Author: James Scott LaFon
Publisher: eBookIt.com
ISBN: 1456652338
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
In the heart of Albuquerque, a city brimming with contradictions and unexpected beauty, "Albuquerque Sings the Blues" unfolds a tapestry of interwoven lives and poignant moments. James Scott LaFon masterfully captures the essence of a place where the past collides with the present, and where every soul has a story to tell. Meet Pastor Brown, a man of faith navigating the tumultuous waters of morality in a city often shadowed by sin. Follow Bianca, a dedicated bank employee trying to piece her life back together after a devastating divorce, and her son Taylor, a young man balancing school and the weight of his fragmented family. From the determined loan applicants at the Western Bank to the gritty, resilient construction workers shaping Albuquerque's skyline, each character brings their own blues to this soulful narrative. As these lives intersect, LaFon paints a vivid portrait of Albuquerque–a place where dreams are both shattered and born anew, where love is found in the unlikeliest of places, and where the blues are more than just a genre of music–they are a way of life. "Albuquerque Sings the Blues" is not just a novel; it's an immersive experience into the heart and soul of a city that sings its blues loud and clear. Perfect for readers who love deeply human stories filled with rich, complex characters, this book will resonate long after the last page is turned. Discover the unexpected melodies of Albuquerque–pick up your copy today and let the blues captivate you.
Albuquerque Sings the Blues
Author: James Scott LaFon
Publisher: eBookIt.com
ISBN: 1456652338
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
In the heart of Albuquerque, a city brimming with contradictions and unexpected beauty, "Albuquerque Sings the Blues" unfolds a tapestry of interwoven lives and poignant moments. James Scott LaFon masterfully captures the essence of a place where the past collides with the present, and where every soul has a story to tell. Meet Pastor Brown, a man of faith navigating the tumultuous waters of morality in a city often shadowed by sin. Follow Bianca, a dedicated bank employee trying to piece her life back together after a devastating divorce, and her son Taylor, a young man balancing school and the weight of his fragmented family. From the determined loan applicants at the Western Bank to the gritty, resilient construction workers shaping Albuquerque's skyline, each character brings their own blues to this soulful narrative. As these lives intersect, LaFon paints a vivid portrait of Albuquerque–a place where dreams are both shattered and born anew, where love is found in the unlikeliest of places, and where the blues are more than just a genre of music–they are a way of life. "Albuquerque Sings the Blues" is not just a novel; it's an immersive experience into the heart and soul of a city that sings its blues loud and clear. Perfect for readers who love deeply human stories filled with rich, complex characters, this book will resonate long after the last page is turned. Discover the unexpected melodies of Albuquerque–pick up your copy today and let the blues captivate you.
Publisher: eBookIt.com
ISBN: 1456652338
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
In the heart of Albuquerque, a city brimming with contradictions and unexpected beauty, "Albuquerque Sings the Blues" unfolds a tapestry of interwoven lives and poignant moments. James Scott LaFon masterfully captures the essence of a place where the past collides with the present, and where every soul has a story to tell. Meet Pastor Brown, a man of faith navigating the tumultuous waters of morality in a city often shadowed by sin. Follow Bianca, a dedicated bank employee trying to piece her life back together after a devastating divorce, and her son Taylor, a young man balancing school and the weight of his fragmented family. From the determined loan applicants at the Western Bank to the gritty, resilient construction workers shaping Albuquerque's skyline, each character brings their own blues to this soulful narrative. As these lives intersect, LaFon paints a vivid portrait of Albuquerque–a place where dreams are both shattered and born anew, where love is found in the unlikeliest of places, and where the blues are more than just a genre of music–they are a way of life. "Albuquerque Sings the Blues" is not just a novel; it's an immersive experience into the heart and soul of a city that sings its blues loud and clear. Perfect for readers who love deeply human stories filled with rich, complex characters, this book will resonate long after the last page is turned. Discover the unexpected melodies of Albuquerque–pick up your copy today and let the blues captivate you.
Popular Music Perspectives
Author: B. Lee Cooper
Publisher: Popular Press
ISBN: 9780879725051
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
In thirteen essays, this book probes ideas and themes that are prominent in contemporary song lyrics. The essays take social change, human interaction, technology, and intellectual development as points of departure for specific examinations of public education, railroads, death, automobiles, and rebels. The essays also examine humor, traditions, and historical events found in answer songs, cover recordings, nursery rhyme adaptations, and novelty tunes.
Publisher: Popular Press
ISBN: 9780879725051
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
In thirteen essays, this book probes ideas and themes that are prominent in contemporary song lyrics. The essays take social change, human interaction, technology, and intellectual development as points of departure for specific examinations of public education, railroads, death, automobiles, and rebels. The essays also examine humor, traditions, and historical events found in answer songs, cover recordings, nursery rhyme adaptations, and novelty tunes.
Poet Warrior: A Memoir
Author: Joy Harjo
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393248534
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
National bestseller An ALA Notable Book Three-term poet laureate Joy Harjo offers a vivid, lyrical, and inspiring call for love and justice in this contemplation of her trailblazing life. Joy Harjo, the first Native American to serve as U.S. poet laureate, invites us to travel along the heartaches, losses, and humble realizations of her "poet-warrior" road. A musical, kaleidoscopic, and wise follow-up to Crazy Brave, Poet Warrior reveals how Harjo came to write poetry of compassion and healing, poetry with the power to unearth the truth and demand justice. Harjo listens to stories of ancestors and family, the poetry and music that she first encountered as a child, and the messengers of a changing earth—owls heralding grief, resilient desert plants, and a smooth green snake curled up in surprise. She celebrates the influences that shaped her poetry, among them Audre Lorde, N. Scott Momaday, Walt Whitman, Muscogee stomp dance call-and-response, Navajo horse songs, rain, and sunrise. In absorbing, incantatory prose, Harjo grieves at the loss of her mother, reckons with the theft of her ancestral homeland, and sheds light on the rituals that nourish her as an artist, mother, wife, and community member. Moving fluidly between prose, song, and poetry, Harjo recounts a luminous journey of becoming, a spiritual map that will help us all find home. Poet Warrior sings with the jazz, blues, tenderness, and bravery that we know as distinctly Joy Harjo.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393248534
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
National bestseller An ALA Notable Book Three-term poet laureate Joy Harjo offers a vivid, lyrical, and inspiring call for love and justice in this contemplation of her trailblazing life. Joy Harjo, the first Native American to serve as U.S. poet laureate, invites us to travel along the heartaches, losses, and humble realizations of her "poet-warrior" road. A musical, kaleidoscopic, and wise follow-up to Crazy Brave, Poet Warrior reveals how Harjo came to write poetry of compassion and healing, poetry with the power to unearth the truth and demand justice. Harjo listens to stories of ancestors and family, the poetry and music that she first encountered as a child, and the messengers of a changing earth—owls heralding grief, resilient desert plants, and a smooth green snake curled up in surprise. She celebrates the influences that shaped her poetry, among them Audre Lorde, N. Scott Momaday, Walt Whitman, Muscogee stomp dance call-and-response, Navajo horse songs, rain, and sunrise. In absorbing, incantatory prose, Harjo grieves at the loss of her mother, reckons with the theft of her ancestral homeland, and sheds light on the rituals that nourish her as an artist, mother, wife, and community member. Moving fluidly between prose, song, and poetry, Harjo recounts a luminous journey of becoming, a spiritual map that will help us all find home. Poet Warrior sings with the jazz, blues, tenderness, and bravery that we know as distinctly Joy Harjo.
Popular Music
Author: Simon Frith
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415299053
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Popular music studies is a rapidly expanding field with changing emphases and agendas. The music industry has changed in recent years, as has governmental involvement in popular music schemes as part of the culture industry. The distinction between the major record labels and the outsider independents has become blurred over time. Popular music, as part of this umbrella of the culture industry, has been progressively globalized and globalizing. The tensions within popular music are now no longer between national cultural identity and popular music, but between the local and the global. This four volume collection examines the changing status of popular music against this background. Simon Frith examines the heritage of popular music, and how technology has changed not only the production but the reception of this brand of sound. The collection examines how the traditional genres of rock, pop and soul have broken down and what has replaced them, as well as showing how this proliferation of musical styles has also splintered the audience of popular music.
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415299053
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Popular music studies is a rapidly expanding field with changing emphases and agendas. The music industry has changed in recent years, as has governmental involvement in popular music schemes as part of the culture industry. The distinction between the major record labels and the outsider independents has become blurred over time. Popular music, as part of this umbrella of the culture industry, has been progressively globalized and globalizing. The tensions within popular music are now no longer between national cultural identity and popular music, but between the local and the global. This four volume collection examines the changing status of popular music against this background. Simon Frith examines the heritage of popular music, and how technology has changed not only the production but the reception of this brand of sound. The collection examines how the traditional genres of rock, pop and soul have broken down and what has replaced them, as well as showing how this proliferation of musical styles has also splintered the audience of popular music.
Country Music
Author: Kurt Wolff
Publisher: Rough Guides
ISBN: 9781858285344
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
Includes essays tracing Country's growth from hand-me-down folk to a major American industry; concise biographies; critical album reviews, from the earliest commercial recordings of the 1920s through the mulitplatinum artists of today; and vintage album jackets and previously unpublished photographs.
Publisher: Rough Guides
ISBN: 9781858285344
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
Includes essays tracing Country's growth from hand-me-down folk to a major American industry; concise biographies; critical album reviews, from the earliest commercial recordings of the 1920s through the mulitplatinum artists of today; and vintage album jackets and previously unpublished photographs.
Robert Altman's Soundtracks
Author: Gayle Sherwood Magee
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190205334
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
American director Robert Altman (1925-2006) first came to national attention with the surprise blockbuster M*A*S*H (1970), and he directed more than thirty feature films in the subsequent decades. Critics and scholars have noted that music is central to Altman's films, and in addition to his feature films, Altman worked in theater, opera, and the emerging field of cable television. His treatment of sound is a hallmark of his films, alongside overlapping dialogue, improvisation, and large ensemble casts. Several of his best-known films integrate musical performances into the central plot, including Nashville (1975), Popeye (1980), Short Cuts (1993), Kansas City (1996), The Company (2003) and A Prairie Home Companion (2006), his final film. Even such non-musicals as McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971) have been described as, in fellow director and protégé Paul Thomas Anderson's evocative phrase, as "musicals without people singing." Robert Altman's Soundtracks considers Altman's celebrated, innovative uses of music and sound in several of his most acclaimed and lesser-known works. In so doing, these case studies serve as a window not only into Altman's considerable and varied output, but also the changing film industry over nearly four decades, from the heyday of the New Hollywood in the late 1960s through the "Indiewood" boom of the 1990s and its bust in the early 2000s. As its frame, the book considers the continuing attractions of auteurism inside and outside of scholarly discourse, by considering Altman's career in terms of the director's own self-promotion as a visionary and artist; the film industry's promotion of Altman the auteur; the emphasis on Altman's individual style, including his use of music, by the director, critics, scholars, and within the industry; and the processes, tensions, and boundaries of collaboration.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190205334
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
American director Robert Altman (1925-2006) first came to national attention with the surprise blockbuster M*A*S*H (1970), and he directed more than thirty feature films in the subsequent decades. Critics and scholars have noted that music is central to Altman's films, and in addition to his feature films, Altman worked in theater, opera, and the emerging field of cable television. His treatment of sound is a hallmark of his films, alongside overlapping dialogue, improvisation, and large ensemble casts. Several of his best-known films integrate musical performances into the central plot, including Nashville (1975), Popeye (1980), Short Cuts (1993), Kansas City (1996), The Company (2003) and A Prairie Home Companion (2006), his final film. Even such non-musicals as McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971) have been described as, in fellow director and protégé Paul Thomas Anderson's evocative phrase, as "musicals without people singing." Robert Altman's Soundtracks considers Altman's celebrated, innovative uses of music and sound in several of his most acclaimed and lesser-known works. In so doing, these case studies serve as a window not only into Altman's considerable and varied output, but also the changing film industry over nearly four decades, from the heyday of the New Hollywood in the late 1960s through the "Indiewood" boom of the 1990s and its bust in the early 2000s. As its frame, the book considers the continuing attractions of auteurism inside and outside of scholarly discourse, by considering Altman's career in terms of the director's own self-promotion as a visionary and artist; the film industry's promotion of Altman the auteur; the emphasis on Altman's individual style, including his use of music, by the director, critics, scholars, and within the industry; and the processes, tensions, and boundaries of collaboration.
Folklife Center News
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Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 346
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Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 346
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American Folk Music and Folklore Recordings
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Category : Folk music
Languages : en
Pages : 210
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Category : Folk music
Languages : en
Pages : 210
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Old Time Music
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Category : Folk music
Languages : en
Pages : 142
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Category : Folk music
Languages : en
Pages : 142
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CMJ New Music Report
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Languages : en
Pages : 60
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CMJ New Music Report is the primary source for exclusive charts of non-commercial and college radio airplay and independent and trend-forward retail sales. CMJ's trade publication, compiles playlists for college and non-commercial stations; often a prelude to larger success.
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Languages : en
Pages : 60
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CMJ New Music Report is the primary source for exclusive charts of non-commercial and college radio airplay and independent and trend-forward retail sales. CMJ's trade publication, compiles playlists for college and non-commercial stations; often a prelude to larger success.