books by Farah Jasmine Griffin     books:       If You Can't Be Free, Be a Mystery: In Search of Billie Holiday5 reviews Farah Jasmine Griffin One World/Ballantine, 2002 A brilliant work This is a brilliant analysis, rumination, meditation, on Billie Holiday. I believe the previous reviewers who did not agree with me missed Professor Griffin's use of jazz phrasing within the prose of her work, the reworking and repetition of themes to provide new insight. It is a technique that perhaps would only be understandable to a jazz lover, but it is part of the creative wisdom of this ...             The Souls of Black Folk (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (Barnes & Noble Classics)43 reviews W. E. B. Du Bois Barnes & Noble Classics, 2003 Speaks The Truth To Power In 1903, two years after Booker T. Washington's autobiography, "Up from Slavery", W.E.B. Du Bois published "The Souls of Black Folk", a series of essays which today most consider a seminal work in African-American Sociology literature. Du Bois view of race relations in American at the dawn of the 20th century was clear, critical and deeply profound. Throughout the fourteen chapters Du Bois ...             Clawing at the Limits of Cool: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and the Greatest Jazz Collaboration Ever Farah Jasmine Griffin, Salim Washington Thomas Dunne Books, 2008 When the renowned trumpeter and bandleader Miles Davis chose the members of his quintet in 1955, he passed over well-known, respected saxophonists such as Sonny Rollins to pick out the young, still untested John Coltrane. What might have seemed like a minor decision at the time would instead set the course not just for each of their careers but for jazz itself. Clawing at the Limits of Cool is the first book to focus on Davis and Coltrane?s ...             Beloved Sisters and Loving Friends: Letters from Rebecca Primus of Royal Oak, Maryland, and Addie Brown of ...3 reviews Knopf, 1999 Critical glimpse into nineteenth-century black life Farah Griffin, editor of last year's "A Stranger in the Village: Two Centuries of African-American Travel Writing" has done it again with "Beloved Sisters and Loving Friends." This wonderful collection of letters between Rebecca Primus and Addie Brown allows readers to enter the world of nineteenth-century black American life. Through the correspondence of these "ordinary" women, the reader ...             Who Set You Flowin'? The African-American Migration Narrative (Race and American Culture)1 review Farah Jasmine Griffin Oxford University Press, USA, 1995 Superb literary analysis Farah Jasmine Griffin's invaluable book brings together a wide variety of sources -- from novels and poetry to photography and music lyrics -- to illustrate how migration has impacted African-American life and art. The writing is smooth and concise, but I particularly enjoyed the way Griffin creates a new vocabulary for discussing urban/rural cultural representations. She also looks at the way ...             Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (Barnes & Noble Classics)65 reviews Harriet Jacobs Barnes & Noble Classics, 2005 Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: This book is diffficult to read because of the horrible reminders of the wretched life of American slaves. The book is so well written, beautiful prose, detailed descriptions of rememberances that I am sure were difficult to relive. I highly recommend this wonderful book to any one.             Can Anything Beat White? A Black Family?s Letters (Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American ...2 reviews University Press of Mississippi, 2005 A fascinating history lesson I'm not a history buff per se but I found the James family collection of letters fascinating because it tells the story of an African-American family that was solidly middle class in the late 1800s at a time in America's history when most people were poor or struggling. Though historically rich, the book is told through the original voices of family members through their letters to one another so ...             Healing Narratives: Women Writers Curing Cultural Dis-ease.(Book Review): An article from: MELUS Farah Jasmine Griffin Thomson Gale, 2005 This digital document is an article from MELUS, published by Thomson Gale on September 22, 2005. The length of the article is 998 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation Details Title: Healing Narratives: Women Writers Curing Cultural ...             Uptown Conversation: The New Jazz Studies Columbia University Press, 2004 Uptown Conversation asserts that jazz is not only a music to define, it is a culture.Original essays cover jazz historiography, the political stakes of telling the story of the music, and its cultural import, including the music's experimental wing and revisionary takes on familiar figures in the canon: Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, and Louis Armstrong. The book also considers how settings outside the United States have ...              african-american African American Heritage Hymnal: 575 Hymns, Spirituals, and Gospel ... An Illustrated Treasury of African American Read-Aloud Stories: More ... Say It Plain: A Century of Great African American Speeches 100 African-Americans Who Shaped American History (100 Series) The Hidden Cost of Being African American: How Wealth Perpetuates ... collaboration Requirements by Collaboration: Workshops for Defining Needs Writing Alone, Writing Together: A Guide for Writers and Writing ... Andy Goldsworthy: A Collaboration with Nature Consensus Through Conversation: How to Achieve High-Commitment ... Teaching an Anthill to Fetch: Developing Collaborative Intelligence @ ... connecticut Revolutionary Road I'll Fly Away: Further Testimonies from the Women of York Prison A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (Enriched Classics Series) Crucial Confrontations: Tools for talking about broken promises, ... 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