Blue S Memoirs
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Livin The Blues
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Author : Frank Marshall Davis
language : en
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Release Date : 2003-04-15
Livin The Blues written by Frank Marshall Davis and has been published by Univ of Wisconsin Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-04-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Frank Marshall Davis was a prominent poet, journalist, jazz critic, and civil rights activist on the Chicago and Atlanta scene from the 1920s through 1940s. He was an intimate of Langston Hughes and Richard Wright and an influential editor at the Chicago Evening Bulletin, the Chicago Whip, the Chicago Star, and the Atlanta World. He renounced his writing career in 1948 and moved to Hawaii, forgotten until the Black Arts Movement rediscovered him in the 1960s. Because of his early self-exile from the literary limelight, Davis's life and work have been shrouded in mystery. Livin' the Blues offers us a chance to rediscover this talented poet and writer and stands as an important example of black autobiography, similar in form, style, and message to those of Langston Hughes and Richard Wright. "Both a social commentary and intellectual exploration into African American life in the twentieth century."—Charles Vincent, Atlanta History
Happy Life Blues
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Author : Cecily Mattocks Marshall
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Happy Life Blues written by Cecily Mattocks Marshall and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with British categories.
Bourgeois Blues
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Author : Jake Lamar
language : en
Publisher: Plume Books
Release Date : 1992
Bourgeois Blues written by Jake Lamar and has been published by Plume Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A stunning memoir of a gifted young middle-class black man and his struggle to succeed in white America. Born in 1961, Jake Lamar was unable to escape a heritage of racism despite being well-educated and accomplished. Here Lamar, a former associate editor for Time magazine, illuminates the ironies of integration and America's history of prejudice.
Monkey House Blues
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Author : Dominic Stevenson
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011-03-04
Monkey House Blues written by Dominic Stevenson and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-04 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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.
Mister Satan S Apprentice
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Author : Adam Gussow
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Mister Satan S Apprentice written by Adam Gussow and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Adam Gussow is a writer and blues harmonica player. He is associate professor of English and southern studies at the University of Mississippi in Oxford.
Hey I M Blue
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Author : R. G McLaughlin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022
Hey I M Blue written by R. G McLaughlin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with categories.
Good Morning Blues
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Author : Count Basie
language : en
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 2016-12-14
Good Morning Blues written by Count Basie and has been published by U of Minnesota Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-14 with Music categories.
Count Basie was one of America’s pre-eminent and influential jazz pianists, bandleaders, and composers, known for such classics as “Jumpin’ at the Woodside,” “Goin’ to Chicago Blues,” “Sent for You Yesterday and Here You Come Today,” and “One O’Clock Jump.” In Good Morning Blues, Basie recounts his life story to Albert Murray, from his childhood years playing ragtime with his own pickup band at dances and pig roasts, to his years in New York City in search of opportunity, to rollicking anecdotes of Basie’s encounters with Fats Waller, Frank Sinatra, Fred Astaire, Sammy Davis Jr., Quincy Jones, Billie Holliday, and Tony Bennett. In this classic of jazz autobiography that was ten years in the making, Albert Murray brings the voice of Count Basie to the printed page in what is both testimony and tribute to an incredibly rich life.
Blues All Around Me
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Author : B. B. King
language : en
Publisher: It Books
Release Date : 2011-03-08
Blues All Around Me written by B. B. King and has been published by It Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-08 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
B. B. King has the blues running through his blood. Growing up in the rural poverty of the Mississippi Delta, King first experienced the blues at nine years old, when his mother passed away. The man of the house before the end of his first decade, he used this strife as a source of inspiration and launched one of the most celebrated musical careers in American history. King has led a remarkable life, and this riveting autobiography dramatizes his whirlwind adventures from the Memphis of the forties to the Moscow of the nineties with unflinching candor and sincerity. But most of all, B.B.'s story is the story of the blues—the evolution from country acoustic to urban electric, the birth and explosion of rock 'n' roll—and B.B.'s own long, but ultimately triumphant, struggle for crossover success, during which he remained unwaveringly true to the music of his heart.
Father Of The Blues
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Author : W. C. Handy
language : en
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Release Date : 1991-03-22
Father Of The Blues written by W. C. Handy and has been published by Da Capo Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991-03-22 with Music categories.
W. C. Handy's blues—“Memphis Blues," "Beale Street Blues," "St. Louis Blues"—changed America's music forever. In Father of the Blues, Handy presents his own story: a vivid picture of American life now vanished. W. C. Handy (1873–1958) was a sensitive child who loved nature and music; but not until he had won a reputation did his father, a preacher of stern Calvinist faith, forgive him for following the "devilish" calling of black music and theater. Here Handy tells of this and other struggles: the lot of a black musician with entertainment groups in the turn-of-the-century South; his days in minstrel shows, and then in his own band; how he made his first 100 from "Memphis Blues"; how his orchestra came to grief with the First World War; his successful career in New York as publisher and song writer; his association with the literati of the Harlem Renaissance.Handy's remarkable tale—pervaded with his unique personality and humor—reveals not only the career of the man who brought the blues to the world's attention, but the whole scope of American music, from the days of the old popular songs of the South, through ragtime to the great era of jazz.
Headed For The Blues
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Author : Josef Škvorecký
language : en
Publisher: Hopewell, N.J. : Ecco Press
Release Date : 1996
Headed For The Blues written by Josef Škvorecký and has been published by Hopewell, N.J. : Ecco Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A translated memoir written by one of the most prominent Czech writers of the post-World War II generation continuing the country's modern tradition of literary mastery over an absurd and frightening political culture. Skvorecky speaks eloquently and with humor of his own experiences and those of other "dissidents" fleeing both Nazi and Soviet rule, surviving the secret police, and managing to maintain a culture of truth within one of fear and mistrust. Like many Czech writers, Skvorecky's story is the history of a country. Lacks an index. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR