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Published by Viking Books, 2014
ISBN 10: 0670014710ISBN 13: 9780670014712
Seller: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.15.
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dvd. Condition: Good. May have very light or no surface scratches. Case and cover artwork are included but may show minimal signs of wear. If applicable: Digital copy or ultraviolet codes may be expired or not included. Slipcover may not be included.
Published by Penguin Books, 2015
ISBN 10: 0143128027ISBN 13: 9780143128021
Seller: HPB-Ruby, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!.
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Published by Viking,, 2014
Seller: The Bookstall, Richmond, CA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. White boards, 6 1/4 X 9 1/4 inches, 344 pages, indexed. 16 pages of photographs on glossy stock. One page with dog ear, else Fine, in Fine unclipped jacket, clean tight binding. First edition with (1).
Published by Viking, New York, NY, 2014
ISBN 10: 0670014710ISBN 13: 9780670014712
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. Minor foxing and smudges on top exterior edge of textblock. Bump to top of spine has caused crease to DJ. Very Good condition otherwise. No other noteworthy defects. No markings.; B&W Photographs; 344 pages.
Published by minimum fax, 2015
ISBN 10: 8875216673ISBN 13: 9788875216672
Seller: libreriauniversitaria.it, Occhiobello, RO, Italy
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Published by Minimum Fax, 2017
ISBN 10: 8875218749ISBN 13: 9788875218744
Seller: libreriauniversitaria.it, Occhiobello, RO, Italy
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Octavo hardcover; white boards with black spine titling; 344pp., monochrome illustrations. Dustwrapper. Remainder, new. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight. "Herbie Hancock was on honeymoon in Rio when he lost his job with Miles Davis. It was 1968, and Hancock, then 28, had logged five years on piano in Davis's quintet, one of the great units in jazz history. But a stomach bug and rigid doctor who forbade travel meant Hancock missed some gigs. When he reached Davis, the trumpeter directed him to his manager, who delivered the news. Davis had hired Chick Corea and moved on. Miles knew, of course. It was time for Hancock to spread his wings. Hancock's memoir, Possibilities, spans the jazz legend's life from his birth in 1940 to the present. Throughout he credits many people for his charmed journey, starting with his striver parents on Chicago's South Side, who supported his high-end music education, and trumpeter Donald Byrd, who plucked a 20-year-old Hancock from Chicago, took him to New York, and steeped him in advice about the business. But Davis gets extra praise. Jazz, he showed Hancock, is 'about trusting yourself to respond on the fly. If you can allow yourself to do that, you never stop exploring, you never stop learning, in music or in life.' The only higher credit goes to Nichiren Buddhism, which Hancock adopted in 1972 and continues to practice, chanting daily." - Siddhartha Mitter 9780670014712.
Published by Fordham University Press, New York, 2016
ISBN 10: 0823273539ISBN 13: 9780823273539
Seller: CitiRetail, Stevenage, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. People associate the South Bronx with gangs, violence, drugs, crime, burned-out buildings, and poverty. This is the message that has been driven into their heads over the years by the media. As Howard Cosell famously said during the 1977 World's Series at Yankee Stadium, "There it is, ladies and gentlemen, the Bronx is burning." In this new book, Naison and Gumbs provide a completely different picture of the South Bronx through interviews with residents who lived here from the 1930s to the 1960s.In the early 1930s, word began to spread among economically secure black families in Harlem that there were spacious apartments for rent in the Morrisania section of the Bronx. Landlords in that community, desperate to fill their rent rolls and avoid foreclosure, began putting up signs in their windows and in advertisements in New York's black newspapers that said, "We rent to select colored families," by which they meant families with a securely employed wage earner and light complexions. Black families who fit these criteria began renting apartments by the score. Thus began a period of about twenty years during which the Bronx served as a borough of hope and unlimited possibilities for upwardly mobile black families.Chronicling a time when African Americans were suspended between the best and worst possibilities of New York City, Before the Fires tells the personal stories of seventeen men and women who lived in the South Bronx before the social and economic decline of the area that began in the late 1960s. Located on a hill hovering over one of the borough's largest industrial districts, Morrisania offered black migrants from Harlem, the South, and the Caribbean an opportunity to raise children in a neighborhood that had better schools, strong churches, better shopping, less crime, and clean air. This culturally rich neighborhood also boasted some of the most vibrant music venues in all of New York City, giving rise to such music titans as Lou Donaldson, Valerie Capers, Herbie Hancock, Eddie Palmieri, Donald Byrd, Elmo Hope, Henry "Red" Allen, Bobby Sanabria, Valerie Simpson, Maxine Sullivan, the Chantels, the Chords, and Jimmy Owens.Alternately analytical and poetic, but all rich in detail, these inspiring interviews describe growing up and living in vibrant black and multiracial Bronx communities whose contours have rarely graced the pages of histories of the Bronx or black New York City. Capturing the excitement of growing up in this stimulating and culturally diverse environment, Before the Fires is filled with the optimism of the period and the heartache of what was shattered in the urban crisis and the burning of the Bronx. Before the Fires provides an oral history of African Americans in the South Bronx who grew up in a cohesive, nurturing community-not the familiar narrative of gangs, drugs, violence, and family decay. The interviewees have been trying to tell their story for 30 years, but no one would listen until Mark Naison's oral history project began welcoming their voices. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
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