Hoodoo Blues the Role Playing Game

Hoodoo Blues the Role Playing Game PDF Author: Brian St.Claire-King
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ISBN: 0971309566
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 314

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Hoodoo Blues is a Role Playing Game of supernatural beliefs from America's Old South. Players play the ageless, those who have lived through (sometimes suffered through) decades or centuries of Southern history.

Hoodoo Blues the Role Playing Game

Hoodoo Blues the Role Playing Game PDF Author: Brian St.Claire-King
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ISBN: 0971309566
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 314

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Hoodoo Blues is a Role Playing Game of supernatural beliefs from America's Old South. Players play the ageless, those who have lived through (sometimes suffered through) decades or centuries of Southern history.

Seeker the Role Playing Game

Seeker the Role Playing Game PDF Author:
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ISBN: 0971309582
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 190

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Tibet

Tibet PDF Author: Brian St. Claire-King
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ISBN: 9780971309517
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 230

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KidWorld the Role Playing Game

KidWorld the Role Playing Game PDF Author:
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ISBN: 097130954X
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Languages : en
Pages : 279

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Delta Blues

Delta Blues PDF Author: Nick Ribera
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ISBN: 9781959839064
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Languages : en
Pages : 0

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A newly assembled family will be put to the test as they get caught up in a witch's curse deep in the Louisiana delta.

Hoodoo Love

Hoodoo Love PDF Author: Katori Hall
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 0822222957
Category : African American women
Languages : en
Pages : 80

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Up-and-coming dramatist Rajiv Joseph is an artist of original talent. --NY Times. Irresistibly odd and exciting...This darkly humorous drama is Rajiv Joseph's most satisfying work. --NY Daily News. This wondrous strange two-hander finds as much humor as

Smoking Mirror Blues

Smoking Mirror Blues PDF Author: Ernest Hogan
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781987497243
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 262

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THE DAZZLING MUST-READ SF CLASSIC An ancient god. A new technology. The future will never be the same. New technologies resurrect an ancient Aztec wizard/ warrior god, who hijacks the body of the one who resurrected him, running wild through a futuristic Hollywood, adapting the brave new world and getting back to his old business of creating chaos and taking control. "The rising movement for more diversity in literature has put the spotlight on Latino fiction, however, the subset of works that make up what Rudy García calls "Latino SpecFic" are also worthy of greater notice. I would argue that the tools it affords an author are uniquely apt for exploring the human condition. "On the eve of Dead Daze, Beto Orozco, ladies' man and game developer, decides to put to use the god-simulator program he has stolen from Xóchitl, an engineer from Mexico City. Unfortunately, he selects Tezcatlipoca as his test deity - the Aztec Lord of Chaos, trickster brother of Quetzalcoatl - and he does so without any safety measures. The simulation gains access to the Internet and attains sentience, reaching out to control Beto's body first through hypnosis and then a cerebral implant. "Plunging into the celebration, Tezcatlipoca - using the recombo name translation "Smokey Espejo" - takes control of a corporate gang and soon becomes the center of the festivities, his musical talents, suave presence and seeming omniscience attracting the attention of the media ... and other groups. "Ti Yong/Hoodoo Investigations sizes up the threat this AI god represents (to wit, he wants to use music to foment chaos across the globe, partying hard as he does so), and they decide, with the help of the simulation program's creator and a handful of Beto's original friends, to stop Tezcatlipoca and free Beto (whose mind has been imprisoned in his own brain). "Their mission is complicated by the Earth Angels, a shadowy organization of monotheistic terrorists who believe the only way to stop Smokey Espejo is by creating a cybernetic version of their "one true God" using the same software. "As these three groups head toward a collision, one thing is certain: the gods humanity has crafted will hold a dark and smoking mirror to our collective soul. "Hogan's style is both deftly self-assured and gleefully madcap, harkening to the very best of Philip K. Dick, Harlan Ellison and Samuel R. Delany. Shifting viewpoints are intercut with commentary from news reporters and the communications of different organizations. Steamy, explicit scenes are juxtaposed with philosophical conversations and political machinations, but the narrative flows smoothly, drawing a reader deep into this imagined world. "If you love great speculative fiction and/or Chicano literature, you owe it to yourself to give this a read." -David Bowle, The Monitor "A delirious mosaic of sex, drugs, rock 'n' roll, post-cyberpunk savvy, linguistic fun and Aztec myth. Exemplary -- and exuberantly fun." -Claude Lalumiere, January Magaxine. "If you're looking for something new and different, or just want to read something wacky with a little edge to it, then Smoking Mirror Blues is a book you should be reading right now." -James M. Palmer, New York Journal Of Books

The Blues: A Very Short Introduction

The Blues: A Very Short Introduction PDF Author: Elijah Wald
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199752874
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 152

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Praised as "suave, soulful, ebullient" (Tom Waits) and "a meticulous researcher, a graceful writer, and a committed contrarian" (New York Times Book Review), Elijah Wald is one of the leading popular music critics of his generation. In The Blues, Wald surveys a genre at the heart of American culture. It is not an easy thing to pin down. As Howlin' Wolf once described it, "When you ain't got no money and can't pay your house rent and can't buy you no food, you've damn sure got the blues." It has been defined by lyrical structure, or as a progression of chords, or as a set of practices reflecting West African "tonal and rhythmic approaches," using a five-note "blues scale." Wald sees blues less as a style than as a broad musical tradition within a constantly evolving pop culture. He traces its roots in work and praise songs, and shows how it was transformed by such professional performers as W. C. Handy, who first popularized the blues a century ago. He follows its evolution from Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith through Bob Dylan and Jimi Hendrix; identifies the impact of rural field recordings of Blind Lemon Jefferson, Charley Patton and others; explores the role of blues in the development of both country music and jazz; and looks at the popular rhythm and blues trends of the 1940s and 1950s, from the uptown West Coast style of T-Bone Walker to the "down home" Chicago sound of Muddy Waters. Wald brings the story up to the present, touching on the effects of blues on American poetry, and its connection to modern styles such as rap. As with all of Oxford's Very Short Introductions, The Blues tells you--with insight, clarity, and wit--everything you need to know to understand this quintessentially American musical genre.

Black Magic

Black Magic PDF Author: Yvonne P. Chireau
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520249887
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 234

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"Chireau has written a marvelous text on an important dimension of African American religious culture. Expanding beyond the usual focus of scholarship on Christianity, she describes and analyzes the world of magical-medical-religious practice, challenging hallowed distinctions among "religion" and "magic." Anyone interested in African American religion will need to reckon seriously with Chireau's text on conjure."—Albert J. Raboteau, Princeton University "Deprived of their own traditions and defined as chattel, enslaved Africans formed a new orientation in America. Conjuring—operating alongside of and within both the remnants of African culture and the acquired traditions of North America—served as a theoretical and practical mode of deciphering and divining within this, enabling them to create an alternate meaning of life in the New World. Chireau's is the first full-scale treatment of this important dimension of African American culture and religion. A wonderful book!"—Charles H. Long, Professor of History of Religions University of California, Santa Barbara and author of Significations: Signs, Symbols and Images in the Interpretation of Religion

Fates Worse Than Death

Fates Worse Than Death PDF Author: Brian St.Claire-King
Publisher:
ISBN: 0971309507
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 465

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A role playing game of suspense, horror and hope in 2080 on the streets of Manhattan.