My Black Country

Author: Alice Randall
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 166801842X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288

Book Description
Alice Randall, award-winning professor, songwriter, and author with a “lively, engaging, and often wise” (The New York Times Book Review) voice, offers a lyrical, introspective, and unforgettable account of her past and her search for the first family of Black country music. Country music had brought Randall and her activist mother together and even gave Randall a singular distinction in American music history: she is the first Black woman to cowrite a number one country hit, Trisha Yearwood’s “XXX’s and OOO’s”. Randall found inspiration and comfort in the sounds and history of the first family of Black country music: DeFord Bailey, Lil Hardin, Ray Charles, Charley Pride, and Herb Jeffries who, together, made up a community of Black Americans rising through hard times to create simple beauty, true joy, and sometimes profound eccentricity. What emerges in My Black Country is a celebration of the most American of music genres and the radical joy in realizing the power of Black influence on American culture. As country music goes through a fresh renaissance today, with a new wave of Black artists enjoying success, My Black Country is the perfect gift for longtime country fans and a vibrant introduction to a new generation of listeners who previously were not invited to give the genre a chance.

Birmingham and the Black Country

Author: Andy Foster
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780300223910
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 946

Book Description
The latest revised volume in the Pevsner Architectural Guides, covering Birmingham and the towns and settlements of the Black Country This fully revised account of the buildings of the City of Birmingham, its suburbs and outskirts, and the adjacent Black Country explores an area rich in Victorian and Edwardian architecture. Even the small towns of the Black Country supported local architects with their own distinctive styles, such as C. W. D. Joynson in Darlaston and A. T. Butler in Cradley Heath. Much West Midlands industry was organized in small to medium-sized firms, resulting in a rich and diverse streetscape and canalscape. The Arts and Crafts tradition also established deep roots in the area, resulting in masterpieces such as Lethaby's Eagle Insurance in Birmingham and Wolverhampton's Wightwick Manor, as well as a host of fine villas and churches. Older buildings of national significance include the grand Jacobean mansion of Aston Hall, Thomas Archer's Birmingham Cathedral, and such unexpected delights as the neoclassical barn in Solihull by Sir John Soane. Featuring new color photography and numerous maps and text illustrations, this volume will transform understanding and enjoyment of the architecture of this key English region.

The Black Country

Author: Alex Grecian
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
ISBN: 0425267733
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 402

Book Description
When members of a prominent coal-mining family go missing, Scotland Yard's Murder Squad teammates Inspector Walter Day and Sergeant Nevil Hammersmith investigate dark secrets and realize that the family's village is slowly sinking into underground mines.

The Black Country

Author: Kerry Hadley-Pryce
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781784630348
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 176

Book Description
The tension of Gone Girl crossed with the weird darkness of The Cement Garden

Sounds and the City

Author: B. Lashua
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137283114
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 332

Book Description
This book explores the ways in which Western-derived music connects with globalization, hybridity, consumerism and the flow of cultures. Both as local terrain and as global crossroads, cities remain fascinating spaces of cultural contestation and meaning-making via the composing, playing, recording and consumption of popular music.

Walks in the Black Country and Its Green Border-land

Author: Elihu Burritt
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birmingham (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 468

Book Description

Smell, Memory, and Literature in the Black Country

Author: Sebastian Groes
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030572129
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 203

Book Description
From Banks’s brewery’s yeasty stink to groaty pudding to spicy curry, Sebastian Groes and R. M. Francis have assembled a new literary history of the smells and (childhood) memories that belong to the Black Country. This often overlooked region of the United Kingdom at the frontlines of post-industrial upheaval is a veritable treasure trove for studying the relationship between olfaction and place-specific memory. Smell, Memory, and Literature in the Black Country is an interdisciplinary exploration of the relationship between smell and memory in which the contributions consider both personal and communal memory. Drawing on psychology, neuroscience, memory studies, literary studies and philosophy, the critical essays reconsider psychogeography through cutting-edge sensory and philosophical engagements with physical space, smell, language and human behaviour. The creative contributions from writers including Liz Berry, Narinder Dhami, Anthony Cartwright, and Kerry Hadley-Pryce meditate on the senses, place, and identity. Not only does this book illustrate the rich cultural heritage of the Black Country, it will also appeal to those interested in place writing. The book is prefaced by Will Self.

Language and Identity in Englishes

Author: Urszula Clark
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135904871
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 229

Book Description
Language and Identity in Englishes examines the core issues and debates surrounding the relationship between English, language and identity. Drawing on a range of international examples from the UK, US, China and India, Clark uses both cutting-edge fieldwork and her own original research to give a comprehensive account of the study of language and identity. Key features include: Discussion of language in relation to various aspects of identity, such as those connected with nation and region, as well as in relation to social aspects such as social class and race. A chapter on undertaking research that will equip students with appropriate research methods for their own projects An analysis of language and identity within the context of written as well as spoken texts With its accessible structure, international scope and the inclusion of leading research in the area, this book is ideal for any student taking modules in language and identity or sociolinguistics.

West Midlands English

Author: Urszula Clark
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748685820
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 258

Book Description
This volume focuses on the closely allied yet differing linguistic varieties of Birmingham and its immediate neighbour to the west, the industrial heartland of the Black Country. It provides a clear description of the structure of the linguistic varieties

Лексикологія англійської мови – теорія і практика. [англ.].

Author: Ніколенко А. Г.
Publisher: Нова Книга
ISBN: 9663820764
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 530

Book Description
Посібник “English Lexicology Theory & Practice” написаний англійською мовою і охоплює усі теми, що передбачені програмою вищих навчальних закладів з дисципліни “Лексикологія основної іноземної та української мов”. У посібник увійшли 9 розділів. У теоретичній частині кожного розділу автор глибоко і всебічно розкриває тему, спираючись на вже існуючі роботи вітчизняних та зарубіжних лінгвістів. У практичній частині кожного розділу посібника студентам пропонується закріпити теоретичні знання, виконуючі вправи з теми розділу. Для перевірки отриманих знань після 4-го і 9-го розділів у посібнику даються тестові завдання. Посібник призначений для студентів інститутів, університетів та факультетів іноземних мов, для викладачів, наукових працівників, перекладачів, а також усіх, хто самостійно працює над удосконаленням англійської мови.