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Twenty-six of the songs discussed in the text are available on a CD produced by Agram Blues (ABCD 2018) to accompany this book. Digitally remastered and featuring full liner notes by the author, the CD is a unique historical document of the Truman and Eisenhower presidencies.

For full details and order information, please contact Guido van Rijn at Prins Mauritslaan 95, 2051 KC Overveen, Netherlands. Email: guido@worldonline.nl

Guido van Rijn presents a fascinating and exhaustive account of the gospel and blues music of the immediate postwar period, shedding much light on the...

Inspiriert von einer wahren Geschichte: Für jüdische Kinder riskierte Betty Oudkerk ihr Leben

Amsterdam, 1941. Die junge Betty ist Kinderpflegerin in einer jüdischen Kindertagesstätte. Als auf der anderen Straßenseite ein Deportationszentrum eingerichtet wird, werden die Kinder der Betroffenen vorerst in der Kindertagesstätte untergebracht. Die Leiterin lässt allerdings immer wieder Namen von den offiziellen Listen verschwinden, damit Betty und andere Pflegerinnen die Kinder vor der Deportation bewahren können: Vorbei an den Soldaten der Nazis schmuggeln sie...

Nano and Micro Engineered Membrane Technology is about Nano and micro engineered membrane technology, an emerging new technological area in membrane technology. Potential applications cover a broad spectrum of science, such as micro and nano filtration, gas separation, optics and nanophotonics, catalysis, microbiology, controlled drug delivery, nanopatterning, micro contact printing, atomisation, cross flow emulsification, etc. A brief overview of filtration membranes and pore structures is presented in chapter 1 and in the subsequent chapter 2 an overview is presented of...

Kennedy's Blues: African American Blues and Gospel Songs on JFK collects in a single volume the blues and gospel songs written by African Americans about the presidency of John F. Kennedy and offers a close analysis of Kennedy's hold upon the African American imagination. These blues and gospel songs have never been transcribed and analyzed in a systematic way, so this volume provides a hitherto untapped source on the perception of one of the most intriguing American presidents.

After eight years of Republican rule the young Democratic president received a warm welcome from...