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The Mule-Bone

Author : Zora Neale Hurston
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book The Mule-Bone written by Zora Neale Hurston and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-12 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This story begins in Eatonville, Florida, on a Saturday afternoon with Jim and Dave fighting for Daisy's affection. An argument breaks out between two men, and Jim picks up a hock bone from a mule and knocks Dave out. Because of that Jim gets arrested and is held for trial in Joe Clarke's barn. When the trial begins the townspeople are divided along religious lines: Jim's Methodist supporters sit on one side of the church, Dave's Baptist supporters on the other. The issue to be decided at the trial is whether or not Jim has committed a crime.

Reflections on Process Sociology and Sport

Author : Joseph Maguire
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113572511X
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (357 download)

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Download or read book Reflections on Process Sociology and Sport written by Joseph Maguire and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book focuses on the distinctive contribution that Joseph Maguire has made to process sociology and the study of sport. Maguire’s work over the past three decades highlights how process sociology has a unique perspective on the relationship between sport, culture and society, and to the body, globalisation and civilisational analysis. Reflecting on this body of work and the use of process sociology, Maguire captures the research dynamic of ‘walking the line' between involvement and detachment, theory and observation, and engagement and critique. The book is structured around four broad sections: Theory, Sport and Society; The Meaning of Sport, Body and Society; Case Studies in Sport and Process Sociology; Globalisation, Sport and Civilisational Analysis. Providing an introduction to, and key examples of, a process sociology approach to the study of sport, the body, civilising processes and globalisation, this book will appeal to undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers in sport studies / sports science degrees, sociology, cultural studies and to those studying migration, globalisation and cross cultural civilisation relations. This book was previously published as a Special Issue of Sport in Society.

Border Dialogues (Routledge Revivals)

Author : Iain Chambers
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317911393
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book Border Dialogues (Routledge Revivals) written by Iain Chambers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-02 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1990, Border Dialogues explores some of the territories of contemporary culture, philosophy and criticism. It touches on arguments surrounding Nietzsche and Italian ‘weak thought’, the mysteries of being ‘British’, and with more immediate concerns such as computers, fashion, gender and ethnicity. The chapters explore how such different strands are joined together, and how this can lead to a reassessment of contemporary cultural criticism. This innovative and interesting reissue will be of particular interest to students of critical theory, cultural studies, radical philosophy and deconstruction.

The Mule-Bone

Author : Langston Hughes
Publisher : Standard Ebooks
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The Mule-Bone written by Langston Hughes and published by Standard Ebooks. This book was released on 2023-07-19T19:34:05Z with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only collaboration between Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston, The Mule-Bone is a three-act comedy depicting the romantic rivalry between two lifelong friends, Jim Weston and Dave Carter, as they both try to woo the same woman, Daisy Taylor. Set in the town of Eatonville, Florida (Zora Neale Hurston’s hometown and the setting of her novel Their Eyes Were Watching God), the play humorously explores the interpersonal and religious conflicts in an early 20th-century African-American community while incorporating themes from folklore. Hughes and Hurston’s collaboration on The Mule-Bone was a troubled one, since it ended in an authorship dispute between the two, and the play was never properly finished. Hughes even noted on his personal copy, “This play was never done because the authors fell out.” The play was not produced until 1991, over sixty years after it was written, when it was performed at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre to lukewarm reviews. This Standard Ebooks edition is based on the manuscript deposited by Zora Neale Hurston with the United States Copyright Office in 1931, the only version of The Mule-Bone known to be out of copyright. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.

Spectacular Bodies

Author : Yvonne Tasker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113487300X
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book Spectacular Bodies written by Yvonne Tasker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While films such as Rambo, Thelma and Louise and Basic Instinct have operated as major points of cultural reference in recent years, popular action cinema remains neglected within contemporary film criticism. Spectacular Bodies unravels the complexities and pleasures of a genre often dismissed as `obvious' in both its pleasure and its politics, arguing that these controversial films should be analysed and understood within a cinematic as well as a political context. Yvonne Tasker argues that today's action cinema not only responds to the shifts in gendered, sexual and racial identities which took place during the 1980s, but reflects the influences of other media such as the new video culture. Her detailed discussion of the homoeroticism surrounding the muscleman hero, the symbolic centrality of blackness within the crime narrative, and the changing status of women within the genre, addresses the constitution of these identities through the shifting categories of gender, class, race, sex, sexuality and nation. Spectacular Bodies also examines the ambivalence of supposedly secure categories of popular cinema, questioning the existing terms of film criticism in this area and addressing the complex pleasures of this neglected form.

Barrelhouse Blues

Author : Paul Oliver
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465019897
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book Barrelhouse Blues written by Paul Oliver and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2009-08-25 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1920s, Southern record companies ventured to cities like Dallas, Atlanta, and New Orleans, where they set up primitive recording equipment in makeshift studios. They brought in street singers, medicine show performers, pianists from the juke joints and barrelhouses. The music that circulated through Southern work camps, prison farms, and vaudeville shows would be lost to us if it hadn't been captured on location by these performers and recorders. Eminent blues historian Paul Oliver uncovers these folk traditions and the circumstances under which they were recorded, rescuing the forefathers of the blues who were lost before they even had a chance to be heard. A careful excavation of the earliest recordings of the blues by one of its foremost experts, Barrelhouse Blues expands our definition of that most American style of music.

Odetta’s One Grain of Sand

Author : Matthew Frye Jacobson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 150133333X
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Odetta’s One Grain of Sand written by Matthew Frye Jacobson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2019-04-04 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When 20-year-old Odetta Holmes-classically trained as a vocalist and poised to become “the next Marian Anderson”-veered away from both opera and musical theater in favor of performing politically charged field hollers, prison songs, work songs, and folk tunes before mixed-race audiences in 1950s coffee houses, she was making one of the most portentous decisions in the history of both American music and Civil Rights. Released the same year as her famous rendition of “I'm on My Way” at the March on Washington, One Grain of Sand captures the social justice project that was Odetta's voice. “There was no way I could say the things I was thinking, but I could sing them,” she later remarked. In pieces like “Moses, Moses,” “Ain't No Grave,” and “Ramblin' Round Your City,” One Grain of Sand embodies Odetta's approach to the folk repertoire as both an archive of black history and a vehicle for radical expression. For many among her audience, a song like “Cotton Fields” represented a first introduction to black history at a time when there was as yet no academic discipline going by this name, and when history books themselves still peddled convenient fictions of a fundamentally “happy” plantation past. And for many among her audience, black and white, this young woman's pride in black artistry and resolve, and her open rage and her challenge to whites to recognize who they were and who they had been, too, modeled the very honesty and courage that the movement now called for.

Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

Author : Christopher Sergel
Publisher : Dramatic Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780871290861
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird written by Christopher Sergel and published by Dramatic Publishing. This book was released on 1970 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dramatization of the story about the explosion of racial hate in an Alabama town as viewed by a little girl whose father defends a black man accused of rape.

Grassroots Theater

Author : Robert Edward Gard
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299012342
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (123 download)

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Download or read book Grassroots Theater written by Robert Edward Gard and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ROBERT GARD'S TIMELESS BOOK is a moving account of one man's struggle to bring his dream of community-building through creative theater to citizens around the country. He traveled across America -- from New York's Finger Lakes to the prairies of Alberta, Canada, to the backwoods of northern Wisconsin -- discovering and nurturing the folklore, legends, history, and drama of the region. He talked to ballad singers, painters, tellers of tall tales, and farm women, whose poetry and painting reflected the elemental violence of nature and quiet joys of neighborliness. Readers will discover in Grassroots Theater a spiritual autobiography of Robert Gard, a rare chronology of a little-known era in theater history, useful projects for local community groups, and lively discussion of such cultural themes as the role of the arts in American democracy. Grassroots Theater reminds us that an individual's creative vision transcends technology, current events, and changing demographics. Writes Gard, "The knowledge and love of place is a large part of the joy in people's lives. There must be plays that grow from all the countrysides of America, fabricated by the people themselves, born of their happiness and sorrow, born of toiling hands and free minds, born of music and love and reason".

Ms. Etta's Fast House

Author : Victor McGlothin
Publisher : Dafina Books
ISBN 13 : 9780758213815
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (138 download)

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Download or read book Ms. Etta's Fast House written by Victor McGlothin and published by Dafina Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's 1947 and Ms. Etta's Fast House is the hottest club in Chicago. The city's fastest-talking hustlers rub shoulders with the rich and famous, and anyone who's rich enough can dance the night away with them. Life is good - until stranger Baltimore Floyd strolls into town. Everyone adores him - especially the ladies - including Ms. Etta herself. But then he dallies with a corrupt cop's wife, and finds himself on trial for a crime he didn't commit. Now it's up to the brokenhearted women of the Fast House that he toyed with to come together and save him from hanging.

Shim

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Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781617034435
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book Shim written by and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel of the southern backwoods in which a boy attempts to preserve his beloved Delta homeland from despoliation by the timber industry

Badfellas

Author : Simon Winlow
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000181944
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Badfellas written by Simon Winlow and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-25 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fights, fraud and drugs racketeering regularly hit the headlines, but they are just news stories for most of us. For others, they constitute a way of life. This book uncovers a world where male identity is expressed each day through physical strength and power. Focusing on professional criminals and violent men, the author shows how workshop camaraderie, hard physical work and criminal reputations allow for changing masculinities. It is all too easy to stereotype criminals, when, in fact, their world is complex and creative. Criminal men adapt and modify their forms of gender expression to fit in with their changing economic, social and cultural circumstance, as do men in all walks of life. Why is violence attractive to these men? What motivates their crimes, both planned and impulsive? How do criminals themselves view their activities and their reputations, and how do these reputations affect their perception of masculinity? This book is the first sustained analysis of organized crime and violence to use covert research methods. Far from the sensationalized memoirs of retired gangsters, or the abstract discussions of scholars, this book builds on first-hand experiences and relationships made while working amongst bouncers and criminals. The social world of professional criminals and the working environments of criminal bouncers are demystified and laid bare. The author sets individual criminal careers and experiences in the wider context of de-industrialization and globalization, and provides a thoughtful and stimulating addition to the fields of anthropology, sociology and criminology.

Screening the Mafia

Author : George S. Larke-Walsh
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 9780786456130
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (561 download)

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Download or read book Screening the Mafia written by George S. Larke-Walsh and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2010-03-30 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The “post-classic” era of American gangster films began in 1967 with the release of Bonnie and Clyde, achieving a milestone five years later with the popular and highly influential The Godfather. This historical study explores the structure, myths and intertextual narratives found in the gangster films produced since The Godfather. The intense relationship between masculinity and ethnicity in the gangster film, especially within the movie-generated mythology of the Mafia, is carefully analyzed, and the book tracks the trends in the genre up to and including the landmark HBO television series The Sopranos (1999–2007). A selected filmography is included. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

Wake Up Dead Man

Author : Bruce Jackson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Wake Up Dead Man written by Bruce Jackson and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music and words of some sixty-five songs expressing the emotional world of black inmates in Texas prisons, with interviews, photographs, and headnotes appended.

A Handbook of Media and Communication Research

Author : Klaus Bruhn Jensen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136597654
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)

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Download or read book A Handbook of Media and Communication Research written by Klaus Bruhn Jensen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook covers perspectives from both the social sciences and the humanities. It provides guidelines for how to think about, plan, and carry out studies of media in different social and cultural contexts.

Tweetsie Country

Author : Mallory Hope Ferrell
Publisher : The Overmountain Press
ISBN 13 : 9780932807588
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Tweetsie Country written by Mallory Hope Ferrell and published by The Overmountain Press. This book was released on 1997-03 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tweetsie Country can be roughly defined as being bound on the north by the Great Depression, on the east by the state of North Carolina, on the west by Tennessee, and on the south by hope and determination. Here is all the color and charm of the Tweetsie, with its broad gauge aspirations on a narrow gauge budget. It is the story of a unique little railroad that traveled the Blue Ridge country and won the hearts of those who lived there. This handsome pictorial history includes 250 outstanding photographs, plus maps, scale drawings, and three full-color paintings by Mike Pearsall and Casey Holtzinger.

Hicks, Tribes, and Dirty Realists

Author : Robert Rebein
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813149975
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Hicks, Tribes, and Dirty Realists written by Robert Rebein and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-07-11 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Rebein argues that much literary fiction of the 1980s and 90s represents a triumphant, if tortured, return to questions about place and the individual that inspired the works of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, Faulkner, and other giants of American literature. Concentrating on the realist bent and regional orientation in contemporary fiction, he discusses in detail the various names by which this fiction has been described, including literary postmodernism, minimalism, Hick Chic, Dirty Realism, ecofeminism, and more. Rebein's clearly written, nuanced interpretations of works by Raymond Carver, Cormac McCarthy, Don DeLillo, Louise Erdrich, Dorothy Allison, Barbara Kingsolver, E. Annie Proulx, Chris Offut, and others, will appeal to a wide range of readers.