Afro Blue

Author : John Coltrane
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1476885850
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John Coltrane Plays "Coltrane Changes" (Songbook) written by John Coltrane and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2003-05-01 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Artist Transcriptions). In the late 1950s, John Coltrane composed or arranged a series of tunes that used chord progressions based on a series of key center movements by thirds, rather than the usual fourths and fifths of standard progressions. This sound is so aurally identifiable and has received so much attention from jazz musicians that it has become known as "Coltrane's Changes." This book presents an exploration of his changes by studying 13 of his arrangements, each containing Coltrane's unique harmonic formula. It includes complete solo transcriptions with extensive performance notes for each. Titles include: Body and Soul * But Not for Me * Central Park West * Countdown * Fifth House * Giant Steps * Summertime * and more.

Author : Tony Bolden
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252028748
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Afro-blue written by Tony Bolden and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Afro-Blue, Tony Bolden traces the ways innovations in black music and poetry have driven the evolution of a variety of other American vernacular artistic forms. The blues tradition, Bolden demonstrates, plays a key role in the relationship between poetry and vernacular expressive forms. Through an analysis of the formal qualities of black poetry and music, Afro-Blue shows that they function as a form of resistance, affirming the values and style of life that oppose bourgeois morality. Even before the term blues had cultural currency, the inscriptions of style and resistance embodied in the blues tradition were already a prominent feature of black poetics. Bolden delineates this interrelation, examining how poets extend and reshape a variety of other verbal folk forms in the same way as blues musicians play with other musical genres. He identifies three distinct bodies of blues poetics: some poets mimic and riff on oral forms, another group fuse their dedication to vernacular culture with a concern for literary conventions, while still others opt to embody the blues poetics by becoming blues musicians - and some combine elements of all three.

Author : Kwame Copeland
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595394108
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Afro-Blues Tradition written by Kwame Copeland and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-08 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Blues was born from praise songs, poetry, metaphorical tales, and folk traditions of the Africans, as they became Americana's. The Afro-Blues sprouted up wherever the African landed in this hemisphere. The tradition mixed with existing cultures but retained its uniqueness. Part of its uniqueness was its use of percussive tones and its use of mythological references in its idiom and artistic rituals. As a historical tradition, it was so receptive and creative, that its classical roots evolved into the 21st Century. At this time of moral and spiritual crises, I fall back on my inheritance, where meditative prose and poetry, are used to reflect the moment from emotive reasoning. John Coltrane and Mongo Santamaria both claimed the song Afro-Blue. Yet! This song reflects where the tradition had traveled, since Coltrane was an African American and Santamaria was an African Cuban. This great stream of maternal traditions has given much to the world, and in these times of great transition; its glorious well should be dipped in more often. If just to argument this present debate-What is Human!"

Author : Paul Manning Jr.
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 79 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book “Afro Blues from Heaven” written by Paul Manning Jr. and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2023-09-29 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The information about the book is not available as of this time.

Author : Frank B. Wilderson III
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1631496158
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Afropessimism written by Frank B. Wilderson III and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Wilderson’s thinking teaches us to believe in the miraculous even as we decry the brutalities out of which miracles emerge”—Fred Moten Praised as “a trenchant, funny, and unsparing work of memoir and philosophy” (Aaron Robertson,?Literary Hub), Frank B. Wilderson’s Afropessimism arrived at a moment when protests against police brutality once again swept the nation. Presenting an argument we can no longer ignore, Wilderson insists that we must view Blackness through the lens of perpetual slavery. Radical in conception, remarkably poignant, and with soaring flights of memoir, Afropessimism reverberates with wisdom and painful clarity in the fractured world we inhabit.“Wilderson’s ambitious book offers its readers two great gifts. First, it strives mightily to make its pessimistic vision plausible. . . . Second, the book depicts a remarkable life, lived with daring and sincerity.”—Paul C. Taylor, Washington Post

Author : Johny Pitts
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141984732
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Afropean written by Johny Pitts and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2019-06-06 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Jhalak Prize 'A revelation' Owen Jones 'Afropean seizes the blur of contradictions that have obscured Europe's relationship with blackness and paints it into something new, confident and lyrical' Afua Hirsch A Guardian, New Statesman and BBC History Magazine Best Book of 2019 'Afropean. Here was a space where blackness was taking part in shaping European identity ... A continent of Algerian flea markets, Surinamese shamanism, German Reggae and Moorish castles. Yes, all this was part of Europe too ... With my brown skin and my British passport - still a ticket into mainland Europe at the time of writing - I set out in search of the Afropeans, on a cold October morning.' Afropean is an on-the-ground documentary of areas where Europeans of African descent are juggling their multiple allegiances and forging new identities. Here is an alternative map of the continent, taking the reader to places like Cova Da Moura, the Cape Verdean shantytown on the outskirts of Lisbon with its own underground economy, and Rinkeby, the area of Stockholm that is eighty per cent Muslim. Johny Pitts visits the former Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow, where West African students are still making the most of Cold War ties with the USSR, and Clichy Sous Bois in Paris, which gave birth to the 2005 riots, all the while presenting Afropeans as lead actors in their own story.

Author : Scott Saul
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674043103
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Freedom Is, Freedom Ain't written by Scott Saul and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the long decade between the mid-fifties and the late sixties, jazz was changing more than its sound. The age of Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite, John Coltrane's A Love Supreme, and Charles Mingus's The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady was a time when jazz became both newly militant and newly seductive, its example powerfully shaping the social dramas of the Civil Rights movement, the Black Power movement, and the counterculture. Freedom Is, Freedom Ain't is the first book to tell the broader story of this period in jazz--and American--history.

Author : David Peñalosa
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781478299479
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Clave Matrix written by David Peñalosa and published by . This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CLAVE MATRIX: The entire interwoven structure of clave-based music as it relates to its generative source.CLAVE: A Spanish word meaning 'code,' or 'key,' as in the key to a mystery or puzzle. Also 'keystone,' the wedge-shaped stone in the center of an arch that ties all the stones together. Clave is the key pattern that both binds and decodes the rhythmic structure of Afro-Cuban music.MATRIX: The point of origin from which something takes form and develops; a grid-like array of elements, an interwoven pattern.

Author : Aiden M Taylor
Publisher : Taylormade Publishing, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781735408521
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Me and My Afro written by Aiden M Taylor and published by Taylormade Publishing, Incorporated. This book was released on 2021-07-04 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aiden is back, and he needs your help! He is full of ideas on what to be when he grows up. He could be a veterinarian who helps our furry friends, or a bus driver who gets people to where they need to go, or a scientist who invents cool and exciting new things. He can be anything he wants! Can you help Aiden decide? What do you want to be when you grow up? Families will love this rollicking read-aloud filled with fun and vibrant illustrations, perfect for inquisitive preschool and elementary school students.

Author : George E. Lewis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199892938
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies written by George E. Lewis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-22 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Improvisation informs a vast array of human activity, from creative practices in art, dance, music, and literature to everyday conversation and the relationships to natural and built environments that surround and sustain us. The two volumes of the Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies gather scholarship on improvisation from an immense range of perspectives, with contributions from more than sixty scholars working in architecture, anthropology, art history, computer science, cognitive science, cultural studies, dance, economics, education, ethnomusicology, film, gender studies, history, linguistics, literary theory, musicology, neuroscience, new media, organizational science, performance studies, philosophy, popular music studies, psychology, science and technology studies, sociology, and sound art, among others.