The Ballad Of Blind Tom Slave Pianist

Author : Deirdre O'Connell
Publisher : Abrams Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ballad of Blind Tom, Slave Pianist written by Deirdre O'Connell and published by Abrams Press. This book was released on 2009-02-05 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of a black musical savant in the era of slavery, this rollicking and heartrending book offers a look into the culture of celebrity and racism at the turn of the 20th century. 50 b&w illustrations.

Author : Geneva H. Southall
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810845459
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blind Tom, the Black Pianist-composer (1849-1908) written by Geneva H. Southall and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blind Tom was the stage name of Thomas Greene Wiggins, a blind black pianist born into slavery in 1849. In this focused, consequential study, Southall reformulates the debate surrounding Blind Tom and expands its dimensions significantly.

Author : Louis Moreau Gottschalk
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Notes of a Pianist written by Louis Moreau Gottschalk and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James M. Trotter
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Music and Some Highly Musical People written by James M. Trotter and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Willa Cather
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Song of the Lark written by Willa Cather and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novelist and short-story writer, Willa Cather is today widely regarded as one of the foremost American authors of the twentieth century. Particularly renowned for the memorable women she created for such works as My Antonia and O Pioneers!, she pens the portrait of another formidable character in The Song of the Lark. This, her third novel, traces the struggle of the woman as artist in an era when a woman's role was far more rigidly defined than it is today. The prototype for the main character as a child and adolescent was Cather herself, while a leading Wagnerian soprano at the Metropolitan Opera (Olive Fremstad) became the model for Thea Kronborg, the singer who defies the limitations placed on women of her time and social station to become an international opera star. A coming-of-age-novel, important for the issues of gender and class that it explores, The Song of the Lark is one of Cather's most popular and lyrical works. Book jacket.

Author : Jeffery Renard Allen
Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 1555970923
Total Pages : 567 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Song of the Shank written by Jeffery Renard Allen and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A contemporary American masterpiece about music, race, an unforgettable man, and an unreal America during the Civil War era At the heart of this remarkable novel is Thomas Greene Wiggins, a nineteenth-century slave and improbable musical genius who performed under the name Blind Tom. Song of the Shank opens in 1866 as Tom and his guardian, Eliza Bethune, struggle to adjust to their fashionable apartment in the city in the aftermath of riots that had driven them away a few years before. But soon a stranger arrives from the mysterious island of Edgemere—inhabited solely by African settlers and black refugees from the war and riots—who intends to reunite Tom with his now-liberated mother. As the novel ranges from Tom's boyhood to the heights of his performing career, the inscrutable savant is buffeted by opportunistic teachers and crooked managers, crackpot healers and militant prophets. In his symphonic novel, Jeffery Renard Allen blends history and fantastical invention to bring to life a radical cipher, a man who profoundly changes all who encounter him.

Author : Rupert Hughes
Publisher : Boston : L.C. Page
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary American Composers written by Rupert Hughes and published by Boston : L.C. Page. This book was released on 1900 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Marvelous Musical Prodigy, Blind Tom written by and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 30 pages
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Download or read book The Marvelous Musical Prodigy, Blind Tom written by and published by . This book was released on 1867* with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Marc Smirnoff
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 9781610752992
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford American Book of Great Music Writing written by Marc Smirnoff and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not only have a breathtaking array of musical giants come from the South—think Elvis Presley, Robert Johnson, Louis Armstrong, Jimmie Rodgers, to name just obvious examples—but so have a breathtaking array of American music genres. From blues to rock & roll to jazz to country to bluegrass—and areas in between—it all started in the American South. Since its debut in 1996, The Oxford American's more-or-less annual Southern Music Issue has become legendary for its passionate and wide-ranging approach to music and for working with some of America's greatest writers. These writers—from Peter Guralnick to Nick Tosches to Susan Straight to William Gay—probe the lives and legacies of Southern musicians you may or may not yet be familiar with, but whom you'll love being introduced, or reintroduced, to. In one creative, fresh way or another, these writers also uncover the essence of music—and why music has such power over us. To celebrate ten years of Southern music issues, most of which are sold-out or very hard to find, the fifty-five essays collected in this dynamic, wide-ranging, and vast anthology appeal to both music fans and fans of great writing.