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In the spring of 1862, Lucy McKim, the nineteen-year-old daughter of a Philadelphia abolitionist Quaker family, traveled with her father to the Sea Islands of South Carolina to aid him in his efforts to organize humanitarian aid for thousands of newly freed slaves. During her stay she heard the singing of the slaves in their churches, as they rowed their boats from island to island, and as they worked and played. Already a skilled musician, sh...

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A signal event in the history of the music." - Ted Gioia. A noted blues historian and folklorist explores blues lyrics as poetry, quoting lyrics at length to reveal their depth of feeling and incorporation of complex literary forms.

The story and the music of the men who made the blues, including Furry Lewis, Willie McTell, Blind Blake, Blind Boy Fuller, and others.

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Excerpt from A Sermon on Intercession, and an Instruction Concerning OathsAbraham's interee¿ion for Sodom did not avert the impending judgment 5 but he felt a generous concern for human na ture, he enjoyed communion with God, and entered into the plan of his providence in lhewing favour to the wicked for'the lake of the righteous. Infiead of a care lefs indifference and cold infenfibility, he looked to, ward Sodom, pondering the ways of God. I...

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From the field cries and work chants of Southern Negroes emerged a rich and vital music called the country blues, an intensely personal expression of the pains and pleasures of black life. This music-

A book about the music the hurricane couldn't destroy.

Charters breaks new ground with his discussion of the earliest New Orleans recordings up to the present and the renewed concern over the city's musical heritage, which is at great risk after the catastrophe of Hurricane Katrina's floodwaters.

A biography of the two comrades whose friendship defined what it meant to be one of The Beats