Hear That Train Blow

Author : Peter Richmond
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2007-04-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781466818804

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Fever by Peter Richmond Pdf

The first major biography of the legendary singer—an enthralling accountof a charismatic artist moving through the greatest, most glamorous era of American music "I learned courage from Buddha, Jesus, Lincoln, and Mr. Cary Grant." So said Peggy Lee, the North Dakota girl who sang like she'd just stepped out of Harlem. Einstein adored her; Duke Ellington dubbed her "the Queen." With her platinum cool and inimitable whisper she sold twenty million records, made more money than Mickey Mantle, and along with pals Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby presided over music's greatest generation. Yet beneath the diamonds she was still Norma Delores Egstrom, insecure and always looking for acceptance. Drawing on exclusive interviews and new information, Peter Richmond delivers a complex, compelling portrait of an artist and an era that begins with a girl plagued by loss, her father's alcoholism, and her stepmother's abuse. One day she gets on a train hoping her music will lead her someplace better. It does—to a new town and a new name; to cities and clubs where a gallery of brilliant innovators are ushering in a brand-new beat; to four marriages, a daughter, Broadway, Vegas, and finally Hollywood. Richmond traces how Peggy rose, right along with jazz itself, becoming an unstoppable hit-maker ("Fever," "Mañana," "Is That All There Is?"). We see not only how this unforgettable star changed the rhythms of music, but also how—with her drive to create, compose, and perform—she became an artist whose style influenced k.d. lang, Nora Jones, and Diana Krall. Fever brings the lady alive again—and makes her swing.

Author : Robert Springer
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-23
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781628469967

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Nobody Knows Where the Blues Come From by Robert Springer Pdf

Musicians and music scholars rightly focus on the sounds of the blues and the colorful life stories of blues performers. Equally important and, until now, inadequately studied are the lyrics. The international contributors to Nobody Knows Where the Blues Come From explore this aspect of the blues and establish the significance of African American popular song as a neglected form of oral history. “High Water Everywhere: Blues and Gospel Commentary on the 1927 Mississippi River Flood,” by David Evans, is the definitive study of songs about one of the greatest natural disasters in the history of the United States. In “Death by Fire: African American Popular Music on the Natchez Rhythm Club Fire,” Luigi Monge analyzes a continuum of songs about exclusively African American tragedy. “Lookin’ for the Bully: An Enquiry into a Song and Its Story,” by Paul Oliver traces the origins and the many avatars of the Bully song. In “That Dry Creek Eaton Clan: A North Mississippi Murder Ballad of the 1930s,” Tom Freeland and Chris Smith study a ballad recorded in 1939 by a black convict at Parchman prison farm. “Coolidge’s Blues: African American Blues from the Roaring Twenties” is Guido van Rijn’s survey of blues of that decade. Robert Springer's “On the Electronic Trail of Blues Formulas” presents a number of conclusions about the spread of patterns in blues narratives. In “West Indies Blues: An Historical Overview 1920s-1950s,” John Cowley turns his attention to West Indian songs produced on the American mainland. Finally, in “Ethel Waters: ‘Long, Lean, Lanky Mama,’” Randall Cherry reappraises the early career of this blues and vaudeville singer

Author : MEL BAY
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-24
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781609747558

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Fun with the Mandolin by MEL BAY Pdf

This book presents melodies, lyrics and chord symbols for 22 songs to be enjoyed on the mandolin. Tuning and hand positions are briefly discussed. By the time you finish the book you will be comfortable playing 4/4, 3/4 and 2/4 rhythm chord accompaniments in the three major keys - C, G, and D. All chords are shown in picture-diagram form. Easy to comprehend, even for the absolute beginner. So pick up your mandolin and have fun!

Author : Lucius Beebe,Charles Clegg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Railroads
ISBN : STANFORD:36105005691048

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Hear the Train Blow by Lucius Beebe,Charles Clegg Pdf

Includes information on Promontory Point, the Pacific Railroad, the Union Pacific Railroad, The Central Pacific Railroad, the transcontinental railroad, etc.

Author : Dee Brown
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781453274200

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Hear That Lonesome Whistle Blow by Dee Brown Pdf

“A fascinating story” of the railways that linked America from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (The Washington Post). Hear that Lonesome Whistle Blow unspools the history of the beginnings of the American railroad system. By the mid-nineteenth century, settlers in Missouri and California were separated by a vast landscape that dwarfed and isolated them, conquerable only by “the demonic power of the Iron Horse and its bands of iron track.” Although the building of the great railroad is commonly known as a story of romance, adventure, and progress, it also has a dark side, as profiteers decimated American Indian tribes, exploited workers, and destroyed ecosystems. Despite this, by the turn of the twentieth century, five major railroads would span the continent. This account vividly illustrates the railroad builders’ breathtaking skill, ambition, and ingenuity. . Brown compellingly tells a high-stakes tale, an exhilarating history that still holds lessons for today. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Dee Brown including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.

Author : Stephen Hinton
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780520271777

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Weill's Musical Theater by Stephen Hinton Pdf

“This book, the first scholarly consideration of Weill’s complete output of stage works, is without doubt the most important critical study of the composer’s oeuvre to date in any language. Hinton’s scholarship is superior and his insights original and illuminating. The product of several decades of engagement with Weill’s works, their sources and reception, as well as the secondary literature, the book is a stunning achievement. Brilliantly conceived and executed, it will take its place as one of the cornerstones of Weill studies.”—Kim H. Kowalke, University of Rochester and President, Kurt Weill Foundation for Music “In Weill’s Musical Theater: Stages of Reform, Stephen Hinton reminds us that Kurt Weill was always a revolutionary. The composer’s insistent dedication to a provocative, constantly evolving lyric theater that spoke directly to audiences meant that Weill remained as controversial as he was popular. The celebrity that endeared him to Broadway made him anathema in Berlin. Some sixty years after Weill’s death, Hinton is finally able to demonstrate the consistent brilliance, theatrical power, and coherence of a composer who revolutionized every genre he touched (or used) and whose collaborators read as a who’s who of twentieth-century theater.” —David Savran, author of Highbrow/Lowdown: Theater, Jazz, and the Making of the New Middle Class "Stephen Hinton presents us with an image of Weill that is at once monumental yet still alive. A truly Protean figure, Weill is not an easy man to grasp in his totality; Brecht once wrote that a man thrown into water will have to develop webbed feet, and as a refugee from Nazi Germany, Weill had to become a cultural amphibian. But in Weill's Musical Theater we see the composer from every angle: through the gaze of countless critics and reviewers, through Weill's own eyes, and finally through the filter of Hinton's judicious, focused prose. This account will stand."—Daniel Albright, author of Untwisting the Serpent: Modernism in Music, Literature, and Other Arts

Author : Mallory Hope Ferrell
Publisher : The Overmountain Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1997-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0932807585

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Tweetsie Country by Mallory Hope Ferrell Pdf

Tweetsie Country can be roughly defined as being bound on the north by the Great Depression, on the east by the state of North Carolina, on the west by Tennessee, and on the south by hope and determination. Here is all the color and charm of the Tweetsie, with its broad gauge aspirations on a narrow gauge budget. It is the story of a unique little railroad that traveled the Blue Ridge country and won the hearts of those who lived there. This handsome pictorial history includes 250 outstanding photographs, plus maps, scale drawings, and three full-color paintings by Mike Pearsall and Casey Holtzinger.

Author : William Bay,Tommy Flint
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781609749026

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Easiest Fingerpicking Guitar by William Bay,Tommy Flint Pdf

Fingerpicking accompaniment styles and solo styles for the beginning fingerstyle guitarist. Written in notation and tablature.

Author : Patsy Adam-Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:654969862

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Hear the Train Blow by Patsy Adam-Smith Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Folklore
ISBN : STANFORD:36105016160876

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Mid-America Folklore by Anonim Pdf

Author : Milton Meltzer
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Railroads
ISBN : 0375829229

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Hear that Train Whistle Blow! by Milton Meltzer Pdf

Takes a look at the history of rail transportation, focussing on how it transformed societies from isolated communities which rarely communicated or traded into unified nations.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015031144416

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Singin' Texas by Anonim Pdf

Principally melodies with chord symbols.

Author : Doug Munro,John G. Reid
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781760461447

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Clio’s Lives by Doug Munro,John G. Reid Pdf

Including contributions from leading scholars in the field from both Australia and North America, this collection explores diverse approaches to writing the lives of historians and ways of assessing the importance of doing so. Beginning with the writing of autobiographies by historians, the volume then turns to biographical studies, both of historians whose writings were in some sense nation-defining and those who may be regarded as having had a major influence on defining the discipline of history. The final section explores elements of collective biography, linking these to the formation of historical networks. A concluding essay by Barbara Caine offers a critical appraisal of the study of historians’ biographies and autobiographies to date, and maps out likely new directions for future work. Clio’s Lives is a very good scholarly collection that advances the study of autobiography and biography within the writing of history itself, taking theoretical questions in significant new directions. The contributors are well known and highly respected in the history profession and write with an insight and intellectual energy that will ensure the book has considerable impact. They examine cutting-edge issues about the writing of history at the personal level through autobiography and biography in diverse and innovative ways. Together the writers have provided reflective chapters that will be widely read for their impressive theoretical advances as well as being inspirational for new entrants to the disciplinary area. — Patricia Grimshaw, University of Melbourne Clio’s Lives brings together a most interesting and varied cast of contributors. Its chapters contain sophisticated and well-penned ruminations on the uses of biography and autobiography among historians. These are clearly connected with the general themes of the volume. This delightfully mixed bag makes very good reading and, as well, will serve as a substantial contribution to the study of the biography and autobiography. — Eric Richards, Flinders University

Author : Tiel Aisha Ansari
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780615183947

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Knocking from Inside / Poems by Tiel Aisha Ansari Pdf

KNOCKING FROM INSIDE, BY TIEL AISHA ANSARI, is the journey of the human soul towards the Divine approached through a number of doorways: sorrow, the natural world, and the listening heart. We travel through both real and illusionary lands to (re)join the Beloved at the end of all paths. "When Tiel says 'God' she means it, in all her various ways and fresh poetic stratagems, in these poems in which there are many strata, and in this book which contains many gems." - Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1088 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : MINN:31951D02208966R

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The Southeastern Reporter by Anonim Pdf