The Creation of Jazz. Music, Race, and Culture in Urban America, Paperback - Burton W. Peretti

Explains how jazz was shaped by urbanization, the 'great migration' of southern blacks northward, and the 'jazz image' - dress code, jargon, and us...

Reducere. DescriptionNorth Lawndale, a neighborhood that lies in the shadows of Chicago's Loop, is surrounded by some of the city's finest medical facilities...

Reducere. ." . . extraordinarily far-reaching. . . . highly accessible."-Notes "No one has written this way about music in a long, long time. Lucid, insightf...

Reducere. Stressing culture, community and choice, this book outlines a therapy for the new poor, a people poor more because they have lost their spirit than...

Reducere. Gigi Gryce was a saxophonist and composer who worked with some of the best-known names in jazz during the 1950s, including Dizzy Gillespie, Theloni...

Groundbreaking analysis of the birth of racism in America - volume 2.

Reducere. Between 1963 and 1972 America experienced over 750 urban revolts. Considered collectively, they comprise what Peter Levy terms a 'Great Uprising'. ...

Reducere. Awards🏆Winner (1990) - National Book Critics Circle Award - (General Nonfiction)Contributor(s): Author: Shelby SteeleIn this controversial essay co...

Reducere. A collection of essays by FEE President Lawrence W. Reed and historian Burton W. Folsom, Jr. that surveys the economic history of the United States...

Reducere. Part family story and part urban history, a landmark investigation of segregation and urban decay in Chicago -- and cities across the nationThe "pr...

Reducere. 1. Dreams So Real 2. Ictus-Syndrome 3. Jesus Maria 4. Vox Humana 5. Doctor 6. Intermission Music

Reducere. An electrifying story of the sensational murder trial that divided a city and ignited the civil rights struggleIn 1925, Detroit was a smoky swirl o...

Reducere. One of the largest and fastest-growing cities in the South, Charlotte, North Carolina, came of age in the New South decades of the late nineteenth ...

Reducere. Elijah Anderson, called "one of our best urban ethnographers" by the New York Times Book Review, introduces the concept of the "cosmopolitan canopy...

Reducere. Berkeley linguistics professor John McWhorter, born at the dawn of the post-Civil Rights era, spent years trying to make sense of this question. No...

Reducere. Throughout the twentieth century, African Americans challenged segregation at amusement parks, swimming pools, and skating rinks not only in pursui...

Reducere. We all know those stories that are too bizarre to be true roasted babies, vanishing hitchhikers, scuba divers in trees but have you heard about the...

This book enables practitioners to understand why it is important to consider the needs of people from black and minority ethnic (BME) backgrounds ...

Reducere. Although the Civil War marked an end to slavery in the United States, it would take another fifty years to establish the country's civil rights mov...

This critical and inclusive edited collection offers an overview of the musical in relation to issues of race, culture and identity. Bringing toget...

Reducere. (Berklee Press). Winner "Best Book of the Year" 2014 award from the Jazz Journalists Association. In Learning to Listen, Gary Burton shares his 50 ...

Reducere. From the beet fields of North Dakota to the National Forest campgrounds of California to Amazon's CamperForce program in Texas, employers have disc...

This work throws new light on the nature and origins of ideas of racial difference. It reconstructs the evolution of the modern discourse of race a...

A Change is Gonna Come chronicles more than forty years of black music: from the hopeful, angry refrains of the Freedom movement to the slick pop o...

Adopting an ethnographic approach in the study of community participation and power and the significance of 'race' in three ethnically diverse neig...

Today, race seems to be both everywhere and nowhere. There still exists a general abhorrence about discriminating between people according to their...

Music listeners today can effortlessly flip from K-pop to Ravi Shankar to Amadou & Mariam with a few quick clicks of a mouse. While contemporary gl...

Combines ethnographic research with music, media, and policy analysis to examine how localized forms of hip hop create social and political spaces ...

Creation and the new creation are inextricably bound, for the God who created the world is the same God who promises a new heaven and a new earth. ...

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 ...