Show description for Sunday 3/4/2012 @ 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Our guest this afternoon on the 5 o'clock hour, Neela Vaswani. We will be discussing her most recent work, You Have Given Me a Country, winner of the American Book Award 2011.
You Have Given Me a Country is a mixed-genre exploration of blurred borders, identity, and what it means to be bicultural. Combining memoir, history, and fiction, the book follows the paths of the author’s Irish-Catholic mother and Sindhi-Indian father on their journey towards each other and the biracial child they create. Vaswani’s second full-length work thematically echoes such books as The Color of Water, Running in the Family, or Motiba’s Tattoos, but is entirely unique in approach, voice, and story, The book reveals the self as a culmination of all that went before it, a new weave of two varied, yet ultimately universal backgrounds that spans continents, generations, languages, wars, and, at the center of it all, family.
-ForeWord Book of the Year. Gold Medal. Essay category. 2010.
-Independent Book Publisher's Award (IPPY). Silver Medal. Multicultural fiction. 2010.
-Honor Book. Asian/Pacific American Literature Award. Nonfiction category. 2010.
-Honor Book. Association for Asian American Studies Book Award. Prose category. 2010.
| Artist | Song | Album | Label | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Louis Armstrong | Stardust ("Oh, memory") | Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra | Phillips | ||
| Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra | Struttin' With Some Barbecue | Swing That Music (ep) | Swaggie | ||
| Rose Murphy featuring Slam Stewart | Big Noise From Winnetka | Dinah b/w Big Noise From Winnetka | Decca | ||
| Lucky Thompson & His Lucky 7 | Boppin' The Blues | Crazy & Cool | RCA | ||
| Jazz At The Philharmonic | Endido | J.A.T.P. Volume 10 | Mercury | ||
| Billy Eckstine | Prisoner Of Love | Billy Eckstine Sings | National | ||
| Benny Goodman With Peggy Lee | Let's Do It | Benny Goodman With Peggy Lee | Columbia | ||
| Julian "Cannonball" Adderley | Kelly Blue | African Waltz b/w Kelly Blue | Riverside | ||
| Earl Hines | Mountain Air | Earl Hines & His All-Stars | Mercury | ||
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| Bill Evans Trio | Milestones | Waltz For Debby | Riverside | ||
| Oscar Brown, Jr. | Man, Earnest Boy | Tells It Like It Is! | Columbia | ||
| The Jazz Messengers | Ecaroh | The Jazz Messengers | Columbia | ||
| Sarah Vaughn | Words Can't Describe | Sarah Vaughn & Her Trio | Emercy | ||
| Stan Getz | Stella By Starlight | Stan Getz Quartet (ep) | Clef | ||
| Coleman Hawkins | Phantomesque | Coleman Hawkins (ep) | Aladdin | ||
| Dinah Washington | Makebelieve Dreams | Dinah Washington Vol. 8 | Official | ||
| Frank Sinatra with Nelson Riddle | Only The Lonely | Only The Lonely | Capitol | ||
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| Sarah Vaughn | Mean To Me | Hot Jazz | Remington | ||
| Earl Hines | Father Cooperates | Earl Hines & His All-Stars | Mercury | ||
| Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra | Satchel Mouth Swing | Swing That Music (ep) | Swaggie | ||
| Honey Hill | Boogie Woogie | Piano Jazz: Boogie Woogie Style (ep) | Swaggie | ||
| Dinah Washington | Mad About The Boy | Dinah Washington Vol. 8 | Official | ||
| Ella Fitzgerald & Ellis Larkins | What Is There To Say? | Songs In A Mellow Mood (ep) | Decca | ||
| Garland Wilson | Sweet Lorraine | Swing Sessions 2 - 1938/1939 | Pathe Marconi | ||
| Oscar Aleman | Russian Lullaby | Swing Sessions 2 - 1938/1939 | Pathe Marconi | ||
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| McCoy Tyner | Message From The Nile (excerpt) | Extensions | Blue Note | ||
| Interview With Neela Vaswani By Justin Desmangles | Interview With Neela Vaswani By Justin Desmangles | Interview With Neela Vaswani By Justin Desmangles | Interview With Neela Vaswani By Justin Desmangles | ||
| McCoy Tyner | Message From The Nile (excerpt) | Extensions | Blue Note | ||
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| Peggy Lee | Is That All There Is? | Is That All There Is? | Capitol | ||
