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Grassroots Music in the Upper Cumberland
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Montell, William Lynwood, PUBLISHER: University of Tennessee Press, The bi-state Upper Cumberland region--as discussed in William Lynwood Montell's new book, Grassroots in the Upper Cumberland--includes eight counties in Tennessee (Clay, Cumberland, DeKalb, Fentress, Jackson, Macon, Overton, and Putnam) and eight counties in Kentucky (Adair, Clinton, Cumberland, Metcalfe, Monroe, Pulaski, Russell, and Wayne). It is an area uniquely rich in traditional music. The importance of family ties and a deeply ingrained sense of community led to the flourishing of a distinct musical legacy from the s up to the present day. In this pathbreaking study of a region's music, William Lynwood Montell brings together an enormous trove of information about the folk practices, the transmission of musical skill and style, and the influence of traditional music on popular music (and vice-versa). Written by experts on the individual counties, each chapter focuses on one county and contextualizes its music within the broader musical legacy of the region. The result is a comprehensive look at the full musical spectrum of this area that avoids the often scattershot approach of statewide studies of music. As the book moves from county to county, the reader encounters a rich, living tradition of music. While the region's music is distinctive, it is nothing if not diverse, and various authors cover a variety of musical styles: English ballads, gospel, bluegrass, modern country, and even rock 'n' roll all find their unique expression in the musical mosaic of the Upper Cumberland. Among the many notable musicians from the region who come under close scrutiny are Archie Lee, Richard "Blind Dick" Burnett, Finley "Red" Belcher, Blake Williams, Lester Flatt, Steve Wariner, MandyBarnett, Lola Jean Dillon, and John Anderson, to name just a few. A celebration of local musicians and their stories as well as a look at how a musical legacy is transmitted from one generation to the next, this book will be of interest to students of traditional music and to music fans alike.
Boswell: Citizen of the World, Man of Letters
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Lustig, Irma S., PUBLISHER: University Press of Kentucky, " These eleven original essays by well-known eighteenth-century scholars, five of them editors of James Boswell's journal or letters, commemorate the bicentenary of Boswell's death on May . The volume illuminates both the life and the work of one of the most important literary figures of the age and contributes significantly to the scholarship on this rich period. In the introduction, Irma S. Lustig sets the tone for the volume. She reveals that the essays examining Boswell as "Citizen of the World" are deliberately paired with those that analyze his artistic skills, to emphasize that "Boswell's sophistication as a writer is inseparable from his cosmopolitanism." The essays in Part I focus on the relationship of the Enlightenment, at home and abroad, to Boswell's personal development. Marlies K. Danziger restores to significant life the continental philosophers and theologians Boswell consulted in his search for religious certainty. Peter Perreten examines Boswell's enraptured study of Italian antiquity and his responses to the European landscape. Richard B. Sher and Perreten document the personal and aesthetic influence of Henry Home, Lord Kames, Scottish jurist and leading Enlightenment figure, on Boswell. Michael Fry discusses Boswell's relationship with Henry Dundas, political manager for Scotland, and Thomas Crawford examines Boswell's long-standing interest in the volatile political issues of the period, including the French Revolution, through his correspondence with William Johnson Temple. In evaluation Boswell's performance as Laird of Auchinleck, John Strawhorn documents his efforts to improve the estate by use of new agricultural methods. The essays in Part II study aspects of Boswell's artistry in Life of Johnson, the magnum opus that set a standard for biography. Carey McIntosh examines Boswell's use of rhetoric, and William P. Yarrow offers a close scrutiny of metaphor. Isobel Grundy invokes Virginia Woolf in demonstrating Boswell's acceptance of uncertainty as a biographer. John B. Radner reveals Boswell's self-assertive strategies in his visit with Johnson at Ashbourne in September , and, finally, Lustig examines as a "subplot" of the biography Johnson's patient efforts to win the friendship of Margaret Montgomerie Boswell. An appendix by Hitoshi Suwabe serves scholars by providing the most exact account to date of Boswell's meetings with Johnson. Acquista Ora
When Philosophers Were Kings (Hardcover)
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Best, S. M. / Best, Steven M., PUBLISHER: Sunstone Press, As the Confederacy celebrates its victory over Fort Sumter, Socrates Best and his wife, Ellen, are living in Northeast Texas where Socrates has been teaching school for five years. Educated in the philosophy of Plato and the religion of Knox, Socrates hopes to ignore the war and continue developing ruler guardians who will help make Texas great. But two former students, Buck Malneck and Billy Morse, seize this chance to put their former teacher to the test. Join the conflict or hang--those are their demands. Meanwhile, a thousand miles to the north stands Socrates' cousin Swift. Raised with Plato's Republican philosophies, but steeped in the passionate abolitionism of the Northern Methodists, Swift leaves law school to be part of the Second Wisconsin Infantry Regiment. Portage City explodes with joy as they send Swift's company off to war, but all the well wishing in the world could never prepare Swift for what awaits him at Bull Run. Amidst the revelry, Socrates' youngest brother, Ed, watches with bated breath. This crowd will one day cheer him, he decides, and everyone will know that he is finally a man. Fighting with the Army of the Cumberland across the Southeast, he will learn there is a far greater challenge in life then being a man--staying alive. This novel is based on the true story of a Wisconsin family caught up in the American Civil War, but it is also the story of the multidimensional human soul--spiritual, philosophical, and physical--and how it is affected by war. It is the story of man's ability to love, endure, survive, and find a meaningful purpose for life in a world turned upside down with hate.STEVEN M. BEST is a former military intelligence analyst, and retiredchiropractor. After being given an extensive letter written by his great grandmother detailing the family's experiences during the war, Best spent seven and a half years researching and writing his family story. He has visited every village and battlefield presented in this novel from Big Spring and Portage, Wisconsin, in the North, to Dangerfield, Texas, in the South; and from Perryville, Indian Territory (present day Oklahoma) and Devil's Backbone in the West; to Perryville, Kentucky and Chickamauga at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, in the East.
A Football Band of Brothers: Forging the University of
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Porter, W. Thomas, PUBLISHER: Trafford Publishing, Almost fifty years ago, a group of student-athletes entered the University of Washington. As freshmen, they were not eligible to play varsity football so they began their collegiate football on a frosh team that went unbeaten against Northwest opponents. Most members of the team played both offense and defense. Some had to work part-time to finance their education. The single ones lived with other students in dormitories and fraternity houses. Some were married and had children. In , Washington had been rocked by a player revolt which led to the firing of the head football coach. Disgruntled, he exposed a slush fund used by zealous boosters to directly pay players more than the Pacific Coast Conference allowed. The Husky athletic program was put on probation for two years along with Cal, UCLA and USC. It was a difficult period for a once proud and successful program. Thirty-one year old George Briggs was hired as Athletic Director to clean up the mess and hire a new coach. Darrell Royal, a former All-America quarterback for the Oklahoma Sooners and the head coach at Mississippi State, accepted a four-year contract in and started the Husky football program on the road to recovery. Royal's tenure was brief. After the season ended, Royal resigned to take his dream job at the University of Texas where he had a very successful career which included three national championships. Briggs then hired 29-year old Jim Owens, a teammate of Royal and an All-America end. He had been a top assistant under Bear Bryant at Kentucky and Texas A&M. He was one of the architects of the "Junction Boys" ten days in hell that forged the Aggies' conference championship threeyears later. Owens and his staff brought a philosophy that included an emphasis on team unity, defense, tough physical and mental conditioning, the use of the helmet to tackle and block and punish opponents, and a willingness to pay the price for success. In , the Huskies were mostly a bunch of sophomores - supposedly the youngest college team in America - and went 3-7. Over the next two years, the Huskies forged the second best record of a collegiate football team in America - 20 wins and two losses. With 20 victories, one tie, and one loss, only Mississippi had a better resume. In , they won the conference title, the first for Washington since , and upset heavily favored Wisconsin in the Rose Bowl, 44-8. It was Washington's first Rose Bowl victory and brought respectability back to West Coast football. Shortly after that game, Bud Wilkinson, Jim Owens' former coach, called to congratulate his former pupil on the stunning victory. He said, "It would be hard to find a club anywhere, anytime, that played a 60-miniute period any better than that team that day." In the season, despite injuries to many key players including All-America quarterback and Hesiman hopeful, Bob Schloredt, the then senior-laden tea
Grateful dead - so many roads (cd - box sets
GRATEFUL DEAD - SO MANYROADS (CD - BOX SETS - GDCD The long-awaited retrospectiveof the Grateful Deadâ€(TM)s unparalleled 30-year carrer Features all previouslyunreleased music 60 page color book Rare never-before-publishedphotos Deluxe archival clothboundpackaging Track listing Disc one "Can't Come Down" (Grateful Dead) â€" 2:59 "Caution (Do Not Stop On Tracks)" (Grateful Dead) â€" 3:12 (tracks 1â€"2 studio recordings) Autumn Sessions "You Don't Have to Ask" (Grateful Dead) â€" 3:55 Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco, California "On The Road Again" (Traditional, arranged by the Grateful Dead) - 2:49 Los Angeles, California, "Cream Puff War" (Jerry Garcia) - 5:37 Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco, [c] "I Know You Rider" (Traditional, arranged by the Grateful Dead) - 4:15 Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, "The Same Thing" (Willie Dixon) - Winterland Arena, San Francisco, "Dark Star" > "China Cat Sunflower" > "The Eleven" (Grateful Dead/Hunter) â€" Carousel Ballroom, San Francisco, "Clementine" (Lesh/Hunter) - 7:48 Crystal Ballroom, Portland, Oregon "Mason's Children" (Garcia/Lesh/Weir/Hunter) â€" 4:08 (studio recording) outtake from Workingman's Dead February "To Lay Me Down" (Garcia/Hunter) â€" 4:00 (studio recording) outtake from American Beauty Summer Disc two "That's It For The Other One" (Grateful Dead) â€" Fillmore West, San Francisco, "Beautiful Jam" (Grateful Dead) - 4:33 Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, New York "Chinatown Shuffle" (Ron McKernan) - 3:00 Civic Hall, Rotterdam, The Netherlands "Sing Me Back Home" (Merle Haggard) - County Fairgrounds, Veneta, Oregon "Watkins Glen Soundcheck Jam" (Grateful Dead) - Grand Prix Race Course, Watkins Glen, New York "Dark Star Jam" (Grateful Dead) - 8:28 > Spanish Jam (Grateful Dead) - 4:10 > U.S. Blues (Garcia/Hunter) - 6:50 Jai Alai Fronton, Miami, Florida Disc three "Eyes of the World" (Garcia/Hunter) â€" Winterland Arena, San Francisco, [a] "The Wheel" (Garcia/Hunter) - Auditorium Theater, Chicago, Illinois "Stella Blue" (Garcia/Hunter) â€" Rupp Arena, Lexington, Kentucky "Estimated Prophet" (Barlow/Weir) â€" Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, Colorado "The Music Never Stopped" (Barlow/Weir) â€" 7:24 Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, "Shakedown Street" (Garcia/Hunter) â€" San Francisco Civic Auditorium, San Francisco Disc four "Cassidy" (Weir/Barlow) â€" 5:56 Meadowlands Arena, East Rutherford, New Jersey "Hey Pocky Way" (Modeliste/Neville/Nocentelli/Porter) â€" 6:00 Greensboro Coliseum, Greensboro, North Carolina "Believe It Or Not" (Garcia/Hunter) â€" 5:09 (studio recording) outtake from Built to Last "Playing In The Band" (Hart/Hunter/Weir) - Laguna Seca, Monterey, California "Gentlemen, Start Your Engines" (Barlow/Mydland) â€" 4:48 (studio recording) outtake from Built to Last "Death Don't Have No Mercy" (Davis) â€" 6:39 Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, California "Scarlet Begonias" (Garcia/Hunter) > "Fire on the Mountain" (Hart/Hunter) â€" Copps Coliseum, Hamilton, Ontario "Bird Song" (Garcia/Hunter) - Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, New York "Jam Out Of Terrapin" (Grateful Dead) â€" 5:20 Richfield Coliseum, Richfield Township, Summit County, Ohio Disc five "Terrapin Station" (Garcia/Hunter) â€" Madison Square Garden, New York City "Jam Out Of Foolish Heart" (Grateful Dead) â€" 8:57 Madison Square Garden, New York "Way To Go Home" (Bralove/Hunter/Welnick) â€" 6:24 The Palace, Auburn Hills, Michigan "Liberty" (Garcia/Hunter) â€" 5:56 The Omni, Atlanta, Georgia "Lazy River Road" (Garcia/Hunter) â€" 6:56 "Eternity" (Dixon/Wasserman/Weir) â€" 7:35 (tracks 5â€"6 studio recordings) rehearsals for unfinished fourteenth studio album "Jam into Days Between" (Grateful Dead) â€" 7:04 (studio recording) rehearsals for unfinished fourteenth studio album "Days Between" (Garcia/Hunter) - (studio recording) rehearsals for unfinished fourteenth studio album "Whiskey in the Jar" (Traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) - 5:18 (studio recording) rehearsals for unfinished fourteenth studio album "So Many Roads" (Garcia/Hunter) â€" 9:24 Soldier Field, Chicago