Book Description
A collection of poetry echoes many of the themes and lyricism of Baldwin's essays and novels
Author : James Baldwin
Publisher : St Martins Press
Page : 75 pages
File Size : 39,96 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780312051044
A collection of poetry echoes many of the themes and lyricism of Baldwin's essays and novels
Author : James Baldwin
Publisher :
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 39,64 MB
Release : 1970
Category :
ISBN : 9783125765009
Author : Jack Kerouac
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 23,13 MB
Release : 1995-09-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1101548800
Best known for his "Legend of Duluoz" novels, including On the Road and The Dharma Bums, Jack Kerouac is also an important poet. In these eight extended poems, Kerouac writes from the heart of experience in the music of language, employing the same instrumental blues form that he used to fullest effect in Mexico City Blues, his largely unheralded classic of postmodern literature. Edited by Kerouac himself, Book of Blues is an exuberant foray into language and consciousness, rich with imagery, propelled by rythm, and based in a reverent attentiveness to the moment. "In my system, the form of blues choruses is limited by the small page of the breastpocket notebook in which they are written, like the form of a set number of bars in a jazz blues chorus, and so sometimes the word-meaning can carry from one chorus into another, or not, just like the phrase-meaning can carry harmonically from one chorus to the other, or not, in jazz, so that, in these blues as in jazz, the form is determined by time, and by the musicians spontaneous phrasing & harmonizing with the beat of time as it waves & waves on by in measured choruses." —Jack Kerouac
Author : Kay Shirley
Publisher : Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,62 MB
Release : 1985-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780793534616
Author : Robert W. Harwood
Publisher : Harland Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 50,82 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Blues (Music)
ISBN : 0980974305
Author : Will Romano
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 24,24 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780879308780
Alcoholic. Epileptic. Technically challenged. Described as all this and worse, Jimmy Reed nevertheless overcame these roadblocks to become perhaps the most successful R&B/pop crossover artist of the '50s. In "Big Boss Man," musicians, family members, and those whose lives Reed touched offer revealing and heart-wrenching insights into this now-revered bluesman. Although Reed's alcoholism was no secret, its effect on his musicianship is less understood -- this and more is explored in this comprehensive biography of a classic bluesman.
Author : Asie Payton
Publisher :
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 35,56 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Blues
ISBN : 9780972435208
2 compact disc one is compilation of all fat possum artist. the other compact disc is of r.l. burnside
Author : Robert Whitlow
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 34,75 MB
Release : 2006-06-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1418513067
Once you look at the world through Jimmy's eyes, you'll never see it the same again. Jimmy's world is a place where a boy can grow to be a man, even if he's "special." Where angels hover, mostly unseen. Where danger can happen, and hearts can falter—but love is never wasted. From best-selling author Robert Whitlow comes a poignant tale of innocence and courage in the tradition of Huckleberry Finn and To Kill A Mockingbird.
Author : James Baldwin
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 18,71 MB
Release : 2013-09-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0804149755
A major collection of short stories by one of America’s most important writers—informed by the knowledge the wounds racism leaves in both its victims and its perpetrators. • “If Van Gogh was our 19th-century artist-saint, James Baldwin is our 20th-century one.” —Michael Ondaatje, Booker Prize-winner of The English Patient In this modern classic, "there's no way not to suffer. But you try all kinds of ways to keep from drowning in it." The men and women in these eight short fictions grasp this truth on an elemental level, and their stories detail the ingenious and often desperate ways in which they try to keep their head above water. It may be the heroin that a down-and-out jazz pianist uses to face the terror of pouring his life into an inanimate instrument. It may be the brittle piety of a father who can never forgive his son for his illegitimacy. Or it may be the screen of bigotry that a redneck deputy has raised to blunt the awful childhood memory of the day his parents took him to watch a black man being murdered by a gleeful mob. By turns haunting, heartbreaking, and horrifying, Going to Meet the Man is a major work by one of our most important writers.
Author : Charles Keil
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 27,19 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Music
ISBN : 0226429601
"Keil's classic account of blues and its artists is both a guide to the development of the music and a powerful study of the blues as an expressive form in and for African American life." -- Amazon.com.