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  • Alan Lomax

    The Man Who Recorded the World

    par John Szwed ...
    The remarkable life and times of the man who popularized American folk music and created the science of songFolklorist, archivist, anthropologist, singer, political activist, talent scout, ethnomusicologist, filmmaker, concert and record producer, Alan Lomax is best remembered as the man who introduced folk music to the masses. Lomax began his career making field recordings of rural music for the ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $18.99 CAD Maintenant $7.99 CAD

  • Space Is the Place

    The Lives and Times of Sun Ra

    par John Szwed ...
    Considered by many to be a founder of Afrofuturism, Sun Ra—aka Herman Blount—was a composer, keyboardist, bandleader, philosopher, entrepreneur, poet, and self-proclaimed extraterrestrial from Saturn. He recorded over 200 albums with his Arkestra, which, dressed in Egypto-space costumes, played everything from boogie-woogie and swing to fusion and free jazz. John Szwed's Space is the Place is the ... En savoir plus

    $28.99 CAD

  • Billie Holiday

    The Musician and the Myth

    par John Szwed ...
    **• Kirkus Best Books of 2015 selection for Biography •Published in celebration of Holiday’s centenary, the first biography to focus on the singer’s extraordinary musical talent**When Billie Holiday stepped into Columbia’s studios in November 1933, it marked the beginning of what is arguably the most remarkable and influential career in twentieth-century popular music. Her voice weathered ... En savoir plus

    $6.99 CAD

  • Cosmic Scholar

    The Life and Times of Harry Smith

    par John Szwed ...
    Named one of the Best Books of 2023 by the New Yorker and The New York Times' Dwight Garner. Winner of the ASCAP Foundation Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Book Award."The first comprehensive biography of this hipster magus . . . [John Szwed] allows different sides of Smith's personality to catch blades of sun. He brings the right mixture of reverence and comic incredulity to his task." —Dwight ... En savoir plus

    $19.19 CAD

  • Black Gods of the Metropolis

    Negro Religious Cults of the Urban North

    Stemming from his anthropological field work among black religious groups in Philadelphia in the early 1940s, Arthur Huff Fauset believed it was possible to determine the likely direction that mainstream black religious leadership would take in the future, a direction that later indeed manifested itself in the civil rights movement. The American black church, according to Fauset and other ... En savoir plus

    $31.99 CAD

  • Black Gods of the Metropolis

    Negro Religious Cults of the Urban North

    Stemming from his anthropological field work among black religious groups in Philadelphia in the early 1940s, Arthur Huff Fauset believed it was possible to determine the likely direction that mainstream black religious leadership would take in the future, a direction that later indeed manifested itself in the civil rights movement. The American black church, according to Fauset and other ... En savoir plus

    $31.99 CAD

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    Billie Holiday

    The Musician and the Myth

    par John Szwed ...
    Lu par Karen Chilton ...

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    8 heure 4 min

    Published in celebration of Holiday's centenary, the first biography to focus on the singer's extraordinary musical talent When Billie Holiday stepped into Columbia's studios in November 1933, it marked the beginning of what is arguably the most remarkable and influential career in ?twentieth-century popular music. Her voice weathered countless shifts in public taste, and new reincarnations of her ... En savoir plus

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    Space Is the Place

    The Lives and Times of Sun Ra

    par John Szwed ...
    Lu par Leon Nixon ...

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    16 heure 55 min

    Considered by many to be a founder of Afrofuturism, Sun Ra—aka Herman Blount—was a composer, keyboardist, bandleader, philosopher, entrepreneur, poet, and self-proclaimed extraterrestrial from Saturn. He recorded over 200 albums with his Arkestra, which, dressed in Egypto-space costumes, played everything from boogie-woogie and swing to fusion and free jazz.John Szwed's Space is the Place is the ... En savoir plus

    $41.99 CAD

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    Cosmic Scholar

    The Life and Times of Harry Smith

    par John Szwed ...
    Lu par Paul Woodson ...

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    13 heure 20 min

    He was an anthropologist, filmmaker, painter, folklorist, mystic, and walking encyclopedia. He taught Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe about the occult, swapped drugs with Timothy Leary, sat at the piano with Thelonious Monk, lived with (and tortured) Allen Ginsberg, and argued film with Susan Sontag. He was always broke, always intoxicated, compulsively irascible, and unimpeachably authentic. ... En savoir plus

    $34.99 CAD

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    Alan Lomax

    The Man Who Recorded the World

    par John Szwed ...
    Lu par Scott Sowers ...

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    20 heure 30 min

    The remarkable life and times of the man who popularized American folk music and created the science of songFolklorist, archivist, anthropologist, singer, political activist, talent scout, ethnomusicologist, filmmaker, concert and record producer, Alan Lomax is best remembered as the man who introduced folk music to the masses. Lomax began his career making field recordings of rural music for the ... En savoir plus

    $39.99 CAD

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    Under the Eye of Power

    How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy

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    Lu par Will Damron ...

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    From beloved cultural historian and acclaimed author of Ghostland comes a history of America's obsession with secret societies and the conspiracies of hidden powerThe United States was born in paranoia. From the American Revolution (thought by some to be a conspiracy organized by the French) to the Salem witch trials to the Satanic Panic, the Illuminati, and QAnon, one of the most enduring ... En savoir plus

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    Hollywood's Eve

    Eve Babitz and the Secret History of L.A.

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    The quintessential biography of Eve Babitz (1943-2021), the brilliant chronicler of 1960s and 70s Hollywood hedonism and one of the most original American voices of her time.“I practically snorted this book, stayed up all night with it. Anolik decodes, ruptures, and ultimately intensifies Eve’s singular irresistible glitz.” —Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker“The Eve Babitz book I’ve been waiting for. ... En savoir plus

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