Norfolk Blues

Norfolk Blues

Author: John Walters

Publisher: White Mane Publishing Company

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The Norfolk Blues were officially known as Captain Charles R. Grandy's Company, Virginia Light Artillery. It was also known as the Norfolk Light Artillery Blues and Grandy's Battery, Virginia Artillery.


For Everything a Season

For Everything a Season

Author: Joan Chittister

Publisher: Orbis Books

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 175

ISBN-13: 1626980195

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Through the famous verses of Ecclesiastes - 'For everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven' - Joan Chittister reflects on timeless themes: the purpose and value of human life, the balance of joy and sorrow, work and rest, love and loss.


In Light of Stars

In Light of Stars

Author: Bruce Willard

Publisher:

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 80

ISBN-13: 9781945588945

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

"In Light of Stars blurbs: In Light of Stars presents a poetry that engages the larger questions of our place on earth, a poetry that lifts us beyond personal loss to moments cherished and made brilliant by close attention to and appreciation of the natural world"--


Blues for the White Man

Blues for the White Man

Author: Fred de Vries

Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa

Published: 2021-05-04

Total Pages: 335

ISBN-13: 1776096010

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

It started with a question about the blues: what makes the music of the downtrodden black man so alluring to white middle-class ears? And that’s where it gets interesting. Because blues is more than a musical genre: it’s a cultural phenomenon that spans several centuries on both sides of the Atlantic, from slavery to Black Lives Matter, from Jan van Riebeeck to Fees Must Fall, from Robert Johnson to Abdullah Ibrahim. In Blues for the White Man, Fred de Vries looks for answers in America’s Deep South, drawing historical parallels with South Africa’s experience of colonialism, slavery, racism, civil war, segrega¬tion and protest. Travelling to Atlanta, Memphis, Nashville, New Orleans and the Mississippi Delta, De Vries speaks to musicians, Black Lives Matter activists and Trump supporters. He continues the conversation in South Africa, interviewing student protesters, white farmers and political thought-leaders to develop an understanding of white supremacy and black anger, white fear and black pain. A fascinating, insightful journey through time and space, Blues for the White Man is a cele¬bration of multiculturalism and a plea for white people to do some ‘second line dancing’ for a change.


When Your Body Gets the Blues

When Your Body Gets the Blues

Author: Marie-Annette Brown

Publisher: Rodale

Published: 2002-02-23

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 157954486X

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A guide to sub-clinical depression presents an eight-week program which uses light therapy, moderate exercise, and vitamins to combat depression, overcome fatigue, and provide a greater sense of control, balance, and well-being.


Lead Kindly Light

Lead Kindly Light

Author: Sarah Bryan

Publisher:

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780981734262

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Photographic collection of the rural American South between the early 1900s and the Second World War. Also includes two CDs of traditional music from early phonograph records from the region.


Book of Blues

Book of Blues

Author: Jack Kerouac

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 1995-09-01

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 1101548800

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Best known for his "Legend of Duluoz" novels, including On the Road and The Dharma Bums, Jack Kerouac is also an important poet. In these eight extended poems, Kerouac writes from the heart of experience in the music of language, employing the same instrumental blues form that he used to fullest effect in Mexico City Blues, his largely unheralded classic of postmodern literature. Edited by Kerouac himself, Book of Blues is an exuberant foray into language and consciousness, rich with imagery, propelled by rythm, and based in a reverent attentiveness to the moment. "In my system, the form of blues choruses is limited by the small page of the breastpocket notebook in which they are written, like the form of a set number of bars in a jazz blues chorus, and so sometimes the word-meaning can carry from one chorus into another, or not, just like the phrase-meaning can carry harmonically from one chorus to the other, or not, in jazz, so that, in these blues as in jazz, the form is determined by time, and by the musicians spontaneous phrasing & harmonizing with the beat of time as it waves & waves on by in measured choruses." —Jack Kerouac


Muddy

Muddy

Author: Michael Mahin

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2017-09-05

Total Pages: 50

ISBN-13: 148144350X

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

An Ezra Jack Keats Book Award Winner A New York Times Best Illustrated Book An NPR Best Book of the Year A Bulletin Blue Ribbon Book A Parents’ Choice Gold Award Winner A picture book celebration of the indomitable Muddy Waters, a blues musician whose fierce and electric sound laid the groundwork for what would become rock and roll. Muddy Waters was never good at doing what he was told. When Grandma Della said the blues wouldn’t put food on the table, Muddy didn’t listen. And when record producers told him no one wanted to listen to a country boy playing country blues, Muddy ignored them as well. This tenacious streak carried Muddy from the hardscrabble fields of Mississippi to the smoky juke joints of Chicago and finally to a recording studio where a landmark record was made. Soon the world fell in love with the tough spirit of Muddy Waters. In blues-infused prose and soulful illustrations, Michael Mahin and award-winning artist Evan Turk tell Muddy’s fascinating and inspiring story of struggle, determination, and hope.