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The Blues - Bok av Elijah (teaches blues history Wald - Häftad

Praised as \suave, soulful, ebullient\ (Tom Waits) and \a meticulous researcher, a graceful writer, and a committed contrarian\ (New York Times Book Review), Elijah Wald is one of the leading popular music critics of his generation. In The Blues, Wald surveys a genre at the heart of American culture. It is not an easy thing to pin down. As Howlin' Wolf once described it, \When you ain't got no money and can't pay your house rent and can't buy you no food, you've damn sure got the blues.\ It..

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Thriving on a Riff - Jazz and Blues Influences in African American Literature and Film - Bok - Häftad

Thriving on a Riff builds on the growing interest in jazz and blues as cross-cultural influences. Focusing here on literature and film, the book's expert contributors trace the music's changing roles in a range of key contexts, from the Harlem Renaissance to Hollywood, bebop fiction to blues poetics.

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Preachin' the Blues - The Life and Times of Son House - Bok av Daniel (Associate Professor of Arabic Language and Literature Beaumont - Inbunden

Preachin' the Blues is the story of Eddie James \Son\ House Jr., preacher, sharecropper, convicted killer and blues great. Tracing Son's life from his youth in the Mississippi Delta, to his preaching career, and on to his sudden transformation into a bluesman, Beaumont sheds new light on his years of obscurity and his surprising comeback in the 1960s.

SEK 406.00

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Rabbit's Blues - The Life and Music of Johnny Hodges - Bok av Con Chapman - Inbunden

The first full-length biography of Johnny Hodges, Rabbit's Blues tells the story of one of the premier saxophonists in jazz history, who brought the woody tone and bluesy technique of New Orleans music to the hot East Coast jazz of the Ellington orchestra.

SEK 486.00

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The Hearing Eye - Jazz and Blues Influences in African American Visual Art - Bok - Inbunden

African American visual artists have often looked to jazz and blues for inspiration. Bringing together scholarly analysis, artist-interviews and numerous illustrations, The Hearing Eye is a groundbreaking collection that explores this vibrant aesthetic criss-cross, until now neglected by art historians and music critics alike.

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Pink Ribbon Blues - How Breast Cancer Culture Undermines Women's Health - Bok av Gayle A. (Assistant Professor Sulik - Inbunden

Pink Ribbon Blues highlights the hidden costs of the 'pink ribbon' as an industry, one in which breast cancer has become merely a brand name with a pink logo. It presents a thought-provoking and probing argument against the industry of awareness-raising and includes stories from real-life breast cancer survivors and caregivers who have struggled with the pink ribbon ideal.

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The Doha Blues - Institutional Crisis and Reform in the WTO - Bok av Kent (Professor Jones - Inbunden

The collapse of the Doha Round hangs heavily over an already troubled world economy. Some have concluded that this failure is simply the result of a lack of political will and a pre-occupation with issues such as terrorism. But as Kent Jones reveals in The Doha Blues, the World Trade Organization needs serious structural changes, not just political backbone. He shows for instance that the WTOΓÇönow with 153 membersΓÇöhas become increasingly unwieldy in termsof concluding trade agreements and..

SEK 726.00

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The Rise of Gospel Blues - The Music of Thomas Andrew Dorsey in the Urban Church - Bok av Michael W. (Associate Professor of History and African-Ameri

A well researched account of gospel blues that encompasses the broader cultural and religious histories of the African-American experience between the late 1890s and the 1930s. Harris skilfully contextualizes sacred and secular music styles within African-American religious history and significant social developments of the period.

SEK 380.00

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Pink Ribbon Blues - Bok av Gayle A. (Research Associate Sulik - Häftad

Explores the hidden costs of the pink ribbon as an industry and analyzes the social impact on women living with breast cancer - the stereotypes and the stigmas.

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John Henry: Roark Bradford's Novel and Play - Bok av Roark Bradford - Häftad

A critical edition of Roark Bradford's novel and play on the iconic John Henry, this volume provides a rich introduction that contextualizes both works and highlights the role of the blues in both works.

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Steel Drivin' Man - John Henry: The Untold Story of an American Legend - Bok av Scott Reynolds (Associate Professor of History Nelson - Häftad

The untold story of the real man behind the iconic American folk hero John Henry, and how he came to be immortalized through blues music and art, beautifully written by the historian who discovered his existence.

SEK 276.00

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Trumpet Blues - The Life of Harry James - Bok av Peter J. Levinson - Häftad

Peter J. Levinson, who knew Harry James personally, offers revealing biography of this jazz icon, based on nearly 200 interviews with musicians and friends. It explores his colourful life, including a childhood in a travelling circus, his career and enduring influence.

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Dancing in Your Head - Jazz, Blues, Rock and Beyond - Bok av Gene Santoro - Häftad

This work gathers together Gene Santoro's wide-ranging essays on music that have appeared in \The Nation\ and \The New York Times\, as well as other journals.

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Hard Bop - Jazz and Black Music, 1955-1965 - Bok av David H. Rosenthal - Häftad

Devoted to the history of this jazz movement, the study combines a narrative of the evolution of hard bop - from its beginnings as an amalgam of bebop and rhythm and blues to its experimental breakthroughs in the 1960s - with close analyses of the musicians' styles and recordings.

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Tense Bees and Shell-Shocked Crabs - Are Animals Conscious? - Bok av Michael (Dallas TACA Centennial Professor in Liberal Arts Tye - Inbunden

What is it like 'on the inside' for nonhuman animals? Do they feel anything? Most people happily accept that dogs, for example, share many experiences and feelings with us. But what about simpler creatures? Fish? Honeybees? Crabs? Turning to the artificial realm, what about robots? This book presents answers to these questions.

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The Cowboy and the Dandy - Crossing Over from Romanticism to Rock and Roll - Bok av Perry (Professor of English Meisel - Inbunden

What is rock and roll and where does it come from? In this study of music, literature and culture, Perry Meisel shows how rock and roll joins both Romanticism and the blues tradition by testing the boundaries they share including those between freedom and irony, country and city, cowboy and dandy.

SEK 1270.00

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The Oxford Companion To Jazz - Bok - Inbunden

This is a jazz reference book. The 60 entries cover jazz in all its aspects. Entries include all the historical periods of jazz - from its African and European roots, its progenitors in blues and ragtime, and its major periods and styles: New Orleans, The Swing Era, Bebop, and Modern Jazz.

SEK 480.00

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Meeting Jimmie Rodgers - How America's Original Roots Music Hero Changed the Pop Sounds of a Century - Bok av Barry (Freelance Music Historian Mazor -

In Meeting Jimmie Rodgers, Barry Mazor traces our ever-evolving response to the performing songwriter who has influenced country, rock, and blues for 80 years, as transformed by artists from Ernest Tubb to Bill Monroe, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Bob Dylan. This is a provocative, colorful 21st century re-examination of the roots music hero's impact.

SEK 950.00

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Highway 61 Revisited - The Tangled Roots of American Jazz, Blues, Rock, & Country Music - Bok av Gene Santoro - Inbunden

What do Louis Armstrong, Ray Charles, Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, Tom Waits, Cassandra Wilson, and Ani DiFranco have in common? In Highway 61 Revisited, acclaimed music critic Gene Santoro says the answer is jazz-not just the musical style, but jazz's distinctive ambiance and attitudes. As legendary bebop rebel Charlie Parker once put it, \If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn.\ Unwinding that Zen-like statement, Santoro traces how jazz's existential art has infused outstanding musicians..

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Synoptic-Dynamic Meteorology in Midlatitudes: Volume II: Observations and Theory of Weather Systems - Bok av Howard B. (Professor of Meteorology Blues

Part of a two-volume study of synoptic meteorology and dynamic meteorology, this work includes coverage of the formation, motion, and climatology of extratropical weather systems in the context of quasi-geostrophic theory and \IPV thinking\, and the formation and structure of fronts and jets.

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Beating the Blues - New Approaches to Overcoming Dysthymia and Chronic Mild Depression - Bok av Michael E. (Professor of Psychiatry and Medical Direct

Shows how chronic mild depression can be relieved by learning strategies that help us to recognize negative and distorted thinking patterns that lead to a downward spiral of pessimism. This book reveals that a combination of medication and therapy has been shown to be the most effective treatment for mild depression.

SEK 256.00

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