Ellington: THE EARLY YEARS (Music in American Life)

A biography of Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington recounts his childhood, the nurturing influence of his family and African-American community, early successes on the Harlem nightclub scene, and eventual fame as a bandleader and composer

Ellington: The Early Years (Music in American Life)

Biographies & Memoirs

Tucker, Mark

Arts & Literature

University of Illinois Press

A biography of Edward Kennedy Duke Ellington recounts his childhood, the nurturing influence of his family and African-American community, early successes on the Harlem nightclub scene, and eventual fame as a bandleader and composer.

Few musicians can boast careers as long and productive as that of jazz instrumentalist Garvin Bushell. In Jazz from the Beginning, Bushell vividly recounts his musical experiences and reflects on some of the major personalities who shaped the history of jazz. Bushell's memoir vibrates with the excitement of being a part of the evolution of jazz. He began his career as a teenager, playing clarinet in a circus band. In the 1920s, he played gigs in rowdy Harlem cabarets and was a member of the Sam Wooding ensemble, one of the first black musical groups to tour Europe, Russia, and South America. In the 1930s, he performed with the big bands of Fletcher Henderson, Cab Calloway, and Chick Webb. In the 1950s and 1960s he participated in the Dixieland revival and in the modern experiments of Eric Dolphy and John Coltrane. Bushell also recalls with candor the scarring experiences of racial prejudice he encountered while touring America and Europe. Mark Tucker has carefully compiled Bushell's memoirs from a series of thirty-one taped interviews made in the summer of 1986. His text preserves Bushell's warmth and personality and provides scholars and music lovers alike with a critical analysis of African-American music and an important record of seventy years of American musical history.

Jazz from the Beginning (The Michigan American Music Series)

Arts & Photography

Bushell, Garvin

Music

University of Michigan Press

Jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, and bassoonist Garvin Bushell (1902-1991) performed with many of the twentieth-century's greatest jazz musicians - Fletcher Henderson, Fats Waller, Cab Calloway, Eric Dolphy, Gil Evans, and John Coltrane - during a remarkable career that spanned from 1916 to the 1980s. Although best known as a jazz soloist and sideman, Bushell also played oboe and bassoon with symphony orchestras and was a highly regarded instructor of woodwinds.

Jazz From The Beginning

Univ of Michigan Pr

Writing for Agriculture: A New Approach Using Tested Ideas

Engineering & Transportation

Burnett, Claron

Engineering

Kendall/Hunt Pub. Co.

Agricultural Communications: Changes and Challenges

"Its clear, easy-to-understand and inclusion of tips and information for students seeking a career in Ag communications makes Agricultural Communication: Changes and Challenges a good choice for those seeking a textbook introduction to the field." --Tracy Irani, University of Florida in Journalism &amp; Mass Communication Educator, Winter 2001 
"This book encourages readers to ask some straightforward questions about the direction of agricultural communication programs." --Robin Shepard, University of Wisconsin, Madison in Journal of Applied Communications, Volume 84, No.4, 2000 Although written primarily for agricultural communications and journalism students, these quotes point out that this practical applied text will satisfy both students and the academic community. Now in its second printing, this popular book fills a void in teaching materials for agricultural communications. Through presentation of historical information, the book provides readers with a snapshot of agricultural communications at the beginning of the 21st century, including the impact of the "information age" on agricultural communications. In addition, the textbook offers unique elements presented specifically to spur discussion on where agricultural communications has been and where it’s headed. Now available in paperback at a reduced cost, the text includes "hands-on" observations from agricultural communications professionals. Their insightful perspectives are scattered throughout the textbook. In addition, discussion issues and questions about agricultural communications appear throughout the book, engaging the reader in pertinent issues of this discipline.

Meisenbach, Terry

Boone, Kristina

Wiley/Blackwell

Architecture

It's not easy being a teen. They're challenged with finding friends, establishing identities, performing well in school, and taking on new responsibilities, all the while being expected to emerge as functional adults. Teens are subjected to a huge amount of social pressures; keeping up with the latest styles, technology, and trends can be super stressful. Authors Jennifer Powers and Mark Tucker apply the timeless principles of the best-seller Oh, shift! to teens and the difficult issues they face. In a cheeky, fun format it shows teens how changing their words, their reactions and their roles will literally change their lives. Oh, shift for Teens is a must read. It empowers teens to obtain independence, confidence, and better relationships. It is a step-by-step guide for teens to make serious shifts in their own lives; the book places the power back into their hands.

Oh, Shift! for Teens: Get control of your life with a little f'in shift

POWERS, JENNIFER

Self-Help

Powerhouse, Incorporated

As outspoken in his day as Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens are today, American freethinker and author ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL (1833-1899) was a notorious radical whose uncompromising views on religion and slavery (they were bad, in his opinion), women's suffrage (a good idea, he believed), and other contentious matters of his era made him a wildly popular orator and critic of 19th-century American culture and public life. As a speaker dedicated to expanding intellectual horizons and celebrating the value of skepticism, Ingersoll spoke frequently on such topics as atheism, freedom from the pressures of conformity, and the lives of philosophers who espoused such concepts. This collection of his most famous speeches includes the lectures: [ "The Gods" (1872) [ "Humboldt" (1869) [ "Thomas Paine" (1870) [ "Individuality" (1873) [ "Heretics and Heresies" (1874)

The Centennial Sermon

History

World

BiblioLife

Super Phil and the missing mom

God’s World Publications

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