Highlife Saturday Night captures the vibrancy of Saturday nights in Ghana—when musicians took to the stage and dancers took to the floor—in this penetrating look at musical leisure during a time of social, political, and cultural change. Framing dance band "highlife" music as a central medium through which Ghanaians negotiated gendered and generational social relations, Nate Plageman shows how popular music was central to the rhythm of daily life in a West African nation. He traces the history of highlife in urban Ghana during much of the 20th century and documents a range of figures that fueled the music's emergence, evolution, and explosive popularity. This book is generously enhanced by audiovisual material on the Ethnomusicology Multimedia website.
The Church Triumphant at the End of the Age offers a victorious glimpse of His Bride in these Last Days. It is GOD working among His people as characterized by revival, restoration, unity, world evangelization, and persecution. The purpose of this book is to prepare all believers to rise up, touch their world with the Good News of Jesus, and share His glory throughout the earth. I have had a close-up look at this man and his ministry and can heartily endorse it. May God use this book to encourage His Church to do great exploits and triumphantly bring back the King! Loren Cunningham, Founder, Youth with a Mission International Few books have dared to document so fully the incredible ways in which God has been working in His Church. It should be required reading for any world-Christian. Jay Gary, Past Executive Editor, World Christian Magazine Two underlying themes of this book are: (1) We may expect a major, worldwide revival in coming years which will immediately precede Christs second coming, and (2) God has been progressively restoring the Church to the New Testament model, particularly in the last few centuries. Dr. Howard A. Snyder, Author of Radical Renewal: The Problem of Wineskins Today Nate Krupp has produced a major work which, if used as a text, can provide superb training for the harvesters. Dr. C. Peter Wagner, World renowned Missiologist, and Church growth expert
Born in the 1890s, Nate Shaw could neither read nor write, but was able to tell his life story in detail. He had been a member of the Alabama Sharecropper Union in the 1930s, and his account reflects the social history of southern America.
As humanity is still reeling from the Kazoop's attack on Fort Knox, Grzzt is taken to a secret meeting with the General Secretary. Unbeknownst to them, the meeting is not so secret. Meanwhile, we learn more about Kevin Keene and Martha Cortez. First issue for new series artist, Giancarlo Caracuzzo.
The myriad of plots advance: Kevin Keene's undercover infiltration of the Cohorts of Christ cadres within the jail system, and Daryl Washington's pose as a reformed believer on Sean Sullivan's program. Meanwhile, the behavior of Larry, Moe, and Curly makes Bambi suspicious and Betty Pierce continues her machinations.
Former army ranger Nate Self, a hero from the Robert’s Ridge rescue in Afghanistan, tells his whole story—from the pulse-pounding battle in the mountains of Afghanistan to the high-stakes battle he has waged against post traumatic stress disorder. This book will become a go-to book for understanding the long-term effects of the war on terror. Thousands of families are fighting this battle, and Nate opens up his life—including his successes, tragedies, struggles with thoughts of suicide—to show how his faith and his family pulled him through. Includes 8 pages of color photos. In a nutshell: Excellent book for military familes trying to cope with the family pressures of a soldier's active duty. Inspirational book for a soldier struggling with post traumatic stress disorder . Helps readers understand the importance of faith in dealing with the war. An up-close-and-personal account of the war on terror; and the story of one soldier’s faith. An insider’s account of Robert’s Ridge Rescue in Afghanistan.
How sampling remade hip-hop over forty years, from pioneering superstar Grandmaster Flash through crate-digging preservationist and innovator Madlib Sampling—incorporating found sound and manipulating it into another form entirely—has done more than any musical movement in the twentieth century to maintain a continuum of popular music as a living document and, in the process, has become one of the most successful (and commercial) strains of postmodern art. Bring That Beat Back traces the development of this transformative pop-cultural practice from its origins in the turntable-manning, record-spinning hip-hop DJs of 1970s New York through forty years of musical innovation and reinvention. Nate Patrin tells the story of how sampling built hip-hop through the lens of four pivotal artists: Grandmaster Flash as the popular face of the music’s DJ-born beginnings; Prince Paul as an early champion of sampling’s potential to elaborate on and rewrite music history; Dr. Dre as the superstar who personified the rise of a stylistically distinct regional sound while blurring the lines between sampling and composition; and Madlib as the underground experimentalist and record-collector antiquarian who constantly broke the rules of what the mainstream expected from hip-hop. From these four artists’ histories, and the stories of the people who collaborated, competed, and evolved with them, Patrin crafts a deeply informed, eminently readable account of a facet of pop music as complex as it is commonly underestimated: the aesthetic and reconstructive power of one of the most revelatory forms of popular culture to emerge from postwar twentieth-century America. And you can nod your head to it.
The Kazoops makeshift research lab comes up with a new bio-weapon and need 'test subjects!' Meanwhile, the interrogation of Lt. Riley and his infiltration/control bug continues.
The new team at the Time Corps Venice Beach sub-station barely has any time to settle in when they get their next assignment -- to chase down a wayward Spartan hoplite in full battle array.
One of the Best Books of the Year: NPR, GQ, Billboard, JazzTimes In jazz parlance, “playing changes” refers to an improviser’s resourceful path through a chord progression. In this definitive guide to the jazz of our time, leading critic Nate Chinen boldly expands on that idea, taking us through the key changes, concepts, events, and people that have shaped jazz since the turn of the century—from Wayne Shorter and Henry Threadgill to Kamasi Washington and Esperanza Spalding; from the phrase “America’s classical music” to an explosion of new ideas and approaches; from claims of jazz’s demise to the living, breathing scene that exerts influence on mass culture, hip-hop, and R&B. Grounded in authority and brimming with style, packed with essential album lists and listening recommendations, Playing Changes takes the measure of this exhilarating moment—and the shimmering possibilities to come.
If you are not good enough for Heaven, or bad enough for Hell, where do you go? The Time Corps is where those undetermined souls go before their final destination, and their new job will be to help preserve the Time Line. History must be preserved lest the Law of Unintended Consequences be unleashed. Can they stop a relentless young man driven mad by love to revise history no matter what?
Dinosaurs on Wrigley Field in the year 1996! Fisticuffs and secret entrances in the year 3114! Two teams of time tossed souls try to puzzle out what’s happening as chrono terrorists from the future attack multiple points in the past! When the truth comes out about what drove Malcontent and Peter Piernitowski together, will it be enough to topple the Celestial Bureaucracy ... and time itself?
The sensational true story of how a bank robber killed a man in a wild shootout, sparking a national debate around gun control and the death penalty. WINNER of the 2022 Brass Knuckles Award for Best Nonfiction Crime Book On July 24, 1964, twenty-four-year-old Matthew Kerry Smith disguised himself with a mask and a Beatle wig, hoisted a semi-automatic rifle, then held up a bank in North York, Ontario. The intelligent but troubled son of a businessman and mentally ill mother, Smith was a navy veteran with a young Indigenous wife and a hazy plan for violent revolution. Outside the bank, Smith was confronted by Jack Blanc, a former member of the Canadian and Israeli armies, who brandished a revolver. During a wild shootout, Blanc was killed, and Smith escaped — only to become the object of the largest manhunt in the history of the Metropolitan Toronto Police Force. Dubbed “The Beatle Bandit,” Smith was eventually captured, tried, and sentenced to hang. His murderous rampage had tragic consequences for multiple families and fuelled a national debate about the death penalty, gun control, and the insanity defence.
As the Malcontent unleashes chaos across a swath of eras, she uses the resultant chaos to meet with the only other person outside of the Time Corps to travel time, Peter Piernitowski.
The human element of our work has never been more important. As Robert Yagelski explains in Writing as a Way of Being (2011), the ideological and social pressures of our institutions put us under increasing pressure to sacrifice our humanity in the interest of efficiency. These problems only grow when we artificially separate self/world and mind/body in our teaching and everyday experiences. Following Yagelski and others, Writing as a Way of Staying Human in a Time that Isn't proposes that intentional acts of writing can awaken us to our interconnectedness and to ways in which we—as individuals and in writing communities—might address the social and environmental challenges of our present and future world. Featuring essays drawn from a range of contexts, including college composition and developmental reading and writing, professional and legal writing, middle school English, dissertation projects, academic conferences, and an online writing group, the collection outlines three ways writing can help us stay human: caring for ourselves and others; honoring the times and spaces of writing; and promoting justice. Each essay describes specific strategies for using writing as a means for staying human in inhuman times. The authors integrate personal stories, descriptions of classroom assignments and activities, and current research in writing studies. Their work shows that writing can contribute to personal, social, and political transformation by nurturing vulnerability, compassion, and empathy among students and instructors alike.
Various machinations continue apace! Noah Company's predators plans begin to gel, Darryl & Kevin's infiltration missions go forward, and Maria Berenyi finds a supplier for Grzzt's needs.
If you are not good enough for Heaven, or bad enough for Hell, where do you go? The Time Corps is where those undetermined souls go before their final destination, and their new job will be to help preserve the Time Line. History must be preserved lest the Law of Unintended Consequences be unleashed. Can they stop a relentless young man driven mad by love to revise history no matter what?
It all comes down to this. After centuries of murder, pillage and unbridled expansion, the once proud vampyr nation is now a huddled mass of cripples, children and the weak hiding in the ruins of the Romanian Athenaeum in 1992. The Reaper, revealed as their former teacher Pythagoras at last, has cut off all avenues of support and comes to finish off the abomination of vampyrism. After this confrontation, nothing will be the same.
Myriad plots continue apace! Sean Sullivan leaks the existence of talking animals on his Truth Corporation TV show! Elektra Patzakis tightens her control over Noah Company and launches intrigues, including an elaborate catch & release trap so Grzzt may further infect the Kazoop Mother Ship.
The Kazoops grow confident their countermeasures to Grzzt's interference are working. Meanwhile, a desperate attack is undertaken by the Russians! This issue marks the debut of the new series artist, Dug Nation.
Providing inspiration for Tom Clancy's The Hunt for Red October, the 1975 mutiny aboard the Soviet destroyer Storozhevoy (translated Sentry) aimed at nothing less than the overthrow of Leonid Brezhnev and the Soviet government. Valery Sablin, a brilliant young political officer, seized control of the ship by convincing half the officers and all of the sailors to sail to Leningrad, where they would launch a new Russian Revolution. Suppressed in the Soviet Union for fifteen years, Young (the first American to uncover the mutiny twenty years ago) and Braden finally tell the untold story relying on recently declassified KGB documents as well as the Sablin family's papers. It is a gripping account of a disillusioned idealist forced to make the agonizing choice between working within or destroying the system he is sworn to protect.
Kevin Keene's infiltration mission into the Cohort of Christ continues as he is introduced to another cadre. Meanwhile, the situation on the Kazoop mother ship gets worse as Grzzt's nano virus takes hold and the large predators amble back to base.
There is chaos at the Department of Timeline Continuity, one part of the gigantic Celestial Bureaucracy that keeps reality going! Two chrono-anarchists called Peter Piernitowski and Malcontent (born Mallory Rice-Toleafoa) have hacked into the Bureaucracy and weaponized time, invading The Last Minute, the Department’s headquarters outside of traditional spacetime. They’re unleashing all brands of chaos, including an attempt on the life of the director, Alexander Kronus! Written by Hannibal Tabu, Art by Neal Yamamoto, Colored & Lettered by Josephine Roberts, Edited & Created by Nate Wunderman
Grzzt's nano-virus begins adversely affecting the Kazoop's attack vessels even as their over-burdened technical staff tries to enact countermeasures. Meanwhile, Darryl Washington puts his infiltration plan into effect and the patrol led by Nate Josephson attempts to talk to the pitiful encampment.
The Time Corps is an agency of the Celestial Bureaucracy charged with maintaining some semblance of stability for the entirety of history. To do so, several substations are set up in potential crisis areas where Time Corps agents, snatched from the moments of their death, are given a chance to improve their postmortem spiritual disposition, according to the rules of their own spiritual path. In the Venice Beach substation of 2002, Mayan athlete Smoke Jaguar, Russian noblewoman Paulina Popova and Prohibition-era lothario Garibaldi DiLovorno work under the supervision of former Roman centurion and current station chief Gaius Equitus Brutus and former DMV clerk turned Time Corps supervisor Prunella Jones. What none of them know is that sinister forces have strong motivations to make everything the Time Corps does turn to dust...
No one has had a better seat in the house than George Wein. The legendary impresario has known the most celebrated figures of music in general and jazz in particular--from Duke Ellington to Ella Fitzgerald to Miles Davis to Frank Sinatra. As a founder of the Newport Jazz Festival, the Newport Folk Festival, and the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, Wein has brought a dazzling spectrum of musicians to millions of fans, forever changing the musical landscape.In this highly praised memoir, Wein looks back on his life and career, describing his unforgettable relationships--sometimes smooth, sometimes tempestuous--with the great musicians he has known. From what really happened when Charlie Mingus visited the White House...to how Miles Davis and the ensemble that would eventually record the greatest jazz album of all time--Kind of Blue--came together at Wein's Storyville nightclub...to the day at Newport when Bob Dylan first "went electric," here are the personalities and forces that have shaped the past half-century of popular music.
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