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Book Year Of Jubilo  The

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  • Author : Henry Clay Work
  • Publisher :
  • Release :
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Year Of Jubilo The written by Henry Clay Work and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Year of Jubilo

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  • Author : Howard Bahr
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 2001-05-04
  • ISBN : 9780312280697
  • Pages : 388 pages

Download or read book The Year of Jubilo written by Howard Bahr and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2001-05-04 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A confederate soldier returns home to find that life and love will never be the same.

Book The Year of Jubilo

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  • Author : Ruth Sawyer
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1948
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 266 pages

Download or read book The Year of Jubilo written by Ruth Sawyer and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Year of Jubilo

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  • Author : R. Sawyer
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 266 pages

Download or read book The Year of Jubilo written by R. Sawyer and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Year of Jubilo

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  • Author : Howard Bahr
  • Publisher : Open Road Media
  • Release : 2018-04-24
  • ISBN : 1504050541
  • Pages : 479 pages

Download or read book The Year of Jubilo written by Howard Bahr and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “sweeping, cinematic story of rebellion, loyalty, revenge, and reawakened romance” set in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War (The New York Times Book Review). A New York Times Notable Book The last time Gawain Harper saw Cumberland, Mississippi, he was heading off to fight for the newly formed Confederate States of America—driven not by the cause that motivated so many others, but by love. The father of his beloved, Morgan Rhea, refused to allow her to be courted by a man who would not take up arms to defend the South. So Gawain joined the Mississippi Infantry—and now, three nightmarish years later, he is coming home. But postwar Cumberland is not the place Gawain so fondly remembered. An occupying force of Union soldiers keeps uneasy watch over the townspeople, including an erstwhile slave hunter and an albino gravedigger known as Old Hundred-and-Eleven. Meanwhile, a bloodthirsty former Confederate officer named King Solomon Gault is organizing a secret militia to drive the occupiers out and bring the entire region under his ruthless control. Before Gawain can marry Morgan and build their new life together, he must return to the world of violence and turmoil he has been so desperate to escape. With “complex, well-crafted, often beautiful prose” (TheSeattle Times) and “a cast of characters worthy of a Larry McMurtry novel” (Newsday), The Year of Jubilo is a stunning achievement from the award-winning author of The Black Flower and The Judas Field.

Book Roller Skates

Download or read book Roller Skates written by Ruth Sawyer and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The discoveries and adventures of ten-year old Lucinda, who spends a wonderful year exploring the New York City of the 1890's.

Book The Black Flower

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  • Author : Howard Bahr
  • Publisher : Open Road Media
  • Release : 2018-04-24
  • ISBN : 1504050525
  • Pages : 330 pages

Download or read book The Black Flower written by Howard Bahr and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Confederate soldier confronts the horror of battle and the power of grace in this “poignant, haunting, and important” novel of the Civil War (The Tennessean, Nashville). A New York Times Notable Book and Winner of the William Boyd Award for Best Military Novel In November 1864, Gen. John Bell Hood’s Army of Tennessee prepares to launch an assault on Union forces near Franklin, Tennessee. Dirty, exhausted, and hungry, the Confederate soldiers form a line of battle across an open field. Among them stands Pvt. Bushrod Carter, a twenty-six-year-old rifleman from Cumberland, Mississippi. Against all odds, Bushrod has survived three years of war unscathed—but his luck is about to run out. Wounded in the battle, Bushrod is taken to a makeshift hospital on a nearby plantation. There, he falls under the care of Anna Hereford, who bears her own scars from years of relentless bloodshed and tragedy. In the grisly aftermath of one of the Confederate army’s most disastrous campaigns, Anna and Bushrod seek salvation and understanding in each other. Their fragile bond carries with it the hope of a life beyond the war, and the risk of a pain too devastating to endure. Written with profound empathy and meticulous attention to historical detail, The Black Flower brilliantly portrays the staggering human toll of America’s bloodiest conflict. In his award-winning debut novel, “Howard Bahr casts a tale of war as powerful as any you’ll ever find” (Southern Living).

Book Year of Jubilo

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  • Author : Howard Bahr
  • Publisher : Turtleback
  • Release : 2001-01
  • ISBN : 9780613370783
  • Pages : 376 pages

Download or read book Year of Jubilo written by Howard Bahr and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 2001-01 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Confederate soldier returns to his Mississippi hometown to find a megalomaniacal man attempting to impose his own brand of justice on the small post-Civil War community.

Book The Song Index of the Enoch Pratt Free Library

Download or read book The Song Index of the Enoch Pratt Free Library written by Ellen Luchinsky and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-23 with total page 1384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Song Index features over 150,000 citations that lead users to over 2,100 song books spanning more than a century, from the 1880s to the 1990s. The songs cited represent a multitude of musical practices, cultures, and traditions, ranging from ehtnic to regional, from foreign to American, representing every type of song: popular, folk, children's, political, comic, advertising, protest, patriotic, military, and classical, as well as hymns, spirituals, ballads, arias, choral symphonies, and other larger works. This comprehensive volume also includes a bibliography of the books indexed; an index of sources from which the songs originated; and an alphabetical composer index.

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 2010-11-02 with total page 833 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Will Friedwald’s illuminating, opinionated essays—provocative, funny, and personal—on the lives and careers of more than three hundred singers anatomize the work of the most important jazz and popular performers of the twentieth century. From giants like Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Frank Sinatra, and Judy Garland to lesser-known artists like Jeri Southern and Joe Mooney, they have created a body of work that continues to please and inspire. Here is the most extensive biographical and critical survey of these singers ever written, as well as an essential guide to the Great American Songbook and those who shaped the way it has been sung. The music crosses from jazz to pop and back again, from the songs of Irving Berlin and W. C. Handy through Stephen Sondheim and beyond, bringing together straightforward jazz and pop singers (Billie Holiday, Perry Como); hybrid artists who moved among genres and combined them (Peggy Lee, Mel Tormé); the leading men and women of Broadway and Hollywood (Ethel Merman, Al Jolson); yesterday’s vaudeville and radio stars (Sophie Tucker, Eddie Cantor); and today’s cabaret artists and hit-makers (Diana Krall, Michael Bublé). Friedwald has also written extended pieces on the most representative artists of five significant genres that lie outside the songbook: Bessie Smith (blues), Mahalia Jackson (gospel), Hank Williams (country and western), Elvis Presley (rock ’n’ roll), and Bob Dylan (folk-rock). Friedwald reconsiders the personal stories and professional successes and failures of all these artists, their songs, and their performances, appraising both the singers and their music by balancing his opinions with those of fellow musicians, listeners, and critics. This magisterial reference book—ten years in the making—will delight and inform anyone with a passion for the iconic music of America, which continues to resonate throughout our popular culture.

Book The Craig Duncan Master Fiddle Solo Collection

Download or read book The Craig Duncan Master Fiddle Solo Collection written by Craig Duncan and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2011-02-24 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents 140 of the most frequently played tunes in old time fiddle contests as well as the most popular bluegrass, square dance and country tunes heard throughout the United States. the performance length arrangements of contest tunes include standard as well as challenging variations on hoe-downs, rags, polkas, show pieces, and waltzes complete with suggested accompaniment chords. This encyclopedia of fiddle tunes and variations spotlights American popular fiddle music as played by the great fiddlers of our time.

Book Black Jack

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  • Author : James Pickett Jones
  • Publisher : SIU Press
  • Release : 2016-09-06
  • ISBN : 0809335867
  • Pages : 356 pages

Download or read book Black Jack written by James Pickett Jones and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John A. Logan, called "Black Jack" by the men he led in Civil War battles from the Henry-Donelson campaign to Vicksburg, Chattanooga, and on to Atlanta, was one of the Union Army’s most colorful generals. James Pickett Jones places Logan in his southern Illinois surroundings as he examines the role of the political soldier in the Civil War. When Logan altered his stance on national issues, so did the southern part of the state. Although secession, civil strife, Copperheadism, and the new attitudes created by the war contributed to this change of position in southern Illinois, Logan’s role as political and military leader was important in the region’s swing to strong support of the war against the Confederacy, to the policies of Lincoln, and eventually, to the Republican party.

Book The Oxford Handbook of Community Music

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Community Music written by Brydie-Leigh Bartleet and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-01 with total page 801 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Community music as a field of practice, pedagogy, and research has come of age. The past decade has witnessed an exponential growth in practices, courses, programs, and research in communities and classrooms, and within the organizations dedicated to the subject. The Oxford Handbook of Community Music gives an authoritative and comprehensive review of what has been achieved in the field to date and what might be expected in the future. This Handbook addresses community music through five focused lenses: contexts, transformations, politics, intersections, and education. It not only captures the vibrant, dynamic, and divergent approaches that now characterize the field, but also charts the new and emerging contexts, practices, pedagogies, and research approaches that will define it in the coming decades. The contributors to this Handbook outline community music's common values that center on social justice, human rights, cultural democracy, participation, and hospitality from a range of different cultural contexts and perspectives. As such, The Oxford Handbook of Community Music provides a snapshot of what has become a truly global phenomenon.

Book Last Train From Richmond

Download or read book Last Train From Richmond written by Scott Benton and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-06 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last two weeks of the Civil War chaos threatens the Confederate Capitol. Fanatics plan to assassinate Jefferson Davis and his cabinet. President Lincoln, amidst plans for a peaceful postwar reunion, authorizes a counter plot. Stop the killers and make sure no knowledge of their scheme leaks to the public. An unlikely group is hurriedly recruited to save Davis. The publisher of a Richmond newspaper, a manumitted slave and a one armed Mexican War veteran join together to save Davis et al. The action leads to the Richmond & Danville RR on the night the Confederate Government flees with the entire hard currency of the Confederacy. The chosen site for a planned train wreck is a trestle just outside Richmond. The climatic scene finds the plotters are divided against themselves. Some wish to kill Davis. Some want only the treasury currency. How they are both thwarted and Lincoln's wishes are realized is the result of quick witted and bold efforts by the counter plotters.

Book The Lincoln Letter

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  • Author : William Martin
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 2012-08-21
  • ISBN : 076532198X
  • Pages : 450 pages

Download or read book The Lincoln Letter written by William Martin and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Treasure hunting heroes Peter Fallon and Evangeline Carrington return in the "New York Times"-bestselling series.

Book Unhomed

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  • Author : Pamela Robertson Wojcik
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2024-04-09
  • ISBN : 0520390377
  • Pages : 291 pages

Download or read book Unhomed written by Pamela Robertson Wojcik and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2024-04-09 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this rich cultural history, Pamela Roberston Wojcik examines America's ambivalent and shifting attitude toward homelessness. She considers film cycles from five distinct historical moments that show characters who are unhomed and placeless, mobile rather than fixed—characters who fail, resist, or opt out of the mandate for a home of one's own. From the tramp films of the silent era to the 2021 Oscar-winning Nomadland, Wojcik reveals a tension in the American imaginary between viewing homelessness as deviant and threatening or emblematic of freedom and independence. Blending social history with insights drawn from a complex array of films, both canonical and fringe, Wojcik effectively "unhomes" dominant narratives that cast aspirations for success and social mobility as the focus of American cinema, reminding us that genres of precarity have been central to American cinema (and the American story) all along.