
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (613 download)
Download or read book Downhome Blues Lyrics written by Jeff Todd Titon and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A collection of outstanding folk blues lyrics composed and sung by black Americans and sold on commercial records in American black communities during the dozen or so year following World War II."--Preface.
Download or read book SPIN written by and published by . This book was released on 1995-03 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the concert stage to the dressing room, from the recording studio to the digital realm, SPIN surveys the modern musical landscape and the culture around it with authoritative reporting, provocative interviews, and a discerning critical ear. With dynamic photography, bold graphic design, and informed irreverence, the pages of SPIN pulsate with the energy of today's most innovative sounds. Whether covering what's new or what's next, SPIN is your monthly VIP pass to all that rocks.
Author : Michael S. Harper
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252071058
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Songlines in Michaeltree written by Michael S. Harper and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Songlines in Michaeltree is the long-awaited collected poems--with the sparkling addition of some new ones--of one of America's most revered poets. Hailed by critics as a distinctive and powerful presence in contemporary American poetry, Michael S. Harper is an artist and a truth teller who tempers his astonishing technical virtuosity with a compassionate and healing vision. A keen observer and a potent commentator, Harper calls a complacent society vigorously to account while cradling the wounded and remembering the lost. Calling Harper "one of the finest poets of our time . . . [and] one of the most human and humane," George Cuomo of the San Francisco Examiner and Chronicle observed, "Harper's poetry has drawn its vitality from the incredible energy of his language and the honesty of his perceptions." Songlines in Michaeltree is a magnificent celebration of Harper's continuing, unstinting gifts.
Author : Rashida Braggs
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520279344
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Jazz Diasporas written by Rashida Braggs and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "At the close of the Second World War, waves of African American musicians migrated to Paris, eager to thrive in its reinvigorated jazz scene. Jazz Diasporas challenges the notion that Paris was a color-blind paradise for African Americans. On the contrary, musicians--and African American artists based in Europe like writer and social critic James Baldwin--adopted a variety of strategies to cope with the cultural and social assumptions that greeted them throughout their careers in Paris, particularly in light of the cultural struggles over race and identity that gripped France as colonial conflicts like the Algerian War escalated. Through case studies of prominent musicians and thoughtful analysis of personal interviews, music, film, and literature, Rashida K. Braggs investigates the impact of this post-war musical migration. Examining a number of players in the jazz scene, including Sidney Bechet, Inez Cavanaugh, and Kenny Clarke, Braggs identifies how they performed both as musicians and as African Americans. The collaborations that they and other African Americans created with French musicians and critics complicated racial and cultural understandings of who could play and represent "authentic" jazz. Their role in French society challenged their American identity and illusions of France as a racial safe haven. In this post-war era of collapsing nations and empires, African American jazz players and their French counterparts destabilized set notions of identity. Sliding in and out of black and white and American and French identities, they created collaborative spaces for mobile and mobilized musical identities, what Braggs terms 'jazz diasporas.'"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Kenneth J. Bindas
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313389748
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)
Download or read book America's Musical Pulse written by Kenneth J. Bindas and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1992-09-30 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular music may be viewed as primary documents of society, and America's Musical Pulse documents the American experience as recorded in popular sound. Whether jazz, blues, swing, country, or rock, the music, the impulse behind it, and the reaction to it reveal the attitudes of an era or generation. Always a major preoccupation of students, music is often ignored by teaching professionals, who might profitably channel this interest to further understandings of American social history and such diverse fields as sociology, political science, literature, communications, and business as well as music. In this interdisciplinary collection, scholars, educators, and writers from a variety of fields and perspectives relate topics concerning twentieth-century popular music to issues of politics, class, economics, race, gender, and the social context. The focus throughout is to place music in societal perspective and encourage investigation of the complex issues behind the popular tunes, rhythms, and lyrics.
Author : France Winddance Twine
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135092974
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Geographies of Privilege written by France Winddance Twine and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-02-11 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How are social inequalities experienced, reproduced and challenged in local, global and transnational spaces? What role does the control of space play in distribution of crucial resources and forms of capital (housing, education, pleasure, leisure, social relationships)? The case studies in Geographies of Privilege demonstrate how power operates and is activated within local, national, and global networks. Twine and Gardener have put together a collection that analyzes how the centrality of spaces (domestic, institutional, leisure, educational) are central to the production, maintenance and transformation of inequalities. The collected readings show how power--in the form of economic, social, symbolic, and cultural capital--is employed and experienced. The volume’s contributors take the reader to diverse sites, including brothels, blues clubs, dance clubs, elite schools, detention centers, advocacy organizations, and public sidewalks in Canada, Italy, Spain, United Arab Emirates, Mozambique, South Africa, and the United States. Geographies of Privilege is the perfect teaching tool for courses on social problems, race, class and gender in Geography, Sociology and Anthropology.
