Gary Kelley
Author
Publisher
Ice Cube Pess, LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Cellomaster Pablo Casals and 'King of the Delta Blues' Robert Johnson recorded iconic albums the very same week in history. Late November 1936. In Spain, Pablo was dealing with an erupting World War II. While in America's 'Jim Crow' South, Robert was dealing with racism and the 'Great Depression.' For both, their music was their motivation. Pablo recorded Bach's Classic Suites at Abbey Road Studios in London, while Robert recorded his 'classic' Blues...
Author
Publisher
Creative Editions
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"Only a few people, mostly family and friends, ever read a poem by Emily Dickinson before she died in 1886, but today she in one of the most famous of American poets. So many poets have written poems to Emily and about her that she has become as much muse as poet. Novelists, playwrights, and moviemakers have also composed works about her, and literary scholars and researchers have mined every inch of her existence for facts. Emily's relatively...
Author
Publisher
Creative Editions
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Blues guitarist Blind Willie Johnson led a hardscrabble life, but in 1977, NASA's Voyager spacecrafts were launched, each carrying a golden record to introduce planet Earth to the cosmos, and his song "Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground" became the defining anthem. Weaving together elements of Johnson's biography with an account of how a team of astrophysicists, writers, and artists created the golden record for the Voyager mission, Jan Lower...
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Boyds Mills & Kane
Pub. Date
©2020.
Language
English
Description
"Jacob Riis was familiar with poverty. He did his best to combat it in his hometown of Ribe, Denmark, and he experienced it when he immigrated to the United States in 1870. Jobs for immigrants were hard to get and keep, and Jacob often found himself penniless, sleeping on the streets or in filthy homeless shelters. When he became a journalist, Jacob couldn't stop seeing the poverty in the city around him. He began to photograph overcrowded tenement...
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