The Adventures Of T C Collins Boatman
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The Adventures Of T C Collins Boatman
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Author : Thomas C. Collins
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985
The Adventures Of T C Collins Boatman written by Thomas C. Collins and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Boaters (Persons) categories.
Western Rivermen 1763 1861
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Author : Michael R. Allen
language : en
Publisher: LSU Press
Release Date : 1994-04-01
Western Rivermen 1763 1861 written by Michael R. Allen and has been published by LSU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-04-01 with History categories.
Western Rivermen, the first documented sociocultural history of its subject, is a fascinating book. Michael Allen explores the rigorous lives of professional boatmen who plied non-steam vessels—flatboats, keelboats, and rafts—on the Ohio and lower Mississippi rivers from 1763-1861. Allen first considers the mythical “half horse, half alligator” boatmen who were an integral part of the folklore of the time. Americans of the Jacksonian and pre-Civil War period perceived the rivermen as hard-drinking, straight-shooting adventurers on the frontier. Their notions were reinforced by romanticized portrayals of the boatmen in songs, paintings, newspaper humor, and literature. Allen contends that these mythical depictions of the boatmen were a reflection of the yearnings of an industrializing people for what they thought to be a simpler time. Allen demonstrates, however, that the actual lives of the rivermen little resembled their portrayals in popular culture. Drawing on more than eighty firsthand accounts—ranging from a short letter to a four-volume memoir—he provides a rounded view of the boatmen that reveals the lonely, dangerous nature of their profession. He also discusses the social and economic aspects of their lives, such as their cargoes, the river towns they visited, and the impact on their lives of the steamboat and advancing civilization. Allen’s comprehensive, highly informative study sheds new light on a group of men who played an important role in the development of the trans-Appalachian West and the ways in which their lives were transformed into one of the enduring themes of American folk culture.
Play Of A Fiddle
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Author : Gerald Milnes
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Release Date : 2014-07-11
Play Of A Fiddle written by Gerald Milnes and has been published by University Press of Kentucky this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-11 with Music categories.
Play of a Fiddle gives voice to people who steadfastly hold to and build on the folk traditions of their ancestors. While encountering the influences of an increasingly overwhelming popular culture, the men and women in this book follow age-old patterns of folklife and custom, making their own music and dance in celebration of them. Shedding new light on a region that maintains ties to the cultural identities of its earliest European and African inhabitants, Gerald Milnes shows how folk music in West Virginia borrowed rhythmic, melodic, and vocal forms from the Celtic, Anglo, Germanic, and African traditions. These elements have come together to create a body of music tied more to place and circumstance than to ethnicity. Milnes explores the legacies of the state's best-known performers and musical families. He discusses religious music, balladeering, the influence of black musicians and styles, dancing, banjo and dulcimer traditions, and the importance of old-time music as a cultural pillar of West Virginia life. A musician himself, Milnes has been collecting songs and stories in West Virginia for more than twenty-five years. The result is an enjoyable book filled with anecdotes, local history, and keen observations about musical lives.
Triumph At The Falls
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Author : Leland R. Johnson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Triumph At The Falls written by Leland R. Johnson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Canals categories.
Sounds American
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Author : Ann Ostendorf
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2011
Sounds American written by Ann Ostendorf and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with History categories.
Sounds American provides new perspectives on the relationship between nationalism and cultural production by examining how Americans grappled with musical diversity in the early national and antebellum eras. During this period a resounding call to create a distinctively American music culture emerged as a way to bind together the varied, changing, and uncertain components of the new nation. This played out with particular intensity in the lower Mississippi River valley, and New Orleans especially. Ann Ostendorf argues that this region, often considered an exception to the nation—with its distance from the center of power, its non-British colonial past, and its varied population—actually shared characteristics of many other places eventually incorporated into the country, thus making it a useful case study for the creation of American culture. Ostendorf conjures the territory's phenomenally diverse “music ways” including grand operas and balls, performances by church choirs and militia bands, and itinerant violin instructors. Music was often associated with “foreigners,” in particular Germans, French, Irish, and Africans. For these outsiders, music helped preserve collective identity. But for critics concerned with developing a national culture, this multitude of influences presented a dilemma that led to an obsessive categorization of music with racial, ethnic, or national markers. Ultimately, the shared experience of categorizing difference and consuming this music became a unifying national phenomenon. Experiencing the unknown became a shared part of the American experience.
Ab Bookman S Weekly
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986
Ab Bookman S Weekly written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Antiquarian booksellers categories.
The Cumulative Book Index
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986
The Cumulative Book Index written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with American literature categories.
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Extractives Manufacturing And Services
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Author : David O. Whitten
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 1997-04-22
Extractives Manufacturing And Services written by David O. Whitten and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-04-22 with Business & Economics categories.
The second volume in the Handbook of American Business History series, this book offers concise histories of extractive, manufacturing, and service industries as well as extensive bibliographic essays pointing to the leading sources on each industry and bibliographic checklists. Supplementing other bibliographic materials in business history, this volume provides researchers with a much needed path through the vast array of material available in the library and on the Internet. Indicating which resources to check and which to bypass, the book is a guide to a sometimes overwhelming amount of information. Each of the book's chapters provides a concise industry history, beginning with the industry's rise to importance in the U.S. and continuing to the present. The bibliographic essays provide a narrative outline of the leading sources published or made available in archives, libraries, or museum collections since 1971, when Lovett's American Economic and Business History Information Sources was published. Each discussion concludes with a bibliographic checklist of the titles mentioned in the essay as well as other titles. In a rapidly expanding information society, researchers, teachers, and students may be easily overwhelmed by the exhaustive material available in print and electronically. What is useful and what can be ignored is a strategic question, and few know where to begin. This book provides a guide.
Where East Meets West
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Author : Great Lakes Conference (1994: Fort Wayne, Indiana).
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994
Where East Meets West written by Great Lakes Conference (1994: Fort Wayne, Indiana). and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Canada categories.
The Biography Of T C Collins
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Author : Thomas C. Collins
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986
The Biography Of T C Collins written by Thomas C. Collins and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Little Hocking Region (Ohio) categories.