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Co-workers in the Kingdom of Culture

Author : David Withun
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780197579596
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (795 download)

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Download or read book Co-workers in the Kingdom of Culture written by David Withun and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The education of W. E. B. Du Bois was similar to that of many of his educated white contemporaries in its focus on knowledge of classical languages and literatures. As was common at the time, the classics were central to Du Bois's education beginning with his high school education in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, and continuing through his undergraduate and graduate education at Fisk University, Harvard University, and the University of Berlin (then Friedrich Wilhelm University). The impression of his education in the classics on Du Bois's intellectual and moral formation would continue to mark his thought and work throughout his life. The education of W. E. B. Du Bois marks the beginning of an intellectual life steeped in and informed by classical thought-especially that of Cicero and Plato-as well as classical mythology and rhetorical forms. While influences on Du Bois's thought include a number of sources that depart in significant ways from classical thought, Du Bois often adapted these influences in such a way that they became compatible with the classical foundations of his most firm ideological commitments. While at Harvard, for example, Du Bois was able to incorporate elements of William James's pragmatist philosophy into his essentially Platonic metaphysics with the assistance of the simultaneous influence of George Santayana. However, Du Bois's classical education also presented him with the challenge that would later form the basis of much of his treatment of classical literature-and Western canonical literature more generally-in his later writing, namely, that he had discovered a passion for the tradition of received canonical texts and thought, but simultaneously found himself excluded from full participation in it because of the racist ideas of his contemporaries. In spite of the persistent classical foundations of Du Bois's ideas, his life and thought were also marked by an awareness of the profound injustice of racial and class discrimination at the heart of the culture which claimed this classical heritage as its own"--

Co-Workers in the Kingdom of Culture

Author : David Withun
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197579582
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)

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Download or read book Co-Workers in the Kingdom of Culture written by David Withun and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classical education of W. E. B. Du Bois -- American Archias : Cicero, epic poetry, and The Souls of Black Folk -- The influence of Plato on the thought of W. E. B. Du Bois -- racist metamorphoses in Du Bois's classical references -- The history of the "darker peoples" of the world : Afrocentrism and cosmopolitanism in the later thought of W. E. B. Du Bois.

Creating the Jazz Solo

Author : Vic Hobson
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496819799
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book Creating the Jazz Solo written by Vic Hobson and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout his life, Louis Armstrong tried to explain how singing with a barbershop quartet on the streets of New Orleans was foundational to his musicianship. Until now, there has been no in-depth inquiry into what he meant when he said, “I figure singing and playing is the same,” or, “Singing was more into my blood than the trumpet.” Creating the Jazz Solo: Louis Armstrong and Barbershop Harmony shows that Armstrong understood exactly the relationship between what he sang and what he played, and that he meant these comments to be taken literally: he was singing through his horn. To describe the relationship between what Armstrong sang and played, author Vic Hobson discusses elements of music theory with a style accessible even to readers with little or no musical background. Jazz is a music that is often performed by people with limited formal musical education. Armstrong did not analyze what he played in theoretical terms. Instead, he thought about it in terms of the voices in a barbershop quartet. Understanding how Armstrong, and other pioneer jazz musicians of his generation, learned to play jazz and how he used his background of singing in a quartet to develop the jazz solo has fundamental implications for the teaching of jazz history and performance today. This assertive book provides an approachable foundation for current musicians to unlock the magic and understand jazz the Louis Armstrong way.

Co-Workers and Co-Leaders

Author : Amanda Jackson
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666730912
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (667 download)

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Download or read book Co-Workers and Co-Leaders written by Amanda Jackson and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine if men and women could contribute equally to serving and leading the Church. How much stronger and healthier the kingdom of God might be? This book explores what healthy partnerships can look like through Biblical exploration and practical insights from different contexts and how we can overcome barriers of tradition or misunderstanding that hinders us.

Beyond Blackface

Author : William Fitzhugh Brundage
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807834629
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Blackface written by William Fitzhugh Brundage and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond Blackface

Color and Culture

Author : Ross Posnock
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674042336
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Color and Culture written by Ross Posnock and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The coining of the term “intellectuals” in 1898 coincided with W. E. B. Du Bois’s effort to disseminate values and ideals unbounded by the color line. Du Bois’s ideal of a “higher and broader and more varied human culture” is at the heart of a cosmopolitan tradition that Color and Culture identifies as a missing chapter in American literary and cultural history. The book offers a much needed and startlingly new historical perspective on “black intellectuals” as a social category, ranging over a century—from Frederick Douglass to Patricia Williams, from Du Bois, Pauline Hopkins, and Charles Chesnutt to Nella Larsen, Zora Neale Hurston, and Alain Locke, from Ralph Ellison and James Baldwin to Samuel Delany and Adrienne Kennedy. These writers challenge two durable assumptions: that high culture is “white culture” and that racial uplift is the sole concern of the black intellectual. The remarkable tradition that this book recaptures, culminating in a cosmopolitan disregard for demands for racial “authenticity” and group solidarity, is strikingly at odds with the identity politics and multicultural movements of our day. In the Du Boisian tradition Ross Posnock identifies a universalism inseparable from the particular and open to ethnicity—an approach with the power to take us beyond the provincialism of postmodern tribalism.

A&R Pioneers

Author : Brian Ward
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN 13 : 0826521770
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book A&R Pioneers written by Brian Ward and published by Vanderbilt University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Association for Recorded Sound Collections Certificate of Merit for the Best Historical Research in Recorded Roots or World Music, 2019 A&R Pioneers offers the first comprehensive account of the diverse group of men and women who pioneered artists-and-repertoire (A&R) work in the early US recording industry. In the process, they helped create much of what we now think of as American roots music. Resourceful, innovative, and, at times, shockingly unscrupulous, they scouted and signed many of the singers and musicians who came to define American roots music between the two world wars. They also shaped the repertoires and musical styles of their discoveries, supervised recording sessions, and then devised marketing campaigns to sell the resulting records. By World War II, they had helped redefine the canons of American popular music and established the basic structure and practices of the modern recording industry. Moreover, though their musical interests, talents, and sensibilities varied enormously, these A&R pioneers created the template for the job that would subsequently become known as "record producer." Without Ralph Peer, Art Satherley, Frank Walker, Polk C. Brockman, Eli Oberstein, Don Law, Lester Melrose, J. Mayo Williams, John Hammond, Helen Oakley Dance, and a whole army of lesser known but often hugely influential A&R representatives, the music of Bessie Smith and Bob Wills, of the Carter Family and Count Basie, of Robert Johnson and Jimmie Rodgers may never have found its way onto commercial records and into the heart of America's musical heritage. This is their story.

Preaching on Wax

Author : Lerone A. Martin
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479890952
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book Preaching on Wax written by Lerone A. Martin and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2014-11-14 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The overlooked African American religious history of the phonograph industry Winner of the 2015 Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize for outstanding scholarship in church history by a first-time author presented by the American Society of Church History Certificate of Merit, 2015 Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research presented by the Association for Recorded Sound Collections From 1925 to 1941, approximately one hundred African American clergymen teamed up with leading record labels such as Columbia, Paramount, Victor-RCA to record and sell their sermons on wax. While white clerics of the era, such as Aimee Semple McPherson and Charles Fuller, became religious entrepreneurs and celebrities through their pioneering use of radio, black clergy were largely marginalized from radio. Instead, they relied on other means to get their message out, teaming up with corporate titans of the phonograph industry to package and distribute their old-time gospel messages across the country. Their nationally marketed folk sermons received an enthusiastic welcome by consumers, at times even outselling top billing jazz and blues artists such as Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey. These phonograph preachers significantly shaped the development of black religion during the interwar period, playing a crucial role in establishing the contemporary religious practices of commodification, broadcasting, and celebrity. Yet, the fame and reach of these nationwide media ministries came at a price, as phonograph preachers became subject to the principles of corporate America. In Preaching on Wax, Lerone A. Martin offers the first full-length account of the oft-overlooked religious history of the phonograph industry. He explains why a critical mass of African American ministers teamed up with the major phonograph labels of the day, how and why black consumers eagerly purchased their religious records, and how this phonograph religion significantly contributed to the shaping of modern African American Christianity.

Hopes and Expectations

Author : Barbara J. Beeching
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438461666
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Hopes and Expectations written by Barbara J. Beeching and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2016-12-29 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2017 Homer D. Babbidge Jr. Award presented by the Association for the Study of Connecticut History Based on a treasure trove of more than two hundred personal letters written in the 1860s, Hopes and Expectations tells the story of three young African Americans in the North. Living on Maryland's eastern shore, schoolteacher Rebecca Primus sent "home weeklies" to her parents in Hartford and also corresponded with friend Addie Brown, a domestic worker back home. Addie wrote voluminously to Rebecca, lamenting their separation and describing her struggle to achieve a semblance of security and stability. Around the same time, Rebecca's brother, Nelson, began writing home about his new life in Boston, as he set out to make a name and a career for himself as an artist. The letters describe their daily lives and touch on race, class, gender, religion, and politics, offering rare entry into individual black lives at that time. Through extensive archival research, Barbara J. Beeching also shows how the story of the Primus family intersects with changes over time in Hartford's black community and the country. Newspapers and census tracts, as well as probate, land, court, and vital records help her trace an arc of local black fortunes between 1830 and 1880. Seeking full equality, blacks sought refinement and respectability through home ownership, literacy, and social gains. One of the many paradoxes Beeching uncovers is that just as the Civil War was tearing the nation apart, a recognizable black middle class was emerging in Hartford. It is a story of individuals, family, and community, of expectation and disappointment, loss and endurance, change and continuity.

The Cambridge History of American Literature: Volume 3, Prose Writing, 1860-1920

Author : Sacvan Bercovitch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521301077
Total Pages : 844 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge History of American Literature: Volume 3, Prose Writing, 1860-1920 written by Sacvan Bercovitch and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Multi-volume history of American literature.

Race, Work, and Desire in American Literature, 1860-1930

Author : Michele Birnbaum
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521824257
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Race, Work, and Desire in American Literature, 1860-1930 written by Michele Birnbaum and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-11-20 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents

Frantic Panoramas

Author : Nancy Bentley
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812201248
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Frantic Panoramas written by Nancy Bentley and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2012-05-23 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Late nineteenth-century America saw an explosion in mass culture—from sensationalist tabloid newspapers to amusement parks to Wild West shows. Historians and critics have traditionally observed the advent of mass culture as undermining literature's central role in the public sphere. Literary writers of the time either reacted with a public show of disdain or retreated to conduct their own private experiments in style and form. In Frantic Panoramas, Nancy Bentley questions these narratives of opposition. For literary writers, Bentley explains, the confrontation with mass culture was less a retreat than a transformation, an ordeal through which habits of contemplative appreciation could be refashioned into new forms of critical thought. By grappling with the energies that marked mass culture, authors came to recognize kinds of human experience that were only then becoming visible as public. William Dean Howells shaped the plots of his novels around tabloid events like rail and trolley accidents and the public chaos of apartment house fires. Although Henry James was distressed at the way dime fiction had changed the very definition of literature, his meditations on mass culture led him to reimagine the novel as a collective "workshop" in which authors and readers jointly discovered new meaning. Bentley offers close readings of these and other writers such as Edith Wharton, James Weldon Johnson, Pauline Hopkins, and Gertrude Bonnin to demonstrate how leading artists took inspiration from commercial culture to create new and distinct literary forms. Drawing on original archival research and a historically grounded theory of realism, Frantic Panoramas is an innovative and comprehensive study of how the emergence of mass culture affected literary culture in America.

How Blacks Built America

Author : Joe R. Feagin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134474768
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book How Blacks Built America written by Joe R. Feagin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-30 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How Blacks Built America examines the many positive and dramatic contributions made by African Americans to this country over its long history. Almost all public and scholarly discussion of African Americans accenting their distinctive societal position, especially discussion outside black communities, has emphasized either stereotypically negative features or the negative socioeconomic conditions that they have long faced because of systemic racism. In contrast, Feagin reveals that African Americans have long been an extraordinarily important asset for this country. Without their essential contributions, indeed, there probably would not have been a United States. This is an ideal addition to courses race and ethnicity courses.

History of American Political Thought

Author : Bryan-Paul Frost
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498558704
Total Pages : 963 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book History of American Political Thought written by Bryan-Paul Frost and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-01-08 with total page 963 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revised and updated, this long-awaited second edition provides a comprehensive introduction to what the most thoughtful Americans have said about the American experience from the colonial period to the present. The book examines the political thought of the most important American statesmen, activists, and writers across era and ideologies, helping another generation of students, scholars, and citizens to understand more fully the meaning of America. This new second edition of the book includes chapters on several additional historical figures, including Walt Whitman, Lyndon Baines Johnson, and Ronald Reagan, as well as a new chapter on Barack Obama, who was not prominent in public life when the first edition was published. Significant revisions and additions have also been made to many of the original chapters, most notably on Antonin Scalia, which now updates his full legacy, increasing the breadth and depth of the collection.

Ethics at the Cinema

Author : Ward E. Jones
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199793166
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Ethics at the Cinema written by Ward E. Jones and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-07 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The editors of Ethics at the Cinema invited a diverse group of moral philosophers and philosophers of film to engage with ethical issues raised within, or within the process of viewing, a single film of each contributor's choice. The result is a unique collection of considerable breadth. Discussions focus on both classic and modern films, and topics range from problems of traditional concern to philosophers (e.g. virtue, justice, and ideals) to problems of traditional concern to filmmakers (e.g. sexuality, social belonging, and cultural identity).

Beyond Vanity

Author : Elizabeth L. Block
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262379465
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Vanity written by Elizabeth L. Block and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2024-09-10 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the award-winning author of Dressing Up, a riveting and diverse history of women’s hair that reestablishes the cultural power of hairdressing in nineteenth-century America. In the nineteenth century, the complex cultural meaning of hair was not only significant, but it could also impact one’s place in society. After the Civil War, hairdressing was also a growing profession and the hair industry a mainstay of local, national, and international commerce. In Beyond Vanity, Elizabeth Block expands the nascent field of hair studies by restoring women’s hair as a cultural site of meaning in the early United States. With a special focus on the places and spaces in which the hair industry operated, Block argues that the importance of hair has been overlooked due to its ephemerality as well as its misguided association with frivolity and triviality. As Block clarifies, hairdressing was anything but frivolous. Using methods of visual and material culture studies informed by concepts of cultural geography, Block identifies multiple substantive categories of place and space within which hair acted. These include the preparatory places of the bedroom, hair salon, and enslaved peoples’ quarters, as well as the presentation places of parties, fairs, stages, and workplaces. Here are also the untold stories of business owners, many of whom were women of color, and the creators of trendsetting styles like the pompadour and Gibson Girl bouffant. Block’s ground-breaking study examines how race and racism affected who participated in the presentation and business of hair, and according to which standards. The result of looking closely at the places and spaces of hair is a reconfiguration that allows a new understanding of the cultural power of hair in the period.

Who Are We? Old, New, and Timeless Answers from Core Texts

Author : Association for Core Texts and Courses. Conference
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 0761853715
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book Who Are We? Old, New, and Timeless Answers from Core Texts written by Association for Core Texts and Courses. Conference and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2011-05-04 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, the Association for Core Texts and Courses has gathered essays of literary and philosophical accounts that explain who we are simply as persons. Further, essays are included that highlight the person as entwined with other persons and examine who we are in light of communal ties. The essays reflect both the Western experience of democracy and how community informs who we are more generally. Our historical position in a modern or post-modern, urbanized or disenchanted world is explored by yet other papers. And, finally, ACTC educators model the intellectual life for students and colleagues by showing how to read texts carefully and with sophistication —- as an example of who we can be.