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  • Jelly Roll, Bix, and Hoagy

    Gennett Records and the Rise of America's Musical Grassroots

    by Rick Kennedy ...
    "A lively and anecdotal history" of the tiny family-run studio where jazz greats from Jelly Roll Morton to Louis Armstrong made their first recordings ( Jazz Times).From 1917 to 1932, in a primitive studio next to the railroad tracks, the Gennett family of Richmond, Indiana, recorded some of the earliest performances of jazz, blues, and country greats—including Jelly Roll Morton, Big Bill Broonzy, ... Read more

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  • Jesus, History, and Mt. Darwin

    An Academic Excursion

    by Rick Kennedy ...
    Written in the genre of Henry David Thoreau's travel-thinking essays, Jesus, History, and Mount Darwin: An Academic Excursion is the story of a three-day climb into the Evolution Range of the High Sierra mountains of California. Mount Darwin stands among other mountains near fourteen thousand feet high and that are named after promoters of religious versions of evolutionary thinking. Rick Kennedy, ... Read more

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  • The First American Evangelical

    A Short Life of Cotton Mather

    by Rick Kennedy ...
    Series series Library of Religious Biography (LRB)
    Cotton Mather (1663-1728) was America's most famous pastor and scholar at the beginning of the eighteenth century. People today generally associate him with the infamous Salem witch trials, but in this new biography Rick Kennedy tells a bigger story: Mather, he says, was the very first American evangelical.A fresh retelling of Cotton Mather's life, this biography corrects misconceptions and ... Read more

    $21.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Revolution as Reformation

    Protestant Faith in the Age of Revolutions, 1688–1832

    Series series Religion and American Culture
    Essays that explore how Protestants responded to the opportunities and perils of revolution in the transatlantic ageRevolution as Reformation: Protestant Faith in the Age of Revolutions, 1688–1832 highlights the role that Protestantism played in shaping both individual and collective responses to revolution. These essays explore the various ways that the Protestant tradition, rooted in a perpetual ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • The Sayings and Stories of the Desert Fathers and Mothers

    Volume 2: Th–O (Theta–Oméga)

    Series Book 292 - Cistercian Studies Series
    The Sayings and Stories of the Desert Fathers and Mothers offers a new translation of the Greek alphabetical Apophthegmata Patrum, The Sayings of the Desert Fathers. For the first time in an English translation, this volume provides:extensive background and contextual notessignificant variant readings in the alphabetical manuscripts and textual differences vis-à-vis the systematic and anonymous ... Read more

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    The Life and Afterlife of Blues Legend Robert Johnson

    by Tom Graves ...
    The result of careful research, this stylish biography of infamous blues musician Robert Johnson reveals the real story behind the mythical talent that made him a musical legend. According to some, Robert Johnson learned guitar by trading his soul away to the Devil at a crossroads in rural Mississippi. When he died at age 27 of a mysterious poisoning, many superstitious fans came to believe that ... Read more

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  • The Wordy Shipmates

    by Sarah Vowell ...
    From the author of Lafayette in the Somewhat United States, The Wordy Shipmates is New York Times bestselling author Sarah Vowell's exploration of the Puritans and their journey to America to become the people of John Winthrop's "city upon a hill," a shining example, a "city that cannot be hid."To this day, America views itself as a Puritan nation, but Vowell investigates what that means? and what ... Read more

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  • Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues

    A companion book to the PBS documentary series exploring the history of the blues and its contribution to American culture and music worldwide.A companion to the groundbreaking documentary series, this volume is a unique and timeless celebration of the blues, from writers and artists as esteemed and revered as the music that moved them.Included in this stunning collection are:Essays by David ... Read more

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  • The Quakers

    A Very Short Introduction

    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The Quakers are a fascinating religious group both in their origins and in the variety of reinterpretations of the faith since. Emerging from the social unrest of the English civil war, the Quakers have gone on to have an influence way beyond their numbers: be it their continued stance against war or their pioneering work against slavery. At the same time, Quakers maintain a distinctive worship ... Read more

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  • Escaping the Delta

    Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues

    by Elijah Wald ...
    The life of blues legend Robert Johnson becomes the centerpiece for this innovative look at what many consider to be America's deepest and most influential music genre. Pivotal are the questions surrounding why Johnson was ignored by the core black audience of his time yet now celebrated as the greatest figure in blues history.Trying to separate myth from reality, biographer Elijah Wald studies ... Read more

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  • How the Beatles Destroyed Rock n Roll:An Alternative History of American Popular Music

    An Alternative History of American Popular Music

    by Elijah Wald ...
    "There are no definitive histories," writes Elijah Wald, in this provocative reassessment of American popular music, "because the past keeps looking different as the present changes." Earlier musical styles sound different to us today because we hear them through the musical filter of other styles that came after them, all the way through funk and hiphop. As its blasphemous title suggests, How the ... Read more

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  • Worldly Saints

    The Puritans As They Really Were

    by Leland Ryken ...
    "Ryken's Worldly Saints offers a fine introduction to seventeenth-century Puritanism in its English and American contexts. The work is rich in quotations from Puritan worthies and is ideally suited to general readers who have not delved widely into Puritan literature. It will also be a source of information and inspiration to those who seek a clearer understanding of the Puritan roots of American ... Read more

    $6.99 USD