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Author : Paul Tingen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Music
ISBN : 0823083608
Presents an in-depth exploration of the musician's controversial electric period and the impact it had on the jazz community, as drawn from firsthand recollections about his artistic and personal life. Reprint.
Author : Howard Mandel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010-04-26
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781135886363
Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman, and Cecil Taylor revolutionized music from the end of the twentieth century into the twenty-first, expanding on jazz traditions with distinctly new concepts of composition, improvisation, instrumentation, and performance. They remain figures of controversy due to their border-crossing processes. Miles, Ornette, Cecil is the first book to connect these three icons of the avant-garde, examining why they are lionized by some critics and reviled by others, while influencing musicians across such divides as genre, geography, and racial and ethnic backgrounds. Mandel offers fresh insights into their careers from interviews with all three artists and many of their significant collaborators, as well as a thorough overview of earlier interpretations of their work.
Author : George Cole
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2007-07-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 0472032607
The story of the final recordings of one of the greatest jazz musicians of the twentieth century
Author : Carol Ann Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1504984757
Beyond the Miles is a fiction story about two people of different ethnicity growing up in the South in the '50s, where the only communication between blacks and whites was that blacks worked for whites either as domestics or in the cotton fields. The characters of this story are two young people that grew up in the same rural community, but because of segregation in the South, they had no interaction. They both relocated to the North and, as fate would have it, became a part of the same social circle and fell in love. This story shows that love is so powerful it expands beyond all barriers and overcomes all obstacles, including racism. It shows just how damaging racism is and how we as a society have to find a way to overcome racism.
Author : Leon McCarron
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781786732842
Shortlisted for the Adventure Travel Book of the Year at the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards. There are many reasons why it might seem unwise to walk, mostly alone, through the Middle East. That, in part, is exactly why Leon McCarron did it. From Jerusalem, McCarron followed a series of wild hiking trails that trace ancient trading and pilgrimage routes and traverse some of the most contested landscapes in the world. In the West Bank, he met families struggling to lead normal lives amidst political turmoil and had a surreal encounter with the world's oldest and smallest religious sect. In Jordan, he visited the ruins of Hellenic citadels and trekked through the legendary Wadi Rum. His journey culminated in the vast deserts of the Sinai, home to Bedouin tribes and haunted by the ghosts of Biblical history. The Land Beyond is a journey through time, from the quagmire of current geopolitics to the original ideals of the faithful, through the layers of history, culture and religion that have shaped the Holy Land. But at its heart, it is the story of people, not politics and of the connections that can bridge seemingly insurmountable barriers.
Author : Quincy Troupe
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2000-03-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0520216245
Quincy Troupe's candid account of his friendship with Miles Davis is a revealing portrait of a great musician and an intimate study of a unique relationship. It is also an engrossing chronicle of the author's own development, both artistic and personal. As Davis's collaborator on Miles: The Autobiography,Troupe--one of the major poets to emerge from the 1960s--had exceptional access to the musician. This memoir goes beyond the life portrayed in the autobiography to describe in detail the processes of Davis's spectacular creativity and the joys and difficulties his passionate, contradictory temperament posed to the men's friendship. It shows how Miles Davis, both as a black man and an artist, influenced not only Quincy Troupe but whole generations. Troupe has written that Miles Davis was "irascible, contemptuous, brutally honest, ill-tempered when things didn't go his way, complex, fair-minded, humble, kind and a son-of-a-bitch." The author's love and appreciation for Davis make him a keen, though not uncritical, observer. He captures and conveys the power of the musician's presence, the mesmerizing force of his personality, and the restless energy that lay at the root of his creativity. He also shows Davis's lighter side: cooking, prowling the streets of Manhattan, painting, riding his horse at his Malibu home. Troupe discusses Davis's musical output, situating his albums in the context of the times--both political and musical--out of which they emerged. Miles and Me is an unparalleled look at the act of creation and the forces behind it, at how the innovations of one person can inspire both those he knows and loves and the world at large.
Author : avid,,Miles Richardson†
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857452184
The globalization of Christianity, its spread and appeal to peoples of non- European origin, is by now a well-known phenomenon. Scholars increasingly realize the importance of natives rather than foreign missionaries in the process of evangelization. This volume contributes to the understanding of this process through case studies of encounters with Christianity from the perspectives of the indigenous peoples who converted. More importantly, by exploring overarching, general terms such as conversion and syncretism and by showing the variety of strategies and processes that actually take place, these studies lead to a more nuanced understanding of cross-cultural religious interactions in general-from acceptance to resistance-thus enriching the vocabulary of religious interaction. The contributors tackle these issues from a variety of disciplinary perspectives-history, anthropology, religious studies-and present a broad geographical spread of cases from China, Vietnam, Australia, India, South and West Africa, North and Central America, and the Caribbean.
Author : Hal Koerner
Publisher : VeloPress
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781937716592
Ultramarathons don’t leave much room for mistakes. Don’t learn the hard way: get a jump on training for an ultramarathon with Hal Koerner’s Field Guide to Ultrarunning, a comprehensive handbook to running 30 to 100 miles and beyond, written by one of the most experienced and recognized athletes in the sport. Hal Koerner is among America’s best ultrarunners with podium results in more than 90 ultramarathons. In his smart, down-to-earth handbook, Koerner shares hard-earned wisdom, field-tested habits, and insider tips to help you prepare for your ultra. You’ll find guidance on exactly what you need to know to prepare for ultramarathon, including: best gear for ultrarunning fueling and hydration guidelines choosing an ultra trail-running technique first-aid advice beating altitude, storms, and heat race-day game plans crew and pacer tips mental strategies to get you to the finish line The guide offers three detailed training plans to prepare for 50K, 50-mile to 100K, and 100-mile ultramarathons. Start your ultra with confidence and finish it strong with Hal Koerner’s Field Guide to Ultrarunning!
Author : Anthony Sawrey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0646999699
HUGH Sawrey (1919-1999) was one of Australia's most well-known artists during his lifetime. In a professional career that spanned nearly 35 years, he produced an enormous volume of work depicting scenes of the outback and the pastoral industries that operated there.From the time he left school, his formative years were taken up with a succession of low paying itinerant jobs across rural Australia. From shearing to stock work, he experienced first-hand many of the subjects he later included on his canvases. While his creative abilities were evident from the outset, drawing and painting could only be conducted in downtime, often with rudimentary materials, and he never had the opportunity to properly develop his craft until well into his 40s. However, by the 1960s Hugh Sawrey managed to acquire some formal training and presented his first solo show in Brisbane in 1965. His works struck a chord with local collectors and he quickly found recognition. Interest continued to build in his work over subsequent years and this allowed him to develop and hone the quality of his output. From the very start, horses were the foundation stones of many of his representations of rural life and early 20th century society. And over time he focused his painting abilities on their representation in ever more dynamic and expressive ways. Today, 20 years after his death, it is the depiction of the horse that is his most enduring legacy in the world of art. During his life there were few Australian artists that could match his abilities to capture the weight, strength and personality of the horse and their symbiotic relationship to people. And today, long after working horses have been largely replaced by machinery, the equine paintings of Hugh Sawrey stand as one of Australian Art's most extensive contributions to this historical genre. A thousand Miles Beyond showcases a wide range of equine themed work covering his professional working life from 1965 to 1991 and includes a detailed essay placing his works in a larger Australian visual art context. Edited by Anthony Sawrey.
Author : Amanda Leduc
Publisher : Random House Canada
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780735272866
Amanda Leduc's brilliant new novel, woven with fairy tales of her own devising and replete with both catastrophe and magic, is a vision of what happens when we ignore the natural world and the darker parts of our own natures. Heather is sleeping peacefully after the birth of her twin daughters when the sound of the world ending jolts her awake. Stumbling outside with her babies and her new husband, Brendan, she finds that their city has been destroyed by falling meteors and that her little family are among only a few who survived. But the mountain that looms over the city is still green--somehow it has been spared the destruction that has brought humanity to the brink of extinction. Heather is one of the few who know the mountain, a place city-dwellers have always been forbidden to go. Her dad took her up the mountain when she was a child on a misguided quest to heal her legs, damaged at birth. The tragedy that resulted has shaped her life, bringing her both great sorrow and an undying connection to the deep magic of the mountain, made real by the beings she and her dad encountered that day: Estajfan, a centaur born of sorrow and of an ancient, impossible love, and his two siblings, marooned between the magical and the human world. Even as those in the city around her--led by Tasha, a charismatic doctor who fled to the city from the coast with her wife and other refugees--struggle to keep everyone alive, Heather constantly looks to the mountain, drawn by love, by fear, by the desire for rescue. She is torn in two by her awareness of what unleashed the meteor shower and what is coming for the few survivors, once the green and living earth makes a final reckoning of the usefulness of human life and finds it wanting. At times devastating, but ultimately redemptive, Amanda Leduc's fable for our uncertain times reminds us that the most important things in life aren't things at all, but rather the people we want by our side at the end of the world.
Author : Joanna Mossop
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-22
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780191078699
Under the United Nations Law of the Sea Convention, States have sovereign rights over the resources of their continental shelf out to 200 nautical miles from the coast. Where the physical shelf extends beyond 200 nautical miles, States may exercise rights over those resources to the outer limits of the continental shelf. More than 80 States may be entitled to claim sovereign rights over their continental shelf where it extends beyond 200 nautical miles from their coast, and the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf is currently examining many of these claims. This book examines the nature of the rights and obligations of coastal States in this area, with a particular focus on the options for regulating activities on the extended continental shelf. Because the extended continental shelf lies below the high seas, the area poses unique legal challenges for coastal States that are different from those faced in respect of the shelf within 200 nautical miles. In addition, the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea imposes some specific obligations that coastal States must comply with in respect of the extended continental shelf. The book discusses the development of the concept of the extended continental shelf. It explores a range of issues facing the coastal State in regulating matters such as environmental protection, fishing, bioprospecting, exploitation of non-living resources and marine scientific research on the extended continental shelf. The book proposes a framework for navigating the intersection between the high seas and the extended continental shelf and minimising the potential for conflict between flag and coastal States.
Author : Bjarni Már Magnússon
Publisher : Hotei Publishing
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-07
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004296848
In The Continental Shelf Beyond 200 Nautical Miles Bjarni Már Magnússon explores various aspects of the establishment of the outer limits of the continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles and its interplay with maritime boundary delimitations.
Author : Annabel Bower
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1922405078
Told by Annabel Bower after her fourth child Miles was stillborn, Miles Apart offers heartfelt advice on navigating grief and heartache after the loss of a baby at any stage of pregnancy or infancy.
Author : Charles Edward Hall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Geology
ISBN : PSU:000011242536
Author : Miles Copeland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Espionage
ISBN : 0523006977