Author: Allen Lowe
Publisher: eBooks2go, Inc.
ISBN: 0989995054
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 442
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Turn Me Loose White Man is a an examination of virtually all forms of American vernacular music throughout the first 60 years of the twentieth century. It includes a 30 cd set (available separately at www.allenlowe.com) and complete discussion and annotation of over 800 performances in the following genres: Ragtime, minstrelsy, blues, jazz, hillbilly music, country music, blues, rhythm and blues, folk, and rock and roll.
Author: Leah Vincent
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698192672
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 242
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In the vein of Prozac Nation and Girl, Interrupted, an electrifying memoir about a young woman's promiscuous and self-destructive spiral after being cast out of her ultra-Orthodox Jewish family Leah Vincent was born into the Yeshivish community, a fundamentalist sect of ultra-Orthodox Judaism. As the daughter of an influential rabbi, Leah and her ten siblings were raised to worship two things: God and the men who ruled their world. But the tradition-bound future Leah envisioned for herself was cut short when, at sixteen, she was caught exchanging letters with a male friend, a violation of religious law that forbids contact between members of the opposite sex. Leah's parents were unforgiving. Afraid, in part, that her behavior would affect the marriage prospects of their other children, they put her on a plane and cut off ties. Cast out in New York City, without a father or husband tethering her to the Orthodox community, Leah was unprepared to navigate the freedoms of secular life. She spent the next few years using her sexuality as a way of attracting the male approval she had been conditioned to seek out as a child, while becoming increasingly unfaithful to the religious dogma of her past. Fast-paced, mesmerizing, and brutally honest, Cut Me Loose tells the story of one woman's harrowing struggle to define herself as an individual. Through Leah's eyes, we confront not only the oppressive world of religious fundamentalism, but also the broader issues that face even the most secular young women as they grapple with sexuality and identity.
Author: Langston Hughes
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781623236212
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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When a young boy named Roger tries to steal the purse of a woman named Luella, he is just looking for money to buy stylish new shoes. After she grabs him by the collar and drags him back to her home, he's sure that he is in deep trouble. Instead, Roger is soon left speechless by her kindness and generosity.
Author: Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 0634060651
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 243
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(Guitar Chord Songbook). Just the chords and lyrics for 80 rock essentials, including: All Along the Watchtower * All the Young Dudes * Bang a Gong (Get It On) * Beast of Burden * Brass in Pocket * Cat Scratch Fever * Changes * Free Ride * Hot Blooded * La Grange * L.A. Woman * Layla * Money * Money for Nothing * Owner of a Lonely Heart * Rhiannon * Ridin' the Storm Out * Rock and Roll All Nite * Smokin' in the Boys Room * Start Me Up * Stray Cat Strut * The Stroke * Sweet Emotion * Take Me to the River * Walk on the Wild Side * You Shook Me All Night Long * and more.
Author: Kincaid Mills
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 1643364111
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 439
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Oral histories of formerly enlaved people and their families along the South Carolina coast Coming Through marks the first complete publication of these interviews with former slaves and their descendants living in the Waccamaw Neck region of South Carolina as collected by Genevieve W. Chandler as part of the WPA Federal Writers Project. Between 1936 and 1938 Chandler interviewed more than one hundred individuals in and around All Saints Parish, a portion of Horry and Georgetown counties located between the Waccamaw River and the Atlantic Ocean. Her subjects spoke freely with her on topics ranging from slave punishment to folk medicine, from conditions in the Jim Crow South to the exploits of Brer Rabbit. A teacher, artist, writer, and later museum curator, Chandler had no formal training as an oral historian or folklorist, yet the sophistication of her work as documented here anticipates developments in these fields of study a generation later. Her detailed descriptions add social context to folktales, and her careful and systematic renderings of the Gullah language have since been praised as foundational work by Creole linguists. Chandler's Gullah-speaking African American informants range in age from the 9-year-old George Kato Singleton to 104-year-old Welcome Bees. A biography of each subject accompanies the interviews. Collectively these interviews form an intimate portrait of a fascinating subculture of the Carolina coast and the Sea Islands as shared with a remarkable woman who has special access to converse with the people of this traditionally insular world. Moreover they provide an unparalleled firsthand account of the African American experience in South Carolina in the words of those who lived it. The volume is edited by Chandler's daughter, Genevieve C. Peterkin, and two scholars, Kincaid Mills and Aaron McCollough. The three have carefully established the texts of the interviews in a manner that highlights Chandler's skills as a field linguist and have supplemented the texts with revealing documentation. The collection is enhanced with a foreword by Charles W. Joyner, Burroughs Distinguished Professor of History at Coastal Carolina University; appendixes respecting the WPA project and the nuances of Gullah language and culture; and photographs of the subjects taken by renowned photographer Bayard Wootten—many published here for the first time.
Author: Annette Debo
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810146894
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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Uncovering how poetry refigures Black history to imagine a more just present and future “Poets are lyric historians,” proclaimed Langston Hughes. Today, historical poetry offers a lyric history necessary to our current moment—poetry with the power to correct the past, realign the present, and create a more hopeful, or even hoped-for, future. The Necessary Past: Revising History in Contemporary African American Poetry focuses on six of today’s most celebrated poets: Elizabeth Alexander, Natasha Trethewey, A. Van Jordan, Kevin Young, Frank X Walker, and Camille T. Dungy. Their works reimagine the interiority of Black historical figures like the so-called Venus Hottentot Sara Baartman and the would-be spelling champion MacNolia Cox, the African American Native Guard who fought in the Civil War and the unknown victims of domestic violence, Jack Johnson and Jean-Michel Basquiat, Medgar Evers and those freed and enslaved in the early nineteenth century. These poets shift the power dynamic in revising our shared history, reconfiguring who speaks and whose stories are told, and writing a past that frees readers to change the present and envision a more just future.
Author: Jacqueline Johnson
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1984518917
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 92
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There comes a point in life when you have to release all past hurts, pains, disappointments, and even betrayals and look at things in a different perspective. It is very crucial that we heal from everything that we encounter. Our test and trials drive us to our purpose only if we allow. Tears become a way of release. Betrayals force us to become more confident as we learn to build a solid foundation on which we stand. Disappointments help us find our true identity. We are now mentally, emotionally, physically, and spiritually ready to be an example to the next. And that point, my friend, is called the shift.
Author: Henry Winkler
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 051515718X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 145
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Hank, the star of the bestselling easy-to-read series, is back! This time, he has to learn the nuts and bolts of making a robot--and making a friend! Hank's school is hosting its first-ever Build-a-Robot competition and Hank is ready to win. There's just one problem: he completely forgot about the contest! While other kids have been working on their robots for a month, Hank has just two days to create an amazing robot that will wow the judges and win him the trophy. To make matters worse, there might be another problem, too. Hank has no idea how to build a robot! With help from Jaden, a robot expert at his school, Hank and his friends construct their robot, Stanley, just in time. But on the day of the competition, Stanley malfunctions! It will take Hank, Frankie, Ashley, and their new friend Jaden to get it back on track. Forget winning the trophy--Hank has to stop a robot on the loose!
Author: T. D. Jakes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: J.T. Brown
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1456896938
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 83
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At first I didn’t have a name, but now my name is Torno, and this is the true story of my life. My day began on the street, fightin’ and hungry most of the time, but I was full of life. I was the ugliest mutt on the block. The bigger mutts made fun of me, called me skinny, hairless, squirt, you name it.
