Download or read book Raggin on written by Carole M. Genshaft and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through this catalog, readers will experience Aminah Robinson's amazing house, her art, and her profuse journals. In them, as was so often the case, she succinctly defined the importance of art in general and of her relationship with the Columbus Museum of Art.

Download or read book Raggin Jazzin Rockin written by Susan VanHecke and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet the inventors and innovators who defined American music history. A radio repairman imagined inventing the electric guitar. The inventor of 3-D glasses envisioned an electric organ in every home. And a German carpenter immigrated to New York City with the dream of designing the greatest piano in the world. From Steinway pianos and Moog synthesizers to Zildgian cymbals and Martin guitars, noted music writer VanHeke offers a fascinating, insider view of the personalities and perseverance that led to some of music's most important innovations—from classical to jazz to rock. This ALA Notable Children's Book includes photos, source notes, and glossaries.

Download or read book Raggin written by Barbara Mitchell and published by Millbrook Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scott Joplin came from a music-making family in Texarkana, Texas. As a small boy, he loved the lively, rhythmic African melodies and the soft, touching spirituals that he heard his father sing. By the age of twenty, Joplin had left home to make a living as a musician. Barbara Mitchell's Raggin' is the story of this talented composer/musician who overcame prejudice and hardship to create such favorites as "Maple Leaf Rag" and "The Entertainer"--music that still makes people tap their toes.

Download or read book Easy Riders Raging Bulls written by Peter Biskind and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-12-13 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1969, a low-budget biker movie, Easy Rider, shocked Hollywood with its stunning success. An unabashed celebration of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll (onscreen and off), Easy Rider heralded a heady decade in which a rebellious wave of talented young filmmakers invigorated the movie industry. In Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, Peter Biskind takes us on the wild ride that was Hollywood in the '70s, an era that produced such modern classics as The Godfather, Chinatown, Shampoo, Nashville, Taxi Driver, and Jaws. Easy Riders, Raging Bulls vividly chronicles the exuberance and excess of the times: the startling success of Easy Rider and the equally alarming circumstances under which it was made, with drugs, booze, and violent rivalry between costars Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda dominating the set; how a small production company named BBS became the guiding spirit of the youth rebellion in Hollywood and how, along the way, some of its executives helped smuggle Huey Newton out of the country; how director Hal Ashby was busted for drugs and thrown in jail in Toronto; why Martin Scorsese attended the Academy Awards with an FBI escort when Taxi Driver was nominated; how George Lucas, gripped by anxiety, compulsively cut off his own hair while writing Star Wars, how a modest house on Nicholas Beach occupied by actresses Margot Kidder and Jennifer Salt became the unofficial headquarters for the New Hollywood; how Billy Friedkin tried to humiliate Paramount boss Barry Diller; and how screenwriter/director Paul Schrader played Russian roulette in his hot tub. It was a time when an "anything goes" experimentation prevailed both on the screen and off. After the success of Easy Rider, young film-school graduates suddenly found themselves in demand, and directors such as Francis Coppola, Peter Bogdanovich, George Lucas, and Martin Scorsese became powerful figures. Even the new generation of film stars -- Nicholson, De Niro, Hoffman, Pacino, and Dunaway -- seemed a breed apart from the traditional Hollywood actors. Ironically, the renaissance would come to an end with Jaws and Star Wars, hugely successful films that would create a blockbuster mentality and crush innovation. Based on hundreds of interviews with the directors themselves, producers, stars, agents, writers, studio executives, spouses, and ex-spouses, this is the full, candid story of Hollywood's last golden age. Never before have so many celebrities talked so frankly about one another and about the drugs, sex, and money that made so many of them crash and burn. By turns hilarious and shocking, Easy Riders, Raging Bulls is the ultimate behind-the-scenes account of Hollywood at work and play.

Download or read book Marsalis On Music written by Wynton Marsalis and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1995-09-05 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A manual that uses examples from jazz greats to teach the fundamentals of jazz & the elements of improvisation. Includes a CD.

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Download or read book Great New American Short Stories written by Robert Voyles and published by Hallmark Emporium Publishing. This book was released on 1998-09 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's difficult to pinpoint exactly what constitutes American, since the United States is such a melting pot, but this collection of nine short stories does capture the American experience. Perhaps diversity is what makes Great New American Short Stories so good.Voyles' stories are about the rich, the poor, the educated, the street-smart. They are written from a wide variety of experiences. For instance, one story is a witty tale of a quiet man's revenge on a nosy neighbor, while another is a lottery-winning man's revenge on his nagging wife. What if you found a suitcase full of money? What if you came face-to-face with someone you'd just vented your road rage upon? What if you were a prisoner in quarantine? In Me and Frank Cash at Camp Goode, the author writes about one man's experience in South Korea while in the Army. In The Rosebush, a woman's favorite adopted daughter dies unexpectedly. The mother plants a rosebush by her daughter's grave and tends to it lovingly. The story is told from another daughter's point of view.Voyles writes with the authenticity of the characters in mind.

Download or read book The Zalem Crisis written by Trudy Adams and published by Ambassador International. This book was released on 2021-07-27 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Xander,’ I said, ‘this isn’t fair . . . ’ ‘Of course not,’ he said softly. ‘This is war.’ The defeat of Cades in the Northern Invasion brought two years of peace to the Rhea Lands, but, on the anniversary of his death, the threat of war returns with an assault on Liane Palace, Elhian’s capture, and the mysterious darkening of Queen Alexia’s personality. The Zalem cult behind Cades has woken to revenge his death and revive his plans to conquer Targe . . . and to kill the A’zyon Warrior. While Darj prepares the kingdom for battle, Adaliah must solve the riddles of ancient prophecies, lead the search for powerful artifacts, and once again take up her swords in a race to save her family and her kingdom from darkness.

Download or read book Symphonic Poem written by Carole Miller Genshaft and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2003-02-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For me, there is no distinction between life and art. Folk art has to do with families and communities. It's timeless. It permeates the soul. It's the way people do things that's passed from generation to generation.

Download or read book A Son is Given A Mother s Testament written by Paul Winder and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-05-11 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two athletic young men, Mark Brown and Josh Hodges, co-captains of their college swim team, flaunt their affection for each other. They feel it is wholesome and nothing for which to be ashamed. This behavior is noticed by others, especially church members, some of whom are less than tolerant. Mark's parents, Doris and Frank Brown, are devout Christians and deeply troubled by Mark's lifestyle. They consult with Assistant Pastor Dan only to learn that the church regards homosexuality as a sin and that homosexuals are believed to be possessed of the devil. Doris and Frank also reach out to a psychiatrist who attempts to "help" Mark. In their quest to learn more about their son's orientation, they attend PFLAG (Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays) meetings, talk with others, and research the subject on the Internet and at their library. A tragedy occurs that causes Doris to make a dramatic stand.

Download or read book Handbook of Social Justice in Education written by William Ayers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-06-02 with total page 793 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook of Social Justice in Education, a comprehensive and up-to-date review of the field, addresses, from multiple perspectives, education theory, research, and practice in historical and ideological context, with an emphasis on social movements for justice. Each of the nine sections explores a primary theme of social justice and education: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives International Perspectives on Social Justice in Education Race and Ethnicity, Language and Identity: Seeking Social Justice in Education Gender, Sexuality and Social Justice in Education Bodies, Disability and the Fight for Social Justice in Education Youth and Social Justice in Education Globalization: Local and World Issues in Education The Politics of Social Justice Meets Practice: Teacher Education and School Change Classrooms, Pedagogy, and Practicing Justice. Timely and essential, this is a must-have volume for researchers, professionals, and students across the fields of educational foundations, multicultural/diversity education, educational policy, and curriculum and instruction.

Download or read book The Final Mission Spooky 8 written by Bob King and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Final Mission tells the story of Bob King, who for seventeen years, beginning with his military career as a member of the Special Forces Unit in Vietnam, led an incredible double life, carrying out the U.S. government's high-risk missions--without involving its military. Then, in 1992, King and his men, secret members of a U.S. Tactical Reconnaissance Team, were sent to Colombia. The mission was "an easy breather," until the men walked into an ambush and found out the real reason they were there. They had been sent to die. With three men dead, and King himself wounded, the band of mercenaries began a desperate battle for survival-- and for the truth-- that led from South America all the way to Washington, D.C. Now, in this chilling, action-packed book, Bob King goes public: with the covert operations he carried out, the hidden deals he witnessed, and the horrific shadow war he survived-- against a U.S. government desperate to bury its secrets and its own men.

Download or read book Foretold written by Jana Oliver and published by Nevermore Books. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Denver Beck knows his dark past must remain hidden if he ever hopes to become a master demon trapper. All that is in jeopardy when he returns home to face his dying mother. Despite her sadistic cruelty, Sadie Beck holds the greatest secret of all—the name of his father. But rural Georgia is much more than small towns, cottonfields and primordial swamps. Even with fellow trapper Riley Blackthorne watching his back, old enemies are eager to settle scores. His day of reckoning has come. Either Beck fights for his future, or his past will destroy him.

Download or read book The Plutocrat written by Rory Harden and published by Black Spike Books. This book was released on 2015-01-15 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who really won the Presidential Election? What’s the true purpose of the Chinese moon mission? Who’s building big in Madagascar? Who’s on a mission to disrupt? America won’t be the same again. In fact... Will it even be America? A third-party candidate to be US President. An exclusive hedge fund with consistent returns. Naval conflict in the South China Sea. An underground battle over secrets. Unrest in Hong Kong. A destitute woman with nothing to give but the key to unlimited power.

Download or read book Storyville written by Lois Battle and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1997-12-01 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From turn-of-the-century New Orleans, a city renowned for sin, seduction, and sex, comes a tale of two women inextricably linked by "The District" of Storyville, where prostitution was legal—and flourishing. Kate—young, beautiful, and abandoned by a man who doesn't love her—finds herself thrown on the mercies of the city. Julia Randsome is a transplanted Yankee, a supporter of women's rights, who against everyone's advice marries into one of the city's most prominent families. Though they occupy different universes in New Orleans, somehow all roads bring Kate and Julia to the same place . . . back to The District. As lush and provocative as New Orleans is itself, Storyville sweeps across lines of caste and blood, money, and desire—and into the voluptuous secrets of a city tempting as any on earth. "The novel's atmosphere is redolent of honeysuckle and jasmine, café brûlot and cinnamon buns."—Newsday

Download or read book Strains of Silence written by Bethany Kaczmarek and published by Pelican Ventures Book Group. This book was released on 2017-07-21 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music is 20-year-old Kasia Bernolak's driving passion and truest expression of her faith, but now it is three months before her wedding and she can't even pick up her guitar. When she finally finds the strength to break off her engagement with Blake Hamilton, she doesn't realize the dangerous truth: he isn't willing to say goodbye. It isn't until she meets Zan that she feels safe, as he rescues her from her ex-fiancé by appointing himself her personal bodyguard. Now, all he has to do is keep from falling for her himself. Kasia and Zan become fast friends, but true healing and justice might cost more than either of them is willing to pay.

Download or read book Arts in Healthy Aging written by Patricia Dewey Lambert and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-03-17 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arts in Healthy Aging examines public policies and professional practices that effectively use the arts to support health and well-being outcomes in older adults. It offers a comprehensive study of why and how purposefully-designed programs that engage the visual, performing, and literary arts can support the health and well-being of older adults. The authors argue that it is the right time for the American arts and aging movement to restructure itself as a national network and advocacy coalition across four domains: the arts, health, aging, and lifelong learning. Building on decades of published research, government documents, and program models, this scholarly volume provides historical perspectives, new theoretical approaches, analytical models, resources for researchers and practitioners, and pathways forward for advancing the interdisciplinary arts in healthy aging field of scholarship and practice. Although focused on the United States, the discussion of policies and practices is relevant and applicable to other countries as appropriate to their specific contexts.