Author: Robert H. Fowler
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Jim Mundy
Author: Robert H. Fowler
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Jim Mundy
Author: Robert H. Fowler
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
"When he enlists in the 10th North Carolina Volunteers, the young Jim Mundy is determined to fight for the glory of the Confederacy. ... Along the way, he meets Jane Ferro, the aristocratic daughter of a wealthy platation owner, thus embarking on a love affair that will last a lifetime and spawn a new generation of Dixie pride and honor far from the horror and heartbreak war."--Jacket.
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
"When he enlists in the 10th North Carolina Volunteers, the young Jim Mundy is determined to fight for the glory of the Confederacy. ... Along the way, he meets Jane Ferro, the aristocratic daughter of a wealthy platation owner, thus embarking on a love affair that will last a lifetime and spawn a new generation of Dixie pride and honor far from the horror and heartbreak war."--Jacket.
The Rise of Gospel Blues
Author: Michael W. Harris
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195358112
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Most observers believe that gospel music has been sung in African-American churches since their organization in the late 1800s. Yet nothing could be further from the truth, as Michael W. Harris's history of gospel blues reveals. Tracing the rise of gospel blues as seen through the career of its founding figure, Thomas Andrew Dorsey, Harris tells the story of the most prominent person in the advent of gospel blues. Also known as "Georgia Tom," Dorsey had considerable success in the 1920s as a pianist, composer, and arranger for prominent blues singes including Ma Rainey. In the 1930s he became involved in Chicago's African-American, old-line Protestant churches, where his background in the blues greatly influenced his composing and singing. Following much controversy during the 1930s and the eventual overwhelming response that Dorsey's new form of music received, the gospel blues became a major force in African-American churches and religion. His more than 400 gospel songs and recent Grammy Award indicate that he is still today the most prolific composer/publisher in the movement. Delving into the life of the central figure of gospel blues, Harris illuminates not only the evolution of this popular musical form, but also the thought and social forces that forged the culture in which this music was shaped.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195358112
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Most observers believe that gospel music has been sung in African-American churches since their organization in the late 1800s. Yet nothing could be further from the truth, as Michael W. Harris's history of gospel blues reveals. Tracing the rise of gospel blues as seen through the career of its founding figure, Thomas Andrew Dorsey, Harris tells the story of the most prominent person in the advent of gospel blues. Also known as "Georgia Tom," Dorsey had considerable success in the 1920s as a pianist, composer, and arranger for prominent blues singes including Ma Rainey. In the 1930s he became involved in Chicago's African-American, old-line Protestant churches, where his background in the blues greatly influenced his composing and singing. Following much controversy during the 1930s and the eventual overwhelming response that Dorsey's new form of music received, the gospel blues became a major force in African-American churches and religion. His more than 400 gospel songs and recent Grammy Award indicate that he is still today the most prolific composer/publisher in the movement. Delving into the life of the central figure of gospel blues, Harris illuminates not only the evolution of this popular musical form, but also the thought and social forces that forged the culture in which this music was shaped.
The New York Supplement
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1246
Book Description
"Cases argued and determined in the Court of Appeals, Supreme and lower courts of record of New York State, with key number annotations." (varies)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1246
Book Description
"Cases argued and determined in the Court of Appeals, Supreme and lower courts of record of New York State, with key number annotations." (varies)
The King of Adobe
Author: Lorena Oropeza
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469653303
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
In 1967, Reies Lopez Tijerina led an armed takeover of a New Mexico courthouse in the name of land rights for disenfranchised Spanish-speaking locals. The small-scale raid surprisingly thrust Tijerina and his cause into the national spotlight, catalyzing an entire generation of activists. The actions of Tijerina and his group, the Alianza Federal de Mercedes (the Federal Alliance of Land Grants), demanded that Americans attend to an overlooked part of the country's history: the United States was an aggressive empire that had conquered and colonized the Southwest and subsequently wrenched land away from border people—Mexicans and Native Americans alike. To many young Mexican American activists at the time, Tijerina and the Alianza offered a compelling and militant alternative to the nonviolence of Cesar Chavez and Martin Luther King Jr. Tijerina's place at the table among the nation's leading civil rights activists was short-lived, but his analysis of land dispossession and his prophetic zeal for the rights of his people was essential to the creation of the Chicano movement. This fascinating full biography of Tijerina (1926–2015) offers a fresh and unvarnished look at one of the most controversial, criticized, and misunderstood activists of the civil rights era. Basing her work on painstaking archival research and new interviews with key participants in Tijerina's life and career, Lorena Oropeza traces the origins of Tijerina's revelatory historical analysis to the years he spent as a Pentecostal preacher and his hidden past as a self-proclaimed prophet of God. Confronting allegations of anti-Semitism and accusations of sexual abuse, as well as evidence of extreme religiosity and possible mental illness, Oropeza's narrative captures the life of a man--alternately mesmerizing and repellant--who changed our understanding of the American West and the place of Latinos in the fabric of American struggles for equality and self-determination.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469653303
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
In 1967, Reies Lopez Tijerina led an armed takeover of a New Mexico courthouse in the name of land rights for disenfranchised Spanish-speaking locals. The small-scale raid surprisingly thrust Tijerina and his cause into the national spotlight, catalyzing an entire generation of activists. The actions of Tijerina and his group, the Alianza Federal de Mercedes (the Federal Alliance of Land Grants), demanded that Americans attend to an overlooked part of the country's history: the United States was an aggressive empire that had conquered and colonized the Southwest and subsequently wrenched land away from border people—Mexicans and Native Americans alike. To many young Mexican American activists at the time, Tijerina and the Alianza offered a compelling and militant alternative to the nonviolence of Cesar Chavez and Martin Luther King Jr. Tijerina's place at the table among the nation's leading civil rights activists was short-lived, but his analysis of land dispossession and his prophetic zeal for the rights of his people was essential to the creation of the Chicano movement. This fascinating full biography of Tijerina (1926–2015) offers a fresh and unvarnished look at one of the most controversial, criticized, and misunderstood activists of the civil rights era. Basing her work on painstaking archival research and new interviews with key participants in Tijerina's life and career, Lorena Oropeza traces the origins of Tijerina's revelatory historical analysis to the years he spent as a Pentecostal preacher and his hidden past as a self-proclaimed prophet of God. Confronting allegations of anti-Semitism and accusations of sexual abuse, as well as evidence of extreme religiosity and possible mental illness, Oropeza's narrative captures the life of a man--alternately mesmerizing and repellant--who changed our understanding of the American West and the place of Latinos in the fabric of American struggles for equality and self-determination.
The New York State Reporter
Author: New York (State). Courts
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1012
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1012
Book Description
The New York State Reporter
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 982
Book Description
"Containing all the current decisions of the courts of record of New York State, namely: Court of Appeals, Supreme Court, New York Superior Court, New York Common Pleas, Superior Court of Buffalo, City Court of New York, City Court of Brooklyn, and the Surrogates' Courts" (varies slightly).
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 982
Book Description
"Containing all the current decisions of the courts of record of New York State, namely: Court of Appeals, Supreme Court, New York Superior Court, New York Common Pleas, Superior Court of Buffalo, City Court of New York, City Court of Brooklyn, and the Surrogates' Courts" (varies slightly).
Country
Author: Nick Tosches
Publisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 0786750987
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Celebrating the dark origins of our most American music, Country reveals a wild shadowland of history that encompasses blackface minstrels and yodeling cowboys; honky-tonk hell and rockabilly heaven; medieval myth and musical miscegenation; sex, drugs, murder; and rays of fierce illumination on Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, and others, famous and forgotten, whose demonology is America's own. Profusely and superbly illustrated, Country stands as one of the most brilliant explorations of American musical culture ever written.
Publisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 0786750987
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Celebrating the dark origins of our most American music, Country reveals a wild shadowland of history that encompasses blackface minstrels and yodeling cowboys; honky-tonk hell and rockabilly heaven; medieval myth and musical miscegenation; sex, drugs, murder; and rays of fierce illumination on Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, and others, famous and forgotten, whose demonology is America's own. Profusely and superbly illustrated, Country stands as one of the most brilliant explorations of American musical culture ever written.
Trail of Blood
Author: J.A. Johnstone
Publisher: Pinnacle Books
ISBN: 0786027789
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
Conrad Browning is about to face his deadliest challenge yet in this wild west thriller from the USA Today–bestselling author of Killer Poker. Bravery Is in the Blood The son of legendary gunman Frank Morgan, Conrad Browning goes by the name Kid Morgan—the Loner—and forged a growing reputation of his own. But in the midst of a fight for his life, the Kid discovered that he too was a father: of twins he’d never met. Now, the Kid heads back east to pierce a mystery guarded by murderous criminals for hire. Why is his ex-fiancée hiding his children from him? And why is this secret worth killing to keep? The answers lead the Kid back to a small Kansas town and a tale of cruelty, greed and power—the kind of story his father always knew how to end: with courage and a gun . . . “Another terrific entry in The Loner series . . . The tale is peopled with many memorable characters and descriptions put me right there in the midst of the action.” —Western Fiction Review
Publisher: Pinnacle Books
ISBN: 0786027789
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
Conrad Browning is about to face his deadliest challenge yet in this wild west thriller from the USA Today–bestselling author of Killer Poker. Bravery Is in the Blood The son of legendary gunman Frank Morgan, Conrad Browning goes by the name Kid Morgan—the Loner—and forged a growing reputation of his own. But in the midst of a fight for his life, the Kid discovered that he too was a father: of twins he’d never met. Now, the Kid heads back east to pierce a mystery guarded by murderous criminals for hire. Why is his ex-fiancée hiding his children from him? And why is this secret worth killing to keep? The answers lead the Kid back to a small Kansas town and a tale of cruelty, greed and power—the kind of story his father always knew how to end: with courage and a gun . . . “Another terrific entry in The Loner series . . . The tale is peopled with many memorable characters and descriptions put me right there in the midst of the action.” —Western Fiction Review
Counting Down Southern Rock
Author: C. Eric Banister
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442245409
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
When Southern rock acts like the Allman Brothers and Lynyrd Skynrd stormed American concert stages, detractors immediately came to the fore declaring the genre to be little more than a marketing gimmick. But those on stage themselves would have called its appearance not only inevitable but also a way of life. In the end, the musicians who played Southern rock reflected a robust and broad variety of influences, drawing deeply from the wellsprings of blues, rock, country, and even jazz. Listeners gravitated to the sounds of the New South, a place that had captured pop culture’s imagination amid the turbulence following President Nixon’s successful Southern strategy and silent majorities. Southern rock garnered a second wave of enthusiasm with the rise of the urban cowboy and Bill Clinton’s ascension to the presidency. For nearly half a century, Southern rock has captured and expressed the energy of the New South, inspiring a legacy that listeners can still hear from jam bands, indie acts, and mainstream country musicians. In Counting Down Southern Rock: The 100 Best Songs, C. Eric Banister considers the best songs to emerge from the bands who made Southern rock what it is. Banister examines the impact of the songs on the society and culture of devoted fans and delves deep into the history and production of each song. Featuring such well-known bands as the Allman Brothers Band and Lynyrd Skynyrd as well as less visible groups like Blackhorse and Heartsfield, this book is the perfect introduction for both newbies and dedicated fans.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442245409
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
When Southern rock acts like the Allman Brothers and Lynyrd Skynrd stormed American concert stages, detractors immediately came to the fore declaring the genre to be little more than a marketing gimmick. But those on stage themselves would have called its appearance not only inevitable but also a way of life. In the end, the musicians who played Southern rock reflected a robust and broad variety of influences, drawing deeply from the wellsprings of blues, rock, country, and even jazz. Listeners gravitated to the sounds of the New South, a place that had captured pop culture’s imagination amid the turbulence following President Nixon’s successful Southern strategy and silent majorities. Southern rock garnered a second wave of enthusiasm with the rise of the urban cowboy and Bill Clinton’s ascension to the presidency. For nearly half a century, Southern rock has captured and expressed the energy of the New South, inspiring a legacy that listeners can still hear from jam bands, indie acts, and mainstream country musicians. In Counting Down Southern Rock: The 100 Best Songs, C. Eric Banister considers the best songs to emerge from the bands who made Southern rock what it is. Banister examines the impact of the songs on the society and culture of devoted fans and delves deep into the history and production of each song. Featuring such well-known bands as the Allman Brothers Band and Lynyrd Skynyrd as well as less visible groups like Blackhorse and Heartsfield, this book is the perfect introduction for both newbies and dedicated fans.