Music of America from My Heart
Music of America from My Heart

Author: Mubo Aderonke Lala

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2015-01-16

Total Pages: 197

ISBN-13: 1503532836

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Sarah was born to an unskilled young mother who suddenly finds herself alone with young Sarah when her then live-in boyfriend, which is Sarah's father, decided to leave them both for a tour of the duty, a circumstance that made Sarah separated from her biological parents. Sarah was raised by her maternal grandmother and her auntie in a small town called Opelika. At an appointed time, all people that matter in her life came back to favor her. She fell in love and married a Nigerian student who encouraged her to fine-tune her career as a singer. When the family moved to Nigeria, she was not found of rigidity in Nigerian school system where students just study, do exam, study, and do the test. Nothing excited her; therefore, she suggested a ceremony similar to the American version of homecoming to her daughter's school. They not only accepted her idea but also granted her absolute right to coordinate and implement the entire event. The event was so successful that it eventually transformed Sarah from an elite house wife to a well-known socialite in the Nigerian high-class inner circle.

Music for Your Heart
Music for Your Heart

Author: Ace Collins

Publisher: Abingdon Press

Published: 2013-09-17

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 1426776047

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Have you ever had a song stuck in your head for days? Something abut its tune or lyrics impacts us and holds our attention. Why? How did the song come to be? Why was it written? And what does the song really mean? In Music for Your Heart, best-selling and award-winning author Ace Collins takes you behind the scenes of your favorite songs to show how the lyrics and music began. Through insider stories, artist bios, and inspiration from Scripture, Collins weaves stirring reflections on our adored and popular classics. Whether the featured song is a holiday carol, children’s worship tune, or love song, each short chapter will inspire curious music enthusiasts as well as those seeking a book for a devotional meditation. Digging deep into the words and history of the music, these uplifting and informative reflections will warm the heart—like the songs themselves. Songs include: - Jesus Loves Me - You Are My Sunshine - How Great Thou Art - White Christmas - Amazing Grace - Sweet, Sweet Spirit - Blue Moon - Jingle Bells - You Raise Me Up - Deep and Wide - I Will Always Love You - Moon River

America, My Love, America, My Heart
America, My Love, America, My Heart

Author: Daria Peoples-Riley

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2021-04-06

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13: 0063089343

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America, do you love me? Acclaimed author-artist Daria Peoples-Riley invites readers to answer timely—and timeless—questions beating inside the hearts of children across America. Exquisitely illustrated, with a powerful, lyrical text, America, My Love, America, My Heart will challenge readers of all ages to examine and evaluate personal beliefs and attitudes toward the many different colors of America. America, do you love me? My black. My brown. My pride. My crown. What begins as a single question from a single child multiplies as America, My Love, America, My Heart sweeps across the country with every page turn, inviting in more and more children of color—and their questions. Does America love them when they speak? Or whisper? Or shout? When they stand? Does America love them just as they are? Inspired by the questions of her own childhood, author and artist Daria Peoples-Riley has created a powerful and important book for Americans of all ages—an essential addition to every bookshelf and classroom. Her poetic text encourages readers to confront bias, prejudice, and discrimination and invites readers to reflect and respond with their own answers, while honoring the identities of black and brown children and people of color. The unforgettable monochromatic oil paintings incorporate patriotic colors—red, white, and blue—to evoke deeply felt emotion and unique perspective. This rich, resonant book is a conversation starter for children, for families, for classrooms, and for communities.

Music of the Heart
Music of the Heart

Author: Roberta Guaspari-Tzavaras

Publisher: Miramax Books

Published: 1999-10-27

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13:

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Arriving in East Harlem, New York City h 1980 with her two young sons, soon after a painful divorce, Roberta Guaspari doesn't know what she will do to support her family and move forward with her life. All she does know is that she has managed to hold on to the 50 violins she bought with her family's savings as part of her dream to be a music teacher. But as the future will prove, these 50 violins, along with Guaspari's unrelenting passion for music and teaching, are the basis for what will become her triumphantly successful program to teach the children of her community the power of music and put hundreds of them on the pith toward personal success. In The Music of My Heart, Roberta Guaspari tells the story of how her ultimate success and that of the children she taught does not come without years of hard work to overcome personal and community adversity. In 1993, Guaspari and her students hold a concert at Carnegie Hall and are accompanied by the world famous violinists Itzhak Perlman and Isaac Stern. East Harlem is only three miles form Carnegie Hall, but the work required to make this journey takes years. In The Music of My Heart, Guaspari takes the reader back to relive her own personal journey, how it becomes entwined with the lives of many of her students, and how together they fight for a future full of hope end music.

Music of America from My Heart
Music of America from My Heart

Author: Mubo Aderonke Lala

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2015-01-16

Total Pages: 197

ISBN-13: 150353281X

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Sarah was born to an unskilled young mother who suddenly finds herself alone with young Sarah when her then live-in boyfriend, which is Sarahs father, decided to leave them both for a tour of the duty, a circumstance that made Sarah separated from her biological parents. Sarah was raised by her maternal grandmother and her auntie in a small town called Opelika. At an appointed time, all people that matter in her life came back to favor her. She fell in love and married a Nigerian student who encouraged her to fine-tune her career as a singer. When the family moved to Nigeria, she was not found of rigidity in Nigerian school system where students just study, do exam, study, and do the test. Nothing excited her; therefore, she suggested a ceremony similar to the American version of homecoming to her daughters school. They not only accepted her idea but also granted her absolute right to coordinate and implement the entire event. The event was so successful that it eventually transformed Sarah from an elite house wife to a well-known socialite in the Nigerian high-class inner circle.

The Heart of a Woman
The Heart of a Woman

Author: Rae Linda Brown

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2020-06-22

Total Pages: 466

ISBN-13: 0252052110

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Book Prize Winner of the International Alliance for Women in Music of the 2022 Pauline Alderman Awards for Outstanding Scholarship on Women in Music The Heart of a Woman offers the first-ever biography of Florence B. Price, a composer whose career spanned both the Harlem and Chicago Renaissances, and the first African American woman to gain national recognition for her works. Price's twenty-five years in Chicago formed the core of a working life that saw her create three hundred works in diverse genres, including symphonies and orchestral suites, art songs, vocal and choral music, and arrangements of spirituals. Through interviews and a wealth of material from public and private archives, Rae Linda Brown illuminates Price's major works while exploring the considerable depth of her achievement. Brown also traces the life of the extremely private individual from her childhood in Little Rock through her time at the New England Conservatory, her extensive teaching, and her struggles with racism, poverty, and professional jealousies. In addition, Brown provides musicians and scholars with dozens of musical examples.

A Piece of My Heart
A Piece of My Heart

Author: Shirley Lauro

Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13: 9780573693335

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"Suggested by the book [A Piece of my heart, compiled] by Keith Walker."

Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese's
Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese's

Author: Tiffany Midge

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2019-10-01

Total Pages: 215

ISBN-13: 1496215575

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Why is there no Native woman David Sedaris? Or Native Anne Lamott? Humor categories in publishing are packed with books by funny women and humorous sociocultural-political commentary—but no Native women. There are presumably more important concerns in Indian Country. More important than humor? Among the Diné/Navajo, a ceremony is held in honor of a baby’s first laugh. While the context is different, it nonetheless reminds us that laughter is precious, even sacred. Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese’s is a powerful and compelling collection of Tiffany Midge’s musings on life, politics, and identity as a Native woman in America. Artfully blending sly humor, social commentary, and meditations on love and loss, Midge weaves short, stand-alone musings into a memoir that stares down colonialism while chastising hipsters for abusing pumpkin spice. She explains why she does not like pussy hats, mercilessly dismantles pretendians, and confesses her own struggles with white-bread privilege. Midge goes on to ponder Standing Rock, feminism, and a tweeting president, all while exploring her own complex identity and the loss of her mother. Employing humor as an act of resistance, these slices of life and matchless takes on urban-Indigenous identity disrupt the colonial narrative and provide commentary on popular culture, media, feminism, and the complications of identity, race, and politics.

America Is in the Heart
America Is in the Heart

Author: Carlos Bulosan

Publisher: University of Washington Press

Published: 2014-04-01

Total Pages: 367

ISBN-13: 0295805013

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First published in 1943, this classic memoir by well-known Filipino poet Carlos Bulosan describes his boyhood in the Philippines, his voyage to America, and his years of hardship and despair as an itinerant laborer following the harvest trail in the rural West.

Give My Poor Heart Ease
Give My Poor Heart Ease

Author: William Ferris

Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

Published: 2009-11-01

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 080789852X

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Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, folklorist William Ferris toured his home state of Mississippi, documenting the voices of African Americans as they spoke about and performed the diverse musical traditions that form the authentic roots of the blues. Now, Give My Poor Heart Ease puts front and center a searing selection of the artistically and emotionally rich voices from this invaluable documentary record. Illustrated with Ferris's photographs of the musicians and their communities and including a CD of original music, the book features more than twenty interviews relating frank, dramatic, and engaging narratives about black life and blues music in the heart of the American South. Here are the stories of artists who have long memories and speak eloquently about their lives, blues musicians who represent a wide range of musical traditions--from one-strand instruments, bottle-blowing, and banjo to spirituals, hymns, and prison work chants. Celebrities such as B. B. King and Willie Dixon, along with performers known best in their neighborhoods, express the full range of human and artistic experience--joyful and gritty, raw and painful. In an autobiographical introduction, Ferris reflects on how he fell in love with the vibrant musical culture that was all around him but was considered off limits to a white Mississippian during a troubled era. This magnificent volume illuminates blues music, the broader African American experience, and indeed the history and culture of America itself.