Cuttin Up

The emergence of jazz out of New Orleans is part of the American story, but the creation of this music was more than a regional phenomenon: it also crossed geographical, cultural, and technological lines. Court Carney takes a new look at the spread and acceptance of jazz in America, going beyond the familiar accounts of music historians and documentarians to show how jazz paralleled and propelled the broader changes taking place in America's economy, society, politics, and culture. Cuttin' Up takes readers back to the 1920s and early 1930s to describe how jazz musicians navigated the rocky racial terrain of the music business-and how new media like the phonograph, radio, and film accelerated its diffusion and contributed to variations in its styles. The first history of jazz to emphasize the connections between these disseminating technologies and specific locales, it describes the distinctive styles that developed in four cities and tells how the opportunities of each influenced both musicians' choices and the marketing of their music. Carney begins his journey in New Orleans, where pioneers like Jelly Roll Morton and Buddy Bolden set the tone for the new music, then takes readers up the river to Chicago, where Joe Oliver's Creole Jazz Band, featuring a young Louis Armstrong, first put jazz on record. The genre received a major boost in New York through radio's live broadcasts from venues like the Cotton Club, then came to a national audience when Los Angeles put it in the movies, starting with the appearance of Duke Ellington's orchestra in Check and Double Check. As Carney shows, the journey of jazz had its racial component as well, ranging from New Orleans' melting pot to Chicago's segregated music culture, from Harlem clubs catering to white clienteles to Hollywood's reinforcement of stereotypes. And by pinpointing specific cultural turns in the process of bringing jazz to a national audience, he shows how jazz opens a window on the creation of a modernist spirit in America. A 1930 tune called "Cuttin' Up" captured the freewheeling spirit of this new music-an expression that also reflects the impact jazz and its diffusion had on the nation as it crossed geographic and social boundaries and integrated an array of styles into an exciting new hybrid. Deftly blending music history, urban history, and race studies, Cuttin' Up recaptures the essence of jazz in its earliest days.

The author of "Crowns" returns with an unforgettable collection of narratives, quotes, and photographs from the most sacred of spacesQthe black barber shop.

This book is packed with beautiful colorful images and the story of how my 100 Day Project evolved. Read it, cut it up, pull out pages to frame on your wall. This is a fun book to add to your collection!The 100 Day Project is an annual online challenge that thousands of people participate in through instagram. The idea is simple: pick an action and repeat that action every day for 100 days. It can be simple or ambitious; artistic or not. The hope is that you will learn and grow from the repeated action day after day.The artwork in this book is the result of my 2021 100 Day Project: 100 Days of Art Botanical.

The appeal of paper cutting is that anyone can do it, the equipment is readily available, and the results are stunning. This totally fun and interactive book features inspirational ideas for crafters of all skill levels. In an easy-to-follow, fully illustrated format, Cut Up This Book! shows readers how to create exquisite works of art. It provides all essential information from basic techniques to creative step-by-step projects. The package includes fifty one-of-a-kind, ready-to-cut papercraft projects designed by artist Emily Hogarth. Filled with ideas such as card-making and transposing images onto fabric, readers will make crafts that have a variety of practical applications in everyday life. Illuminating text offers profiles of contemporary artists and detail on papercutting forms throughout the world, basic tools, materials, and techniques. Projects include: • Greeting cards • Bird Mobiles • Tree ornaments • Window displays • Shadow puppets And much more!

Rennis leans on the cracked porcelain sink in the bathroom, staring at the black form in the mirror. His wife’s dead body lay on the floor of the kitchenette. Where his kids had gotten to, he cannot remember. His hands are covered in blood. With his face cut up, Rennis leaves the apartment and ventures into the city, leaving his family and life behind.

Facilitate a love of language in students in grades PK–1 with Creating Cut-Up Sentence Books! This 96-page book helps students develop successful reading strategies and skills. It includes 18 reproducible cut-up sentence books with popular themes, directions for making large classroom books and individual student books, and stories with high-frequency words from the First 25 Word List. The book supports NCTE and NAEYC standards.

Instill a love of literacy in students in grades 1–2 using Sequencing Cut-Up Sentences! This 64-page book features the hands-on reading activity of assembling "cut-up" sentences, strategy that has been proven to be fun and effective. The 55 fiction and nonfiction passages in this book help students develop skills and strategies that assist them in comprehending, evaluating, interpreting, and appreciating what they read. Additionally, English Language Learners practice using common English sentence structures. This resource meets the needs of students of varying ability levels and learning styles. It supports NCTE standards.

Instill a love of literacy in students in grades 1Ð2 using Sequencing Cut-Up Sentences! This 64-page book features the hands-on reading activity of assembling "cut-up" sentences, aÊstrategy that has been proven to be fun and effective. The 55 fiction and nonfiction passages in this book help studentsÊdevelop skills and strategies that assist them in comprehending, evaluating, interpreting, and appreciating what they read. Additionally, English Language Learners practice using common English sentence structures. This resourceÊmeets the needs of students of varying ability levels and learning styles. It supports NCTE standards.