Writing Assessment Handbook

Writing Assessment Handbook
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 328
Release: 1986
Genre: English language
ISBN:

Reflects philosophy of Model Curriculum Guide for the English-Language Arts (K-8).

In Search of Geraldine Moodie

In Search of Geraldine Moodie
Author: Geraldine Moodie
Publisher: University of Regina Press
Total Pages: 202
Release: 1998
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780889771109

A biography of nineteenth-century Canadian photographer Geraldine Moodie.

Yonder Come the Blues

Yonder Come the Blues
Author: Paul Oliver
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 380
Release: 2001-02-22
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780521787772

Yonder Come the Blues combines three influential and much-quoted books: Savannah Syncopators; Blacks, Whites and Blues and Recording the Blues. Updated with additional essays, this 2001 volume discusses the crucial early development of the blues as a music of Blacks in the United States, explaining some of the most significant factors that shaped this music. Together, these three texts emphasise the significance of the African heritage, the mutuality of much white and black music and the role of recording in consolidating the blues, thus demonstrating the importance of these formative elements in its complex but combined socio-musical history. Redressing some of the misconceptions that persist in writing on African-American music, this book will be essential reading for all enthusiasts of blues, jazz and country music and will be important for students of African-American studies and music, popular music and popular culture.

Fire and Fog

Fire and Fog
Author: Dianne Day
Publisher: Crimeline
Total Pages: 289
Release: 1997-03-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0553569228

"With her independent spirit and youthful determination, Miss Jones is virtually invincible," raved The New York Times Book Review upon meeting Dianne Day's spunky and appealing new heroine in her debut, The Strange Files of Fremont Jones. Now Fremont Jones returns, awakened by a terrible rumbling, and nearly crushed by a falling armoire, to find herself in the midst of the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906. In the confusion and devastation that ensues, Fremont volunteers for the Red Cross, and learns to drive an automobile to transport supplies and handsome doctors, sparking romances along the way. Her sleuthing cohort, the elusive Michael Archer, vanishes, leaving Fremont alone to sleuth the mysteries uncovered by the earthquake and to wrestle with her romantic feelings for Michael. A smuggler's cache unearthed by the disaster leads Fremont straight into danger: kidnapped by murderous Ninjas, Fremont must find her way to safety--thwarted at every turn, as even friends become suspect. Alone Fremont picks her way through the menacing ruins of San Francisco and narrowly escapes with her life.

The Death of Rhythm and Blues

The Death of Rhythm and Blues
Author: Nelson George
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2003-08-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1101160675

From Nelson George, supervising producer and writer of the hit Netflix series, "The Get Down," this passionate and provocative book tells the complete story of black music in the last fifty years, and in doing so outlines the perilous position of black culture within white American society. In a fast-paced narrative, Nelson George’s book chronicles the rise and fall of “race music” and its transformation into the R&B that eventually dominated the airwaves only to find itself diluted and submerged as crossover music.

Black Pearls

Black Pearls
Author: Daphne Duval Harrison
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 324
Release: 1988
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780813512808

Some singers included in this book are Sippie Wallace, Victoria Spivey, Edith Wilson, and Alberta Hunter.

It's Come to Our Attention

It's Come to Our Attention
Author: Juliana Rew
Publisher:
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2016-02-19
Genre:
ISBN: 9780692648841

Fourteen international authors come together in "It's Come to Our Attention" from Third Flatiron Anthologies. Their stories scratch below the surface to unearth a world of hidden gems: Visit a landfill to hear some real trash talk. Bust a conspiracy to change the climate via mind control. Form an unhealthy attachment to your radio. Go down to the basement even though we told you not to. Decide on the pros and cons of immortality. Tell a librarian she would look great without her glasses. Find out what's at the bottom of the wishing well (besides coins). Indulge in a little illegal but highly satisfying genetic tinkering. Acknowledge the debt we all owe to French culture.

Before Motown

Before Motown
Author: Lars Bjorn
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2001
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780472067657

The history of Detroit jazz comes alive with remarkable photographs, advertisements, and interviews

The New Age Music Guide

The New Age Music Guide
Author: Patti Jean Birosik
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
Total Pages: 248
Release: 1989
Genre: Music
ISBN:

Profiles of 500 artists, with their recordings who are creating the genre of New Age music.