Roots and Blues : A Celebration
by Arnold Adoff
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 13
- 9780547235547
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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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- Title
- Roots and Blues : A Celebration
- Author
- Arnold Adoff
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 2
- ISBN 10
- 0547235542
- ISBN 13
- 9780547235547
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 2011
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