Music and singing by Al-Ghazali

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The words and music of Tom Waits by Kessel, Corinne

Table of Contents: “…Life and works, in brief -- Music, instrumentation, and voice. Night on earth: a nomadic soundtrack ; Dirty water on a swordfishtrombone ; A voice from the gutter ; The black box -- Tom's Wanderers: character and narrative in the music of Tom Waits ; Nighthawks and tire tramps ; Rain dogs ; The pianist has been drinking ; Black market babies ; The only kind of love ; Soldier's things and sailor's dreams ; Train songs ; The wild years ; Human oddities ; A little drop of poison: outlaws and bandits ; Crossroads ; Sururalism -- Beautiful maladies: Tom Waits' realism ; Closing time.…”
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Lift every voice the history of African-American music / by Peretti, Burton W. (Burton William), 1961-

Table of Contents: “…From West Africa to slavery -- Jubilee and Tin Pan Alley : contrasting sounds of freedom -- The rise of ragtime and the blues -- The emergence of jazz -- Jazz at the Philharmonic : the jazz avant-garde and black classical expression -- Gospel, freedom songs, and the struggle for equality -- Black popular music as big business.…”
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Vamping the stage female voices of Asian modernities

Table of Contents: “…Re-vamping Asia : women, music, and modernity in comparative perspective / Andrew N. …”

American composer Zenobia Powell Perry race and gender in the 20th century / by Pool, Jeannie G.

Table of Contents: “…Washington; Boley, Oklahoma; and the political reality for Blacks -- Distinctively American : race and music -- The hidden history of Blacks and Native Americans' cultural implications -- Mentors, allies, and supporters : crucial for musical development -- Dett, Reece, and Dawson : role models for careers in Black music -- Zenobia Powell Perry : an "ambiguous" woman -- Professional teaching career and graduate school -- Becoming a composer : studies with Milhaud and Willman -- Analysis of musical style and selected works.…”
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Modern Albania from dictatorship to democracy in Europe by Abrahams, Fred

Taking sides.

Table of Contents: “…; Is the drug war harming blacks?…”

Headlines in history the 1400s

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1 -- Politics in fifteenth-century Europe -- Eyewitness to the battle of agincourt -- Joan of arc -- Conquest of constantinople -- Eyewitness to Turkish invasion -- Spanish inquisition -- Life of John Hus -- Ivan the great unifies Russia -- Flowering culture of the ming dynasty -- Chapter 2 -- Citizen armies of England -- Fifteenth-century home life -- Women in the middle ages -- Keeping clean -- Medieval medical practices -- Fashions of the renaissance -- Sailing to the holy land -- Rules for clergymen -- Chapter 3 -- Travels in fifteenth-century venice -- Renaissance rulers of florence -- Leonardo da Vinci -- Leonardo's ideas on flying -- Renaissance in music -- Printing press changes the world -- Chapter 4 -- Building of the Aztec empire -- Quetzalcoatl: Great God of the Aztecs -- Aztec human sacrifice -- Inca empire -- Growing up in Inca society -- Chapter 5 -- Exploits of the Chinese dragon fleet -- Portuguese explorations in Africa -- African kingdoms in the 1400s -- Culture clash in black and white -- Da gama navigates to India -- Christopher Columbus: Admiral of the ocean sea -- Columbus describes the new world.…”

The Ashgate research companion to modern warfare

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / George Kassimeris and John Buckley -- The Western way of war / Jeremy Black -- Strategic thought : the relevance of Clausewitz / Antulio J. …”

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