Digging. The Afro-American Soul of American Classical Music, Paperback - Amiri Baraka

For almost half a century, Amiri Baraka has ranked among the most important commentators on African American music and culture. Assembling his writ...

Reducere. Amiri Baraka is unquestionably the most recognized leader of the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s, and one of the key literary and cultur...

Reducere. Poet, dramatist, novelist, critic, teacher, and political activist Amiri Baraka, born LeRoi Jones, vividly recounts his crusading role in African A...

Reducere. This book tells the fascinating story of Montreal, Canada, from prehistoric time through the 21st century. From the Iroquoian community of Hochelag...

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A remarkable intellectual history of the slave revolts that made the modern revolutionary era

Reducere. (Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). From Gershwin and Rodgers & Hammerstein to Stephen Schwartz & Stephen Sondheim, 100 timeless hits from the Great Whi...

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Reducere. This landmark book shows how five African civilizations--Yoruba, Kongo, Ejagham, Mande and Cross River--have informed and are reflected in the aest...

Reducere. In the sound of the 1960s and 1970s, nothing symbolized the rift between black and white America better than the seemingly divided genres of countr...

The dynamic course of Afro-American literature from oppression through protest to liberation is depicted in the anthology. Long and Collier have ad...

By mingling images on well-preserved Greek vases with the more fragmentary ceramics recovered during excavations at the Agora, the authors show how...

Reducere. A remarkable intellectual history of the slave revolts that made the modern revolutionary eraThe Common Wind is a gripping and colorful account of ...

Have you ever been carried away by a piece of classical music? In this funny, evocative, personal book, previously published as 'Music for the Peop...

Reducere. DescriptionHerein lie buried many things which if read with patience may show the strange meaning of being black here at the dawning of the Twentie...

Contributor(s): Author: Nicholas DawidoffIn a series of indelible portraits of country music stars, Dawidoff reveals, among others, Jimmie Rodgers,...

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Reducere. ``Jones/Baraka usually speaks as a Negro--and always as an American. He is eloquent, he is bold. He demands rights--not conditional favors.``--``Th...

This book explores the practices of deterrence, and how attachment to this strategy may increase the likelihood of future violence. It provides a f...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Bess Lomax HawesAuthor: Bessie JonesGrowing up in the rural South, Bessie Jones sang her way through long hours of field wo...

Reducere. A bold firsthand account of one of the persistent Arab uprisings, in Yemen At its beginning in 2007, the Southern Movement in South Yemen was a loo...

An exploration of how classic music relates to some of the big ideas of Western experience including spirituality, history and identity.

Publisher: University of Illinois PressAuthor(s): Denise Von GlahnNumber of pages: 384Collection: Music in American LifePublication date: 2021Dimen...

Reducere. The ethnically and geographically heterogeneous countries that comprise Latin America have each produced music in unique styles and genres - but ho...

Considers the misappropriation of African American popular culture through various genres, largely Hip Hop, to argue that while such cultural creat...

Reducere. Despite centuries of suppression and oppression, American Indian music survives today as a profound cultural force. Heartbeat, Warble, and the Elec...

An Eater Best Cookbook of Fall 2020 - This groundbreaking new cookbook from chef, bestselling author, and TV star Marcus Samuelsson celebrates cont...

Reducere. Andrew Dickos's Street with No Name traces the film noir genre back to its roots in German Expressionist cinema and the French cinema of the interw...

Reducere. The aesthetic known as the Bakersfield Sound transformed country music, its hard edge a stark contrast to Nashville's stringed orchestras. It turne...

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Reducere. A New York Times BestsellerFor almost a century, Americans have been losing their hearts and losing their minds in an insatiable love affair with t...

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A critical companion to the most celebrated music documentaries of the twentieth century

In Songbooks, critic and scholar Eric Weisbard offers a critical guide to books on American popular music from William Billings's 1770 New-England ...

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Reducere. DescriptionCreative liturgy has become a mainstay of modern Jewish worship, both in the synagogue and in our private moments of joy and sorrow. Thi...

About 24, 000 figurines and fragments have been found on Acrocorinth, and this study greatly increases our understanding of the way in which this a...