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Author : Harmony Holiday
Release : 2019-07
Genre : African Americans
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 899/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A Jazz Funeral for Uncle Tom by : Harmony Holiday
Download or read book A Jazz Funeral for Uncle Tom written by Harmony Holiday. This book was released on 2019-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Julie Smith
Release : 2019-10-16
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 171/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Jazz Funeral by : Julie Smith
Download or read book Jazz Funeral written by Julie Smith. This book was released on 2019-10-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW ORLEANS JAZZFEST PRODUCER STABBED! TEENAGE SISTER MISSING!Everybody loved easygoing Ham Brocato, producer of the famed New Orleans JazzFest. So how did he end up stabbed to death on his kitchen floor?New Orleans Homicide Detective Skip Langdon just happens to be on hand when Ham's body is discovered in the middle of his own party the evening before the Fest. To complicate the already murky case, the victim's sixteen-year-old blues musician sister has disappeared, and Skip suspects that if the young woman isn't the murderer, she's in mortal danger from the person who is. So Task One is finding Melody, ambitious, unhappy at home, and determined to break from her family.In this tale of southern kinships gone awry, she's assisted by her long-distance love, Steve Steinman, and her gay landlord, Jimmy Dee. Meanwhile, Melody's dangerous yet exhilarating journey tugs at the heart and raises the pulse rate.
Author : Richard Brent Turner
Release : 2016-10-17
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 125/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Jazz Religion, the Second Line, and Black New Orleans by : Richard Brent Turner
Download or read book Jazz Religion, the Second Line, and Black New Orleans written by Richard Brent Turner. This book was released on 2016-10-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scholarly study demonstrates “that while post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans is changing, the vibrant traditions of jazz . . . must continue” (Journal of African American History). An examination of the musical, religious, and political landscape of black New Orleans before and after Hurricane Katrina, this revised edition looks at how these factors play out in a new millennium of global apartheid. Richard Brent Turner explores the history and contemporary significance of second lines—the group of dancers who follow the first procession of church and club members, brass bands, and grand marshals in black New Orleans’s jazz street parades. Here music and religion interplay, and Turner’s study reveals how these identities and traditions from Haiti and West and Central Africa are reinterpreted. He also describes how second line participants create their own social space and become proficient in the arts of political disguise, resistance, and performance.
Author : Jason Berry
Release : 2018-09-25
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 15X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis City of a Million Dreams by : Jason Berry
Download or read book City of a Million Dreams written by Jason Berry. This book was released on 2018-09-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2015, the beautiful jazz funeral in New Orleans for composer Allen Toussaint coincided with a debate over removing four Confederate monuments. Mayor Mitch Landrieu led the ceremony, attended by living legends of jazz, music aficionados, politicians, and everyday people. The scene captured the history and culture of the city in microcosm--a city legendary for its noisy, complicated, tradition-rich splendor. In City of a Million Dreams, Jason Berry delivers a character-driven history of New Orleans at its tricentennial. Chronicling cycles of invention, struggle, death, and rebirth, Berry reveals the city's survival as a triumph of diversity, its map-of-the-world neighborhoods marked by resilience despite hurricanes, epidemics, fires, and floods. Berry orchestrates a parade of vibrant personalities, from the founder Bienville, a warrior emblazoned with snake tattoos; to Governor William C. C. Claiborne, General Andrew Jackson, and Pere Antoine, an influential priest and secret agent of the Inquisition; Sister Gertrude Morgan, a street evangelist and visionary artist of the 1960s; and Michael White, the famous clarinetist who remade his life after losing everything in Hurricane Katrina. The textured profiles of this extraordinary cast furnish a dramatic narrative of the beloved city, famous the world over for mysterious rituals as people dance when they bury their dead.
Author : Leo Touchet
Release : 1998
Genre : Music
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 815/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Rejoice when You Die by : Leo Touchet
Download or read book Rejoice when You Die written by Leo Touchet. This book was released on 1998. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Rejoice When You Die" documents the lively history of jazz funerals in the heyday of the late 1960s, when they were still an honor bestowed only on jazz musicians. Even more important, it is a vivid tribute to the timeless sadness and dignity, the pride and humility, the stillness and the motion, and the silence and music of this fascinating cultural ceremony. 290 photos.
