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Author : August Wilson
Release : 1985
Genre : Drama
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 134/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Ma Rainey's Black Bottom by : August Wilson
Download or read book Ma Rainey's Black Bottom written by August Wilson. This book was released on 1985. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recording session by black blues great Ma Rainey for white-owned studio, setting for exploration of racial relations and conflicts.
Author : Angela Y. Davis
Release : 2011-10-05
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 44X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Blues Legacies and Black Feminism by : Angela Y. Davis
Download or read book Blues Legacies and Black Feminism written by Angela Y. Davis. This book was released on 2011-10-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of this country's most important intellectuals comes a brilliant analysis of the blues tradition that examines the careers of three crucial black women blues singers through a feminist lens. Angela Davis provides the historical, social, and political contexts with which to reinterpret the performances and lyrics of Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday as powerful articulations of an alternative consciousness profoundly at odds with mainstream American culture. The works of Rainey, Smith, and Holiday have been largely misunderstood by critics. Overlooked, Davis shows, has been the way their candor and bravado laid the groundwork for an aesthetic that allowed for the celebration of social, moral, and sexual values outside the constraints imposed by middle-class respectability. Through meticulous transcriptions of all the extant lyrics of Rainey and Smith−published here in their entirety for the first time−Davis demonstrates how the roots of the blues extend beyond a musical tradition to serve as a conciousness-raising vehicle for American social memory. A stunning, indispensable contribution to American history, as boldly insightful as the women Davis praises, Blues Legacies and Black Feminism is a triumph.
Author : Sandra Robin Lieb
Release : 1976
Genre : African American singers
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Message of Ma Rainey's Blues by : Sandra Robin Lieb
Download or read book The Message of Ma Rainey's Blues written by Sandra Robin Lieb. This book was released on 1976. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wynton Marsalis
Release : 2009-09-08
Genre : Music
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Book Rating : 081/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Moving to Higher Ground by : Wynton Marsalis
Download or read book Moving to Higher Ground written by Wynton Marsalis. This book was released on 2009-09-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this beautiful book, Pulitzer Prize—winning musician and composer Wynton Marsalis draws upon lessons he’s learned from a lifetime in jazz–lessons that can help us all move to higher ground. With wit and candor he demystifies the music that is the birthright of every American and demonstrates how a real understanding of the central idea of jazz–the unique balance between self-expression and sacrifice for the common good exemplified on the bandstand–can enrich every aspect of our lives, from the bedroom to the boardroom, from the schoolroom to City Hall. Along the way, Marsalis helps us understand the life-changing message of the blues, reveals secrets about playing–and listening–and passes on wisdom he has gleaned from working with three generations of great musicians. Illuminating and inspiring, Moving to Higher Ground is a master class on jazz and life, conducted by a brilliant American artist.
Author : Rashauna Johnson
Release : 2016-11-07
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 837/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Slavery's Metropolis by : Rashauna Johnson
Download or read book Slavery's Metropolis written by Rashauna Johnson. This book was released on 2016-11-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Orleans is an iconic city, which was once located at the crossroads of early America and the Atlantic World. New Orleans became a major American metropolis as its slave population exploded; in the early nineteenth century, slaves made up one third of the urban population. In contrast to our typical understanding of rural, localized, isolated bondage in the emergent Deep South, daily experiences of slavery in New Orleans were global, interconnected, and transient. Slavery's Metropolis uses slave circulations through New Orleans between 1791 and 1825 to map the social and cultural history of enslaved men and women and the rapidly shifting city, nation, and world in which they lived. Investigating emigration from the Caribbean to Louisiana during the Haitian Revolution, commodity flows across urban-rural divides, multiracial amusement places, the local jail, and freedom-seeking migrations to Trinidad following the War of 1812, it remaps the history of slavery in modern urban society.
