Something About The Blues
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Something About The Blues
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Author : Al Young
language : en
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Release Date : 2008
Something About The Blues written by Al Young and has been published by Sourcebooks, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Blues (Music) categories.
Something About The Blues
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Author : Al Young
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Something About The Blues written by Al Young and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Blues (Music) categories.
Like Harlem renaissance poet Langston Hughes, who first popularized the blues as a poetic form, California Poet Laureate Al Young has written about the blues, played the blues and drawn inspiration from the blues. Something About the Blues uses the blues as a theme throughout 100 new and previously-published poems. Selections evoke the cold, hard city, love gone wrong and blues music itself, with tributes to Ma Rainey, Lena Horne and other notable performers. Something About the Blues includes an audio CD with Al Young's dynamic, soulful readings of more than 20 of the poems from the book, plus Langston Hughes' reading of his classic "The Weary Blues." Many of Young's performances feature a live blues band.
Something For The Blues
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Author : Mal Rose
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1913
Something For The Blues written by Mal Rose and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1913 with categories.
In Search Of The Blues
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Author : Marybeth Hamilton
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2009-06-30
In Search Of The Blues written by Marybeth Hamilton and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-30 with History categories.
Leadbelly, Robert Johnson, Charley Patton-we are all familiar with the story of the Delta blues. Fierce, raw voices; tormented drifters; deals with the devil at the crossroads at midnight. In this extraordinary reconstruction of the origins of the Delta blues, historian Marybeth Hamilton demonstrates that the story as we know it is largely a myth. The idea of something called Delta blues only emerged in the mid-twentieth century, the culmination of a longstanding white fascination with the exotic mysteries of black music. Hamilton shows that the Delta blues was effectively invented by white pilgrims, seekers, and propagandists who headed deep into America's south in search of an authentic black voice of rage and redemption. In their quest, and in the immense popularity of the music they championed, we confront America's ongoing love affair with racial difference.
Boom Boom Boom Boom
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Author : Simon Robinson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-04-28
Boom Boom Boom Boom written by Simon Robinson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-28 with Blues (Music) categories.
Back in the late fifties Manchester became a hive of pop and blues music. Local lad Brian Smith saw it happen. Brian took a real interest in the emerging blues scene after seeing Muddy Waters in 1958 and over the next decade he saw and photographed most of the American blues musicians who played in Manchester. A keen amateur photographer, Brian combined his two passions and became known to door staff as 'the fan with the camera'. To be there witnessing the scene at first hand is enviable enough, but to be there with a camera recording it is something blues fans worldwide can be grateful for today. Brian began frequenting the famous Twisted Wheel Club and after the start of Roger Eagle's legendary R&B all-nighters in 1963 (which later led to the birth of Northern Soul), he helped launch the ground-breaking music magazine R & B Scene, becoming their main photographic contributor. Brian went on to a career in the tax offices and it wasn't until the 1980s that his old images began to be sought out by CD compilers. Since then his pictures have appeared in magazines, books and exhibitions, yet until now nobody has attempted to present a published collection of his work. Taking our book title from the John Lee Hooker classic, Easy On The Eye have had unique access to Brian's extensive archives, working directly with surviving negatives and prints which have been newly scanned and restored for the book. The photographs are annotated and fully captioned using extensive interviews by RPM Records boss Mark Stratford. The selected material shows the blues artists who most interested the young photographer, as well as British bands like The Rolling Stones who often idolised them as well. Brian produced images with a real presence and quality, and managed to capture a unique and relatively short lived scene in fascinating detail. Not only on-stage but back in the dressing rooms, he photographed these giants of the blues relaxing with a beer and a pack of cards, or posing for souvenir pictures with British fans. A remarkable cultural melting pot considering many of those musicians couldn't travel next to a white person in some States back home. Some of the artists in the book include: Johnny Guitar Watson, Big Joe Turner, Chuck Berry, Screaming Jay Hawkins, Little Richard, Bo Diddley, Jimmy Reed, Hubert Sumlin, Howlin Wolf, Buddy Guy, John Lee Hooker, The Rolling Stones, Carl Perkins.
Blissful Blues
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Author : Rhea Madan
language : en
Publisher: FriesenPress
Release Date : 2017-11-01
Blissful Blues written by Rhea Madan and has been published by FriesenPress this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-01 with Poetry categories.
Encapsulating the chaos and angst of a young heart and old soul combined, within the structured format of stanza and verse, Blissful Blues is the first offering of an up-and coming poet, with life experiences and wisdom far beyond her years. With subjects touching upon everything from love and loss to bigotry and betrayal, its message speaks clearly to its readers in a voice worth hearing. Whether you’re looking back on your life and remembering the good old days when you first fell in love and had your heart broken, or looking forward to that first kiss and afraid of all it will mean ... Blissful Blues has something for you.
Something Old Something New Nothing Borrowed Don T Have The Blues
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Author : Pamela Mercer
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2018-03-05
Something Old Something New Nothing Borrowed Don T Have The Blues written by Pamela Mercer and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-05 with Poetry categories.
Something Old, Something New, Nothing Borrowed Don’t Have the Blues is a timely poetry anthology that traces the history of portions of our culture and paints a portrait of rural black history over decades. With excerpts of life, truth, reality, and the social stigmas of Chicago’s ghettos, lifestyles, and how total devastation by drugs, race, and modern enslavement while battling history, integrity, and the historical economic growth and development of black America. A piece of the past, a piece of the present, a piece of the future, but above all, a sense of peace in sharing the pages of an anthology that relates to so many in so many diverse and positive ways. Neither blue nor dejected, Something Old, Something New, Nothing Borrowed Don’t Have the Blues is a now-time creation with historical value and will take even that part of non-black Americans to a place where so many truths can be seen and the passion of history development from third-world existence to great leadership can be worldly recognized.
The Bluest Of Blues
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Author : Fiona Robinson
language : en
Publisher: Abrams
Release Date : 2019-02-12
The Bluest Of Blues written by Fiona Robinson and has been published by Abrams this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-12 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
A gorgeous picture book biography of botanist and photographer Anna Atkins--the first person to ever publish a book of photography After losing her mother very early in life, Anna Atkins (1799–1871) was raised by her loving father. He gave her a scientific education, which was highly unusual for women and girls in the early 19th century. Fascinated with the plant life around her, Anna became a botanist. She recorded all her findings in detailed illustrations and engravings, until the invention of cyanotype photography in 1842. Anna used this new technology in order to catalogue plant specimens—a true marriage of science and art. In 1843, Anna published the book Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions with handwritten text and cyanotype photographs. It is considered the first book of photographs ever published. Weaving together histories of women, science, and art, The Bluest of Blues will inspire young readers to embark on their own journeys of discovery and creativity.
All The Blues Come Through
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Author : Metra Farrari
language : en
Publisher: Wise Ink Creative Publishing
Release Date : 2021-06-11
All The Blues Come Through written by Metra Farrari and has been published by Wise Ink Creative Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-11 with Fiction categories.
With her smart and playful writing, debut author Metra Farrari cleverly blends chick-lit with a dash of Greek mythology—the product a winning combination of smart-alecky wit, dreamy escapism, and a quirky yet lovable heroine. Ryan Bell is your typical millennial: surviving on a diet of wine and Netflix, woefully single enough to qualify for cat-lady membership, and renting from a seventy-something Tinder-swiping landlord-turned-bestie. But underneath her chipped-off manicure lies a green thumb that has created miraculous flowers capable of saving mankind from cataclysmic climate change. There's one problem: Only Ryan can grow them. An unusual audience comes to an unorthodox conclusion: Ryan is the heir of the Greek god Artemis. Although Ryan thinks these strange, toga-wearing folks are one kalamata olive short of a Greek salad, she reluctantly enters a hidden world where the Olympians are real and magic flows freely (plus a generous serving of Greek hunks). Talk about one epic identity crisis. Magical demigod or not, the fate of civilization—both mortal and godly—now rests on Ryan's shoulders.
The Original Blues
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Author : Lynn Abbott
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2017-02-27
The Original Blues written by Lynn Abbott and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-27 with Music categories.
Blues Book of the Year —Living Blues Association of Recorded Sound Collections Awards for Excellence Best Historical Research in Recorded Blues, Gospel, Soul, or R&B–Certificate of Merit (2018) 2023 Blues Hall of Fame Inductee - Classic of Blues Literature category With this volume, Lynn Abbott and Doug Seroff complete their groundbreaking trilogy on the development of African American popular music. Fortified by decades of research, the authors bring to life the performers, entrepreneurs, critics, venues, and institutions that were most crucial to the emergence of the blues in black southern vaudeville theaters; the shadowy prehistory and early development of the blues is illuminated, detailed, and given substance. At the end of the nineteenth century, vaudeville began to replace minstrelsy as America’s favorite form of stage entertainment. Segregation necessitated the creation of discrete African American vaudeville theaters. When these venues first gained popularity, ragtime coon songs were the standard fare. Insular black southern theaters provided a safe haven, where coon songs underwent rehabilitation and blues songs suitable for the professional stage were formulated. The process was energized by dynamic interaction between the performers and their racially-exclusive audience. The first blues star of black vaudeville was Butler “String Beans” May, a blackface comedian from Montgomery, Alabama. Before his bizarre, senseless death in 1917, String Beans was recognized as the “blues master piano player of the world.” His musical legacy, elusive and previously unacknowledged, is preserved in the repertoire of country blues singer-guitarists and pianists of the race recording era. While male blues singers remained tethered to the role of blackface comedian, female “coon shouters” acquired a more dignified aura in the emergent persona of the “blues queen.” Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, and most of their contemporaries came through this portal; while others, such as forgotten blues heroine Ora Criswell and her protégé Trixie Smith, ingeniously reconfigured the blackface mask for their own subversive purposes. In 1921 black vaudeville activity was effectively nationalized by the Theater Owners Booking Association (T.O.B.A.). In collaboration with the emergent race record industry, T.O.B.A. theaters featured touring companies headed by blues queens with records to sell. By this time the blues had moved beyond the confines of entertainment for an exclusively black audience. Small-time black vaudeville became something it had never been before—a gateway to big-time white vaudeville circuits, burlesque wheels, and fancy metropolitan cabarets. While the 1920s was the most glamorous and remunerative period of vaudeville blues, the prior decade was arguably even more creative, having witnessed the emergence, popularization, and early development of the original blues on the African American vaudeville stage.