The Story of Boogie-Woogie

The Story of Boogie-Woogie
Author: Peter J. Silvester
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 439
Release: 2009-07-29
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0810869330

The Story of Boogie-Woogie: A Left Hand Like God examines the socio-historical background of the boogie-woogie piano style, from its early appearances in the barrelhouses of lumber, turpentine, and railroad camps in the southern United States, to its emergence at rent parties in Chicago and St. Louis, to its rise as a popular form of music in the nightclubs of New York, to its status as an international craze during World War II. In this enhanced revision of A Left Hand Like God, Peter J. Silvester presents a comprehensive history of boogie-woogie, describing the style's appearance and development, its offshoots, and the pianists who made it famous, and studying its impact on rhythm and blues, urban blues, and big band swing, leading to the eventual revival of 'classical' boogie-woogie in concerts and festivals. Silvester discusses significant European and American pianists of boogie-woogie throughout history, providing biographical information about their life styles and musical influences and offering an analysis of their important recordings. The book also includes a new chapter on the contribution of national and independent record companies to the recording of boogie-woogie music. A thorough bibliography and a final appendix providing many of the bass patterns common in boogie-woogie make this a valuable reference.

Do Ya Wanna Be a Wrestler, Kid?

Do Ya Wanna Be a Wrestler, Kid?
Author: Beau James
Publisher: CreateSpace
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2011-09-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9781466214989

Since the age of 14 Beau James has done just about everything in the world of Pro Wrestling. Starting out at the age of 14 helping promote towns, work on the ring crew, and selling merchandise. His in ring career start at 15 years old. At the age of 16 he started his own Pro Wrestling Promotion Southern States Wrestling. For the past near quarter century he has travel America living his childhood dreams. In his new book "Do Ya Wanna Be A Wrestler, Kid?" you will follow his life long love affair with Pro Wrestling. Hear first hand accounts of his battles and struggles to get SSW started. The daily battles that have followed him to present a product that is as close to what he watched and followed as a kid. How older wrestlers set out to stop him. Who helped him along the way. Get a behind the scenes look at a life of someone who wrestles for a living and how it becomes harder with each passing day. His personal thoughts of how wrestling has changed for the worse and who is to blame. It will surprise you. His tributes to many of his heroes turned friends who are no longer with us. The dangers of traveling 120 to 200 days a year. The fun wrestlers have by pulling elaborate practical jokes on each other. And never before publicly told stories of wrestling legends Jimmy Valiant, Ricky Morton, Dr. Tom Prichard, Dutch Mantell, Buddy Landel, Ivan Koloff, Jerry Lawler, Robert Fuller, Jimmy Golden and many more. Let's not forget his fairy tale love story with Misty. How her love helped change Beau many ways for the good. The book also includes praise for Beau from WWE, TNA, and NWA stars. 348 pages that once you start reading you will not be able to put it down.

Boogie Woogie Iii

Boogie Woogie Iii
Author: George Foxx
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 696
Release: 2012-02-11
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1468546384

There is a certain amount of unexpected boogie woogie in anyones life or business entitys fate. It is when the boogie woogie gets to be so serious that it is considered the ultimate; meaning, a continuous headache, heartache, or depressing stress that it swells your head in disbelief. ~~~ Symptoms of the Boogie Woogie Ultimate Blues ~~~ Your next door neighbor scoops your newspapers three mornings in a row, lie about it, but you have him on video. Your boss tells you that you are no longer needed at the office two days before Christmas. Your daughters boyfriend wrecked your car that she borrowed to run one errand that never got done. Your wife took $4,500 out of the joint checking account without informing you causing you to bounce three checks to very important creditors so embarrassing. The doctor called your house twice saying it was urgent that you come in an discuss options for the returned test results you are scared to death only to find out the laboratory mixed up your labs with someone elses. Your knees and wrists hurt for real. Your wife is talking about a divorce and leaving after having gone to the male strip joint three weekends in a row while you thought she was visiting her sick grandmother (she spent $3,000 of the $4,500 at the club). However, the most hurting of all is your best friend and dog died yesterday. The boogie woogie! Coping with the boogie woogie ultimate blues is a challenge, if you are not ready, you will be caught up Why? Because the boogie woogie just does not quit! The boogie woogie ultimate is the third in a series reflecting how people get caught up and it shares the fools, victims, and the curious folks point of view basically, an example of what others think and feel so when you get caught up; you will have a guide on what to do humorously and seriously. ------------------------------ BOOGIE WOOGIE III: The Ultimate

Le Boogie Woogie

Le Boogie Woogie
Author: Terry Williams
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 143
Release: 2020-02-25
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0231549385

The “after-hours club” is a fixture of the African American ghetto. It is a semisecret, unlicensed “spot” where “regulars” and “tourists” mingle with “hustlers” to buy and use drugs long after regular bars are closed and the party has ended for the “squares.” After-hours clubs are found in most cities, but for people outside of their particular milieu, they are formidably difficult to identify and even more difficult to access. The sociologist Terry Williams returns to the cocaine culture of Harlem in the 1980s and ’90s with an ethnographic account of a club he calls Le Boogie Woogie. He explores the life of a cast of characters that includes regulars and bar workers, dealers and hustlers, following social interaction around the club’s active bar, with its colorful staff and owner and the “sniffers” who patronize it. In so doing, Williams delves into the world of after-hours clubs, exploring their longstanding function in the African American community as neighborhood institutions and places of autonomy for people whom mainstream society grants few spaces of freedom. He contrasts Le Boogie Woogie, which he visited in the 1990s, with a Lower East Side club, dubbed Murphy’s Bar, twenty years later to show how “cool” remains essential to those outside the margins of society even as what it means to be “cool” changes. Le Boogie Woogie is an exceptional ethnographic portrait of an underground culture and its place within a changing city.

Boogie Man

Boogie Man
Author: Charles Shaar Murray
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages: 696
Release: 2013-09-10
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1466852364

Acclaimed writer Charles Shaar Murray's Boogie Man is the authorized and authoritative biography of an extraordinary musician. Murray was given unparalleled access to Hooker, and he lets the man from Clarksdale, Mississippi, tell his own story. "Everything you read on album covers is not true, and every album reads different," he told Murray. Murray helps Hooker set the record straight, disentangling the myths and legends from truths so rock-ribbed that we understand, as if for the first time, why they have provided the source for a lifetime of unforgettable sound. Murray weaves together Hooker's life and music to reveal their indissoluble bonds. Yet Boogie Man is far more than merely an accomplished and brilliant biography of one man; it gives an account of an entire art form. Grounded in a time and place in American culture, the blues are universal, and in the hands of the greatest practitioners its power resides in the miracle of using despair to transcend it. "The preacher's mantle," Murray tells us, "passes to the bluesman." This bluesman traveled a hard road out of the American South, from obscurity to adulation and back-and back again. John Lee Hooker has seen it all and sung it all, and his music is both a living legacy and an American treasure. Here is the book that does him and his music full justice.

Boogie Woogie Ii

Boogie Woogie Ii
Author: Dr. George Foxx
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2011-08-17
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1463447191

Bombshell - Boogie Woogie II Your spouse, lover, significant other, or trusted friend - cheated on you. Wow! He or she betrayed the sacred vows and commitment you made on your wedding day, before witness and God only to leave you to suffer through the sickening whirlwind of anger, grief, anxiety, and, perhaps worst of all, your shattered sense of sense of self-esteem due to being caught up in the boogie woogie. You are terrified! Period! You feel hopeless; as there is no way you will ever be able to get past the horror and put the pieces of your devastated marriage or relationship back together again ... But it happened. You will get over it. Even the best in our society goes through the hurt and boogie woogie. Boogie Woogie II will share the pain, healing, laughter, and awareness of those perhaps caught up and those that were smart enough to heal and move on. But in order to defeat the boogie woogie the following notions must be accepted and understood: betrayal, being vengeful, feeling guilt, being in a state of fear, carrying around anger, feeling frustrated, and paranoid feelings, and disappointment (not necessarily in these order).

Boogie Woogie Stomp

Boogie Woogie Stomp
Author: Christopher I. Page
Publisher:
Total Pages: 282
Release: 1997-01-01
Genre: Jazz musicians
ISBN: 9781885066329

Broadway Boogie Woogie

Broadway Boogie Woogie
Author: D. Schwarz
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2003-04-18
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1403973504

While analyzing Damon Runyon's high spirited work in terms of historical contexts, popular culture, and of the changing function of the media, Schwarz argues that in his columns and stories Runyon was an indispensable figure in creating our public images of New York City culture, including our interest in the demi-monde and underworld that explains in part the success of The Godfather films and The Sopranos . In his lively and exuberant chapters that include a panoramic view of New York City between the World Wars - with a focus on its colourful nightlife - Schwarz examines virtually every facet of Runyon's career from sports writer, daily columnist, trial reporter, and Hollywood figure to the author of the still widely-read short stories that were the source of the Broadway hit Guys and Dolls . As part of his discussion of Runyon's art and the artistry of Runyon's fiction, Schwarz skilfully examines the special language of the Broadway stories known as 'Runyonese', and explains how 'Runyonese' has become an adjective for describing flamboyant behaviour.

Tunes for ’Toons

Tunes for ’Toons
Author: Daniel Goldmark
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2005
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0520253116

Annotation A trade-oriented book on the music in classic cartoons from Bugs Bunny to Tom and Jerry and beyond.

Tokyo Boogie-Woogie

Tokyo Boogie-Woogie
Author: Hiromu Nagahara
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2017-04-10
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0674971698

Emerging in the 1920s, the Japanese pop scene gained a devoted following, and the soundscape of the next four decades became the audible symbol of changing times. In the first English-language history of this Japanese industry, Hiromu Nagahara connects the rise of mass entertainment with Japan’s transformation into a postwar middle-class society.