You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
A representative selection of interviews with one of the most acute observers of American politics, society, and culture in the twentieth century
Dwight Hamilton Diller is a musician from West Virginia devoted to traditional Appalachian fiddle and banjo music, and a seminary-trained minister steeped in local Christian traditions. For the past 40 years, he has worked to preserve archaic fiddle and banjo tunes, teaching his percussive, primitively rhythmic style to small groups in marathon banjo workshops. This book tells of Diller's life and music, his personal challenges and his decades of teaching an elusive musical form.
John Sullivan Dwight (1813-1893), the first American critic of art music and the founder of Dwight's Journal of Music, set a new standard for musical criticism in the 1840s by fostering the American reception of Ludwig van Beethoven's then unfamiliar symphonies. Drawing upon extraordinary and painstaking research, Ora Frishberg Saloman details the progressive and influential musical vision of the young Dwight, offering a dramatic and long overdue corrective to the conservative image of the critic that has prevailed for most of this century.
Dance like Dwight is about a young man that doesnt know how to dance. He starts to plot against a School dance, but he meets a girl right on time that stops him from his demise. She has a father that was a famous dancer that after a long time of trying to teach him he finally learns to dance from the girls father. This young man goes to a new school where he encounters a lot of strange students and situations. In school he also meets up with a bully that makes his High school experience a nightmare. ]Our young dancer finds his faith when he has to wins a dance contest to graduate from High School or he would have failed and been left back to only repeat his classes because he didnt take his basic courses seriously enough in the beginning of the school year.
“[A] compulsively readable biography . . . Essential for fans of Yoakam and lovers of good music writing.” ―Library Journal From his formative years playing pure hardcore honky-tonk for mid-’80s Los Angeles punk rockers through his subsequent surge to the top of the country charts, Dwight Yoakam has enjoyed a singular career. An electrifying live performer, superb writer, and virtuosic vocalist, he’s successfully bridged two musical worlds that usually have little use for each other: commercial country and its alternative/Americana/roots-rocking counterpart. Defying the label “too country for rock, too rock for country,” Yoakam has triumphed while many of his peers have had to ...
Profiles the Orlando Magic star Dwight Howard and recounts his accomplishments on the basketball court and his humanitarian work.
A biography of the commanding general of the Allied forces in Europe during World War II who became the thirty-fourth president of the United States.
This childhood biography of the 34th president focuses on the events that led Eisenhower to become a great military leader. Illustrations.