Author: Vievee Francis
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Release Date: 2006-03-21
Size: 12.85 MB
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Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 88
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Blue Tail Fly

Book by Vievee Francis, Blue Tail Fly Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Blue Tail Fly books, A poetic treatment of the period of American history between the beginning of the Mexican War and the end of the Civil War, by Michigan poet Vievee Francis.

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Author: John Franklin Bardin
Publisher: Diversion Books
Release Date: 2014-06-17
Size: 40.46 MB
Format: PDF
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 151
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Devil Take The Blue Tail Fly

Book by John Franklin Bardin, Devil Take The Blue Tail Fly Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Devil Take The Blue Tail Fly books, John Franklin Bardin's most acclaimed work plays a virtuoso performance on music and madness in this unforgettable thriller. In 1946 New York, Ellen, a world-renowned musician, is suffering from the effects of her latest mental breakdown. Amongst other challenges, a chance meeting with a folk singer from her past causes her psychological well-being to rapidly deteriorate. Over the following terrifying weeks, Ellen finds herself becoming both a criminal and a victim as she attempts to contend with the darkness within. "We have all had these feelings, more or less, and now and then. The healthier among us try to step back from the brink, try to laugh at what might have happened if we had gone a bit further. The reader of these tales will read in horror—those who can take it. And they will not forget very soon." —Patricia Highsmith

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Author: Matt Scott Diaz
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date: 2018-11-21
Size: 29.51 MB
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Languages : en
Pages : 320
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The Blue Tail Fly

Book by Matt Scott Diaz, The Blue Tail Fly Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download The Blue Tail Fly books, Once a promising and decorated young federal investigator for the I.R.S., Tara Terrell now forges a meager living out of a shabby Miami office working in private practice. When a rich but enigmatic financier hires her to investigate possible corruption between local Cutler Bay politics and an out of state company, she jumps at the chance of restarting her struggling career. Enlisting the aid of a retired New York City detective now living in Florida, Tara puts her uncanny investigative skills to work. But her search begins to take her into the most maniacal elements of the underworld as she discovers that everything is not as it seems. Her case begins to involve not only local political corruption and criminal factions, but it also throws her in the middle of a long standing and deadly vendetta involving two powerful men. Amid Tara's case is the persistent rumor of a mysterious assassin. Having just arrived in the Miami area, this assassin is said to be unrivaled in his mastery of murder, leaving a trail of dead bodies in his path, then almost magically disappearing without any trace that he ever existed. Who hired this assassin? Who is his next target? And how many more will die at his hands? As she digs deeper into her ever perilous case, Tara comes face-to-face with the mysterious assassin; the one known only as... The Blue Tail Fly!

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Author: Vievee Francis
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Release Date: 2006
Size: 23.74 MB
Format: PDF
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 77
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Blue Tail Fly

Book by Vievee Francis, Blue Tail Fly Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Blue Tail Fly books, The title of Blue-Tail Fly comes from an antebellum song commonly known as "Jimmy Crack Corn." The blue-tail fly is a supposedly insignificant creature that bites the horse that bucks and kills the master. In this collection, poet Vievee Francis gives voice to "outsiders"-from soldiers and common folk to leading political figures-who play the role of the blue-tail fly in the period of American history between the Mexican American War and the Civil War. Through a diverse range of styles, characters, and emotions, Francis's poems consider the demands of war, protest and resistance to it, and the cross-cultural exchanges of wartime. More than a narrowly themed text, Blue-Tail Fly is a book of balances, weighing the give-and-take of people and cultures in the arena of war. For lovers of poetry and those interested in American history, Blue-Tail Fly will illustrate the complexities of the American past and future.

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Author: W. T. Lhamon
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date: 2003
Size: 53.86 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 459
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Jump Jim Crow

Book by W. T. Lhamon, Jump Jim Crow Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Jump Jim Crow books, Beginning in the 1830s, the white actor Thomas D. Rice took to the stage as Jim Crow, and the ragged and charismatic trickster of black folklore entered--and forever transformed--American popular culture. Jump Jim Crow brings together for the first time the plays and songs performed in this guise and reveals how these texts code the complex use and abuse of blackness that has characterized American culture ever since Jim Crow's first appearance. Along with the prompt scripts of nine plays performed by Rice--never before published as their original audiences saw them--W. T. Lhamon Jr. provides a reconstruction of their performance history and a provocative analysis of their contemporary meaning. His reading shows us how these plays built a public blackness, but also how they engaged a disaffected white audience, who found in Jim Crow's sass and wit and madcap dancing an expression of rebellion and resistance against the oppression and confinement suffered by ordinary people of all colors in antebellum America and early Victorian England. Upstaging conventional stories and forms, giving direction and expression to the unruly attitudes of a burgeoning underclass, the plays in this anthology enact a vital force still felt in great fictions, movies, and musics of the Atlantic and in the jumping, speedy styles that join all these forms.

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Author: William John Mahar
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date: 1999
Size: 47.32 MB
Format: PDF
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 444
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Behind The Burnt Cork Mask

Book by William John Mahar, Behind The Burnt Cork Mask Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Behind The Burnt Cork Mask books, The songs, dances, jokes, parodies, spoofs, and skits of blackface groups such as the Virginia Minstrels and Buckley's Serenaders became wildly popular in antebellum America. Drawing on an unprecedented archival study of playbills, newspapers, sketches, monologues, and music, William J. Mahar explores the racist practices of minstrel entertainers and considers their performances as troubled representations of ethnicity, class, gender, and culture in the nineteenth century. Mahar investigates the relationships between blackface comedy and other Western genres and traditions; between the music of minstrel shows and its European sources; and between "popular" and "elite" constructions of culture. Locating minstrel performances within their complex sites of production, Mahar reassesses the historiography of the field.

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Author: Traditional Children's Song
Publisher: SilverTonalities
Release Date: 2020-07-15
Size: 14.26 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 3
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The Bluetail Fly Beginner Piano Sheet Music

Book by Traditional Children's Song, The Bluetail Fly Beginner Piano Sheet Music Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download The Bluetail Fly Beginner Piano Sheet Music books, AVAILABLE IN PDF AND EPUB FORMAT Traditional Children's Song for Beginner Piano A SilverTonalities Arrangement! Easy Note Style Sheet Music Letter Names of Notes embedded in each Notehead!

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Author: Larry W. Jones
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date:
Size: 73.73 MB
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Real Country Lyrics Volume 14

Book by Larry W. Jones, Real Country Lyrics Volume 14 Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Real Country Lyrics Volume 14 books,

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Author: DIX BRUCE
Publisher: Mel Bay Publications
Release Date: 2011-12-06
Size: 22.45 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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First Lessons Mandolin

Book by DIX BRUCE, First Lessons Mandolin Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download First Lessons Mandolin books, First Lessons Mandolin teaches the absolute basics of learning to play mandolin from holding the pick to performing easy mandolin tunes. It doesn't get any easier than this! Students learn how to hold the mandolin correctly, how to read mandolin tablature, basic note reading, the most popular mandolin chords, how to play easy melodies in several musical styles, basic picking technique, how to tune the mandolin, and much more. Along the way students will learn about the greatest mandolin players and their music. the main emphasis of First Lessons Mandolin is to get the student up and playing immediately and to have fun doing it!

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Author: Harry Pell
Publisher:
Release Date: 1864
Size: 72.72 MB
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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Harry Pell S Ebony Songster Containing A Choice Collection Of New And Popular Ethiopian Comic And Sentimental Songs As Sung And Delivered By Harry Pell Lew Simmers Carl Hagner And Charles H Pease Cc

Book by Harry Pell, Harry Pell S Ebony Songster Containing A Choice Collection Of New And Popular Ethiopian Comic And Sentimental Songs As Sung And Delivered By Harry Pell Lew Simmers Carl Hagner And Charles H Pease Cc Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Harry Pell S Ebony Songster Containing A Choice Collection Of New And Popular Ethiopian Comic And Sentimental Songs As Sung And Delivered By Harry Pell Lew Simmers Carl Hagner And Charles H Pease Cc books,

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