Download or read book The Straight Girl on the Crooked Path written by Louise de Koven Bowen and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lines of Activity written by Shannon Jackson and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Applies the interdisciplinary insights of performance studies to the life of Chicago's Hull-House settlement
Download or read book Growing Up with a City written by Louise de Koven Bowen and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Biographical Cyclopaedia of American Women written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Juvenile Court Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chicago Jazz written by William Howland Kenney and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1994-10-27 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The setting is the Royal Gardens Cafe. It's dark, smoky. The smell of gin permeates the room. People are leaning over the balcony, their drinks spilling on the customers below. On stage, King Oliver and Louis Armstrong roll on and on, piling up choruses, the rhythm section building the beat until tables, chairs, walls, people, move with the rhythm. The time is the 1920s. The place is South Side Chicago, a town of dance halls and cabarets, Prohibition and segregation, a town where jazz would flourish into the musical statement of an era. In Chicago Jazz, William Howland Kenney offers a wide-ranging look at jazz in the Windy City, revealing how Chicago became the major center of jazz in the 1920s, one of the most vital periods in the history of the music. He describes how the migration of blacks from the South to Chicago during and after World War I set the stage for the development of jazz in Chicago; and how the nightclubs and cabarets catering to both black and white customers provided the social setting for jazz performances. Kenney discusses the arrival of King Oliver and other greats in Chicago in the late teens and the early 1920s, especially Louis Armstrong, who would become the most influential jazz player of the period. And he travels beyond South Side Chicago to look at the evolution of white jazz, focusing on the influence of the South Side school on such young white players as Mezz Mezzrow (who adopted the mannerisms of black show business performers, an urbanized southern black accent, and black slang); and Max Kaminsky, deeply influenced by Armstrong's "electrifying tone, his superb technique, his power and ease, his hotness and intensity, his complete mastery of the horn." The personal recollections of many others--including Milt Hinton, Wild Bill Davison, Bud Freeman, and Jimmy McPartland--bring alive this exciting period in jazz history. Here is a new interpretation of Chicago jazz that reveals the role of race, culture, and politics in the development of this daring musical style. From black-and-tan cabarets and the Savoy Ballroom, to the Friars Inn and Austin High, Chicago Jazz brings to life the hustle and bustle of the sounds and styles of musical entertainment in the famous toddlin' town.
Download or read book Crooked Paths Made Straight written by Isabelle L. D. Grant and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2016-01-12 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1959, two years before she retired from teaching, Dr. Isabelle Grant set off on a yearlong journey around the world with Oscar, her long white cane, in her hand. She had been totally blind for the past twelve years. In Crooked Paths Made Straight, she shares the story of her journey during which she visited twenty-three countries from Great Britain to Fiji. In Karachi, she traveled the streets by rickshaw and struggled to master the Urdu language. In India, she explored the Taj Mahal, and in Burma she slept in a room where lizards raced up and down the walls. At a time when both women and blind people were generally seen as too helpless for solo travel, Grant fearlessly defied conventions. A dedicated teacher with a lifelong commitment to learning, her mission was to learn all she could about education in the countries she visited, in particular the education provided to blind children. Completed in 1965, Crooked Paths Made Straight recounts Grants journey, a story of dreams deferred that did not shrivel but sprang to life again and again.
Download or read book The Black Musician and the White City written by Amy Absher and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2018-05-09 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amy Absher’s The Black Musician and the White City tells the story of African American musicians in Chicago during the mid-twentieth century. While depicting the segregated city before World War II, Absher traces the migration of black musicians, both men and women and both classical and vernacular performers, from the American South to Chicago during the 1930s to 1950s. Absher’s work diverges from existing studies in three ways: First, she takes the history beyond the study of jazz and blues by examining the significant role that classically trained black musicians played in building the Chicago South Side community. By acknowledging the presence and importance of classical musicians, Absher argues that black migrants in Chicago had diverse education and economic backgrounds but found common cause in the city’s music community. Second, Absher brings numerous maps to the history, illustrating the relationship between Chicago’s physical lines of segregation and the geography of black music in the city over the years. Third, Absher’s use of archival sources is both extensive and original, drawing on manuscript and oral history collections at the Center for Black Music Research in Chicago, Columbia University, Rutgers’s Institute of Jazz Studies, and Tulane’s Hogan Jazz Archive. By approaching the Chicago black musical community from these previously untapped angles, Absher offers a history that goes beyond the retelling of the achievements of the famous musicians by discussing musicians as a group. In The Black Musician and the White City, black musicians are the leading actors, thinkers, organizers, and critics of their own story.
Download or read book The Settlement Idea written by Arthur C. Holden and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Biographical Cyclopaedia of American Women written by Mabel Ward Cameron and published by Gale Cengage. This book was released on 1924 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Women Adrift written by Joanne J. Meyerowitz and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1991-03-12 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sociological study of independent women employed outside the home in the years between 1880 and 1930 when women were traditionally expected to stay home until they married.
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries Part 1 B Group 2 Pamphlets Etc New Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of Women Guide to the Microfilm Collection written by Research Publications, inc and published by Primary Source Microfilm. This book was released on 1983 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pre-1920 literature about the roles of women. Includes pamphlets, periodicals, manuscripts, and photographs.
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Download or read book Catalogue of Title entries of Books and Other Articles Entered in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington Under the Copyright Law Wherein the Copyright Has Been Completed by the Deposit of Two Copies in the Office written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 1152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Holding Their Own written by Joanne Jay Meyerowitz and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
