Twin Cities Album

Twin Cities Album PDF Author: Dave Kenney
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN: 9780873515221
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312

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A 150-year retrospective of Twin Cities life told through hundreds of breathtaking, surprising, and intimate photographs of people, culture, landmarks, and events.

Twin Cities Album

Twin Cities Album PDF Author: Dave Kenney
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN: 9780873515221
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312

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Book Description
A 150-year retrospective of Twin Cities life told through hundreds of breathtaking, surprising, and intimate photographs of people, culture, landmarks, and events.

Minneapolis-St. Paul Then and Now

Minneapolis-St. Paul Then and Now PDF Author: Hanje Richards
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781571456878
Category : Minneapolis
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Celebrating America's favorite cityscapes, this series combines historic interest and contemporary beauty. Then and Now features fascinating archival photographs contrasted with specially commissioned, full-color images of the same scene today. A visual lesson in the historic changes of our greatest urban landscapes.

Writings on American History, 1902

Writings on American History, 1902 PDF Author: Ernest Cushing Richardson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 328

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Writings on American History

Writings on American History PDF Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 346

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Got to Be Something Here

Got to Be Something Here PDF Author: Andrea Swensson
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452956367
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 261

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Beginning in the year of Prince’s birth, 1958, with the recording of Minnesota’s first R&B record by a North Minneapolis band called the Big Ms, Got to Be Something Here traces the rise of that distinctive sound through two generations of political upheaval, rebellion, and artistic passion. Funk and soul become a lens for exploring three decades of Minneapolis and St. Paul history as longtime music journalist Andrea Swensson takes us through the neighborhoods and venues, and the lives and times, that produced the Minneapolis Sound. Visit the Near North neighborhood where soul artist Wee Willie Walker, recording engineer David Hersk, and the Big Ms first put the Minneapolis Sound on record. Across the Mississippi River in the historic Rondo district of St. Paul, the gospel-meets-R&B groups the Exciters and the Amazers take hold of a community that will soon be all but erased by the construction of I-94. From King Solomon’s Mines to the Flame, from The Way in Near North to the First Avenue stage (then known as Sam’s) where Prince would make a triumphant hometown return in 1981, Swensson traces the journeys of black artists who were hard-pressed to find venues and outlets for their music, struggling to cross the color line as they honed their sound. And through it all, there’s the music: blistering, sweltering, relentless funk, soul, and R&B from artists like Maurice McKinnies, Haze, Prophets of Peace, and The Family, who refused to be categorized and whose boundary-shattering approach set the stage for a young Prince Rogers Nelson and his peers Morris Day, André Cymone, Jimmy Jam, and Terry Lewis to launch their careers, and the Minneapolis Sound, into the stratosphere. A visit to Prince’s Paisley Park and a conversation with the artist provide a rare glimpse into his world and an intimate sense of his relationship to his legacy and the music he and his friends crafted in their youth.

My Own Devices

My Own Devices PDF Author: Dessa
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1524742309
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 274

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“I love the way Dessa puts words together. In her songs, in her poetry, in her short stories, and now in this beautiful and candid memoir. Wanna be an artist? Get this book.” --Lin-Manuel Miranda "Dessa writes beautifully about a wide range of topics, including science, music, and the pain that comes with being in love; it's a surprising and generous memoir by a singular voice." --NPR, Best Books of 2018 Dessa defies category--she is an intellectual with an international rap career and an inhaler in her backpack; a creative writer fascinated by philosophy and behavioral science; and a funny, charismatic performer dogged by blue moods and heartache. She's ferocious on stage and endearingly neurotic in the tour van. Her stunning literary debut memoir stitches together poignant insights on love, science, and language--a demonstration of just how far the mind can travel while the body is on a six-hour ride to the next gig. In "The Fool That Bets Against Me," Dessa writes to Geico to request a commercial insurance policy for the broken heart that's helped her write so many sad songs. "A Ringing in the Ears" tells the story of her father building a wooden airplane in their backyard garage. In "'Congratulations,'" she describes the challenge of recording a song for The Hamilton Mixtape in a Minneapolis basement, straining for a high note and hoping for a break. "Call Off Your Ghost" chronicles the fascinating project she undertook with a team of neuroscientists to try to clinically excise romantic feelings for an old flame. Her writing is infused with scientific research, dry wit, a philosophical perspective, and an abiding tenderness for the people she tours with and the people she leaves behind to be on the road. My Own Devices is an uncompromising and candid account of a life in motion, in music, and in love. Dessa is as compelling on the page as she is onstage, making My Own Devices the debut of a unique and deft literary voice.

Lost Twin Cities

Lost Twin Cities PDF Author: Larry Millett
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
ISBN: 0873512731
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 351

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1993 American Institute of Architects International Architecture Book Award

Horticulture

Horticulture PDF Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 996

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Twin Cities Picture Show

Twin Cities Picture Show PDF Author: Dave Kenney
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN: 0873517555
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 415

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Book Description
A lively illustrated history that reveals how the movie business has fascinated, scandalized, and socialized the Twin Cities and its people.

Twin Cities Then and Now

Twin Cities Then and Now PDF Author: Larry Millett
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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An engaging, startling look at the dramatic evolution of landscapes in Minneapolis and St. Paul from the vantage point of their relatively static streets, in seventy-two historic black-and-white photographs, taken from the 1880's to the late 1950's, coupled with informative essays.