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A study of how jazz greats dazzled and enlivened coal towns during the Great Depression The coal fields of West Virginia would seem an unlikely market for big band jazz during the Great Depression. That a prosperous African American audience dominated by those involved with the coal industry was there for jazz tours would seem equally improbable. Big Band Jazz in Black West Virginia, 1930-1942 shows that, contrary to expectations, black Mounta...

This book examines the uniforms, equipment, history and organisation of the armies that fought in the Boer War. Both sides are covered, and the campaigns summarised. Uniforms are shown in full illustrated detail.

A study of how jazz greats dazzled and enlivened coal towns during the Great Depression The coal fields of West Virginia would seem an unlikely market for big band jazz during the Great Depression. That a prosperous African American audience dominated by those involved with the coal industry was there for jazz tours would seem equally improbable. Big Band Jazz in Black West Virginia, 1930-1942 shows that, contrary to expectations, black Mounta...

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Rubber Room Semantics offers up a particular and peculiar view of contemporary politics, celebrity, sex and our modern zeitgeist. Comic, for sure, satiric, without doubt, neurotic, absolutely, Rubber Room Semantics provides a unique brand of humor that is essential for anyone trying to make sense of the craziness that has become our modern way of life. Only in Rubber Room Semantics will you get a book that pulls no punches in its attempt to of...

The Royal Green Jackets are widely acknowledged as innovators who developed much of the thinking of the British infantry in the fields of tactics and training, mobility and marksmanship, equipment, management and individual initiative from the 18th century onwards. They were the first to wear green uniforms as camouflage rather than red and to fire the more accurate rifle instead of muskets. This book examines the history of the component regi...

A biography of Creole jazz musician Don Albert (born Albert Anite Dominique), who lead a successful 'territory band' that was based in Texas, and later ran a nightclub of his own. Albert's life illuminates many aspects of the little-studied territory bands, and the business of jazz from the 1920s to the 1960s.