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The Day They Came to Arrest the Book
ISBN: 9780440918141 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 1983 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Who would have believed that The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn could cause the worst crisis in the history of George Mason High School? Certainly not Barney Roth, editor of the school paper. But when a small but vocal group of students and parents decide that the book is racist, sexist, and immoral--and should be removed from reading lists and the school library--Barney takes matters into his own hands.
When the Huck Finn issue comes up for a hearing, Barney decides to print his story about previous censorship efforts at school. He's sure that investigative reporting and... Who would have believed that The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn could cause the worst crisis in the history of George Mason High School? Certain...
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38,92 zł |
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Jazz: New Perspectives on the History of Jazz by Twelve of the World's Foremost Jazz Critics and Scholars
ISBN: 9780306800023 / Angielski / Miękka / 1975 / 387 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The names of Nat Hentoff and Albert J. McCarthy have become almost synonymous with jazz writing. Hentoff, editor of Jazz Review, writer for Downbeat, High Fidelity, New Yorker, and theVillage Voice, and McCarthy, editor of Jazz Monthly, have raised jazz beyond mere appreciation and discography to a subject which demands the rigorous application of musicological, sociological, and historical analysis. In addition to their own contributions, the twelve articles they have commissioned by internationally noted critics and scholars provide almost revolutionary...
The names of Nat Hentoff and Albert J. McCarthy have become almost synonymous with jazz writing. Hentoff, editor of Jazz Review, writer for |
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158,75 zł |
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Listen to the Stories: Nat Hentoff on Jazz and Country Music
ISBN: 9780306809828 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Here is Nat Hentoff's deeply felt exploration of jazz, blues, country, and gospel--and the musicians who bring the music to life. Hentoff has not only loved music all his life, he has lived it by being friends with many of the musicians he writes about in this collection. Hentoff poignantly describes the early days of Roy Eldridge and the last years of Billie Holiday and Bird. He tells amazing stories of the Count, Duke, and Dizzy. "Full of insightful behind-the-scenes encounters" (San Francisco Chronicle), Listen to the Stories covers new recordings and old legends, remarkable...
Here is Nat Hentoff's deeply felt exploration of jazz, blues, country, and gospel--and the musicians who bring the music to life. Hentoff has not only...
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87,11 zł |
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At the Jazz Band Ball: Sixty Years on the Jazz Scene
ISBN: 9780520261136 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Nat Hentoff, renowned jazz critic, civil liberties activist, and fearless contrarian I m a Jewish atheist civil-libertarian pro-lifer has lived through much of jazz s history and has known many of jazz s most important figures, often as friend and confidant. Hentoff has been a tireless advocate for the neglected parts of jazz history, including forgotten sidemen and -women. This volume includes his best recent workshort essays, long interviews, and personal recollections. From Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong to Ornette Coleman and Quincy Jones, Hentoff brings the jazz greats to life and...
Nat Hentoff, renowned jazz critic, civil liberties activist, and fearless contrarian I m a Jewish atheist civil-libertarian pro-lifer has lived throug...
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304,92 zł |
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American Music Is
ISBN: 9780306813511 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Writing in a passionate and streetwise style all his own, Nat Hentoff transports us into the diverse worlds of musicians that hold one thing in common: America. In over sixty pieces Hentoff has assembled a mosaic that creates a vivid picture of the music scene as it leaps into the twenty-first century. From sweeping surveys of the roots of American music to vivid assessments of individual performers (including John Coltrane, Billie Holiday, Joe Williams, Doc Pomus, Duke Ellington, Willie Nelson, and many more) Hentoff demonstrates once again why he is lauded as "a critic par excellence"...
Writing in a passionate and streetwise style all his own, Nat Hentoff transports us into the diverse worlds of musicians that hold one thing in common...
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140,45 zł |
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Living the Bill of Rights: How to Be an Authentic American
ISBN: 9780520219816 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 253 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Nat Hentoff is one of America's most passionate and prominent writers about civil liberties and civil rights. In Living the Bill of Rights, he has taken what is too often thought of as an abstract issue and enlivened it by focusing on representative individuals for whom the Constitution is a vital part of life. As the late Supreme Court Justice William Brennan told Hentoff, Americans need to know how "American liberties were won--and what it takes to keep them alive." With characteristic eloquence, Hentoff covers the full range of American life in these inspiring profiles and stories...
Nat Hentoff is one of America's most passionate and prominent writers about civil liberties and civil rights. In Living the Bill of Rights, he ...
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195,11 zł |
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The Jazz Life
ISBN: 9780306800887 / Angielski / Miękka / 1978 / 255 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The last few years have witnessed an enormous resurgence in the popularity of jazz, after some lean times in the sixties when many potential jazz fans turned to rock. Now the pendulum is on the backswing, and vintage and modern jazz as well as "jazz rock" are attracting huge new audiences. One factor involved in the comeback of jazz among blacks and whites alike is the rise of black consciousness, with its search for roots in the American experience. Nat Hentoff's The Jazz Life explores the social, economic, and psychological elements that make up the context of modern jazz. Among the...
The last few years have witnessed an enormous resurgence in the popularity of jazz, after some lean times in the sixties when many potential jazz fans...
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87,11 zł |
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At the Jazz Band Ball: Sixty Years on the Jazz Scene
ISBN: 9780520269811 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Nat Hentoff, renowned jazz critic, civil liberties activist, and fearless contrarian I m a Jewish atheist civil-libertarian pro-lifer has lived through much of jazz s history and has known many of jazz s most important figures, often as friend and confidant. Hentoff has been a tireless advocate for the neglected parts of jazz history, including forgotten sidemen and -women. This volume includes his best recent workshort essays, long interviews, and personal recollections. From Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong to Ornette Coleman and Quincy Jones, Hentoff brings the jazz greats to life and...
Nat Hentoff, renowned jazz critic, civil liberties activist, and fearless contrarian I m a Jewish atheist civil-libertarian pro-lifer has lived throug...
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136,50 zł |
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The Nat Hentoff Reader
ISBN: 9780306810848 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. From the Bill of Rights, freedom of speech, and civil rights to jazz, blues and country music, Nat Hentoff has written about American life for decades, in the Atlantic Monthly, the New Yorker, the Village Voice, the Wall Street Journal, and JazzTimes, among countless other publications. The New York Times has hailed Hentoff's work as "an invigorating and entertaining reminder of why freedom of expression matters." The Washington Post Book World has called Hentoff "an old-fashioned music lover who likes, as Charlie Parker once put it, 'to...
From the Bill of Rights, freedom of speech, and civil rights to jazz, blues and country music, Nat Hentoff has written about American life for decades...
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120,74 zł |
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You Can't Steal a Gift: Dizzy, Clark, Milt, and Nat
ISBN: 9780300089653 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this wise, stimulating, and deeply personal book, an eminent jazz chronicler writes of his encounters with four great black musicians: Dizzy Gillespie, Clark Terry, Milt Hinton, and Nat "King" Cole. Equal parts memoir, oral history, and commentary, each of the main chapters is a minibiography, weaving together conversations Gene Lees had with the musicians and their families, friends, and associates over a period of several decades.
Lees begins the book with an essay that tells of his introduction to the world of jazz and his reaction to racism in the United States when he emigrated... In this wise, stimulating, and deeply personal book, an eminent jazz chronicler writes of his encounters with four great black musicians: Dizzy Gilles...
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451,64 zł |
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Historical Jazz Conversations
ISBN: 9780692741504 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 636 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Legendary names. Names that helped create and shape this music we call jazz. I'm deeply blessed because each of these musical legends and others have sat with me on my local New York Cable TV show in a one -on- one conversation. My show airs every week on NYC's Public Access TV Station MNN, and is shown worldwide on the internet. (The JaRon Eames show, which debuted in 1994 is still running as this book goes to press in winter 2015). These wonderful souls told my audience and me stories about their lives and their thoughts on the music and life. These are many of the authentic... Legendary names. Names that helped create and shape this music we call jazz. I'm deeply blessed because each of these musical legends and others ha... |
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144,60 zł |
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Beyond the Burning Cross: A Landmark Case of Race, Censorship, and the First Amendment
ISBN: 9780679747031 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Does our abhorrence of racism allow us to ban certain forms of speech? This is the simple yet subversive question that Edward J. Cleary posed to the U.S. Supreme Court when, in 1991, he defended a white student who had burned a cross on a black family's lawn in St. Paul, Minnesota, violating a local ordinance against hate crimes. As a progressive, Cleary detested everything his client stood for. But in this compelling argued book he describes how he overturned the St. Paul ordinance and convinced the Court to rule that "burning a cross is reprehensible. But St. Paul has sufficient means . . ....
Does our abhorrence of racism allow us to ban certain forms of speech? This is the simple yet subversive question that Edward J. Cleary posed to the U...
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82,79 zł |
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Hear Me Talkin' to Ya: Nat Shapiro, Nat Hentoff
ISBN: 9781639239931 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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183,02 zł |
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Hear Me Talkin' to Ya: Nat Shapiro, Nat Hentoff
ISBN: 9781631827884 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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257,09 zł |
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