Author: Marc Smirnoff
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Published: 2012-01-01
Total Pages: 456
ISBN-13: 9781610752992
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Not only have a breathtaking array of musical giants come from the South—think Elvis Presley, Robert Johnson, Louis Armstrong, Jimmie Rodgers, to name just obvious examples—but so have a breathtaking array of American music genres. From blues to rock & roll to jazz to country to bluegrass—and areas in between—it all started in the American South. Since its debut in 1996, The Oxford American's more-or-less annual Southern Music Issue has become legendary for its passionate and wide-ranging approach to music and for working with some of America's greatest writers. These writers—from Peter Guralnick to Nick Tosches to Susan Straight to William Gay—probe the lives and legacies of Southern musicians you may or may not yet be familiar with, but whom you'll love being introduced, or reintroduced, to. In one creative, fresh way or another, these writers also uncover the essence of music—and why music has such power over us. To celebrate ten years of Southern music issues, most of which are sold-out or very hard to find, the fifty-five essays collected in this dynamic, wide-ranging, and vast anthology appeal to both music fans and fans of great writing.
Author: Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 788
ISBN-13: 9780195092622
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume offers a survey of American short fiction in 59 tales that combine classic works with 'different, unexpected gems', which invite readers to explore a wealth of important pieces by women and minority writers. Authors include: Amy Tan, Alice Adams, David Leavitt and Tim O'Brien.
Author: Charles Portis
Publisher: Abrams
Published: 1999-08-01
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 1590206665
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Sent on a mission to New York he gets involved in a wild journey that takes him in and out of stolen cars, freight trains, and buses. By the time he returns home to Texas, Norwood has met his true love, Rita Lee, on a bus; befriended the second shortest midget in show business and “the world's smallest perfect fat man†?; and helped Joann “the chicken with a college education,†? realize her true potential in life. As with all Portis’ fiction, the tone is cool, sympathetic, and funny.
Author: Edward L. Ayers
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 608
ISBN-13: 0195124936
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Gathers short stories, journalism, and excerpts from novels, diaries, and memoirs by Southern authors.
Author: Cecilia Vicuña
Publisher:
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 603
ISBN-13: 0195124545
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The most inclusive single-volume anthology of Latin American poetry intranslation ever produced.
Author: Elizabeth Burns
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011-06-03
Total Pages: 721
ISBN-13: 0195389727
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Over 200 color figures and concise, readable text guide students through the steps to perform a thorough and effective clinical examination and perform basic practical skills.
Author: Christine A. Lindberg
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780195342840
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Some 25,000 word meanings and connotations are explained by more than 300,000 synonyms, 10,000 antonymns, 250 notes by well-known authors, and many sample sentences.
Author: Chris Offutt
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2017-04-11
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 1501112473
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A memoir in which "writer Chris Offutt struggles to understand his recently deceased father based on his reading of the 400-plus novels [Andrew Offutt]--a well-known writer of pornography in the 1970s and 80s--left him in his will"--Publisher marketing.