Author: Richard Cecil
Publisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 0809388812
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 111
Book Description
Death, fame, art, and religion become comic subjects in Twenty First Century Blues, the fourth collection from Richard Cecil.Whether elegizing his predecessors, predicting his own end, channeling Dickinson’s “corpse-eye-view of stony death,” or imagining Yeats living in Indiana and dealing with English department politics, Cecil tempers his morbidity with a straightforward, tender brand of humor and a refreshing honesty about the shelf life of contemporary poetry. Deadpan and dark, yet pulsing with the spirit of life, these poems speak of historic France, Italy, and Switzerland, where religious persecutions, ancient catastrophes, and other, less personal, failures overshadow the disappointments and shortcomings of the poet’s modern life in the Midwest. Grimly cheered by these revelations, Cecil shows that poets, like cicadas screaming in the summer air, “won’t shut up until we’re skeletons.”
Twenty First Century Blues
Author: Richard Cecil
Publisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 0809388812
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 111
Book Description
Death, fame, art, and religion become comic subjects in Twenty First Century Blues, the fourth collection from Richard Cecil.Whether elegizing his predecessors, predicting his own end, channeling Dickinson’s “corpse-eye-view of stony death,” or imagining Yeats living in Indiana and dealing with English department politics, Cecil tempers his morbidity with a straightforward, tender brand of humor and a refreshing honesty about the shelf life of contemporary poetry. Deadpan and dark, yet pulsing with the spirit of life, these poems speak of historic France, Italy, and Switzerland, where religious persecutions, ancient catastrophes, and other, less personal, failures overshadow the disappointments and shortcomings of the poet’s modern life in the Midwest. Grimly cheered by these revelations, Cecil shows that poets, like cicadas screaming in the summer air, “won’t shut up until we’re skeletons.”
Publisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 0809388812
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 111
Book Description
Death, fame, art, and religion become comic subjects in Twenty First Century Blues, the fourth collection from Richard Cecil.Whether elegizing his predecessors, predicting his own end, channeling Dickinson’s “corpse-eye-view of stony death,” or imagining Yeats living in Indiana and dealing with English department politics, Cecil tempers his morbidity with a straightforward, tender brand of humor and a refreshing honesty about the shelf life of contemporary poetry. Deadpan and dark, yet pulsing with the spirit of life, these poems speak of historic France, Italy, and Switzerland, where religious persecutions, ancient catastrophes, and other, less personal, failures overshadow the disappointments and shortcomings of the poet’s modern life in the Midwest. Grimly cheered by these revelations, Cecil shows that poets, like cicadas screaming in the summer air, “won’t shut up until we’re skeletons.”
21st Century Blues
Author: S. Walker
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780340618417
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780340618417
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
20th Century Blues
Author: Susan Miller
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 0822238780
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Four women meet once a year for a ritual photo shoot, chronicling their changing (and aging) selves as they navigate love, careers, children, and the complications of history. But when these private photographs threaten to go public, relationships are tested, forcing the women to confront who they are and how they’ll deal with whatever lies ahead. 20TH CENTURY BLUES is a sharply funny and evocative play by Obie Award and Susan Smith Blackburn Prize-winner Susan Miller that questions our place in the world and with one another.
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 0822238780
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Four women meet once a year for a ritual photo shoot, chronicling their changing (and aging) selves as they navigate love, careers, children, and the complications of history. But when these private photographs threaten to go public, relationships are tested, forcing the women to confront who they are and how they’ll deal with whatever lies ahead. 20TH CENTURY BLUES is a sharply funny and evocative play by Obie Award and Susan Smith Blackburn Prize-winner Susan Miller that questions our place in the world and with one another.
The White Stripes
Author: Dick Porter
Publisher: Plexus Publishing
ISBN: 9780859653503
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book "examines the folksy ex-husband and wife duo who stunned the music world with the most powerful blues-rock since Led Zeppelin and the most haunting country-rock since the Byrds and Gram Parsons. Rock biographer Dick Porter analyses the quirkiness of their former claims to be a brother and sister from a family of ten, Jack's austere puritanism and obsessions with truth and death, and the child-like innocence of the couple's matching red-and-white colour themes." - back cover.
Publisher: Plexus Publishing
ISBN: 9780859653503
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book "examines the folksy ex-husband and wife duo who stunned the music world with the most powerful blues-rock since Led Zeppelin and the most haunting country-rock since the Byrds and Gram Parsons. Rock biographer Dick Porter analyses the quirkiness of their former claims to be a brother and sister from a family of ten, Jack's austere puritanism and obsessions with truth and death, and the child-like innocence of the couple's matching red-and-white colour themes." - back cover.
Twenty First Century Blues
Author: Richard Cecil
Publisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 9780809388806
Category : Twenty-first century
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Publisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 9780809388806
Category : Twenty-first century
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Early 21st Century Blues
Author: Michael Dargaville
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Feminism
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Feminism
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The 21st Century Pro Method
Author: Don Latarski
Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing
ISBN: 9780757909993
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
The most complete method for the modern blues guitarist. This book covers basic blues techniques, soloing over the I, IV, and V chords, and the differences between authentic blues soloing, blues-rock, funk, and jazz-oriented solos. Plus it demonstrates classic blues phrases, intros, endings, and turnarounds. With more than 130 music examples, all recorded on the included CD, and over 20 complete blues tunes for demonstration and play-along practice, this book is a complete course on blues guitar.
Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing
ISBN: 9780757909993
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
The most complete method for the modern blues guitarist. This book covers basic blues techniques, soloing over the I, IV, and V chords, and the differences between authentic blues soloing, blues-rock, funk, and jazz-oriented solos. Plus it demonstrates classic blues phrases, intros, endings, and turnarounds. With more than 130 music examples, all recorded on the included CD, and over 20 complete blues tunes for demonstration and play-along practice, this book is a complete course on blues guitar.
Blues in the 21st Century: Myth, Self-Expression and Trans-Culturalism
Author: Douglas Mark Ponton
Publisher: Vernon Press
ISBN: 1622739566
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
The book is the fruit of Douglas Mark Ponton’s and co-editor Uwe Zagratzki’s enduring interest in the Blues as a musical and cultural phenomenon and source of personal inspiration. Continuing in the tradition of Blues studies established by the likes of Samuel Charters and Paul Oliver, the authors hope to contribute to the revitalisation of the field through a multi-disciplinary approach designed to explore this constantly evolving social phenomenon in all its heterogeneity. Focusing either on particular artists (Lightnin’ Hopkins, Robert Johnson), or specific texts (Langston Hughes’ Weary Blues and Backlash Blues, Jimi Hendrix’s Machine Gun), the book tackles issues ranging from authenticity and musicology in Blues performance to the Blues in diaspora, while also applying techniques of linguistic analysis to the corpora of Blues texts. While some chapters focus on the Blues as a quintessentially American phenomenon, linked to a specific social context, others see it in its current evolutions, as the bearer of vital cultural attitudes into the digital age. This multidisciplinary volume will appeal to a broad range of scholars operating in a number of different academic disciplines, including Musicology, Linguistics, Sociology, History, Ethnomusicology, Literature, Economics and Cultural Studies. It will also interest educators across the Humanities, and could be used to exemplify the application to data of specific analytical methodologies, and as a general introduction to the field of Blues studies.
Publisher: Vernon Press
ISBN: 1622739566
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
The book is the fruit of Douglas Mark Ponton’s and co-editor Uwe Zagratzki’s enduring interest in the Blues as a musical and cultural phenomenon and source of personal inspiration. Continuing in the tradition of Blues studies established by the likes of Samuel Charters and Paul Oliver, the authors hope to contribute to the revitalisation of the field through a multi-disciplinary approach designed to explore this constantly evolving social phenomenon in all its heterogeneity. Focusing either on particular artists (Lightnin’ Hopkins, Robert Johnson), or specific texts (Langston Hughes’ Weary Blues and Backlash Blues, Jimi Hendrix’s Machine Gun), the book tackles issues ranging from authenticity and musicology in Blues performance to the Blues in diaspora, while also applying techniques of linguistic analysis to the corpora of Blues texts. While some chapters focus on the Blues as a quintessentially American phenomenon, linked to a specific social context, others see it in its current evolutions, as the bearer of vital cultural attitudes into the digital age. This multidisciplinary volume will appeal to a broad range of scholars operating in a number of different academic disciplines, including Musicology, Linguistics, Sociology, History, Ethnomusicology, Literature, Economics and Cultural Studies. It will also interest educators across the Humanities, and could be used to exemplify the application to data of specific analytical methodologies, and as a general introduction to the field of Blues studies.
Reimagining the Blues
Author: Nigel James Martin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Blues in the 21st Century
Author: Marilyn Stringer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781484840955
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
A collection of photos and interviews about blues performers in the 21st Century.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781484840955
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
A collection of photos and interviews about blues performers in the 21st Century.