Your Neighbor's Hymnal

2011-06-10 Religion

Author : Jeffrey F. Keuss
Release : 2011-06-10
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 698/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Your Neighbor's Hymnal written by Jeffrey F. Keuss. This book was released on 2011-06-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your Neighbor's Hymnal provides a winsome and thoughtful exploration of popular music, from rock to hip-hop to metal to soul, as a vital source contemporary culture continues to go to learn about faith, hope, and love. Where some Christians have kept their focus only on a hymnal found in their church or formed by the genre of Contemporary Christian Music, Keuss argues that your neighbor's hymnal is filled with great music that God is using and deserves a deeper listen. Offering forty songs spanning time and genres, each section includes a number of representative reflections on the history and artist that created the song, reflections on its lyrical content, and theological and biblical connections that will hopefully show some ways in which the song illustrates how your neighbor is hearing, seeking, and finding faith, hope, and love through popular music. This book can be approached in a number of ways. As an introduction to this stream of popular culture, the overviews and short introductions to each song provide a glossary useful in courses needing texts in theology and popular culture. For use with church groups, whether adult bible studies or youth groups, Your Neighbor's Hymnal provides points of reference for connecting key aspects of the Christian faith with illustrations readily available for discussion. For interested music listeners, the book will provide a means of giving voice to their own musings on faith. As with faith, good music is meant to be shared, and Your Neighbor's Hymnal offers a wonderful opportunity to do both.

The Kind of Man I Am

2017-09-12 Music

Author : Nichole Rustin-Paschal
Release : 2017-09-12
Genre : Music
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Book Rating : 57X/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Kind of Man I Am written by Nichole Rustin-Paschal. This book was released on 2017-09-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly four decades after his death, Charles Mingus Jr. remains one of the least understood and most recognized jazz composers and musicians of our time. Mingus's ideas about music, racial identity, and masculinity—as well as those of other individuals in his circle, like Celia Mingus, Hazel Scott, and Joni Mitchell—challenged jazz itself as a model of freedom, inclusion, creativity, and emotional expressivity. Drawing on archival records, published memoirs, and previously conducted interviews, The Kind of Man I Am uses Mingus as a lens through which to craft a gendered cultural history of postwar jazz culture. This book challenges the persisting narrative of Mingus as jazz's "Angry Man" by examining the ways the language of emotion has been used in jazz as shorthand for competing ideas about masculinity, authenticity, performance, and authority.

God Must Be a Boogie Man

2022-04-25 Poetry

Author : Nancy Klepsch
Release : 2022-04-25
Genre : Poetry
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Book Rating : 906/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book God Must Be a Boogie Man written by Nancy Klepsch. This book was released on 2022-04-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Klepsch's poems are wild, experiential, but stick with the themes that wriggle and writhe through all the chambers of the human heart -- loss, God, fear, death -- on their way to slamming against the good, the bad and the stupid of technology and modernity in forms that will keep you delighted for the whole ride.Gratitude, gut gratitude. Poet Nancy Klepsch knows it because grief still scrapes the/ soft palate [her] mouth / sews raw skin onto [her] teeth. From injury arises a poetic voice full of zing and verve. Klepsch's rants are a rush of full generosity: I am stir-frying joy / How much pleasure can a mouth/ bring to someone ordinary as a dinner. Her humor pokes fun at personal pronouns and big data: I am still incomplete a recovery agent's small scale discovery that this machine my poor body is a prototype a meme more beautiful and alive than I ever was. But her gut is just. Her blues damn racial violence; her musicality offers an equality: all of us can stretch arc / kowtow to the catechism / of this river-scape / bob in its tidal / name waves / call the clouds cousin / round light snatch sunset. In a Collar City within the Rust Belt of this Queer Nation, Klepsch creates bright glimpses of how We fight for everyone. Experimental page-poets and spoken word bards will agree: god must be a boogie man is an invigorating read that demands a stage. -- Lori Anderson MosemanRead these poems when you're hungry, starving, famished - Nancy Klepsch's kitchen is always warm and noisy, always full of fresh basil, pita, sweet potatoes, and spices. Read these poems when you think all might be lost, or you might be going crazy - these poems are full of tender rage and wild sanity. Shaman, musician, passionate warrior, a brave hard mount/in a hard brave world, the voice in this collection of poems will not be contained, speaks in chants and charts and recipes, documents the history of her city and our times, and the depth and urgency of these revelations, their s

Elvis Costello, Joni Mitchell, and the Torch Song Tradition

2004-04-30 Social Science

Author : Larry David Smith
Release : 2004-04-30
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 872/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Elvis Costello, Joni Mitchell, and the Torch Song Tradition written by Larry David Smith. This book was released on 2004-04-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The torch song has long been a vehicle for expression—perhaps American song's most sheerly visceral one. Two artists in particular have built upon this tradition to express their own unique outlooks on their lives and the world around them. Joni Mitchell, Elvis Costello, and the Torch Song Tradition combines biographical material, artist commentary, critical interpretation, and selected exemplars of the writers' work to reveal the power of authorship and the creative drive necessary to negotiate an artistic vision in the complicated mechanisms of the commercial music industry. Author Larry David Smith, as in his Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, and American Song, considers the complicated intersection of biography, creative philosophy, artistic imperative, and stylistic tendencies in the work of both Joni Mitchell and Elvis Costello—two songwriters with seemingly nothing in common, one famously confessional and one famously confrontational. Yet, as Smith shows so incisively, they are two personalities that prove fascinatingly complementary. Mitchell and Costello both yielded bodies of work that are cohesive, coherent, and rich in meaning. Both have made historic contributions to the singer-songwriter model, two rebellious respones to the creative and commercial compromises associated with their chosen field, and two distinct thematic responses to the torch song tradition. Smith examines these responses, offering a unique and invaluable exploration of the craft of two of the last century's most towering musical figures.

Birds of Fire

2011-08-08 Music

Author : Kevin Fellezs
Release : 2011-08-08
Genre : Music
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Book Rating : 475/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Birds of Fire written by Kevin Fellezs. This book was released on 2011-08-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of the emergence, reception, and legacy of fusion, experimental music that emerged in the late 1960s and 1970s as musicians combined jazz, rock, and funk in new ways.

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