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Book The Boogies and the Woogies

Download or read book The Boogies and the Woogies written by Marianne Reed and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Boogies and the Woogies are charming creatures with only one problem-- they are solidly dug in on their opposing opinions. The Boogies are right and the Woogies are wrong? or maybe the Woogies are right and the Boogies are wrong. It all depends on which side of the line you're on. As the littlest ones laugh and play, oblivious to the issues, the situation intensifies until suddenly it's time to put all differences aside and build a bridge?. and fast! The ingenious bridge becomes the healing solution to the problem? as well as an impromptu dance floor. This is a lighthearted but meaningful and extremely timely story that will help children and adults alike to begin to imagine a world where love wins even when it seems like the divide is just too great.

Book The Joy of Boogie and Blues

Download or read book The Joy of Boogie and Blues written by Denes Agay and published by Yorktown Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wonderful selection of easy-to-medium piano solos, in both blues and boogie styles, including "Cotton Mill Blues" and "Whistling the Blues." These pieces have been arranged and edited by Denes Agay and Gerald Martin.

Book Tokyo Boogie Woogie

    Book Details:
  • Author : Hiromu Nagahara
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2017-04-10
  • ISBN : 0674978412
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book Tokyo Boogie Woogie written by Hiromu Nagahara and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-10 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emerging in the 1920s, the Japanese pop scene gained a devoted following, and the soundscape of the next four decades became the audible symbol of changing times. In the first English-language history of this Japanese industry, Hiromu Nagahara connects the rise of mass entertainment with Japan’s transformation into a postwar middle-class society.

Book The Boogie woogie Man

Download or read book The Boogie woogie Man written by Joy Cowley and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A learn-to-read story about a Halloween trick.

Book Encyclopedia of the Blues 2nd  p

Download or read book Encyclopedia of the Blues 2nd p written by Gérard Herzhaft and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Story of Boogie Woogie

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  • Author : Peter J. Silvester
  • Publisher : Scarecrow Press
  • Release : 2009-07-29
  • ISBN : 0810869330
  • Pages : 439 pages

Download or read book The Story of Boogie Woogie written by Peter J. Silvester and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2009-07-29 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Story of Boogie-Woogie: A Left Hand Like God examines the socio-historical background of the boogie-woogie piano style, from its early appearances in the barrelhouses of lumber, turpentine, and railroad camps in the southern United States, to its emergence at rent parties in Chicago and St. Louis, to its rise as a popular form of music in the nightclubs of New York, to its status as an international craze during World War II. In this enhanced revision of A Left Hand Like God, Peter J. Silvester presents a comprehensive history of boogie-woogie, describing the style's appearance and development, its offshoots, and the pianists who made it famous, and studying its impact on rhythm and blues, urban blues, and big band swing, leading to the eventual revival of 'classical' boogie-woogie in concerts and festivals. Silvester discusses significant European and American pianists of boogie-woogie throughout history, providing biographical information about their life styles and musical influences and offering an analysis of their important recordings. The book also includes a new chapter on the contribution of national and independent record companies to the recording of boogie-woogie music. A thorough bibliography and a final appendix providing many of the bass patterns common in boogie-woogie make this a valuable reference.

Book Sock Monkey Boogie Woogie

Download or read book Sock Monkey Boogie Woogie written by Cece Bell and published by Candlewick. This book was released on 2015-05-12 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cece Bell’s famous Sock Monkey, toy actor, returns in three vibrant reissues of his original adventures! The big celebrity dance is just days away, and Sock Monkey doesn’t have a dancing partner! Is he doomed to stay at home and sing the blues? With a polyester suit, some fancy dance moves, and a new argyle buddy, Sock Monkey concocts a creative solution.

Book A Rocket in My Pocket

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  • Author : Max Décharné
  • Publisher : Profile Books
  • Release : 2010-12-09
  • ISBN : 1847652417
  • Pages : 336 pages

Download or read book A Rocket in My Pocket written by Max Décharné and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2010-12-09 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rockabilly had its roots in country, blues, folk, hillbilly, R&B, boogie-woogie and most other indigenous Deep South forms of popular song that you could strum three chords along to or howl down a cheap microphone. It was young people's music, made almost entirely by the first wave of teenagers, despised by adults in general and the country music establishment in particular. Its pioneer exponent, Elvis, eventually become respectable in the eyes of straight society but he was the exception. 1950s rockabilly was a spontaneous outburst of spirited three-chord songs, tiny record labels, primitive studios, fiercely partisan audiences and wild-eyed, driven performers who weren't even sure that their musical careers would last the week. The book charts the rise (and fall) of the original 50s wave of rockabillies. It will also follow the progress of the music, in clubs, on radio, TV and film, pinpointing the key record labels and important regional centres, showing how fashions eventually changed and left rockabilly high and dry, far too wild and primitive in an era of smoother sounds. Dcharn traces the music to its Memphis roots.

Book Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume 8

Download or read book Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume 8 written by John Shepherd and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-03-08 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: See:

Book A Left Hand Like God

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  • Author : Peter J. Silvester
  • Publisher : Da Capo Press, Incorporated
  • Release : 1989-08-21
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 360 pages

Download or read book A Left Hand Like God written by Peter J. Silvester and published by Da Capo Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 1989-08-21 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Before Elvis

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  • Author : Larry Birnbaum
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 2013
  • ISBN : 0810886383
  • Pages : 475 pages

Download or read book Before Elvis written by Larry Birnbaum and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential work for rock fans and scholars, Before Elvis: The Prehistory of Rock 'n' Roll surveys the origins of rock 'n' roll from the minstrel era to the emergence of Bill Haley and Elvis Presley. Unlike other histories of rock, Before Elvis offers a far broader and deeper analysis of the influences on rock music. Dispelling common misconceptions, it examines rock's origins in hokum songs and big-band boogies as well as Delta blues, detailing the embrace by white artists of African-American styles long before rock 'n' roll appeared. This unique study ranges far and wide, highlighting not only the contributions of obscure but key precursors like Hardrock Gunter and Sam Theard but also the influence of celebrity performers like Gene Autry and Ella Fitzgerald. Too often, rock historians treat the genesis of rock 'n' roll as a bolt from the blue, an overnight revolution provoked by the bland pop music that immediately preceded it and created through the white appropriation of music till then played only by and for black audiences. In Before Elvis, Birnbaum daringly argues a more complicated history of rock's evolution from a heady mix of ragtime, boogie-woogie, swing, country music, mainstream pop, and rhythm-and-blues--a melange that influenced one another along the way, from the absorption of blues and boogies into jazz and pop to the integration of country and Caribbean music into rhythm-and-blues. Written in an easy style, Before Elvis presents a bold argument about rock's origins and required reading for fans and scholars of rock 'n' roll history.

Book A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers

Download or read book A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers written by Will Friedwald and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2010 with total page 833 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extensive biographical and critical survey of more than 300 jazz and popular singers is comprised of provocative, opinionated essays that incorporate the views of peers, fans and critics while assessing key movements and genres.

Book Encyclopedia of the Blues

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gérard Herzhaft
  • Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
  • Release : 1992-01-01
  • ISBN : 9781557282521
  • Pages : 532 pages

Download or read book Encyclopedia of the Blues written by Gérard Herzhaft and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The popular Encyclopedia of the Blues, first published by the University of Arkansas Press in 1992 and reprinted six times, has become an indispensable reference source for all involved with or intrigued by the music. The work alphabetizes hundreds of biographical entries, presenting detailed examinations of the performers and of the instruments, trends, recordings, and producers who have created and popularized this truly American art form.

Book The Blues  A Very Short Introduction

Download or read book The Blues A Very Short Introduction written by Elijah Wald and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-03 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praised as "suave, soulful, ebullient" (Tom Waits) and "a meticulous researcher, a graceful writer, and a committed contrarian" (New York Times Book Review), Elijah Wald is one of the leading popular music critics of his generation. In The Blues, Wald surveys a genre at the heart of American culture. It is not an easy thing to pin down. As Howlin' Wolf once described it, "When you ain't got no money and can't pay your house rent and can't buy you no food, you've damn sure got the blues." It has been defined by lyrical structure, or as a progression of chords, or as a set of practices reflecting West African "tonal and rhythmic approaches," using a five-note "blues scale." Wald sees blues less as a style than as a broad musical tradition within a constantly evolving pop culture. He traces its roots in work and praise songs, and shows how it was transformed by such professional performers as W. C. Handy, who first popularized the blues a century ago. He follows its evolution from Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith through Bob Dylan and Jimi Hendrix; identifies the impact of rural field recordings of Blind Lemon Jefferson, Charley Patton and others; explores the role of blues in the development of both country music and jazz; and looks at the popular rhythm and blues trends of the 1940s and 1950s, from the uptown West Coast style of T-Bone Walker to the "down home" Chicago sound of Muddy Waters. Wald brings the story up to the present, touching on the effects of blues on American poetry, and its connection to modern styles such as rap. As with all of Oxford's Very Short Introductions, The Blues tells you--with insight, clarity, and wit--everything you need to know to understand this quintessentially American musical genre.

Book Last Train to Palookaville

Download or read book Last Train to Palookaville written by Ian Lovegrove and published by Author House. This book was released on 2014-10-25 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of one man's struggle to make good in the hash environment of post World War II Britain, a country in long-term decline. It depicts the experiences, adventures and misadventures of a working class male. The treatment is earthy and candid and laced with humour in its description of the twin impostors of triumphs and disasters in personal and professional life. His artistic development is described in some detail with reference to works on his website, palimpsestart.com. A substantial part of the book is dedicated to a serious critique of contemporary life in Britain.

Book Blues Piano

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mark Harrison
  • Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
  • Release : 2003-11-01
  • ISBN : 1476816034
  • Pages : 145 pages

Download or read book Blues Piano written by Mark Harrison and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2003-11-01 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Keyboard Instruction). Ever wanted to play the blues, but weren't sure where to start? Blues Piano will teach you the basic skills you need. From comping to soloing, you'll learn the theory, the tools, and even the tricks that the pros use. And, you get seven complete tunes to jam on. Covers: scales and chords; left-hand patterns; walking bass; endings and turnarounds; right-hand techniques; how to solo with blues scales; crossover licks; and more.

Book Both Worlds at Once

    Book Details:
  • Author : Amir Cohen-Shalev
  • Publisher : University Press of America
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 9780761821878
  • Pages : 184 pages

Download or read book Both Worlds at Once written by Amir Cohen-Shalev and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2002 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both Worlds at Once is a study of works of art conceived and produced late in their creators' careers. It pronounces an alternative to the mainstream life span creativity research which has, in general, adopted a decline perspective to the fruits of old age. Amir Cohen-Shalev argues that this age-decrement approach misses what the artists themselves tried to do in old age, which is often to develop a new form that allows them to thrive on ambivalence. Against the bleak predictions of developmental psychology and folk wisdom, this book focuses on old age as a unique stage of creative activity.