Steppin' on the Blues. The Visible Rhythms of African American Dance, Paperback - Jacqui Malone

Publisher: University of Illinois PressAuthor(s): Jacqui MaloneNumber of pages: 312Collection: Folklore and SocietyPublication date: 1996Dimensions...

Reducere. DescriptionBlues Book of the Year --Living Blues Association of Recorded Sound Collections Awards for Excellence Best Historical Research in Record...

Reducere. DescriptionThis book, written to help beginners navigate the world of line dancing, contains descriptions of standard step sequences, with step she...

Reducere. Provocative, moving, powerful, explicit, strong, unapologetic. These are a few words that have been used to describe the groundbreaking Brooklyn-ba...

Reducere. Welcome to The Dance, the wise and practical book that expands on Oriah Mountain Dreamer's new moving prose poem. In this compelling book the accla...

The first anthology in over twenty-five years to focus exclusively on American dance practices across a wide span of American culture. This volume ...

The first anthology in over twenty-five years to focus exclusively on American dance practices across a wide span of American culture. This volume ...

Reducere. Dance of the Zodiac is a illustrated book with hundreds of drawings and photographs that give insights into how the signs of the zodiac are display...

Reducere. This comprehensive history of black humor sets it in the context of American popular culture. Blackface minstrelsy, Stepin Fetchit, and the Amos 'n...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdNumber of pages: 222Publication date: 2016Dimensions: 155 x 235 x 16Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): Gordo...

Publisher: University of Illinois PressAuthor(s): Miriam ThaggertIllustration(s): 34 black & white photographs, 3 mapsNumber of pages: 240Collectio...

Reducere. DescriptionAlthough they have written in various genres, African American writers as notable and diverse as W. E. B. Du Bois, James Baldwin, and Al...

Reducere. Fractals are patterns, infinitely reiterating, self-similar in shape. Benoit Mandelbrot coined the term in the 1970s, but scientists and mathematic...

Reducere. Invocation - 10: 51Prelude To Bach - 4: 14Dance Of The Elders - 5: 57Liebeslied - 7: 41Folksong - 4: 56Cantus Bradus - 4: 52Amelia - 7: 05

Reducere. These are just a few of Willie Dixon's contributions to blues, R&B, and rock'n'roll--songs performed by artists as varied as the Rolling Stones, Ho...

Reducere. 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 ...

It started with the searing sound of a slide careening up the neck of an electric guitar. In 1970, twenty-three-year-old Bruce Iglauer walked into ...

Reducere. We can be led to act in our own interest as a group if we tune into, and add to, our mental diets, the liberating thoughts that are provifef for us...

In recent years, there has been a rise in diverse racial representation on television. In particular, Black characters have become more actualized ...

Publisher: Hal Leonard CorporationAuthor(s): John GanapesNumber of pages: 96Publication date: 2009Dimensions: 305 x 229 x 7Cover type: BookRedescop...

The complete story of the origins and evolution of the black American blues tradition, drawing extensively on oral history interviews.

Reducere. The first full and authoritative biography of an American--indeed a world-wide--musical and cultural legend. "No one worked harder than B.B. No one...

DescriptionIt started with the searing sound of a slide careening up the neck of an electric guitar. In 1970, twenty-three-year-old Bruce Iglauer w...

Publisher: The New PressAuthor(s): Monique W. MorrisNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 140 x 216 x 18Cover type: Paperback / sof...

Reducere. An award-winning constitutional law historian examines case-based evidence that reveals the Supreme Court's longstanding support for white supremac...

Reducere. CD 1: 1. West End Blues 2. Jay Jay 3. Bouncing With Bud 4. Epistrophy 5. Boppin' A Riff 6. Indiana 7. I Should Care 8. I'll Remember April 9. Off M...

Reducere. 136 songs of African-American slaves, collected and compiled a few years after the Emancipation Proclamation, are presented here complete with thei...

When Dede sees a notice offering land to black people in Kansas, her family decides to give up their life of sharecropping to become homesteading p...

Honoring and celebrating achievements from the First Nations women and the French Huguenot Women of Fort Caroline to the unprecedented number of et...

The popularity and profile of African dance have exploded across the African diaspora in the last fifty years. Hot Feet and Social Change presents ...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. DescriptionA triumph of historical detective work, Crossing the Continent is the remarkable, never-before-told story of the first black explorer an...

Film reporter Alicia Malone brings a collection of personal essays looking at the representation and impact of women on film. In addition to person...

Reducere. ``In America, black is a country, `` declared Amiri Baraka, who insisted that the lives and destinies of the nation's white and black citizens are ...

The Strangers Book explores how various nineteenth-century African American writers radically reframed the terms of humanism by redefining what it ...

The first authoritative cradle-to-grave biography of a worldwide musical and cultural legend.Publisher: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressAuthor(...