author: samuel charters

Literature and Its Writers: A Compact Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama

In the sixth edition, the Charters continue to entice students to join the conversation, with adventurous and intriguing new literary works, more detailed coverage of literary elements, and more help with reading and writing.

Literature and Its Writers: A Compact Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama

In the fifth edition, the Charters continue to entice students to join the conversation, with adventurous and intriguing new literary works, new literary traditions to discuss, and new features that help them participate as readers and ...

A Trumpet around the Corner: The Story of New Orleans Jazz

... clarinet. Perhaps most important about the work Souey did is that he caught ... Thrift Shop in the downtown “Skid Row” at least once a week to go through ... stores, and no jazz that I knew of on our local radio. Something like a 1917 ...

Jazz: New Orleans, 1885-1963

... jazz in New Orleans there is still little definitely known about the pioneer musicians and their music . The first argument concerning the backgrounds of jazz seems to have been a series of letters printed in the " Vaudeville Volleys ...

A Language of Song: Journeys in the Musical World of the African Diaspora

... Ladies Night,” and if it wasn't playing their hit, it was another Kool and the Gang song that filled the air. What I was hoping to find in the dance hall was the reg- gae sound that at that moment I was hearing everywhere in the United ...

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