Author: Andy Kirk
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472101344
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Kirk describes his life as a traveling jazz musician
Twenty Years on Wheels
Author: Andy Kirk
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472101344
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Kirk describes his life as a traveling jazz musician
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472101344
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Kirk describes his life as a traveling jazz musician
The Wheels on the Bus
Author:
Publisher: Barefoot Books
ISBN: 1782856919
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Come along on an exciting bus ride from a Guatemalan village to a market town with this fresh take on a favourite song. Features Latin-inspired singalong and endnotes about life in Guatemala. Enhanced CD includes audio singalong and video animation.
Publisher: Barefoot Books
ISBN: 1782856919
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Come along on an exciting bus ride from a Guatemalan village to a market town with this fresh take on a favourite song. Features Latin-inspired singalong and endnotes about life in Guatemala. Enhanced CD includes audio singalong and video animation.
Lonesome Roads and Streets of Dreams
Author: Andrew S. Berish
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226044947
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Any listener knows the power of music to define a place, but few can describe the how or why of this phenomenon. In Lonesome Roads and Streets of Dreams: Place, Mobility, and Race in Jazz of the 1930s and ’40s, Andrew Berish attempts to right this wrong, showcasing how American jazz defined a culture particularly preoccupied with place. By analyzing both the performances and cultural context of leading jazz figures, including the many famous venues where they played, Berish bridges two dominant scholarly approaches to the genre, offering not only a new reading of swing era jazz but an entirely new framework for musical analysis in general, one that examines how the geographical realities of daily life can be transformed into musical sound. Focusing on white bandleader Jan Garber, black bandleader Duke Ellington, white saxophonist Charlie Barnet, and black guitarist Charlie Christian, as well as traveling from Catalina Island to Manhattan to Oklahoma City, Lonesome Roads and Streets of Dreams depicts not only a geography of race but how this geography was disrupted, how these musicians crossed physical and racial boundaries—from black to white, South to North, and rural to urban—and how they found expression for these movements in the insistent music they were creating.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226044947
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Any listener knows the power of music to define a place, but few can describe the how or why of this phenomenon. In Lonesome Roads and Streets of Dreams: Place, Mobility, and Race in Jazz of the 1930s and ’40s, Andrew Berish attempts to right this wrong, showcasing how American jazz defined a culture particularly preoccupied with place. By analyzing both the performances and cultural context of leading jazz figures, including the many famous venues where they played, Berish bridges two dominant scholarly approaches to the genre, offering not only a new reading of swing era jazz but an entirely new framework for musical analysis in general, one that examines how the geographical realities of daily life can be transformed into musical sound. Focusing on white bandleader Jan Garber, black bandleader Duke Ellington, white saxophonist Charlie Barnet, and black guitarist Charlie Christian, as well as traveling from Catalina Island to Manhattan to Oklahoma City, Lonesome Roads and Streets of Dreams depicts not only a geography of race but how this geography was disrupted, how these musicians crossed physical and racial boundaries—from black to white, South to North, and rural to urban—and how they found expression for these movements in the insistent music they were creating.
Venus on Wheels
Author: Gelya Frank
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520922358
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
In 1976 Gelya Frank began writing about the life of Diane DeVries, a woman born with all the physical and mental equipment she would need to live in our society--except arms and legs. Frank was 28 years old, DeVries 26. This remarkable book--by turns moving, funny, and revelatory--records the relationship that developed between the women over the next twenty years. An empathic listener and participant in DeVries's life, and a scholar of the feminist and disability rights movements, Frank argues that Diane DeVries is a perfect example of an American woman coming of age in the second half of the twentieth century. By addressing the dynamics of power in ethnographic representation, Frank--anthropology's leading expert on life history and life story methods--lays the critical groundwork for a new genre, "cultural biography." Challenged to examine the cultural sources of her initial image of DeVries as limited and flawed, Frank discovers that DeVries is gutsy, buoyant, sexy--and definitely not a victim. While she analyzes the portrayal of women with disabilities in popular culture--from limbless circus performers to suicidal heroines on the TV news--Frank's encounters with DeVries lead her to come to terms with her own "invisible disabilities" motivating the study. Drawing on anthropology, philosophy, psychoanalysis, narrative theory, law, and the history of medicine, Venus on Wheels is an intellectual tour de force.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520922358
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
In 1976 Gelya Frank began writing about the life of Diane DeVries, a woman born with all the physical and mental equipment she would need to live in our society--except arms and legs. Frank was 28 years old, DeVries 26. This remarkable book--by turns moving, funny, and revelatory--records the relationship that developed between the women over the next twenty years. An empathic listener and participant in DeVries's life, and a scholar of the feminist and disability rights movements, Frank argues that Diane DeVries is a perfect example of an American woman coming of age in the second half of the twentieth century. By addressing the dynamics of power in ethnographic representation, Frank--anthropology's leading expert on life history and life story methods--lays the critical groundwork for a new genre, "cultural biography." Challenged to examine the cultural sources of her initial image of DeVries as limited and flawed, Frank discovers that DeVries is gutsy, buoyant, sexy--and definitely not a victim. While she analyzes the portrayal of women with disabilities in popular culture--from limbless circus performers to suicidal heroines on the TV news--Frank's encounters with DeVries lead her to come to terms with her own "invisible disabilities" motivating the study. Drawing on anthropology, philosophy, psychoanalysis, narrative theory, law, and the history of medicine, Venus on Wheels is an intellectual tour de force.
Proceedings
Author: National Electric Light Association
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Journals of the House of Commons of the Kingdom of Ireland
Author: Ireland. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
Walden on Wheels
Author: Ken Ilgunas
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 054402883X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
Inspired by Thoreau, Ilgunas set out on a Spartan path to pay off $32,000 in undergraduate student loans by scrubbing toilets and making beds in Alaska. Determined to graduate debt-free after enrolling in graduate school, he lived in an Econoline van in a campus parking lot, saving--and learning--much about the cost of education today.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 054402883X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
Inspired by Thoreau, Ilgunas set out on a Spartan path to pay off $32,000 in undergraduate student loans by scrubbing toilets and making beds in Alaska. Determined to graduate debt-free after enrolling in graduate school, he lived in an Econoline van in a campus parking lot, saving--and learning--much about the cost of education today.
Cassier's Magazine
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
Engineering
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1042
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1042
Book Description
Railway Carmen's Journal
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor unions
Languages : en
Pages : 758
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor unions
Languages : en
Pages : 758
Book Description