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Upbeat : nine lives of a musical cat / David Amram.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML410.A534 A3 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Amram, David.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Amram, David.
- Composers--United States--Biography.
- Composers.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 322 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boulder : Paradigm Publishers, [2008]
- Summary:
- David Amram--composer, jazz artist, conductor, and world music pioneer--has been described by the "Boston Globe" as "the Renaissance man of American music." Here, he recounts his extraordinary adventures in the many worlds of music he calls home, all told in a rollicking anecdotal style.
- Contents:
- Introduction : at home around the world
- Merrymaking and mayhem in the mountains : Hunter S. Thompson's final blastoff
- Kenya, Africa : the mother of us all
- Natural ambassadors
- Kokopelli : walking the Native American trail of beauty
- Bouquets and bombs on Broadway : agony and ecstasy on the Great White Way
- The Dutch treat : the genesis of Offbeat : collaborating with Kerouac
- Words and music : scat and make-up songs, the art of one-time-only rap reporting
- Postcards from the road, 2002-2007
- Fond farewells : honoring six old friends.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9781594514241
- 1594514240
- OCLC:
- 163625364
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