From Almeda to Zilphia - Koch, Stephen
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From Almeda To Zilphia: Arkansas Women Who Transformed American Popular Song profiles artists who've influenced music around the world in ways we're still discovering. Despite their collective cultural impact, these women's stories have too often been overlooked, forgotten, or never told. Part history, part art, and part music, the book features a wide cross-section of inspirational creatives across the decades. With surprises like Maya Angelou's side career as a calypso singer and Carrie Cash, who recognized that her son, Johnny, had "the gift," From Almeda To Zilphia covers a wide variety of…mehr

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From Almeda To Zilphia: Arkansas Women Who Transformed American Popular Song profiles artists who've influenced music around the world in ways we're still discovering. Despite their collective cultural impact, these women's stories have too often been overlooked, forgotten, or never told. Part history, part art, and part music, the book features a wide cross-section of inspirational creatives across the decades. With surprises like Maya Angelou's side career as a calypso singer and Carrie Cash, who recognized that her son, Johnny, had "the gift," From Almeda To Zilphia covers a wide variety of musical styles: > Gospel-Rosetta Tharpe > Opera-Marjorie Lawrence > Blues-Sippie Wallace > Folk Ballads-Almeda Riddle > Dance-Pop -Beth Ditto > Classical-Florence Price, and > Country-K.T. Oslin Working from often hard-to-find historic photographs, vivid portraits by renowned artist Katherine Strause of the women profiled make plain the strength and artistry of these cultural pioneers. With a thoughtful forward by professor Dr. Cherisse Jones-Branch and a heart-wrenching afterword by acclaimed country music songwriter Erin Enderlin, From Almeda To Zilphia is written by musician and award-winning journalist Stephen Koch, writer and host of the syndicated public radio program Arkansongs.
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Stephen Koch is an artist and an award-winning journalist in both broadcasting and print, with a focus on the culture, history, and music of Arkansas and the Midsouthern United States. An author, musician, songwriter, playwright, and illustrator, Stephen Koch is also writer-host of "Arkansongs," a weekly feature syndicated on public radio affiliates throughout the Midsouth.