Download or read book Blue Tail Fly written by Vievee Francis and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2006-03-21 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A poetic treatment of the period of American history between the beginning of the Mexican War and the end of the Civil War, by Michigan poet Vievee Francis. The title of Blue-Tail Fly comes from an antebellum song commonly known as "Jimmy Crack Corn." The blue-tail fly is a supposedly insignificant creature that bites the horse that bucks and kills the master. In this collection, poet Vievee Francis gives voice to "outsiders"—from soldiers and common folk to leading political figures—who play the role of the blue-tail fly in the period of American history between the Mexican American War and the Civil War. Through a diverse range of styles, characters, and emotions, Francis's poems consider the demands of war, protest and resistance to it, and the cross-cultural exchanges of wartime. More than a narrowly themed text, Blue-Tail Fly is a book of balances, weighing the give-and-take of people and cultures in the arena of war. For lovers of poetry and those interested in American history, Blue-Tail Fly will illustrate the complexities of the American past and future.
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Download or read book Devil Take the Blue Tail Fly written by John Franklin Bardin and published by Diversion Books. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Franklin Bardin's most acclaimed work plays a virtuoso performance on music and madness in this unforgettable thriller. In 1946 New York, Ellen, a world-renowned musician, is suffering from the effects of her latest mental breakdown. Amongst other challenges, a chance meeting with a folk singer from her past causes her psychological well-being to rapidly deteriorate. Over the following terrifying weeks, Ellen finds herself becoming both a criminal and a victim as she attempts to contend with the darkness within. "We have all had these feelings, more or less, and now and then. The healthier among us try to step back from the brink, try to laugh at what might have happened if we had gone a bit further. The reader of these tales will read in horror—those who can take it. And they will not forget very soon." —Patricia Highsmith
Download or read book The Blue tail Fly written by Keith Spencer Felton and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Temptation written by Julia S. Ardery and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why, beginning in the late 1960s, did expressive objects made by poor people come to be regarded as "twentieth-century folk art," increasingly sought after by the middle class and the wealthy? Julia Ardery explores that question through the life story of
Download or read book Horse in the Dark written by Vievee Francis and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-31 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bold and skilled, Francis takes us into the still landscapes of Texas, evoking the African American South in fluid detail. Her poems become panhandle folktales fraught with the weight of memories both individual and collective. Her creative tangle of metaphors, people, and geography will keep the reader rooted in the good earth of extraordinary verse.
Download or read book Devil Take the Blue Tail Fly written by Random House and published by . This book was released on 2001-06-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The World s Greatest Songbook written by Sandy Feldstein and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A huge collection of the world's most-loved folk songs and melodies, in "fakebook" style (melody, lyrics and chord changes). Perfect for sing-alongs, children's centers, classroom teachers or parents.
Download or read book The Blue tail Fly Syndrome written by Leslie P. Williams and published by . This book was released on 197? with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Black Book written by Middleton A. Harris and published by Random House. This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new edition of the classic New York Times bestseller edited by Toni Morrison, offering an encyclopedic look at the black experience in America from 1619 through the 1940s with the original cover restored. “I am so pleased the book is alive again. I still think there is no other work that tells and visualizes a story of such misery with seriousness, humor, grace and triumph.”—Toni Morrison Seventeenth-century sketches of Africans as they appeared to marauding European traders. Nineteenth-century slave auction notices. Twentieth-century sheet music for work songs and freedom chants. Photographs of war heroes, regal in uniform. Antebellum reward posters for capturing runaway slaves. An 1856 article titled “A Visit to the Slave Mother Who Killed Her Child.” In 1974, Middleton A. Harris and Toni Morrison led a team of gifted, passionate collectors in compiling these images and nearly five hundred others into one sensational narrative of the black experience in America—The Black Book. Now in a newly restored hardcover edition, The Black Book remains a breathtaking testament to the legendary wisdom, strength, and perseverance of black men and women intent on freedom. Prominent collectors Morris Levitt, Roger Furman, and Ernest Smith joined Harris and Morrison (then a Random House editor, ultimately a two-time Pulitzer Prize–winning Nobel Laureate) to spend months studying, laughing at, and crying over these materials—transcripts from fugitive slaves’ trials and proclamations by Frederick Douglass and celebrated abolitionists, as well as chilling images of cross burnings and lynchings, patents registered by black inventors throughout the early twentieth century, and vibrant posters from “Black Hollywood” films of the 1930s and 1940s. Indeed, it was an article she found while researching this project that provided the inspiration for Morrison’s masterpiece, Beloved. A labor of love and a vital link to the richness and diversity of African American history and culture, The Black Book honors the past, reminding us where our nation has been, and gives flight to our hopes for what is yet to come. Beautifully and faithfully presented and featuring a foreword and original poem by Toni Morrison, The Black Book remains a timeless landmark work.
Download or read book The Blue Tail Fly written by Matt Scott Diaz and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-11-21 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once a promising and decorated young federal investigator for the I.R.S., Tara Terrell now forges a meager living out of a shabby Miami office working in private practice. When a rich but enigmatic financier hires her to investigate possible corruption between local Cutler Bay politics and an out of state company, she jumps at the chance of restarting her struggling career. Enlisting the aid of a retired New York City detective now living in Florida, Tara puts her uncanny investigative skills to work. But her search begins to take her into the most maniacal elements of the underworld as she discovers that everything is not as it seems. Her case begins to involve not only local political corruption and criminal factions, but it also throws her in the middle of a long standing and deadly vendetta involving two powerful men. Amid Tara's case is the persistent rumor of a mysterious assassin. Having just arrived in the Miami area, this assassin is said to be unrivaled in his mastery of murder, leaving a trail of dead bodies in his path, then almost magically disappearing without any trace that he ever existed. Who hired this assassin? Who is his next target? And how many more will die at his hands? As she digs deeper into her ever perilous case, Tara comes face-to-face with the mysterious assassin; the one known only as... The Blue Tail Fly!
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Download or read book Favorite Old Time American Songs for Ukulele written by Mark "Kailana" Nelson and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2016-07-19 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book features over 100 traditional American folk songs newly arranged for the ukulele, with chord diagrams and melody lines in tablature and standard notation. This extensive collection makes "Favorite Old-Time American Songs for Ukulele" a treasury of the best songs from the American tradition. Nothing in this book is out of range for novice ukulele players. The songs are in keys that are both easy to sing and that fit the melodic range of the ukulele. Of course, not every voice sings comfortably in every key, so information on transposition and a short discussion for players of the baritone ukulele are included. Although you do not need to read music or tablature to use this book, short introductions to each are included. In putting together this collection, the author was inspired by the old American practice of making a sampler: an endearing needlework design showing off various stitches and techniques. The book presents a sampling of the best American songs for folks working in schools, churches, hospitals, coffeehouses and other public performance spaces, or for anyone wishing to expand their repertoire and brush up on a few old chestnuts. There's a little of everything here: sentimental old hearth songs, laments and lullabies, ballads and play-parties, the sacred and profane. The overwhelming majority of songs come from pre-industrial rural traditions, because this is the kind of music that seems to go well with homemade music-making in any age. Downloadable audio of 18 of the songs is available online.
Download or read book Friends and Heroes It s Time to Shine written by Arthur Thornhill and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2011-11-04 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Favorite Old Time American Songs for Dulcimer written by Mark Nelson and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2011-02-24 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This giant book features over 100 of America's favorite folk songs, expertly arranged for the Appalachaian dulicmer. Children's songs, work songs, old Anglo-American ballads, songs of strife and freedom, love songs and much, much more are all gathered here in arrangements suitable for the beginning and intermediate player. the songs come from all over – old books and sheet music, transcriptions from field recordings, but mostly from the singing of countless folks in kitchens and festival hallways, street corners and concert stages.Songs include Poor Wayfaring Stranger, Tenting Tonight, Don't Let Your Deal Go Down, Oh, Death, Careless Love, and many, many more.Tunings used include D-A-D and D-A-A, as well as C-G-C and C-G-G and several modal tunings. All are playable on any three- or four-stringed dulcimer. Some use a 6 1/2 fret. Includes information on reading music and TAB, notes on transposing, and a useful index of songs by tuning. In standard notation and TAB, with guitar chords.
