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BOOKS by Robert G O'Meally

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Lady Day: The Many Faces of Billie Holiday

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by Robert G O'Meally

The complex life of jazz singing legend Billie Holiday is meticulously examined through the fitting medium of her music in Robert O'Meally's biography, LADY DAY. Columbia University professor O'Meally explores Holiday's early career in the after-hours clubs of Harlem, her musical maturity in the 1940s, and her declining years in the late 1950s. ...

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Living with Music: Ralph Ellison's Jazz Writings

Living with Music: Ralph Ellison's Jazz Writings more books like this

by Ralph Ellison, Robert G O'Meally (Editor)

Trained as a musician in his youth, one of the most celebrated American fiction writers, Ralph Ellison, was a lifelong jazz aficionado. This collection combines Ellison's jazz-inspired fiction and inspirational criticism on subjects like guitarist Charlie Christian, in whose story he finds the ultimate jazz dilemma: that true spontaneity is ...

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The Jazz Cadence of American Culture

The Jazz Cadence of American Culture more books like this

by Robert G O'Meally (Editor)

A comprehensive collection of essays, speeches, and interviews on the impact of jazz on other arts, on politics, and on the rhythm of everyday life, including an essay on poet and novelist James Weldon Johnson as a cultural critic, an interview with Wynton Marsalis, a speech on the heroic image in jazz, and a newspaper review of "Bring in 'Da ...

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New Essays on "Invisible Man"

New Essays on "Invisible Man" more books like this

by Robert G O'Meally (Editor)

A collection of essays on Ralph Ellison's novel, Invisible Man.

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Tales of the Congaree

Tales of the Congaree more books like this

by Edward C L Adams, Robert G O'Meally (Editor), O'Meally Robert G (Introduction by)

This volume brings back into print a remarkable record of black life in the 1920s, chronicled by Edward C.L. Adams, a white physician from the area around the Congaree River in central South Carolina. It reproduces Adams's major works, "Congaree Sketches" (1927) and "Nigger to Nigger" (1928), two collections of tales, poems, and dialogues from ...

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The Book of Rhythms

The Book of Rhythms more books like this

by Langston Hughes, Matthew Wawiorka (Illustrator), Robert G O'Meally (Afterword by)

Using simple techniques, Langston Hughes explains the patterns of rhythm in this updated edition that features an introduction by Wynton Marsalis and afterword by Robert G. O'Meally. Cull-color illustrations.

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Uptown Conversation: The New Jazz Studies

Uptown Conversation: The New Jazz Studies more books like this

by Robert G O'Meally

"Uptown Conversation" asserts that jazz is not only a music to define, it is a culture.Original essays cover jazz historiography, the political stakes of telling the story of the music, and its cultural import, including the music's experimental wing and revisionary takes on familiar figures in the canon: Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, Duke ...

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The Craft of Ralph Ellison more books like this

by Robert G O'Meally

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Romare Bearden: A Black Odyssey

Romare Bearden: A Black Odyssey more books like this

by Robert G O'Meally

Foreword by Bridget Moore. Text by Robert G. O'Meally.

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