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Author
Publisher
Twelve, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 312 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
This collection of essays, reviews, diary entries and letters from the late renowned writer includes his thoughts on Salman Rushdie, being spanked by Margaret Thatcher in The House of Lords, and taking his son to the Oscars.
Publisher
Bear Family Records GmbH
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
20 CDs : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (359 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm)
Language
English
Description
The Memphis blues box presents the blues as defined in Memphis by Memphis-area musicians, singers, and recording companies during the years 1914 to 1969.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
484 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The story of how jazz arrived at the pinnacle of American culture in 1959, told through the journey of three towering artists-Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and Bill Evans-who came together to create the most famous and bestselling jazz album of all time, Kind of Blue"--
Author
Series
Publisher
McFarland & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xii, 203 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Dwight Hamilton Diller is a 69 year old musician from West Virginia devoted to traditional Appalachian fiddle and banjo music, and a seminary-trained minister steeped in local Christian traditions. This book tells the story of Diller's life and music, his personal challenges and his decades of teaching an elusive musical form"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xii, 313 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In the late 1950s, Random House editor Jason Epstein would talk jazz with authors like Ralph Ellison while pouring drinks in his office. By the late 1960s, he was poring over profit-and-loss statements. What happened? Beginning in 1965 after RCA bought Random House and then with subsequent purchases of publishing companies by multinational conglomerates, the business of publishing started to change. With more of an emphasis on rationalization, many...
Series
Publisher
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xi, 213 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Appalachian literature has no small share of silent or non-discursive characters, though the reasons for their wordlessness vary. This collection of new essays analyzes characters who are unable or unwilling to communicate orally, whose lack of voice conveys physical, mental or social hindrance"--
12) Quantum criminals: ramblers, wild gamblers, and other sole survivors from the songs of Steely Dan
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
268 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
"According to the authors Steely Dan's songs are "exercises in fictional world-building. Each song features its own cast of rogues and heroes and creeps and schmucks, lovers and dreamers and cold-blooded operators, all tempest-tossed by the ill winds of the '70s." This book consists of sixty-some essays, each devoted to one character, and each essay is accompanied by a painting of the particular character that serves as a jumping-off point for the...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
xx, 369 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In her mid-thirties, Marian Evans transformed herself into George Eliot and published her debut novel. Her life partner, George Lewes, was already married. Their relationship scandalized her contemporaries, yet she grew immeasurably within it. Carlisle shows how, through the immense ambition and dark marriage plots of her novels, Eliot wrestled in both art and in life with themes of desire and sacrifice, motherhood and creativity, trust and disillusion,...
Series
Publisher
Louisiana State University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
x, 296 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In Civil War Writing: New Perspectives on Iconic Texts, editors Gary W. Gallagher and Stephen Cushman collect new scholarly essays which explore the significant texts about the American Civil War written by the people who lived through it, whether as civilians or combatants, southerners or northerners, women or men, blacks or whites. Several of the works discussed in the book, such as William Tecumseh Sherman's and Edward Porter Alexander's memoirs...
Author
Series
Publisher
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xi, 183 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
From his birth in Owensboro, Kentucky, in 1947, to his 2020 album featuring the music of Lee Hammons, Wayne Howard has lived an exceptionally creative life. Howard seems to be eternally present at fiddle festivals, on the margins of old-time music gatherings, and ensconced in the circles of creative forces working to preserve and disseminate this archaic southern mountain music. In 1969, he relocated to West Virginia and, after being introduced to...
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