Billie Holiday : essays on the artistry and legacy /

Table of Contents: “…: tragedy, autobiography and reassessment / Anna Maria Barry -- Merging artists : the legacy of Motown's Lady sings the blues / Claudius Stemmler -- "Owning" Billie Holiday in several representative jazz poems / William Levine -- Brigitte loves Billie : channeling Holiday in Domino (1988) / Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns -- Seeing is believing? …”
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The habit of art : best stories from the Indiana University fiction workshop /

Table of Contents: “…In the doorway of Rhee's jazz joint / D. Winston Brown --…”
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Manhattan's musical heritage / by Preston, Tara

Table of Contents: “…Vaudeville and Tin Pan Alley -- The era of big band and modern jazz -- Greenwich Village and the evolution of American music -- Contemporary popular music in Manhattan.…”
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Poetics of visibility in the contemporary Arab American Novel / by Naous, Mazen

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Poetics of Visibility, Visible Poetics -- The Disease as Queer Cure: Rabih Alameddine's Koolaids: The Art of War -- Blue Notes and Accented Rhythms: Diana Abu-Jaber's Arabian Jazz -- Sign after Sign: Mohja Kahf's The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf -- Anagrams of Identity: Laila Halaby's Once in a Promised Land -- Reframing Infidelity: Diana Abu-Jaber's Crescent -- Conclusion: Arab American Polyphonics.…”
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Sounds like London : 100 years of black music in the capital / by Bradley, Lloyd

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Microgroove : Forays into Other Music / by Corbett, John, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…improvisation, dub painting -- Christopher Wool: into the woods- six meditations on the interdisciplinary -- Sun Ra: an Afro-space-jazz imaginary- the printed record of El Saturn -- Helmut Lachenmann: Hellhörig, or the intricacies of perceptiveness -- Guillermo Gregorio: Madi music -- Experimental Oriental: new music and other others -- Afterword: a concise history of music -- Grooving on: selected listening.…”
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Make the world new : the poetry of Lillian Allen / by Allen, Lillian, 1951-, Allen, Lillian, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Foreword / Tanis Macdonald -- Introduction: Making Wor(l)ds Anew: Lillian Allen's Poetics / Ronald Cummings -- Queenie Queenie and the Fall of Colonial Empire -- Trust -- JAMAICA -- I Remember -- Nellie Belly Swelly -- My Momma -- Marriage -- Birth -- To the Child -- Broken -- Conditions Critical -- Nicaragua -- Dictator (For Haiti) -- Could it Happen in America -- The Wait of History -- Song for Newfoundland -- Rasta in Court -- With Criminal Intent -- Unnatural Causes -- In These Canadian Bones -- Revolution from de Beat -- Rub A Dub Style Inna Regent Park -- Dark Winds -- I Fight Back -- Feminism 101 -- Good Womanhood (Censorship) -- Billie Holiday -- To a Jazz Musician (Contemplating Suicide) -- The Poetry of Things -- PO E 3 -- One Poem Town -- Riddim An' Hardtimes -- Liberation Comes -- I Dream a Redwood -- Liberation -- A Poem Against Things -- Pandemic -- Revolutionary Tea Party -- Dis Word -- Afterword: Tuning the Heart With Poetry / Lillian Allen…”
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Lviv and Wrocław, cities in parallel? : myth, memory, and migration, c. 1890-present /

Table of Contents: “…East Meets West: Polish-German Coexistence in Lower Silesia through the Memories of Polish Expellees, 1945-1947 -- Tylko we Lwowie: Tango, Jazz, and Urban Entertainment in a Multiethnic City -- Impressions of Place: Soviet Travel Writings and the Discovery of Lviv, 1939-40 -- Imperfect Metropolis: The Evolving Projections of Wrocław in Polish Feature Films -- The Bu-Ba-Bu and the Reorientation of Ukrainian Culture: The Carnival City and the Palimpsestual Past -- Memory, and Lack of Memory, of Others: The Image of the Jewish and the Polish Neighbor in Oral Reflections of Lviv's Current Inhabitants…”
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Music in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries / by Auner, Joseph Henry, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…New music taking flight : Europe and America after the War ; Radio, recording, and film ; Music for use ; New instruments, the sounds of the city, and machine art ; Jazz, race, and the new music ; For further reading -- Paris, neoclassicism, and the art of the everyday : Neoclassicism ; Musical high life and low life ; Music and cultural politics ; Antiquity and ritual ; Eighteenth-century sources ; Tonality defamiliarized ; The art of the everyday ; Jazz and "the primitive" ; For further reading -- The search for order and balance : Cultural politics of the search for order ; The twelve-tone method ; New approaches to rhythm, texture, and form ; New tonalities ; For further reading -- Inventing traditions : Villa-Lobos and Brasilidade ; Vaughan Williams and "Englishness" ; The borders of American music ; Copland and the American landscape ; Still and the African-American experience ; McPhee's imaginary homeland in Bali ; For further reading -- Part III: World War II and its aftermath. …”

Analyzing the music of living composers (and others) /

Table of Contents: “…Groove topics in improvised jazz / Garrett Michaelsen -- ch. 10. The music of Mario, Link, and Samus : harmony, form, and meaning in early compositions by Koji Kondo and Hirokazu Tanaka / Nathan Baker -- ch. 11. …”
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Pop When the World Falls Apart : Music in the Shadow of Doubt /

Table of Contents: “…Martin Daughtry -- Since the flood: scenes from the fight for New Orleans jazz culture / Larry Blumenfeld -- (Over the) Rainbow warrior: Israel Kamakawiwole and another kind of somewhere / Nate Chinen -- Travel with me: country music, race, and remembrance / Diane Pecknold -- The comfort zone: shaping the retro-soul audience / Oliver Wang -- Within limits: on the greatness of magic slim / Carlo Rotella -- Urban music in the teenage heartland / Brian Boedde, Austin Bunn, and Elena Passarello -- Death to racism and punk revisionism?…”
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Everyday music / by Govenar, Alan B., 1952-

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Faster than light : new and selected poems, 1996 2011 / by Nelson, Marilyn, 1946-

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Orphic bend : music and innovative poetics / by Zamsky, Robert L., 1970-

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