Beyond the Crossroads

Beyond the Crossroads
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Publisher : UNC Press Books
Total Pages : 417
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ISBN-10 : 9781469633671
ISBN-13 : 1469633671
Rating : 4/5 (71 Downloads)

Synopsis Beyond the Crossroads by : Adam Gussow

The devil is the most charismatic and important figure in the blues tradition. He's not just the music's namesake ("the devil's music"), but a shadowy presence who haunts an imagined Mississippi crossroads where, it is claimed, Delta bluesman Robert Johnson traded away his soul in exchange for extraordinary prowess on the guitar. Yet, as scholar and musician Adam Gussow argues, there is much more to the story of the devil and the blues than these cliched understandings. In this groundbreaking study, Gussow takes the full measure of the devil's presence. Working from original transcriptions of more than 125 recordings released during the past ninety years, Gussow explores the varied uses to which black southern blues people have put this trouble-sowing, love-wrecking, but also empowering figure. The book culminates with a bold reinterpretation of Johnson's music and a provocative investigation of the way in which the citizens of Clarksdale, Mississippi, managed to rebrand a commercial hub as "the crossroads" in 1999, claiming Johnson and the devil as their own.

Greatest Hits #269

Greatest Hits #269
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Publisher : Pudding House Publications
Total Pages : 46
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ISBN-10 : 1589986822
ISBN-13 : 9781589986824
Rating : 4/5 (22 Downloads)

Synopsis Greatest Hits #269 by : Raymond McNiece

Teaching Multiwriting

Teaching Multiwriting
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Publisher : SIU Press
Total Pages : 260
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ISBN-10 : 0809327546
ISBN-13 : 9780809327546
Rating : 4/5 (46 Downloads)

Synopsis Teaching Multiwriting by : Robert L. Davis

Formulaic ways to train students in composition and rhetoric are no longer effective, say authors Robert L. Davis and Mark F. Shadle. Scholar-teachers must instead reinvent the field from the inside. Teaching Multiwriting: Researching and Composing with Multiple Genres, Media, Disciplines, and Cultures presents just such a reinvention with multiwriting, an alternative, open approach to composition. Seeking to open the minds of both writers and readers to new understandings, the authors argue for the supplanting of the outdated research paper assignment with research projects that use multiple forms to explore questions that cannot be fully answered. This innovative volume, geared to composition teachers at all levels, includes sixteen helpful illustrations and provides classroom exercises and projects for each chapter.

CMJ New Music Monthly

CMJ New Music Monthly
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 80
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ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 ( Downloads)

Synopsis CMJ New Music Monthly by :

CMJ New Music Monthly, the first consumer magazine to include a bound-in CD sampler, is the leading publication for the emerging music enthusiast. NMM is a monthly magazine with interviews, reviews, and special features. Each magazine comes with a CD of 15-24 songs by well-established bands, unsigned bands and everything in between. It is published by CMJ Network, Inc.

CLA Journal

CLA Journal
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 608
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015067432081
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (81 Downloads)

Synopsis CLA Journal by : College Language Association (U.S.)

Legba's Juke Joint

Legba's Juke Joint
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 160
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ISBN-10 : 0692156372
ISBN-13 : 9780692156377
Rating : 4/5 (72 Downloads)

Synopsis Legba's Juke Joint by : C. W. Thayer

A graphic novel series chronicling the evolution of American music and culture from the 1930's to present.

Our Way of Life

Our Way of Life
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 140
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105131875390
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (90 Downloads)

Synopsis Our Way of Life by : Ray McNiece

Collects poems by American Ray McNiece, including "Flag Coffins," "The Blue Lake," "Toast to Mr. Rogers," "And the Jazz Plays On," and others.

The Brotherhood of the Wheel

The Brotherhood of the Wheel
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Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages : 386
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ISBN-10 : 9781466872530
ISBN-13 : 1466872535
Rating : 4/5 (30 Downloads)

Synopsis The Brotherhood of the Wheel by : R. S. Belcher

R.S. Belcher, the acclaimed author of The Six-Gun Tarot and The Shotgun Arcana launches a gritty new urban fantasy series about the mysterious society of truckers known only as, The Brotherhood of The Wheel. In 1119 A.D., a group of nine crusaders became known as the Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon--a militant monastic order charged with protecting pilgrims and caravans traveling on the roads to and from the Holy Land. In time, the Knights Templar would grow in power and, ultimately, be laid low. But a small offshoot of the Templars endure and have returned to the order's original mission: to defend the roads of the world and guard those who travel on them. Theirs is a secret line of knights: truckers, bikers, taxi hacks, state troopers, bus drivers, RV gypsies--any of the folks who live and work on the asphalt arteries of America. They call themselves the Brotherhood of the Wheel. Jimmy Aussapile is one such knight. He's driving a big rig down South when a promise to a ghostly hitchhiker sets him on a quest to find out the terrible truth behind a string of children gone missing all across the country. The road leads him to Lovina Hewitt, a skeptical Louisiana State Police investigator working the same case and, eventually, to a forgotten town that's not on any map--and to the secret behind the eerie Black-Eyed Kids said to prowl the highways. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

American Cinema and the Southern Imaginary

American Cinema and the Southern Imaginary
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Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Total Pages : 390
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ISBN-10 : 9780820333809
ISBN-13 : 0820333808
Rating : 4/5 (09 Downloads)

Synopsis American Cinema and the Southern Imaginary by : Deborah Barker

"Placing the New Southern Studies in conversation with film studies, this book is simply the best edited collection available on film and the U.S. South.---Grace Hale. University of Virginia --

Legba's Juke Joint, Book 2

Legba's Juke Joint, Book 2
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Total Pages :
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ISBN-10 : 1737564718
ISBN-13 : 9781737564713
Rating : 4/5 (18 Downloads)

Synopsis Legba's Juke Joint, Book 2 by : C. W. Thayer

The history of American music and comic art as told through the Crossroads myth. Book 2 follows Ophelia Jones as she makes her deal for a return to fame and fortune in the 1940s.