Songs from Prison
Author | : Mahatma Gandhi |
Publisher | : Literary Licensing, LLC |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 2011-10-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781258112981 |
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Author | : Mahatma Gandhi |
Publisher | : Literary Licensing, LLC |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 2011-10-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781258112981 |
Author | : Andy Douglas |
Publisher | : Innerworld Publications |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2019-04 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9781881717713 |
Takes the reader inside the walls of a medium-security prison and offers a glimpse at how music and the arts are offering second chances to the incarcerated. In a place often defined by trauma and control, a performing chorus composed of inmates and volunteers creates a community where healing, atonement and growth can occur.
Author | : Yiwu Liao |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 433 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0547892632 |
From the renowned Chinese poet in exile comes a gorgeous and shocking account of his years in prison following the Tiananmen Square protests.
Author | : Sabahattin Ali |
Publisher | : Independently Published |
Total Pages | : 74 |
Release | : 2019-01-13 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781790429493 |
Prison Song VDo not bend your head down,Do not mind my heart, damn it;Your crying would not have been heard,Do not mind my heart, damn it...Crazy waves are outsideCome and lick the walls off;Those sounds mess you around,Do not mind my heart, damn it...Even you do not see the sea,Turn your eyes to the sky up:The sky is like the sea;Do not mind my heart, damn it...
Author | : John Szwed |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 570 |
Release | : 2010-12-30 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1101190345 |
The remarkable life and times of the man who popularized American folk music and created the science of song Folklorist, archivist, anthropologist, singer, political activist, talent scout, ethnomusicologist, filmmaker, concert and record producer, Alan Lomax is best remembered as the man who introduced folk music to the masses. Lomax began his career making field recordings of rural music for the Library of Congress and by the late 1930s brought his discoveries to radio, including Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, and Burl Ives. By the 1940s he was producing concerts that brought white and black performers together, and in the 1950s he set out to record the whole world. Lomax was also a controversial figure. When he worked for the U. S. government he was tracked by the FBI, and when he worked in Britain, MI5 continued the surveillance. In his last years he turned to digital media and developed technology that anticipated today's breakthroughs. Featuring a cast of characters including Eleanor Roosevelt, Leadbelly, Carl Sandburg, Carl Sagan, Jelly Roll Morton, Muddy Waters, and Bob Dylan, Szwed's fascinating biography memorably captures Lomax and provides a definitive account of an era as seen through the life of one extraordinary man.
Author | : Caroline Gnagy |
Publisher | : History Press Library Editions |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2016-05-02 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781540213082 |
Inside the Texas State Prison is a surprising story of ingenuity, optimism and musical creativity. During the mid-twentieth century, inmates at the Huntsville unit and neighboring Goree State Farm for Women captured hearts all over Texas during weekly radio broadcasts and live stage performances. WBAP s Thirty Minutes Behind the Walls took listeners inside the penitentiary to hear not only the prisoners? songs but also the stories of those who sang them. Captivating and charismatic, banjo player Reable Childs received thousands of fan letters with the Goree All-Girl String Band during World War II. Hattie Ellis, a young black inmate with a voice that rivaled Billie Holiday s, was immortalized by notable folklorist John Avery Lomax. Cowboys, songsters and champion fiddlers all played a part in one of the most unique prison histories in the nation. Caroline Gnagy presents the decades-long story of the Texas convict bands, informed by prison records, radio show transcripts and the words and music of the inmates themselves."
Author | : Cecil Brown |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2009-07-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780674028906 |
Although his story has been told countless times--by performers from Ma Rainey, Cab Calloway, and the Isley Brothers to Ike and Tina Turner, James Brown, and Taj Mahal--no one seems to know who Stagolee really is. Stack Lee? Stagger Lee? He has gone by all these names in the ballad that has kept his exploits before us for over a century. Delving into a subculture of St. Louis known as "Deep Morgan," Cecil Brown emerges with the facts behind the legend to unfold the mystery of Stack Lee and the incident that led to murder in 1895. How the legend grew is a story in itself, and Brown tracks it through variants of the song "Stack Lee"--from early ragtime versions of the '20s, to Mississippi John Hurt's rendition in the '30s, to John Lomax's 1940s prison versions, to interpretations by Lloyd Price, James Brown, and Wilson Pickett, right up to the hip-hop renderings of the '90s. Drawing upon the works of James Baldwin, Richard Wright, and Ralph Ellison, Brown describes the powerful influence of a legend bigger than literature, one whose transformation reflects changing views of black musical forms, and African Americans' altered attitudes toward black male identity, gender, and police brutality. This book takes you to the heart of America, into the soul and circumstances of a legend that has conveyed a painful and elusive truth about our culture.
Author | : H. Bruce Franklin |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 1998-06-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1440621284 |
"Harrowing in their frank detail and desperate tone, the selections in this anthology pack an emotional wallop...Should be required reading for anyone concerned about the violence in our society and the high rate of recidivism."—Publishers Weekly. Includes work by: Jack London, Nelson Algren, Chester Himes,Jack Henry Abbott, Robert Lowell, Malcolm X, Mumia Abu-Jamal, and Piri Thomas.
Author | : Henry Mayhew |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 740 |
Release | : 1862 |
Genre | : Correctional institutions |
ISBN | : |