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  • The Poetry of The Blues

    The Poetry of the Blues is Samuel Charters' groundbreaking exploration of the blues as a literary and cultural form, revealing the depth, beauty, and complexity of a musical tradition rooted in African American experience. First published in the mid-20th century, the book treats blues lyrics not merely as accompaniments to music but as a form of oral poetry—expressions of love, loss, humor, ... Leer más

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  • Songs of Sorrow

    Lucy McKim Garrison and Slave Songs of the United States

    Series series American Made Music Series
    In the spring of 1862, Lucy McKim, the nineteen-year-old daughter of a Philadelphia abolitionist Quaker family, traveled with her father to the Sea Islands of South Carolina to aid him in his efforts to organize humanitarian aid for thousands of newly freed slaves. During her stay she heard the singing of the slaves in their churches, as they rowed their boats from island to island, and as they ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • A Trumpet around the Corner

    The Story of New Orleans Jazz

    Series series American Made Music Series
    Samuel Charters has been studying and writing about New Orleans music for more than fifty years. A Trumpet around the Corner: The Story of New Orleans Jazz is the first book to tell the entire story of a century of jazz in New Orleans. Although there is still controversy over the racial origins and cultural sources of New Orleans jazz, Charters provides a balanced assessment of the role played by ... Leer más

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  • Brother-Souls

    John Clellon Holmes, Jack Kerouac, and the Beat Generation

    John Clellon Holmes met Jack Kerouac on a hot New York City weekend in 1948, and until the end of Kerouac’s life they were—in Holmes’s words—“Brother Souls.” Both were neophyte novelists, hungry for literary fame but just as hungry to find a new way of responding to their experiences in a postwar American society that for them had lost its direction. Late one night as they sat talking, Kerouac ... Leer más

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  • Brother-Souls

    John Clellon Holmes, Jack Kerouac, and the Beat Generation

    John Clellon Holmes met Jack Kerouac on a hot New York City weekend in 1948, and until the end of Kerouac's life they were--in Holmes's words--"Brother Souls." Both were neophyte novelists, hungry for literary fame but just as hungry to find a new way of responding to their experiences in a postwar American society that for them had lost its direction. Late one night as they sat talking, Kerouac ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • A Language of Song

    Journeys in the Musical World of the African Diaspora

    In A Language of Song, Samuel Charters—one of the pioneering collectors of African American music—writes of a trip to West Africa where he found “a gathering of cultures and a continuing history that lay behind the flood of musical expression [he] encountered everywhere . . . from Brazil to Cuba, to Trinidad, to New Orleans, to the Bahamas, to dance halls of west Louisiana and the great churches ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Trumpet around the Corner

    The Story of New Orleans Jazz

    Samuel Charters has been studying and writing about New Orleans music for more than fifty years. A Trumpet around the Corner: The Story of New Orleans Jazz is the first book to tell the entire story of a century of jazz in New Orleans. Although there is still controversy over the racial origins and cultural sources of New Orleans jazz, Charters provides a balanced assessment of the role played by ... Leer más

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  • The Poetry of the Blues

    Series series Dover Books On Music: Folk Songs
    "A signal event in the history of the music." — Ted Gioia, author of The Delta BluesMusicologist and writer Samuel Charters (1929–2015) considered blues lyrics a profound cultural expression that could connect all people who love poetry. A pioneer in the exploration of world music, Charters conducted research that brought obscure musicians of the American South and Appalachia into the mainstream. ... Leer más

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    Brother-Souls

    John Clellon Holmes, Jack Kerouac, and the Beat Generation

    Narrado por Brian Holden ...

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    John Clellon Holmes met Jack Kerouac on a hot New York City weekend in 1948, and until the end of Kerouac's life they were—in Holmes's words—"Brother Souls." Late one night as they sat talking, Kerouac spontaneously created the term "Beat Generation" to describe this new attitude they felt stirring around them. Brother-Souls: John Clellon Holmes, Jack Kerouac, and the Beat Generation is the ... Leer más

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  • Dust Tracks on a Road

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    “Warm, witty, imaginative. . . . This is a rich and winning book.”—The New YorkerFrom Zora Neale Hurston, one of the most important African American writers of the twentieth century, comes her riveting autobiography—now available in a limited Olive Edition.First published in 1942 at the height of her popularity, Dust Tracks on a Road is Zora Neale Hurston’s candid, funny, bold, and poignant ... Leer más

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