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Jazz Information, 1940. Softcover. Very Good. October 25, 1940 issue of legendary "hot jazz" magazine Jazz Information. Vol. 2, No. 7. Trombone player pictorial to cover. Contents include feature articles on Chicago jam sesssions, Cow Cow Davenport, Henry Allen, Jr. and jazz classics. Also includes detailed reviews of new and classical jazz albums, notes on important collector's records (often obscure and rediscovered), news features on bands, jazz musicians of the day, etc., historical photos of performers and more. Scarce. 24 pp. 8 1/2" x 5 1/2". Tight, unmarked copy with minimal shelf wear and lightly rusted staples. Published for only two years, JI was a non-commercial, color-blind magazine that gained acclaim for its focus on serious jazz for advanced enthusiasts rather than quasi-jazz, also for its unbiased, exceptionally informed articles and reviews. Photographs of or additional information about this item are available on request. All inquiries answered promptly.
BUXTON SPICE by OONYA KEMPADOO - 1999
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NEW ~ First American edition. First printing. 169 pp. "A racy, impressionistic account of growing up in a racially mixed family in a predominantly black village in Guyana during the seventies." -- Literary Review. 170 pp. 11 oz.
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- Keywords LITERATURE NOVEL FICTION GUYANA AFRO ENGLISH
- Size 21 x 15 cm
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The History of the United States: A history of men and ideas
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Jazz Information, 1940. Softcover. Very Good. October 25, 1940 issue of legendary "hot jazz" magazine Jazz Information. Vol. 2, No. 7. Trombone player pictorial to cover. Contents include feature articles on Chicago jam sesssions, Cow Cow Davenport, Henry Allen, Jr. and jazz classics. Also includes detailed reviews of new and classical jazz albums, notes on important collector's records (often obscure and rediscovered), news features on bands, jazz musicians of the day, etc., historical photos of performers and more. Scarce. 24 pp. 8 1/2" x 5 1/2". Tight, unmarked copy with minimal shelf wear and lightly rusted staples. Published for only two years, JI was a non-commercial, color-blind magazine that gained acclaim for its focus on serious jazz for advanced enthusiasts rather than quasi-jazz, also for its unbiased, exceptionally informed articles and reviews. Photographs of or additional information about this item are available on request. All inquiries answered promptly.
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Dutton, 1999. 1st. Fine. The time is the 1970s. The place is the coast of Guyana, a world of color and light, dust and heat, flesh and earth. Here in the cool, wood-floored home that doubles as a school and a community center, a young girl opens her window and breathes in the redolence of a Buxton Spice mango tree. And asks the tree to tell her its secret - and the secret of its indifference. Buxton Spice is the song of Oonya Kempadoo's young narrator, Lula, and the song of her ill-fated town of Tamarind Grove: its colorful inhabitants, its eccentric families, its sweeping joys and sudden tragedies. Here are the mud-red banks where Lula and her friends slide down into the milky tea water of the Broadie Canal. Here is the emerging sexuality of young girls who can see what the madness of desire - and men - can reap. And here, in a village torn between cultures, between the future and the past, will come an explosion of politics and violence ignited by the eternal human dividers of race, money, and…
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