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Author |
: Charles Ricketts |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 196 |
Release |
: 2003 |
ISBN-10 |
: IND:30000095386144 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 (44 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Boswells by : Charles Ricketts
Author |
: Kyla Titus |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 204 |
Release |
: 2014-09-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1502350912 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781502350916 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (12 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Boswell Legacy by : Kyla Titus
WILL FRIEDWALD, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, OCT. 16, 2014: "...the Boswells constitute a crucial link between Armstrong and Fitzgerald in the development of vocal improvisation."----------------------------------------------------------The Boswell Sisters rose to stardom during the Great Depression and established an enormously successful career in a very short time as pioneers of early mass entertainment, through the new media of electrical recordings, radio networks, and movies. Along with Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington, they led an American jazz "invasion" of Europe in 1933. They were admired by their frequent singing partner Bing Crosby, idolized by a struggling trio from Minneapolis who later gained fame as the Andrews Sisters, and praised as "the best act I ever followed" by a trouper named Bob Hope. Ella Fitzgerald consistently credited Connie Boswell as her main influence and Irving Berlin singled her out as his favorite interpreter of his songs. The beautiful and talented Boswells sold out stage shows from New York to London and the number of records they sold is estimated to be over 75 million. Then suddenly, it was over.The time has finally come to tell their story. THE BOSWELL LEGACY is the first full-scale biography of these icons of American music, written by Kyla Titus, the granddaughter of Vet Boswell and caretaker of the voluminous Boswell family archives, as only she can tell it. Within these pages, readers may discover the answers to questions left unanswered for decades. Why did the Boswell Sisters disband? What was the cause of Connee's paralysis? Why are the Boswell Sisters not household names today? And so many more. Most importantly, readers will learn about the development of a unique musical style that is timeless-a legacy-that is still heralded almost a century later.
Author |
: Eula Richardson Hasskarl |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 426 |
Release |
: 1970 |
ISBN-10 |
: WISC:89062853593 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Boswells of Shelby County, Kentucky by : Eula Richardson Hasskarl
Author |
: James Boswell |
Publisher |
: Penguin UK |
Total Pages |
: 584 |
Release |
: 2015-06-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780241215456 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0241215455 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (56 Downloads) |
Synopsis London Journal 1762-1763 by : James Boswell
Edinburgh-born James Boswell, at twenty-two, kept a daily diary of his eventful second stay in London from 1762 to 1763. This journal, not discovered for more than 150 years, is a deft, frank and artful record of adventures ranging from his vividly recounted love affair with a Covent Garden actress to his first amusingly bruising meeting with Samuel Johnson, to whom Boswell would later become both friend and biographer. The London Journal 1762-63 is a witty, incisive and compellingly candid testament to Boswell's prolific talents.
Author |
: Peter Martin |
Publisher |
: Yale University Press |
Total Pages |
: 644 |
Release |
: 2002-04-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0300093128 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780300093124 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (28 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Life of James Boswell by : Peter Martin
"Born in Edinburgh, the 'Athens of the North', a Scot who hated living in Scotland and nourished a lifelong love affair with London, Boswell was biographer, journalist, laird, advocate, social lion, incurable rake, lover, life of the party, traveller, steadfast friend, endearing charmer, exhibitionist fool, and drunken sot. In this moving biography, Peter Martin assesses Boswell's literary achievements and uncovers the pulsating and dynamic world he thrived in, from the royal courts and the drawing rooms of fashionable ladies and gentlemen to the fleshpots of London's unsavoury underworld and the chambers of the insane. He also poignantly reveals a man in agony, easily misunderstood, relentlessly plagued by hypochondria or melancholia, buffeted like a straw in the wind by a multitude of anxieties and 'horrible imaginings'."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author |
: Mark Arax |
Publisher |
: PublicAffairs |
Total Pages |
: 550 |
Release |
: 2005-02-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780786752799 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0786752793 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Synopsis The King Of California by : Mark Arax
The fascinating story of a cotton magnate whose voracious appetite for land drove him to create the first big agricultural empire of the Central Valley of California, and shaped the landscape for decades to come. J.G. Boswell was the biggest farmer in America. He built a secret empire while thumbing his nose at nature, politicians, labor unions and every journalist who ever tried to lift the veil on the ultimate "factory in the fields." The King of California is the previously untold account of how a Georgia slave-owning family migrated to California in the early 1920s,drained one of America 's biggest lakes in an act of incredible hubris and carved out the richest cotton empire in the world. Indeed, the sophistication of Boswell 's agricultural operation -from lab to field to gin -- is unrivaled anywhere. Much more than a business story, this is a sweeping social history that details the saga of cotton growers who were chased from the South by the boll weevil and brought their black farmhands to California. It is a gripping read with cameos by a cast of famous characters, from Cecil B. DeMille to Cesar Chavez.
Author |
: Evelyn Leavens |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 30 |
Release |
: 1958-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0437544001 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780437544001 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (01 Downloads) |
Synopsis Boswell's Life of Boswell by : Evelyn Leavens
The author portrays her dog with wonderful illustrations and text.
Author |
: James Boswell |
Publisher |
: Yale University Press |
Total Pages |
: 562 |
Release |
: 2022 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780300250381 |
ISBN-13 |
: 030025038X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Correspondence of James Boswell and Sir William Forbes of Pitsligo by : James Boswell
This volume, tenth in the Research Correspondence Series of the Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell, documents the long friendship between Boswell and Sir William Forbes This volume, tenth in the Research Correspondence Series of the Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell, collects the letters exchanged between lawyer, diarist, and biographer James Boswell and Sir William Forbes of Pitsligo, eminent Scottish banker, civic improver, philanthropist, literary and cultural patron, and lay leader of Edinburgh's "English Episcopal" community. Forbes served as Boswell's most valued Scottish advisor, to whom he would often turn for personal, financial, moral, and religious guidance, and whom he would name executor of his estate and co-guardian of his children. The volume includes a total of 111 comprehensively annotated letters, few of which have appeared previously in print, between Forbes and Boswell and other correspondents. It illuminates in particular the period in which Boswell moved from Edinburgh to London and wrote his major books, The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson and The Life of Samuel Johnson.
Author |
: Will Friedwald |
Publisher |
: Pantheon |
Total Pages |
: 833 |
Release |
: 2010-11-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780307379894 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0307379892 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (94 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers by : Will Friedwald
Will Friedwald’s illuminating, opinionated essays—provocative, funny, and personal—on the lives and careers of more than three hundred singers anatomize the work of the most important jazz and popular performers of the twentieth century. From giants like Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Frank Sinatra, and Judy Garland to lesser-known artists like Jeri Southern and Joe Mooney, they have created a body of work that continues to please and inspire. Here is the most extensive biographical and critical survey of these singers ever written, as well as an essential guide to the Great American Songbook and those who shaped the way it has been sung. The music crosses from jazz to pop and back again, from the songs of Irving Berlin and W. C. Handy through Stephen Sondheim and beyond, bringing together straightforward jazz and pop singers (Billie Holiday, Perry Como); hybrid artists who moved among genres and combined them (Peggy Lee, Mel Tormé); the leading men and women of Broadway and Hollywood (Ethel Merman, Al Jolson); yesterday’s vaudeville and radio stars (Sophie Tucker, Eddie Cantor); and today’s cabaret artists and hit-makers (Diana Krall, Michael Bublé). Friedwald has also written extended pieces on the most representative artists of five significant genres that lie outside the songbook: Bessie Smith (blues), Mahalia Jackson (gospel), Hank Williams (country and western), Elvis Presley (rock ’n’ roll), and Bob Dylan (folk-rock). Friedwald reconsiders the personal stories and professional successes and failures of all these artists, their songs, and their performances, appraising both the singers and their music by balancing his opinions with those of fellow musicians, listeners, and critics. This magisterial reference book—ten years in the making—will delight and inform anyone with a passion for the iconic music of America, which continues to resonate throughout our popular culture.
Author |
: Hugh Milne |
Publisher |
: Birlinn |
Total Pages |
: 726 |
Release |
: 2013-05-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780857905864 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0857905864 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (64 Downloads) |
Synopsis Boswell's Edinburgh Journals by : Hugh Milne
James Boswell's relish for life, unflinching honesty and wide social contacts make him one of the raciest and most entertaining of all diarists.This is a one-volume edition of the journals he kept while making his living as an advocate in eighteenth-century Edinburgh. Hugh Milne's introduction and notes remove the barriers that time has placed between us and Boswell. The result is a book in which an extraordinary personality lives before us upon the page. Boswell embodied in himself all the extremes and contradictions of his time and place. This was the Edinburgh of the Enlightenment, and among his friends he counted thinkers like David Hume and Adam Smith, and entertained eminent visitors like Dr Johnson. Boswell was alive to every new social or political idea and was interested in all the drama of human life, whether high or low. All Boswell's public and private doings, and his inner debates about religion and the meaning of life, go unedited into his journal. His vivid description of a whole gallery of characters and situations makes its pages compulsively readable.