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In the early 1960s, pianist Horace Tapscott gave up a successful career in Lionel Hampton’s band and returned to his home in Los Angeles to found the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra, a community arts group that focused on providing community-oriented jazz and jazz training. Over the course of almost forty years, the Arkestra, together with the related Union of God’s Musicians and Artists Ascension collective, was at the forefront of the vital community-based arts movement in Black Los Angeles. Some three hundred artists—musicians, vocalists, poets, playwrights, painters, sculptors, and graphic artists—passed through these organizations, many ultimately remaining within the community and others moving on to achieve international fame. In The Dark Tree, Steven L. Isoardi draws on one hundred in-depth interviews with the Arkestra’s participants to tell the history of the important and largely overlooked community arts movement of Black Los Angeles. This revised and updated edition brings the story of the Arkestra up to date, as its ethos and aesthetic remain vital forces in jazz and popular music to this day.
Centuries ago, the Seeds of the Black Tree were hidden. They were thought a secret, locked safely away. That was until a sorcerer of great ambition took the remaining Seed for himself. Now it has been planted somewhere deep in the frozen Wastes. Its roots threaten to grow deep into the heart of the world and transform it into a realm of pure shadow. Soon its power will grow and evil with spread throughout the land. When the darkness spreads completely, none shall be able to stand against it.None save perhaps three.Lorn is a seasoned warrior who failed in his duties long ago. He has no desire to truly save the world any longer. He is only motivated by revenge. For that is all he has left. Rayna is a young woman with a rare ability. Soon to take on the position of Healer in her village, she can cure the wounds of others with her own mystical energies. However, Rayna is torn between this task and the desire to pursue something beyond the calling of her people.Thomas is a young magician among the monks of Torbed, but his youth has given him limited experience with the outside world. His time to sharpen his skills is soon upon him. Will he be up to the task? These three may find that their paths cross, but all lead to an encounter at the edge of the world with the Black Tree.
You Shouldn T Have Been Born At All , The Oracle Said, Lowering His Voice And Shaking His Head. Having Been Born Anyhow, You Should Have Died In Your First Month. But Since You Have Survived, It S Not Death That You Have To Fear, But Life. What Do You Mean? Zeruba Asked. The Oracle Fixed Him With His Hard, Baleful, Crazed Eyes. . . You Ll Find Out, He Said At Last. A Biochemist Turned Artist, Zeruba Rebels Against The Oppressive Confines Of His Disintegrating Ancestral Home In Kerala And, Harried By Inner Demons, Flees To Lead A Reclusive Life In A Secluded Cottage On The Beach In Suburban Madras. Three Remarkable Women Counterpoint Zeruba S Tormented Life Lakshmi, A Beautiful And Gifted But Illiterate Slum Girl, Who Becomes His Mistress And Companion; Aditi, A Tempestuous Heiress With Whom He Plunges Into A Vortex Of Marital Chaos; And Anjali, Who Finally Brings A Semblance Of Stability And Contentment Into His Life. From The Best-Selling Author Of Two Critically Acclaimed Books On Indian History, A Meditative And Richly Nuanced First Novel Which Probes The Many Facets Of Truth And Reality To Draw The Reader Into An Intriguing Web Of Perspectives On The Complexity Of Human Relationships.
A world of dark powers and magic awaits in this dazzlingly-imagined, quest-driven epic from the author of The Rescue Princesses.
Despite his importance and influence, jazz musician, educator, and community leader Horace Tapscott remains relatively unknown to most Americans. In Songs of the Unsung Tapscott shares his life story, recalling his childhood in Houston, moving with his family to Los Angeles in 1943, learning music, and his early professional career. He describes forming the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra in 1961 and later the Union of God's Musicians and Artists Ascension to preserve African American music and serve the community. Tapscott also recounts his interactions with the Black Panthers and law enforcement, the Watts riots, his work in Hollywood movie studios, and stories about his famous musician-activist friends. Songs of the Unsung is the captivating story of one of America’s most unassuming heroes as well as the story of L.A.'s cultural and political evolution over the last half of the twentieth century.
In the late 1950s, free jazz broke all the rules, liberating musicians both to create completely spontaneous and unplanned performances and to develop unique personal musical systems. This genre emerged alongside the radical changes of the 1960s, particularly the Civil Rights, Black Arts, and Black Power movements. Free Jazz is a new and accessible introduction to this exciting, controversial, and often misunderstood music, drawing on extensive research, close listening, and the author’s experience as a performer. More than a catalog of artists and albums, the book explores the conceptual areas they opened: freedom, spirituality, energy, experimentalism, and self-determination. These are discussed in relation to both the political and artistic currents of the times and to specific musical techniques, explained in language clear to ordinary readers but also useful for musicians.
This Delomelanicon, which means "Book of Summoning the Darkness" or "Invocation of Darkness" is a book of concealment about embracing the darkness hidden within the subconscious in order to have unconditionally self-acceptance. The verses in this book use Greek and Hebrew mythology as allegories about the chthonic or subconscious primal survival instincts of the mind. It is Kabbalistic as it focuses on the Dark Tree which is the roots of the Kabbalistic Tree of Life, usually called by the Right-Hand Path of magic as the Qlippoth or Tree of Death. This is the opposite of the Biblical Book of Revelations which is about ascending from earth to heaven or Crown of Life which is the Crown of the Kabbalistic Tree of Life, instead, this Book of Concealment is about descending from earth to hell, which is Kingdom on the Kabbalistic Tree of Life or root chakra in the chakras system in order to understand our animal instincts.
The woodcut engravings of Torchia and Lucifer of the Nine Gates are in this Delomelanicon which are explained through research based upon the teachings of Satanism. This tome will explain each gate and how they connect to the Necronomicon. This tome is the path to the gates as a preparation into walking through each gate into the realm of Shadows. This book works well with The Gates of Hell by Rev. George Sprague of the Church of Satan.
The All Powerful is dead, but the scars of his influence remain, haunting Kael’s memories and discoloring his outlook. Seeking closure, Kael retraces the steps of his past. When he discovers that his father may still be alive, the course of his life once again takes an unexpected turn. Determined to answer the most profound questions of his childhood, Kael ventures across the fractured physical dimension. What awaits him is an advanced civilization of private armies and foreign weaponry, and only one path leads to his goal. Entering a covert war of intelligence and paramilitary operations, Kael must adapt to this new world and confront the possibility that his own destiny is just beginning. The seeds of corruption have taken root, but the Awakened has come. In book four of the bestselling Awakened series, Jason Tesar’s epic saga weaves through the jungles of South America to the industrial cityscapes of Scandinavia, taking readers on an action-packed journey that fuses the genres of sci-fantasy and military fiction.
Trick or Treat! Get a worm cup of tea, curl by the fire, and enjoy the cold chills of this meticulously edited horror collection, jam-packed with the darkest mysteries, supernatural thrillers and gothic romances: James Malcolm Rymer & Thomas Peckett Prest: Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street Edgar Allan Poe: The Tell-Tale Heart The Fall of the House of Usher The Cask of Amontillado The Masque of the Red Death The Murders in the Rue Morgue Mary Shelley: Frankenstein The Mortal Immortal The Evil Eye John William Polidori: The Vampyre Bram Stoker: Dracula Théophile Gautier: Clarimonde The Mummy's Foot Washington Irving: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow The Spectre Bridegroom Henry James: The Turn of the Screw The Ghostly Rental H. P. Lovecraft: The Dunwich Horror From Beyond M. R. James: Canon Alberic's Scrap-Book Lost Hearts Wilkie Collins: The Haunted Hotel The Dead Secret E. F. Benson: The Room in the Tower The Terror by Night Nathaniel Hawthorne: Rappaccini's Daughter Ambrose Bierce: The Death of Halpin Frayser One Summer Night Arthur Machen: The Great God Pan The Three Impostors William Hope Hodgson: The House on the Borderland The Night Land Carnacki, the Ghost-Finder M. P. Shiel: Shapes in the Fire Arthur Conan Doyle: The Leather Funnel The Beetle Hunter Ralph Adams Cram: Black Spirits and White Grant Allen: The Reverend John Creedy Dr. Greatrex's Engagement Richard Marsh: The Beetle Thomas Hardy: What the Shepherd Saw The Grave by the Handpost Charles Dickens: The Signal-Man The Hanged Man's Bride Guy de Maupassant: The Horla The Flayed Hand Pedro De Alarçon: The Nail Walter Hubbell: The Great Amherst Mystery Francis Marion Crawford: The Dead Smile The Screaming Skull Man Overboard! For The Blood is the Life The Upper Berth By The Water of Paradise The Doll's Ghost John Buchan: No-Man's-Land The Watcher by the Threshold The Monkey's Paw The Severed Hand The Ghost in the Cap'n Brown House The Apparition of Mrs. Veal (Daniel Defoe) When the World Was Young (Jack London)...