Tag: Blues

Paris Blues African American Music and French Popular Culture, 1920-1960


Free Download Andy Fry, "Paris Blues: African American Music and French Popular Culture, 1920-1960"
English | ISBN: 022613881X | 2014 | 304 pages | AZW3 | 2 MB
The Jazz Age. The phrase conjures images of Louis Armstrong holding court at the Sunset Cafe in Chicago, Duke Ellington dazzling crowds at the Cotton Club in Harlem, and star singers like Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey. But the Jazz Age was every bit as much of a Paris phenomenon as it was a Chicago and New York scene.

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Stone Butch Blues A Novel


Free Download Stone Butch Blues: A Novel By Leslie Feinberg
2004 | 314 Pages | ISBN: 1555838537 | PDF | 20 MB
Published in 1993, this brave, original novel is considered to be the finest account ever written of the complexities of a transgendered existence.Woman or man? That’s the question that rages like a storm around Jess Goldberg, clouding her life and her identity. Growing up differently gendered in a blue–collar town in the 1950’s, coming out as a butch in the bars and factories of the prefeminist ’60s, deciding to pass as a man in order to survive when she is left without work or a community in the early ’70s. This powerful, provocative and deeply moving novel sees Jess coming full circle, she learns to accept the complexities of being a transgendered person in a world demanding simple explanations: a he-she emerging whole, weathering the turbulence.Leslie Feinberg is also the author of Trans Liberation, Trans Gender Warriors and Transgender Liberation, and is a noted activist and speaker on transgender issues.

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Cobalt Blues


Free Download Cobalt Blues: The Story of Leonard Grimmett, the Man Behind the First Cobalt-60 Unit in the United States by Peter R. Almond
English | PDF (True) | 2013 | 163 Pages | ISBN : 1461449235 | 4.6 MB
For the last half of the 20th century cobalt-60 units were the mainstay of radiation treatments for cancer. This book describes the development of the first cobalt -60 unit in the United States and the man behind it, Leonard Grimmett. Conceptually conceived before World War II it only became possible because of the development of nuclear reactors during the war. The initial idea was to replace the radium in the contemporary units of the time with cobalt-60, but with the realization that the reactors could produce much more cobalt-60 than originally thought the design of the cobalt-60 unit was drastically changed to take advantage that the application of the inverse square law to cancer radiation treatments would make.

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Master Blues Guitar


Free Download Master Blues Guitar
Published 8/2024
Created by Marko "Coconut" Sternal
MP4 | Video: h264, 1280×720 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch
Genre: eLearning | Language: English | Duration: 14 Lectures ( 2h 0m ) | Size: 2.28 GB

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Retro Tools DSP Blues Tech v1.0.0


Free Download Retro Tools DSP Blues Tech v1.0.0 | 3.8 Mb
This plugin is based on a handmade DIY version of one of the best and most musical program passive EQs ever made. It is extremely accurate, offering a sonic performance that is indistinguishable from the originals, thanks to the cutting-edge Impulse Response based modeling technology.

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