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Author : Richie Havens
Release : 2000-05
Genre : African American singers
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Book Rating : 781/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis They Can't Hide Us Anymore by : Richie Havens
Download or read book They Can't Hide Us Anymore written by Richie Havens. This book was released on 2000-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Havens reflects on his career, the music business, marine conservation and more.
Author : Richie Havens
Release : 1999
Genre : African American singers
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis They Can't Hide Us Anymore by : Richie Havens
Download or read book They Can't Hide Us Anymore written by Richie Havens. This book was released on 1999. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Matthew Frye Jacobson
Release : 2019-04-04
Genre : Music
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Book Rating : 33X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Odetta’s One Grain of Sand by : Matthew Frye Jacobson
Download or read book Odetta’s One Grain of Sand written by Matthew Frye Jacobson. This book was released on 2019-04-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When 20-year-old Odetta Holmes-classically trained as a vocalist and poised to become “the next Marian Anderson”-veered away from both opera and musical theater in favor of performing politically charged field hollers, prison songs, work songs, and folk tunes before mixed-race audiences in 1950s coffee houses, she was making one of the most portentous decisions in the history of both American music and Civil Rights. Released the same year as her famous rendition of “I'm on My Way” at the March on Washington, One Grain of Sand captures the social justice project that was Odetta's voice. “There was no way I could say the things I was thinking, but I could sing them,” she later remarked. In pieces like “Moses, Moses,” “Ain't No Grave,” and “Ramblin' Round Your City,” One Grain of Sand embodies Odetta's approach to the folk repertoire as both an archive of black history and a vehicle for radical expression. For many among her audience, a song like “Cotton Fields” represented a first introduction to black history at a time when there was as yet no academic discipline going by this name, and when history books themselves still peddled convenient fictions of a fundamentally “happy” plantation past. And for many among her audience, black and white, this young woman's pride in black artistry and resolve, and her open rage and her challenge to whites to recognize who they were and who they had been, too, modeled the very honesty and courage that the movement now called for.
Author : BJ Harvey
Release : 2022-05-31
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 60X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Bliss Series Set Volume 2 by : BJ Harvey
Download or read book Bliss Series Set Volume 2 written by BJ Harvey. This book was released on 2022-05-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From US Today Bestselling Author BJ Harvey comes Books 4 - 7 of the Bliss romantic comedy series in one set. This volume features Permanent Bliss, Finding Bliss, Building Bliss (formerly Game Player,) and Secret Bliss (formerly Game Maker.) Volume 1 featuring Books 1 - 3 is also now available.
Author : Barney Hoskyns
Release : 2016-03-08
Genre : Music
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Book Rating : 217/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Small Town Talk by : Barney Hoskyns
Download or read book Small Town Talk written by Barney Hoskyns. This book was released on 2016-03-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Think "Woodstock" and the mind turns to the seminal 1969 festival that crowned a seismic decade of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll. But the town of Woodstock, New York, the original planned venue of the concert, is located over 60 miles from the site to which the fabled half a million flocked. Long before the landmark music festival usurped the name, Woodstock-the tiny Catskills town where Bob Dylan holed up after his infamous 1966 motorcycle accident-was already a key location in the '60s rock landscape. In Small Town Talk, Barney Hoskyns re-creates Woodstock's community of brilliant dysfunctional musicians, scheming dealers, and opportunistic hippie capitalists drawn to the area by Dylan and his sidekicks from the Band. Central to the book's narrative is the broodingly powerful presence of Albert Grossman, manager of Dylan, the Band, Janis Joplin, Paul Butterfield, and Todd Rundgren-and the Big Daddy of a personal fiefdom in Bearsville that encompassed studios, restaurants, and his own record label. Intertwined in the story are the Woodstock experiences and associations of artists as diverse as Van Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Tim Hardin, Karen Dalton, and Bobby Charles (whose immortal song-portrait of Woodstock gives the book its title). Drawing on numerous first-hand interviews with the remaining key players in the scene-and on the period when he lived there himself in the 1990s-Hoskyns has produced an East Coast companion to his bestselling L.A. canyon classic Hotel California. This is a richly absorbing study of a vital music scene in a revolutionary time and place.
