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 tangled web of deceit and entrapment...

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 full body of his work, Simon pres...

Renowned for his influence as a political philosopher, a writer, and an autobiographer, Jean-Jacques Rousseau is known also for his lifelong interest in music. He composed operas and other musical pieces, invented a system of numbered musical notation, engaged in public debates about music, and wrote at length about musical theory. Critical analysis of Rousseau’s work in music has been principally the domain of musicologists, rarely involving the work of scholars of political theory or lit...

Spontaneity, immediacy and feeling characterize the blues as a genre. Whether it's the movement of call and response, the expressive bends and wails of voice and instruments or the synergistic relationship between audience and performers, the blues embody a kind of "living in the moment" aesthetic. At the same time, the blues genre has always responded in a unique way to its historical moment, its formal characteristics, figures, and devices constantly emerging from--and speaking to--the s...

Este audiolibro está narrado por una voz digital.¿Escribiendo su propio final feliz?La periodista Lilly Matsuda escribía noticias, no las creaba. Al menos hasta que entró en conflicto con Gunnar Norling. El atractivo policía suscitaba su curiosidad, pero no estaba dispuesta a permitir que ni su increíble sonrisa ni su apostura le robaran el corazón.A Gunnar no le gustaban las personas que fisgaban en Heartlandia. Había jurado guardar el secreto del pasado m...

Este audiolibro está narrado por una voz digital.¿Quién querría matarla? Había mucha gente en Serenade con motivos para matar a Teresa Donovan, pero todos pensaban que su exmarido, Cole, era el asesino. Todos salvo la agente del FBI Jamie Crawford. Aunque la atracción que había entre ellos amenazaba su objetividad, su infalible instinto le decía que el magnate inmobiliario era inocente. El desastroso matrimonio de Cole había arruinado su confianza en las mujeres, pero al conocer a ...

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«Ich möchte vom Leben alles!»Simone de Beauvoir: Große Denkerin des 20. Jahrhunderts, eine Ikone des Feminismus – aber warum sollten sich junge Frauen für sie interessieren? Weil sie phantastische Romane und präzise Analysen gesellschaftlicher Entwicklungen schrieb und ihrem Partner Jean-Paul Sartre an analytischer Schärfe in nichts nachstand; eine Frau, die schon zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts für ihre Freiheit kämpfte, emanzipiert und unabhängig.Julia Korbik wirft einen fri...

A surprising look at what happens to the actual school buildings in the wake of school closures.School districts across the United States have closed thousands of schools since 2000 to cope with chronic underfunding and budget crises, declining enrollment, and poorly maintained buildings. Our knowledge about school closures has focused on battles over closure decision-making and the impacts of closing schools on communities of color in the immediate aftermath of th...

"Ich starre zum Himmel, balle meine Faust in der Hosentasche und würde vor Frust am liebsten laut schreien. So hatte ich das nicht geplant! Nein, so hatte ich das überhaupt gar nicht geplant! Was hier gerade mit meinem Leben passiert, das will ich nicht!" Diese Gedanken gingen Simone Heintze durch den Kopf, als sie zum vierten Mal in ihrem Leben die Nachricht zu hören bekam: "Sie haben Krebs." Viermal hat sie sich ins Leben zurückgekämpft. Dabei wurde in all diesen Jahren ihr Glaube, der s...

«Ich möchte vom Leben alles, ich möchte eine Frau, aber auch ein Mann sein, viele Freunde haben und allein sein, viel arbeiten und gute Bücher schreiben, aber auch reisen und mich vergnügen, egoistisch und nicht egoistisch sein.»Die junge Frau, die diese Worte schrieb, gilt heute als eine der einflussreichsten Denker:innen des 20. Jahrhunderts. Mit ihren Werken, ihrer Philosophie und Lebensweise forderte sie ihre Zeitgenoss:innen heraus und veränderte unsere Vorstellung von Liebe, ...

«Ribellandosi al suo milieu e alla sua educazione, analizzando la condizione imposta alle donne nel corso della storia, Simone de Beauvoir, per la prima volta, e con chiarezza analitica e passione politica, ha dimostrato che non c’è pensiero nel senso forte del termine se non in un dialogo tra i due sessi: una felicità rischiosa, dolorosa, desacralizzata, ma possibile. La sola capace di dare significato a un’esistenza». Scrittrice, filosofa esistenzialista, donna libera e ribelle, Simone d...