The Blues Done Lost Its Mind
DOWNLOAD
Download The Blues Done Lost Its Mind PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get The Blues Done Lost Its Mind 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
The Blues Done Lost Its Mind
DOWNLOAD
Author : Ruben White
language : en
Publisher: Ruben White
Release Date : 2023-01-05
The Blues Done Lost Its Mind written by Ruben White and has been published by Ruben White this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-01-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
The blues done lost it's mind will surely have you in an uproar with laughter. This book of poetry was designed to tickle your funny bone with metaphoric phrases, idiomatic expressions, and Ebonics. With a mixture of Harlem Renaissance-style poetry. Remembering the days of The Cotton club. When our folks were sassy but classy. Taking you way back to when we went down yonder to Big Mama's House. Oh yeah, and when the shoeshine was only 5 cents. Lemonheads, banana splits, and all of them treat. But, bringing you back to the present. When afros, bell bottoms, and patent leather boots were stylish. Take a load off, grab this book and have a seat.
Has Hollywood Lost Its Mind
DOWNLOAD
Author : Chris Hicks
language : en
Publisher: Abrams
Release Date : 2013-05-01
Has Hollywood Lost Its Mind written by Chris Hicks and has been published by Abrams this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-01 with Performing Arts categories.
The wire-thin line that separates movies rated PG and R has been crossed over so many times in both directions that industry observers are questioning whether the rating system carries any validity at all. As a movie reviewer for more than thirty years and as a watchful, caretaker parent, author Chris Hicks learned pretty quickly that Hollywood movers and shakers like to “push the envelope,” as they put it, and it doesn’t seem to matter whether it’s a children’s film or an adult movie. It’s not just R-rated movies that are troubling. PG-13s and even PGs can also be problematic. And sometimes worse than problematic. Simply put, relying on the Motion Picture Association of America to make choices for you or your children is a mistake. Breaking down the history of the film rating system and exploring today’s ratings confusion and quagmire, Hicks provides valuable information to help parents know how to interpret and what to expect from today’s movies.
Even Cowgirls Get The Blues
DOWNLOAD
Author : Tom Robbins
language : en
Publisher: Bantam
Release Date : 2003-06-17
Even Cowgirls Get The Blues written by Tom Robbins and has been published by Bantam this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-06-17 with Fiction categories.
“This is one of those special novels—a piece of working magic, warm, funny, and sane.”—Thomas Pynchon The whooping crane rustlers are girls. Young girls. Cowgirls, as a matter of fact, all “bursting with dimples and hormones”—and the FBI has never seen anything quite like them. Yet their rebellion at the Rubber Rose Ranch is almost overshadowed by the arrival of the legendary Sissy Hankshaw, a white-trash goddess literally born to hitchhike, and the freest female of them all. Freedom, its prizes and its prices, is a major theme of Tom Robbins’s classic tale of eccentric adventure. As his robust characters attempt to turn the tables on fate, the reader is drawn along on a tragicomic joyride across the badlands of sexuality, wild rivers of language, and the frontiers of the mind.
The Supremes Sing The Happy Heartache Blues
DOWNLOAD
Author : Edward Kelsey Moore
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Release Date : 2017-06-20
The Supremes Sing The Happy Heartache Blues written by Edward Kelsey Moore and has been published by Macmillan + ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-20 with Fiction categories.
“Moore, besides being laugh out loud hilarious, has a profound understanding of human nature . . . A truly remarkable writer. This book is a joy to read.” —Fannie Flagg, author of The Whole Town’s Talking and Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe “The arrival of [Moore’s] new novel had me singing anything but the blues.”—Julia Glass, National Book Award-winning author of A House Among the Trees and Three Junes From the author of the bestselling The Supremes at Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat, The Supremes Sing the Happy Heartache Blues, an exuberant and poignant new novel of passions, family, and forgiveness When a late life love affair blooms between Mr. Forrest Payne, the owner of the Pink Slipper Gentleman’s Club, and Miss Beatrice Jordan, famous for stationing herself at the edge of the club’s parking lot and yelling warnings of eternal damnation at the departing patrons, their wedding summons a legend to town. Mr. El Walker, the great guitar bluesman, comes home to give a command performance in Plainview, Indiana, a place he’d sworn—and for good reason—he’d never set foot in again. But El is not the only Plainview native with a hurdle to overcome. A wildly philandering husband struggles at last to prove his faithfulness to the wife he’s always loved. And among those in this tightly knit community who show up every Sunday after church for lunch at Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat, are the lifelong friends, known locally as “The Supremes” —Clarice, facing down her longing for, chance at and fear of a great career; Barbara Jean, grappling at last with the loss of a mother whose life humiliated both of them, and Odette, reaching toward her husband through an anger of his that she does not understand. Edward Kelsey Moore’s lively cast of characters, each of whom have surmounted serious trouble and come into love, need not learn how to survive but how, fully, to live. And they do, every one of them, serenaded by the bittersweet and unforgettable blues song El Walker plays, born of his own great loss and love.
Blues Legacies And Black Feminism
DOWNLOAD
Author : Angela Y. Davis
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2011-10-05
Blues Legacies And Black Feminism written by Angela Y. Davis and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-05 with Social Science categories.
From one of this country's most important intellectuals comes a brilliant analysis of the blues tradition that examines the careers of three crucial black women blues singers through a feminist lens. Angela Davis provides the historical, social, and political contexts with which to reinterpret the performances and lyrics of Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday as powerful articulations of an alternative consciousness profoundly at odds with mainstream American culture. The works of Rainey, Smith, and Holiday have been largely misunderstood by critics. Overlooked, Davis shows, has been the way their candor and bravado laid the groundwork for an aesthetic that allowed for the celebration of social, moral, and sexual values outside the constraints imposed by middle-class respectability. Through meticulous transcriptions of all the extant lyrics of Rainey and Smith−published here in their entirety for the first time−Davis demonstrates how the roots of the blues extend beyond a musical tradition to serve as a conciousness-raising vehicle for American social memory. A stunning, indispensable contribution to American history, as boldly insightful as the women Davis praises, Blues Legacies and Black Feminism is a triumph.
Blues Lyric Poetry
DOWNLOAD
Author : Michael Taft
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1984
Blues Lyric Poetry written by Michael Taft and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with African Americans categories.
This computer-generated anthology serves as a companion to Taft's Blues Lyric Poetry: a Concordance and gives the user the complete poetic context for every word, phrase or line in which he is interested. He also provides a selection of blues lyrics which have never appeared in print before or are scattered. Taft has transcribed over 2,000 blues lyrics from recordings made between 1920 and 1942 and includes over 350 singers such as Josh White, Sonny Boy Williamson, Robert Johnson and Ma Rainey. The anthology includes both country and urban, male and female, "downhome" and vaudeville singers. The songs are arranged according to singer and under each singer, according to dates of recording and sequences in the recording sessions. Information given includes singer, title, place, date and record numbers. The final section is a line-concordance index to the titles of the songs. ISBN 0-8240-9235-X (alk. paper) : $75.00 (For use only in the library).
Blues Fell This Morning
DOWNLOAD
Author : Paul Oliver
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1990-04-12
Blues Fell This Morning written by Paul Oliver and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990-04-12 with Music categories.
A new, revised edition of Paul Oliver's classic study of the blues, first published in 1960.
The Blues Lyric Formula
DOWNLOAD
Author : Michael Taft
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-01-11
The Blues Lyric Formula written by Michael Taft and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-11 with Music categories.
This book is the first rigourous and detailed exploration of exactly how blues singers used formulas to create songs, and it more than amply fills the gap in the the study of the blues, where the structure and content of the lyrics have been less fully explored than the musical form. Focusing on the songs recorded by African-American singers for pre-World War Two commercial recording companies, this is an excellent structural analysis of the formulaic composistion of blues lyrics. This book gives a step-by-step description of the rules implicit in this formulaic structure and inspires new discussion of lyric structures. A wide array of readers will find this insightful and informative: from students of African-American music, cultural studies, history and linguistics, to Blues fans fascinated by exactly how the lyrics of this influential music style are written.
Early Downhome Blues
DOWNLOAD
Author : Jeff Todd Titon
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2014-02-01
Early Downhome Blues written by Jeff Todd Titon 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 2014-02-01 with Music categories.
Hailed as a classic in music studies when it was first published in 1977, Early Downhome Blues is a detailed look at traditional country blues artists and their work. Combining musical analysis and cultural history approaches, Titon examines the origins of downhome blues in African American society. He also explores what happened to the art form when the blues were commercially recorded and became part of the larger American culture. From forty-seven musical transcriptions, Titon derives a grammar of early downhome blues melody. His book is enriched with the recollections of blues performers, audience members, and those working in the recording industry. In a new afterword, Titon reflects on the genesis of this book in the blues revival of the 1960s and the politics of tourism in the current revival under way.
Talkin To Myself
DOWNLOAD
Author : Michael Taft
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-10-08
Talkin To Myself written by Michael Taft and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-08 with Music categories.
Talkin' to Myself: Blues Lyrics, 1921-1942 is a compendium of lyrics by the great blues recording artists of the classic blues era. It includes over 2000 songs, transcribed directly from the original recordings, making it by far the most comprehensive and accurate collection of blues lyrics available.