Strange Fruit: The Biography of a Song (Häftad)
avDavid Margolick, Ellis Marsalis
ISBN: 9780060959562 - UTGIVEN: 200101Recorded by jazz legend Billie Holiday in 1939, "Strange Fruit" is considered to be the first significant song of the civil rights movement and the first direct musical assault upon racial lynchings in the South. Originally sung in New York's Cafe Society, these revolutionary lyrics take on a life o[...]
Elizabeth and Hazel (Pocket)
avDavid Margolick
ISBN: 9780300187922 - UTGIVEN: 2012-09-04"The names Elizabeth Eckford and Hazel Bryan Massery may not be well known, but the image of them from September 1957 surely is: a black high school girl, dressed in white, walking stoically in front of Little Rock Central High School, and a white girl standing directly behind her, face twisted in h[...]
Beyond Glory: Joe Louis Vs. Max Schmeling, and a World on the Brink (Häftad)
avDavid Margolick
ISBN: 9780375726194 - UTGIVEN: 200609A study of the two boxing competitions between Joe Louis and Max Schmeling, in 1936 and 1938, examines the global significance of the sporting events in terms of a world on the brink of war, tracing the lives and careers of both boxers, as well as the cultural and societal divisions they came to rep[...]
Dreadful (Inbunden)
avDavid Margolick
ISBN: 9781590515716 - UTGIVEN: 2013-06American author John Horne Burns (1916-1953) led a brief and controversial life, and as a writer, transformed many of his darkest experiences into literature. Burns was born in Massachusetts, graduated from Andover and Harvard, and went on to teach English at the Loomis School, a boarding school for[...]
Nio jazzliv (Inbunden)
avBo Everling, Rolf Yrlid, Whitney Balliett, John McDonough, Nat Hentoff, David Margolick, Julio Cortázar, Orrin Keepnews
ISBN: 9789173532853 - UTGIVEN: 201001De nitton texter om jazz som här förts samman kring nio musiker har med ett undantag inte tidigare funnits på svenska. Musikerna var alla verksamma under det jazzmusikaliskt så dynamiska 1950-talet. Syftet med antologin är dock inte att lansera just dessa musiker som jazzens allra främsta och [...]
