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(0)Julia Simon
Author
Publisher
Penn State University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
This volume explores concepts of freedom and bondage in the blues and argues that this genre of music explicitly calls for a reckoning while expressing faith in a secular justice to come. Placing blues music within its historical context of the post-Reconstruction South, Jim Crow America, and the civil rights era, Julia Simon finds a deep symbolism in the lyrical representations of romantic and sexual betrayal. The blues calls out and indicts the...
Author
Publisher
Penn State University Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
Lonnie Johnson is a blues legend. His virtuosity on the blues guitar is second to none, and his influence on artists from T-Bone Walker and B. B. King to Eric Clapton is well established. Yet Johnson mastered multiple instruments. He recorded with jazz icons such as Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong, and he played vaudeville music, ballads, and popular songs.In this book, Julia Simon takes a closer look at Johnson's musical legacy. Considering the...
Publisher
transcript Verlag
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
Transformative Regionen sind Räume, in denen Akteur*innen Praktiken in Gang setzen, lokale Ressourcen aktivieren und Wissen teilen, um Wandel zu gestalten. Denn ob Klima, Energie, Mobilität oder Landwirtschaft: Die derzeitigen Herausforderungen können für Land und Stadt nicht getrennt voneinander betrachtet werden. Aus sozialwissenschaftlicher und planerischer Perspektive erkunden die Beiträger*innen den Maßstab der Region als Raum- und Handlungsgefüge....