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  • New Orleans Style and the Writing of American Jazz History

    by Bruce Boyd Raeburn ...
    Series series Jazz Perspectives
    New Orleans Style tells the tale of the recognition of New Orleans jazz as a discrete style and how that recognition affected the writing of American jazz history. The men and women who participated in the awakening of American jazz scholarship were partisans of a community of "hot" record collectors, whose interest in the origins of jazz was a foregone conclusion. As an international network of ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Hurricane Katrina in Transatlantic Perspective

    by James M. Boyden, Richard Campanella, Bruce Boyd Raeburn, Thomas Adams ...
    "There is no such thing as a 'natural' disaster," writes Romain Huret in his introduction to this multidisciplinary study of the events surrounding and the legacy of Hurricane Katrina. Though nature produced Katrina's rising waters and destructive winds, a vast array of manmade factors shaped the scope of the storm's impact as well as the local and national response to it. In Hurricane Katrina in ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Original Tuxedo Jazz Band

    More Than a Century of a New Orleans Icon

    by Sally Newhart ...
    A lively look at the long career of these legendary musicians, from a Storyville dance hall to the White House and beyond.In 1910, the Tuxedo Jazz Band played its first show at the Tuxedo Dance Hall in Storyville under Oscar Celestin. The popular ensemble would go on to play all over New Orleans, as well as across the South and the nation—and in 1953, it became the first jazz band to play the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Walking with Legends

    Barry Martyn's New Orleans Jazz Odyssey

    Edited by Mick Burns ...
    Drummer, record producer, bandleader, jazz researcher, and cigar-chomping raconteur Barry Martyn is a New Orleans original who happens to have been born in England. Implausible though this may seem, it makes perfect sense to members of the New Orleans traditional jazz community, who view themselves as an extended family based on merit as much as nativity. For more than forty years, Martyn has been ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Absolute Emperor

    Napoleonic Wargame Battles

    by Boyd Bruce ...
    Series Book 27 - Osprey Wargames
    From the late Revolutionary Wars and Egyptian campaign, to the battles of Austerlitz, Borodino, Leipzig, and Waterloo, Absolute Emperor is a mass battle wargame thatprovides all the rules needed to play during this period of grand armies and sweeping campaigns. Players' armies are composed of multiple corps, with command and control being of the utmost importance, all influenced by the elan of ... Read more

    $13.59 USD

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    Keep Going (Unabridged)

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    by Edgar A. Guest ...
    Narrated by Vincenzo Tyler, Clarissa Robards, Kristin Parks, Boyd Bruce ...

    Unabridged

    23 min

    Life throwing you curveballs? Feel like giving up? Don't! "Keep Going," the inspirational audiobook by Edgar A. Guest, is your pocket-sized pep talk. In this timeless poem, Guest reminds us that setbacks are inevitable, but quitting is the real failure. He'll fire you up to push through tough times, revealing the surprising truth: success is often just around the corner, disguised as doubt. So ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • Hi-de-ho:The Life of Cab Calloway

    The Life of Cab Calloway

    by Alyn Shipton ...
    Clad in white tie and tails, dancing and scatting his way through the "Hi-de-ho" chorus of "Minnie the Moocher," Cab Calloway exuded a sly charm and sophistication that endeared him to legions of fans. In Hi-de-ho, author Alyn Shipton offers the first full-length biography of Cab Calloway, whose vocal theatrics and flamboyant stage presence made him one of the highest-earning African American ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • New Orleans Jazz

    by Edward J. Branley ...
    Series series Images of America
    From the days when Buddy Bolden would blow his cornet to attract an audience from one New Orleans park to another, to the brass bands in clubs and on the streets today, jazz in New Orleans has been about simple things: getting people to snap their fingers, tap their toes, get up and clap their hands, and most importantly dance! From the 1890s to World War I, from uptown to Faubourg Treme and out ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Keeping the Beat on the Street

    The New Orleans Brass Band Renaissance

    by Mick Burns ...
    Told in the words of the musicians themselves, Keeping the Beat on the Street celebrates the renewed passion and pageantry among black brass bands in New Orleans. Mick Burns introduces the people who play the music and shares their insights, showing why New Orleans is the place where jazz continues to grow. Brass bands waned during the civil rights era but revived around 1970 and then flourished ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Hi-De-Ho : The Life Of Cab Calloway

    by Alyn Shipton ...
    Clad in white tie and tails, dancing and scatting his way through the "Hi-de-ho" chorus of "Minnie the Moocher," Cab Calloway exuded a sly charm and sophistication that endeared him to legions of fans. In Hi-de-ho, author Alyn Shipton offers the first full-length biography of Cab Calloway, whose vocal theatrics and flamboyant stage presence made him one of the highest-earning African American ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • I Remember Jazz

    Six Decades Among the Great Jazzmen

    by Al Rose ...
    Al Rose has known virtually every noteworthy jazz musician of this century. For many of them he has organized concerts, composed songs that they later played or sang, and promoted their acts. He has, when called upon, bailed them out of jail, straightened out their finances, stood up for them at their weddings, and eulogized them at their funerals. He has caroused with them in bars and clubs from ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture

    Volume 12: Music

    by Charles Reagan Wilson ...
    Series Book 12 - The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
    Southern music has flourished as a meeting ground for the traditions of West African and European peoples in the region, leading to the evolution of various traditional folk genres, bluegrass, country, jazz, gospel, rock, blues, and southern hip-hop. This much-anticipated volume in The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture celebrates an essential element of southern life and makes available for the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD