Blue Chicago

Author : David Grazian
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2005-11-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 0226305899

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Blue Chicago by David Grazian Pdf

The club is run-down and dimly lit. Onstage, a black singer croons and weeps of heartbreak, fighting back the tears. Wisps of smoke curl through the beam of a single spotlight illuminating the performer. For any music lover, that image captures the essence of an authentic experience of the blues. In Blue Chicago, David Grazian takes us inside the world of contemporary urban blues clubs to uncover how such images are manufactured and sold to music fans and audiences. Drawing on countless nights in dozens of blues clubs throughout Chicago, Grazian shows how this quest for authenticity has transformed the very shape of the blues experience. He explores the ways in which professional and amateur musicians, club owners, and city boosters define authenticity and dish it out to tourists and bar regulars. He also tracks the changing relations between race and the blues over the past several decades, including the increased frustrations of black musicians forced to slog through the same set of overplayed blues standards for mainly white audiences night after night. In the end, Grazian finds that authenticity lies in the eye of the beholder: a nocturnal fantasy to some, an essential way of life to others, and a frustrating burden to the rest. From B.L.U.E.S. and the Checkerboard Lounge to the Chicago Blues Festival itself, Grazian's gritty and often sobering tour in Blue Chicago shows us not what the blues is all about, but why we care so much about that question.

Author : Bette Howland
Publisher : Picador
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1529035856

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Blue in Chicago by Bette Howland Pdf

The bittersweet, sharply observed stories in Blue in Chicago introduce British readers for the first time to Bette Howland, a forgotten great of twentieth-century American fiction, perfect for fans of Lucia Berlin, Lydia Davis and Alice Munroe.

Author : Cara Blue Adams
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781609388133

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You Never Get It Back by Cara Blue Adams Pdf

The linked stories in Cara Blue Adams’s precise and observant collection offer elegantly constructed glimpses of the life of Kate, a young woman from rural New England, moving between her childhood in the countryside of Vermont and her twenties and thirties in the northeast, southwest, and South in pursuit of a vocation, first as a research scientist and later as a writer. Place is a palpable presence: Boston in winter, Maine in summer, Virginia’s lush hillsides, the open New Mexico sky. Along the way, we meet Kate’s difficult bohemian mother and younger sister, her privileged college roommate, and the various men Kate dates as she struggles to define what she wants from the world on her own terms. Wryly funny and shot through with surprising flashes of anger, these smart, dreamy, searching stories show us a young woman grappling with social class, gender, ambition, violence, and the distance between longing and having.

Author : United States Tariff Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1080 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1925
Category : Tariff
ISBN : UOM:39015037177568

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Tariff Informaton Series, No. [1]-39 ... by United States Tariff Commission Pdf

Author : Sean Deveney
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10-02
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780071633857

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The Original Curse: Did the Cubs Throw the 1918 World Series to Babe Ruth's Red Sox and Incite the Black Sox Scandal? by Sean Deveney Pdf

IN THE GRAND TRADITION OF EIGHT MEN OUT . . . the untold story of baseball’s ORIGINAL SCANDAL Did the Chicago Cubs throw the World Series in 1918—and get away with it? Who were the players involved—and why did they do it? Were gambling and corruption more widespread across the leagues than previously believed? Were the players and teams “cursed” by their actions? Finally, is it time to rewrite baseball history? With exclusive access to surprising new evidence, Sporting News reporter Sean Deveney details a scandal at the core of baseball’s greatest folklore—in a golden era as exciting and controversial as our sports world today. This inside look at the pivotal year of 1918 proves that baseball has always been a game overrun with colorful characters, intense human drama, and explosive controversy. "The Original Curse is not just about baseball. It is a sweeping portrait of America at war in 1918. . . . In the end, the proper question is not, ‘How could a player from that era fix the World Series?’ It’s, ‘How could he not?’” —Ken Rosenthal, FOX Sports, from the Introduction "Sean Deveney plays connect-the-dots in this intriguing account of a possible conspiracy to throw the 1918 World Series. Thoroughly researched and well written, The Original Curse is a must-read for baseball fans and anyone who loves a good mystery. Is Max Flack the Shoeless Joe of the 1918 Cubs? Deveney lays out the case and let's readers decide if the fix was in." —Paul Sullivan, Cubs beat writer, Chicago Tribune "This book gives the reader a fun and honest look at baseball as it used to be-- the good guys, the gamblers, the cheaters, the drunks, the inept leaders. But, more than that, it puts those characters into the context of Chicago, Boston and America at the time of World War I, and you wind up with a unique way to explain the motivations of those characters." —David Kaplan, host, Chicago Tribune Live and WGN's Sports Central “Deveney’s painstaking study of the 1918 World Series between the Cubs and Red Sox argues that the Black Sox scandal was not an aberration and might have had an antecedent. Deveney’s scholarship does not detract from his ability to spin a good tale: his tendency to imagine players’ conversations will remind readers of Leigh Montville’s The Big Bam: The Life and Times of Babe Ruth.... A welcome companion to Susan Dellinger’s Red Legs and Black Sox: Edd Roush and the Untold Story of the 1919 World Series, Deveney’s book contributes greatly to our understanding of this decisive period in baseball and American morals." —Library Journal

Author : Becky M. Nicolaides
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2002-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0226583007

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My Blue Heaven by Becky M. Nicolaides Pdf

List of IllustrationsList of TablesAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I. The Quest for Independence, 1920-19401. Building Independence in Suburbia2. Peopling the Subur 3. The Texture of Everyday Life4. The Politics of IndependencePart II. Closing Ranks, 1940-19655. "A Beautiful Place"6. The Suburban Good Life Arrives7. The Racializing of Local PoliticsEpilogueAcronyms for Collections and ArchivesNotes Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Author : Illinois. Office of Inspector of Factories and Workshops
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1902
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433010927741

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Annual Reports by Illinois. Office of Inspector of Factories and Workshops Pdf

Author : Charles Bowden
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1988-04-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0816510814

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Blue Desert by Charles Bowden Pdf

Contains essays that depict and decry the rapid growth and disappearing natural landscapes of the Sunbelt

Author : Travis W. Busey,John W. Busey
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 1911 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011-12-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786456185

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Union Casualties at Gettysburg by Travis W. Busey,John W. Busey Pdf

This reference work chronicles and categorizes more than 23,000 Union casualties at Gettysburg by generals and staff and by state and unit. Thirteen appendices also cover information by brigade, division and corps; by engagements and skirmishes; by state; by burial at three cemeteries; and by hospitals. Casualty transports, incarceration records and civilian casualty lists are also included.

Author : Illinois
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 916 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015067946585

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Reports Made to the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Illinois by Illinois Pdf

Author : Illinois. Office of Secretary of State
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CHI:74644352

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Biennial Report of the Secretary of State of the State of Illinois by Illinois. Office of Secretary of State Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2488 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Gazetteers
ISBN : UIUC:30112074837615

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Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World by Anonim Pdf

Author : Diane Portman-Ray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9359832537

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CHICAGO CODE - BLUE by Diane Portman-Ray Pdf

London First, do no harm... But he hurts me like no other. I left France because there was nothing left for me there. No more school, no more family, nothing. Starting a new life is never easy but I was prepared. I was ready for it. Until I met Dr. Zachary Ford, the tall, dark and tasty curse of my life. He is rough and full of hate...for me, for her, for women in general. But there's something magnetic between us. Visceral. A reaction I didn't believe I was capable of. Zach is my Savior but he'll also be my downfall. He'll break me. Zach I will remember that warmth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh the surgeon's knife... But I can't give her sympathy. I don't want to. The day London walked into my Operation Room was the day everything else went to hell. She's a delicate flower and I'm a brutal man, I should stay away. I should let her walk. But I can't. I need to have this woman, to take her, and to make her shiver under my touch. I will hurt her. And I might even enjoy doing it.

Author : Natasha Kumar Warikoo
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520947795

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Balancing Acts by Natasha Kumar Warikoo Pdf

In this timely examination of children of immigrants in New York and London, Natasha Kumar Warikoo asks, Is there a link between rap/hip-hop-influenced youth culture and motivation to succeed in school? Warikoo challenges teachers, administrators, and parents to look beneath the outward manifestations of youth culture -- the clothing, music, and tough talk -- to better understand the internal struggle faced by many minority students as they try to fit in with peers while working to lay the groundwork for successful lives. Using ethnographic, survey, and interview data in two racially diverse, low-achieving high schools, Warikoo analyzes seemingly oppositional styles, tastes in music, and school behaviors and finds that most teens try to find a balance between success with peers and success in school.

Author : Aaron Lefkovitz
Publisher : Springer
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319770130

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Jimi Hendrix and the Cultural Politics of Popular Music by Aaron Lefkovitz Pdf

This book, on Jimi Hendrix’s life, times, visual-cultural prominence, and popular music, with a particular emphasis on Hendrix’s relationships to the cultural politics of race, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, class, and nation. Hendrix, an itinerant “Gypsy” and “Voodoo child” whose racialized “freak” visual image continues to internationally circulate, exploited the exoticism of his race, gender, and sexuality and Gypsy and Voodoo transnational political cultures and religion. Aaron E. Lefkovitz argues that Hendrix can be located in a legacy of black-transnational popular musicians, from Chuck Berry to the hip hop duo Outkast, confirming while subverting established white supremacist and hetero-normative codes and conventions. Focusing on Hendrix’s transnational biography and centrality to US and international visual cultural and popular music histories, this book links Hendrix to traditions of blackface minstrelsy, international freak show spectacles, black popular music’s global circulation, and visual-cultural racial, gender, and sexual stereotypes, while noting Hendrix’s place in 1960s countercultural, US-exceptionalist, cultural Cold War, and rock histories.