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Jazz and Blues Musicians of South Carolina

Interviews with Jabbo, Dizzy, Drink, and Others

By: Benjamin Franklin V

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Jazz and Blues Musicians of South Carolina

Interviews with Jabbo, Dizzy, Drink, and Others

By: Benjamin Franklin V

An oral history of musical genres from the Palmetto State musicians who helped define the sounds From Jabbo Smith, Dizzy Gillespie, and Drink Small to Johnny Helms, Dick Goodwin, and Chris Potter, South Carolina has been home to an impressive number of regionally, nationally, and internationally known jazz and blues musicians. Through richly detailed interviews with nineteen South Carolina musicians, jazz historian and radio host Benjamin Franklin V presents an oral history of the tradition and influence of jazz and the blues in the Palmetto State. Franklin takes as his subjects a range of musicians born between 1905 and 1971, representing every decade in between, to trace the progression of these musical genres from Tommy Benford's and Jabbo Smith's first recording sessions in the summer of 1926 to the present day. Diverse not only in age but also in race, gender, instruments, and style, these musicians exemplify the breadth of South Carolina's jazz and blues performers. In their own colorful words, the musicians recall love affairs with the distinctive sounds of jazz and blues, indoctrinations into the musical world, early gigs, fans, drugs, military service, amateur night at the Apollo Theater, and influential friendships with other well-known musicians. As the story of the South Carolina musical scene is tightly interwoven with that of the nation, these narratives also include appearances by Tony Bennett, Miles Davis, Count Basie, Helen Merrill, Pharoah Sanders, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, and other significant musicians. These interviews also document the lasting value of music education. In particular they stress the importance of the famed Jenkins Orphanage in Charleston and of South Carolina State University in Orangeburg in nurturing young musicians' talent. Arranged in chronological order by the subjects' birth years, these interviews are augmented by photographs of the musicians, collectively serving as a unique record of representative jazz and blues musicians who have called South Carolina home.

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Univ of South Carolina Press

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1643362186

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9781643362182

Cannibalism, Headhunting and Human Sacrifice in North America

A History Forgotten

By: George Franklin Feldman

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Cannibalism, Headhunting and Human Sacrifice in North America

A History Forgotten

By: George Franklin Feldman

This riveting volume dispels the sanitized history surrounding Native American practices toward their enemies that preceded the European exploration and colonization of North America. We abandon truth when we gloss over the clashes between Native Americans and Europeans, encounters of parties equally matched in barbarity, says George Franklin Feldman, We neglect true history when we hide the uniqueness of the varied cultures that evolved during the thousands of years before Europeans invaded North America. The research is impeccable, the writing sparkling, and the evidence incontrovertible: headhunting and cannibalism were practiced by many of the native peoples of North America.

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272

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1493082027

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9781493082025

Labor of Love

By: Emily Franklin

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Labor of Love

By: Emily Franklin

Just when Love meets her half-sister in LA, her dad calls to burst her blissful summer bubble. Her mother, whose identity was kept a mystery her entire life, is in Martha's Vineyard. Love has to cut her trip short and book it home. Unfortunately, what she finds isn't her mother, but a whole world turned upside down. For one thing, Love's boyfriend Charlie has traded in his fishing pole for a pair of stiff khakis to please his equally stiff and overbearing parents. Meanwhile, her ex professes to still have feelings for her. Thankfully she has her friends and Dad to rely on. But even Dad doesn't have all the answers. Only one woman can clear things up, a woman who's never known Love. Has she come back to stay? Maybe ignorance was bliss.

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166

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Penguin

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1440619840

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9781440619847

The Other John Adams, 1705-1740

By: Benjamin Franklin

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The Other John Adams, 1705-1740

By: Benjamin Franklin

Adams was more successful as a writer than as a clergyman. As a poet, he wrote a series of generally impressive personal poems, crafted effective images, created a memorable melancholiac, composed a substantial poem in the Blackmorean mode, and translated parts of the Bible and Horace. Most of his poems were collected and published post-humously under his name in 1745. With his uncle Matthew Adams and Mather Byles, John Adams participated in Proteus Echo, the second essay series to appear in American newspapers. Franklin's Dogood papers were the first. In his essays, Adams is most important as a literary theorist, especially when addressing how much, if at all, authors should compromise their values in order to please readers. He encourages politeness and social interaction and criticizes boring ministers, thus evincing the changing social dynamics of the time. The advice to the love-lorn column might have originated in one of his contributions to Proteus Echo."--BOOK JACKET.

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Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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0838639860

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9780838639863

'Orientalist Jones'

Sir William Jones, Poet, Lawyer, and Linguist, 1746-1794

By: Michael J. Franklin

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'Orientalist Jones'

Sir William Jones, Poet, Lawyer, and Linguist, 1746-1794

By: Michael J. Franklin

A major new critical biography of Sir William Jones (1746-94), the foremost Orientalist of his generation and one of the greatest intellectual navigators of all time, whose Sanskrit researches did more than any other writer to destroy Eurocentric prejudice, reshaping Western perceptions of India and the Orient.

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409

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Oxford University Press

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0199532001

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9780199532001

My Soul Is a Witness

A Chronicle of the Civil Rights Era, 1954–1964

By: Bettye Collier-Thomas,V. P. Franklin

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My Soul Is a Witness

A Chronicle of the Civil Rights Era, 1954–1964

By: Bettye Collier-Thomas,V. P. Franklin

A powerful and inspiring record of one of the most significant periods in America's history, which presents the full historic scope of the hard-fought battle for civil rights. From the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision, in which legal segregation in public schools was declared unconstitutional, to the Nashville sit-ins organized by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and from the Freedom Rides to the March on Washington, to the subsequent passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965-and covering everything in between--Bettye Collier-Thomas and V. P. Franklin's My Soul Is a Witness is the first comprehensive chronology of the civil rights era in America. This unique chronology extends the examination of civil rights activities beyond the South to include the North, Midwest, and Far West. Although Martin Luther King, Jr. was a towering figure during the era, the authors shift the focus to the thousands of people, places, and events that encompassed the Civil Rights movement. Each entry is based on information found in articles and reports published in three newspaper and periodical sources: The New York Times, Jet Magazine, and the Southern School News. Supplementing the basic chronology are longer features that explore larger topics in more depth and highlight issues well-known at the time but unknown today by scholars and the general public.

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Macmillan + ORM

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1250107725

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9781250107725

Beyond Desire

By: Damian Jason Alexander Franklin

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Beyond Desire

By: Damian Jason Alexander Franklin

Beyond Desire" is a captivating young adult novel that explores the challenges and complexities of friendship, love, and healing in the face of loss. When Jason transfers to a new high school for his senior year, he finds solace and companionship in his new friends, Tommy and Jessica, both of whom are haunted by their own pasts. As their friendship deepens, tensions escalate with others, and Jason discovers he must fight to protect his relationships and confront the painful secrets that threaten to tear them apart. Filled with heart, resilience, and the power of connection, "Beyond Desire" is a compelling coming-of-age story that will resonate with readers of all ages. In "Beyond Desire," Jason"s transfer to a new high school for his senior year leads him down a path filled with friendship, romance, and the challenges of navigating the baggage his new friends carry. As he builds a relationship with Tommy and Jessica, both haunted by their own pasts, tensions spike and Jason finds himself fighting to protect his friendships and his blossoming romance with Jessica. But as secrets and bullies threaten to tear them apart, Jason must do everything he can to shield his friends from their grief before he suffers another heartbreaking loss.

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EBL Books

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1524328820

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9781524328825

Politics and Film

The Political Culture of Television and Movies

By: Daniel P. Franklin

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Politics and Film

The Political Culture of Television and Movies

By: Daniel P. Franklin

Politics and Film examines popular movies and television shows as indicators of social and political trends to explore the political culture of the United States. Updated to include the popular and controversial movies and shows American Sniper, House of Cards, Orange Is the New Black, and Twelve Years a Slave, the second edition investigates popular conceptions of government, the military, intelligence and terrorism, punishment and policing, and recognizes mistakes or dark times in our shared history.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1442262338

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9781442262331

Collections of the Kansas State Historical Society

Vol. I, II

By: Franklin George Adams,George Washington Martin,William Elsey Connelley

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Collections of the Kansas State Historical Society

Vol. I, II

By: Franklin George Adams,George Washington Martin,William Elsey Connelley

Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

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334

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385382114

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9783385382114

The Launching of Duke University, 1924-1949

By: Robert Franklin Durden

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The Launching of Duke University, 1924-1949

By: Robert Franklin Durden

In this rich and authoritative history, distinguished historian Robert F. Durden tells the story of the formation of Duke University, beginning with its creation in 1924 as a new institution organized around Trinity College. As Durden reveals, this narrative belongs first and foremost to Duke University's original President, William Preston Few, whose visionary leadership successfully launched the building of the first voluntarily supported research university in the South. In focusing on Duke University's most formative and critical years--its first quarter century--Durden commemorates Few's remarkable successes while recognizing the painful realities and uncertainties of a young institution. Made possible by a gift from James B. Duke, the wealthiest member of the family that had underwritten Trinity College since 1890, Duke University was organized with Few as president. Few's goal was to turn Duke into a world-class institution of higher education and these early years saw the development of much of what we know as Duke University today. Drawing on extensive archival material culled over a ten-year period, Durden discusses the building of the Medical Center, the rebuilding of the School of Law, the acquisition of the Duke Forest and development of the School of Forestry, the nurturing of the Divinity School, and the enrichment of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. It was also during this period, as Durden details, that such treasures as the Sarah P. Duke Gardens were created, as well as some near treasures, as seen by the failed attempt to start an art museum. Although the story of the birth of this University belongs largely to William Preston Few, other people figure prominently and are discussed at length. Alice Baldwin, who led in the establishment of the Woman's College, emerges as a fascinating figure, as do William H. Wannamaker, James B. Duke, William Hanes Ackland, Robert L. Flowers, Justin Miller, and Wilburt Cornell Davision, among others. Although impressive growth occurred in Duke's formative years, tensions also arose. The need to strike an institutional balance between the twin demands of teaching and research, of regional versus national status, combined with continual shortages of funds, created occasional obstacles. The problem of two sets of trustees, one for the university and another for the Duke Endowment, loomed largest of all. As Few himself said, during these early years Duke successfully embarked on a long journey, for it was not until after World War II that Duke University consolidated the growth begun in the inter-war years. An important contribution to the history of Southern higher education as well as to Duke University, this book will be of great interest to historians, alumni, and friends of Duke University alike.

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Duke University Press

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0822313022

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9780822313021

Book's by Franklin Parker

Jazz and Blues Musicians of South Carolina

Jazz and Blues Musicians of South Carolina

Cannibalism, Headhunting and Human Sacrifice in North America

Cannibalism, Headhunting and Human Sacrifice in North America

Labor of Love

Labor of Love

The Other John Adams, 1705-1740

The Other John Adams, 1705-1740

'Orientalist Jones'

'Orientalist Jones'

My Soul Is a Witness

My Soul Is a Witness

Beyond Desire

Beyond Desire

Politics and Film

Politics and Film

Collections of the Kansas State Historical Society

Collections of the Kansas State Historical Society

The Launching of Duke University, 1924-1949

The Launching of Duke University, 1924-1949

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