Author : David Foxton
Publisher : Nelson Thornes
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2000-11
Category : Drama
ISBN : 017432409X
Sepia and Song
David Foxton
Sepia And Song
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Sepia and Song
David Foxton
Author : David Foxton
Publisher : Players Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 033340923X
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Slumming
Chad Heap
Author : Chad Heap
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2008-11-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226322452
Slumming by Chad Heap Pdf
During Prohibition, “Harlem was the ‘in’ place to go for music and booze,” recalled the African American chanteuse Bricktop. “Every night the limousines pulled up to the corner,” and out spilled affluent whites, looking for a good time, great jazz, and the unmatchable thrill of doing something disreputable. That is the indelible public image of slumming, but as Chad Heap reveals in this fascinating history, the reality is that slumming was far more widespread—and important—than such nostalgia-tinged recollections would lead us to believe. From its appearance as a “fashionable dissipation” centered on the immigrant and working-class districts of 1880s New York through its spread to Chicago and into the 1930s nightspots frequented by lesbians and gay men, Slumming charts the development of this popular pastime, demonstrating how its moralizing origins were soon outstripped by the artistic, racial, and sexual adventuring that typified Jazz-Age America. Vividly recreating the allure of storied neighborhoods such as Greenwich Village and Bronzeville, with their bohemian tearooms, rent parties, and “black and tan” cabarets, Heap plumbs the complicated mix of curiosity and desire that drew respectable white urbanites to venture into previously off-limits locales. And while he doesn’t ignore the role of exploitation and voyeurism in slumming—or the resistance it often provoked—he argues that the relatively uninhibited mingling it promoted across bounds of race and class helped to dramatically recast the racial and sexual landscape of burgeoning U.S. cities. Packed with stories of late-night dance, drink, and sexual exploration—and shot through with a deep understanding of cities and the habits of urban life—Slumming revives an era that is long gone, but whose effects are still felt powerfully today.
Remembered Names
Donley Phillips
Author : Donley Phillips
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781450030656
Remembered Names by Donley Phillips Pdf
ELLINGTON The Duke's patrician mother passed in May of nineteen thirty-fi ve. His calling, even then, was cast, but composing took a nosedive. He fi lled her hearse with fl owers, sorrowing in his solitude. He bore a battleground of powers. Then came, "In a Sentimental Mood." Its dancers took the tune from there, and spread its spell from coast to coast, stepping to it with such style, such fl air that many c1ubbers could but toast. My folks did the fox-trot to his band, in Depression-dizzy Dallas, - Deep Ellum,1 where colored folks could stand. Saw his show in Tyler's Palace.2 Ghost trains would trumpet past our home, passing its porch with Pullman cars that carried white folks to and from towns with names like Texarkana. Those evening trains were lit like stars . . . all the way to Corsicana. My dad would play on our piano, plunking out some boogie's bitter bars. A railroad clerk, he ran with woe, drugging that journey with his gin . . . Born for Christ in nineteen thirty-fi ve, I bear a cross of love within, to help somebody's heart survive. Our darkest years saw Duke's comeback. For Duke would joy his band with jive, trumpeting his "A Train" on Love's track. 1Deep Ellum is on Elm Street in Dallas, Texas. 2the only black theater in Tyler, Texas. October 17, 2009 Remembered Names 139 ON ELLINGTONIA If you dig elegance, his music is your mistress. Take the A Train to dance up in Harlem, with fi nesse, - if only in memory; it's in my solitude, in my soul's reverie. In a sentimental mood I'm moving, I'm praying: "Dear Lord, in heaven above, keep us sweetly swaying to Ellington's deep groove." Johnny Hodges is so hip, - when he swings "Warm Valley,"- that he'll take you on a trip to glory, to God's alley; he'll give you a poet's tip: "It don't mean a thing, man, if it ain't got that swing- a fantasy, black and tan!" Such love is everlasting. The Duke would love you madly! For his sound is so haunting, as we glide to it, gladly. November 9, 2009
The Life and Songs of Stephen Foster
JoAnne O'Connell
Author : JoAnne O'Connell
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-29
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781442253872
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The Life and Songs of Stephen Foster offers an engaging reassessment of the life, politics, and legacy of the misunderstood father of American music. Once revered the world over, Foster’s plantation songs, like “Old Folks at Home” and “My Old Kentucky Home,” fell from grace in the wake of the Civil Rights Movement due to their controversial lyrics. Foster embraced the minstrel tradition for a brief time, refining it and infusing his songs with sympathy for slaves, before abandoning the genre for respectable parlor music. The youngest child in a large family, he grew up in the shadows of a successful older brother and his president brother-in-law, James Buchanan, and walked a fine line between the family’s conservative politics and his own pro-Lincoln sentiments. Foster lived most of his life just outside of industrial, smoke-filled Pittsburgh and wrote songs set in a pastoral South—unsullied by the grime of industry but tarnished by the injustice of slavery. Rather than defining Foster by his now-controversial minstrel songs, JoAnne O’Connell reveals a prolific composer who concealed his true feelings in his lyrics and wrote in diverse styles to satisfy the changing tastes of his generation. In a trenchant reevaluation of his NewYork Bowery years, O’Connell illustrates how Foster purposely abandoned the style for which he was famous to write lighthearted songs for newly popular variety stages and music halls. In the last years of his life, Foster’s new direction in songwriting stood in the vanguard of vaudeville and musical comedy to pave the way for the future of American popular music. His stylistic flexibility in the face of evolving audience preferences not only proves his versatility as a composer but also reveals important changes in the American music and publishing industries. An intimate biography of a complex, controversial, and now neglected composer, The Life and Songs of Stephen Foster is an important story about the father of American music. This invaluable portrait of the political, economic, social, racial, and gender issues of antebellum and Civil War America will appeal to history and music lovers of all generations.
Louisa Waterford and John Ruskin
Caroline Ings-Chambers
Author : Caroline Ings-Chambers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781351559690
Louisa Waterford and John Ruskin by Caroline Ings-Chambers Pdf
Louisa Waterford (1818-91), modest, retiring, of good family, renowned for her beauty, and with extraordinary grace, was the embodiment of a Victorian ideal of womanhood. But like the age itself, her life was filled with contrasts and paradoxes. She had been born with artistic gifts, and became a satellite of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, though she had no formal training. Then, at the height of John Ruskin's intellectual power and success as a critic, she asked him to accept her as an art student, and he accepted. Their correspondence- often harshly critical, never, as Waterford put it, falsely praising - lies at the heart of this book. These are letters which open a spectrum of discussion on the cultural, gender and social issues of the period. Both Waterford and Ruskin engaged in tireless philanthropic work for diverse causes, crossing social boundaries with subtle determination, and both responded to a sense of duty as well as an artistic vocation. But, as Ings-Chambers shows, their correspondence was more than a dialogue about society: it helped to make Waterford the artist she became.
Songs in Sepia and Black & White
Norbert Krapf
Author : Norbert Krapf
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-13
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780253006363
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“In these 101 poems Norbert Krapf explores the richness of his ancestry . . . a book that confirms Krapf’s status as one of America’s finest living poets.” —Benjamin Hedin, author of Under the Spell A collaboration born of a shared love of music, photography, poetry, and Indiana, this book celebrates the history, literature, and art that informs the present and shapes our identity. Richard Fields’s black and white photos are evocative imaginings of Norbert Krapf’s poems, visual metaphors that extend and deepen their vision. Krapf’s poems pay tribute to poets from Homer and Virgil to Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Wendell Berry, and to singer-songwriters such as Woody Guthrie and John Lennon. They also explore the poet’s German heritage, question ethnic prejudice and social conflict, and praise the natural world. The book includes a cycle of 15 poems about Bob Dylan; a public poem written in response to 9/11, “Prayer to Walt Whitman at Ground Zero”; “Back Home,” a poem reproduced in a stained glass panel at the Indianapolis airport; and ruminations on the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, “Questions on a Wall.” “Pursuing a tri-fold creative concept that unites poetry, art in the form of photography, and music is certainly not a light challenge. Norbert Krapf has mastered it with remarkable virtuosity and once again reinforced his reputation as the pre-eminent German-American poet of the English language.” —Yearbook of German-American Studies “Some of Krapf’s poetry is breathtakingly moving. Most of it is very insightful . . . The way he joins history and emotion is wonderful.” —Englewood Review of Books
The Jazz Discography
Tom Lord
Author : Tom Lord
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Jazz
ISBN : UVA:X004731875
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Vision in Cephalopods
Frederike Diana Hanke,Daniel Colaco Osorio
Author : Frederike Diana Hanke,Daniel Colaco Osorio
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9782889454303
Vision in Cephalopods by Frederike Diana Hanke,Daniel Colaco Osorio Pdf
Cephalopods usually have large and mobile eyes with which they constantly scan their environment. The eyes of cephalopods are single-chamber eyes which show resemblance to vertebrate eyes. However there are marked differences such as the cephalopod eye having an everted retina instead of an inverted retina found in vertebrates. Their visual system allows the cephalopods, depending on species, to discriminate objects on the basis of their shapes or sizes, images from mirror images or to learn from the observation of others. The cephalopod visual system is also polarization sensitive and controls camouflage, an extraordinary ability almost exclusive to all cephalopods; they are capable of rapidly adapting their body coloration as well as altering their body shape to any background, in almost any condition and even during self-motion. Visual scene analysis ultimately leads to motor outputs that cause an appropriate change in skin coloration or texture by acting directly on chromatophores or papillae in the skin. Mirroring these numerous functions of the visual system, large parts of the cephalopod brain are devoted to the processing of visual information. This research topic focuses on current advances in the knowledge of cephalopod vision. It is designed to facilitate merging questions, approaches and data available through the work of different researchers working on different aspects of cephalopod vision. Thus the research topic creates mutual awareness, and facilitates the growth of a field of research with a long tradition - cephalopod vision, visual perception and cognition as well as the mechanisms of camouflage. This research topic emerged from a workshop on “Vision in cephalopods” as part of the COST Action FA1301.
Classical Homeopathy for Anxiety & Jealousy
George Vithoulkas
Author : George Vithoulkas
Publisher : Groma Verlag GmbH
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-06
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9783907188002
Classical Homeopathy for Anxiety & Jealousy by George Vithoulkas Pdf
This book is the transcription of a seminar organized by the School for Classical Homeopathy, Zurich [“Schule für klassische Homöopathie Zürich”] October 2001 together with later additions by George Vithoulkas. The 25 most important homeopathic remedies in cases of anxiety and jealousy are described in vivid way. In the comparative materia medica George Vithoulkas explains the most important differences of the various remedies. The homeopathic master shares with ous his immense experience. The liveliness of his style, his homeopathic and philosophical insights turn this book into a treasure for the practicing homeopath. The reader will find a lot of heplful information and practical hints. An extensive index and a generous layout as well as highlighted keynotes of the remedies of the cases make this book a work of reference. Part I: Anxiety Aconitum, Barium carbonicum, Argentum nitricum, Arsenicum album, Calcium carbonicum, Cannabis indica, Helleborus niger, Kalium arsenicosum, Lyconpodium, Natrium muriaticum, Nitricum acidum, Cajuputum, Phosphorus, Psorinum, Stramonium Part II: Jealousy Lachesis, Hyoscyamus, Nux vomica, Apis, Medorrhinum, Ignatia, Sepia, Stramonium, Calcarea sulphurica. Gallicum acidum Available as a book and ebook! Auch in Deutscher Sprache erhältlich.
Eubie Blake
Richard Carlin,Ken Bloom
Author : Richard Carlin,Ken Bloom
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780190635954
Eubie Blake by Richard Carlin,Ken Bloom Pdf
A new biography of one of the key composers of 20th-century American popular song and jazz, Eubie Blake: Rags, Rhythm and Race illuminates Blake's little-known impact on over 100 years of American culture. A gifted musician, Blake rose from performing in dance halls and bordellos of his native Baltimore to the heights of Broadway. In 1921, together with performer and lyricist Noble Sissle, Blake created Shuffle Along which became a sleeper smash on Broadway eventually becoming one of the top ten musical shows of the 1920s. Despite many obstacles Shuffle Along integrated Broadway and the road and introduced such stars as Josephine Baker, Lottie Gee, Florence Mills, and Fredi Washington. It also proved that black shows were viable on Broadway and subsequent productions gave a voice to great songwriters, performers, and spoke to a previously disenfranchised black audience. As successful as Shuffle Along was, racism and bad luck hampered Blake's career. Remarkably, the third act of Blake's life found him heralded in his 90s at major jazz festivals, in Broadway shows, and on television and recordings. Tracing not only Blake's extraordinary life and accomplishments, Broadway and popular music authorities Richard Carlin and Ken Bloom examine the professional and societal barriers confronted by black artists from the turn of the century through the 1980s. Drawing from a wealth of personal archives and interviews with Blake, his friends, and other scholars, Eubie Blake: Rags, Rhythm and Race offers an incisive portrait of the man and the musical world he inhabited.
The History of Jazz
Ted Gioia
Author : Ted Gioia
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-09
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780195399707
The History of Jazz by Ted Gioia Pdf
A panoramic history of the genre brings to life the diverse places in which jazz evolved, traces the origins of its various styles, and offers commentary on the music itself.
Sentimental Journey
Marvin E. Paymer,Don E. Post
Author : Marvin E. Paymer,Don E. Post
Publisher : Noble House Publishers
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Music
ISBN : 1881907090
Sentimental Journey by Marvin E. Paymer,Don E. Post Pdf
Sentimental Journey is a cornucopia of 546 rang portraits that tell the story of America's very own great music, from its beginnings on Tin Pan Alley through its flourishing in step with the rise of the Broadway musical, radio, recordings, the big bands, and the film musical. The book spans 25 years, broken up into three decades entitled The Roaring Twenties, The Depression Years, and The War Years, each of which begins with a prologue giving a general description of the decade. Each year within the decades gives further historical background against which the individual songs were written -- including the political, social and artistic events. Within each year thc songs are portrayed individually, telling what made the song special and gives its vital statistics along with composer, lyricist, publisher, and when, where and by whom it was introduced.The twenty-six chapters of Sentimental Journey is finalized with a set of Appendices containing glossary, bibliography, index of composers and lyricists and an index of songs. No matter from what generation the reader is part of, the music from this book is being constantly rediscovered, and has become part of the American heritage.
Birds of Western Ecuador
Nick Athanas,Paul J. Greenfield
Author : Nick Athanas,Paul J. Greenfield
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-14
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781400880706
Birds of Western Ecuador by Nick Athanas,Paul J. Greenfield Pdf
The ultimate photographic guide to the birds of western Ecuador Western Ecuador is famed for its astonishingly diverse birdlife, from colorful hummingbirds and outrageous toucans to more difficult groups like raptors, flycatchers, and ovenbirds. Here is the ultimate photographic guide to the spectacular birds of this region. Featuring nearly 1,500 stunning color photos of 946 species, this richly detailed and taxonomically sophisticated field guide will help you with even the toughest identification challenges. Species accounts, photos, and color distribution maps appear side by side, making it easier than ever to find what you are looking for, whether you are in the field or preparing for your trip. Features nearly 1,500 photos of 946 species Includes facing-page species accounts, photos, and maps Provides photos of multiple plumages for many species Helps you to differentiate between similar species
Elton John All the Songs
Romuald Ollivier,Olivier Roubin
Author : Romuald Ollivier,Olivier Roubin
Publisher : Black Dog & Leventhal
Page : 943 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2023-04-04
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780762479498
Elton John All the Songs by Romuald Ollivier,Olivier Roubin Pdf
This first-of-its-kind catalog of Elton John’s decades-long career tells the story of one of rock's all-time greatest artists, album-by-album and track-by-track. Organized chronologically and covering every album and song that EGOT-winner Sir Elton Hercules John has ever released, Elton John All the Songs draws upon years of research to tell the behind-the-scenes stories of how each song was written, composed, and recorded, down to the instruments used and the people who played them. Spanning more than fifty-years of work from Elton and his longtime collaborator, Bernie Taupin, this book details the creative processes that resulted in seminal albums like Goodbye Yellowbrick Road, Madman Across the Water, and Tumbleweed Connection, as well as Academy Award wins for 1995's Lion King and 2020's Rocketman. Newer work like The Lockdown Sessions, which released in 2021, is also featured alongside Billboard stats, tour dates, producing and mixing credits, and other insider details that will keep fans turning pages. Starting with the artist's early days working as a studio musician in London, and featuring interviews with actors, musicians, collaborators, and confidantes, Elton John All the Songs offers readers the most detailed portrait of the artist and his creative process that has ever been produced. Featuring hundreds of vivid photographs that celebrate one of music's most visually arresting performers, Elton John All the Songs is the authoritative guide to one of rock'n'roll's greatest stars.
