SOCIAL BLUES: BEYOND SOLEMN BALLADRY
SOCIAL BLUES: BEYOND SOLEMN BALLADRY

Author: Priyanka Raj

Publisher: Creative Universe Publishing House

Published:

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13:

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"Across thousand miles away from home, chasing my dreams To have a fairy tale Chalet, to live in solace-- down to Paradise” Social Blues is a collection of poésie winding through woods of struggles and sufferings, but weave hopes of dreams , faith for peace and love for humanity.It is classic connoisseur for social renewal and who are aficionados of timeless piece of literature . The book represents newer type of allegory in form of ballads and blues poem with illuminated visions . The subjects of poems represent common vices and virtues but are sharply satirical of various kinds of modern culture. It adds personal touch to make poems more telling and compelling and each verse speaks a tale of its own …and relates with each of us our life experience.This heart-rending book explores solemn themes of serenity, dark-culture , loss, grief , healing , empowerment , inspiration courage, dreams , encouragement , freedom , peace and on modern chaos.The Balladry composed of 51 verses advocates” Humanity is one kind of magical spell in accomplishing harmony and tranquility in land of conflicts”As a poet , it will remind our obligation towards society and how can we together bring a major improvement in shaping the thoughts of our younger generation without inflicting the emotions.

Social Blues
Social Blues

Author: Priyanka RAJ

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 2019-02-07

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13: 9781795890809

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Across thousand miles away from home, chasing my dreamsTo have a fairy tale Chalet, to live in solace-- down to Paradise"Across thousand miles away from home, chasing my dreamsTo have a fairy tale Chalet, to live in solace-- down to Paradise"Social Blues is a collection of poésie winding through woods of struggles and sufferings, but weave hopes of dreams , faith for peace and love for humanity.It is classic connoisseur for social renewal and who are aficionados of timeless piece of literature . The book represents newer type of allegory in form of ballads and blues poem with illuminated visions . The subjects of poems represent common vices and virtues but are sharply satirical of various kinds of modern culture. It adds personal touch to make poems more telling and compelling and each verse speaks a tale of its own ...and relates with each of us our life experience.This heart-rending book explores solemn themes of serenity, dark-culture , loss, grief , healing , empowerment , inspiration courage, dreams , encouragement , freedom , peace and on modern chaos.The Balladry composed of 51 verses advocates" Humanity is one kind of magical spell in accomplishing harmony and tranquility in land of conflicts"As a poet , it will remind our obligation towards society and how can we together bring a major improvement in shaping the thoughts of our younger generation without inflicting the emotions.

Bargainin' for Salvation
Bargainin' for Salvation

Author: Steven Heine

Publisher: Continuum

Published: 2009-05

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13:

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"Throughout his various stages, Dylan's work reveals an affinity with the Zen worldview, where enlightenment can be attained through self-contemplation and intuition rather than through faith and devotion. Much has been made of Dylan's Christian periods, but never before has a book engaged Dylan's deep and rich oeuvre through a Buddhist lens."--Back cover.

Alan Lomax
Alan Lomax

Author: Ronald Cohen

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2004-03-01

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1135949212

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Alan Lomax is a legendary figure in American folk music circles. Although he published many books, hundreds of recordings and dozens of films, his contributions to popular and academic journals have never been collected. This collection of writings, introduced by Lomax's daughter Anna, reintroduces these essential writings. Drawing on the Lomax Archives in New York, this book brings together articles from the 30s onwards. It is divided into four sections, each capturing a distinct period in the development of Lomax's life and career: the original years as a collector and promoter; the period from 1950-58 when Lomax was recording thorughout Europe; the folk music revival years; and finally his work in academia.

The Social Life of Poetry
The Social Life of Poetry

Author: C. Green

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2009-11-23

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 0230101690

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From Jewish publishers to Appalachian poets, Green s cultural study reveals the role of "Mountain Whites" in American racial history. Part One (1880-1935) explores the networks that created American pluralism, revealing Appalachia s essential role in shaping America s understanding of African Americans, Anglos, Jews, Southerners, and Immigrants. Drawing upon archival research and deft close readings of poems, Part Two (1934-1946) delves into the inner-workings of literary history and shows how diverse alliances used four books of poetry about Appalachia to change America s notion of race, region, and pluralism. Green starts with how Jesse Stuart and the Agrarians defended Southern whiteness, follows how James Still appealed to liberals, shows how Muriel Rukeyser put Appalachia at the center of anti-fascism, and ends with how Don West and the Progressives struggled to form interracial labor unions in the South.

Performing Rites
Performing Rites

Author: Simon Frith

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1998-02-06

Total Pages: 363

ISBN-13: 0674247310

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Who's better? Billie Holiday or P. J. Harvey? Blur or Oasis? Dylan or Keats? And how many friendships have ridden on the answer? Such questions aren't merely the stuff of fanzines and idle talk; they inform our most passionate arguments, distill our most deeply held values, make meaning of our ever-changing culture. In Performing Rites, one of the most influential writers on popular music asks what we talk about when we talk about music. What's good, what's bad? What's high, what's low? Why do such distinctions matter? Instead of dismissing emotional response and personal taste as inaccessible to the academic critic, Simon Frith takes these forms of engagement as his subject--and discloses their place at the very center of the aesthetics that structure our culture and color our lives. Taking up hundreds of songs and writers, Frith insists on acts of evaluation of popular music as music. Ranging through and beyond the twentieth century, Performing Rites puts the Pet Shop Boys and Puccini, rhythm and lyric, voice and technology, into a dialogue about the undeniable impact of popular aesthetics on our lives. How we nod our heads or tap our feet, grin or grimace or flip the dial; how we determine what's sublime and what's "for real"--these are part of the way we construct our social identities, and an essential response to the performance of all music. Frith argues that listening itself is a performance, both social gesture and bodily response. From how they are made to how they are received, popular songs appear here as not only meriting aesthetic judgments but also demanding them, and shaping our understanding of what all music means.

Bruce Springsteen: Songs
Bruce Springsteen: Songs

Author: Bruce Springsteen

Publisher: HarperEntertainment

Published: 2001-01-01

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9780380976195

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Commemorating Bruce Springsteen's twenty-five years as a recording artist, here is a panoramic view of his career in a form never seen before. This is the complete collection of Bruce Springsteen's recorded lyrics, illustrated with hundreds of never-before-published images from some of rock & roll journalism's greatest photographers, including Annie Leibovitz, David Gahr, Lynn Goldsmith, Bruce Weber, and many others. From Jim Marchese's informal backstage shots during the European leg of the 1980 The River tour to Neal Preston's amazing documentation of the Born in the U.S.A. days to Pam Springsteen's portraits showing a side of the musician rarely seen by the public, this is the most intimate look at Bruce Springsteen ever published. The photos and lyrics are accompanied by original commentary by Springsteen, in which he reflects on the songs, the performances, and the quarter-century career that for many defines the American dream. In words and in pictures, here is the one book no Bruce Springsteen fan can afford to be without.

Book of Jazz
Book of Jazz

Author: Leonard Feather

Publisher: Horizon Press

Published: 1988-06-01

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 9780818012020

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Discusses the role of each instrument in the development of jazz and profiles major performers as well as describing the origins and development of this truly American art form. Bibliogs

Universal Tonality
Universal Tonality

Author: Cisco Bradley

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2021-01-04

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 1478012714

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Since ascending onto the world stage in the 1990s as one of the premier bassists and composers of his generation, William Parker has perpetually toured around the world and released over forty albums as a leader. He is one of the most influential jazz artists alive today. In Universal Tonality historian and critic Cisco Bradley tells the story of Parker’s life and music. Drawing on interviews with Parker and his collaborators, Bradley traces Parker’s ancestral roots in West Africa via the Carolinas to his childhood in the South Bronx, and illustrates his rise from the 1970s jazz lofts and extended work with pianist Cecil Taylor to the present day. He outlines how Parker’s early influences—Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, Albert Ayler, and writers of the Black Arts Movement—grounded Parker’s aesthetic and musical practice in a commitment to community and the struggle for justice and freedom. Throughout, Bradley foregrounds Parker’s understanding of music, the role of the artist, and the relationship between art, politics, and social transformation. Intimate and capacious, Universal Tonality is the definitive work on Parker’s life and music.