Bøker av Julia Simon

This volume explores concepts of freedom and bondage in the blues and argues that this genre of music explicitly calls for a reckoning while expressing faith in a secular justice to come. Placing blues music within its historical context of the post-Reconstruction South, Jim Crow America, and the civil rights era, Julia Simon finds a deep symbolism in the lyrical representations of romantic and sexual betrayal. The blues calls out and indicts the tangled web of deceit and entrapment constraining the physical, socioeconomic, and political movement of African Americans. Surveying blues music from the 1920s to the early twenty-first century, Simon's analyses focus on economic relations, such as sharecropping, house contract sales, debt peonage, criminal surety, and convict lease. She demonstrates how the music reflects this exploitative economic history and how it is shaped by commodification under racialized capitalism. As Simon assesses the lyrics, technique, and styles of a wide range of blues musicians, including Bessie Smith, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Big Bill Broonzy, Muddy Waters, B. B. King, Albert Collins, and Kirk Fletcher, she argues forcefully that the call for racial justice is at the heart of the blues. A highly sophisticated interpretation of the blues tradition steeped in musicology, social history, and critical-cultural hermeneutics, Debt and Redemption not only clarifies blues as an aesthetic tradition but, more importantly, proves that it advances a theory of social and economic development and change.

The somewhat different Easter coloring book.50 original designs for loads of artistic fun.Welcome to an exciting Easter universe filled withall kinds of things that bring joy to small andlarge coloring fans. This book is for everyone who loves being creative. It includes coloring pictures of varying complexity for small and larger artists 3 years and up.This book is for adults and kids. Preschoolers, Toddlers, Kindergarteners or elementary students will have fun with cute Easter bunnies, the Easter lamb, their buddy the chicken and their friends. Even a unicorn, various vehicles such as cars, a ship and a rocket are hidden between the Easter eggs.Get this book as a gift for the grandchildren, entertainment for the kids or as a little present for stress relief to yourself. These original and funny designs bring joy to any creative soul.Printed on one page, the small and larger artists can grab pencils, wax crayons, pens or felt tips to paint these fun pictures and train their concentration as well as their motor skills while having fun.Have a great time with the somewhat different Easter Coloring Book!

Explores lyrical representations of romantic and sexual betrayal in the blues, revealing deceit and entrapment constraining the physical, socioeconomic, and political movement of African Americans. Argues that blues music calls for a reckoning while expressing faith in a secular and moral justice-to-come.

Reevaluates Jean-Jacques Rousseau through the lens of music theory to question his contribution to thinking about music as an aesthetic force in social life. Links Rousseau's understanding of concepts in music to the problem of the individual's relationship to the social order.