Read Books Online and Download eBooks, EPub, PDF, Mobi, Kindle, Text Full Free.
Download Yardbird Lives full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online Yardbird Lives ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Author : Ishmael Reed
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Yardbird Lives! written by Ishmael Reed and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lawrence O. Koch
Publisher : Popular Press
ISBN 13 : 9780879722593
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (225 download)
Download or read book Yardbird Suite written by Lawrence O. Koch and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive study of jazz great Charlie Parker, including details of record dates, more than 200 musical illustrations, and biographical material arranged chronologically and linked with Parker's recordings. The "Bird Stories" are all here, from Parker's Kansas City roots to his untimely death, as well as the seminal journal article on Parker's music, "Ornithology" that appeared in the Journal of Jazz Studies.
Author : Ishmael Reed
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780802101556
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Yardbird Lives! written by Ishmael Reed and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ross Russell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (638 download)
Download or read book Bird Lives! written by Ross Russell and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jim McCarty
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0244966508
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (449 download)
Download or read book Nobody Told Me: My Life with the Yardbirds, Renaissance and Other Stories written by Jim McCarty and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-02-05 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nobody Told Me is the long awaited autobiography by Jim McCarty, a founding and current member of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees The Yardbirds, a founder member of Renaissance, Together and Box of Frogs, and an internationally respected songwriter. Open, honest, modest and affecting, Jim looks back on his long and remarkable career with both a keen eye for detail and his trademark sense of humour. From the birth of the British R&B boom to the latest incarnation of his much beloved band, Jim tells of his life on and off stage, alongside some of the most legendary musicians in rock history - including Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page (who also contributed the book's introduction). From the Yardbirds, the story unfolds across Together, Renaissance and Illusion, collaborations with the Pretty Things and the British Invasion All Stars, Box of Frogs, Stairway and more.
Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Yardbird Reader written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ross Russell
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Bird Lives! written by Ross Russell and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 1996-03-22 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work on Charlie Bird Parker offers a picture of not only of the saxophonist-composer as an artist and as a human being, but also of zeitgeist and the musical/social setting that produced him. It shows his complex personality; his great appetites; the extent of his influence; and his work.
Download or read book LIFE written by and published by . This book was released on 1941-08-18 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.
Author : Heike Raphael-Hernandez
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814776906
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)
Download or read book AfroAsian Encounters written by Heike Raphael-Hernandez and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2006-11-01 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a Foreword by Vijay Prashad and an Afterword by Gary Okihiro How might we understand yellowface performances by African Americans in 1930s swing adaptations of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado, Paul Robeson's support of Asian and Asian American struggles, or the absorption of hip hop by Asian American youth culture? AfroAsian Encounters is the first anthology to look at the mutual influence of and relationships between members of the African and Asian diasporas. While these two groups have often been thought of as occupying incommensurate, if not opposing, cultural and political positions, scholars from history, literature, media, and the visual arts here trace their interconnections and interactions, as well as the tensions between the two groups that sometimes arise. AfroAsian Encounters probes beyond popular culture to trace the historical lineage of these coalitions from the late nineteenth century to the present. A foreword by Vijay Prashad sets the volume in the context of the Bandung conference half a century ago, and an afterword by Gary Okihiro charts the contours of a “Black Pacific.” From the history of Japanese jazz composers to the current popularity of black/Asian “buddy films” like Rush Hour, AfroAsian Encounters is a groundbreaking intervention into studies of race and ethnicity and a crucial look at the shifting meaning of race in the twenty-first century.
Author : Chuck Haddix
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252095170
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Bird written by Chuck Haddix and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2013-09-30 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saxophone virtuoso Charlie "Bird" Parker began playing professionally in his early teens, became a heroin addict at 16, changed the course of music, and then died when only 34 years old. His friend Robert Reisner observed, "Parker, in the brief span of his life, crowded more living into it than any other human being." Like Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, and John Coltrane, he was a transitional composer and improviser who ushered in a new era of jazz by pioneering bebop and influenced subsequent generations of musicians. Meticulously researched and written, Bird: The Life and Music of Charlie Parker tells the story of his life, music, and career. This new biography artfully weaves together firsthand accounts from those who knew him with new information about his life and career to create a compelling narrative portrait of a tragic genius. While other books about Parker have focused primarily on his music and recordings, this portrait reveals the troubled man behind the music, illustrating how his addictions and struggles with mental health affected his life and career. He was alternatively generous and miserly; a loving husband and father at home but an incorrigible philanderer on the road; and a chronic addict who lectured younger musicians about the dangers of drugs. Above all he was a musician, who overcame humiliation, disappointment, and a life-threatening car wreck to take wing as Bird, a brilliant improviser and composer. With in-depth research into previously overlooked sources and illustrated with several never-before-seen images, Bird: The Life and Music of Charlie Parker corrects much of the misinformation and myth about one of the most influential musicians of the twentieth century.
Author : Ross Russell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (154 download)
Download or read book Bird lives! written by Ross Russell and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marian Jago
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774837713
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)
Download or read book Live at The Cellar written by Marian Jago and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2018-10-15 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1950s and ’60s, co‐operative jazz clubs such as Vancouver’s Cellar, Edmonton’s Yardbird Suite, and Halifax’s 777 Barrington Street opened their doors in response to new forms of jazz expression emerging after the war and a lack of available performance spaces outside major urban centres. Operated on a not‐for-profit basis by the musicians themselves, these hip new clubs created spaces where young jazz musicians could practise their art close to home. Live at the Cellar looks at this unique period in the development of jazz in Canada. Centered on Vancouver’s legendary Cellar club, and including co-ops in four other cities, it explores the ways in which these clubs functioned as sites for the performance and exploration of jazz as well as magnets for countercultural expression in other arts, such as literature, theatre, and film. Marian Jago’s deft combination of new, original research with archival evidence, interviews, and photographs allows us to witness the beginnings of a pan-Canadian jazz scene as well as the emergence of key Canadian jazz figures, such as P.J. Perry, Don Thompson, and Terry Clarke, and the rise of jazz icons such as Paul Bley and Ornette Coleman. Although the Cellar and other jazz co-ops are long shuttered, in their day they created a new and infectious energy that still reverberates in Canada’s jazz scene today.
Author : Lauri Ramey
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131702916X
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Heritage Series of Black Poetry, 1962–1975 written by Lauri Ramey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1962, the Heritage Series of Black Poetry, founded and edited by Paul Breman, published Robert Hayden's A Ballad of Remembrance. By 1975, the Series had published 27 volumes by some of the twentieth-century's most important and influential poets. As elaborated in Lauri Ramey's extensive scholarly introduction, this innovative volume has dual purposes: To provide primary sources that recover the history and legacy of this groundbreaking publishing venture, and to serve as a research companion for scholars working on the Series and on twentieth-century black poetry. Never-before-published primary materials include Paul Breman's memoir, retrospectives by several of the poets published in the Series, a photo-documentary of W.E.B. Du Bois's 1958 visit to The Netherlands, poems by poets represented in the Series, and scholarly essays. Also included are bibliographies of the Heritage poets and of the Heritage Press Archives at the Chicago Public Library. This reference work is an essential resource for scholars working in the fields of black poetry, transatlantic studies, and twentieth-century book history.
Author : Michael Jarrett
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438407831
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book Drifting on a Read written by Michael Jarrett and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1999-02-25 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For almost a century, writers such as Ralph Ellison, Michael Ondaatje, and Ishmael Reed have expressed an affinity for jazz, hearing the music as a model for writing. Michael Jarrett examines their work and the work of others who have brought jazz into language, pushing "interpretation" into the realm of "invention."
Author : Aiye-ko ooto
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 035912318X
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (591 download)
Download or read book Sorrows of a Yard Bird written by Aiye-ko ooto and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-09-30 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aiyeko-ooto trails scattered crumbs of a yard bird. Brief moment to spare, then you are the next guest of imagined yard bird. You'll hear stories Decades old, of land behind stones, puddle at its claws, balance in its wings and finally, how tomorrow is scored! Yard bird lives in a yard, chained there only by, own loss of will. It has lost passion for hunting, resigned to handouts. Deluded of chances of flying again, it tells stories of the past lovers, in great places it's seen beyond. Complains of puddles on its webbed claws. Instructs but does no air acrobatics, where it used to reign. Procrastinates, soon; take to the air again. Aiyeko-ooto in (50 poems),5 movements anthology brings yard bird. With tall tales of ancestry; monarchy deep. With fantasy of lovers, in great castles. Of today, vehemently complain but do nothing. Quick to point out; how best we ought to love or live. Yard Birds, always they say they have answers. Aiyeko-ooto asked -How come you are the way you are, if you have all figured?
Author : Earle Rice
Publisher : Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 161228342X
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Charlie Parker written by Earle Rice and published by Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2012-09-30 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charlie Parker rocketed to fame as the premier jazz saxophonist of the 1940s and 50s. He began his unparalleled rise to greatness in the world of jazz in Kansas City, Missouri, in the mid–1930s. “Bird,” as Parker was known first to his friends and later to the world, honed his early skills on a $45 used alto saxophone bought for him by his mother Addie Parker. The old horn was decrepit. Its valves were always sticking, its pads were always leaking, and it had rubber bands and cellophane paper all over it. Charlie had to hold it sideways to make it blow. But the sound he blew would later dazzle a world of admirers and imitators. Known for his direct, cutting tone and extraordinary dexterity on the alto saxophone, Parker turned rapid tempos and fast flurries of notes into a new kind of music known as bebop or bop. The Bird flew high for two decades, then plunged precipitously to an early death from drug- and alcohol-addiction at the age of 34—a legend then and so he remains today.
Author : Rychetta Watkins
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1617031623
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Black Power, Yellow Power, and the Making of Revolutionary Identities written by Rychetta Watkins and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2012-01-03 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Images of upraised fists, afros, and dashikis have long dominated the collective memory of Black Power and its proponents. The “guerilla” figure—taking the form of the black-leather-clad revolutionary within the Black Panther Party—has become an iconic trope in American popular culture. That politically radical figure, however, has been shaped as much by Asian American cultural discourse as by African American political ideology. From the Asian-African Conference held in April of 1955 in Bandung, Indonesia, onward to the present, Afro-Asian political collaboration has been active and influential. In Black Power, Yellow Power, and the Making of Revolutionary Identities, author Rychetta Watkins uses the guerilla figure as a point of departure and shows how the trope's rhetoric animates discourses of representation and identity in African American and Asian American literature and culture. In doing so, she examines the notion of “Power,” in terms of ethnic political identity, and explores collaborating—and sometimes competing—ethnic interests that have drawn ideas from the concept. The project brings together a range of texts—editorial cartoons, newspaper articles, novels, visual propaganda, and essays—that illustrate the emergence of this subjectivity in Asian American and African American cultural productions during the Power period, roughly 1966 through 1981. After a case study of the cultural politics of academic anthologies and the cooperation between Frank Chin and Ishmael Reed, the volume culminates with analyses of this trope in Sam Greenlee's The Spook Who Sat by the Door, Alice Walker's Meridian, and John Okada's No No Boy.
