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"This is the autobiography of soul and blues singer Denise LaSalle "as told to" the blues scholar David Whiteis. The book documents Ms. LaSalle's move from rural Mississippi to Chicago as a teenager, where she eventually established herself as a successful songwriter and performer in gospel and blues. She also founded several record labels and demonstrated considerable savvy as a businesswoman. In the early 1980s, realizing that her brand of emotionally resonant soul music had lost ground in the marketplace to newer forms - first disco, and then rap/hip-hop - Ms. LaSalle began to write songs and perform in the modern-day blues genre usually referred to as "soul-blues" (a term she takes credit for inventing) or "southern soul." Her songs in this genre conveyed a bold, often provocative message of womanly assertiveness and pride, including explicitly drawn demands for both sexual and financial satisfaction, that both invoked and modernized the classic blueswoman's stance of power and independence, a trope that links her directly to such legendary blues singers as Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, and Ida Cox. Armed with this new material but still capable of pleasing long-time fans with renditions of her earlier hits, Ms. LaSalle became one of the dominant figures on the "southern soul"/"soul-blues" circuit, which was actually a newly revitalized incarnation of the old "chitlin' circuit," the network of predominantly African-American performance venues that crisscrossed the south and also extended into some northern and western urban strongholds (tracing, more or less, the geographic pattern of the early/mid-20th Century Great Migration). She remains one of the most beloved figures on that circuit, admired by listeners and fellow artists alike for her legacy and her ongoing dedication to her music and fans. LaSalle's story thus complements the overall story of blues and soul music as the cultural expression of a diasporan people who reinvented themselves to adjust to Northern life while retaining many of the cultural, religious, and social traditions with which they had grown up in the South"--

LaSalle, Denise. --- La Salle, Denise --- Craig, Denise --- Allen, Denise, --- Allen, Ora Denise --- Singers --- Blues musicians --- Soul musicians --- Musicians

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Ad libros ! « Aux livres ! », ce cri attribué à dom Guillaume de Raynald au moment où le feu ravageait la Grande Chartreuse lors de l'incendie de 1371 est à la fois une injonction et un élan que tout médiéviste peut reprendre à son compte : élan du chercheur vers ses sources, injonction du professeur à ses élèves. Ces deux mots latins, qui ont servi de devise à Denise Angers et Joseph-Claude Poulin, forment donc un titre idéal pour des mélanges qui célèbrent ce couple d'humanistes passionnés. Ce mantra est aussi un credo qui explique toute l'importance que Denise Angers et Joseph-Claude Poulin ont accordée dans leur pédagogie à cet aspect de la formation des jeunes médiévistes à Ottawa, à Québec ou à Montréal : cours sur les sources, introduction à la paléographie, à la codicologie ou à l'archéologie médiévale. Les études qui sont réunies dans ce livre rendent hommage à leur irréprochable engagement scientifique, dans un bouquet de contributions qui embrassent l'ensemble du Moyen Âge, du VIIIe au XVe siècle – avec une avancée jusqu'en Nouvelle-France –, mais dont le point commun réside dans l'attention aux sources.

Moyen Age --- Vie chrétienne --- Histoire --- Angers, Denise, --- Poulin, Joseph-Claude --- France --- Moyen Age - Sources --- Vie chrétienne - Histoire - 600-1500 (Moyen Age) --- Angers, Denise --- Angers, Denise, - 1940- - Bibliographie --- Poulin, Joseph-Claude - Bibliographie --- France - Histoire - 500-1500 (Moyen Âge) --- Angers, Denise, - 1940 --- -Poulin, Joseph-Claude --- Middle Ages. --- Middle Ages --- Christian life --- History --- Haut Moyen-Âge --- Moyen-Âge

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"Denise Levertov (1923-1997) was an award-winning author of more than thirty books of poetry and prose featuring major themes of politics and war and, in later years, religion. Born and raised in England amid political unrest and war, Levertov moved to the United States after World War II and settled in as a passionate poet/activist for peace and environmental conservation. She initially gained recognition as a member of the Black Mountain poets and later as a highly respected mentor and educator at esteemed universities including Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Brandeis, and Stanford, where she helped shape future generations of poets. In Denise Levertov in Company, Donna Krolik Hollenberg has assembled ten essays by contemporary poets who were influenced by Levertov as either former students and/or colleagues and another ten by literary critics" --

Poets, American --- Levertov, Denise, --- Influence. --- Political and social views. --- Criticism and interpretation.

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This first full-length biography of Anglo- American poet and activist Denise Levertov (1923-1997) brings to life one of the major voices of the second half of the twentieth century, when American poetry was a powerful influence worldwide. Drawing on exhaustive archival research and interviews with 75 friends of Levertov, as well as on Levertov's entire opus, Donna Krolik Hollenberg's authoritative biography captures the full complexity of Levertov as both woman and artist, and the dynamic world she inhabited. She charts Levertov's early life in England as the daughter of a Russian Hasidic father and a Welsh mother, her experience as a nurse in London during WWII, her marriage to an American after the war, and her move to New York City where she became a major figure in the American poetry scene. The author chronicles Levertov's role as a passionate social activist in volatile times and her importance as a teacher of writing. Finally, Hollenberg shows how the spiritual dimension of Levertov's poetry deepened toward the end of her life, so that her final volumes link lyric perception with political and religious commitment.

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"Denise Low recovers the life and times of her grandfather, Frank Bruner (1889-1963), whose expression of Lenape identity was largely discouraged by mainstream society."--Provided by publisher.

Indians of North America --- Delaware Indians --- Lenape Indians --- Lenni Lenape Indians --- Linapi Indians --- Algonquian Indians --- Moravian Indians --- American aborigines --- American Indians --- First Nations (North America) --- Indians of the United States --- Indigenous peoples --- Native Americans --- North American Indians --- Cultural assimilation --- Ethnic identity. --- History. --- Culture --- Ethnology --- Low, Denise --- Bruner family. --- Bruner, Frank, --- Family. --- Kansas --- US-KS --- KS --- KA --- Kans. --- Kan. --- Kansas Territory --- Social life and customs