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  Lonesome Roads and Streets of...

  Andrew S. Berish

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  Any listener knows the power of music to define a place, but few can describe the how or why of this phenomenon. In Lonesome Roads and Streets of Dreams: Place, Mobility, and Race in Jazz of the 1930s and ’40s, Andrew Berish attempts to right this wrong, showcasing how American jazz defined a culture particularly preoccupied with place. By analyzing both the performances and cultural context of leading jazz figures, including the many famous venues where they played, Berish bridges two dominant scholarly approaches to the genre, offering not only a new reading of swing era jazz but an entirely new framework for musical analysis in general, one that examines how the geographical realities of daily life can be transformed into musical sound.  Focusing on white bandleader Jan Garber, black bandleader Duke Ellington, white saxophonist Charlie Barnet, and black guitarist Charlie Christian, as well as traveling from Catalina Island to Manhattan to Oklahoma City, Lonesome Roads and Streets of Dreams depicts not only a geography of race but how this geography was disrupted, how these musicians crossed physical and racial boundaries—from black to white, South to North, and rural to urban—and how they found expression for these movements in the insistent music they were creating.  

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  Greatest Detective Shows Volume...

  Various Various

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  OASIS AUDIO CLASSIC RADIO SHOWCASE SERIES   Oasis Audio has gone into the vaults and dusted off the very earliest form of audio book, old time radio shows, for our listeners. Introduced episode by episode by Jim Engel, old time radio authority and board member of the Museum of Broadcast Communications in Chicago, this series of classic radio shows is sure to have something for everyone. Celebrity casts and top-notch writers made the 1920s through the early 1950s, the golden era of radio. The series features seven exciting themes with 100 episodes in each. That is 700 classic radio programs in all.   Greatest Detective Shows   Thrill to the hardboiled adventures of Ellery Queen, Philip Marlow, Dragnet, The Man called X, Philo Vance, Rocky Fortune and so many more as heroes fight the bad guys. 100 great Detective classics in ten volumes. Volume 1 The Adventures of Ellery Queen 1942_10_02 The World Series CrimeThe Adventures of Ellery Queen 1948_05_06 One DiamondThe Adventures of Frank Race 1949_07_31 The Adventure of the Vanishing FavoriteThe Adventures of Frank Race 1949_08_28 The Adventures of the Generals LadyThe Adventures of Michael Shayne 1945_06_04 Judge Stanton MurderedThe Adventures of Michael Shayne 1945_06_18 Investment in an InventionThe Adventures of Philip Marlowe 1948_10_03 The Persian SlippersThe Adventures of Philip Marlowe 1948_10_10 The Panama HatThe Adventures of Philip Marlowe 1948_10_24 The Heart of GoldThe Adventures of Philip Marlowe 1948_11_28 The Hard Way Out

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  The Perfect Organism - An Alien:...

  Andy Kelly

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  An unofficial guide to Alien: Isolation, the greatest, scariest horror game ever made. 
   
  There aren’t many computer games that can justify an entire book, but for superfans, Alien: Isolation is truly extraordinary and Perfect Organism reveals all there is to know about every aspect of this masterful game. 
   
  Discover the rationale and authenticity of the set design and art direction, learn about the alien’s unnerving abilities to second-guess the players and the importance of its unique height, find out more about the importance of the dynamic audio and the use of seventies archive soundbites, as well as the darkly beautiful music. And immerse yourself in the technical brilliance of the level design and the user interface, before reading about the deleted content, and the scenes and features that never made the final cut. 
   
  Alien: Isolation is a game of remarkable depth, complexity, and detail, and together with a level-by-level mission guide, this audiobook will answer all of your questions, as well as many you haven’t yet thought to ask!

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  The Land Is Sung - Zulu...

  Thomas M. Pooley

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  What does it mean to belong? In The Land is Sung, musicologist Thomas M. Pooley shows how performances of song, dance, and praise poetry connect Zulu communities to their ancestral homes and genealogies. For those without land tenure in the province of KwaZulu-Nata, performances articulate a sense of place. Migrants express their allegiances through performance and spiritual relationships to land are embodied in rituals that invoke ancestral connection while advancing well-being through intergenerational communication. Engaging with justice and environmental ethics, education and indigenous knowledge systems, musical and linguistic analysis, and the ethics of recording practice, Pooley's analysis draws on genres of music and dance recorded in the midlands and borderlands of South Africa, and in Johannesburg's inner city. His detailed sound writing captures the visceral experiences of performances in everyday life. The book is richly illustrated and there is a companion website featuring both video and audio examples.

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  Passion for Compasses - Medieval...

  Klug Sonja Ulrike

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  How medieval architects drew cathedral building plans
  The architectural history of the Middle Ages is full of surprises. It is difficult for us to imagine today that relatively few construction plans have been found for the impressive churches and cathedrals of the Romanesque and Gothic periods. Where did most of the drawings go? Have the plans been destroyed in Europe or lost over time? Or were they not made at all? 
  Although hardly any architectural drawings exist, there were numerous compasses. What were they used for and how? Was it possible to design complex buildings such as churches and cathedrals without blueprints? 
  The author takes her readers on an exciting cultural and historical journey through time. 
  She looks at the spread of papyrus, parchment and paper and traces the ability to write and calculate in Europe. She also looks at the construction process in historical illustrations and draws comparisons with Arabic architecture. Last but not least, she shows what types of compasses existed and how the drawing skills of master builders developed up to the Renaissance. 
  The insights into the history of architecture lead to surprising findings: The architects of the Middle Ages thought and planned very differently than we imagine today.

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  Beethoven Symphony No 5 - Music...

  Ludwig van Beethoven

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  Beethoven: The Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words 
  Ludwig van Beethoven  
  Translated by Henry Edward Krehbiel and Friedrich Kerst 
   
  Music Album and Biography Track List 
   
  01	Allegro con brio (C minor) 
   
  02	Andante con moto (A♭ major) 
   
  03	Scherzo: Allegro (C minor) 
   
  04	Allegro – Presto (C major) 
   
  05	Brief Biographical Sketch; Preface 
   
  06	Concerning Art; Love of Nature 
   
  07	Concerning Texts; On Composing 
   
  08	On Performing Music; On His Own Works 
   
  09	On Art and Artists; Beethoven as Critic; On Education 
   
  10	On His Own Disposition and Character; The Sufferer 
   
  11	Worldly Wisdom; God; Appendix

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