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Author: Edie Anderson
Publisher: Bookbaby
Published: 2019-02-18
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781543956801
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJazz in My Soul/A Marvin Gaye Fantasy a thought-provoking one act musical stage play. A delightful, fantasy, dream sequence about a woman who dreams of Marvin every April 1st (the day of his death) for over 30 years. Every year her dream is the same, until the day of our play, that is when the dream takes an unsuspected twist.
Author: Bob Porter
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2016-11-10
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 1524547859
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSoul Jazz is a history of jazz and its reception in the black community in the period from the end of World War II until the end of the Vietnam War. Previous histories reflect the perspective of an integrated America, yet the United States was a segregated country in 1945. The black audience had a very different take on the music and that is the perception explored in Soul Jazz.
Author: Martha Bayles
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1996-05-15
Total Pages: 466
ISBN-13: 9780226039596
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom Queen Latifa to Count Basie, Madonna to Monk, Hole in Our Soul: The Loss of Beauty and Meaning in American Popular Music traces popular music back to its roots in jazz, blues, country, and gospel through the rise in rock 'n' roll and the emergence of heavy metal, punk, and rap. Yet despite the vigor and balance of these musical origins, Martha Bayles argues, something has gone seriously wrong, both with the sound of popular music and the sensibility it expresses. Bayles defends the tough, affirmative spirit of Afro-American music against the strain of artistic modernism she calls 'perverse.' She describes how perverse modernism was grafted onto popular music in the late 1960s, and argues that the result has been a cult of brutality and obscenity that is profoundly anti-musical. Unlike other recent critics of popular music, Bayles does not blame the problem on commerce. She argues that culture shapes the market and not the other way around. Finding censorship of popular music "both a practical and a constitutional impossibility," Bayles insists that "an informed shift in public tastes may be our only hope of reversing the current malignant mood."
Author: Tammy L. Kernodle
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2020-10-26
Total Pages: 475
ISBN-13: 025205248X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst time in paperback and e-book! The jazz musician-composer-arranger Mary Lou Williams spent her sixty-year career working in—and stretching beyond—a dizzying range of musical styles. Her integration of classical music into her works helped expand jazz's compositional language. Her generosity made her a valued friend and mentor to the likes of Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, and Dizzy Gillespie. Her late-in-life flowering of faith saw her embrace a spiritual jazz oriented toward advancing the civil rights struggle and helping wounded souls. Tammy L. Kernodle details Williams's life in music against the backdrop of controversies over women's place in jazz and bitter arguments over the music's evolution. Williams repeatedly asserted her artistic and personal independence to carve out a place despite widespread bafflement that a woman exhibited such genius. Embracing Williams's contradictions and complexities, Kernodle also explores a personal life troubled by lukewarm professional acceptance, loneliness, relentless poverty, bad business deals, and difficult marriages. In-depth and epic in scope, Soul on Soul restores a pioneering African American woman to her rightful place in jazz history.
Author: Deanna Witkowski
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Published: 2021-08-15
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13: 0814664016
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Mary Lou Williams: Music for the Soul, Deanna Witkowski brings a fresh perspective to the life and music of the legendary jazz pianist-composer Mary Lou Williams (1910-81). As a fellow jazz pianist-composer, adult convert to Catholicism, and liturgical composer, Witkowski offers unique insight gleaned from a twenty-year journey with Williams as her chosen musical and spiritual mentor. Viewing Williams’s musical and corporal acts of mercy as part of a singular effort to create community no matter the context, Witkowski examines how Williams created networks of support and friendship through her decades long letter correspondence with various women religious, her charitable work, and her tireless efforts to perform jazz in churches, community centers, concert halls, and schools. Throughout this fascinating story told with equal amounts of deep love and scholarly research, Witkowski illumines Williams’s passionate mantra that “jazz is healing to the soul.”
Author: Steve Rush
Publisher: Church Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2008-09
Total Pages: 177
ISBN-13: 0898695740
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book offers hope to parishes searching for a way to make their liturgies
Author: Damani C. Phillips
Publisher: Black Studies and Critical Thinking
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781433145650
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat Is This Thing Called Soul explores the potential consequences of forcing the Black musical style of jazz into an academic pedagogical system that is specifically designed to facilitate the practice and pedagogy of European classical music.
Author: Hal Leonard Corp.
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Published: 2009-06-01
Total Pages: 97
ISBN-13: 1540003779
DOWNLOAD EBOOK(Jazz Piano Solos). Solo arrangements with chord names of 20 soulful tunes: Dat Dere * Hot Toddy * The Jody Grind * Sister Sadie * Soul Eyes * Unchain My Heart * What'd I Say * When the Sun Comes Out * You Are My Sunshine * and more.
Author: Emily J. Lordi
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2020-07-24
Total Pages: 147
ISBN-13: 1478012242
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn The Meaning of Soul, Emily J. Lordi proposes a new understanding of this famously elusive concept. In the 1960s, Lordi argues, soul came to signify a cultural belief in black resilience, which was enacted through musical practices—inventive cover versions, falsetto vocals, ad-libs, and false endings. Through these soul techniques, artists such as Aretha Franklin, Donny Hathaway, Nina Simone, Marvin Gaye, Isaac Hayes, and Minnie Riperton performed virtuosic survivorship and thus helped to galvanize black communities in an era of peril and promise. Their soul legacies were later reanimated by such stars as Prince, Solange Knowles, and Flying Lotus. Breaking with prior understandings of soul as a vague masculinist political formation tethered to the Black Power movement, Lordi offers a vision of soul that foregrounds the intricacies of musical craft, the complex personal and social meanings of the music, the dynamic movement of soul across time, and the leading role played by black women in this musical-intellectual tradition.
Author: Donald Miller
Publisher: Thomas Nelson Inc
Published: 2012-04
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 1400204585
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis contemporary classic gets a limited edition makeover with movie art and a new preface from Donald Miller. In print for nearly a decade, Blue Like Jazz has earned a coveted spot on readers' shelves and in their hearts. Many have said that Donald Miller expressed exactly what they were feeling but couldn't find the words to say themselves. In this landmark book that changed what people expected from Christian writers, that changed what people needed for their spiritual journeys, Donald Miller takes readers through a real life striving to understand relationship with God. Heartwarming and hilarious, poignant and unexpected, Blue Like Jazz has become a contemporary classic. For anyone wondering if the Christian faith is still relevant in a postmodern culture, thirsting for a genuine encounter with a God who is real, or yearning for a renewed sense of passion in life . . . Blue Like Jazz is a fresh and original perspective on life, love, and redemption.
