Blues People
DOWNLOAD
Download Blues People PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get Blues People book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages. If the content not found or just blank you must refresh this page
Blues People
DOWNLOAD
Author : Amiri Baraka
language : en
Publisher: Praeger
Release Date : 1980-08-11
Blues People written by Amiri Baraka and has been published by Praeger this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980-08-11 with Music categories.
"The path the slave took to 'citizenship' is what I want to look at. And I make my analogy through the slave citizen's music -- through the music that is most closely associated with him: blues and a later, but parallel development, jazz... [If] the Negro represents, or is symbolic of, something in and about the nature of American culture, this certainly should be revealed by his characteristic music." So says Amiri Baraka in the Introduction to Blues People, his classic work on the place of jazz and blues in American social, musical, economic, and cultural history. From the music of African slaves in the United States through the music scene of the 1960's, Baraka traces the influence of what he calls "negro music" on white America -- not only in the context of music and pop culture but also in terms of the values and perspectives passed on through the music. In tracing the music, he brilliantly illuminates the influence of African Americans on American culture and history.
Blues People
DOWNLOAD
Author : LeRoi Jones
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1966
Blues People written by LeRoi Jones and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966 with categories.
Blues People
DOWNLOAD
Author : Imamu Amiri Baraka
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
Blues People written by Imamu Amiri Baraka and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with categories.
Blues People
DOWNLOAD
Author : LeRoi Jones
language : en
Publisher: Canongate Books
Release Date : 2022-11-03
Blues People written by LeRoi Jones and has been published by Canongate Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-03 with Music categories.
In this essential and impassioned text, LeRoi Jones traces the intertwined development of blues and jazz music with the history of its creators in ‘White America’. As important and relevant as at its first publication in 1963, it shows how music and its people are inseparable – expressing and reflecting the other, surviving and adapting through oppression.
Black Music
DOWNLOAD
Author : LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka)
language : pt
Publisher: Sobinfluencia Edições
Release Date : 2023-12-04
Black Music written by LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka) and has been published by Sobinfluencia Edições this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-04 with Music categories.
A maioria dos críticos de jazz até agora são americanos brancos, enquanto os principais músicos não Black Music: free jazz e consciência negra (1959-1967), de Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), é um dos exercícios mais radicais e selvagens de crítica musical que já foi posto em prática. Nestes ensaios, resenhas, entrevistas, encartes, crônicas e impressões pessoais publicados entre 1959 e 1967, Baraka retrata a florescente cena do free jazz, um movimento que envolveu o aprofundamento das inovações sonoras do bebop e a recuperação do jazz como expressão autêntica da cultura afro-estadunidense em uma época em que seu sucesso comercial a tornava um gênero padronizado e palatável para a amérikkka branca. Figura central e unificadora do movimento Beat nos anos 50 e Black Power nas décadas seguintes, Amiri lança mão de uma linguagem elétrica e furiosa que reflete a liberdade de improvisação do free jazz para deixar claro que essa música só pode ser compreendida como parte de um conjunto de experiências, que ao longo do século XX, moldaram uma nova consciência do que significava ser negro nos Estados Unidos. E é por isso que os seus intérpretes, entre os quais se destacam John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Archie Shepp, Sun Ra, Thelonious Monk, Albert Ayler, Pharoah Sanders, Sonny Rollins, Don Cherry, Wayne Shorter e Cecil Taylor, devem ser considerados, além de grandes músicos: "intelectuais ou místicos, ou ambos".
Spiritual Blues And Jazz People In African American Fiction
DOWNLOAD
Author : A. Yemisi Jimoh
language : en
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
Release Date : 2002
Spiritual Blues And Jazz People In African American Fiction written by A. Yemisi Jimoh and has been published by Univ. of Tennessee Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Literary Criticism categories.
Jimoh (English, U. of Arkansas-Fayetteville) investigates African American intracultural issues that inform a more broadly intertextual use of music in creating characters and themes in fiction by US black writers. Conventional close readings of texts, she argues, often miss historical-sociopolitical discourses that can illuminate African American narratives. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Beyond The Crossroads
DOWNLOAD
Author : Adam Gussow
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2017-09-05
Beyond The Crossroads written by Adam Gussow and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-05 with Music categories.
The devil is the most charismatic and important figure in the blues tradition. He's not just the music's namesake ("the devil's music"), but a shadowy presence who haunts an imagined Mississippi crossroads where, it is claimed, Delta bluesman Robert Johnson traded away his soul in exchange for extraordinary prowess on the guitar. Yet, as scholar and musician Adam Gussow argues, there is much more to the story of the devil and the blues than these cliched understandings. In this groundbreaking study, Gussow takes the full measure of the devil's presence. Working from original transcriptions of more than 125 recordings released during the past ninety years, Gussow explores the varied uses to which black southern blues people have put this trouble-sowing, love-wrecking, but also empowering figure. The book culminates with a bold reinterpretation of Johnson's music and a provocative investigation of the way in which the citizens of Clarksdale, Mississippi, managed to rebrand a commercial hub as "the crossroads" in 1999, claiming Johnson and the devil as their own.
Getting The Blues
DOWNLOAD
Author : Stephen J. Nichols
language : en
Publisher: Brazos Press
Release Date : 2008-09
Getting The Blues written by Stephen J. Nichols and has been published by Brazos Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09 with Music categories.
A vivid investigation of how blues music teaches listeners about sin, suffering, marginalization, lamentation, and worship.
Whose Blues
DOWNLOAD
Author : Adam Gussow
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2020-09-28
Whose Blues written by Adam Gussow and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-28 with Music categories.
Mamie Smith's pathbreaking 1920 recording of "Crazy Blues" set the pop music world on fire, inaugurating a new African American market for "race records." Not long after, such records also brought black blues performance to an expanding international audience. A century later, the mainstream blues world has transformed into a multicultural and transnational melting pot, taking the music far beyond the black southern world of its origins. But not everybody is happy about that. If there's "No black. No white. Just the blues," as one familiar meme suggests, why do some blues people hear such pronouncements as an aggressive attempt at cultural appropriation and an erasure of traumatic histories that lie deep in the heart of the music? Then again, if "blues is black music," as some performers and critics insist, what should we make of the vibrant global blues scene, with its all-comers mix of nationalities and ethnicities? In Whose Blues?, award-winning blues scholar and performer Adam Gussow confronts these challenging questions head-on. Using blues literature and history as a cultural anchor, Gussow defines, interprets, and makes sense of the blues for the new millennium. Drawing on the blues tradition's major writers including W. C. Handy, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Amiri Baraka, and grounded in his first-person knowledge of the blues performance scene, Gussow's thought-provoking book kickstarts a long overdue conversation.
Black Hole Blues And Other Songs From Outer Space
DOWNLOAD
Author : Janna Levin
language : en
Publisher: Anchor
Release Date : 2016-03-29
Black Hole Blues And Other Songs From Outer Space written by Janna Levin and has been published by Anchor this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-29 with Science categories.
The authoritative story of the headline-making discovery of gravitational waves—by an eminent theoretical astrophysicist and award-winning writer. From the author of How the Universe Got Its Spots and A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines, the epic story of the scientific campaign to record the soundtrack of our universe. Black holes are dark. That is their essence. When black holes collide, they will do so unilluminated. Yet the black hole collision is an event more powerful than any since the origin of the universe. The profusion of energy will emanate as waves in the shape of spacetime: gravitational waves. No telescope will ever record the event; instead, the only evidence would be the sound of spacetime ringing. In 1916, Einstein predicted the existence of gravitational waves, his top priority after he proposed his theory of curved spacetime. One century later, we are recording the first sounds from space, the soundtrack to accompany astronomy’s silent movie. In Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space, Janna Levin recounts the fascinating story of the obsessions, the aspirations, and the trials of the scientists who embarked on an arduous, fifty-year endeavor to capture these elusive waves. An experimental ambition that began as an amusing thought experiment, a mad idea, became the object of fixation for the original architects—Rai Weiss, Kip Thorne, and Ron Drever. Striving to make the ambition a reality, the original three gradually accumulated an international team of hundreds. As this book was written, two massive instruments of remarkably delicate sensitivity were brought to advanced capability. As the book draws to a close, five decades after the experimental ambition began, the team races to intercept a wisp of a sound with two colossal machines, hoping to succeed in time for the centenary of Einstein’s most radical idea. Janna Levin’s absorbing account of the surprises, disappointments, achievements, and risks in this unfolding story offers a portrait of modern science that is unlike anything we’ve seen before.