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Author | : Krin Gabbard |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2015-12-29 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1466895403 |
A swinging cultural history of the instrument that in many ways defined a century The twentieth century was barely under way when the grandson of a slave picked up a trumpet and transformed American culture. Before that moment, the trumpet had been a regimental staple in marching bands, a ceremonial accessory for royalty, and an occasional diva at the symphony. Because it could make more noise than just about anything, the trumpet had been much more declarative than musical for most of its history. Around 1900, however, Buddy Bolden made the trumpet declare in brand-new ways. He may even have invented jazz, or something very much like it. And as an African American, he found a vital new way to assert himself as a man. Hotter Than That is a cultural history of the trumpet from its origins in ancient Egypt to its role in royal courts and on battlefields, and ultimately to its stunning appropriation by great jazz artists such as Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, and Wynton Marsalis. The book also looks at how trumpets have been manufactured over the centuries and at the price that artists have paid for devoting their bodies and souls to this most demanding of instruments. In the course of tracing the trumpet's evolution both as an instrument and as the primary vehicle for jazz in America, Krin Gabbard also meditates on its importance for black male sexuality and its continuing reappropriation by white culture.
Author | : Steve Boone |
Publisher | : ECW Press |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2014-08-01 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1770906029 |
On October 15, 1967, bass player Steve Boone took the Ed Sullivan Show stage for the final time, with his band The Lovin' Spoonful. Since forming in a Greenwich Village hotel in early 1965, Boone and his bandmates had released an astounding nine Top 20 singles, the first seven of which hit the Billboard Top 10, including the iconic Boone co-writes "Summer in the City" and "You Didn't Have to Be So Nice." Little did Steve Boone know that the path of his life and career would soon take a turn for the bizarre, one that would eventually find him looking at the world through the bars of a jail cell. From captaining a seaworthy enterprise to smuggle marijuana into the U.S. from Colombia, to a period of addiction, to the successful reformation of the band he'd helped made famous, Hotter Than a Match Head tells the story of Boone's personal journey along with that of one of the most important and enduring groups of the 1960s.
Author | : Gene Henry Anderson |
Publisher | : Pendragon Press |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781576471203 |
Between 1925 and 1928 the Hot Five--the incomparable Louis Armstrong and four seasoned practitioners of the burgeoning jazz style--recorded fifty-five performances in Chicago for the OKeh label. Oddly enough, the quintet immortalized on vinyl with recent technology rarely performed as a unit in local nightspots. And yet, like other music now regarded as especially historic, their work in the studio summarized approaches of the past and set standards for the future. Remarkable both for popularity among the members of the public and for influence on contemporary musicians, these recordings helped make "Satchmo" a familiar household name and ultimately its bearer an adored public figure. They showcased Armstrong's genius, notably his leadership in transforming the practice of jazz as an ensemble improvisation into jazz as the art of the improvising soloist. In his study Professor Anderson--for the first time--provides a detailed account of the origins of this pioneering enterprise, relates individual pieces to existing copyright deposits, and contextualizes the music by offering a reliable timeline of Armstrong's professional activities during these years. All fifty-five pieces, moreover, are described in informed commentary [Publisher description].
Author | : Thomas David Brothers |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 608 |
Release | : 2014-02-03 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0393065820 |
The definitive account of Louis Armstrong—his life and legacy—during the most creative period of his career. Nearly 100 years after bursting onto Chicago’s music scene under the tutelage of Joe "King" Oliver, Louis Armstrong is recognized as one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. A trumpet virtuoso, seductive crooner, and consummate entertainer, Armstrong laid the foundation for the future of jazz with his stylistic innovations, but his story would be incomplete without examining how he struggled in a society seething with brutally racist ideologies, laws, and practices. Thomas Brothers picks up where he left off with the acclaimed Louis Armstrong's New Orleans, following the story of the great jazz musician into his most creatively fertile years in the 1920s and early 1930s, when Armstrong created not one but two modern musical styles. Brothers wields his own tremendous skill in making the connections between history and music accessible to everyone as Armstrong shucks and jives across the page. Through Brothers's expert ears and eyes we meet an Armstrong whose quickness and sureness, so evident in his performances, served him well in his encounters with racism while his music soared across the airwaves into homes all over America. Louis Armstrong, Master of Modernism blends cultural history, musical scholarship, and personal accounts from Armstrong's contemporaries to reveal his enduring contributions to jazz and popular music at a time when he and his bandmates couldn’t count on food or even a friendly face on their travels across the country. Thomas Brothers combines an intimate knowledge of Armstrong's life with the boldness to examine his place in such a racially charged landscape. In vivid prose and with vibrant photographs, Brothers illuminates the life and work of the man many consider to be the greatest American musician of the twentieth century.
Author | : Scott Horton |
Publisher | : The Libertarian Institute |
Total Pages | : 604 |
Release | : 2022-07-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1733647384 |
This book contains interviews conducted over more than a decade with experts of all descriptions — including Daniel Ellsberg, Seymour Hersh, Gar Alperovitz, Hans Kristensen, Gordon Prather, Joe Cirincione and more — about the threat of nuclear war between major and minor powers, the nuclear arms-industrial complex, the nuclear programs and weapons of the so-called “rogue states” of Iraq, Iran, Syria, Israel and North Korea, the bitter truths and eternal lessons of America’s nuclear bombing of Japan in World War II and the dedicated activists working to abolish the bomb for all time.
Author | : Aristotle |
Publisher | : Good Press |
Total Pages | : 126 |
Release | : 2021-04-10 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Aristotle, the famous Ancient Greek philosopher and author, wrote on many subjects. One of his primary beliefs was that function determined form, not only in inanimate creations like architecture but also in living creatures. He, therefore, describes animals' parts in his classifications invented to describe form.
Author | : Aristotle |
Publisher | : Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 3989 |
Release | : 2021-09-21 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : |
Aristotle’s works shaped centuries of philosophy from Late Antiquity through the Renaissance, and even today continue to be studied with keen interest. Aristotle left a great body of work, perhaps numbering as many as two-hundred treatises, from which approximately thirty-one survive. His writings cover many subjects including physics, biology, zoology, metaphysics, logic, ethics, aesthetics, poetry, theatre, music, rhetoric, psychology, linguistics, economics, politics, meteorology, geology and government. Taught by Plato, he was the founder of the Lyceum, the first Peripatetic school of philosophy, and the Aristotelian tradition. LOGIC Categories On Interpretation Prior Analytics Posterior Analytics Topics Sophistical Refutations PHYSICS Physics On the Heavens On Generation and Corruption Meteorology On the Universe On the Soul The Parva Naturalia On Breath History of Animals Parts of Animals Movement of Animals Progression of Animals Generation of Animals On Colours On Things Heard Physiognomonics On Plants On Marvelous Things Heard Mechanics Problems On Indivisible Lines The Situations and Names of Winds On Melissus, Xenophanes, and Gorgias METAPHYSICS Metaphysics ETHICS AND POLITICS Nicomachean Ethics Great Ethics Nicomachean Ethics Great Ethics Eudemian Ethics On Virtues and Vices Politics Economics RHETORIC AND POETICS Rhetoric Rhetoric to Alexander Poetics Constitution of the Athenians
Author | : Jackie Kessler |
Publisher | : Zebra Books |
Total Pages | : 425 |
Release | : 2010-09-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1420120301 |
So whose soul do you have to damn to get a promotion around here? Daunuan was never the ambitious type. There's so much to love about his job just the way it is--mind-blowing sexual prowess, the power to seduce any human, excellent dental plan. But now Pan, the King of Lust, has offered to make Daun his right-hand incubus. All he has to do is entice a soul destined for heaven into a damnable act of lust. Should take, oh, seven minutes, tops. Then he meets his target, Virginia Reed. She's cute. Funny. Smart. And unfathomably resistant to his charms. But Daun has centuries of seduction to his credit. Sooner or later he'll transform this polar icecap of a female into a pool of molten desire. Meanwhile, he has to deal with a plague of rogue demons Hell-bent on taking him down. And one other problem: he's falling in love--that unholiest of four-letter words--with the woman he's about to doom for all eternity. . . Praise for Jackie Kessler "Funny, sexy, and utterly original! Kessler will seduce you." --Gena Showalter, New York Times bestselling author "A demonic thrill ride with heart and soul. Kessler is one of a kind!" --Jaci Burton, author of Hunting the Demon
Author | : W. L. Tizard |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 624 |
Release | : 1846 |
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Author | : A. B. Pippard |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780521091015 |
The laws of thermodynamics are amongst the most assured and wide-ranging of all scientific laws. They do not pretend to explain any observation in molecular terms but, by showing the necessary relationships between different physical properties, they reduce otherwise disconnected results to compact order, and predict new effects. This classic title, first published in 1957, is a systematic exposition of principles, with examples of applications, especially to changes of places and the conditions for stability. In all this entropy is a key concept.