Portraits of the Blues

Arnold Ph.D., Darrell P

/ ISBN 13: 9798991013406

Edité par Sisyphus Publishing, 2024

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Synopsis :

Portraits of the Blues is an introduction to the music, lives and worldviews of key blues artists from the early twentieth century. The book is conceived as part of a package including a CD (available separately). The book author and recording artist is Darrell Arnold, a Miami-based philosophy professor and performing singer-songwriter. Darrell brings his philosophical background to bear in observations on key features of the artists' lives, considering the artists' views of religion, their impacts on politics, and their understandings of how the blues stirs the human soul. The book illustrations are portraits of the musicians, created by Irena Gapkovska. The album that accompanies the book was recorded together with the Nashville-based guitarist and producer, Jack Shawde. Together, the writing, artwork and music of Portraits of the Blues make for a unique multifaceted presentation of the blues.

À propos des auteurs: Darrell Arnold is philosopher and performing singer-songwriter. He has written on globalization and environmental issues especially as relevant to political theory and philosophy of technology. He is editor of Critical Theory and the Thought of Andrew Feenberg (Palgrave MacMillan) and Traditions of Systems Theory (Routledge). He has also done a myriad of translations from German, including Chrysostomos Mantzavinos's Naturalistic Hermeneutics (Cambridge U P) and Matthias Vogel's Media of Reason (New Directions in Critical Theory) (Columbia U P). He is currently associate professor of philosophy at Miami Dade College, Miami Florida. He served as Interim Dean at St. Thomas University and was President of the Humanities and Technology Association from 2014 to 2019. He has taught full time at St. Thomas University, Colorado State University, Pueblo, and the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. Darrell has been also been active as a performer/singer-songwriter since the 1990s. He has recorded five studio albums, most recently "Changing World," with the Nashville producer, Jack Shawde. In the early 2000s while living in Germany, he won a national award for CD Production of the Year with the German Pop and Rock Music Association for his CD "Everyday Stories." With his German band he did two opening tours for the Yardbirds in the early 2000s and played festivals with other blues rock bands including Canned Heat, Alvin Lee, Eric Burdon and the New Animals and Joe Cocker.

Irena Gapkovska takes inspiration from the moments and impressions from life: As she notes: "As a Macedonian artist, the influence of the Byzantine is present in my work in many different ways. My images are usually rather surrealistic in style, and focus on the human figure in a symbolic manner. By using the aesthetics of ancient Macedonian art to express the spirituality of the subject, I make a bridge between abstract and figurative realities combining them in an authentic manner with an intellectual approach to make a unique visual story." Prior to Founding NGO Art Studio in Skopje, Macedonia in1998, Irena was graphic designer for the newspaper Elena and for Nova Makedonija Magazine, receiving a national award for best art illustration. She earned a Master's Degree in Graphic Art from St. Kyril Methodiy University Fine Art Academy in Skopje. In addition to her studio in Skopje, she had a studio in Miami for ten years until 2018, when she relocated to Perpignan, France.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Portraits of the Blues
Éditeur : Sisyphus Publishing
Date d'édition : 2024
Reliure : PAP
Illustrateur : Gapkovska, Irena
Etat : New