The Soul of Baseball: A Road Trip Through Buck O'Neil's America

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When Legendary Negro League player Buck O'Neil asked sports columnist Joe Posnanski how he fell in love with baseball, Posnanski had to think about it. From that question was born the idea behind BASEBALL AND JAZZ. Posnanski and the 94 year old O'Neil decided to spend the 2005 baseball season touring the country in hopes of stirring up the love that first drew them to the game. This book is just as much the story of Buck O'Neil as it is the story of baseball. In a time when disillusioned, steroid–shooting, money hungry athletes define the sport, Buck O'Neil stands out as a man that truly played for the love of the game. Posnanski writes about that love and the one thing that O'Neil loved almost as much as baseball: jazz. BASEBALL AND JAZZ is an endearing step back in time to the days when the crack of a bat and the smoky notes of a midnight jam session were the sounds that brought the most joy to a man's heart.

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Buck: Almost too good to be true.......2007-09-23

Like many baseball followers, my admiration for Buck O'Neil can be traced to Ken Burns' documentary on baseball. How a black man could live through the era in which Buck lived with the attitudes he has is beyond me. (I am white, not American but lived in the US in the 60s and 70s.) Mr Posnanski's book is is a little too sugary, uncritical and unprobing for my liking. I cannot but help to think that with a little probing there is probably bit more to Buck's attitudes than is presented. However, if you want a feel-good book about this topic, this is the dream book.

On the road with Buck.......2007-09-10

A splendid collection of stories, told by one of our most valuable citizens, and conveyed by a very talented listener and writer.

I Knew Buck O'Neil.......2007-08-24

A great read of a great human being, and baseball man. I would see Buck several times a year in the '80s at the Detroit Tigers, Joker Marchant Stadium, when he was a scout with the Kansas City Royals. He was a pleasant a man you could ever meet. I am pleased to have known the man, even if only those brief moments I was able see and to talk to him.

Buy this book, and read a great tribute of this man and to the Negro Leagues of the past.

A year in the life of Buck O'Neil.......2007-08-23

I found the book very readable and never really got bored with it. I would have liked more in depth stories from when Buck played and managed. Most of the reminisces were short and sweet versions. All and all, I did enjoy the book and consider it a good book, not a great book.

Hmmm..........2007-08-08

I can't help but wonder if the 22 reviews -- all giving this book 5 stars -- are some of the author's closest friends. I am not saying I didn't like the book, but the writing was drab. Through the first few chapters, I got it, Buck O'neal was a good man. So, I'm just saying that the stories were not told in a way that made me connect with Mr. O'Neal --he was just a nice guy and then he died. There are a few editing errors as well, which made it confusing. I am by no means a critic of writing, but I just don't see the amazing book everyone else here did -- anyone agree with me?

Seventy Negro Spirituals (Musician's Library)

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Seventy Negro Spirituals (Musician's Library)
William Arms Fisher
Manufacturer: Library Reprints
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0722263465

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A Must Read!!!!!!
Repeating what has been said before, this is a Must Read for All Black Americans
70 years since its publication it is still relevent
Ecellent
Tru dat then! Tru dat now!

The Mis-Education of The Negro
Carter, G Woodson
Manufacturer: Book Tree
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1585092606

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This book is considered Â¿must readingÂ¿ for anyone involved in the education of blacks living in white dominated countries. The author does well to point out the shortcomings of a Â¿Euro-centricÂ¿ teaching structure that leaves out consideration for black culture and heritage. This has resulted in blacks being truly mis-educated and has caused many to live in complete contradiction to their own best interests. Woodson outlines how and why the mainstream educational system destroys the personal growth of blacks and how the blame can be equally placed on black professionals -- those who become successful and then enter into a corporate world that helps only themselves, without making efforts to correct or align black education properly. This book strongly points out the importance of black history and culture, and its absence in mainstream educational systems.

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A Must Read!!!!!!.......2007-10-02

This book is such an eye-opening piece of work. I believe that people of all races can be motivated by this book.

Repeating what has been said before, this is a Must Read for All Black Americans.......2007-09-16

Although copyright for this title is dated 1933, I found that the vast majority of the information therein, pertinent, applicable, and relative to our situation today. This book-as it has been said before-should be required reading for all Black Americans.

The analysis put forth by Dr. Carter G. Woodson on subjects like commerce, religion, and the value of an uncompromising education within our community, are profound.

70 years since its publication it is still relevent.......2007-07-16

_The Mis-Education of the Negro_ was first published when jim crow was the law of the land and our schools and military were segregated. Seventy years later institutionalized racism is gone, but African-Americans are still in many respects second-class citizens. Why this is so is scathingly shown in Woodson's classic book.

No one is without blame - white or black - in this mis-education, Woodson argues. The public school system largely run by whites does little to celebrate or recognize African-American achievments, essentially teaching young African-Americans that they have little to contribute. Even those white teachers who genuinely mean well and want to help African-Americans do a disservice to the Black community by not being culturally competent, essentially attempting to teach African-American students to "fit in" to white society. African-Americans who have become successes in business do not hire other African-Americans continuing to relegate them to lower social status. Even African-American churches do not escape Woodson's criticism, as he claims that they do little to celebrate or recognize the uniqueness and rich cultural heritage of Americans of African descent. Woodson believes this scandalous state of affairs continues to prevent African-Americans from realizing the "American dream." Only by recognizing the uniqueness of Black culture and encouraging the African-American community to support itself (rather than tear itself apart) will real social and economic change begin. This, of course, must first start with education.

Certainly many things have changed since this book was first put into print, due in part to the efforts of people like Woodson (the individual responsible for first, Black History week, then Black History month). Yet clearly there is much left to be done. As Cornel West wrote, "Race Matters." Yes, it does - Woodson saw this over two generations ago and began to do something about it. One can only hope more Americans - black and white - will read this landmark book and begin to act accordingly.

Ecellent.......2007-06-09

I read Carter G Woodson's land mark book for the first time when I was in Jr high school and I thought he was anti social towords African Americans, I read it again for the second time when I was in my twenties and I got angry. Now that I'm in my forties I cannot belive how profound this book really is. A MUST READ FOR ALL AFRICAN AMERICANS

Tru dat then! Tru dat now!.......2007-02-28

Y'all remember that this educated group generally hate black American dialect. They are the first to put it down. Tru dat?

I love this book. I think it is a must read for all those of African descent. He tells the truth about the educated class of blacks. However, he seems to fighting some feelings of elitism and imitating white culture himself.

For example, he complains that when blacks become educated according to white society, they abandon their native church or they join or create more refined (white like) churches among themselves. They no longer feel comfortable in such a spirited environment. Yet he criticizes the black masses for "gettin the spirit and hollering and screaming." Then he uses as an example that the Anglican Africans in the islands, who have a white washed type of services, are quiet, sombre and dignified. In essence, they have lost their Africaness and act like a boring white congregation. They have imitating their masters perfectly.

This book speaks so true. I find the so called educated black person to be horribly ignorant and small minded.

This is my only pet peeve. He on several occasions contradicts himself. However, this book is still a must read.

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Wonderful!!!
An excellent Bible for many uses
NVI Biblia Bilingüe
Great Resource
A must for someone who is learning a second language ...

NVI/NVI Bíblia Biblingue Dura Negro
Zondervan
Manufacturer: Vida
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0829724028

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SPANISH EDITION. This new product is the first of its kind. For the first time, both the Nueva VersiÃƒÂ³n Internacional and the New International Version of the Bible have been put together, in a parallel, bilingual version. Both concordances are included as a powerful tool for your study.

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Wonderful!!!.......2007-10-17

This is the first complete bilingual Bible I have purchased. I wanted it for a trip to Mexico where I was meeting Christian relatives. I would have been lost without it!! While visiting with non-English speaking relatives, we conversed using this Bible. It was an amazing way to communicate and understand each other. I purposely wanted an NIV version which is more to my liking. It fulfilled my every expectation and much more.........

An excellent Bible for many uses.......2007-10-08

I'm a linguaphile. I love to accumulate as much knowledge as possible about the languages which I study. I'm that person who has three different dictionaries of most European languages in his bookshelf.

So, I decided to purchase a bilingual Spanish Bible. Primarily, it was bought for the excellent parallel presentation, as a study aid. Before formal language courses, Bibles were a tool to learn a language, and it still works today. I also bought it to use it as my English NIV Bible. It serves both capacities very well!

Anyone with an intermediate understanding of Spanish can use this Bible. The side-by-side English and Spanish translations allows one to read the Bible in either language, then compare it to the same verse in the other language. Therefore, it serves as the perfect bilingual reader.

The benefits of this Bible are apparent if one evangelizes to the Spanish-speaking population. This Bible is composed in the easy-to-understand NIV (or NVI) translation, which makes Scripture accessible to all.

The Bible itself is of high quality and durable. Its only pitfall is that it's not highly portable. This isn't the Bible to have if you go door-to-door evangelizing; the Bible is moderately large and a little inflexible (due to the superb construction).

However, it is perfect to reference while teaching a sermon, witnessing to a Spanish-speaking friend, learning the Spanish language, or even teaching the English language! If you're a missionary, however, you should buy this book and a convenient, pocket-sized bilingual Gospel or New Testament.

Still, I must give this Bible five stars. The Scripture itself has myriad applications to life and faith. This supplement of two languages presented in tandem opens these messages of God and Christ across lingual barriers.

NVI Biblia Bilingüe.......2007-09-25

La Biblia Bilingüe nueva version internacional es buena cuando se comparte con personas de habla inglesa y español.

Great Resource.......2007-07-12

I purchased these Bibles for the Methodist Church in Guatemala for use by pastors and volunteers. Seems to be a good resource for both those that speak both languages and for someone like myself who is just learning Spanish.

A must for someone who is learning a second language ..........2007-03-13

I use this Bible to communicate with a child we sponsor through Compassion International. A great tool ...

100 Amazing Facts About the Negro With Complete Proof: A Short Cut to the World History of the Negro

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Concise, precise, illuminating, celebrational: a must-have
Powerful book
opens up the door to further research and study
Excellent reading for the youth of today

100 Amazing Facts About the Negro With Complete Proof: A Short Cut to the World History of the Negro
J. A. Rogers
Manufacturer: Helga M. Rogers
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Concise, precise, illuminating, celebrational: a must-have.......2004-07-05

"2. Benjamin Banneker, a Negro astronomer, made the first clock made in America in 1754...

"3. The word 'coffee' comes from Caffa, Ethiopia, where it was first used and where it still grows wild...

"5. The Negro arrived in the New World free from tuberculosis and syphillis or other venereal disease...Syphillis originated in Europe in 1494, when there was a great epidemic of it...

"14. The Ganges, the sacred river of India, is named after an Ethiopian king of that name who conquered Asia as far as this river...

"42. Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States and father of the Declaration of Independence, was the father of a large number of mulatto children. His wife protested loud and long to no avail..."

J.A. Rogers
100 AMAZING FACTS ABOUT
THE NEGRO
WITH COMPLETE PROOF

"Immensely entertaining and even more instructive. There is something new on almost every page, and you present it with the utmost effectiveness...a very competent job."

H.L. Mencken
on SEX AND RACE
by J.A. Rogers

J.A. Rogers has been an unsung hero of anthropology and African-American culture of the early to mid twentieth century in much the same way Paul Robeson's cultural legacy of the same time is today. The majority of his work, dating from the early 30s to the mid 1950s, is ironically ignored inverse proportion to the degree his conclusions are proven accurate.

The beauty of this seventy-one page book, however, is the egoless nature of it all. A mental giant and world traveler, J.A. Rogers could have easily written several tomes the likes of which would be ignored by both the general public and the academic world, cutting off his nose in spite of his face for the benefit of proving the voluminous nature of his education and little else. 100 AMAZING FACTS is the exact opposite of this.

"63. The word 'slave' was originally applied to white people. It comes from 'Slav', a Russian people captured by the Germans.

"66. In 1670, Virginia passed a law forbidding Negroes from buying white people...Free Negroes bought white people in such numbers in Louisiana that the state made a similar law in 1818.

"74. The Rock of Gibraltar, the symbol of stability, is named after a Negro ex-slave. It is a corruption of 'Gebal-Tarik' or 'The Mountain of Tarik'. Tarik, who was a Moor, captured the Rock which was then called Calpe, in 711 A.D. Later he conquered Southern Spain..."

J.A. Rogers
100 AMAZING FACTS ABOUT
THE NEGRO
WITH COMPLETE PROOF

The carefully, brilliantly chosen facts which make up the first half of the book are designed to be a combination of enlightening, surprising, disturbing, provocative, even paradigm shifting...yet simultaneously always entertaining. The second half consists of essentially his bibliography, where all of the proof of every fact can be found and authenticated. Perfect for everyone from teenagers (my father first gave me his copy when I was about twelve; I bought it for my fourteen year old son just recently) to interested adults to scholars and educators, you will never spend so little money (less than ten dollars at its highest price anywhere) to get so much knowledge from such a little, entertaining book.

100 AMAZING FACTS is the perfect symbol of J.A. Rogers himself: a complete, concise, well-spoken, honorable treasure--and a gift.

Powerful book.......2002-12-08

sometimes when you want too know about Your Culture&Roots you ahve too explore things for yourself&thank goodness a book such as this brings fourth so many important facts&Historic events that have Shaped the course of America.I Really enjoyed all the Information provided.

opens up the door to further research and study.......2002-02-10

Very easy to read list of interesting facts regarding black people with references. This opens up the door to further study because some of the things seem so fantastic that one may want to look up some of the items using the references provided.

Excellent reading for the youth of today.......1999-02-02

This book should be incorporated into the mainstream of our educational system. I am still amazed at how the truth to these facts aren't recognized or known by Americans today. For instance: Just last year it was acknowledged that Thomas Jefferson had decendants that were black. This book was written in the 50's, and on page 8, fact #42 it relates how he along with other slave owners during that time often had extramarital affairs with their slaves. This was written over 40 years ago and it's now coming to pass. Please read this book to experience the truth that has for so many years been underground.

God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)

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Historical Preservation - Community Backbone
God's Trombones: Poems That Galvanize the Soul
Unfamiliar Harmony
A Priceless Cultural Artifact

God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
James Weldon Johnson
Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0140184031

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Just Wonderful.......2007-07-13

My dad teaches Sunday School and was looking for this book to incorporate into his lesson plans. I found it here at Amazon and fell in love with this book. Absolutely wonderful to read and very profound. Exceptional!

Historical Preservation - Community Backbone.......2007-06-10

The title says it all: "Trombones" represents the preservation of the history of the community backbone of prayer, persistence, and strength. The poetry gives some insight to the suffering of the elders, and speaks to the continuing fight for the full parity of the AfricanAmerican community in a country that was literally built upon the bleeding, sweaty backs of my ancestors.

Amazon is to be commended for participating in this historical preservation of a works that I would recommend as mandatory reading for generations to come - regardless of religion, gender, or color.

God's Trombones: Poems That Galvanize the Soul.......2007-04-25

My soul is galvanized everytime I hear or read James Weldon Johnson's God's Trombones. I have directed student perfomances of this deeply moving African American text. "The Crucifixion," for example, tells the story of how Jesus Christ, my Lord, my Savior,my Friend, suffered death on an old cross so that I might have an opportunity to be more sensitive to the hurting. The "Prodigal Son" urges me to experience and, thus understand, that I must live with a redemptive consiousness. And, of course, I am compelled to understand, through the poem "Go Down Death" this reality: God does call His children home. Those who have suffered "long in the vineyard" are deserving of rest. For sure, God's Trombones is a poetic tribute to an experience that is Christian and African American. I thank James Welson Johnson for creating this poetic masterpiece. Let's continue to read it; let's perform it. Let's live within the context of the spirituality of the voice. Amen!

Unfamiliar Harmony.......2007-03-15

While James Weldon Johnson's theology is not always orthodox ("God thought and thought" - who could put a new thought in God's mind? unless it was God and, then, God would not be God - this insight compliments of E.V. Hill in his sermon "When Was God At His Best?"), JWJ's poetry and, especially, his Preface displays the harmonious beauty of a long tradition of African American preaching not generally known or appreciated outside of African American circles. If one really wants to become familiar with and, indeed, edified by the godly reaching of E.V. Hill (now deceased), Fred Luter, Tony Evans, Robert Smith and a host of unknowns who preach with substance and, sometimes, in the "whoop"ing style, then, Weldon's book is a must read. May Christianity never lose what God has brought forth in a substantial style which stirs heart, mind and soul.

A Priceless Cultural Artifact.......2007-02-28

When I was a youngster, we all knew of these poems. "The Creation" was, in fact, a standard part of the 10th-grade English curriculum and was one of the most often selected pieces for what was then called "dramatic recitation." (This was in Oklahoma, Alabama and South Carolina in the late 1950's and early 1960's.)

Now I cannot find anyone much under the age of 50 who has ever heard of them. This is but one of a great many tragic cultural losses of our time.

The poems evoke those trombone-like voices of Black preachers ringing with their simple themes, imaginative colorations, and powerful deliveries contrasting the pain of mortal life with the glory and joy of the eternal one. With their plaints and affirmations, their truths and contradictions, they embody a crucial aspect of the American heritage.

Moving? "Powerful" hardly expresses it. When I first acquired the book, I read to my wife the poem, "Go Down Death -- A Funeral Sermon." We were in the car on the way home from the bookstore. We had to stop at the mall for her to make a purchase, and she had to wait in the car while she dried her eyes before going in.

These poems cannot be allowed to be forgotten. They just cannot.

Biblia De Estudio Arco Iris: Edicion "Bold Line" con cada versiculo en su propio color/Negro, Piel Fabricada (Black Bonded Leather) Thumb Indexed

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Biblia De Estudio Arco Iris: Edicion "Bold Line" con cada versiculo en su propio color/Negro, Piel Fabricada (Black Bonded Leather) Thumb Indexed

Manufacturer: B&H Publishing Group
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ASIN: 1558195580

Blues People: Negro Music in White America

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An American Treasure
gone where the Southern cross the yella dog
Blues People
The Best Starting Point
Very honest&breaks all chains

Blues People: Negro Music in White America
Leroi Jones
Manufacturer: Harper Perennial
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ASIN: 068818474X
Release Date: 1999-01-20

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"The path the slave took to 'citizenship' is what I want to look at. And I make my analogy through the slave citizen's music -- through the music that is most closely associated with him: blues and a later, but parallel development, jazz... [If] the Negro represents, or is symbolic of, something in and about the nature of American culture, this certainly should be revealed by his characteristic music."

So says Amiri Baraka in the Introduction to Blues People, his classic work on the place of jazz and blues in American social, musical, economic, and cultural history. From the music of African slaves in the United States through the music scene of the 1960's, Baraka traces the influence of what he calls "negro music" on white America -- not only in the context of music and pop culture but also in terms of the values and perspectives passed on through the music. In tracing the music, he brilliantly illuminates the influence of African Americans on American culture and history.

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An American Treasure.......2007-06-29

This is one of the most important books on America and American history, culture and citizenship. It would benefit the world if it were incorporated into public education. Someone said that nations are judged by their art and this book examines that subject superlatively. This study of the blues examines the evolving cosmology of the Africans and their journey and creation: the blues, one of the singular most powerful beauties of America. He shows how from the blues came all and embraced all other peoples and cultures. Baraka's ability to live the thoughts of the originators enables us to understand the profoundity of their sorrow and sublimity of their joy.

gone where the Southern cross the yella dog.......2007-02-22

The other day a friend rashly claimed that art and music were equally hard to describe in words. I asked him to tell me about a certain painting of Picasso's. He did, but claimed it wasn't accurate. "OK," I said, "you're right, but now tell me about Mozart's Jupiter Symphony." He opened his mouth, closed it, looked at me, and said, "Yeah, I see what you mean." Writing a book about the blues would be equally hard, it seems to me. So, LeRoi Jones did what he could, back in 1963, to tie the indescribable to the more concrete. He wrote a social history of African-Americans in the USA through the prism of music or---maybe on the principle of red and yellow tile floors (are they red with yellow designs or yellow with red designs ?)---he wrote a book on African-American music through the prism of social history. It is one of the most important books on American music (and American society) that you can find. It has stood the test of time. He begins from the Africans who came to North America as slaves bearing very different cultures, confronted by an absolutely different view of the world emanating from their new masters. Here he tries to show how African music became transformed into African-AMERICAN music and then American. He continues then up through the generations of slavery, to Emancipation, migration to the cities, World War I, the Depression, World War II and the bebop age of the Fifties. The book is pre-Civil Rights movement, pre-Martin Luther King. Jones may have looked down on the NAACP and its allies as "white liberal supported organizations", I'm not sure, but they don't appear. The times are symbolized by the use of "Negro" throughout. I agree, the tome is dated, but don't reject it, don't pooh-pooh the man. This is a very intelligent, very worthwhile book. Anyone, particularly from outside the USA, who wants to know the history of African-American music within its social environment ought still to read BLUES PEOPLE. He writes, "If Negro music can be seen to be the result of certain attitudes, certain specific ways of thinking about the world (and only ultimately about the ways in which music can be made), then the basic hypothesis of this book is understood." [p.153] Jones goes to great lengths to get to the bottom of those attitudes and thoughts.

My main criticism, apart from the fact that history dictates that we must be left a half century behind contemporary realities, is that though Jones obviously knew and loved the blues and jazz and all the various styles ( if not swing), his approach is coldly academic, highly dispassionate. He may criticize people who tried to make money, he may downplay all those who "abandoned" their roots, but my disappointment is that there is nothing of himself in the work barring a few mentions of his family. He does not share his enthusiasm. Music is beauty after all. I am sure he wanted the book to be taken as a serious essay, which it is. But in keeping himself removed from the discussion, being so analytic and professional in the style of the day, he has robbed us "readers of the future" of many insights.

African-American experience in the USA expressed itself most particularly in the blues, only later did that musical mode become part of the general American culture, often watered down, sometimes imitated by those who didn't wish to fit in or who wished to cash in. When conditions have changed, when the black middle class has entered mainstream America, and the urban underclass is wrapped up in hip-hop, gangsta rap culture, which is relentlessly commercialized by the powerful media, talking about the blues may seem a matter for historians or ethnomusicologists. Still, BLUES PEOPLE resonates strongly if we try to understand where we have been. As for where we are going---that old line sums it up---we're goin where the Southern cross the yella dog.

Blues People.......2005-09-22

This is a really interesting look at the evolution of black culture through the lense of music. Some of the author's opinions about later music (50's-60's) may seem out of touch to today's readers, but overall it is well worth reading.

The Best Starting Point.......2005-08-24

I actually purchased the first paperback edition this book a long time ago, and I learned that it had been out of print for quite some time. It was a time when I was a casual listener of blues and jazz, and didn't think about the roots of the music I was listening to. The book was interesting enough, but it didn't have information about more contemporary stuff, as it was printed in 1963.

Recently, I found this book in the upper shelves of my library, having completely forgotten about it in spite of my infatuation with the blues for the better part of the last two decades. It was a most welcome surprise for me, as it contained a compact but comprehensive introduction to the time period from the first Africans came to America to the 1920s when their music was first recorded, and laid the groundwork to how this music evolved in a sociological context. The rural lifestyle, the reflections of the exodus from the south on the music and subsequent refined, urban sound are discussed in this framework.

Although it would not really appeal to the casual reader and listener, "Blues People" is invaluable for the serious blues and jazz fan for setting the music into the general context of social life and external effects that made this music what it is today.

Very honest&breaks all chains.......2003-01-16

this book not only puts the music into perspective but also the struggle that still goes on too this day.very upfront&honest about problems that still linger.it traces the journey&challenges it's reader too better understand the reason for the whys??one of the best Books that I have ever read from start too finish.

8660I Biblia de Referencia Thompson Piel Negro Índice

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8660I Biblia de Referencia Thompson Piel Negro Índice

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Biblia de Referencia Thompson Milenio

ASIN: 0829714464

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In 1988 the Thompson Chain Reference Bible became the best-selling Spanish study Bible. It is the ideal Bible for pastors, Sunday school teachers, lay people, and serious students of God's Word, taking readers through a fascinating journey of discovery. It includes more than 7,000 names, places, and topics and more than 100,000 references are classified in eight sections for an in depth, thorough study of God's word. The marginal topics take the reader through the Bible verse by verse on a particular subject. The chain is systematic and easy to use. This is the most versatile study Bible on the market today. Features: * Chainreference system * Complete index * Harmony of the gospels ,* Messianic prophecies * Book introductions * Origin and growth of the Bible * Outline studies of Bible periods * Analysis of the Bible as a whole * Analysis of the books of the Bible * Analysis of verses * Numerical chain index system * Contrasts between Old and New Testaments * Topical study of the Bible * Graphs and charts * Full-color Bible maps * Tables: time, weights, measures, * Bible mnemonics (helps for memorization) * Bible stories for children * Archaeological supplement * General Bible prophecies

The Negro Church in America/The Black Church Since Frazier (Sourcebooks in Negro History)

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An answer to questions

The Negro Church in America/The Black Church Since Frazier (Sourcebooks in Negro History)
E. Franklin Frazier
Manufacturer: Schocken
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ASIN: 0805203877
Release Date: 1974-01-13

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Frazier's study of the black church and an essay by Lincoln arguing that the civil rights movement saw the splintering of the traditional black church and the creation of new roles for religion.

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An answer to questions.......2000-04-28

In my studies of Sociology and Religion I was able to see the evolution of the African American church by first seeing the beginnings of the church during slavery in America. Frazier offers an excellent assesment of how the church grew and answers questions such as how the negro churches became agencies of social control and when the walls broke down and the church left its status as a refuge. But the best thing about this book is that you're given the freedom to read what Lincoln has to say about post-Frazier times and the black church. I, however, feel that Lincoln is very biased in his assesment and doesn't offer an objective view. This book is very useful to any other person interested in the sociology of religion.

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