Portraits of the Blues - Arnold, Darrell P; Gapkovska, Irena
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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 (sold 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…mehr

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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 (sold 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. The book provides short biographies of the artists whose music is recorded on the album, drawing attention to some themes especially in religion and politics that are relevant to the blues of these artists. The book is framed through Darrell's lens as a professional philosopher. However, the point of this book is not to offer a detailed historical overview of each musician's life or an outline of what each of these musicians believed-to provide, if you will, their respective "philosophies of life." It does though sketch the lives of these artists with philosophical issues as formative background interests.
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Autorenporträt
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.