Song Of The Shank

Author : Jeffery Renard Allen
Publisher : Graywolf Press
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781555970925

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Song of the Shank by Jeffery Renard Allen Pdf

A contemporary American masterpiece about music, race, an unforgettable man, and an unreal America during the Civil War era At the heart of this remarkable novel is Thomas Greene Wiggins, a nineteenth-century slave and improbable musical genius who performed under the name Blind Tom. Song of the Shank opens in 1866 as Tom and his guardian, Eliza Bethune, struggle to adjust to their fashionable apartment in the city in the aftermath of riots that had driven them away a few years before. But soon a stranger arrives from the mysterious island of Edgemere—inhabited solely by African settlers and black refugees from the war and riots—who intends to reunite Tom with his now-liberated mother. As the novel ranges from Tom's boyhood to the heights of his performing career, the inscrutable savant is buffeted by opportunistic teachers and crooked managers, crackpot healers and militant prophets. In his symphonic novel, Jeffery Renard Allen blends history and fantastical invention to bring to life a radical cipher, a man who profoundly changes all who encounter him.

Author : Emily Ruth Rutter
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781644532461

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Black Celebrity by Emily Ruth Rutter Pdf

Black Celebrity examines representations of postbellum black athletes and artist-entertainers by novelists Caryl Phillips and Jeffery Renard Allen and poets Kevin Young, Frank X Walker, Adrian Matejka, and Tyehimba Jess. Inhabiting the perspectives of boxer Jack Johnson and musicians “Blind Tom” Wiggins and Sissieretta Jones, along with several others, these writers retrain readers’ attention away from athletes’ and entertainers’ overdetermined bodies and toward their complex inner lives. Phillips, Allen, Young, Walker, Matejka, and Jess especially plumb the emotional archive of desire, anxiety, pain, and defiance engendered by the racial hypervisibility and depersonalization that has long characterized black stardom. In the process, these novelists and poets and, in turn, the present book revise understandings of black celebrity history while evincing the through-lines between the postbellum era and our own time.

Author : Nicholas Meriwether
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781527568525

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All Graceful Instruments by Nicholas Meriwether Pdf

All Graceful Instruments: The Contexts of the Grateful Dead Phenomenon gathers thirteen representative essays from a wide array of fields into an interdisciplinary anthology that reveals the depth and extent of this fascinating, variegated cultural phenomenon. Contributors use the techniques of literary criticism, musicology, sociology, philosophy, business theory, and more to explore the meaning and significance of the music of the Grateful Dead, the implications of their artistic and commercial success, and the social dimensions of their following, the Deadheads. For scholars and students of American history and culture, this book makes a convincing case for why the Grateful Dead phenomenon is worthy of academic attention and what that study can offer. By focusing a wide array of critical approaches on a single, discrete subject, All Graceful Instruments provides a refreshing approach to interdisciplinary studies that should appeal to a wide audience.

Author : Jeffery Renard Allen
Publisher : Graywolf Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1555977235

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Rails Under My Back by Jeffery Renard Allen Pdf

"Will put Allen in the company of writers such as James Joyce, August Wilson, and Ralph Ellison." —The Philadelphia Inquirer When it was first published fifteen years ago, Jeffery Renard Allen's debut novel, Rails Under My Back, earned its author comparisons to some of the giants of twentieth-century modernism. The publication of Allen's equally ambitious second novel, Song of the Shank, cemented those lofty claims. Now, the book that established his reputation is being restored to print in its first Graywolf Press edition. Together, the two novels stand as significant achievements of twenty-first-century literature. Rails Under My Back is an epic that tracks the interwoven lives of two brothers, Lucius and John Jones, who are married to two sisters, Gracie and Sheila McShan. For them, their parents, and their children, life is always full of departures; someone is always fleeing town and leaving the remaining family to suffer the often dramatic, sometimes tragic consequences. The multiple effects of the comings and goings are devastating: These are the almost mythic expression of the African American experience in the half century that followed the Second World War. The story ranges, as the characters do, from the city, which is somewhat like both New York and Chicago, to Memphis, to the West, and to many "inner" and "outer" locales. Rails Under My Back is a multifaceted, brilliantly colored, intensely musical novel that pulses with urgency and originality.

Author : Jeffery A. Winer,Christoph E. Schreiner
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 715 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010-12-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781441900746

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The Auditory Cortex by Jeffery A. Winer,Christoph E. Schreiner Pdf

There has been substantial progress in understanding the contributions of the auditory forebrain to hearing, sound localization, communication, emotive behavior, and cognition. The Auditory Cortex covers the latest knowledge about the auditory forebrain, including the auditory cortex as well as the medial geniculate body in the thalamus. This book will cover all important aspects of the auditory forebrain organization and function, integrating the auditory thalamus and cortex into a smooth, coherent whole. Volume One covers basic auditory neuroscience. It complements The Auditory Cortex, Volume 2: Integrative Neuroscience, which takes a more applied/clinical perspective.

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1054 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Copyright
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119497829

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Catalog of Copyright Entries by Library of Congress. Copyright Office Pdf

Author : PARVATI MENON
Publisher : Notion Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781645879534

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DEOLALI DAYS by PARVATI MENON Pdf

Deolali was mesmerised by two exceptionally handsome young guys who rode in one fine day on their mean chugging machine. They were fresh recruits to be trained by Dad. Their sole ambition was to migrate to London for most Brits were heading home as the Empire’s rule was about to end. And the matrimonial route was not ruled out possibly via Col Browns toothy daughters! It was a period of migrations – the Muslims to a new nation being carved out for them, sometimes leaving behind loved and unloved ones; the white man to his homeland, not without trepidation at the impending loss of luxury and an influx of refugees to various parts of India, armed with their grit and dreams to succeed again. In all this melee, Deolali Days has a lot of comic characters who willy-nilly get involved with each other. To top it all, a dazzling yet intimidating woman entrepreneur, seemingly from a royal background, is ready to seize the moment. But adding the most colour is Poppat baba, a parrot whose predictions are mysteriously correct to the dot, driving the heroes nuts! Who is who in this utter chaotic confusion? What happens to them? Deolali Days is a bubbling narrative of those magical times.

Author : Jacob Neusner
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Religion
ISBN : 076181986X

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A Theological Commentary to the Midrash: Song of Songs Rabbah by Jacob Neusner Pdf

This theological commentary to the Rabbinic Midrash explores a simple proposition, in three parts. I. The reading of Scripture by principal parts of the Rabbinic Midrash is formed by compositions and composites that are animated by a cogent theological system. II. These primary components of the Midrash-compilations, further, are in part aimed at systematic demonstrations of theorems of a theological character. III. While forming a principal part of a large theological structure and system, each document is unique. This commentary in its concluding chapter presents what is common to the animating theology of Rabbinic Judaism in all its documentary components and what is unique to Song of Songs Rabbah.

Author : Robert Burns,Alexander Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1868
Category : Poets, Scottish
ISBN : HARVARD:HWJ9SF

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Poems, Songs, and Letters by Robert Burns,Alexander Smith Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Rotary International
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Proceedings: Twenty-Ninth Annual Convention of Rotary International by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ikku Jippensha
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781462902033

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Shank's Mare by Ikku Jippensha Pdf

This classic Japanese story of humor and adventure is available here for the first time in digital format. A pair of irrepressible scoundrels are the heroes of this madcap chronicle of adventure, full of earthy humor, along the great highway from Tokyo to Kyoto. The lusty tale of their disreputable doings is Japan's most celebrated comic novel. Shank's Mare was originally issued serially beginning in 1802, and was so successful that the author wrote numerous sequels, appearing year by year, until 1822. This novel portrays all the varied colors in Japan's Tokugawa era and its humor typifies the brash and devil-may-care attitude of the residents of Tokyo, both then and now.

Author : Marcos G. Frank
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-25
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780123849953

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Sleep and Brain Activity by Marcos G. Frank Pdf

Sleep and the Brain presents some of the more dramatic developments in our understanding of brain activity in sleep. The book discusses what parts of the brain are active in sleep and how, and presents research on the function of sleep in memory, learning, and further brain development.

Author : James Kaplan
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 994 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307946935

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Sinatra by James Kaplan Pdf

One of the Best Books of the Year The Washington Post • Los Angeles Times • Milwaukee Journal Sentinel The story of Frank Sinatra’s second act, Sinatra finds the Chairman on top of the world, riding high after an Oscar victory—and firmly reestablished as the top recording artist of his day. Following Sinatra from the mid-1950s to his death in 1998, Kaplan uncovers the man behind the myth, revealing by turns the peerless singer, the (sometimes) powerful actor, the business mogul, the tireless lover, and—of course—the close associate of the powerful and infamous. It was in these decades that the enduring legacy of Frank Sinatra was forged, and Kaplan vividly captures “Ol’ Blue Eyes” in his later years. The sequel to the New York Times best-selling Frank, here is the concluding volume of the definitive biography of "The Entertainer of the Century."

Author : Stuart Feder
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0300054815

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Charles Ives, "my Father's Song" by Stuart Feder Pdf

A psychoanalytic biography which examines the lives of Charles Ives and his father, George. It shows how a knowledge of their relationship as father and son, teacher and pupil is central to understanding Ives' work. Charles' music is shown as an unconscious collaboration between father and son.

Author : Omar Tyree
Publisher : Urban Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781622868711

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Capital City by Omar Tyree Pdf

Life is supposed to be easy and carefree when you are young, but if you live in Washington D.C., that’s not always the case. Flashing back to the 1990s, readers enter the lives of four black men looking to gain money, power, and respect. These four brothas come from different walks of life, but they have one thing in common: they are trying to make fast money in the harsh inner city. However, when the money comes too easily there's usually a price attached...the ultimate price.