Monkey House Blues

Author : Dominic Stevenson
Publisher : Random House
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781845968854

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Monkey House Blues by Dominic Stevenson Pdf

In 1993, Dominic Stevenson left a comfortable life with his girlfriend in Kyoto, Japan, to travel to China. His journey took him to some of the most inhospitable and dangerous places in the world, from the poppy fields of the Afghan-Pakistan border to the ancient trade routes of the Silk Road, before he was arrested for drug smuggling while boarding a boat from Shanghai to Japan. After eight months on remand in a Chinese police lock-up, Stevenson was sentenced to two and a half years in one of the biggest prisons in the world, the Shanghai Municipal Prison aka 'The Monkey House'. There, he was imprisoned alongside just five westerners amongst five thousand Chinese criminals in a block for death row inmates and political prisoners, where the guards drank green tea and let the prison run itself. The experience led him to reflect on his previous life in Japan, India and Thailand, during which time he took on a varied array of jobs, including English teacher, karaoke-bar host, factory worker, busker, crystal seller and dope smuggler. From Afghan gun shops to Tibetan monasteries, Thai brothels and the stirrings of the rave culture in Goa, Monkey House Blues is a tale of discovery and rediscovery, of friendship and betrayal.

Author : Stephen Taylor
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0810856565

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Fats Waller on the Air by Stephen Taylor Pdf

Radio and television broadcasts are an essential component in the career of jazz musician Thomas "Fats" Waller. The medium suited his character well, allowing his friendly, energetic personality to shine through. This book meticulously documents Waller's on-air appearances: from his first known broadcast in 1923 at age 19 to the final airing before his premature death in 1943. Fats Waller On The Air: The Radio Broadcasts and Discography adds another dimension to the life of this dynamic performer. Author Stephen Taylor combines established material with fresh research, resulting in a wealth of new information. The broadcasts, including tributes to Waller after his death, are covered in detail, featuring dates, times, songs played, and other artists who appeared on the program. Through descriptions from contemporary newspapers and magazines, accounts from individuals who were in attendance, and remarks by radio announcers from original transcripts, the book provides historical perspective and a clear sense of the character and feel of the broadcasts. The book also offers a timechart of early sound recording and radio transcriptions, allowing easy comparison of Waller's presence in the field. Never before published photos and a thorough, accurate discography-including 78 and 45 rpm records, transcriptions, LPs, CDs, and DVDs-make this an important reference tool for fans of Fats Waller, jazz music, stride piano, black social history, and broadcast history.

Author : John L. Clark Jr.
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781438491561

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Blues on Stage by John L. Clark Jr. Pdf

Blues on Stage presents a new history of the development of the "Classic Blues" of the 1920s, offering a comprehensive review of various Black singers who recorded and were influential in this era, including Bessie Smith, Trixie Smith, Butterbeans and Susie, and Ma Rainey. The business of music recording and publishing, including songwriting and touring theater circuits, is explored as part of the narrative of how and when these artists became nationally popular. The most highly regarded singers of this period were not folk or rural artists, but rather highly experienced stage professionals whose careers often extended two decades or more prior to their first recordings. These artists, some of the most famous acts on the Black vaudeville and tent show circuits, were preceded in the recording studio by many cabaret and nightclub singers with a different entertainment perspective and were followed by artists who came from a more rural, less professional background. For anyone interested in the roots of jazz and blues, Blues on Stage offers a new and comprehensive introduction to the development of this American musical style.

Author : Christopher Sergel
Publisher : Dramatic Publishing
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Drama
ISBN : 087129575X

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Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.'s Welcome to the Monkey House by Christopher Sergel Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:917911442

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Welcome to the Monkey House by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105017281291

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"Fats" in Fact by Anonim Pdf

Author : Patrick Huber
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10-20
Category : Music
ISBN : 0807886785

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Linthead Stomp by Patrick Huber Pdf

Contrary to popular belief, the roots of American country music do not lie solely on southern farms or in mountain hollows. Rather, much of this music recorded before World War II emerged from the bustling cities and towns of the Piedmont South. No group contributed more to the commercialization of early country music than southern factory workers. In Linthead Stomp, Patrick Huber explores the origins and development of this music in the Piedmont's mill villages. Huber offers vivid portraits of a colorful cast of Piedmont millhand musicians, including Fiddlin' John Carson, Charlie Poole, Dave McCarn, and the Dixon Brothers, and considers the impact that urban living, industrial work, and mass culture had on their lives and music. Drawing on a broad range of sources, including rare 78-rpm recordings and unpublished interviews, Huber reveals how the country music recorded between 1922 and 1942 was just as modern as the jazz music of the same era. Linthead Stomp celebrates the Piedmont millhand fiddlers, guitarists, and banjo pickers who combined the collective memories of the rural countryside with the upheavals of urban-industrial life to create a distinctive American music that spoke to the changing realities of the twentieth-century South.

Author : Clifford Kinney Rorrer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Country musicians
ISBN : UVA:X004767283

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Rambling Blues by Clifford Kinney Rorrer Pdf

Author : JoAnne Yarrow
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 31 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1729483755

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Monkey Blues by JoAnne Yarrow Pdf

A kind-hearted little girl meets a seemingly "rude" monkey (or baboon) but quickly learns it's really a sad monkey (or baboon) and uses sympathy and kindness to make a new friend. A fun children's book with colorful and vibrant artwork that tells a charming little story about kindness and compassion.

Author : Robert M. W. Dixon,John Godrich,Howard Rye
Publisher : Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press
Page : 1842 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : UOM:39015040335831

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Blues & Gospel Records, 1890-1943 by Robert M. W. Dixon,John Godrich,Howard Rye Pdf

Since its first edition, in 1964, Dixon and Godrich's Blues and Gospel Records has been dubbed 'the bible' for collectors of pre-war African-American music. It provides an exhaustive listing of all recordings made up to the end of 1943 in a distinctively African-American musical style,excluding those customarily classed as jazz (which are the subject of separate discographies). The book covers recordings made for the commercial market (whether issued at the time or not) and also recordings made for the Library of Congress Archive of Folk Song and similar bodies -- about 20,000titles in all, by more than 3,000 artists. For each recording session, full details are given of: artist credit, accompaniment, place and date of recording, titles, issuing company and catalogue numbers, matrix numbers and alternate takes. There are also short accounts of the major 'race labels',which recorded blues and gospel material, and a complete list of field trips to the south by travelling recording units. Howard Rye has joined the original compilers for this thoroughly revised fourth edition. The scope has been enlarged by the addition of about 150 new artists, in addition tonewly discovered recordings by other artists. Early cylinder recordings of gospel music, from the 1890s, are also included for the first time. Previous editions of this work were applauded for their completeness, accuracy, and reliability. This has now been enhanced by the addition of newinformation from record labels and from record company files, and by listening to a wide selection of titles, and detailed cross-checking.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780786472383

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Black Recording Artists, 1877-1926 by Anonim Pdf

This annotated discography covers the first 50 years of audio recordings by black artists in chronological order, music made in the "acoustic era" of recording technology. The book has cross-referenced bibliographical information on recording sessions, including audio sources for extant material, and appendices on field recordings; Caribbean, Mexican and South American recordings; piano rolls performed by black artists; and a filmography detailing the visual record of black performing artists from the period. Indexes contain all featured artists, titles recorded and labels.

Author : Benj DeMott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351486521

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That Floating Bridge by Benj DeMott Pdf

Alive to history in the making (and the weight of the past) this volume examines Obama's presidency and Lyndon Johnson's, the killing of Trayvon Martin and the death of Andrew Breitbart, Occupy Wall Street and "America Beyond Capitalism." It presents essays, poems, and plays that speak to our times and challenge the liberal imagination. The title, That Floating Bridge, evokes Representative John Lewis' line"Obama is what comes at the end of that bridge in Selma"as it quotes a track on Gregg Allman's Low Country Blues, which Scott Spencer lauds here in a review for the Ages.That Floating Bridge's peerless range of contributors includes Amiri Baraka, Gar Alperovitz, Bernard Avishai, Uri Avnery, Bill Ayers, Paul Berman, John Chernoff, Mark Dudzic, Carmelita Estrellita, Henry Farrell, Fr. Rick Frechette, Donna Gaines, David Golding, Eugene Goodheart, Lawrence Goodwyn, Lisa Guenther, Alec Harrington, Malcolm Harris, Casey Hayden, Christopher Hayes, Patterson Hood, Roxane Johnson, Ben Kessler, Bob Levin, Philip Levine, Bongani Madondo, Greil Marcus, Scott McLemee, Judy Oppenheimer, Jedediah Purdy, Nick Salvatore, Aram Saroyan, Tom Smucker, Fredric Smoler, Violet Socks, A. B. Spellman, Scott Spencer, Richard Torres, Jesmyn Ward, and Pablo Yglesias.An account of how Franz Boas "did more to combat race prejudice than any other person" anchorsone section, but the volume also addresses devolutions of "diversity" linked with careerism in the art world and academe. An un-scholastic section titled "Criticism of Life"celebrates older and younger critics/poets. Songs are key to this volume's good times. Music writingranging from Eddie Hinton's Very Extremely Dangerous to Berlioz's Romeo and Julietenhances the pleasures of this text.

Author : Ross Laird
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 762 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1996-11-25
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780313370052

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Moanin' Low by Ross Laird Pdf

The first comprehensive guide to pre-1934 female popular vocal recordings sung in English—from around the world and including all styles—this discographical study includes solos, duets, trios, and quartets composed by the great songwriters of the early 1900s (from Irving Berlin to Victor Young). The majority of the listings includes material that has not been previously published, and a large number of entries profile such prolific artists as Helen Clark and Gladys Rice, who are not in previous discographies. A special feature includes data on sound-on-disc recording made for early talking-picture musical shorts (especially by Vitaphone) that is not documented elsewhere. A comprehensive title index includes composer credits for the majority of the titles listed. The first comprehensive guide to pre-1934 female popular vocal recordings sung in English—from around the world and including all styles—this discographical study includes solos, duets, trios, and quartets composed by the great songwriters of the early 1900s (from Irving Berlin to Victor Young). The majority of the listings includes material that has not been previously published, and a large number of entries profile such prolific artists as Helen Clark and Gladys Rice, who are not in previous discographies. A special feature includes data on sound-on-disc recording made for early talking-picture musical shorts (especially by Vitaphone) that is not documented elsewhere. A comprehensive title index includes composer credits for the majority of the titles listed. Many of the records documented in this volume are by the artists who introduced these songs at this time or who performed them in the original productions of the shows or movies for which they were written. The singing styles include those of cabaret performers, music-hall and vaudeville acts. Songs for the stage, screen, and radio are also included.

Author : Will Jacks
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-25
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781496825353

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Po' Monkey's by Will Jacks Pdf

Outside of Merigold, Mississippi, off an unmarked dirt road, stands Po’ Monkey’s, perhaps the most famous house in Mississippi and the last rural juke joint in the state, now closed to the public. Before the death of the lounge’s owner, Willie Seaberry, in 2016, it was a mandatory stop on the constant blues pilgrimage that flows through the Delta. Seaberry ran Po’ Monkey’s Lounge for more than fifty years, opening his juke joint in the 1960s. A hand-built tenant home located on the plantation where Seaberry worked, Po’ Monkey’s was a place to listen to music and drink beer—a place to relax where everyone was welcomed by Seaberry’s infectious charm. In Po’ Monkey’s: Portrait of a Juke Joint, photographer Will Jacks captures the juke joint he spent a decade patronizing. The more than seventy black-and-white photographs featured in this volume reflect ten years of weekly visits to the lounge as a regular—a journal of Jacks’s encounters with other customers, tourists, and Willie Seaberry himself. An essay by award-winning writer Boyce Upholt on the cultural significance of the lounge accompanies the images. This volume explores the difficulties of preservation, historical context, community relations, and cultural tourism. Now that Seaberry is gone, the uncertainty of the future of his juke joint highlights the need for a historical record.

Author : Brian Rust,Malcolm Shaw
Publisher : Denver, Colo. : Mainspring Press
Page : 1024 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015056677597

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Jazz and Ragtime Records, 1897-1942 by Brian Rust,Malcolm Shaw Pdf

Reinforced cloth library binding, no dust jacket, individual shrinkwrap