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 : 36,59 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 : 25,42 MB
Release : 1970
Category :
ISBN : 9783125765009
Author : Jack Kerouac
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 12,80 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 : 25,4 MB
Release : 1985-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780793534616
Author : Robert W. Harwood
Publisher : Harland Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 10,89 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Blues (Music)
ISBN : 0980974305
Author : Will Romano
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 36,80 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 : Robert Whitlow
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 16,88 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 : Asie Payton
Publisher :
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 26,49 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 : Charles Keil
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 18,83 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.
Author : Alexs D. Pate
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 40,15 MB
Release : 2015-02
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0873519744
"A rich Minnesota literary tradition is brought into the spotlight in this groundbreaking collection of incisive prose and powerful poetry by forty- three black writers who educate, inspire, and reveal the unabashed truth. Historically significant figures tell their stories, demonstrating how much and how little conditions have changed: Gordon Parks hitchhikes to Bemidji, Taylor Gordon describes his first day as a chauffeur in St. Paul, and Nellie Stone Johnson insists on escaping the farm for high school in Minneapolis. A profusionof modern voices-- poet Tish Jones, playwright Kim Hines, and memoirist Frank Wilderson-- reflect the dizzying, complex realities of the present. Showcasing the unique vision and reality of Minnesota's African American community from the Harlem renaissance through the civil rights movement, from the black power movement to the era of hip- hop and the time of America's first black president, this compelling anthology provides an explosion of artistic expression about what it means to be a Minnesotan. Alexs Pate, an award- winning novelist, playwright, and writing professor, is the president of Innocent Technologies, LLC. Pamela R. Fletcher is associate professor of English at St. Catherine University. J. Otis Powell!? is a poet, performance artist, and curator working in an aesthetic rooted in Afrocentric lore and culture"--