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Going to Meet the Man
Author | : James Baldwin |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2013-09-17 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0804149755 |
A major collection of short stories by one of America’s most important writers—informed by the knowledge the wounds racism leaves in both its victims and its perpetrators. • “If Van Gogh was our 19th-century artist-saint, James Baldwin is our 20th-century one.” —Michael Ondaatje, Booker Prize-winner of The English Patient In this modern classic, "there's no way not to suffer. But you try all kinds of ways to keep from drowning in it." The men and women in these eight short fictions grasp this truth on an elemental level, and their stories detail the ingenious and often desperate ways in which they try to keep their head above water. It may be the heroin that a down-and-out jazz pianist uses to face the terror of pouring his life into an inanimate instrument. It may be the brittle piety of a father who can never forgive his son for his illegitimacy. Or it may be the screen of bigotry that a redneck deputy has raised to blunt the awful childhood memory of the day his parents took him to watch a black man being murdered by a gleeful mob. By turns haunting, heartbreaking, and horrifying, Going to Meet the Man is a major work by one of our most important writers.
The Jazz Fiction Anthology
Author | : Sascha Feinstein |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 529 |
Release | : 2009-10-02 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0253221374 |
What sounds throughout these stories is the universal voice of humanity that is the essence of the music.
The Critical Reception of James Baldwin, 1963-2010
Author | : Conseula Francis |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 175 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1571133259 |
Examines the major divisions in criticism of this major African American writer, paying particular attention to the way each critical period defines Baldwin and his work for its own purposes.
Sonny's Blues
Author | : James Baldwin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 90 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : 9780146000133 |
Sonny's Bridge
Author | : Barry Wittenstein |
Publisher | : Charlesbridge Publishing |
Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 2019-05-21 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1580898815 |
This groovy, bebopping picture book biography chronicles the legendary jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins's search for inspiration on the Williamsburg Bridge after quitting the jazz scene in 1959. Rollins is one of the most prolific sax players in the history of jazz, but, in 1959, at the height of his career, he vanished from the jazz scene. His return to music was an interesting journey--with a long detour on the Williamsburg Bridge. Too loud to practice in his apartment, Rollins played on the New York City landmark for two years among the cacophony of traffic and the stares of bystanders, leading to the release of his album, The Bridge. Written in rhythmic prose with a bebop edge, this picture-book biography of Sonny Rollins's journey to get his groove back will delight young and old fans alike.
Jazz Blues Styles
Author | : Joe Diorio |
Publisher | : Mel Bay Publications |
Total Pages | : 49 |
Release | : 2015-06-25 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1619115123 |
Jazz Blues Styles presents guitar solos in the styles of Charlie Parker, Thelonius Monk, Sonny Rollins, and other jazz blues greats. Within the context of the blues, this book teaches: styles of jazz blues; jazz ideas, phrases, and licks; jazz syncopation, the rhythmic language of jazz; jazz phrasing, the breath of jazz; how to use the triplet, altered chords, and slash chords; how to reharmonize the blues; a new innovative vocabulary of jazz chord sequences; how to usefragments of the chords to outline the harmony and create interesting new sounds; and how to play walking bass lines with chords. Joe Diorio's Right Brain Guitarist(R) approach helps to direct your playing with your intuitive sense asopposed to your logical sense. The accompanying audio download available online will help convey the subtle nuances of the music
Daddy Played the Blues
Author | : Michael Garland |
Publisher | : Tilbury House Publishers and Cadent Publishing |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 2017-09-11 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0884485900 |
*Notable Social Studies Trade Books Selection for Young People 2018* “I was six years old the day we left the farm in Mississippi,” remembers Cassie in this richly textured picture book. “Between the boll weevils, the floods, and the landlord, there was no way a family could scratch out a living there anymore.” Packing themselves into an old jalopy—with Daddy, Uncle Vern, and Mama in the front seat and Cassie and her two brothers in the back—they joined the Great Migration from the impoverished Deep South to Chicago, where there was work to be had in the stockyards. Across the kids’ laps lay Daddy’s prized possession, a six-string guitar. Daddy worked hard to put food on the table, but what he really loved was playing the blues. This evocative tale of the African-American odyssey in search of a better life is also a homage to the uniquely American music that developed from African music and American spirituals, work songs, and folk ballads. In the book’s backmatter, Garland relates how he first heard and fell in love with blues music, beginning a lifelong fandom. Portraits and thumbnail biographies of great blues musicians and landmark songs complete this tribute to the great American music and the yearnings that produced it. Fountas & Pinnell Level S
Rocket Blues
Author | : David Skuy |
Publisher | : Scholastic Canada |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2014-10 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1443133752 |
When Rocket gets cut from his AAA bantam hockey team, he needs to re-evaluate his priorities. Bryan Rockwood (aka "Rocket") is faced with the unthinkable: being cut from the Huskies -- the AAA hockey team he has played on for three years. With no other teams interested in him, Bryan reluctantly joins a AA team, the Blues, at his best friend Maddy's insistence. Things only get worse when Rocket sees that the Blues don't take hockey seriously. Facing the Huskies in the round robin will give Rocket the chance to prove his skills, but in order to keep his hockey dreams (and his friends) Rocket will have to realize that while hockey is his passion, it is not his entire life.