Morgan Monceaux
Auteur de Jazz: My Music, My People
Œuvres de Morgan Monceaux
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My Heroes, My People: African Americans and Native… par Ruth Katcher
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I will try and not review this with the bias of me loving jazz, but I truly believe this book educates children on a genre of music that they otherwise would know nothing about. I still don't know if they would really like jazz music, it's an acquired taste, but the book informs nonetheless. The pictures are very New Orlans-ish, and the book touches on the culture of the music. I enjoyed this book and immediately threw on a Blue Note record after reading it.
“My Heroes, My People” is a very informative book that talks about very influential African-American and Native American people in history. This book does a really good job of providing the information about these iconic people. The purpose of this book is to inform the readers about people in history that no one really knows about. These people were either never brought up in history classes or they were skimmed over very briefly, and this book makes sure that they are front and center because each person has their own section that solely focuses on them. The author seems to put those that were forgotten back in the forefront of their readers mind.… (plus d'informations)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 2
- Membres
- 60
- Popularité
- #277,520
- Évaluation
- 3.7
- Critiques
- 3
- ISBN
- 4