Moroccan Musicians - Paul Bowles, Hicham Chami, Jo Amar, Henry Azra, Najat Aatabou, Bouchaib Abdelhadi, Hassan Hakmoun, Ahmed El Bidaoui (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Paul Bowles, Hicham Chami, Jo Amar, Henry Azra, Najat Aatabou, Bouchaib Abdelhadi, Hassan Hakmoun, Ahmed El Bidaoui, Mahmoud Guinia, Chico Bouchikhi, Imad Kotbi, Samy Elmaghribi. Excerpt: Paul Frederic Bowles (December 30, 1910 November 18, 1999) was an American expatriate composer, author, and translator. Following a cultured middle-class upbringing in New York City, during which he displayed a talent for music and writing, Bowles pursued his education at the University of Virginia before making various trips to Paris in the 1930s. He studied music with Aaron Copland and in New York wrote music for various theatrical productions, as well as other compositions. He achieved critical and popular success with the publication in 1949 of his first novel The Sheltering Sky, set in what was known as French North Africa, which he had visited in 1931. In 1947 Bowles settled in Tangier, Morocco, and his wife, Jane Bowles followed in 1948. Except for winters spent in Sri Lanka (then known as Ceylon) during the early 1950s, Tangier was his home for the remainder of his life. Paul Bowles died in 1999 at the age of 88. His ashes are buried in Lakemont Cemetery in upstate New York. Paul Bowles was born in Jamaica, Queens, New York City the only child of Rena (ne Rennewisser) and Claude Dietz Bowles, a dentist. His childhood was materially comfortable, but Bowles senior was a cold and domineering parent, opposed to any form of play or entertainment, feared by both his son and wife. According to family legend, he had tried to kill his newborn son by leaving him exposed on a window-ledge during a snowstorm; the story may not be true, but Bowles believed it was, and it encapsulates his relationship with his father. Such warmth as there was in his life as a ch... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=229834