Hough, Stephen
Summary: Stephen Hough is indisputably one of the world's leading pianists, winning global acclaim and numerous awards, both for his concerts and recordings. He is also a writer, composer and painter. As an international performer he spends much of his life at airports, on planes, and in hotel rooms and this book expands notes he has made, in his words, 'during that dead time on the road'. He writes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020
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Summary: In his 1970 classic The Omni-Americans, Albert Murray(1916-2013) took aim at protest writers and social scientists who accentuated the pathology of race in American life. Against narratives of marginalization and victimhood, Murray argued that black art and culture, particularly jazz and blues, stand at the very headwaters of the American mainstream, and that much of what is best in American...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2016