Books written by Daniel Hardie

  • Exploring Early Jazz: The Origins and Evolution of the New Orleans Style

    About This Book One night around 1897 they say Buddy Bolden stood up in a New Orleans Dance Hall and played the first hot blues.

  • Haunted Hotels: Ghosts On Holidays

    The Stanley Hotel is a Georgian styled hotel that was built in the early 20th century by Freelan Oscar Stanley, the same man who created the Stanley Steam Engine. The hotel first opened in 1909 and it served as a hotel for the rich and ...

  • Deadly Wildlife: Great Australian Biters

    This eBook will take you through the natural and wild world that reside in the land Down Under.

  • Ghosts in Houses & Other Spooky Places

    Apparitions are the full shaped, mostly solid form of ghost which is the main form associated with 'true' ghosts. If you can see a body or head then this is an apparition. Sometimes they only appear as shadows and other times the forms ...

  • Jazz Historiography: The Story of Jazz History Writing

    Prouty K. “Knowing Jazz: Community, Pedagogy and Canon in the Information Age” 2012 Jackson: University Press of Mississippi. Raeburn B. “New Orleans Style and the Writing of American Jazz History” 2009 Ann Arbor Uni. of Michigan Press ...

  • Jazz and the Jazz Age: Searching for Meaning in a Word

    Kenney who made a deep study of the cultural effects of jazz in Chicago wrote evocatively of what has become known as the Austin High School Gang: “The aspiring young white high schoolers who gathered in the western Chicago suburbs ...