Author: Colin Larkin
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Category : Popular music
Languages : en
Pages : 838

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Author: Lyman Horace Weeks
Publisher:
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Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 64

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Author: Colin Larkin
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Category : Popular music
Languages : en
Pages : 840

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Author: David Amram
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317249631
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 539

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David Amram has played and rambled and galloped and staggered through a remarkably broad sweep of American life, experience, and creative struggle. The Boston Globe has described him as "the Renaissance man of American Music." Amram and Jack Kerouac collaborated on the first-ever jazz poetry reading in New York City in 1957 as well as the subsequent legendary film Pull My Daisy in 1959, combining Amram's music with Kerouac's narration. Amram, honored as the first Composer-in-Residence of the New York Philharmonic, has composed more than 100 orchestral and chamber works, written two operas, and has collaborated with Leonard Bernstein, Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Hampton, Charles Mingus, Dustin Hoffman, Thelonious Monk, Willie Nelson, Nancy Griffith, Johnny Depp, and more. Vibrations is the story of one boy's adventures growing up on a farm in Pennsylvania, working odd jobs, misfitting in the U.S. Army, barnstorming through Europe with the famous Seventh Army Symphony, exiling in Paris, scuffling on the Lower East Side, day-laboring-often down but never out-finally emerging as a major musical force. With its stage-setting foreword by Douglas Brinkley and a new afterword by Kerouac biographer Audrey Sprenger, this new edition is not to be missed.

Author: Emily Ruth Rutter
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1496817133
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 202

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Winner of the 2018 John Coates Next Generation Award from the Negro Leagues Research Committee of the Society for American Baseball Research Although many Americans think of Jackie Robinson when considering the story of segregation in baseball, a long history of tragedies and triumphs precede Robinson’s momentous debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers. From the pioneering Cuban Giants (1885-1915) to the Negro Leagues (1920-1960), Black baseball was a long-standing staple of African American communities. While many of its artifacts and statistics are lost, Black baseball figured vibrantly in films, novels, plays, and poems. In Invisible Ball of Dreams: Literary Representations of Baseball behind the Color Line, author Emily Ruth Rutter examines wide-ranging representations of this history by William Brashler, Jerome Charyn, August Wilson, Gloria Naylor, Harmony Holiday, Kevin King, Kadir Nelson, and Denzel Washington, among others. Reading representations across the literary color line, Rutter opens a propitious space for exploring Black cultural pride and residual frustrations with racial hypocrisies on the one hand and the benefits and limitations of white empathy on the other. Exploring these topics is necessary to the project of enriching the archives of segregated baseball in particular and African American cultural history more generally.

Author: Abbi Glines
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1534430970
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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Five years after the Lawton High football team last took the field, everyone gathers for a special event back home in Alabama, where each couple must come face-to-face with their past in order to move forward to a future worth celebrating.

Author: Colin Larkin
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Category : Popular music
Languages : en
Pages : 840

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Author: Colin Larkin
Publisher:
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Category : Popular music
Languages : en
Pages : 910

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Author: Julia Rubiner
Publisher: Contemporary Musicians
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 336

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Contemporary Musicians provides comprehensive information on more than 4,500 musicians and groups from around the world. Entries include a detailed biographical essay, selected discographies, contact information and a list of sources.

Author: Colin Larkin
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Category : Popular music
Languages : en
Pages : 932

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