A Wayfaring Stranger

Author : James Lee Burke
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781476710815

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Wayfaring Stranger by James Lee Burke Pdf

In his most ambitious work yet, New York Times bestseller James Lee Burke tells a classic American story through one man’s unforgettable life. In 1934, sixteen-year-old Weldon Avery Holland happens upon infamous criminals Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow after one of their notorious armed robberies. A confrontation with the outlaws ends with Weldon firing a gun, unsure whether it hit its mark. Ten years later, Second Lieutenant Weldon Holland barely survives the Battle of the Bulge, in the process saving the lives of his sergeant, Hershel Pine, and a young Spanish prisoner of war, Rosita Lowenstein—a woman who holds the same romantic power over him as the strawberry blonde Bonnie Parker, and is equally mysterious. The three return to Texas where Weldon and Hershel get in on the ground floor of the nascent oil business. In just a few years’ time Weldon will spar with the jackals of the industry, rub shoulders with dangerous men, and win and lose fortunes twice over. But it is the prospect of losing his one true love that will spur his most reckless act yet—one inspired by that encounter long ago with the outlaws of his youth. A tender love story and pulse-pounding thriller, Wayfaring Stranger “is a sprawling historical epic full of courage and loyalty and optimism and good-heartedness that reads like an ode to the American Dream” (Benjamin Percy, Poets & Writers).

Author : Fiona Ritchie,Doug Orr
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781469666273

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Wayfaring Strangers by Fiona Ritchie,Doug Orr Pdf

From the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries, a steady stream of Scots migrated to Ulster and eventually onward across the Atlantic to resettle in the United States. Many of these Scots-Irish immigrants made their way into the mountains of the southern Appalachian region. They brought with them a wealth of traditional ballads and tunes from the British Isles and Ireland, a carrying stream that merged with sounds and songs of English, German, Welsh, African American, French, and Cherokee origin. Their enduring legacy of music flows today from Appalachia back to Ireland and Scotland and around the globe. Ritchie and Orr guide readers on a musical voyage across oceans, linking people and songs through centuries of adaptation and change.

Author : Burl Ives
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781787204898

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Wayfaring Stranger by Burl Ives Pdf

First published in 1948, this autobiography from Burl Ives, whom Carl Sandberg calls “the greatest folk ballad singer of them all,” is as fresh and wholesome as a summer’s breeze out of an Illinois cornfield. His ballads have long been an authentic expression of his land and its people—songs his grandmother taught him in the Midwestern farm country, songs remembered by old-timers in small towns all over the land, songs he heard hobos singing—songs we have come to know and love. In Wayfaring Stranger, writing in the stirring imaginative language of the ballad, Burt Ives tells of a night spent in a haystack with a pig, and of a brief fight with a railroad cop on top of a boxcar. He hitched a ride with Al Capone’s master bootlegger; he barely escaped the clutches of an old maid in Maine; he fell in love on a Great Lakes steamer; he played for evangelists and politicians; in speakeasies and public parks. Always he listened to the people, and he learned their songs. Anywhere he could get an audience, he sang his ballads: Barbara Allen, The Riddle Song, Fair Eleanor, Old Smokey, Silver Dagger, Foggy Foggy Dew. Now in Wayfaring Stranger, he has written his own story—as warm and appealing as the songs he sings. “It’s a fine book, warm, and full-bided, like Burl himself. Burl gives the reader the combination which is in everything he sings: a sense of dignity without pretentiousness, of simplicity without sentimentality. He makes the folk feeling richly alive. Some of his little character sketches remind me of the unforgettable etchings in Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg. In short, Burl tells stories just the way he plays and sings—naturally, unaffectedly, poignantly.”—Louis Untermeyer

Author : Emma John
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : Music
ISBN : 1474606857

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Wayfaring Stranger by Emma John Pdf

Can you feel nostalgic for a life you've never known? Suffused with her much-loved warmth and wit, Emma John's memoir follows her moving and memorable journey to master one of the hardest musical styles on earth - and to find her place in an alien world. Emma had fallen out of love with her violin when a chance trip to the American South introduced her to bluegrass music. Classically trained, highly strung and wedded to London life, Emma was about as country as a gin martini. So why did it feel like a homecoming? Answering that question takes Emma deep into the Appalachian mountains, where she uncovers a hidden culture that confounds every expectation - and learns some emotional truths of her own.

Author : Veronika Kusz
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-21
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780520301832

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A Wayfaring Stranger by Veronika Kusz Pdf

On March 10, 1948, world-renowned composer and pianist Ernst von Dohnányi (1877−1960) embarked for the United States, leaving Europe for good. Only a few years earlier, the seventy-year-old Hungarian had been a triumphant, internationally admired musician and leading figure in Hungarian musical life. Fleeing a political smear campaign that sought to implicate him in intellectual collaboration with fascism, he reached American shores without a job or a home. A Wayfaring Stranger presents the final period in Dohnányi’s exceptional career and uses a range of previously unavailable material to reexamine commonly held beliefs about the musician and his unique oeuvre. Offering insights into his life as a teacher, pianist, and composer, the book also considers the difficulties of émigré life, the political charges made against him, and the compositional and aesthetic dilemmas faced by a conservative artist. To this rich biographical account, Veronika Kusz adds an in-depth examination of Dohnányi’s late works—in most cases the first analyses to appear in musicological literature. This corrective history provides never-before-seen photographs of the musician’s life in the United States and skillfully illustrates Dohnányi’s impact on European and American music and the culture of the time.

Author : Curt Iles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0982649223

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The Wayfaring Stranger by Curt Iles Pdf

Bursting forth from the Louisiana Piney Woods is Deep Roots, a collection of short stories from author Curt Iles. In the warm and touching style loved by readers of his previous books, Iles weaves stories of the people, places, and history of rural Louisiana. PLEASE CHANGE TO: In the book that solidified his reputation as a storyteller, Curt Iles released his sixth book, The Wayfaring Stranger. Based on family stories of his great-great-great grandparents, Iles fashions the story of Joseph Moore, an Irish stowaway, searching for freedom and peace. Moore ventures to Louisiana's "No Man's Land" during the turbulent 1850's. While making a new life, he meets Eliza Clark, a young woman with deep roots in the piney woods. The Wayfaring Stranger is the story of how their lives intersect in the pioneer wilderness of mid-nineteenth century Louisiana. It is a riveting tale that will grip readers from its opening scene to dramatic ending.

Author : Veronika Kusz
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-21
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780520972261

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A Wayfaring Stranger by Veronika Kusz Pdf

On March 10, 1948, world-renowned composer and pianist Ernst von Dohnányi (1877−1960) embarked for the United States, leaving Europe for good. Only a few years earlier, the seventy-year-old Hungarian had been a triumphant, internationally admired musician and leading figure in Hungarian musical life. Fleeing a political smear campaign that sought to implicate him in intellectual collaboration with fascism, he reached American shores without a job or a home. A Wayfaring Stranger presents the final period in Dohnányi’s exceptional career and uses a range of previously unavailable material to reexamine commonly held beliefs about the musician and his unique oeuvre. Offering insights into his life as a teacher, pianist, and composer, the book also considers the difficulties of émigré life, the political charges made against him, and the compositional and aesthetic dilemmas faced by a conservative artist. To this rich biographical account, Veronika Kusz adds an in-depth examination of Dohnányi’s late works—in most cases the first analyses to appear in musicological literature. This corrective history provides never-before-seen photographs of the musician’s life in the United States and skillfully illustrates Dohnányi’s impact on European and American music and the culture of the time.

Author : Church Publishing
Publisher : Church Publishing, Inc.
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1993-01-21
Category : Music
ISBN : 0898692393

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Lift Every Voice and Sing II Accompaniment Edition by Church Publishing Pdf

This popular collection of 280 musical pieces from both the African American and Gospel traditions has been compiled under the supervision of the Office of Black Ministries of the Episcopal Church. It includes service music and several psalm settings in addition to the Negro spirituals, Gospel songs, and hymns.

Author : Shrshtee Choudhary
Publisher : Clever Fox Publishing
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-20
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Wayfaring Strangers by Shrshtee Choudhary Pdf

This debuting book of the author captures the essense of lively hood in a spectacular manner, What's in a mind of a young girl about loss, death, heartbreak, love, grief, rage, with such vivid imagary and refferances of the sun and the moon along with the stars and witches, blood, and violence in an melodic epifany that is likely to resonate with its readers A poundaring of beauty, death, life and morality and truely A journey from start to end.

Author : R. J. Stevens,Dane K. Shepard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 758 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1987-03-01
Category : Hymns, English
ISBN : 0962061506

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Hymns for Worship by R. J. Stevens,Dane K. Shepard Pdf

Author : Richard Tillinghast
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 51 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0985026065

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Wayfaring Stranger by Richard Tillinghast Pdf

Author : Amy Raphael
Publisher : Virago
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Music
ISBN : 0349009848

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A Seat at the Table by Amy Raphael Pdf

'Fascinating and illuminating' STYLIST 'Perceptive and candid' IRISH TIMES 'Wide-ranging, deep-dive, soul-baring interviews, full of candid, intimate, spiky meditations on inspiration, artistry, sexuality, race, love, self-doubt, abuse, defiance and everything in between' OBSERVER 'Variously optimistic, troubling, joyful, illuminating, fierce and thoughtful' GUARDIAN INTERVIEWS WITH WOMEN ON THE FRONTLINE OF MUSIC Writer and critic Amy Raphael has interviewed some of the world's most iconic musicians, including Courtney Love, Patti Smith, Björk, Kurt Cobain and Elton John. In 1995 she wrote the critically-acclaimed Never Mind the Bollocks: Women Rewrite Rock, which included a foreword by Debbie Harry. More than two decades on, the music business has changed, but the way women are regarded has not. In this new book, A Seat at the Table, Raphael interviews eighteen women who work in the music industry about learning to speak out, #MeToo, social media, queer politics and the subtleness of everyday misogyny. Featuring interviews with: CHRISTINE & THE QUEENS, IBEYI, KATE TEMPEST, ALISON MOYET, NADINE SHAH, JESSICA CURRY, MAGGIE ROGERS, EMMY THE GREAT, DREAM WIFE, NATALIE MERCHANT, LAUREN MAYBERRY, POPPY AJUDHA, KALIE SHORR, TRACEY THORN, MITSKI, CATHERINE MARKS, GEORGIA, CLARA AMFO

Author : James Lee Burke
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781982183448

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Wayfaring Stranger by James Lee Burke Pdf

"In 1934, sixteen-year-old Weldon Avery Holland encounters Bonnie and Clyde after one of their notorious armed robberies. Weldon is smitten by Bonnie, but a confrontation with the outlaws ends with Weldon firing a gun, unsure whether it hit its mark. Ten years later, Weldon barely survives the Battle of the Bulge, in the process saving the lives of his sergeant and a young Spanish prisoner of war, Rosita Lowenstein -- a woman who holds the same romantic power over him as Bonnie Parker. The three return to Texas, where Weldon gets in on the ground floor of the nascent oil business. In just a few years' time Weldon will spar with the jackals of the industry, rub shoulders with dangerous men, and win and lose fortunes twice over. But it is the prospect of losing his one true love that will spur his most reckless act yet -- one inspired by that encounter long ago with the outlaws of his youth." -- From back cover.

Author : Burl 1909-1995 Ives
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1013326067

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Wayfaring Stranger by Burl 1909-1995 Ives Pdf

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Author : Emma John
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781474606868

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Wayfaring Stranger by Emma John Pdf

Can you feel nostalgic for a life you've never known? Suffused with her much-loved warmth and wit, Emma John's memoir follows her moving and memorable journey to master one of the hardest musical styles on earth - and to find her place in an alien world. Emma had fallen out of love with her violin when a chance trip to the American South introduced her to bluegrass music. Classically trained, highly strung and wedded to London life, Emma was about as country as a gin martini. So why did it feel like a homecoming? Answering that question takes Emma deep into the Appalachian mountains, where she uncovers a hidden culture that confounds every expectation - and learns some emotional truths of her own.