City To The Black Country

Author : Alice Randall
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 166801842X
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Black Country written by Alice Randall and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-04-09 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alice Randall, award-winning professor, songwriter, and author with a “lively, engaging, and often wise” (The New York Times Book Review) voice, offers a lyrical, introspective, and unforgettable account of her past and her search for the first family of Black country music. Country music had brought Randall and her activist mother together and even gave Randall a singular distinction in American music history: she is the first Black woman to cowrite a number one country hit, Trisha Yearwood’s “XXX’s and OOO’s”. Randall found inspiration and comfort in the sounds and history of the first family of Black country music: DeFord Bailey, Lil Hardin, Ray Charles, Charley Pride, and Herb Jeffries who, together, made up a community of Black Americans rising through hard times to create simple beauty, true joy, and sometimes profound eccentricity. What emerges in My Black Country is a celebration of the most American of music genres and the radical joy in realizing the power of Black influence on American culture. As country music goes through a fresh renaissance today, with a new wave of Black artists enjoying success, My Black Country is the perfect gift for longtime country fans and a vibrant introduction to a new generation of listeners who previously were not invited to give the genre a chance.

Author : Andy Foster
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780300223910
Total Pages : 946 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Birmingham and the Black Country written by Andy Foster and published by . This book was released on 2022-03-22 with total page 946 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The latest revised volume in the Pevsner Architectural Guides, covering Birmingham and the towns and settlements of the Black Country This fully revised account of the buildings of the City of Birmingham, its suburbs and outskirts, and the adjacent Black Country explores an area rich in Victorian and Edwardian architecture. Even the small towns of the Black Country supported local architects with their own distinctive styles, such as C. W. D. Joynson in Darlaston and A. T. Butler in Cradley Heath. Much West Midlands industry was organized in small to medium-sized firms, resulting in a rich and diverse streetscape and canalscape. The Arts and Crafts tradition also established deep roots in the area, resulting in masterpieces such as Lethaby's Eagle Insurance in Birmingham and Wolverhampton's Wightwick Manor, as well as a host of fine villas and churches. Older buildings of national significance include the grand Jacobean mansion of Aston Hall, Thomas Archer's Birmingham Cathedral, and such unexpected delights as the neoclassical barn in Solihull by Sir John Soane. Featuring new color photography and numerous maps and text illustrations, this volume will transform understanding and enjoyment of the architecture of this key English region.

Author : Sebastian Groes
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030572129
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Smell, Memory, and Literature in the Black Country written by Sebastian Groes and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Banks’s brewery’s yeasty stink to groaty pudding to spicy curry, Sebastian Groes and R. M. Francis have assembled a new literary history of the smells and (childhood) memories that belong to the Black Country. This often overlooked region of the United Kingdom at the frontlines of post-industrial upheaval is a veritable treasure trove for studying the relationship between olfaction and place-specific memory. Smell, Memory, and Literature in the Black Country is an interdisciplinary exploration of the relationship between smell and memory in which the contributions consider both personal and communal memory. Drawing on psychology, neuroscience, memory studies, literary studies and philosophy, the critical essays reconsider psychogeography through cutting-edge sensory and philosophical engagements with physical space, smell, language and human behaviour. The creative contributions from writers including Liz Berry, Narinder Dhami, Anthony Cartwright, and Kerry Hadley-Pryce meditate on the senses, place, and identity. Not only does this book illustrate the rich cultural heritage of the Black Country, it will also appeal to those interested in place writing. The book is prefaced by Will Self.

Author : Elihu Burritt
Publisher : London : Sampson Low, son & Marston
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Walks in the Black Country and Its Green Border-land written by Elihu Burritt and published by London : Sampson Low, son & Marston. This book was released on 1868 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : George Thomas Noszlopy
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 0853239894
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Public Sculpture of Staffordshire and the Black Country written by George Thomas Noszlopy and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "Black Country" is an area historically known as the cradle of the Industrial Revolution—a thriving regioin built around deep coal seams, conjuring up images of fiery red furnaces by night and black, sooty citadels by day. Yet today the resource-rich region also features many striking public sculptures. This volume provides a comprehensive catalog to all of the historic sculptures and public monuments in Staffordshire and the Black Country. George Noszlopy and Fiona Waterhouse catalog each individual sculpture in detail, including information about the sculptor, the sculpture's historical and artistic significance, the commissioning agent, and the date of installation. The volume also features 350 black-and-white photographs that document the diverse and rich beauty of the region's public monuments. The ninth volume in the widely acclaimed, award-winning Public Sculpture of Britain series, Public Sculpture of Staffordshire and the Black Country is an invaluable resource for British historians, art scholars, and travelers alike.

Author : Francesca T. Royster
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477326510
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Country Music written by Francesca T. Royster and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2022-10-04 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a century of racist whitewashing, country music is finally reckoning with its relationship to Black people. In this timely work—the first book on Black country music by a Black writer—Francesca Royster uncovers the Black performers and fans, including herself, who are exploring the pleasures and possibilities of the genre. Informed by queer theory and Black feminist scholarship, Royster’s book elucidates the roots of the current moment found in records like Tina Turner’s first solo album, Tina Turns the Country On! She reckons with Black “bros” Charley Pride and Darius Rucker, then chases ghosts into the future with Valerie June. Indeed, it is the imagination of Royster and her artists that make this music so exciting for a genre that has long been obsessed with the past. The futures conjured by June and others can be melancholy, and are not free of racism, but by centering Black folk Royster begins to understand what her daughter hears in the banjo music of Our Native Daughters and the trap beat of Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road.” A Black person claiming country music may still feel a bit like a queer person coming out, but, collectively, Black artists and fans are changing what country music looks and sounds like—and who gets to love it.

Author : Ніколенко А. Г.
Publisher : Нова Книга
ISBN 13 : 9663820764
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Лексикологія англійської мови – теорія і практика. [англ.]. written by Ніколенко А. Г. and published by Нова Книга. This book was released on with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Посібник “English Lexicology Theory & Practice” написаний англійською мовою і охоплює усі теми, що передбачені програмою вищих навчальних закладів з дисципліни “Лексикологія основної іноземної та української мов”. У посібник увійшли 9 розділів. У теоретичній частині кожного розділу автор глибоко і всебічно розкриває тему, спираючись на вже існуючі роботи вітчизняних та зарубіжних лінгвістів. У практичній частині кожного розділу посібника студентам пропонується закріпити теоретичні знання, виконуючі вправи з теми розділу. Для перевірки отриманих знань після 4-го і 9-го розділів у посібнику даються тестові завдання. Посібник призначений для студентів інститутів, університетів та факультетів іноземних мов, для викладачів, наукових працівників, перекладачів, а також усіх, хто самостійно працює над удосконаленням англійської мови.

Author : B. Lashua
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137283114
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sounds and the City written by B. Lashua and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the ways in which Western-derived music connects with globalization, hybridity, consumerism and the flow of cultures. Both as local terrain and as global crossroads, cities remain fascinating spaces of cultural contestation and meaning-making via the composing, playing, recording and consumption of popular music.

Author : Al DeFilippo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780986236709
Total Pages : 734 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Country written by Al DeFilippo and published by . This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black Country is the opening book of The Asbury Triptych Series, a trilogy about the life of British preacher, Francis Asbury. Black Country details Asbury's life in England and the culture-changing movement started by the brothers, John Wesley and Charles Wesley. The story is told from the West-Midlands of England, the iron-working capital of 18th-Century Great Britain. Black Country also features the key individuals who will eventually launch this religious movement to the American colonies. People like George Whitefield, Lord Dartmouth (Founder of Dartmouth College), Benjamin Franklin, Dr. Benjamin Rush and Lady Selina, The Countess of Huntingdon (also a founder of Dartmouth when she gave funds to the Mohegan preacher from the American colony of Connecticut, Samson Occum), contribute to this rich story abounding with England's essential history. Black Country uniquely delivers a portion of Francis Asbury's life never written about before. In the nearly two centuries since the death of Francis Asbury, Black Country details the early preaching circuits of this young itinerant. Through the beautiful English countryside, Francis Asbury seeks to spread the good news. However, his efforts are met with opposition from the state-sanctioned church, King George's Anglican Church, from those who view the Wesleyan movement as seditious and those who seek to harm the young preacher. On horseback, Francis Asbury braves mobs seeking to drown him and his horse, smugglers aiming to end his ministerial career and irreligious individuals who harass the young preacher.Despite his love for his country, the attraction of leaving his homeland and crossing the Atlantic Ocean for the American colonies is too much to resist. For Francis Asbury, his timing couldn't be worse. On the eve of the American Revolutionary War between the colonies and his beloved England, Asbury sails for America. The remaining books of the Asbury Triptych Series are full of action and drama. In a virgin American wilderness, Francis Asbury risks his life to establish what will become at the time of his death, the largest church in America. The Asbury Triptych Series also establishes the opinion that Francis Asbury is the George Washington of American Christianity.

Author : Urszula Clark
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135904804
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language and Identity in Englishes written by Urszula Clark and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-12 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Language and Identity in Englishes examines the core issues and debates surrounding the relationship between English, language and identity. Drawing on a range of international examples from the UK, US, China and India, Clark uses both cutting-edge fieldwork and her own original research to give a comprehensive account of the study of language and identity. Key features include: Discussion of language in relation to various aspects of identity, such as those connected with nation and region, as well as in relation to social aspects such as social class and race. A chapter on undertaking research that will equip students with appropriate research methods for their own projects An analysis of language and identity within the context of written as well as spoken texts With its accessible structure, international scope and the inclusion of leading research in the area, this book is ideal for any student taking modules in language and identity or sociolinguistics.