The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to World Music - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to World Music write by Chris Nickson. This book was released on 2004. The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to World Music available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Discover world music--for illumination, enlightenment, and inspiration. Like few other musical forms, world music encompasses hundreds of different traditions and cultures, many intoxicating moods, and a richly diverse catalogue of music and musicians. THE MUSICIANS, including: Paco de Lucia, King Sunny Ade, Ravi Shankar, The Gipsy Kings, Tito Puente, Bob Marley, Beny Moré, The Chieftains, Wu Man, Sheila Chandra, and Miriam Makeba THE STYLES, including: African reggae, Indonesian gamelan, Brazilian bossa nova, Hindu Carnatic, Chinese opera, Russian folk, Nordic fiddle and ballad, Argentine tango, Parisian bal-musette, Spanish flamenco, Greek rembetika, and Trinidad calypso
The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to Classical Music
The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to Classical Music - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to Classical Music write by Timothy K. Smith. This book was released on 2002-08-06. The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to Classical Music available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For the beginner or the devotee—it's everything the classical music buff needs to know. The major composers from Bach and Bartok to Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky Significant performers from Maurice Andre and Leornard Bernstein to Georg Solti and Yo Yo Ma The landmark works from Appalachian Spring to Don Juan A concise history of classical music A deconstruction of the art form The language of classical music Valuable resources for the Curious Listener
The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to Jazz
The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to Jazz - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to Jazz write by Loren Schoenberg. This book was released on 2002-08-06. The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to Jazz available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A concise history of jazz The noteworthy composers and musicians, from Jelly Roll Morton and Thelonious Monk to Miles Davis and Charles Mingus Major performers from Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald to Nat King Cole and Duke Ellington Classic songs and compositions The most influential recordings of all time A complete guide to jazz terminology and lingo Valuable resources for the Curious Listener
The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to Blues
The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to Blues - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to Blues write by David Evans. This book was released on 2005-02-01. The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to Blues available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Examining the changing face of the genre from its beginnings at the end of the 19th century to its international popularity today, this book traces the social climate that inspired the blues and takes a look at the unmistakable influences that blues had on 20th-century music. Includes information on performances from Muddy Waters to Eric Clapton.
Spying on the South
Spying on the South - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Spying on the South write by Tony Horwitz. This book was released on 2020-05-12. Spying on the South available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The New York Times-bestselling final book by the beloved, Pulitzer-Prize winning historian Tony Horwitz. With Spying on the South, the best-selling author of Confederates in the Attic returns to the South and the Civil War era for an epic adventure on the trail of America's greatest landscape architect. In the 1850s, the young Frederick Law Olmsted was adrift, a restless farmer and dreamer in search of a mission. He found it during an extraordinary journey, as an undercover correspondent in the South for the up-and-coming New York Times. For the Connecticut Yankee, pen name "Yeoman," the South was alien, often hostile territory. Yet Olmsted traveled for 14 months, by horseback, steamboat, and stagecoach, seeking dialogue and common ground. His vivid dispatches about the lives and beliefs of Southerners were revelatory for readers of his day, and Yeoman's remarkable trek also reshaped the American landscape, as Olmsted sought to reform his own society by creating democratic spaces for the uplift of all. The result: Central Park and Olmsted's career as America's first and foremost landscape architect. Tony Horwitz rediscovers Yeoman Olmsted amidst the discord and polarization of our own time. Is America still one country? In search of answers, and his own adventures, Horwitz follows Olmsted's tracks and often his mode of transport (including muleback): through Appalachia, down the Mississippi River, into bayou Louisiana, and across Texas to the contested Mexican borderland. Venturing far off beaten paths, Horwitz uncovers bracing vestiges and strange new mutations of the Cotton Kingdom. Horwitz's intrepid and often hilarious journey through an outsized American landscape is a masterpiece in the tradition of Great Plains, Bad Land, and the author's own classic, Confederates in the Attic.
