George Christy S Essence Of Old Kentucky
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George Christy S Essence Of Old Kentucky
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Author : George N. Christy
language : en
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Release Date : 1862
George Christy S Essence Of Old Kentucky written by George N. Christy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1862 with Minstrel shows categories.
It S A Wonderful Word
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Author : Albert Jack
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011-11-03
It S A Wonderful Word written by Albert Jack and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-03 with History categories.
Did you know that an assassin is a hashish-eater and a yokel a country woodpecker? That Dr Mesmer mesmerised patients back to health or that Samuel Pepys enjoyed a good game of handicap? While we're at it, what have spondulics to do with spines or lawyers with avocados? In It's a Wonderful Word, bestselling author Albert Jack collects over 500 of the strangest, funniest-sounding and most delightful words in the English language, and traces them back to their often puzzling origins. While brushing up on your gibberish or gobbledygook, discover why bastards should resent travelling salesmen, why sheets should remain on tenterhooks and why you should never set down a tumbler before finishing your drink. From blotto to bamboozle and from claptrap to quango, Albert Jack's addictive anecdotes bring the world's most colourful language to life and are guaranteed to surprise and entertain.
Standards Of Value
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Author : Michael Germana
language : en
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Release Date : 2009-10
Standards Of Value written by Michael Germana and has been published by University of Iowa Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10 with Literary Criticism categories.
In Standards of Value, Michael Germana reveals how tectonic shifts in U.S. monetary policy—from the Coinage Act of 1834 to the abolition of the domestic gold standard in 1933–34—correspond to strategic changes by American writers who renegotiated the value of racial difference. Populating the pages of this bold and innovative study are authors as varied as Harriet Beecher Stowe, George Washington Cable, Charles Chesnutt, James Weldon Johnson, Nella Larsen, Jessie Redmon Fauset, and Ralph Ellison—all of whom drew analogies between the form Americans thought the nation's money should take and the form they thought race relations and the nation should take. A cultural history of race organized around and enmeshed within the theories of literary and monetary value, Standards of Value also recovers a rhetorical tradition in American culture whose echoes can be found in the visual and lyrical grammars of hip hop, the paintings of John W. Jones and Michael Ray Charles, the cinematography of Spike Lee, and many other contemporary forms and texts. This reconsideration of American literature and cultural history has implications for how we value literary texts and how we read shifting standards of value. In vivid prose, Germana explains why dollars and cents appear where black and white bodies meet in American novels, how U.S. monetary policy gave these symbols their cultural currency, and why it matters for scholars of literary and cultural studies.
Love Theft
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Author : Eric Lott
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2013-07-10
Love Theft written by Eric Lott and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-10 with Literary Criticism categories.
For over two centuries, America has celebrated the same African-American culture it attempts to control and repress, and nowhere is this phenomenon more apparent than in the strange practice of blackface performance. Born of extreme racial and class conflicts, the blackface minstrel show appropriated black dialect, music, and dance; at once applauded and lampooned black culture; and, ironically, contributed to a "blackening of America." Drawing on recent research in cultural studies and social history, Eric Lott examines the role of the blackface minstrel show in the political struggles of the years leading up to the Civil War. Reading minstrel music, lyrics, jokes, burlesque skits, and illustrations in tandem with working-class racial ideologies and the sex/gender system, Love and Theft argues that blackface minstrelsy both embodied and disrupted the racial tendencies of its largely white, male, working-class audiences. Underwritten by envy as well as repulsion, sympathetic identification as well as fear--a dialectic of "love and theft"--the minstrel show continually transgressed the color line even as it enabled the formation of a self-consciously white working class. Lott exposes minstrelsy as a signifier for multiple breaches: the rift between high and low cultures, the commodification of the dispossessed by the empowered, the attraction mixed with guilt of whites caught in the act of cultural thievery. This new edition celebrates the twentieth anniversary of this landmark volume. It features a new foreword by renowned critic Greil Marcus that discusses the book's influence on American cultural studies as well as its relationship to Bob Dylan's 2001 album of the same name, "Love & Theft." In addition, Lott has written a new afterword that extends the study's range to the twenty-first century.
Notes And Sources For Folk Songs Of The Catskills
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Author : Norman Cazden
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 1983-06-30
Notes And Sources For Folk Songs Of The Catskills written by Norman Cazden and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983-06-30 with History categories.
Notes and Sources to Folk Songs of the Catskills, also published by the State University of New York Press, is the companion volume to Folk Songs of the Catskills. It contains extensive reference notes that exemplify and support detailed citations in the commentary preceding each song. The book also includes a comprehensive list of sources, including books, broadsides or pocket songsters, disc recordings, music publications, periodicals, tape archives, and other miscellaneous material, as well as information on variants, adaptations, comments or references, texts, and tunes. These notes are designed to provide succinct reference information.
The Gay Boys Of Old Yale
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Author : John Denison Vose
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1869
The Gay Boys Of Old Yale written by John Denison Vose and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1869 with categories.
Anointed With Oil
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Author : Darren Dochuk
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2019-06-04
Anointed With Oil written by Darren Dochuk and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-04 with History categories.
A groundbreaking new history of the United States, showing how Christian faith and the pursuit of petroleum fueled America's rise to global power and shaped today's political clashes Anointed with Oil places religion and oil at the center of American history. As prize-winning historian Darren Dochuk reveals, from the earliest discovery of oil in America during the Civil War, citizens saw oil as the nation's special blessing and its peculiar burden, the source of its prophetic mission in the world. Over the century that followed and down to the present day, the oil industry's leaders and its ordinary workers together fundamentally transformed American religion, business, and politics -- boosting America's ascent as the preeminent global power, giving shape to modern evangelical Christianity, fueling the rise of the Republican Right, and setting the terms for today's political and environmental debates. Ranging from the Civil War to the present, from West Texas to Saudi Arabia to the Alberta Tar Sands, and from oil-patch boomtowns to the White House, this is a sweeping, magisterial book that transforms how we understand our nation's history.
Jolly Fellows
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Author : Richard Stott
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2009-09-21
Jolly Fellows written by Richard Stott and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09-21 with History categories.
“Jolly fellows,” a term that gained currency in the nineteenth century, referred to those men whose more colorful antics included brawling, heavy drinking, gambling, and playing pranks. Reforms, especially the temperance movement, stigmatized such behavior, but pockets of jolly fellowship continued to flourish throughout the country. Richard Stott scrutinizes and analyzes this behavior to appreciate its origins and meaning. Stott finds that male behavior could be strikingly similar in diverse locales, from taverns and boardinghouses to college campuses and sporting events. He explores the permissive attitudes that thrived in such male domains as the streets of New York City, California during the gold rush, and the Pennsylvania oil fields, arguing that such places had an important influence on American society and culture. Stott recounts how the cattle and mining towns of the American West emerged as centers of resistance to Victorian propriety. It was here that unrestrained male behavior lasted the longest, before being replaced with a new convention that equated manliness with sobriety and self-control. Even as the number of jolly fellows dwindled, jolly themes flowed into American popular culture through minstrelsy, dime novels, and comic strips. Jolly Fellows proposes a new interpretation of nineteenth-century American culture and society and will inform future work on masculinity during this period.
American Popular Music And Its Business
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Author : the late Russell Sanjek
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1988-07-28
American Popular Music And Its Business written by the late Russell Sanjek and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988-07-28 with Music categories.
Volume two concentrates exclusively on music activity in the United States in the nineteenth century. Among the topics discussed are how changing technology affected the printing of music, the development of sheet music publishing, the growth of the American musical theater, popular religious music, black music (including spirituals and ragtime), music during the Civil War, and finally "music in the era of monopoly," including such subjects as copyright, changing technology and distribution, invention of the phonograph, copyright revision, and the establishment of Tin Pan Alley.
Rootle Tum Tootle Tum Tay Songster A Collection Of The Very Best And Newest Comic Eccentric And Ethiopian Songs Etc
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1868
Rootle Tum Tootle Tum Tay Songster A Collection Of The Very Best And Newest Comic Eccentric And Ethiopian Songs Etc written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1868 with categories.