Download or read book Jazz Twelve O clock Tales written by Wanda Coleman and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 2008 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poets who can write prose that equals their poetry are rare. With this collection of thirteen new short stories, Wanda Coleman, Los Angeles's unofficial poet laureate, proves an exception to the rule yet again. The characters in these stories lead lonely lives full of longing, of potential stifled by racism, poverty, and absurd accidents of fate. And yet, even though they are trapped by the present moment, their inner lives are lush, a mirror of the city of angels in which they live, a metropolis, always simmering, as Coleman writes in the final story, ever waiting to be borne on that balmy promised crescendo. Coleman applies a poet's economy of words to her fiction, setting a scene with lightning-quick strokes, letting a detail, a dialogue, or the brisk vernacular speak for itself. .
Download or read book The Jazz Fiction Anthology written by Sascha Feinstein and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2009-10-02 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What sounds throughout these stories is the universal voice of humanity that is the essence of the music.
Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Gender and the American West written by Susan Bernardin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-06-19 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first major collection to remap the American West though the intersectional lens of gender and sexuality, especially in relation to race and Indigeneity. Organized through several interrelated key concepts, The Routledge Companion to Gender and the American West addresses gender and sexuality from and across diverse and divergent methodologies. Comprising 34 chapters by a team of international contributors, the Companion is divided into four parts: Genealogies Bodies Movements Lands The volume features leading and newer scholars whose essays connect interdisciplinary fields including Indigenous Studies, Latinx and Asian American Studies, Western American Studies, and Queer, Feminist, and Gender Studies. Through innovative methodologies and reclaimed archives of knowledge, contributors model fresh frameworks for thinking about relations of power and place, gender and genre, settler colonization and decolonial resistance. Even as they reckon with the ongoing gendered and racialized violence at the core of the American West, contributors forge new lexicons for imagining alternative Western futures. This pathbreaking collection will be invaluable to scholars and students studying the origins, myths, histories, and legacies of the American West. This is a foundational collection that will become invaluable to scholars and students across a range of disciplines including Gender and Sexuality Studies, Literary Studies, Indigenous Studies, and Latinx Studies.
Download or read book No Single Trajectory written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-07-15 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents papers by eleven European scholars that explore the ambivalent representations of an American West that follows “no single trajectory, creating instead a series of lines and rhythms, always moving, crossing, and folding” (Neil Campbell). The papers explore the use of the American West as an ideal or a realistic setting in different cultural productions, ranging from music (“Sing-along Melodies of the West”) to film (“Western Images in Motion”) or comics (“Graphic Representations of the American West”), and including popular cultural fields like podcasts, fashion, and gastronomy (“Performing the West”).
Download or read book Seeing Jazz written by Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 1997-10 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Produced by the Smithsonian, this spectacular compilation is the first to look at both art and literature inspired by jazz. SEEING JAZZ showcases the music's riotous liberating influence with over 100 beautiful images--paintings, photographs, sculpture, multimedia works, and textile art--inspired by the riffs and refrains of jazz. Over 100 color and b&w illustrations.
Download or read book Alfred s Easy Ukulele Songs Standards Jazz written by Alfred Music and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on 2016-08-11 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For beginning musicians, Alfred's Easy series is the fast track to developing a repertoire of well-known and fun-to-play songs, while more experienced players will find an excellent resource of favorite songs. The Easy Hits Ukulele format provides melody, chords, and lyrics for easy "strum and sing" performance---plus suggested strum patterns and TAB for any integral "hook" parts. This Standards and Jazz edition features timeless songs from the Great American Songbook, such as "Ain't Misbehavin'," "Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue," "I'm in the Mood for Love," "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)," "Over the Rainbow," "Take the 'A' Train," and many more! Titles: * Ain't Misbehavin' * At Last * All of Me * Blue Moon * Breezin' * Caravan * Do Nothin' Till You Hear from Me * Don't Get Around Much Anymore * Emily * Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue * Gentle Rain * Good Morning, Heartache * Here's That Rainy Day * I'm in the Mood for Love * In a Sentimental Mood * In Your Own Sweet Way * Invitation * It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) * Just Friends * Laura * Lush Life * Misty * Moonglow * Moonlight in Vermont * Moonlight Serenade * More Than You Know * My Foolish Heart * Theme from New York, New York * Nice 'n' Easy * On Green Dolphin Street * Over the Rainbow * Polka Dots and Moonbeams * Prelude to a Kiss * Satin Doll * The Shadow of Your Smile * Softly, As I Leave You * Solitude * Stardust * Stars Fell on Alabama * Stompin' at the Savoy * Straighten Up and Fly Right * Street of Dreams * Take Five * Take the "A" Train * This Masquerade * Try a Little Tenderness * What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life? * What's New? * You Must Believe in Spring * You Stepped Out of a Dream
Download or read book The Gig Book Jazz written by Wise Publications and published by Wise Publications. This book was released on 2010-03-25 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gig Book returns with a volume of jazz classics. Presented with melody lines in standard notation, guitar chord boxes and complete lyrics, this is the perfect reference for guitarists, keyboard players and all other musicians, allowing you to quickly understand and learn every song Songlist: - A Felicidade - A Fine Romance (Swing Time) - Adios - Ain't Misbehavin' - All The Things You Are - Alright, Okay, You - Always In My Heart - Amapola (First Love) - Amor (Amor, Amor, Amor) - Angel Eyes - Arrivederci Roma (Goodbye To Rome) - As Time Goes By (from ‘Casablanca’) - Besame Mucho - Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea - Black Coffee - Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy - Bye Bye Baby - Call Me Irresponsible - Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man (from ‘Show Boat’) - Caravan - Chega De Saudade (No More Blues) - Chelsea Bridge - Come Fly With Me - Desafinado (Slightly Out Of Tune) - Don't Get Around Much Anymore - Don't Go To - East Of The Sun (And West Of The Moon) - Fever - Fine And Mellow (My Man Don't Love Me) - Fly Me To The Moon (In Other Words) - Frenesi [Dominguez, Alberto] - Georgia On My Mind (Ray) - Guantanamera - Hallelujah I Love Her So - Here's That Rainy Day - Hey! Ba-Ba-Re-Bob - Honeysuckle Rose - How Insensitive (Insensatez) - I Left My Heart In San Francisco - I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free - I'll Remember April - I'm Beginning To See The Light - I'm Gettin' Sentimental Over You - I'm Old Fashioned (You Were Never Lovelier) - In A Sentimental Mood - Is You Or Is You Ain't My Baby? - It Could Happen To You (And The Angels Sing) - It's Only A Paper Moon - La Cumparsita - Love Me With All Your Heart (Cuando Calienta El Sol) - Lover Man (Oh Where Can You Be) - Lullaby Of Birdland - Lush Life
Download or read book Encyclopedia of African American Literature written by Wilfred D. Samuels and published by Infobase Learning. This book was released on 2015-04-22 with total page 1999 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a reference on African American literature providing profiles of notable and little-known writers and their works, literary forms and genres, critics and scholars, themes and terminology and more.
Download or read book Into a Light Both Brilliant and Unseen written by Malin Pereira and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Malin Pereira's collection of eight interviews with leading contemporary African American poets offers an in-depth look at the cultural and aesthetic perspectives of the post-Black Arts Movement generation. This volume includes unpublished interviews Pereira conducted with Wanda Coleman, Yusef Komunyakaa, Thylias Moss, Harryette Mullen, Cornelius Eady, and Elizabeth Alexander, as well as conversations with Rita Dove and Cyrus Cassells previously in print. Largely published since 1980, each of these poets has at least four books. Their influence on new generations of poets has been wide-reaching. The work of this group, says Pereira, is a departure from the previous generation's proscriptive manifestos in favor of more inclusive voices, perspectives, and techniques. Although these poets reject a rigid adherence to a specific black aesthetic, their work just as effectively probes racism, stereotyping, and racial politics. Unlike Amiri Baraka's claim in "Home" that he becomes blacker and blacker, positioning race as a defining essence, these poets imagine a plurality of ideas about the relationship between blackness and black poetry. They question the idea of an established literary canon defining black literature. For these poets, Pereira says, the idea of "home" is found both in black poetry circles and in the wider transnational community of literature. A Sarah Mills Hodge Foundation Publication.
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of Los Angeles written by Kevin R. McNamara and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-05-06 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diverse, vibrant, and challenging as the city itself, this Companion is the definitive guide to LA in literature.
Download or read book Unhomely Wests written by and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pow Wow written by Ishmael Reed and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2009-01-27 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the yardstick that a short story is any fiction under 15,000 words, Ishmael Reed--with the assistance of Carla Blank--has assembled an anthology that reexamines the history of the form across a broader, more inclusive spectrum. The result is a collection that stretches the boundaries of the American literary landscape, including work ranging from animal stories of the Northwest Coast Eyaks to African-American folklore to reflections on the American Muslim experience. Pow-Wow is the sequel to Reed's From Totems to Hip-Hop: A Multicultural Anthology of Poetry Across the Americas, 1900-2002, a volume that included both Tupac Shakur and T. S. Eliot, and was named one of the best poetry anthologies of 2003 by Library Journal. Its fiction-focused follow-up once again demonstrates the broad range of American writing, from such stellar names as Langston Hughes, Gertrude Stein, Russell Banks, and Alejandro Murguíto newly discovered writers of all races, genders, and backgrounds. By presenting many different sides to the American story, the fiction of these writers challenges official history, shatters accepted myths, and provides alternatives to mainstream notions of personal and national identity. Gathering these voices together, Pow Wow offers a fascinating and vital opportunity to traverse the fault lines that separate, distinguish, and define a nation made of many Americas.
Download or read book In Whatever Houses We May Visit An Anthology of Poems That Have Inspired Physicians written by and published by ACP Press. This book was released on with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book State of the Union written by Joshua Beckman and published by Wave Books. This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A political anthology from the front lines of American poetics.
Download or read book Wicked Enchantment written by Wanda Coleman and published by Godine+ORM. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A voice for justice, anti-racism, and equality—here is the greatest and most powerful work of the people’s poet, Wanda Coleman. One of the most talked about literary collections of the year is this collection by a beat-up, broke, and Black woman who wrote with anger, humor, and clarity about her life on the margins. Wicked Enchantment: Selected Poems is a selection of 130 of Coleman’s poems spanning four decades, edited and introduced by Terrance Hayes. Although Coleman was rejected by the literary elites during her lifetime, here’s what people are saying now about Wicked Enchantment: “Wanda Coleman is not just wickedly wise, she is transcendent.” —The Washington Post “These poems are wildly fun and inventive . . . and frequently hilarious; they seem to cover every human experience and emotion.” —The New York Times “Wanda Coleman’s work has that ineffable quality that accompanies poetry you understand in your belly and your head. . . . It is an unmistakable style that propels a Coleman poem, and draws us into it.” —Reginald Dwayne Betts “Wicked Enchantment has words to crack you open and heal you where it counts—hateful and hilarious, heartbroke and hellbent.” —Mary Karr, New York Times bestselling author “One of the greatest poets ever to come out of L.A.” —The New Yorker “One of the most exciting, original, deliciously dangerous voices of the 20th century.” —The Irish Times “Required Reading” —Bustle “Best Poetry of 2020” The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Irish Times Winner California Independent Booksellers Alliance’s 2020 Golden Poppy Award for Poetry
Download or read book Black Nature written by Camille T. Dungy and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black Nature is the first anthology to focus on nature writing by African American poets, a genre that until now has not commonly been counted as one in which African American poets have participated. Black poets have a long tradition of incorporating treatments of the natural world into their work, but it is often read as political, historical, or protest poetry--anything but nature poetry. This is particularly true when the definition of what constitutes nature writing is limited to work about the pastoral or the wild. Camille T. Dungy has selected 180 poems from 93 poets that provide unique perspectives on American social and literary history to broaden our concept of nature poetry and African American poetics. This collection features major writers such as Phillis Wheatley, Rita Dove, Yusef Komunyakaa, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sterling Brown, Robert Hayden, Wanda Coleman, Natasha Trethewey, and Melvin B. Tolson as well as newer talents such as Douglas Kearney, Major Jackson, and Janice Harrington. Included are poets writing out of slavery, Reconstruction, the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Arts Movement, and late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century African American poetic movements. Black Nature brings to the fore a neglected and vital means of considering poetry by African Americans and nature-related poetry as a whole. A Friends Fund Publication.
Download or read book The Real Vocal Book Volume I Songbook written by Hal Leonard Corp. and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Fake Book). The Real Vocal Book has many of the selections from Volumes 1 and 2 of the instrumental Real Books, but now with complete lyrics added to the pre-existing melody line. This edition features 300 essential songs arranged for low voice, including: Alfie * All of Me * Autumn Leaves * Bewitched * Bluesette * Don't Get Around Much Anymore * Fever * Georgia on My Mind * Misty * Moon River * My Funny Valentine * Satin Doll * and more.
