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Jelly Roll Blues

Censored Songs and Hidden Histories

By: Elijah Wald

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Jelly Roll Blues

Censored Songs and Hidden Histories

By: Elijah Wald

A bestselling music historian follows Jelly Roll Morton on a journey through the hidden worlds and forbidden songs of early blues and jazz. In Jelly Roll Blues: Censored Songs and Hidden Histories, Elijah Wald takes readers on a journey into the hidden and censored world of early blues and jazz, guided by the legendary New Orleans pianist Jelly Roll Morton. Morton became nationally famous as a composer and bandleader in the 1920s, but got his start twenty years earlier, entertaining customers in the city’s famous bordellos and singing rough blues in Gulf Coast honky-tonks. He recorded an oral history of that time in 1938, but the most distinctive songs were hidden away for over fifty years, because the language and themes were as wild and raunchy as anything in gangsta rap. Those songs inspired Wald to explore how much other history had been locked away and censored, and this book is the result of that quest. Full of previously unpublished lyrics and stories, it paints a new and surprising picture of the dawn of American popular music, when jazz and blues were still the private, after-hours music of the Black "sporting world." It gives new insight into familiar figures like Buddy Bolden and Louis Armstrong, and introduces forgotten characters like Ready Money, the New Orleans sex worker and pickpocket who ended up owning one of the largest Black hotels on the West Coast. Revelatory and fascinating, these songs and stories provide an alternate view of Black culture at the turn of the twentieth century, when a new generation was shaping lives their parents could not have imagined and art that transformed popular culture around the world—the birth of a joyous, angry, desperate, loving, and ferociously funny tradition that resurfaced in hip-hop and continues to inspire young artists in a new millennium.

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Hachette Books

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0306831422

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9780306831423

Who Is Lin-Manuel Miranda?

By: Elijah Rey-David Matos,Who HQ

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Who Is Lin-Manuel Miranda?

By: Elijah Rey-David Matos,Who HQ

Step into the spotlight with Lin-Manuel Miranda in this addition to the New York Times #1 Best-Selling series that explains how the Broadway legend got his start before Hamilton and Encanto! Born in New York to Puerto Rican parents, Lin-Manuel Miranda had a passion for the arts and creativity from a young age. He participated in theater as a child and wrote his first Broadway musical, In the Heights, while he was still in college. That show won him his first Tony Award for Best Musical! He went on to create and star in the beloved musical Hamilton about the life of Alexander Hamilton. A nonstop writer, Lin-Manuel contributed music for other major projects such as Moana, Encanto, Star Wars, and The Little Mermaid. He has won a Pulitzer prize, five Grammy awards, three Tony Awards, and two Emmy awards so far in his successful career as a composer, lyricist, actor, and director.

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Penguin

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0593750799

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9780593750797

AFRICAN POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

By: Godfrey O. Ozumba & Elijah O. John (Edited)

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AFRICAN POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

By: Godfrey O. Ozumba & Elijah O. John (Edited)

African Political Philosophy has come to dismiss the bogey myth of non-existence of the great and noble ideas of African philosophy, African theology and African history. It has rather come to justify the reality and existence of African philosophy espoused in the early 1970s by people like Professor Innocent Onyewuenyi who propounded the notion of Egyptian-African origin of Greek philosophy. This has also added to its academic merit and market potential. It is indeed a necessary addition to the growing volumes of brilliant books by a number of indigenous African scholars and writers. This book id endorsed by Edioms Research and Innovation Centre (E-RIC)

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Lulu.com

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1326911406

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9781326911409

The Rise of the Global South

The Decline of Western Christendom and the Rise of Majority World Christianity

By: Elijah Jong Fil Kim

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The Rise of the Global South

The Decline of Western Christendom and the Rise of Majority World Christianity

By: Elijah Jong Fil Kim

Global Christianity has been experiencing an unprecedented historical transition from the West to the non-Western world. The leadership of global Christianity has taken on a new face since the twentieth century. Christendom in Europe and America has experienced a great decline while there has been a rise in Majority World Christianity. Churches in the Global South have given their voices to global Christianity through their leadership, world mission movements, and theology. The phenomenal church growth has risen from the Pentecostal and Charismatic movement. Pentecostalism has become the dominant force in global Christianity today. The Rise of the Global South examines the significance this shift has had on global Christianity by going through the history of Christianity in the West and the causes of the shift.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1621891933

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9781621891932

The Bible, the Talmud, and the New Testament

Elijah Zvi Soloveitchik's Commentary to the Gospels

By: Elijah Zvi Soloveitchik

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The Bible, the Talmud, and the New Testament

Elijah Zvi Soloveitchik's Commentary to the Gospels

By: Elijah Zvi Soloveitchik

Born in Slutzk, Russia, in 1805, Elijah Zvi Soloveitchik is a largely forgotten member of the prestigious Soloveitchik rabbinic dynasty. Before Hayyim Soloveitchik developed the standard Brisker method of Talmudic study, or Joseph Dov Soloveitchik helped to found American Modern Orthodox Judaism, Elijah Soloveitchik wrote Qol Qore, a rabbinic commentary on the Gospels of Matthew and Mark. Qol Qore drew on classic rabbinic literature, and particularly on the works of Moses Maimonides, to argue for the compatibility of Christianity with Judaism. To this day, it remains the only rabbinic work to embrace the compatibility of Orthodox Judaism and the Christian Bible. In The Bible, the Talmud, and the New Testament, Shaul Magid presents the first-ever English translation of Qol Qore. In his contextualizing introduction, Magid explains that Qol Qore offers a window onto the turbulent historical context of nineteenth-century European Jewry. With violent anti-Semitic activity on the rise in Europe, Elijah Soloveitchik was unique in believing that the roots of anti-Semitism were theological, based on a misunderstanding of the New Testament by both Jews and Christians. His hope was that the Qol Qore, written in Hebrew and translated into French, German, and Polish, would reach Jewish and Christian audiences, urging each to consider the validity of the other's religious principles. In an era characterized by fractious debates between Jewish communities, Elijah Soloveitchik represents a voice that called for radical unity amongst Jews and Christians alike.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812296133

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9780812296136

Protection and Industry

By: Swire Sir Smith,Walter M.P. Runciman,Hugh Bell,S.G. Hobson,Arthur Wadham,James Prof. Long,Elijah M.A. Helm,Charles Sir McLaren,M.P Bart.,William Burton,Alfred Mond,"A City Editor"

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Protection and Industry

By: Swire Sir Smith,Walter M.P. Runciman,Hugh Bell,S.G. Hobson,Arthur Wadham,James Prof. Long,Elijah M.A. Helm,Charles Sir McLaren,M.P Bart.,William Burton,Alfred Mond,"A City Editor"

First published in 1904, this volume emerged during a split within the Liberal Unionist Party over Joseph Chamberlain’s advocacy of Protectionism through Tariff Reform. Having originally broken with the Liberal Party over Home Rule in 1885, 1904 saw some Liberal Unionists return to the Liberal fold. The authors here constitute those departing Liberal Unionists in a multifaceted rallying call for Free Trade in the face of Protectionism. Their articles, on subjects such as Shipping, Agriculture and Engineering, assess the implications of Free Trade with a focus on each author’s specialist industry. The authors unanimously declare in favour of the system under which, they maintain, Great Britain developed unparalleled prosperity and taught other nations her industrial success. In the process, they demonstrate that trade cannot improve whilst fettered and focus on the potential for real improvements through Free Trade.

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Routledge

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0429870183

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9780429870187

How The Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll

An Alternative History of American Popular Music

By: Elijah Wald

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How The Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll

An Alternative History of American Popular Music

By: Elijah Wald

How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll is an alternative history of American music that, instead of recycling the familiar cliches of jazz and rock, looks at what people were playing, hearing and dancing to over the course of the 20th century, using a wealth of original research, curious quotations, and an irreverent fascination with the oft-despised commercial mainstream.

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OUP USA

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019975697X

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9780199756971

The Blues: A Very Short Introduction

By: Elijah Wald

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The Blues: A Very Short Introduction

By: Elijah Wald

Praised as "suave, soulful, ebullient" (Tom Waits) and "a meticulous researcher, a graceful writer, and a committed contrarian" (New York Times Book Review), Elijah Wald is one of the leading popular music critics of his generation. In The Blues, Wald surveys a genre at the heart of American culture. It is not an easy thing to pin down. As Howlin' Wolf once described it, "When you ain't got no money and can't pay your house rent and can't buy you no food, you've damn sure got the blues." It has been defined by lyrical structure, or as a progression of chords, or as a set of practices reflecting West African "tonal and rhythmic approaches," using a five-note "blues scale." Wald sees blues less as a style than as a broad musical tradition within a constantly evolving pop culture. He traces its roots in work and praise songs, and shows how it was transformed by such professional performers as W. C. Handy, who first popularized the blues a century ago. He follows its evolution from Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith through Bob Dylan and Jimi Hendrix; identifies the impact of rural field recordings of Blind Lemon Jefferson, Charley Patton and others; explores the role of blues in the development of both country music and jazz; and looks at the popular rhythm and blues trends of the 1940s and 1950s, from the uptown West Coast style of T-Bone Walker to the "down home" Chicago sound of Muddy Waters. Wald brings the story up to the present, touching on the effects of blues on American poetry, and its connection to modern styles such as rap. As with all of Oxford's Very Short Introductions, The Blues tells you--with insight, clarity, and wit--everything you need to know to understand this quintessentially American musical genre.

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Oxford University Press

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0199752877

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9780199752874

UNITED STATES HISTORY

Concise Text For School Projects

By: Elijah Dunbar

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UNITED STATES HISTORY

Concise Text For School Projects

By: Elijah Dunbar

This text contains everything a student needs to know about the history of the United States. Its conciseness is the author’s way of making learning as simplistic and interesting as possible to students and scholars. This concise yet detailed text on the past and present accounts of the United States includes informative appendices and significant biographical data about the Presidents of the United States and their wives. It contains the Constitutional Amendments along with the Gettysburg Address of Abraham Lincoln; a time of confrontation and emancipation, the “I Have A Dream” speech by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; a time of contention and determination, and the Inaugural Address of Barack Obama; a time of innovation and transformation. This nonfiction tradebook is an invaluable source of information for students, History teachers and other readers.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1462819613

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9781462819614

Unveiling the Mysteries of God

The Two End-Time Witnesses of God Now Here Reveal the Next Twelve Years on Earth

By: by Arnold Gabriel The Man Almighty God calls Prophet Elijah

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Unveiling the Mysteries of God

The Two End-Time Witnesses of God Now Here Reveal the Next Twelve Years on Earth

By: by Arnold Gabriel The Man Almighty God calls Prophet Elijah

This condensed book has been compiled of twenty-four books. Each book was given directly from Almighty God's Holy Spirit to His Servant Arnold Gabriel, whom He calls Elijah. The book takes you from the past, to the present and into the future. The prophet takes you beyond the grave and reveals mysteries, which the Lord God has shown to him. Arnold Gabriel reveals the full forthcoming twelve to fifteen years on the earth. He has met and seen the Lord on numerous occasions, has been to the center of the earth, and has seen countless millions of souls in prisons waiting for the great day of Judgment. He has prophesied to many nations, even the full happening of Zimbabwe from 1998. Word for word, all has come to pass even foretold only God would take President Mugabe out. He prophecied Cape Town and Los Angeles will be under the sea in these years, and also many islands.Every human on the planet will be affected.

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Dorrance Publishing

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148090550X

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9781480905504

Born to Rebel

An Autobiography

By: Benjamin Elijah Mays

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Born to Rebel

An Autobiography

By: Benjamin Elijah Mays

Born the son of a sharecropper in 1894 near Ninety Six, South Carolina, Benjamin E. Mays went on to serve as president of Morehouse College for twenty-seven years and as the first president of the Atlanta School Board. His earliest memory, of a lynching party storming through his county, taunting but not killing his father, became for Mays an enduring image of black-white relations in the South. Born to Rebel is the moving chronicle of his life, a story that interlaces achievement with the rebuke he continually confronted.

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University of Georgia Press

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0820325236

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9780820325231

Teaching and Understanding Pneumatology & Spiritual Gifts

Exegetes and Apologetes Emphatically on Leadership and Ministry, an Interdisciplinary Text

By: Elijah E. Dunbar

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Teaching and Understanding Pneumatology & Spiritual Gifts

Exegetes and Apologetes Emphatically on Leadership and Ministry, an Interdisciplinary Text

By: Elijah E. Dunbar

The geographical extent of the orient and occident is a validation of the cultural and ideological differences that have existed with constancies between the two hemispheres throughout the ions of time. Ideological pluralism has been the common practice of the inhabitants of both spheres but with unique manifestations. Christianity along with other religions are warmly embraced and pragmatically characterized by the orientals and occidentals with reserved peculiarities. Oriental Christians viewed pneumatology as being a significant particle of their theological and liturgical lives, while Occidental Christians see Christology as the primal substance in Christianity. Although both groups have a history of singling out this distinction, over the years, theologians and theology have helped both sides understand the importance of both pneumatology and Christology in Christianity. It is concertedly understood that neither of the two can be studied or taught without the other. Their inseparable existence makes Christianity a complete whole. The authors exploration and literary expedition through myriad of sources allow him to compile data relevant to understanding the importance of the Holy Ghost and Spiritual gifts within the Christian community. Whether a secular or non-secular intellectual, you will find the information in this book to be rewarding, resourceful and informative. You will come across comments from some of humanitys and Christendoms finest and brightest academics in an eclectic form. Join the author now on his literary expedition. Welcome!

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1462819605

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9781462819607

Aeroman

By: Elijah Thompson

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Aeroman

By: Elijah Thompson

In a more technologically advanced time than our own the story of Aeroman is about an ordinary boy named Markus Ward. After a failed suicide attempt the self-destructive teen acquires powerful abilities in order to protect the planet from a looming external threat. However, with a blatant disregard for natural law Aerolad and later Aeroman finds himself on a dark and bloody path. Follow the titular protagonist in this Science/Fantasy epic as he becomes one of the world's most infamous protectors with the help of his creator, Mistress Construct. His partner in crime Black Specter and the others who follow him fight in a deeply rooted struggle between bad versus evil. Making uneasy alliances and questionable judgment calls, Aeroman and his companions' battle forces that seek to plunge their world and reality itself into a realm of pure darkness and chaos.

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1365831698

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9781365831690

Gruesome Looking Objects

By: Elijah Gaddis

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Gruesome Looking Objects

By: Elijah Gaddis

This original and provocative study uses objects-made, collected, and imagined-to examine lynching and racial terror.

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1316514021

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Jelly Roll Blues

Jelly Roll Blues

Who Is Lin-Manuel Miranda?

Who Is Lin-Manuel Miranda?

AFRICAN POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

AFRICAN POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

The Rise of the Global South

The Rise of the Global South

The Bible, the Talmud, and the New Testament

The Bible, the Talmud, and the New Testament

Protection and Industry

Protection and Industry

How The Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll

How The Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll

The Blues: A Very Short Introduction

The Blues: A Very Short Introduction

UNITED STATES HISTORY

UNITED STATES HISTORY

Unveiling the Mysteries of God

Unveiling the Mysteries of God

Born to Rebel

Born to Rebel

Teaching and Understanding Pneumatology & Spiritual Gifts

Teaching and Understanding Pneumatology & Spiritual Gifts

Aeroman

Aeroman

Gruesome Looking Objects

Gruesome Looking Objects

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