A Song of Light and Freedom

A Song of Light and Freedom
Author: Douglas Whaley
Publisher: CreateSpace
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2010-12-01
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 9781456329983

This is a story of adventures with the spirit in America. It is primarily for those who are seekers. However it still may be of help to those who believe they have found a way. May reading this book give you hope and insiiration.

We who Believe in Freedom

We who Believe in Freedom
Author: Bernice Johnson Reagon
Publisher: Anchor
Total Pages: 367
Release: 1993
Genre: Gospel musicians
ISBN: 9780385468626

A celebration of the twentieth anniversary of the Grammy Award-winning musical group includes essays by each member

Freedom Song

Freedom Song
Author: Sally M. Walker
Publisher:
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2012
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780060583118

An award-winning author and illustrator join forces in an emotional retelling of Henry “Box” Brown's famed escape from slavery that is celebrated for its daring and originality.

Light, Freedom and Song

Light, Freedom and Song
Author: David Pierce
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 380
Release: 2005-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780300109948

In this absorbing analysis of modern Irish writing, an acknowledged expert considers the hybrid character of modern Irish writing to show how language, culture, and history have been affected by the colonial encounter between Ireland and Britain. Examining the great themes of loss and struggle, David Pierce traces the impact on Irish writing of the Great Famine and cultural nationalism and considers the way the work of Ireland’s two leading writers, W. B.Yeats and James Joyce, complicate and elucidate our view of "the harp and the crown.” The book draws a contrast between the West of Ireland in the 1930s, when the new Irish State enjoyed its first full independent decade, and the North of Ireland in the 1980s, when the spectre of British imperialism threatened the stability of Ireland. Pierce then surveys contemporary Irish writing and reflects on the legacy of the colonial encounter and on the passage to a postmodern or postnationalist Ireland in the work of such crucial living writers as John Banville, Derek Mahon, and John McGahern.

Let Freedom Sing

Let Freedom Sing
Author: Vanessa Brantley-Newton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-07
Genre:
ISBN: 9781609056841

On benches just for 'colored, ' black folks obeyed the rules. Rosa Parks at the front of the bus, she let her light shine. In the 1950's and 1960's, the struggle for civil rights forever changed the landscape of America. In her debut Blue Apple book, Vanessa Newton candid images illuminate anew the inequality that affected Americans, young and old. With an introduction by Ruby Bridges and text to the tune of "This Little Light of Mine," Newton's rich, mixed-media illustrations create a vivid message of hope.

Everybody Says Freedom

Everybody Says Freedom
Author: Pete Seeger
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 292
Release: 1989
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780393306040

Montgomery, Alabama, 1955--the civil rights movement has begun. The authors build a narrative from the words of the people, their photographs and their songs to form an emphasis on triumph in an uncertain age. Photos and music.

Freedom’S Song

Freedom’S Song
Author: K. Wayne Keillor
Publisher: WestBow Press
Total Pages: 910
Release: 2014-11-25
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1512708518

Freedoms Song is both an expanded translation and a one-of-a-kind interpretation of the life of Jesus. It is a fresh portrait of him based on primary source documents, namely, the four gospels of the Christian scriptures. In this story, these documents are harmonized and arranged into a highly probable chronological narrative. To add depth and flavor, and bring about a greater understanding of Jesus discourses, illustrations, homilies, and deeds, cultural and political beliefs and practices of the first-century are incorporated into the book. The Prologue opens with a celestial sign that appeared to Magi priests about fifteen months before Jesus was born. This is followed with a discussion of his pedigree and his person. Part I covers the Inauguration of Freedom, from Jesus unique birth to his first Passover in Jerusalem as a youth. It then jumps forward eighteen years to his baptism, personal testing as Gods Liberator, recruitment of his first six disciples, and, finally, his first power deed. Part II focuses on the Battle for Freedom. It covers approximately two years of Jesus ministryhis tour of Galilee with the gospel, identification of himself as the God-man, sermon about Gods kingdom, dispatching apostles to spread the good news, teaching by parables, visiting Jerusalem, and his warning to the religious leaders of his day. Part III includes Freedoms Victory, coincidentally the denouement of Jesus life. He is back in Jerusalem for another Passover and a final gathering with the apostles. And here he is arrested, tried, and crucified as a common criminal. The story ends with Freedoms SongJesus is alive!

Wicked Messenger

Wicked Messenger
Author: Mike Marqusee
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Total Pages: 378
Release: 2011-01-04
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1609801156

Bob Dylan’s abrupt abandonment of overtly political songwriting in the mid-1960s caused an uproar among critics and fans. In Wicked Messenger, acclaimed cultural-political commentator Mike Marqusee advances the new thesis that Dylan did not drop politics from his songs but changed the manner of his critique to address the changing political and cultural climate and, more importantly, his own evolving aesthetic. Wicked Messenger is also a riveting political history of the United States in the 1960s. Tracing the development of the decade’s political and cultural dissent movements, Marqusee shows how their twists and turns were anticipated in the poetic aesthetic—anarchic, unaccountable, contradictory, punk— of Dylan's mid-sixties albums, as well as in his recent artistic ventures in Chronicles, Vol. I and Masked and Anonymous. Dylan’s anguished, self-obsessed, prickly artistic evolution, Marqusee asserts, was a deeply creative response to a deeply disturbing situation. "He can no longer tell the story straight," Marqusee concludes, "because any story told straight is a false one."

Freedom Song

Freedom Song
Author: Emma Farry
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018-07-27
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9780473410131

When we can let go of our ego-bound dreams and wave goodbye smiling to unevolved schemes, then the curtain between us would be ripped right in two and you would be me and I would be you.

The Waterman's Song

The Waterman's Song
Author: David S. Cecelski
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2012-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0807869724

The first major study of slavery in the maritime South, The Waterman's Song chronicles the world of slave and free black fishermen, pilots, rivermen, sailors, ferrymen, and other laborers who, from the colonial era through Reconstruction, plied the vast inland waters of North Carolina from the Outer Banks to the upper reaches of tidewater rivers. Demonstrating the vitality and significance of this local African American maritime culture, David Cecelski also reveals its connections to the Afro-Caribbean, the relatively egalitarian work culture of seafaring men who visited nearby ports, and the revolutionary political tides that coursed throughout the black Atlantic. Black maritime laborers played an essential role in local abolitionist activity, slave insurrections, and other antislavery activism. They also boatlifted thousands of slaves to freedom during the Civil War. But most important, Cecelski says, they carried an insurgent, democratic vision born in the maritime districts of the slave South into the political maelstrom of the Civil War and Reconstruction.