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1	Literature and Its Writers: A Compact Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama more books like this by Ann Xcharters, Ann Charters (Editor), Samuel Charters (Editor) Literature is a conversation -- between writers and other writers, and writers and readers. In their introduction to literature anthology, Ann Charters, editor of the bestselling "The Story and Its Writer," and Samuel Charters, a much-published poet and novelist, bring students into this conversation through a distinctive set of features, ... see all copies from $18.49! new only from $48.95!
2	Literature and Its Writers: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama more books like this by Ann Charters Emphasizing how writers of fiction, poetry, and drama talk about what they do, this introduction to literature lets the words of writers guide students in the many ways to read, think, and write about literature. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $29.95! \| first editions
3	The country blues more books like this by Samuel Barclay Charters }From the field cries and work chants of Southern Negroes emerged a rich and vital music called the country blues, an intensely personal expression of the pains and pleasures of black life. This music--recorded during the twenties by men like Blind Lemon Jefferson, Big Bill Broonzy, and Robert Johnson--had all but disappeared from memory until ... see all copies from $9.92! new only from $14.46! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Literature and Its Writers: A Compact Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama more books like this by Ann Charters (Editor), Samuel Barclay Charters see all copies from $1.99!
5	A Trumpet Around the Corner: The Story of New Orleans Jazz more books like this by Samuel Barclay Charters From the first raucous chorus to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the saga of the Big Easy's signature music see all copies from $15.00! new only from $24.00! \| SVS
6	Elvis Presley Calls His Mother After the Ed Sulliv more books like this by Samuel Barclay Charters A novella, in the form of an extended monologue, of Elvis's phone call to his mother. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.79! \| first editions \| SVS
7	The Legacy of the Blues: Art and Lives of Twelve Great Bluesmen more books like this by Samuel Barclay Charters Art and Lives of Twelve Great Bluesmen. }Blues is a languageone which has evolved its own rules and which is the sole property of a culture always forced to the periphery of white society. As such it is a political language. Whether it is passed as a legacy from African village to Mississippi farm, or from farm to Chicago ghetto, or from ghetto to ... see all copies from $4.55! new only from $12.15! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Resources for Teaching "Literature and Its Writers" more books like this by Ann Charters, Samuel Charters see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.98! \| first editions
9	Literature and Its Writers more books like this by Ann Charters (Editor), Samuel Charters (Editor) see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.81!
10	The Legacy of the Blues: A Glimpse Into the Art and the Lives of Twelve Great Bluesmen: An Informal Study more books like this by Samuel Barclay Charters see all copies from $11.95! new only from $19.99! \| first editions
11	The Roots of the Blues: An African Search more books like this by Samuel Barclay Charters see all copies from $1.99! first editions
12	New Orleans: Playing a Jazz Chorus more books like this by Samuel Charters This book is a deeply personal portrait of the people and music of today's New Orleans-a city that has been hard hit by Katrina, but is managing to keep its great jazz tradition, brass band scene, incomparable food, and unique lifestyle vital and intact. Among the musicians appearing in this book are: the Rebirth Brass Band, Hot 8, the Soul ... see all copies from $5.50! new only from $11.11! \| signed copies \| SVS
13	Some poems, poets : studies in American underground poetry since 1945 more books like this by Samuel Barclay Charters see all copies from $3.07! first editions
14 view cover	Sweet as the Showers of Rain: The Bluesmen, Volume II more books like this by Samuel Barclay Charters see all copies from $4.76! new only from $6.30! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Roots of the Blues: An African more books like this by Samuel Barclay Charters see all copies from $2.61! new only from $16.00! \| first editions
16 view cover	Louisiana Black more books like this by Samuel Charters see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	The Day is So Long and the Wages So Small: Music on a Summer Island more books like this by Samuel Barclay Charters In this memoir, musicologist Samuel Charters shares his obsession to record authentic Bahamian music. "Dig my Grave," a melody that was originally recorded by Alan Lomax during a 1935 expedition to the island of Andros, inspired Charters to reenact Lomax's journey with his future wife, Ann Ruth Danberg, in 1958. In this book, Charters describes ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.25! \| first editions
18 view cover	Blues Faces: A Portrait of the Blues more books like this by Samuel Barclay Charters, Ann Charters (Photographer) Featuring photographs of blues musicians taken by Ann Charters, this text presents a portrait of one of America's most vital musical artforms. Sam Charters provides a commentary to accompany the portraits. see all copies from $5.76! new only from $24.90! \| first editions
19 view cover	Walking a Blues Road: A Blues Reader 1956-2004 more books like this by Samuel Charters Samuel Charters belongs to a small group of writers about music whose work has transformed their -subject-without his discoveries, insights and interventions, the history of blues over the past 50 years would have been very different. This book is a -collection of his writings from 1954 to 2004. Samuel Charters walks us from Houston, Texas ... see all copies from $6.40! new only from $11.11! \| SVS
20 view cover	Robert Johnson more books like this by Samuel Barclay Charters One of America's most respected authorities on the blues delves deeply into the recorded legacy of Robert Johnson, transcribing each of his songs with dedicated accuracy and distilling the meaning of every sound and phrase. see all copies from $8.03! new only from $75.73! \| first editions
21 view cover	The Blues Makers more books like this by Samuel Barclay Charters } The Blues Makers is Samuel Charters's monumental study of the blues, its makers, and the environment from which they merged. IT was originally published in two separate volumes, The Bluesmen and Sweet as the Showers of Rain, and for a long time languished out of print. Now, with the addition of a new preface and a new chapter on Robert Johnson ... see all copies from $9.95!
22	The bluesmen; the story and the music of the men who made the blues more books like this by Samuel Barclay Charters see all copies from $4.75! first editions
23 view cover	Jelly Roll Morton's Last Night at the Jungle Inn more books like this by Samuel Charters Samuel Charters, the eminent historian of jazz and the blues, evokes the character and spirit of the self-professed inventor of jazz. "Funny and moving."--The New Yorker* see all copies from $3.42! new only from $3.42! \| first editions
24 view cover	The Roots of the Blues more books like this by Samuel Barclay Charters }"I went to Africa to find the roots of the blues." So Samuel Charters begins the extraordinary story of his research. But what began as a study of how the blues was handed down from African slaves to musicians of today via the slave ships, became something much more complex. For in Africa Samuel Charters discovered a music which was not just a ... see all copies from $3.54! new only from $12.06! \| SVS
25	Tomas Transtromer more books like this by Robert Hass (Editor), Samuel Barclay Charters (Translator), May Swenson (Translator) see all copies from $7.75! first editions

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