Book Description
Blue is the biggest fan of the Indianapolis Colts, but when the team is off the field, he packs up his van and travels around the state. Come and explore Indiana from A to Z with Blue as your guide!
Author : Trey Mock
Publisher : Mascot Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 22,75 MB
Release : 2016-03-22
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781631773365
Blue is the biggest fan of the Indianapolis Colts, but when the team is off the field, he packs up his van and travels around the state. Come and explore Indiana from A to Z with Blue as your guide!
Author : Baktash Vafaei
Publisher : StateGuides
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 27,48 MB
Release :
Category : Travel
ISBN :
Indiana Revealed: A Journey to the Heart of the Hoosier State A trip to the heart of the Hoosier State is an invitation to an exciting journey of discovery through an often overlooked treasure in the heart of the United States. This book takes you deep into the fabric of Indiana, the so-called "Hoosier State", and reveals the many facets of this fascinating state. Your journey begins by exploring Indiana's roots, from the original Native Americans to the early European settlers. You'll understand the history and culture of this region and how they made Indiana what it is today. Indiana boasts stunning scenery that ranges from vast fields and forested hills to picturesque lakes and rivers. This book takes you on a journey through Indiana's natural beauty, including the awe-inspiring Lake Michigan, the Hoosier National Forest, and many state parks ideal for hiking and exploring. Likewise, you'll get to know Indiana's cities and towns, from the bustling cityscapes of Indianapolis and Fort Wayne to the charming small towns that characterize the Hoosier State. Indiana's diversity is also evident in its eclectic cultural scene, where you can experience art, music, festivals, and culinary delights. A trip to the heart of Hoosier State will take you to a deeper level as you immerse yourself in the state's stories and storytellers. You will understand the heritage of the Hoosiers and learn what makes these people stand out. Finally, this book offers an aerial perspective as you can see Indiana from above and enjoy the scenic beauty from a bird's eye view.
Author : Andrea Neal
Publisher : Indiana Historical Society
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 16,61 MB
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0871953951
The bicentennial of Indiana’s statehood in 2016 is the perfect time for Hoosiers of all stripes to hit the road and visit sites that speak to the nineteenth state’s character. In her book, Andrea Neal has selected the top 100 events/historical figures in Indiana history, some well-known like George Rogers Clark, and others obscured by time or memory such as the visit of Marquis de Lafayette to southern Indiana. These highly readable essays and photographs that accompany them feature a tourist site or landmark that in some way brings the subject to life. This will enable interested Hoosiers to travel the entire state to experience history at firsthand. Related activities and sites include nature hikes, museums, markers, monuments, and memorials. The sites appear in chronological order, beginning with the impact of the Ice Age on Indiana and ending with the legacy of the bicentennial itself.
Author : Chris Thomas King
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 581 pages
File Size : 17,31 MB
Release : 2021-06-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 1641604476
"A fresh new perspective that will be a true revolution to readers and will open new lines of discussion on . . . the importance of the city of New Orleans for generations to come." —Dr. Michael White, jazz clarinetist, composer, and Keller Endowed Chair at Xavier University of LA An untold authentic counter-narrative blues history and the first written by an African American blues artist All prior histories on the blues have alleged it originated on plantations in the Mississippi Delta. Not true, says author Chris Thomas King. In The Blues, King present facts to disprove such myths. This book is the first to argue the blues began as a cosmopolitan art form, not a rural one. As early as 1900, the sound of the blues was ubiquitous in New Orleans. The Mississippi Delta, meanwhile, was an unpopulated sportsman's paradise—the frontier was still in the process of being cleared and drained for cultivation.? Expecting these findings to be controversial in some circles, King has buttressed his conclusions with primary sources and years of extensive research, including a sojourn to West Africa and interviews with surviving folklorists and blues researchers from the 1960s folk-rediscovery epoch.? New Orleans, King states, was the only place in the Deep South where the sacred and profane could party together without fear of persecution, creating the blues.
Author : Richard Knight
Publisher :
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 12,13 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781873756669
Includes hotels and restaurants; music clubs and bars; music landmarks; music festivals and events; interviews; jazz, blues, Cajun, zydeco, country, gospel, soul and rock and roll; and more.
Author : Stephen A. King
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 21,19 MB
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 1628469145
In I’m Feeling the Blues Right Now: Blues Tourism and the Mississippi Delta, Stephen A. King reveals the strategies used by blues promoters and organizers in Mississippi, both African American and white, local and state, to attract the attention of tourists. In the process, he reveals how promotional materials portray the Delta’s blues culture and its musicians. Those involved in selling the blues in Mississippi work to promote the music while often conveniently forgetting the state’s historical record of racial and economic injustice. King’s research includes numerous interviews with blues musicians and promoters, chambers of commerce, local and regional tourism entities, and members of the Mississippi Blues Commission. This book is the first critical account of Mississippi’s blues tourism industry. From the late 1970s until 2000, Mississippi’s blues tourism industry was fragmented, decentralized, and localized, as each community competed for tourist dollars. By 2003–2004, with the creation of the Mississippi Blues Commission, the promotion of the blues became more centralized as state government played an increasing role in promoting Mississippi’s blues heritage. Blues tourism has the potential to generate new revenue in one of the poorest states in the country, repair the state’s public image, and serve as a vehicle for racial reconciliation.
Author : Robert Palmer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 21,60 MB
Release : 2011-09-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1416599754
A collection of previously published articles and criticism by famed music critic Robert Palmer.
Author : Nadine Cohodas
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 40,50 MB
Release : 2001-09-28
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780312284947
Sun Records gave us rock and roll, Motown Records gave us pop soul, and Chess Records gave us the blues. Chess was label for Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Chuck Berry, Etta James, and Bo Diddley--and in this critcially acclaimed history we learn the full story of this legendary label. The greatest artists who sang and played the blues made their mark with Leonard and Phil Chess, whose Chicago-based record company was synonymous with the sound that swept up from the South, embraced the Windy City, and spread out like wildfire into mid-century America. Spinning Blues into Gold is the impeccably researched story of the men behind the music and the remarkable company they created. Chess Records--and later Checkers, Argo, and Cadet Records--was built by Polish immigrant Jews, brothers who saw the blues as a unique business opportunity. From their first ventures, a liquor store and then a nightclub, they promoted live entertainment. And parlayed that into the first pressings sold out of car trunks on long junkets through the midsection of the country, ultimately expanding their empire to include influential radio stations. The story of the Chess brothers is a very American story of commerce in the service of culture. Long on chutzpah, Leonard and Phil Chess went far beyond their childhoods as the sons of a scrap-metal dealer. They changed what America listened to; the artists they promoted planted the seeds of rock 'n' roll--and are still influencing music today. In this book, Cohodas expertly captures the rich and volatile mix of race, money, and recorded music. She also takes us deep into the world of independent record producers, sometimes abrasive and always aggressive men striving to succeed. Leonard and Phil Chess worked hand-in-glove with disenfranchised black artists, the intermittent charges of exploitation balanced by the reality of a common purpose that eventually brought fame to many if not most of the parties concerned. From beginning to end, as we find in these pages, the lives of the Chess brothers were socially, financially, and creatively entwined with those of the artists they believed in.
Author : Grandma Joy
Publisher : Destiny Image Publishers
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 14,55 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0768423511
This book is filled with real-life personal stories, testimonies, prayers, scriptures, and answers to help women find wisdom, strength and salvation. Each thought-provoking story is concluded with a light-hearted story providing readers with lots of laughter.
Author : Joshua Hartzell
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 37,46 MB
Release : 2009-12
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1449058418
There and Back is a book about Josh, Brian, and Kathy. They are three friends that took a motorcycle road trip through Indiana. This book tells the highlights of their trip and talks about some of the interesting towns and scenery throughout Indiana. It can become confusing if you concentrate on figuring out who is telling the story throughout the book, so concentrate on the story itself.