Do Wah Diddy Die
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Nowhere in America
Author: Hal Rammel
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9780252017179
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA magical tour through the imaginary terrain of the comic imagination as revealed in children's lore, literature, folktales, travel lies, film comedies, cartoons, comic books, and folksongs. With 14 bandw illustrations. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Cassell's Dictionary of Slang
Author: Jonathon Green
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 1600
ISBN-13: 9780304366361
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith its unparalleled coverage of English slang of all types (from 18th-century cant to contemporary gay slang), and its uncluttered editorial apparatus, Cassell's Dictionary of Slang was warmly received when its first edition appeared in 1998. 'Brilliant.' said Mark Lawson on BBC2's The Late Review; 'This is a terrific piece of work - learned, entertaining, funny, stimulating' said Jonathan Meades in The Evening Standard.But now the world's best single-volume dictionary of English slang is about to get even better. Jonathon Green has spent the last seven years on a vast project: to research in depth the English slang vocabulary and to hunt down and record written instances of the use of as many slang words as possible. This has entailed trawling through more than 4000 books - plus song lyrics, TV and movie scripts, and many newspapers and magazines - for relevant material. The research has thrown up some fascinating results
The Blues Bag
Author: Happy Traum
Publisher: Oak Publications
Published: 1968-06-01
Total Pages: 95
ISBN-13: 1783234539
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Blues Bag is both a songbook and an instruction book. It is, first of all, an anthology of blues songs, some of which are very well known; others have (as far as I know) never been in print before. As such, it can be used simply as a vehicle for learning new songs, and providing the words and guitar chords for songs you already know. In addition, it provides for the learning guitarist fills, introductions, and turnarounds for the songs, as well as complete instrumental breaks for the majority of the blues presented in this collection. These breaks are written out both in standard music notation and guitar tablature.
Sorrow's Kitchen
Author: Mary E. Lyons
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 1993-04-30
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 0020444451
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes the life and work of the prolific black author who wrote stories, plays, essays, and articles, recorded black folklore, and was involved in the Harlem Renaissance.
Big Road Blues
Author: David Evans
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2023-11-10
Total Pages: 437
ISBN-13: 0520333772
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBarrelhouse Words
Author: Stephen Calt
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2010-10-01
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 0252090713
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis fascinating compendium explains the most unusual, obscure, and curious words and expressions from vintage blues music. Utilizing both documentary evidence and invaluable interviews with a number of now-deceased musicians from the 1920s and '30s, blues scholar Stephen Calt unravels the nuances of more than twelve hundred idioms and proper or place names found on oft-overlooked "race records" recorded between 1923 and 1949. From "aggravatin' papa" to "yas-yas-yas" and everything in between, this truly unique, racy, and compelling resource decodes a neglected speech for general readers and researchers alike, offering invaluable information about black language and American slang.
Doowop
Author: Robert Pruter
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9780252065064
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Chicago Tribune's Bill Dahl praised Robert Pruter's Doowop for "vividly describ ing] an enchanting time on the local music scene, when a handful of teenagers could taste rock 'n' roll stardom with harmonies they cooked up on a street corner." Pruter foraged sources from fanzines to the Chicago Defender and conducted extensive interviews in cooking up Doowop, which chronicles the careers of such legendary 1950s groups as the Flamingos, the Moonglows, the Spaniels, and the El Dorados, along with virtually every other Chicago doowop group that contributed to that era.
Tales of Old Earth
Author: Michael Swanwick
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2016-05-31
Total Pages: 239
ISBN-13: 1504036514
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of nineteen short stories from the Nebula and Hugo Award–winning author of The Iron Dragon’s Daughter and Stations of the Tide Written over the course of a decade, Tales from Old Earth contains nineteen masterful pieces of short fiction—including the Hugo Award–winning stories “The Very Pulse of the Machine” and “Scherzo with Tyrannosaur;” the World Fantasy Award–winning novella “Radio Waves;” Hugo Award finalists “The Dead,” “Radiant Doors,” and “Wild Minds;” and World Fantasy Award finalist “The Changeling’s Tale”—as well as an introduction by Bruce Sterling. From pure fantasy to hard science fiction, this finely crafted collection from one of the greatest science fiction writers of his generation promises to stretch readers’ minds far beyond ordinary limits. These tales are guaranteed to delight and are an excellent introduction to this highly praised author.
Diddy Waw Diddy
Author: Bill Porterfield
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 464
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKQuirky and beloved journalist Porterfield writes about growing up during the Depression and World War II, chasing the flow of Texas oil, and searching for "Diddy Waw Diddy", a place he would never have to leave. Photos.
