Bruce Jackson

My Journey from Brooklyn to Hip Hop, Microsoft, and the Law

Never Far from Home

the art and meaning of telling stories

The story is true

First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

African American Narrative Poetry from Oral Tradition

Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me

David Berger

Using practical examples the authors take the novice investor through the basics of investing. Includes how to sort out personal finances, decide on investment objectives, choose companies to research and how to interpret a company report. A companion to the MOTLEY FOOL UK WEB SITE.

The Motley Fool UK Investment Workbook

Music and words of some sixty-five songs expressing the emotional world of black inmates in Texas prisons, with interviews, photographs, and headnotes appended.

Afro-American Worksongs from Texas Prisons

Wake Up Dead Man

Versions of the Criminal Experience

In the Life

In The Story Is True, folklorist, filmmaker, and professor of English Bruce Jackson explores the ways we use the stories that become a central part of our public and private lives. Describing and explaining how stories are made and used, Jackson examines how stories narrate and bring meaning to our lives. Jackson writes about his family and friends, acquaintances, and experiences, focusing on more than a dozen personal stories. From oral histories to public stories—such as what happened when Bob Dylan "went electric" at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival—Jackson gets at how the "truth" is constantly shifting depending on the perspective, memory, and social meaning that is ascribed to various events—both real and imaginary. The book is ideal for students and writers of oral history and storytelling but goes beyond those topics to encompass how we interpret and understand the real-life "stories" that we encounter in our daily experience. br>This edition includes new sections on how stories are related to historical facts and new chapters on contemporary films (expanding the discussion of visual storytelling) and on conspiracy narratives and Trump's Big Lie. Fresh examples tie together new material with the existing stories.

The Art and Meaning of Telling Stories

The Story Is True, Second Edition, Revised and Expanded

Life in the Arkansas Penitentiary

Killing Time

Anyone interested in maximizing performance will benefit from this book. Sports for Life is fun and provides a unique approach to cultivating the human spirit. It will entertain, teach, and provide key insights to success in any area of life.

Sports for Life

African-American Narrative Poetry from the Oral Tradition, Includes CD

Barbara Seagrave Jackson

Bruce Benward

The phrase ‘practical theory’ may seem to be a contradiction, but it is a term that Practical Beginning Theory has, since it’s first edition in 1963, sought to embody by providing a comprehensive introduction to basic level theory that can be used in any teaching situation, even if other resource materials are limited or unavailable. In the new edition, the text continues its mission to be an all-in-one coursebook for music fundamentals. A third author has been added to revise and update the exercises in popular music and to integrate new electronic supplements into the text. A new chapter has been added to address jazz, pop, and blues and a CD of ear-training examples is now included with each copy of the book. The software package of the prior edition has been coordinated to the new CD and mounted to the Internet and exercises throughout the text have been revised to further emphasize real music instead of artificial textbook examples. In all, Practical Beginning Theory prepares students completely for the first semester of major-level music theory. In can be used at two- and four- year colleges and it is appropriate for pre-college students who are preparing to enter a music major or for advanced high school music theory courses.

Practical Beginning Theory: A Fundamentals Worktext

Diane Christian

Living and Dying on Death Row in America

In This Timeless Time

Making it in Hell, says Bruce Jackson, is the spirit behind the sixty-five work songs gathered in this eloquent dispatch from a brutal era of prison life in the Deep South. Through engagingly documented song arrangements and profiles of their singers, Jackson shows how such pieces as "Hammer Ring," "Ration Blues," "Yellow Gal," and "Jody's Got My Wife and Gone" are like no other folk music forms: they are distinctly African in heritage, diminished in power and meaning outside their prison context, and used exclusively by black convicts. The songs helped workers through the rigors of cane cutting, logging, and cotton picking. Perhaps most important, they helped resolve the men's hopes and longings and allowed them a subtle outlet for grievances they could never voice when face-to-face with their jailers.

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