Download or read book Ain t Nothin Like That written by Sereena Nightshade and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-06-25 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all, for the most part, inherently know how to flow with it, cut loose (i.e. have fun/be happy), or strut our stuff when we have reason to believe we are invincible or that goodness and justice will surely prevail. Ain’t Nothin’ Like That, along with some other books by Nightshade, explores the analysis of when we learn the polar opposite of what we believed of the world is actually the true version. This typically occurs when/if we discover that if perchance what we’ve got (figuratively) glows or is special on any level and “If they can see it they will take it,” should opportunistic opportunity strike. The perpetual how(s) and why(s) of the sheople/the most common deciding class: As for the remainder of the true minority status, in typical response we think if we can find the answers or prove the truth then we can make it all right in a manner as out of touch with reality, for many of us, as the idea of clicking the heels of magical ruby slippers together to get back home to the farm where things are beautiful and maybe there is a fresh baked apple or blueberry pie in the oven. We believe in a simplified way or simplified explanation that if we can find one and then the other one or whatever the specific numbers in the mystery are for us and then also figure out there is a plus sign between those two ones, for example: one plus one equals two. Two is the answer. If we can find the answer, whichever answer applies to us then we can stop the horror or even reverse it or find a way to reverse it/make it right and maybe sometimes some of us can find that answer. Thereafter there remains the wildcard, which seems always to be the free-will of humans, including those humans beyond us comprised of the predators, the sheople, preconceived notions, judgments, invalidations, campfire stories which wander farther away from the truth with each warped telling, the cookie-cutter one size fits all, pigeon hole categorizations, Inoculation Theory, and the rampant naysayers (i.e. “No that cannot be the answer for you because it is not the answer for me and others I know, so no you cannot have that answer or try that answer out at all, but we will give you another serving of that proverbial dog that bit you or the Achilles’ Tendon Factor assault that caused this because that’s what we say will fix it.”). Onward it likely goes forever this way. The very comprehension of these thinking patterns as well as others linked to these distinct patterns could save so many a great deal; if the lesson are learned on time. Ain’t Nothin’ Like That.
Download or read book It Ain t Nothin But the Blues written by Charles Bevel and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 2002 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This sizzling revue of the blues and blues infused songs that changed the way the world hears the human heartbeat took New York by storm. Ravishing songs trace the evolution of the blues from Africa to Mississippi to Memphis to Chicago.
Download or read book Ain t Nothin Like Em written by Kamernebti Mer Amon and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-01-22 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aint Nothin Like Em has taken years in the making. It is the inspiration of many eventspersonal and historical passages in life. The poet sees the world, as Bob Kaufman says, as a fish with frogs eyes. The soul kitchenthe battle hymnsthe heartbeatsthe reflections/dedications are the openings of doors to her soul. Enter, enjoy, and reflect. Aint Nothin Like Em is a book of poetry written in the Tradition of Grandma/ Mother/Daughter/Sister Speak. Roomed with the ritual aromas of yams, collards and seasoned to perfection chicken: Sunday Supper preparations, the poems are a Gathering of Kitchen Table Comfort, found only in the sharing of Wimmin Words. Tell it Like it T.I. IS. and Yeah Girl, Been There Before Conversations and Revelations, are served up straightening comb hot. A resilience that she beckons to us to strut proudly on our Wimmin tongues with a sway as gentle and graceful as our rounded hips. - Nikki Williams, Author/Artist, Brown Women Who Fly, Beautiful, Also, are the Souls of My People Kamernebti Mer Amons writings in Aint Nothin Like Em tells a story of African American family life from Sunday morning biscuits to loving your mate, to language of struggle for Black family survival. An intimate read. John Watusi Branch Executive Director, Afrikan Poetry Theatre
Download or read book Trouble Ain t Nothin But a Word written by Paul O. Scott and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2024-02-28 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My memoir begins with a massive heart attack that leaves me in a vegetative state with no possibility of recovery, according to my doctors. What the doctors didn't know about me was I neither counted anyone in nor counted anyone out--especially me. I lived my life overcoming multitudinous challenges, living by the adage "All I need is a tiny chance, and I'll make it work." My story is delivered from a 5'4" frame, being constantly told "I can't" or "you won't." I was a make-believe Christian with the gift of gab and full of crime. This memoir shines a light on alcoholism, drug abuse, physical abuse, ever-present crime, and consistently circumventing all challenges.
Download or read book A Star Ain t Nothin But a Hole in Heaven written by Judi Ann Mason and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1989 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book You Ain t Nothin But a Werewolf written by Tim J. Kelly and published by Pioneer Drama Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1992 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ain t Nothing Like Being Married to an Old Elderly Man written by Melody Davidson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-05-26 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aint nothing like being married to an elderly man. Written for single and married women. Mental and physical abused women. Women of all races and background. It is a resource for knowledge of the Do and Donts of a relationship and or marriage. Used as a reference book, it offers my readers facts and information. This book is a hard core, no hold barred. Although this womens book can be enjoyed by anyone, including single and married men, it was specifically written for adult woman that seeks a relationship with elderly men. As you probably know, more than 50 million women in and out of the United States have dealt with a marriage for all the wrong reasons. These women too often accept the abuse simply because of a lack of knowledge. Having low self-esteem, women fail to realize they are Queens. Women deserve to be respected. Although other books, such as, Women Beatings through the Eyes of the Abuser, have tried to provide information, the book usually lack a womans point of view. (What abuse woman really wants to get information from the abuser himself?) And none of the books uses the hard core approach an approach that has revolutionized the way I see women as part of my own family.
Download or read book Devil Ain t Nothin But A Five Letter Word written by Iya Ifalola Omobola and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ain t Nothin But a Winner written by Barry Krauss and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2016-09-15 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rollicking memoir from the linebacker at the heart of the most famous Alabama football play of all time No university has won more football championships than Alabama, and Barry Krauss played a key role in one of them. The linebacker’s fourth down stop of Penn State’s Mike Guman in the Sugar Bowl on January 1, 1979, was recently named by ESPN as one of the ten most important plays of the 20th century. The Goal Line Stand, as the play became known, immortalized Krauss among legions of fans. More than twenty-five years later, people still tell him exactly what they were doing and how they felt when he collided in mid-air with Guman that New Year’s Day—and almost never mention his twelve-year career in the NFL. In this entertaining and well-illustrated memoir, Krauss tells of scrimmaging on front lawns with friends as a kid in Pompano Beach, Florida, and of his childhood dream to play for Don Shula. He acknowledges how Coach Bear Bryant tamed his free spirit and shaped him into the football player—and the man—he became. In addition, he emphasizes the importance of team, weaving together the personal stories of his Alabama teammates on the field during the Goal Line Stand, and acknowledges their significant roles in winning the game and the championship. Ain’t Nothin’ But a Winner offers an insider’s look at how a team is built, tested, and becomes a national champion—and how that process sometimes calls upon an individual to rise to the challenge presented by his own personal gut check.
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 1196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book How to Do Nothing written by Jenny Odell and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ** A New York Times Bestseller ** NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY: Time • The New Yorker • NPR • GQ • Elle • Vulture • Fortune • Boing Boing • The Irish Times • The New York Public Library • The Brooklyn Public Library "A complex, smart and ambitious book that at first reads like a self-help manual, then blossoms into a wide-ranging political manifesto."—Jonah Engel Bromwich, The New York Times Book Review One of President Barack Obama's "Favorite Books of 2019" Porchlight's Personal Development & Human Behavior Book of the Year In a world where addictive technology is designed to buy and sell our attention, and our value is determined by our 24/7 data productivity, it can seem impossible to escape. But in this inspiring field guide to dropping out of the attention economy, artist and critic Jenny Odell shows us how we can still win back our lives. Odell sees our attention as the most precious—and overdrawn—resource we have. And we must actively and continuously choose how we use it. We might not spend it on things that capitalism has deemed important … but once we can start paying a new kind of attention, she writes, we can undertake bolder forms of political action, reimagine humankind’s role in the environment, and arrive at more meaningful understandings of happiness and progress. Far from the simple anti-technology screed, or the back-to-nature meditation we read so often, How to do Nothing is an action plan for thinking outside of capitalist narratives of efficiency and techno-determinism. Provocative, timely, and utterly persuasive, this book will change how you see your place in our world.
Download or read book Negro Folk Music U S A written by Harold Courlander and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2019-09-18 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thorough, well-researched exploration of the origins and development of a rich and varied African American musical tradition features authentic versions of over 40 folk songs. These include such time-honored selections as "Wake Up Jonah," "Rock Chariot," "Wonder Where Is My Brother Gone," "Traveling Shoes," "It's Getting Late in the Evening," "Dark Was the Night," "I'm Crossing Jordan River," "Russia, Let That Moon Alone," "Long John," "Rosie," "Motherless Children," three versions of "John Henry," and many others. One of the first and best surveys in its field, Negro Folk Music, U.S.A. has long been admired for its perceptive history and analysis of the origins and musical qualities of typical forms, ranging from simple cries and calls to anthems and spirituals, ballads, and the blues. Traditional dances and musical instruments are examined as well. The author — a well-known novelist, folklorist, journalist, and specialist in African and African American cultures — offers a discerning study of the influence of this genre on popular music, with particular focus on how jazz developed out of folk traditions.
Download or read book Ain t Nothing But a Man written by Scott Reynolds Nelson and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historian Scott Reynolds Nelson recounts how he came to discover the real John Henry, an African-American railroad worker who became a legend in the famous song.
Download or read book Dvor k to Duke Ellington written by Maurice Peress and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-03-25 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing upon a remarkable mix of intensive research and the personal experience of a career devoted to the music about which Dvorák so presciently spoke, Maurice Peress's lively and convincing narrative treats readers to a rare and delightful glimpse behind the scenes of the burgeoning American school of music and beyond. In Dvorák to Duke Ellington, Peress begins by recounting the music's formative years: Dvorák's three year residency as Director of the National Conservatory of Music in New York (1892-1895), and his students, in particular Will Marion Cook and Rubin Goldmark, who would in turn become the teachers of Ellington, Gershwin, and Copland. We follow Dvorák to the famed Chicago World's Fair of 1893, where he directed a concert of his music for Bohemian Honor Day. Peress brings to light the little known African American presence at the Fair: the piano professors, about-to-be-ragtimers; and the gifted young artists Paul Dunbar, Harry T. Burleigh, and Cook, who gathered at the Haitian Pavilion with its director, Frederick Douglass, to organize their own gala concert for Colored Persons Day. Peress, a distinguished conductor, is himself a part of this story; working with Duke Ellington on the Suite from Black, Brown and Beige and his "opera comique," Queenie Pie; conducting the world premiere of Leonard Bernstein's Mass; and reconstructing landmark American concerts at which George Antheil's Ballet Mecanique, George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, James Reese Europe's Clef Club (the first all-black concert at Carnegie Hall), and Ellington's Black, Brown and Beige, were first presented. Concluding with an astounding look at Ellington and his music, Dvorák to Duke Ellington offers an engrossing, elegant portrait of the Dvorák legacy, America's music, and the inestimable African-American influence upon it.
Download or read book Leavin a Testimony written by Patsy Cravens and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2006-06-01 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portraits from rural Texas.
Download or read book The Swing Era written by Gunther Schuller and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1991-12-19 with total page 1749 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the book jazz lovers have eagerly awaited, the second volume of Gunther Schuller's monumental The History of Jazz. When the first volume, Early Jazz, appeared two decades ago, it immediately established itself as one of the seminal works on American music. Nat Hentoff called it "a remarkable breakthrough in musical analysis of jazz," and Frank Conroy, in The New York Times Book Review, praised it as "definitive.... A remarkable book by any standard...unparalleled in the literature of jazz." It has been universally recognized as the basic musical analysis of jazz from its beginnings until 1933. The Swing Era focuses on that extraordinary period in American musical history--1933 to 1945--when jazz was synonymous with America's popular music, its social dances and musical entertainment. The book's thorough scholarship, critical perceptions, and great love and respect for jazz puts this well-remembered era of American music into new and revealing perspective. It examines how the arrangements of Fletcher Henderson and Eddie Sauter--whom Schuller equates with Richard Strauss as "a master of harmonic modulation"--contributed to Benny Goodman's finest work...how Duke Ellington used the highly individualistic trombone trio of Joe "Tricky Sam" Nanton, Juan Tizol, and Lawrence Brown to enrich his elegant compositions...how Billie Holiday developed her horn-like instrumental approach to singing...and how the seminal compositions and arrangements of the long-forgotten John Nesbitt helped shape Swing Era styles through their influence on Gene Gifford and the famous Casa Loma Orchestra. Schuller also provides serious reappraisals of such often neglected jazz figures as Cab Calloway, Henry "Red" Allen, Horace Henderson, Pee Wee Russell, and Joe Mooney. Much of the book's focus is on the famous swing bands of the time, which were the essence of the Swing Era. There are the great black bands--Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Jimmie Lunceford, Earl Hines, Andy Kirk, and the often superb but little known "territory bands"--and popular white bands like Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsie, Artie Shaw, and Woody Herman, plus the first serious critical assessment of that most famous of Swing Era bandleaders, Glenn Miller. There are incisive portraits of the great musical soloists--such as Art Tatum, Teddy Wilson, Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, Bunny Berigan, and Jack Teagarden--and such singers as Billie Holiday, Frank Sinatra, Peggy Lee, and Helen Forest.
Download or read book A Hero Ain t Nothin But A Sandwich written by Alice Childress and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 1999-10-01 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life of a 13-year-old Harlem black boy, on his way to becoming a confirmed heroin addict, is seen from his viewpoint and from that of several people around him.
