Blues People, Paperback

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Jas ObrechtObrecht, editor of Guitar Player Magazine, and several other blues scholars and journalists, join forces to pres...

Reducere. Mamie Smith's pathbreaking 1920 recording of Crazy Blues set the pop music world on fire, inaugurating a new African American market for race recor...

Description"A signal event in the history of the music." -- Ted Gioia, author of The Delta BluesMusicologist and writer Samuel Charters (1929-2015)...

Reducere. This vivid celebration of blues and early rock 'n' roll includes some of the first and most illuminating profiles of such blues masters as Muddy Wa...

Reducere. "Bush Blues marks the debut of an Alaskan crime solver as true and flawed as the state itself." --Tom Begich, Alaska Senator Police Chief Brady Sno...

A self-described "song-hunter, " the folklorist Alan Lomax traveled the Mississippi Delta in the 1930's and '40s, armed with primitive recording eq...

Contributor(s): Author: Adam GussowThe devil is the most charismatic and important figure in the blues tradition. He's not just the music's namesak...

Beat the blues with this innovative self-help approach, based on Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT), from a leading UK authority.

Reducere. ``I will call the voice of this poet a 'common' voice... a voice a poet could take into an entire lifetime of memorable writing.`` --Philip Levine,...

Reducere. Development Drowned and Reborn is a "Blues geography" of New Orleans, one that compels readers to return to the history of the Black freedom strugg...

Reducere. A powerful, family-based approach to understanding and treating depression that goes way beyond ProzacMany people have been led to believe that dep...

Reducere. "...A beautifully written book about commercial fishing in coastal waters. Joe Upton delivers both the reality and romance of Southeast Alaska."--D...

Ordinary People meets Chicago the musical as played out in the city's Black Belt, Wild Women and the Blues is a mainstream historical fiction novel...

Reducere. THE ROUGH-'N-READY A.W. HART BRINGS YOU BOOK FOUR IN AN ACTION-ADVENTURE WESTERN SERIES - THIS TIME AROUND JUSTICE WILL BE SERVED. Texas Ranger Con...

Reducere. Like the figures in the ancient oral literature of Native Americans, children who lived through the American Indian boarding school experience beca...

Reducere. On the south side of Chicago in the late 1940s, two immigrants; one a Jew born in Russia, the other a black blues singer from Mississippi; met and ...

Reducere. The volume brings together two previously published novellas by Richard Wagamese, Him Standing and The Next Sure Thing, with a foreword from author...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Julia WattsEditor: Larry SmithAuthor: Chris OffuttIn turbulent times, what we need is possibility, and in this rich gatheri...

In writing his Self-Portrait of Black America, anthropologist, folklorist, and humanist John Gwaltney went in search of "Core Black People"--the or...

Reducere. Poetry. African & African American Studies. Cynthia Manick's BLUE HALLELUJAHS bring us to a broil like Koko Taylor's 'white-toothed love coils on r...

Reducere. It's the summer of 1988 in northeastern Kansas, an area home to four prisons that has been shaken by the recent escape of a convict. But for two yo...

The good news on beating the blues Do you want the good, the bad, or the best news first? OK, the bad news is that an estimated 264 million people ...

Reducere. I Don't See Color by G.Todd Taylor is an intriguing Children's book that dares readers to challenge the status quo and appreciate each others' diff...

Reducere. "William Boyle does for the small damaged towns of New York what Nelson Algren did for Chicago: he makes the streets sing with piss-pot poetry and ...

Reducere. Pardon My Heart is an exploration of love in the contemporary African American consciousness. Marcus Jackson's poetry examines the heritage of the ...

Reducere. In SOMEWHERE OUT THERE: ALIENS AND UFOs, Dr. Meinberg takes the reader on an up-to-date tour of 35 topics that surround the vast subject of Ufology...

Reducere. Born in South LA: 100 Remarkable African Americans Who Were Born, Raised, Lived or Died in South LA documents the stories, struggles, accomplishmen...

Reducere. Winner of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award (2012) Smart, grounded, and lyrical, Evie Shockley's the new black integrates powerful ideas about "black...

Reducere. Funk: It's the only musical genre ever to have transformed the nation into a throbbing army of bell-bottomed, hoop-earringed, rainbow-Afro'd warrio...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Joe Nick PatoskiWillie Nelson has spent the last 30 years on that higher plane of celebrity where he signifies many things ...

Reducere. Many of the architects of rock and roll in the 1950s, including Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Little Richard, were Southerners who were roote...

Hinduism is practised by nearly eighty per cent of India's population, and by some seventy million people outside India. In this Very Short Introdu...

Reducere. A RIVETING MYSTERY SET IN THE SIZZLING HEAT OF A FLORIDA SUMMER When his girlfriend's body is discovered on the balcony of his condo overlooking th...

DescriptionAgainst a backdrop of social unrest and protests The Rolling Stones entered 1969 as a successful blues band that had experimented with p...

Reducere. When it was first published in 2003, Rebel Musics sought to explore how musical activism resonates as resistance to the dominant culture, and how p...

Reducere. What does it mean to be Black in a white, middle-class community? Is it the ultimate symbol of success? Or will one pay in isolation, alienation, r...

Reducere. Considered by many to be a founder of Afrofuturism, Sun Ra--aka Herman Blount--was a composer, keyboardist, bandleader, philosopher, entrepreneur, ...

This new journey of mine into the "wild" outside the church began with the growing realization that perhaps I was not really cut out to be a church...

This is the 19th book from author and popular music historian Harvey Kubernik. His comprehensive compilation of interviews and conversations with r...

In Songbooks, critic and scholar Eric Weisbard offers a critical guide to books on American popular music from William Billings's 1770 New-England ...

Reducere. Dan Lewis' life story is a collage of sounds, people, and places that evoke tears, laughter, and nostalgia. Despite being confined to a wheelchair ...

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Here it is! Another fabulous compilation of the funniest and best-loved one-liners and short jokes. Savour this second volume in this Ultimate Coll...

"A 'landmark book.'"--The New York Times*When the dark days of winter approach, do you feel sluggish and slow? Is it a struggle to get out of bed e...

"That instrument he plays - when you hear it recorded correctly or live in a room, it has a tremendous comforting resonance and a hypnotic feeling....

Reducere. ``Tyree Daye is a poet of extraordinary ability and surprise. I find new music to delight in every time I come back to this book. I encounter new w...

Reducere. A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction of 2011 title In the late 1960s, with popular culture hurtling forward on the sounds of rock music, some brave mus...

Recipient of the Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction Lauded for her "astute and engrossing" (People) writing style imbued with "originality ga...

Reducere. When a spooky celebration in Arborville, New Jersey conjures real scares, can Pamela and the Knit and Nibble Club sink their teeth into a bone-chil...

Reducere. She's newly single and determined to never fall for a military man again.He's a sexy officer who doesn't believe in love.And they think they can ha...

The tale of two very unlikely partners in crime set in New York City's Roaring Twenties. Nola is a poor white girl living on the streets who has le...

Reducere. What if preachers were as contagiously joyful in their preaching as Louis Armstrong was in his playing and singing? As rich in their sermonic rende...

Reducere. "Chasing the Rising Sun" is the story of an American musical journey told by a prize-winning writer who traced one song in its many incarnations as...

Reducere. The United States, home to 329 million people living in 50 states, has a rich history made up of so much more than just its presidents and wars.Int...