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Mystic Chords of Memory

Author : Michael Kammen
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307761401
Total Pages : 879 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Mystic Chords of Memory written by Michael Kammen and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-08-17 with total page 879 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mystic Chords of Memory "Illustrated with hundreds of well-chosen anecdotes and minute observations . . . Kammen is a demon researcher who seems to have mined his nuggets from the entire corpus of American cultural history . . . insightful and sardonic." —Washington Post Book World In this ground-breaking, panoramic work of American cultural history, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Machine That Would Go of Itself examines a central paradox of our national identity How did "the land of the future" acquire a past? And to what extent has our collective memory of that past—as embodied in our traditions—have been distorted, or even manufactured? Ranging from John Adams to Ronald Reagan, from the origins of Independence Day celebrations to the controversies surrounding the Vietnam War Memorial, from the Daughters of the American Revolution to immigrant associations, and filled with incisive analyses of such phenonema as Americana and its collectors, "historic" villages and Disneyland, Mystic Chords of Memory is a brilliant, immensely readable, and enormously important book. "Fascinating . . . a subtle and teeming narrative . . . masterly." —Time "This is a big, ambitious book, and Kammen pulls it off admirably. . . . [He] brings a prodigious mind and much scholarly rigor to his task . . . an importnat book—and a revealing look at how Americans look at themselves." —Milwaukee Journal

Echoes of the Mystic Chords

Author : J Wes Ulm
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780997903805
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Echoes of the Mystic Chords written by J Wes Ulm and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Echoes of the Mystic Chords is a spellbinding high-concept genre-crosser, fusing a metaphysical thriller with a cosmic dark mystery. It was a decade in the making with 12 thought-provoking interior illustrations, detailed cover and title page art, riddle-poems starting each chapter, and top-quality fonts and design work. More at www.echomystic.com

Woodland Echoes

Author : James Thomas Bryant
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Woodland Echoes written by James Thomas Bryant and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Muffled Echoes

Author : Amy Fried
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231108201
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book Muffled Echoes written by Amy Fried and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten years ago the Iran-Contra affair swept the headlines as the nation watched an indignant Lt. Col. Oliver North testify before a congressional committee. Although polls showed that most Americans were critical of North's actions and ambivalent toward the man himself, media coverage left the opposite impression, with its broadcasts of "Ollie-for-president" rallies and stories of congressional aides overwhelmed by a torrent of pro-North mail. In this book, public opinion is more than the sum of a pollster's tally; instead, Amy Fried defines it as a political tool, integral to the political process, where vested interests compete to legitimize their interpretation of the public voice. Fried explores the construction, interpretation, and uses of public opinion, raising important questions about the media and the role of special interest groups in determining policy.

Civil War, Updated Edition

Author : Michael Goley
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438100078
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Civil War, Updated Edition written by Michael Goley and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for the previous edition:"Historical quotations, photographs, artwork, and maps lend authenticity to the text." - Curriculum Product NewsAmerica's bloodiest war was fought, not against a foreign enemy, but family a

Echoes of War

Author : Michael C.C. Adams
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813185300
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Echoes of War written by Michael C.C. Adams and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Americans are often accused of not appreciating history, but this charge belies the real popular interest in the past. Historical reenactments draw thousands of spectators; popular histories fill the bestseller lists; PBS, A&E and The History Channel air a dizzying array of documentaries and historical dramas; and Hollywood war movies become blockbusters. Though historians worry that these popular representations sacrifice authenticity for broad appeal, Michael C.C. Adams argues that living history—even if it is an incomplete depiction of the past—plays a vital role in stimulating the historical imagination. In Echoes of War, he examines how one of the most popular fields of history is portrayed, embraced, and shaped by mainstream culture. Adams argues that symbols of war are of intrinsic military significance and help people to articulate ideas and values. We still return to the knight as a symbol of noble striving; the bowman appeals as a rebel against unjust privilege. Though Custer may not have been the Army's most accomplished fighter, he achieved the status of cultural icon. The public memory of the redcoated British regular soldier shaped American attitudes toward governments and gun laws. The 1863 attack on Fort Wagner by the black Fifty-fourth Massachusetts regiment was lost to public view until racial equality became important in the late twentieth century. Echoes of War is a unique look at how a thousand years of military history are remembered in popular culture, through images ranging from the medieval knight to the horror of U.S. involvement in the My Lai massacre.

Mystic Chords

Author : Manish Soni
Publisher : Algora Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1892941716
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (929 download)

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Download or read book Mystic Chords written by Manish Soni and published by Algora Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Citing baby-boomer favorites including Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, the Beatles and other rock greats, the author shows that they have drawn on the same primal source from which mythology, dreams, and poetic insight arise. (Music)

The Committed Word

Author : James Engell
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271038918
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book The Committed Word written by James Engell and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the past century, literary education, often divorced from rhetoric, has grown increasingly distant from the practice of language in statecraft, law, religion, and ethics. Yet literature and rhetoric retain open, independent powers to enhance what Emerson calls &"the conduct of life.&" In these provocative essays, James Engell argues that a more complete literary training can foster a heightened sense of shared social experience, an awareness of diverse views, a love of language, and a more powerful ability to express the values we enshrine or debate. Revealing a set of deep intersections among literature, politics, rhetoric, and the public deliberation of values, he explores how dedicated individuals of different callings resort to heightened language in order to secure knowledge, test beliefs, consider policy, and promote action. Through profiles of Lincoln, Burke, Swift, Hume, Lowth, Vico, and others, Engell explores the political and ethical involvement of writers with their culture in order to reestablish links between literary qualities of language and the means by which we challenge power and secure liberty. He presents a cogent argument for a different, expanded kind of literary education, suggesting that training in rhetoric, now often misunderstood or neglected, can serve the common good without becoming mired in partisan squabbles or academic pedantry. Despite the dominance of visual media in our society, observes Engell, the difficult problems we face must be resolved through language. By presenting writers who use resourceful language to engage political contests and cultural issues, he contributes to ongoing debates in education, politics, and culture without subscribing to easy labels of &"left&" and &"right&" or &"traditional&" versus &"innovative.&" He demonstrates imaginative ways to apply time-tested literary techniques to a changing world, making use of the past yet in a way that the past could not predict. This passionately argued book calls for a shift in the ways we teach and regard literature.

The Echo from the Army

Author : Loyal Publication Society of New York
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 768 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book The Echo from the Army written by Loyal Publication Society of New York and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Abigail and John Adams

Author : G. J. Barker-Benfield
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226037444
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Abigail and John Adams written by G. J. Barker-Benfield and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-11-15 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the many years that they were separated by the perils of the American Revolution, John and Abigail Adams exchanged hundreds of letters. Writing to each other of public events and private feelings, loyalty and love, revolution and parenting, they wove a tapestry of correspondence that has become a cherished part of American history and literature. With Abigail and John Adams, historian G. J. Barker-Benfield mines those familiar letters to a new purpose: teasing out the ways in which they reflected—and helped transform—a language of sensibility, inherited from Britain but, amid the revolutionary fervor, becoming Americanized. Sensibility—a heightened moral consciousness of feeling, rooted in the theories of such thinkers as Descartes, Locke, and Adam Smith and including a “moral sense” akin to the physical senses—threads throughout these letters. As Barker-Benfield makes clear, sensibility was the fertile, humanizing ground on which the Adamses not only founded their marriage, but also the “abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity” they and their contemporaries hoped to plant at the heart of the new nation. Bringing together their correspondence with a wealth of fascinating detail about life and thought, courtship and sex, gender and parenting, and class and politics in the revolutionary generation and beyond, Abigail and John Adams draws a lively, convincing portrait of a marriage endangered by separation, yet surviving by the same ideas and idealism that drove the revolution itself. A feast of ideas that never neglects the real lives of the man and woman at its center, Abigail and John Adams takes readers into the heart of an unforgettable union in order to illuminate the first days of our nation—and explore our earliest understandings of what it might mean to be an American.

Belonging

Author : William Kaplan
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 9780773509856
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Belonging written by William Kaplan and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1993 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays presented in January 1992 at a Roundtable on Citizenship sponsored by the Faculty of Law at the U. of Ottawa discuss what it means to be a Canadian and how Canadian citizenship must evolve if it is to serve a unifying ideal. The essays are organized in four broad categories: history; regions; law, constitutionalism, and economics; and individuals and groups. No index. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Wisdom of the Ancients

Author : Neil Oliver
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1473575265
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Wisdom of the Ancients written by Neil Oliver and published by Random House. This book was released on 2020-09-17 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE PERFECT READ FOR TROUBLED TIMES From the bestselling author of The Story of the British Isles in 100 Places comes this inspiring and beautifully written meditation on the wisdom inherited from our ancestors. For all we have gained in the modern world, simple peace of mind is hard to find. In a time that is increasingly fraught with complexity and conflict, we are told that our wellbeing relies on remaining as present as possible. But what if the key to being present lies in the past? In Wisdom of the Ancients, Neil Oliver takes us back in time, to grab hold of the ideas buried in forgotten cultures and early civilizations. From Laetoli footprints in Tanzania to Keralan rituals, stone circles and cave paintings, Oliver takes us on a global journey through antiquity. A master storyteller, drawing on immense knowledge of our ancient past, he distils this wisdom into twelve messages that have endured the test of time, and invites us to consider how these might apply to our lives today. The result is powerful and inspirational, moving and profound.

The Chinese Students' Monthly

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 710 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Chinese Students' Monthly written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mystic Chords

Author : Violet Young Barber
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781258137212
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (372 download)

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Download or read book Mystic Chords written by Violet Young Barber and published by . This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Skryabin, Philosophy and the Music of Desire

Author : Kenneth M. Smith
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317054482
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Skryabin, Philosophy and the Music of Desire written by Kenneth M. Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Commentary on Skryabin has struggled to situate an understanding of the composer's music within his idiosyncratic philosophical world views. Early commentators' efforts to do so failed to establish a thorough or systematic approach. And later twentieth-century studies turned away from the composer's ideology, focusing instead on 'the music itself' with an analytic approach that scrutinized Skryabin's harmonic language in isolation from his philosophy. This groundbreaking study revisits the questions surrounding the composer's music within his own philosophy, but draws on new methodological tools, casting Skryabin's music in the light not only of his own philosophy of desire, but of more refined semiotic-psychoanalytical theory and modern techniques of music analysis. An interdisciplinary methodology corrects the narrow focus of Skryabin scholarship of the last century, offering insights from New Musicology and recent music theory that lead to hermeneutical, critically informed readings of selected works.

The Alexander Scriabin Companion

Author : Lincoln Ballard
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442232625
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book The Alexander Scriabin Companion written by Lincoln Ballard and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-06-27 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique collaboration between a musicologist and two pianists – all experts in Russian music – takes a fresh look at the supercharged music and polarizing reception of the Russian composer Alexander Scriabin. From his Chopin-inspired miniatures to his genre-bending symphonies and avant-garde late works, Scriabin left a unique mark on music history. Scriabin’s death centennial in 2015 brought wider exposure and renewed attention to this pioneering composer. Music lovers who are curious about Scriabin have been torn between specialized academic studies and popular sources that glamorize his interests and activities, often at the expense of historical accuracy. This book bridges the divide between these two branches of literature, and brings a modern perspective to his music and legacy. Drawing on archival materials, primary sources in Russian, and recently published books and articles, Part One details the reception and performance history of Scriabin’s solo piano and orchestral music. High quality recordings are recommended for each piece. Part Two explores four topics in Scriabin’s reception: the myths generated by Scriabin’s biographers, his claims to synaesthesia or “color-hearing,” his revival in 1960s America as a proto-Flower Child, and the charges of anti-Russianness leveled against his music. Part Three investigates stylistic context and performance practice in the piano music, and considers the domains of sound, rhythm, and harmony. It offers interpretive strategies for deciphering Scriabin’s challenging scores at the keyboard. Students, scholars, and music enthusiasts will benefit from the historical insights offered in this interdisciplinary book. Armed with this knowledge, readers will be able to better appreciate the stylistic innovations and colorful imagination of this extraordinary composer.

Russian Opera and the Symbolist Movement

Author : Simon Morrison
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520229436
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Russian Opera and the Symbolist Movement written by Simon Morrison and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002-08-05 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pioneering study of the Symbolist Movement in early twentieth-century Russian opera.