African Roots/American Cultures

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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742501652
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (16 download)

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Book Synopsis African Roots/American Cultures by : Sheila S. Walker

Download or read book African Roots/American Cultures written by Sheila S. Walker and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2001 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This multidisciplinary volume highlights the African presence throughout the Americas, and African and African Diasporan contributions to the material and cultural life of all of the Americas, and of all Americans. It includes articles from leading scholars and from cultural leaders from both well-known and little-known African Diasporan communities. Privileging African Diasporan voices, it offers new perspectives, data, and interpretations that challenge prevailing understandings of the Americas. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Roots of Western Culture

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Publisher : Paideia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780888152213
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (522 download)

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Book Synopsis Roots of Western Culture by : Herman Dooyeweerd

Download or read book Roots of Western Culture written by Herman Dooyeweerd and published by Paideia Press. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Confronted with the implications of a biblical understanding of the human condition, human society and the place and calling of scholarly reflection, Dooyeweerd contends that humanism has done more for the recognition of human freedom for religious convictions than did 17th-century Calvinism.

The Creolization of American Culture

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Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252095049
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Book Synopsis The Creolization of American Culture by : Christopher J Smith

Download or read book The Creolization of American Culture written by Christopher J Smith and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2013-09-16 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Creolization of American Culture examines the artworks, letters, sketchbooks, music collection, and biography of the painter William Sidney Mount (1807–1868) as a lens through which to see the multiethnic antebellum world that gave birth to blackface minstrelsy. As a young man living in the multiethnic working-class community of New York's Lower East Side, Mount took part in the black-white musical interchange his paintings depict. An avid musician and tune collector as well as an artist, he was the among the first to depict vernacular fiddlers, banjo players, and dancers precisely and sympathetically. His close observations and meticulous renderings provide rich evidence of performance techniques and class-inflected paths of musical apprenticeship that connected white and black practitioners. Looking closely at the bodies and instruments Mount depicts in his paintings as well as other ephemera, Christopher J. Smith traces the performance practices of African American and Anglo-European music-and-dance traditions while recovering the sounds of that world. Further, Smith uses Mount's depictions of black and white music-making to open up fresh perspectives on cross-ethnic cultural transference in Northern and urban contexts, showing how rivers, waterfronts, and other sites of interracial interaction shaped musical practices by transporting musical culture from the South to the North and back. The "Africanization" of Anglo-Celtic tunes created minstrelsy's musical "creole synthesis," a body of melodic and rhythmic vocabularies, repertoires, tunes, and musical techniques that became the foundation of American popular music. Reading Mount's renderings of black and white musicians against a background of historical sites and practices of cross-racial interaction, Smith offers a sophisticated interrogation and reinterpretation of minstrelsy, significantly broadening historical views of black-white musical exchange.

Stubborn Roots

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Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0199899630
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Book Synopsis Stubborn Roots by : Prudence L. Carter

Download or read book Stubborn Roots written by Prudence L. Carter and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2012-04-26 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There are simply not enough texts that look comparatively at the two foremost experiments with questions of race, culture, and and class in the English-speaking world, the United States and South Africa. Prudence Carter's work is simultaneously scholarly and compassionate. It helps us see, in these two benighted but globally important societies, how easily things break, but also how well, when structures are in place and when human agency takes flight, individuals and the groups to which they belong flourish and grow."---Crain Soudien, Deputy Vice-Chancellor, University of Cape Town --

The Roots of American Culture

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Book Synopsis The Roots of American Culture by : Constance Rourke

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Dutch New York

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Publisher : Fordham University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Dutch New York by : Roger G. Panetta

Download or read book Dutch New York written by Roger G. Panetta and published by Fordham University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Published in conjunction with the exhibition Dutch New York: the roots of Hudson Valley culture, organized by the Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, June 13, 2009 through January 10, 2010"--T.p. verso.

Black Children

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Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801833830
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (338 download)

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Book Synopsis Black Children by : Janice E. Hale

Download or read book Black Children written by Janice E. Hale and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that since black children grow up in a distinct culture, they require 'an educational system that recognizes their strengths, their abilities, and their culture, and that incorporates them into the learning process'. -- Washington Post

Jamaican Warriors

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Publisher : Sanctuary Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 254 pages
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Book Synopsis Jamaican Warriors by : Stephen Foehr

Download or read book Jamaican Warriors written by Stephen Foehr and published by Sanctuary Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel writer and historian Stephen Foehr examines the historical, cultural and political influences that helped an island of two million people create the international music phenomenon of reggae and its associated forms. Photos.

Hairy Roots

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Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1000717518
Total Pages : 252 pages
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Book Synopsis Hairy Roots by : Pauline M. Doran

Download or read book Hairy Roots written by Pauline M. Doran and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2020-01-29 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hairy roots are plant roots that have been genetically transformed and can be cultured on a large scale. They can replace the whole plant in many research projects, and offer a range of technical advantages over plant cell cultures. Hairy roots are now used in studies of plant secondary metabolism and its genetic manipulation, as hosts for the production of foreign proteins, for plant propagation in agriculture, in environmental research, and for the development of new engineering technology for large-scale production of plant chemicals. Hairy root culture is an interdisciplinary science, with important and expansive applications. This volume is the first to be dedicated solely to the many facets of hairy root culture. The number of papers dedicated to hairy roots is rising exponentially, and with the increasing amount of research already underway this forms a timely publication. It is written and edited by acknowledged experts in the areas of hairy root culture and product synthesis, plant propagation, bio-processing and environmental aspects of hairyroots.

The Roots of Culture, the Power of Art

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Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773552685
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Book Synopsis The Roots of Culture, the Power of Art by : Monica Gattinger

Download or read book The Roots of Culture, the Power of Art written by Monica Gattinger and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Canada Council for the Arts is the country’s largest provider of grants for artists and arts organizations, benefiting not only writers, visual artists, performers, and musicians but Canadian culture as a whole. In The Roots of Culture, the Power of Art Monica Gattinger outlines the history of the Canada Council, the impetus for its foundation, and the ongoing debate about its goals and impact. Tracing the Council’s gradual shift from focusing on artistic supply and building the roots of Canadian arts and culture in its early years to its expanded focus on the power of the arts in society over time, Gattinger describes how leaders have navigated core tensions inherent in the Council’s activities. She examines the arguments for and against “art for art’s sake” and pursuing broader social and economic aims through the arts, as well as the inherent political conflicts between serving the needs of the artistic community and the needs of Canadian society, between leadership and followership, between autonomy and collaboration, and between emerging and established artistic practices. Combining lively storytelling with insightful analysis, and beautifully produced with dozens of photos of the art, people, and events that have shaped the organization through the years, The Roots of Culture, the Power of Art is essential reading for those with an interest in Canadian arts and culture and cultural policy.

The Cultural Roots of Strategic Intelligence

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Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498588328
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Book Synopsis The Cultural Roots of Strategic Intelligence by : Gino LaPaglia

Download or read book The Cultural Roots of Strategic Intelligence written by Gino LaPaglia and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2019-11-20 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strategic Intelligence is a form of meaning that promises the possibility of strategic advantage, dignity, the achievement of objective, and the fulfillment of potential in hostile environments. In The Cultural Roots of Strategic Intelligence Gino LaPaglia demonstrates that the strategic aspect of reason—arising in human experience, encoded as value, and born by culture as a strategic resource—has been encoded as values that have been memorialized in culturally authoritative sources in various Eurasian cultures for thousands of years. These sources have validated a strategic orientation in the world, legitimized the strategist as a heroic identity, and transmitted a coherent world view that enables the practitioner of strategy to overcome asymmetric threat. By excavating the provenance of strategic thought expressed in the cultural identity of the strategist in the most culturally authoritative mythological, literary, philosophical and religious sources, and excavating the underlying strategic values expressed in cultural products, LaPaglia demonstrates that the strategic aspect of human rationality is one of the most basic structural dynamics of human meaning, and that the transmission of this strategic way of being and acting in the world offers hope for life’s underdogs.

Roots & Culture

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786720744
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Book Synopsis Roots & Culture by : Eddie Chambers

Download or read book Roots & Culture written by Eddie Chambers and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-12-18 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did a distinct and powerful Black British identity emerge? In the 1950s, when many Caribbean migrants came to Britain, there was no such recognised entity as “Black Britain.” Yet by the 1980s, the cultural landscape had radically changed, and a remarkable array of creative practices such as theatre, poetry, literature,South Sudan in War and Peace music and the visual arts gave voice to striking new articulations of Black-British identity.

Gone Home

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Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469647044
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Book Synopsis Gone Home by : Karida L. Brown

Download or read book Gone Home written by Karida L. Brown and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 2016 presidential election, Americans have witnessed countless stories about Appalachia: its changing political leanings, its opioid crisis, its increasing joblessness, and its declining population. These stories, however, largely ignore black Appalachian lives. Karida L. Brown's Gone Home offers a much-needed corrective to the current whitewashing of Appalachia. In telling the stories of African Americans living and working in Appalachian coal towns, Brown offers a sweeping look at race, identity, changes in politics and policy, and black migration in the region and beyond. Drawn from over 150 original oral history interviews with former and current residents of Harlan County, Kentucky, Brown shows that as the nation experienced enormous transformation from the pre- to the post-civil rights era, so too did black Americans. In reconstructing the life histories of black coal miners, Brown shows the mutable and shifting nature of collective identity, the struggles of labor and representation, and that Appalachia is far more diverse than you think.

The Culture of Cultivation

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000098451
Total Pages : 251 pages
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Book Synopsis The Culture of Cultivation by : Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto

Download or read book The Culture of Cultivation written by Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-29 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By seeking to rediscover the profession's agricultural roots, this volume proposes a 21st-century shift in thinking about landscape architecture that is no longer driven by binary oppositions, such as urban and rural; past and present; aesthetics and ecology; beautiful and productive, but rather prioritizes a holistic and cross-disciplinary framing. The illustrated collection of essays written by academics, researchers and experts in the field seeks to balance and redirect a current approach to landscape architecture that prioritizes a narrow definition of the regional in an effort to tackle questions of continuous urban growth and its impact on the environment. It argues that an emphasis on conurbation, which occurs at the expense of the rural, often ignores the reality that certain cultivation and management practices taking place on land set aside for production can be as harmful to the environment as is unchecked urbanization, contributing to loss of biodiverstiy, soil erosion and climate change. By contrast, the book argues that by expanding the expertise of design professionals to include the productive, food systems, soil conservation and the preservation of cultural landscapes, landscape architects would be better equipped to participate in the stewardship of our planet. Written primarily for landscape practitioners and academics, cultural and environmental historians and conservationists, The Culture of Cultivation will appeal to anyone interested in a thorough rethinking of the role and agency of landscape architecture.

Roots of Jamaican Culture

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 210 pages
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Book Synopsis Roots of Jamaican Culture by : Mervyn C. Alleyne

Download or read book Roots of Jamaican Culture written by Mervyn C. Alleyne and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Africa

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Publisher : Partners Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 9780948390081
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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Book Synopsis Africa by : Mervyn Alleyne

Download or read book Africa written by Mervyn Alleyne and published by Partners Publishing Group. This book was released on 1996-09-01 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Roots of Democracy

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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742532656
Total Pages : 220 pages
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Book Synopsis The Roots of Democracy by : Robert E. Shalhope

Download or read book The Roots of Democracy written by Robert E. Shalhope and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2004 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Roots of Democracy Robert E. Shalhope traces the dramatic shifts in attitudes and behavior from before the Revolution, through the war itself, and then on to the confederation period, the creation of republican governments, the making of the Constitution and the conflicts of the 1790s.