Hokum

Author : Paul Beatty
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1596917164
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hokum written by Paul Beatty and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-12-10 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edited by the author of The Sellout, winner of the 2016 Man Booker Prize, Hokum is a liberating, eccentric, savagely comic anthology of the funniest writing by black Americans. This book is less a comprehensive collection than it is a mix-tape narrative dubbed by a trusted friend-a sampler of underground classics, rare grooves, and timeless summer jams, poetry and prose juxtaposed with the blues, hip-hop, political speeches, and the world's funniest radio sermon. The subtle musings of Toni Cade Bambara, Henry Dumas, and Harryette Mullen are bracketed by the profane and often loud ruminations of Langston Hughes, Darius James, Wanda Coleman, Tish Benson, Steve Cannon, and Hattie Gossett. Some of the funniest writers don't write, so included are selections from well-known yet unpublished wits Lightnin' Hopkins, Mike Tyson, and the Reverend Al Sharpton. Selections also come from public figures and authors whose humor, although incisive and profound, is often overlooked: Malcolm X, Suzan-Lori Parks, Zora Neale Hurston, Sojourner Truth, and W.E.B. Dubois. Groundbreaking, fierce, and hilarious, this is a necessary anthology for any fan or student of American writing, with a huge range and a smart, political grasp of the uses of humor.

Author : Rob King
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520288114
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hokum! written by Rob King and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2017-04-07 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Hokum! is the first book to take a comprehensive view of short-subject slapstick comedy in the early sound era. Challenging the received wisdom that sound destroyed the slapstick tradition, author Rob King explores the slapstick short’s Depression-era development against a backdrop of changes in film industry practice, comedic tastes, and moviegoing culture. Each chapter is grounded in case studies of comedians and comic teams, including the Three Stooges, Laurel and Hardy, and Robert Benchley. The book also examines how the past legacy of silent-era slapstick was subsequently reimagined as part of a nostalgic mythology of Hollywood’s youth.

Author : Kristina Garlick
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 131275866X
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hokum written by Kristina Garlick and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : C.R. Endacott
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1450201954
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hokum written by C.R. Endacott and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-01-12 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no available information at this time.

Author : LEON GRIZZARD
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
ISBN 13 : 1609742338
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hokum: Theory and Scales for Fiddle Tunes and Fiddle Improvisation written by LEON GRIZZARD and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2011-02-24 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is written to accomplish three purposes: (1) to teach music theory and scales as applied to fiddle tunes in the American and Celtic traditions; (2) to teach fiddle improvisation; and (3) to present additional material to help the fiddler who wants to play in other popular styles. Addresses major, minor and blues scales, diminished chords and more. Useful to any instrumentalist, this is not just another collection of licks, nor is it a book of transcriptions. This book teaches the theoretical framework of fiddle tunes and of fiddle soloing; the scales and arpeggios that fiddlers actually use, whether they know it or not. If you improvise or play variations on tunes now, this book will help you understand what works and why.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 854 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 992 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dress & Vanity Fair written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 992 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Writer's Monthly written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bruce J. Evensen
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 9780870499180
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When Dempsey Fought Tunney written by Bruce J. Evensen and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of 31 essays by the philosophically gifted selected by the editors as historically significant to the "post" in postmodernism, exhibiting the shift away from documentation and interpretation to an exploration of significance. The collection begins with Francis Bacon and Rene Descartes, traveling into 19th century social theory with Marx and Nietzsche, the challenges to those theories presented by Dewey and Kuhn, and the deconstruction of modernity with Foucault, Derrida, and Cornel West. In the final section, Habermas and Benhabib (among others) respond to postmodernism, taking us into the post postmodern contexts of the future. Lacks an index. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Debra Devi
Publisher : True Nature Books
ISBN 13 : 9781624071850
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Language of the Blues written by Debra Devi and published by True Nature Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive dictionary of blues lyrics invites listeners to interpret what they hear in blues songs and blues culture, including excerpts from original interviews with Dr. John, Bonnie Raitt, Hubert Sumlin, Buddy Guy, and many others.