The Josh White Song Book
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Page : 191 pages
File Size : 14,86 MB
Release : 1963
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Page : 191 pages
File Size : 14,86 MB
Release : 1963
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Author : Josh White
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Page : 191 pages
File Size : 29,49 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Ballads, English
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Author : Josh White
Publisher : Chicago : Quadrangle Books
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 17,9 MB
Release : 1963
Category : African Americans
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Author : Elijah Wald
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 22,37 MB
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 113672365X
Born in South Carolina, White spent his childhood as a lead boy for traveling blind bluesmen. In the early '30s he moved to New York and became a popular blues star, then introduced folk-blues to a mass white audience in the 1940s. He was famed both for his strong Civil Rights songs, which made him a favorite of the Roosevelts, and for his sexy stage persona. The king of Café Society-also home to Billie Holiday--he was the one bluesman to consistently pack the New York nightspots, and the first black singer-guitarist to act in Hollywood films and star on Broadway. In the 1950s, White's bitter compromise with the blacklisters left him with few friends on either end of the political spectrum. He spent much of the decade in Europe, then came back strong in the 1960s folk revival. By 1963, he was voted one of America's top three male folk stars, but his health was failing and he did not survive the decade. Written in an engaging style, Society Blues portrays the difficult balancing act that all black performers must face in a predominantly white culture. Through the twists and turns of White's life, it traces the evolution of the blues and folk revival, and is a must read for anyone interested in the history of American popular culture, as well as a fascinating life story. Visit the author's website to see the Josh White photo gallery and learn more about Elijah Wald.
Author : Elijah Wald
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 28,24 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780415942041
First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Michael Denning
Publisher : Verso
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 44,64 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781859841709
As garment workers, longshoremen, autoworkers, sharecroppers and clerks took to the streets, striking and organizing unions in the midst of the Depression, artists, writers and filmmakers joined the insurgent social movement by creating a cultural front. Disney cartoonists walked picket lines, and Billie Holiday sand 'Strange Fruit' at the left-wing cabaret, Café Society. Duke Ellington produced a radical musical, Jump for Joy, New York garment workers staged the legendary Broadway revue Pins and Needles, and Orson Welles and his Mercury players took their labor operas and anti-fascist Shakespeare to Hollywood and made Citizen Kane. A major reassessment of US cultural history, The Cultural Front is a vivid mural of this extraordinary upheaval which reshaped American culture in the twentieth century.
Author : Elijah Wald
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 17,88 MB
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1136723722
Born in South Carolina, White spent his childhood as a lead boy for traveling blind bluesmen. In the early '30s he moved to New York and became a popular blues star, then introduced folk-blues to a mass white audience in the 1940s. He was famed both for his strong Civil Rights songs, which made him a favorite of the Roosevelts, and for his sexy stage persona. The king of Café Society-also home to Billie Holiday--he was the one bluesman to consistently pack the New York nightspots, and the first black singer-guitarist to act in Hollywood films and star on Broadway. In the 1950s, White's bitter compromise with the blacklisters left him with few friends on either end of the political spectrum. He spent much of the decade in Europe, then came back strong in the 1960s folk revival. By 1963, he was voted one of America's top three male folk stars, but his health was failing and he did not survive the decade. Written in an engaging style, Society Blues portrays the difficult balancing act that all black performers must face in a predominantly white culture. Through the twists and turns of White's life, it traces the evolution of the blues and folk revival, and is a must read for anyone interested in the history of American popular culture, as well as a fascinating life story. Visit the author's website to see the Josh White photo gallery and learn more about Elijah Wald.
Author : Josh White
Publisher : Mascot Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,91 MB
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781645431473
Phones have made us ignore our beautiful planet. How often do you see kids with their headphones in, hunched over, and buried in their phones? Ever wonder what song they are listening to? Or what game they are playing? What would they do without their phones? Join Legend on this messy, silly, and creative journey as he finds out what happens when he has to put his phone down.
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Page : 17 pages
File Size : 22,77 MB
Release : 1947*
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Author : Norman Cazden
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 14,6 MB
Release : 1983-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0791498646
Notes and Sources to Folk Songs of the Catskills, also published by the State University of New York Press, is the companion volume to Folk Songs of the Catskills. It contains extensive reference notes that exemplify and support detailed citations in the commentary preceding each song. The book also includes a comprehensive list of sources, including books, broadsides or pocket songsters, disc recordings, music publications, periodicals, tape archives, and other miscellaneous material, as well as information on variants, adaptations, comments or references, texts, and tunes. These notes are designed to provide succinct reference information.