Download or read book Clifford s Blues written by John A. Williams and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-02-02 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A black musician arrested by Nazis in 1930s Germany endures the horrors of the Dachau death camp in this harrowing novel based on historical fact A self-proclaimed “gay negro” from New Orleans, Clifford Pepperidge made his name in the smoky nightclubs of Harlem in the 1920s, playing piano alongside Bessie Smith, Duke Ellington, and other jazz greats. A decade later, he thrills crowds nightly in the cabarets of Weimar Berlin. But dark days are on the horizon as the Nazi Party rises to power. Arrested by Hitler’s Gestapo during a roundup of homosexuals, Clifford finds himself placed in “protective custody” and transported to a concentration camp. Stripped of his dignity and his identity, and plunged into a nightmare of forced labor, starvation, and abuse, he seeks escape in his music. When a camp SS officer and jazz aficionado recognizes Clifford, the gentle musician learns just how far a desperate man will go in order to survive. Shining a light on a little-known aspect of the Holocaust, Clifford’s Blues is a disturbing portrait of a dark era in world history and a poignant celebration of the resilience of the human spirit and the power of music.
Download or read book The Fiddler s Almanac written by Ryan J. Thomson and published by Captain Fiddle Publications. This book was released on 1985 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes a wealth of fiddling lore and illustrations; a guide to buying a fiddle and bow; tips on learning and playing the fiddle; over 800 listings of books, records, fiddling and bluegrass organizations, fiddling schools and camps, violin making supplies, films, etc.; information about fiddle contests.
Download or read book Velocity Blues written by Clifford Royal Johns and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book What It Is written by Clifford Thompson and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An African-American writer's concise, heartfelt take on the state of his nation, exploring the war between the values he has always held and the reality with which he is confronted in twenty-first-century America. In the tradition of James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time and Ta-Nehisi Coates's Between the World and Me comes Clifford Thompson's What It Is. Thompson was raised to believe in treating every person of every color as an individual, and he decided as a young man that America, despite its history of racial oppression, was his home as much as anyone else's. As a middle-aged, happily married father of biracial children, Thompson finds himself questioning his most deeply held convictions when the race-baiting Donald Trump ascends to the presidency—elected by whites, whom Thompson had refused to judge as a group, and who make up the majority in this country Thompson had called his own. In the grip of contradictory emotions, Thompson turns for guidance to the wisdom of writers he admires while knowing that the answers to his questions about America ultimately lie in America itself. Through interviews with a small but varied group of Americans he hears sharply divergent opinions about what is happening in the country while trying to find his own answers—conclusions based not on conventional wisdom or on what he would like to believe, but on what he sees.
Download or read book Life With Cliff written by Heidi Jacobsen and published by BookRix. This book was released on 2019-03-23 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life with a filmmaker. Cliff Guest won Madonna's highly touted video contest "Make My Video Contest" in the 1980's for her song "True Blue". Cliff Guest and Angel Gracia won the contest and were whisked off to New York and then landed a job at Geffen Records in Los Angeles after appearing on Good Morning America with Phil Hartman. Cliff had then went on to making feature films and commericals. See inside this creative person for a closer look at what makes this guy tick. Does the number 202 mean anything symbolic? Do pigeons play a role? Will he keep on playing drums or guitar and who does he love? These questions are answered in "Life With Cliff".......An insiders take on living with a celebrity.
Download or read book What It Is written by Clifford Thompson and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An African-American writer's concise, heartfelt take on the state of his nation, exploring the war between the values he has always held and the reality with which he is confronted in twenty-first-century America. In the tradition of James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time and Ta-Nehisi Coates's Between the World and Me comes Clifford Thompson's What It Is. Thompson was raised to believe in treating every person of every color as an individual, and he decided as a young man that America, despite its history of racial oppression, was his home as much as anyone else's. As a middle-aged, happily married father of biracial children, Thompson finds himself questioning his most deeply held convictions when the race-baiting Donald Trump ascends to the presidency—elected by whites, whom Thompson had refused to judge as a group, and who make up the majority in this country Thompson had called his own. In the grip of contradictory emotions, Thompson turns for guidance to the wisdom of writers he admires while knowing that the answers to his questions about America ultimately lie in America itself. Through interviews with a small but varied group of Americans he hears sharply divergent opinions about what is happening in the country while trying to find his own answers—conclusions based not on conventional wisdom or on what he would like to believe, but on what he sees.
Download or read book Oak Cliff and the Missing Pieces written by Gregory M. Hasty and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2023-08-23 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oak Cliff and the Missing Pieces is the first book written about the area's history in over three decades. It not only captures the beginnings of the early settlement, it takes the reader beyond a century and a half of growth and tracks how the community has evolved. The book is unique in that it captures the history of West Dallas in conjunction with its Oak Cliff neighbor and how the two transformed together over time into what we see today. The collection of historical accounts and hundreds of photos identify individuals and places of prominence finally memorialized in one anthology. The narrative also takes readers through facts and stories that have been ignored or concealed, revealing an authentic depiction of how the community was, at times, abused and neglected. Readers will enjoy this introspective examination of the area south and west of the Trinity and will once and for all put together the missing pieces of the storied land that has long been misunderstood. All proceeds from the sale of Oak Cliff and the Missing Pieces will go to benefit non-profit organizations in Oak Cliff and West Dallas.
Download or read book Golfing with Cliff written by Heidi Jacobsen and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Just Remember This written by Colin Bratkovich and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-05-08 with total page 938 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I have completed this manuscript Just Remember This, or as American Pop Singers 1900-1950+, about music before the 1950s in America. It perhaps offers knowledge and insights not previously found in other musical reference books. I have moreover been working on this book very meticulously over the past twelve-plus years. It started as a bit of fun and gradually became serious as I began to listen along with the vocalists of popular music, of the era before 1950, essentially just before the dawn of rock and roll. If you can call it that! Indeed genre and labeling of American music started here, and then from everywhere. While the old adage of always starting from somewhere could be noted in every century, the 1900s had produced the technology. Understanding the necessity, more so, finds a curiosity on the part of a general public hungry for entertainment, despite 6 day work weeks, World War I, the Great Depression, and World War II.
Download or read book The Canaan Peak Pine Hollow and Wasatch Formations in the Table Cliff Region Garfield County Utah written by William E. Bowers and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Off the Cliff written by Becky Aikman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1991, Thelma & Louise, the story of two outlaw women on the run from their disenchanted lives, was a revelation. The film, in which women were, in every sense, behind the wheel, instantly become a classic, and continues to electrify audiences as a cultural statement of defiance. But at the time its creation was a long shot. Aikman tells the story of this feminist sensation from an idea in the head of Callie Khouri, a vision: two women on a crime spree, fleeing their dull and tedious lives-- lives like hers-- in search of a freedom they had never before been able to realize.
Download or read book Jazzy Zigzagin Blues written by Dalvin Clifford and published by Author House. This book was released on 2014-08-14 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Love ain't even really about love. Half of it's a damn lie." Mary and Rainbow, friends since childhood, have been through everything together, and nothing has ever been able to tear them apart as they mature and find themselves in relationships and constant soul-searching. Through memorable characters, such as loudmouthed Candice, opinionated Miss Real, shy little Dookie, lovesick Miss Billy, and more, some funny, others insightful, they learn how to navigate in life. Mary realizes her jazzy poetic way with words at an early age, but a secret from the past that tore her mother and aunt apart is slowly doing the same to her until the explosive night when everyone is forced to face it head-on. Rainbow has longed to be loved for as long as she could remember but is considering washing her hands of love altogether after finding herself yet again left heartbroken and confused, until a man from her past returns ready to give her all that she's been missing. In his thought-provoking, coming of age, poetic debut novel, Dalvin Clifford expresses how day-to-day blues must be overcome in order for one to prosper. A sassy yet humorously honest story that dives headfirst into issues of love and forgiveness, Jazzy Zigzagin' Blues is guaranteed to take readers on a journey they will never forget.
Download or read book Clifford s Animal Sounds written by Norman Bridwell and published by Cartwheel Books. This book was released on 1991 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clifford the small red puppy meets a variety of animals and discovers what kinds of sounds they make.
Download or read book Rock Climbing Washington written by Jeff Smoot and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-05-01 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This updated edition of Rock Climbing Washington features more than 1,500 routes throughout the state of Washington. Explore the granite cliffs of Index, Leavenworth, Darrington, and Tieton River Canyon; tackle the exposed alpine routes on the spires at Washington Pass; or hang from steep sport climbs at North Bend, Frenchman Coulee, and Marcus and China Bend near Spokane.
Download or read book Cliff Richard the Biography written by Steve Turner and published by Lion Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'What is so good about this book is that none of the gossip is too touchy to dwell on. Although this is an authorised biography, all the innuendos are confronted head on. There are a lot of fine anecdotes. Turner's sympathetic, sagacious and highly enjoyable book tells you everything you ever wanted to know about Cliff. Turner's Cliff Richard is refreshingly human, though not without his faults.' Tony Parsons, The Sunday Telegraph: 'Well researched, pleasantly written, and shows an almost Kitty Kelleyish ear for good quotes.' Lynn Barber, Independent on Sunday
Download or read book Yankee Twang written by Clifford R. Murphy and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2014-10-15 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Merging scholarly insight with a professional guitarist's sense of the musical life, Yankee Twang delves into the rich tradition of country & western music that is played and loved in the mill towns and cities of the American northeast. Scholar and musician Clifford R. Murphy draws on a wealth of ethnographic material, interviews, and encounters with recorded and live music to reveal the central role of country and western in the social lives and musical activity of working-class New Englanders. As Murphy shows, an extraordinary multiculturalism sets New England country and western music apart from other regional and national forms. Once segregated at work and worship, members of different ethnic groups used the country and western popularized on the radio and by barnstorming artists to come together at social events, united by a love of the music. Musicians, meanwhile, drew from the wide variety of ethnic musical traditions to create the New England style. But the music also gave--and gives--voice to working-class feeling. Murphy explores how the Yankee love of country and western emphasizes the western, reflecting the longing of many blue collar workers for the mythical cowboy's life of rugged but fulfilling individualism. Indeed, many New Englanders use country and western to comment on economic disenfranchisement and express their resentment of a mass media, government, and Nashville music establishment that they believe neither reflects their experiences nor considers them equal participants in American life.
Download or read book Cliff Walk written by Bruce DeSilva and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2012-05-22 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cliff Walk is at once a hard-boiled mystery and an exploration of sex and religion in the age of pornography. Written with the unique and powerful voice that won DeSilva an Edgar Award for Best First Novel, Cliff Walk lifts Mulligan into the pantheon of great suspense heroes and is a giant leap for the career of Bruce DeSilva. Prostitution has been legal in Rhode Island for more than a decade; Liam Mulligan, an old-school investigative reporter at dying Providence newspaper, suspects the governor has been taking payoffs to keep it that way. But this isn't the only story making headlines...a child's severed arm is discovered in a pile of garbage at a pig farm. Then the body of an internet pornographer is found sprawled on the rocks at the base of Newport's famous Cliff Walk. At first, the killings seem random, but as Mulligan keeps digging into the state's thriving sex business, strange connections emerge. Promised free sex with hookers if he minds his own business—and a beating if he doesn't—Mulligan enlists Thanks-Dad, the newspaper publisher's son, and Attila the Nun, the state's colorful Attorney General, in his quest for the truth. What Mulligan learns will lead him to question his beliefs about sexual morality, shake his tenuous religious faith, and leave him wondering who his real friends are. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
