The Language of the Blues

The Language of the Blues

Author: Debra Devi

Publisher: True Nature Books

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 9781624071850

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A comprehensive dictionary of blues lyrics invites listeners to interpret what they hear in blues songs and blues culture, including excerpts from original interviews with Dr. John, Bonnie Raitt, Hubert Sumlin, Buddy Guy, and many others.


Find Your Voice – The No. 1 Singing Tutor

Find Your Voice – The No. 1 Singing Tutor

Author: Jo Thompson

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2014-11-17

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 1326051768

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"Drawing on over 25 years of teaching experience, acclaimed vocal coach, Jo Thompson, has written the ultimate guide to singing. Whether you are an accomplished singer or a complete beginner, Jo can help you to improve your singing through a combination of simple exercises, straightforward advice and practical hints." -- back cover.


The B.B. King Reader

The B.B. King Reader

Author: Richard Kostelanetz

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9780634099274

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B.B. King is a national treasure. For more than five decades, he has been the consummate blues performer. His unique guitar playing, powerful vocals, and repertoire of songs have taken him from tiny Itta Bena, Mississippi, to worldwide renown. In this comprehensive volume, the best articles, interviews and reviews about B.B. King's life and career have been gathered. Learn how he first made his mark as a disc jockey in Memphis hawking "Pepticon" elixir and taking the moniker of the "Beale Street Blues Boy"; trace his early tours and recordings; see him be swept up in the blues revival; and finally, enjoy his fame as the greatest living exponent of the blues style.


First Steps: The Minor Pentatonic Scale & Improvisation

First Steps: The Minor Pentatonic Scale & Improvisation

Author: Anders Rye

Publisher: First Steps In Guitar

Published: 2022-11-23

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13:

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First Steps: The Minor Pentatonic Scale & Improvisation is for both acoustic and electric guitarists who are ready to take the first steps into lead playing and improvisation. If you know how to play chords and can confidently strum through a few songs, but your technique is limited and you have never played a solo or improvised, then this book is for you and it comes complete with 50 audio examples and backing tracks for practising. You will learn: - The minor pentatonic scale in all five shapes (and how it can work in major keys too). - To connect the shapes so you can play fluently all over the fretboard. - The basics of improvisation and how to use the minor pentatonic scale for improvising and developing ideas. - Easy licks that you can put together to make a complete solo, regardless of technical ability. - To develop your technique and apply it to your playing. The minor pentatonic scale is a cornerstone for all guitarists and this book will show you some of the possibilities to explore and get you started on the path to becoming a better guitarist.


Blues Guitar For Dummies

Blues Guitar For Dummies

Author: Jon Chappell

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2020-07-14

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 111974895X

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Want to become the coolest possible version of yourself? Time to jump into learning the blues guitar. Even if you don’t read music, Blues Guitar For Dummies lets you pick up the fundamentals and start jamming like your favorite blues artists. Blues Guitar for Dummies covers the key aspects of blues guitar, showing you how to play scales, chords, progressions, riffs, solos, and more. This hands-on guide is packed with musical examples, chords charts, and photos that let you explore the genre and play the songs of all the great blues musicians. This accessible how-to book will give you the skills you need to: Choose the right guitar, equipment, and strings Hold, tune, and get situated with your guitar Play barre chords and strum to the rhythm Recognize the structure of a blues song Tackle musical riffs Master melodies and solos Make your guitar sing, cry, and wail Jam to any type of blues Additionally, the book comes with a website that shares audio samples of all the examples covered in the lessons. Go online to practice your riffs and chords and develop your style as a blues musician. Order your copy of Blues Guitar For Dummies today and get ready to start shredding! P.S. If you think this book seems familiar, you’re probably right. The Dummies team updated the cover and design to give the book a fresh feel, but the content is the same as the previous release of Blues Guitar For Dummies (9780470049204). The book you see here shouldn’t be considered a new or updated product. But if you’re in the mood to learn something new, check out some of our other books. We’re always writing about new topics!


King's Vibrato

King's Vibrato

Author: Maurice O. Wallace

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2022-07-29

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 147802299X

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In King’s Vibrato Maurice O. Wallace explores the sonic character of Martin Luther King Jr.’s voice and its power to move the world. Providing a cultural history and critical theory of the black modernist soundscapes that helped inform King’s vocal timbre, Wallace shows how the qualities of King’s voice depended on a mix of ecclesial architecture and acoustics, musical instrumentation and sound technology, audience and song. He examines the acoustical architectures of the African American churches where King spoke and the centrality of the pipe organ in these churches, offers a black feminist critique of the influence of gospel on King, and outlines how variations in natural environments and sound amplifications made each of King’s three deliveries of the “I Have a Dream” speech unique. By mapping the vocal timbre of one of the most important figures of black hope and protest in American history, Wallace presents King as the embodiment of the sound of modern black thought.


An Eternal Pitch

An Eternal Pitch

Author: Braxton D. Shelley

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2023

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 0520387139

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"An Eternal Pitch examines the life and afterlife of the vivid sermons of Bishop G. E. Patterson, the dynamic spiritual leader of the Church of God in Christ from 2000 to 2007. Although Patterson died in 2007, his voice remains a staple of radio and television broadcast, and his sermons have taken on a life of their own online--where a host of YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok users enact innovative forms of religious broadcasting. Their preoccupation with Patterson's 'afterliveness' clarifies the significance of Patterson's preoccupation with musical repetition: across the decades of Patterson's ministry, a set of musical gestures recur as sonic channels, bringing an individual sermon into contact with scripture's eternal transmission"--


Ultimate Star Guitars

Ultimate Star Guitars

Author: Dave Hunter

Publisher: Voyageur Press (MN)

Published: 2017-04

Total Pages: 355

ISBN-13: 0760352399

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First published in 2010, Ultimate Star Guitars, the first illustrated history of ticonic guitars and their owners, is now expanded to include 32 additional instruments. Where other best-selling guitar histories look at the rank-and-file models, Ultimate Star Guitars is unique in profiling the specific favorites of famous players - oftentimes million-dollar babies, such as the 1968 Stratocaster that Jimi Hendrix burned at Woodstock and which sold at Sotheby's in 1993 for $1.3 million. Guitar journalist Dave Hunter explains the stories behind each: the important sessions on which they were used, landmark tours and gigs on which they were played, modifications made by their owners, and more. From twangy country to scorching metal, from full-throttle punk to sophisticated jazz, and from gut-punch blues to lo-fi indie rock, Ultimate Star Guitars is illustrated with performance and candid photography of the artists with their star guitars, relevant memorabilia, and more often than not, studio shots of the guitars or signature models based on them. An information-packed visual feast for guitar enthusiasts!


Race in American Literature and Culture

Race in American Literature and Culture

Author: John Ernest

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2022-06-16

Total Pages: 467

ISBN-13: 1108803016

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Exploring the unsteady foundations of American literary history, Race in American Literature and Culture examines the hardening of racial fault lines throughout the nineteenth century and into the twentieth while considering aspects of the literary and interrelated traditions that emerged from this fractured cultural landscape. A multicultural study of the influential and complex presence of race in the American imagination, the book pushes debate in exciting new directions. Offering expert explorations of how the history of race has been represented and written about, it shows in what ways those representations and writings have influenced wider American culture. Distinguished scholars from African American, Latinx, Asian American, Native American, and white American studies foreground the conflicts in question across different traditions and different modes of interpretation, and are thus able comprehensively and creatively to address in the volume how and why race has been so central to American literature as a whole.