Roots and Blues: A Celebration
by Adoff, Arnold
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0547235542
- ISBN 13
- 9780547235547
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Synopsis
Through poems and poetic prose pieces, acclaimed children's author Arnold Adoff celebrates that uniquely American form of music called the blues. In his signature “shaped speech” style, he creates a narrative of moments and joyous music, from the drums of the ancestors, the red dirt of the plantations, the current of the mighty Mississippi, and the shackles, blood, and tears of slavery. Each chop of the ax is a beat, each lash of the whip fashions another line on the musical staff. But each sound also creates the chords and harmonies that preserve the ancestors and their stories, and sustain life, faith, and hope into our own times.
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- Bookseller
- Powell's Bookstores Chicago (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- Z0331048
- Title
- Roots and Blues: A Celebration
- Author
- Adoff, Arnold
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0547235542
- ISBN 13
- 9780547235547
- Publisher
- Clarion Books
- Place of Publication
- U.s.a.
- This edition first published
- 2011-01-03
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