Walter van de Leur's Books

Something to Live For

The Music of Billy Strayhorn

By: Walter van de Leur

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Something to Live For

The Music of Billy Strayhorn

By: Walter van de Leur

Duke Ellington was one of jazz's greatest figures, a composer and bandleader of unparalleled importance and influence. But little attention has been given to his chief musical collaborator, Billy Strayhorn, who created hundreds of compositions and arrangements for his musical partner, and without whom the sound of Ellington's orchestra would have been very different. Now, in Walter van de Leur's provocative new book, Something To Live For, Billy Strayhorn steps out from Ellington's shadow and into the spotlight. Van de Leur argues that far from being merely a follower of Ellington or his alter ego, Strayhorn brought a radically new and visionary way of writing to the Ellington orchestra. Making extensive use, for the first time, of over 3,000 autograph scores, Van de Leur separates Strayhorn from Ellington, establishes who wrote what, and clearly distinguishes between their distinctive musical styles. "Both Strayhorn's and Ellington's oeuvres," writes Van de Leur, "though historically intertwined, nevertheless form coherent, separate musical entities, especially in terms of harmonic, melodic, and structural design." Indeed, Something to Live For allows us to see the characteristic features of Strayhorn's compositions and arrangements, his "musical fingerprints," and to analyze and evaluate his music on its own terms. The book also makes clear that Strayhorn's contribution to the band was much larger, and more original, than has been previously acknowledged. Based on a decade of research and offering detailed analyses of over 70 musical examples, Something to Live For casts new light--and will surely arouse intense debate--on two of the most important composers in the history of jazz.

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353

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Oxford University Press

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0198028857

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9780198028857

Joseph Vance

By: Walter De Morgan

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Joseph Vance

By: Walter De Morgan

From the author of "Alice-for-Short," "It Never Can Happen Again," "Somehow Good," and "An Affair of Dishonor.

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550

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Wildside Press LLC

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1434472280

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9781434472281

Jazz and Death

Reception, Rituals, and Representations

By: Walter van de Leur

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Jazz and Death

Reception, Rituals, and Representations

By: Walter van de Leur

Jazz and Death: Reception, Rituals, and Representations critically examines the myriad and complex interactions between jazz and death, from the New Orleans "jazz funeral" to jazz in heaven or hell, final recordings, jazz monuments, and the music’s own presumed death. It looks at how fans, critics, journalists, historians, writers, the media, and musicians have narrated, mythologized, and relayed those stories. What causes the fascination of the jazz world with its deaths? What does it say about how our culture views jazz and its practitioners? Is jazz somehow a fatal culture? The narratives surrounding jazz and death cast a light on how the music and its creators are perceived. Stories of jazz musicians typically bring up different tropes, ranging from the tragic, misunderstood genius to the notion that virtuosity somehow comes at a price. Many of these narratives tend to perpetuate the gendered and racialized stereotypes that have been part of jazz’s history. In the end, the ideas that encompass jazz and death help audiences find meaning in a complex musical practice and come to grips with the passing of their revered musical heroes -- and possibly with their own mortality.

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161

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Taylor & Francis

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135137317X

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9781351373173

Cities of Ladies

Beguine Communities in the Medieval Low Countries, 1200-1565

By: Walter Simons

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Cities of Ladies

Beguine Communities in the Medieval Low Countries, 1200-1565

By: Walter Simons

The definitive study. . . . A learned, lively, and highly readable book, now the essential introduction to the subject.--Choice

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356

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812218531

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9780812218534

The Promised Lands

The Low Countries Under Burgundian Rule, 1369-153

By: Wim Blockmans,Walter Prevenier

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The Promised Lands

The Low Countries Under Burgundian Rule, 1369-153

By: Wim Blockmans,Walter Prevenier

They were, in the words of one contemporary observer, "the Promised Lands." In all of Europe, only Northern Italy could rival the economic power and cultural wealth of the Low Countries in the later Middle Ages. In The Promised Lands, Wim Blockmans and Walter Prevenier trace the relations between the cultural and economic developments of the Low Countries and the political evolution of the region under the rule of the dukes of Burgundy. Combining political, diplomatic, administrative, economic, social, artistic, and cultural history, Blockmans and Prevenier have synthesized the most recent research on the subject—much of it their own—to produce the most accessible and authoritative book in English on the subject. This is an updated and revised translation of a classic work first published in 1988, now expanded and reoriented toward a broader international readership.

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304

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812200705

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9780812200706

Cities and Social Movements

Immigrant Rights Activism in the US, France, and the Netherlands, 1970-2015

By: Walter J. Nicholls,Justus Uitermark

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Cities and Social Movements

Immigrant Rights Activism in the US, France, and the Netherlands, 1970-2015

By: Walter J. Nicholls,Justus Uitermark

Through historical and comparative research on the immigrant rights movements of the United States, France and the Netherlands, Cities and Social Movements examines how small resistances against restrictive immigration policies do – or don’t – develop into large and sustained mobilizations. Presents a comprehensive, comparative analysis of immigrant rights politics in three countries over a period of five decades, providing vivid accounts of the processes through which immigrants activists challenged or confirmed the status quo Theorizes movements from the bottom-up, presenting an urban grassroots account in order to identify how movement networks emerge or fall apart Provides a unique contribution by examining how geography is implicated in the evolution of social movements, discovering how and why the networks constituting movements grow by tracing where they develop Demonstrates how efforts to enforce national borders trigger countless resistances and shows how some environments provide the relational opportunities to nurture these small resistances into sustained mobilizations Written to appeal to a broad audience of students, scholars, policy makers, and activists, without sacrificing theoretical rigor

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284

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118750640

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9781118750643

Michigan Place Names

The History of the Founding and the Naming of More Than Five Thousand Past and Present Michigan Communities

By: Walter Romig

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Michigan Place Names

The History of the Founding and the Naming of More Than Five Thousand Past and Present Michigan Communities

By: Walter Romig

Michigan Place Names is another "Michigan classicreissued as a Great Lakes Book.

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718

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Wayne State University Press

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081431838X

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9780814318386

Book's by Walter van de Leur

Something to Live For

Something to Live For

Joseph Vance

Joseph Vance

Jazz and Death

Jazz and Death

Cities of Ladies

Cities of Ladies

The Promised Lands

The Promised Lands

Cities and Social Movements

Cities and Social Movements

Michigan Place Names

Michigan Place Names

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