How Music Grew in Brooklyn
Title | How Music Grew in Brooklyn PDF eBook |
Author | Maurice Edwards |
Publisher | Scarecrow Press |
Pages | 420 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780810856660 |
"The Brooklyn Philharmonic is one of the most innovative and respected symphony orchestras of modern times. Maurice Edwards provides a personal and comprehensive history of this institution. How Music Grew in Brooklyn includes more than two dozen historical photographs and illustrations and an eighty-page appendix providing detailed listing of the orchestra's programs, including the Marathons."--BOOK JACKET.
Song of Brooklyn
Title | Song of Brooklyn PDF eBook |
Author | Marc Eliot |
Publisher | Random House Digital, Inc. |
Pages | 328 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | History |
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Song of Brooklyn gathers the oral testimony of nearly one hundred Brooklynites past and present, famous and unknown, about a mythic borough that is also an indisputably real place. These witnesses speak eloquently of what it was like back then, when the Dodgers played in Ebbets Field; later, when the borough fell on hard times; and now, when it has come roaring back on the tracks of a real-estate boom, giving it celebrity chic and hipster cred. With this surprising and inspiring renaissance in full swing, the story of Brooklyn is one of the great and still ongoing chapters of the American urban experience, and Song of Brooklyn sings that tune in pitch-perfect key.
Brooklyn Boomer
Title | Brooklyn Boomer PDF eBook |
Author | Martin H. Levinson |
Publisher | iUniverse |
Pages | 120 |
Release | 2011-05-20 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1462017134 |
Martin H. Levinson lived in Brooklyn from his birth in 1946 to 1962, the height of the baby boom following World War II. He grew up two blocks from Ebbets Field, the home of the Brooklyn Dodgers, and attended Erasmus Hall High School, which boasts alums such as Neil Diamond, Barbra Streisand, and chess-wiz Bobby Fischer. The author's personal recollections of his middle-class childhood in Brooklyn during the 1950s alternate with chapters detailing seminal cultural events of that era including the advent of television, fast-food restaurants, big cars with fins; desegregation and the white flight to the suburbs; rock and roll, beatniks, hula hoops, The Kinsey Reports, the Cold War, McCarthyism, Playboy, and much more. Part memoir, part social history, Brooklyn Boomer offers a captivating portrait of Brooklyn and America in the mid-twentieth Century.
Dust & Grooves
Title | Dust & Grooves PDF eBook |
Author | Eilon Paz |
Publisher | Ten Speed Press |
Pages | 577 |
Release | 2015-09-15 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1607748703 |
A photographic look into the world of vinyl record collectors—including Questlove—in the most intimate of environments—their record rooms. Compelling photographic essays from photographer Eilon Paz are paired with in-depth and insightful interviews to illustrate what motivates these collectors to keep digging for more records. The reader gets an up close and personal look at a variety of well-known vinyl champions, including Gilles Peterson and King Britt, as well as a glimpse into the collections of known and unknown DJs, producers, record dealers, and everyday enthusiasts. Driven by his love for vinyl records, Paz takes us on a five-year journey unearthing the very soul of the vinyl community.
Betty Smith: Life of the Author of a Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Title | Betty Smith: Life of the Author of a Tree Grows in Brooklyn PDF eBook |
Author | Valerie Raleigh Yow |
Publisher | Independent Author |
Pages | 444 |
Release | 2010-05 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780982720707 |
Smith's "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" captured the imagination of readers in 1943. In the first published biography of Smith, the real-life stories behind the heroes in her novel are told.
How Music Grew
Title | How Music Grew PDF eBook |
Author | Marion Bauer |
Publisher | |
Pages | 676 |
Release | 1925 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN |
Growing Up in Brooklyn
Title | Growing Up in Brooklyn PDF eBook |
Author | Martha McGowan |
Publisher | |
Pages | 48 |
Release | 1983 |
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