Holding It Down: The Veterans' Dreams Project available on February 04 2015 from Amazon for 9.52
Mike Ladd - Holding It Down (The Veterans' Dreams Project) (Music CD) available on December 29 2014 from Base for 12.89
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Product category is MUSIC CD - CD - Jazz Audio
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Brand Name: ALLEGRO CORPORATION Mfg#: 808713004922 Shipping Weight: 1.00 lbs Manufacturer: PI RECORDINGS/NAIL Genre: Jazz Music All music products are properly licensed and guaranteed authentic. Grammy® nominee Vijay Iyer is the mostcelebrated musician on the jazz scene, winner in five categories in the 2012 Down Beat International Critics Poll. No other artist in the 60-year history of the magazine s poll has ever taken five titles in the same year!Holding It Down: The Veterans Dreams Project is the result of a three-year collaboration between Grammy® nominee Vijay Iyer and poet/librettist Mike Ladd, with veterans of color from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It is also the culmination of a trilogy of works spanning more than a decade ofAmerican life, including the critically acclaimed In What Language? and Still Life with Commentator. For Holding It Down, Iyer and Ladd explore theexperiences of veterans of these wars, in particular their post-traumatic-stress-disorder-induced nightmares. They interviewed scores of veteransabout their dreams, many of which are retold here. Iyer and Ladd also enlisted the help of Maurice Decaul, a poet who served with the Marines inIraq, and Lynn Hill, who served in the Air Force. Their harrowing poetry and performances serve as the heart and soul of this project. With seethingpower, Holding It Down explores how post-9/11 war veterans go about their irreversibly altered lives.
