A Rhyme is a Terrible Thing to Waste
Author: Carlton A. Usher
Publisher: Africa Research and Publications
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 182
ISBN-13:
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Encyclopedia of African American Music [3 volumes]
Author: Tammy L. Kernodle
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2010-12-17
Total Pages: 1267
ISBN-13: 0313342008
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfrican Americans' historical roots are encapsulated in the lyrics, melodies, and rhythms of their music. In the 18th and 19th centuries, African slaves, longing for emancipation, expressed their hopes and dreams through spirituals. Inspired by African civilization and culture, as well as religion, art, literature, and social issues, this influential, joyous, tragic, uplifting, challenging, and enduring music evolved into many diverse genres, including jazz, blues, rock and roll, soul, swing, and hip hop. Providing a lyrical history of our nation, this groundbreaking encyclopedia, the first of its kind, showcases all facets of African American music including folk, religious, concert and popular styles. Over 500 in-depth entries by more than 100 scholars on a vast range of topics such as genres, styles, individuals, groups, and collectives as well as historical topics such as music of the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Arts Movement, the Civil Rights Movement, and numerous others. Offering balanced representation of key individuals, groups, and ensembles associated with diverse religious beliefs, political affiliations, and other perspectives not usually approached, this indispensable reference illuminates the profound role that African American music has played in American cultural history. Editors Price, Kernodle, and Maxile provide balanced representation of various individuals, groups and ensembles associated with diverse religious beliefs, political affiliations, and perspectives. Also highlighted are the major record labels, institutions of higher learning, and various cultural venues that have had a tremendous impact on the development and preservation of African American music. Among the featured: Motown Records, Black Swan Records, Fisk University, Gospel Music Workshop of America, The Cotton Club, Center for Black Music Research, and more. With a broad scope, substantial entries, current coverage, and special attention to historical, political, and social contexts, this encyclopedia is designed specifically for high school and undergraduate students. Academic and public libraries will treasure this resource as an incomparable guide to our nation's African American heritage.
Hip Hop, Hegel, and the Art of Emancipation
Author: Jim Vernon
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2018-07-04
Total Pages: 261
ISBN-13: 3319913042
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book argues that Hip Hop’s early history in the South Bronx charts a course remarkably similar to the conceptual history of artistic creation presented in Hegel’s Lectures on Aesthetics. It contends that the resonances between Hegel’s account of the trajectory of art in general, and the historical shifts in the particular culture of Hip Hop, are both numerous and substantial enough to make us re-think not only the nature and import of Hegel’s philosophy of art, but the origin, essence and lesson of Hip Hop. As a result, the book articulates and defends a unique reading of Hegel’s Aesthetics, as well as providing a philosophical explanation of the Hip Hop community’s transition from total social abandonment to some limited form of social inclusion, via the specific mediation of an artistic culture grounded in novel forms of sensible expression. Thus, the fundamental thesis of this book is that Hegel and Hip Hop are mutually illuminating, and when considered in tandem each helps to clarify and reinforce the validity and power of the other.
Poetic Justice: the Lost Art of “Reason, Rhyme and Meter”
Author: Dan Chapman
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2017-11-15
Total Pages: 169
ISBN-13: 1546209085
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith Poetic Justice, Chapman delivers another masterful collection of his own, unique poetry so righteously justified. With his keen observational eye and personal, poetic style Dan Chapman offers his own unique reflections on a variety of common subjects and experiences. Forever a romantic and always a poet at heart, Chapman reaches out to his readers with his next volume of poetic assortments dealing with a variety of value-clarification and topical concerns. Of course, always at a forefront with Chapmans insight into human conditions is his typical, humorous touch. We all love to laugh, he says. Additionally, Poetic Justice is an opportunity for Chapman to highlight and dignify his own, unique and vigilant style of writing. A reader may select nearly any poem within, consider its highly energized reasoning, notice the creative, rhythmic rhyming proffered, and then recognize and appreciate Chapmans unique and masterful metering. It is just my own style, Chapman defends. I simply enjoy working with words to write about something special, utilize unique accents of rhyming language and then apply a distinctive, yet rigid, metering format. Poetry reflects true thought, Chapman muses. It is honest, forthright, and most importantly, he continues, in a few, brief stanzas, a poem may mesmerize readers, challenge their thoughts and values and force them to reconsider their own points-of-view. What more could a writer want, our author believes. To Dan Chapman, that is the beauty of poetry, and its honesty represents Poetic Justice!
One More Rhyme for the Road
Author: Sue A. McLaughlin
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2020-05-10
Total Pages: 271
ISBN-13: 1532099509
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWish Me Tomorrow I know there’s many things you wish for me— Of course, you wish for me no sorrow; And you desire for me joy and prosperity. But most of all, please wish me tomorrow.
Hip Hop Headphones
Author: James Braxton Peterson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2016-08-25
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 1501308270
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHip Hop Headphones is a crash course in Hip Hop culture. Featuring definitions, lectures, academic essays, and other scholarly discussions and resources, Hip Hop Headphones documents the scholarship of Dr. James B. Peterson, founder of Hip Hop Scholars-an organization devoted to developing the educational potential of Hip Hop. Defining Hip Hop from multi-disciplinary perspectives that embrace the elemental forms of Hip Hop Culture (b-boying, dj-ing, rapping, and graffiti art), Hip Hop Headphones is the definitive guide to how Hip Hop culture can be used in the classroom to engage and inspire students.
How We'd Look on Film
Author: Kai Gorbahn
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2012-04
Total Pages: 374
ISBN-13: 1475902506
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor Dray Emerald, it all started back in Grade 11 when he was sixteen years old, when life was simple and he know who he was and how to be happy. That's when he had a crush on the perfect girl, Anna Markus. But when she moved away from their hometown of Smithers, British Columbia, everything began to change. Dray, a once-perfect Mormon boy turns his back on his faith and family and gets caught up in a world of drugs and alcohol. He gets kicked out of the rich and privileged life his parents have handed him. Planning on hitting the road without ever looking back, fate keeps him in town for one last summer. At the age of seventeen, he finds himself living in his own apartment. For the first time in his life, the possibilities are endless. He has the chance to win over Anna, who's back in town for summer break, but he's torn between her and the lovely Rose Miller, his hometown sweetheart and longtime friend. Things slowly tilt into place as the seasons change. By coming to terms with the world around him his friends, family, and his hometown of Smithers he nears closer to solving the mystery in his heart.
White Folks Can Cook Better Than Black Folks
Author: Ginny Johnson
Publisher: iUniverse
Published:
Total Pages: 50
ISBN-13: 0595275958
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Grammar of Rock
Author: Alexander Theroux
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Published: 2013-02-16
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 1606996169
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNovelist and critic Alexander Theroux analyzes the pop song. National Book Award nominee, critic and one of America’s least compromising satirists, Alexander Theroux takes a comprehensive look at the colorful language of pop lyrics and the realm of rock music in general in The Grammar of Rock: silly song titles; maddening instrumentals; shrieking divas; clunker lines; the worst (and best) songs ever written; geniuses of the art; movie stars who should never have raised their voice in song but who were too shameless to refuse a mic; and the excesses of awful Christmas recordings. Praising (and critiquing) the gems of lyricists both highbrow and low, Theroux does due reverence to classic word-masters like Ira Gershwin, Jimmy Van Heusen, Cole Porter, and Sammy Cahn, lyricists as diverse as Hank Williams, Buck Ram, the Moody Blues, and Randy Newman, Dylan and the Beatles, of course, and more outré ones like the Sex Pistols, the Clash, Patti Smith, the Fall (even Ghostface Killa), but he considers stupid rhymes, as well ― nonsense lyrics, chop logic, the uses and abuses of irony, country music macho, verbal howlers, how voices sound alike and why, and much more. In a way that no one else has ever done, with his usual encyclopedic insights into the state of the modern lyric, Theroux focuses on the state of language ― the power of words and the nature of syntax ― in The Grammar of Rock. He analyzes its assaults on listeners’ impulses by investigating singers’ styles, pondering illogical lunacies in lyrics, and deconstructing the nature of diction and presentation in the language. This is that rare book of discernment and probing wit (and not exclusively one that is a critical defense of quality) that positively evaluates the very nature of a pop song, and why one over another has an effect on the listener.
That Was Then, This Is Now
Author: Branford L. Moton
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2016-03-19
Total Pages: 91
ISBN-13: 1483602753
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThat Was Then This Is Now; is a book that is basically about my trials and tribulations through mid-high school, teen years; and all the way up to now; as a young adult. It describes my life situation in general. This book deals with depression, darkness, spirituality, love, drama, hope and encouragement. I pray that it will uplift peoples lives and give them the perseverance that they need to cope with any personal issues in their life. I want it to aspire or inspire people like me and in general. I just want to make a difference in someones life. I want to cause a reaction in other lives; like the movie Pay it forward.
