Tag: Blues

The Jewel of the Blues A Novel


Free Download The Jewel of the Blues: A Novel by Monica Chenault-Kilgore
English | November 19, 2024 | ISBN: 1525805061 | True EPUB | 384 pages | 3.1 MB
Set in the sparkling 1920s jazz era, The Jewel of the Blues pulls back the curtain on all the romance, danger and drama in the bustling backstage life of a young performer.

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Broke Heart Blues A Novel


Free Download Broke Heart Blues: A Novel by Joyce Carol Oates
English | October 1, 2024 | ISBN: 1636141145 | True EPUB | 445 pages | 5.9 MB
The much-anticipated reissue of a novel that is one of Joyce Carol Oates’s personal favorites among her oeuvre; featuring a new afterword by Oates

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Blues Mamas and Broadway Belters Black Women, Voice, and the Musical Stage


Free Download Masi Asare, "Blues Mamas and Broadway Belters: Black Women, Voice, and the Musical Stage "
English | ISBN: 147803095X | 2024 | 304 pages | PDF | 7 MB
In Blues Mamas and Broadway Belters, songwriter, scholar, and dramatist Masi Asare explores the singing practice of black women singers in US musical theatre between 1900 and 1970. Asare shows how a vanguard of black women singers including Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, Ethel Waters, Pearl Bailey, Juanita Hall, Lena Horne, Eartha Kitt, Diahann Carroll, and Leslie Uggams created a lineage of highly trained and effective voice teachers whose sound and vocal techniques continue to be heard today. Challenging pervasive narratives that these and other black women possessed "untrained" voices, Asare theorizes singing as a form of sonic citational practice-how the sound of the teacher’s voice lives on in the student’s singing. From vaudeville-blues shouters, black torch singers, and character actresses to nightclub vocalists and Broadway glamour girls, Asare locates black women of the musical stage in the context of historical voice pedagogy. She invites readers not only to study these singers, but to study with them-taking seriously what they and their contemporaries have taught about the voice. Ultimately, Asare speaks to the need to feel and hear the racial history in contemporary musical theatre.

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Beyond the Blues Understanding and Treating Prenatal and Postpartum Depression & Anxiety


Free Download Beyond the Blues: Understanding and Treating Prenatal and Postpartum Depression & Anxiety by Pec Indman EdD, Shoshana S. Bennett PhD
English | October 1st, 2024 | ISBN: 1592115284 | 148 pages | True EPUB | 6.79 MB
This 2024 edition of Beyond the Blues contains the most current pregnancy and postpartum resources for the prevention and treatment of mental health challenges for all new parents. Updated information and research about medications, as well as complementary and alternative options, are included. Direct and compassionate, it is required reading for those suffering before or after the baby is born and for all professionals working with them.

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Beyond the Blues Understanding and Treating Prenatal and Postpartum Depression & Anxiety


Free Download Beyond the Blues: Understanding and Treating Prenatal and Postpartum Depression & Anxiety by Pec Indman EdD, Shoshana S. Bennett PhD
English | October 1st, 2024 | ISBN: 1592115284 | 148 pages | True EPUB | 6.79 MB
This 2024 edition of Beyond the Blues contains the most current pregnancy and postpartum resources for the prevention and treatment of mental health challenges for all new parents. Updated information and research about medications, as well as complementary and alternative options, are included. Direct and compassionate, it is required reading for those suffering before or after the baby is born and for all professionals working with them.

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Blues Brothers The Arc of Gratitude [Audible Original]


Free Download Blues Brothers: The Arc of Gratitude [Audible Original]
English | July 25, 2024 | ASIN: B0D5SBQWMC | M4B@128 kbps | 1h 56m | 106 MB
Author and Narrator: Dan Aykroyd
The sound. The suits. The sunglasses. The Blues Brothers have firmly cemented their place as pop-culture icons in the annals of entertainment history. But how did a band that debuted as a goofy sketch on Saturday Night Live in 1976 go on to have a hit movie and a number one record in the space of just four short years? Simple. They were "on a mission from God".
Now, nearly 50 years later, Elwood Blues (aka Dan Aykroyd) is on another mission-to tell the full story of how two young actors went from blues lovers to Blues Brothers. In this fascinating audio documentary Aykroyd "gets the band back together", taking listeners on a road trip through time-from late nights in the early days with John Belushi at Dan’s speakeasy in Toronto, to working with blues legends Aretha Franklin, James Brown, and Ray Charles on The Blues Brothers movie, through the founding of House of Blues, the Blues Brothers 2000 sequel, and beyond.

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The Tatami Time Machine Blues A Novel


Free Download The Tatami Time Machine Blues: A Novel by Tomihiko Morimi, translated by Emily Balistrieri
English | November 7, 2023 | ISBN: 0063158493 | True EPUB | 192 pages | 1.6 MB
In the boiling heat of summer, a broken remote control for an air conditioner threatens life as we know it in this reality-bending, time-slipping sequel to The Tatami Galaxy.

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