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Author : Vanita Oelschlager
Publisher : Gandy Dancers
ISBN 13 : 9781938164088
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (64 download)
Download or read book The Gandy Dancers written by Vanita Oelschlager and published by Gandy Dancers. This book was released on 2015-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated collection of folk songs from the industrial revolution.
Author : Vanita Oelschlager
Publisher : Gandy Dancers
ISBN 13 : 9781938164071
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (64 download)
Download or read book The Gandy Dancers written by Vanita Oelschlager and published by Gandy Dancers. This book was released on 2015-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With stunning illustrations that make history come alive, this book is an excellent opportunity for kids to learn about the tradition of American folk songs. This is a finely crafted look into the song and spirit that were the soundtrack for America's industrial revolution. Poetry and music come alive here from the past to the present ... Praise to the Gandy dancers of the world!"--Page 4 of cover.
Author : Jeff Andrews
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780985722616
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (226 download)
Download or read book The Gandy Dancer written by Jeff Andrews and published by . This book was released on 2012-11 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His career is on the rocks. His ex-wife is demanding more money. A woman he can't even remember accuses him of fathering her child. Newspaper reporter Mitch Corsini shrugs and takes another drink. However, when his estranged teenaged daughter mysteriously disappears, his life finally has a purpose: find the child he's neglected for too long and rekindle the love they once shared. Mitch's quest takes him to the Virginia mountains and his ancestral home. There, he finds himself locked in a life or death struggle to save his daughter as seventy-year-old family secrets and the fate of a long-forgotten railroad worker combine to shatter the very foundations of his world.
Author : Sonya Bilocerkowycz
Publisher : Mad Creek Books
ISBN 13 : 9780814255438
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (554 download)
Download or read book On Our Way Home from the Revolution written by Sonya Bilocerkowycz and published by Mad Creek Books. This book was released on 2019 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the 2014 Ukrainian revolution, a child of the Ukrainian diaspora challenges her formative ideologies, considers innocence and complicity, and questions the roots of patriotism.
Author : Mary Ann Fraser
Publisher : Square Fish
ISBN 13 : 1250131243
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Ten Mile Day written by Mary Ann Fraser and published by Square Fish. This book was released on 2016-08-02 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On May 10, 1869, the final spike in North America's first transcontinental railroad was driven home at Promontory Summit, Utah. Illustrated with the author's carefully researched, evocative paintings, here is a great adventure story in the history of the American West--the day Charles Crocker staked $10,000 on the crews' ability to lay a world record ten miles of track in a single, Ten Mile Day.
Author : Barry Dornfeld
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 069122532X
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book Producing Public Television, Producing Public Culture written by Barry Dornfeld and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1989 to 1991, Barry Dornfeld had an unusual double role on the crew of the major PBS documentary series Childhood. As a researcher for the series, he investigated the relationship between children and media. As an anthropologist, however, his subject was the television production process itself--examining, for example, how producers developed the series, negotiated with their academic advisors, and shaped footage shot around the world into seven programs. He presents the results of his fieldwork in this groundbreaking study--one of the first to take an ethnographic approach to the production of a television show, as opposed to its reception. Dornfeld begins with a broad discussion of public television's role in American culture and goes on to examine documentaries as a form of popular anthropology. Drawing on his observations of Childhood, he considers the documentary form as a kind of "imagining," in which both producers and viewers construct understandings of themselves and others, revealing their conceptions of culture and history and their ideologies of cultural difference and universality. He argues that producers of culture should also be understood as consumers who conduct their work through an active envisioning of the audience. Dornfeld explores as well how intellectual media professionals struggle with the institutional and cultural forces surrounding television that promote entertainment at the expense of education. The book provides a rare glimpse behind the scenes of a major documentary and demonstrates the value of an ethnographic approach to the study of media production.
Author : Gandy Dancer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781942341628
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (416 download)
Download or read book Best of Gandy Dancer 2012-1018 written by Gandy Dancer and published by . This book was released on 2019-04-22 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William W. Hay
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9780471364009
Total Pages : 778 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (64 download)
Download or read book Railroad Engineering written by William W. Hay and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1991-01-16 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revision of the classic text on railroad engineering, considered the ``bible'' of the field for three decades. Presents railroad engineering principles quantitatively but without excessive resort to mathematics, and applies these principles to day-by-day design, construction, operation, and maintenance. Relates practice to principles in an orderly, sequential pattern (subgrade, ballast, ties, rails). Applicable to both conventional railroads and rapid transit systems.
Author : James Eli Shiffer
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452950199
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)
Download or read book The King of Skid Row written by James Eli Shiffer and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: City blue laws drove the liquor trade and its customers—hard-drinking lumberjacks, pensioners, farmhands, and railroad workers—into the oldest quarter of Minneapolis. In the fifty-cent-a-night flophouses of the city’s Gateway District, they slept in cubicles with ceilings of chicken wire. In rescue missions, preachers and nuns tried to save their souls. Sociology researchers posing as vagrants studied them. And in their midst John Bacich, aka Johnny Rex, who owned a bar, a liquor store, and a cage hotel, documented the gritty neighborhood’s last days through photographs and film of his clientele. The King of Skid Row follows Johnny Rex into this vanished world that once thrived in the heart of Minneapolis. Drawing on hours of interviews conducted in the three years before Bacich’s death in 2012, James Eli Shiffer brings to life the eccentric characters and strange events of an American skid row. Supplemented with archival and newspaper research and his own photographs, Bacich’s stories re-create the violent, alcohol-soaked history of a city best known for its clean, progressive self-image. His life captures the seamy, richly colorful side of the city swept away by a massive urban renewal project in the early 1960s and gives us, in a glimpse of those bygone days, one of Minneapolis’s most intriguing figures—spinning some of its most enduring and enthralling tales.
Author : Brian Solomon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781610605083
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Southern Pacific Railroad written by Brian Solomon and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jim Bryant
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781511964623
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (646 download)
Download or read book The Gandy Dancers written by Jim Bryant and published by . This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a girlfriend is murdered, three Mississippi brothers are forced to flee from local lawmen, Irishmen, bounty hunters, and KKK.
Author : Anthony Shay
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190493933
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (94 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Ethnicity written by Anthony Shay and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dance intersects with ethnicity in a powerful variety of ways and at a broad set of venues. Dance practices and attitudes about ethnicity have sometimes been the source of outright discord, as when African Americans were - and sometimes still are - told that their bodies are 'not right' for ballet, when Anglo Americans painted their faces black to perform in minstrel shows, when 19th century Christian missionaries banned the performance of particular native dance traditions throughout much of Polynesia, and when the Spanish conquistadors and church officials banned sacred Aztec dance rituals. More recently, dance performances became a locus of ethnic disunity in the former Yugoslavia as the Serbs of Bosnia attended dance concerts but only applauded for the Serbian dances, presaging the violent disintegration of that failed state. The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Ethnicity brings together scholars from across the globe in an investigation of what it means to define oneself in an ethnic category and how this category is performed and represented by dance as an ethnicity. Newly-commissioned for the volume, the chapters of the book place a reflective lens on dance and its context to examine the role of dance as performed embodiment of the historical moments and associated lived identities. In bringing modern dance and ballet into the conversation alongside forms more often considered ethnic, the chapters ask the reader to contemplate previous categories of folk, ethnic, classical, and modern. From this standpoint, the book considers how dance maintains, challenges, resists or in some cases evolves new forms of identity based on prior categories. Ultimately, the goal of the book is to acknowledge the depth of research that has been undertaken and to promote continued research and conceptualization of dance and its role in the creation of ethnicity. Dance and ethnicity is an increasingly active area of scholarly inquiry in dance studies and ethnomusicology alike and the need is great for serious scholarship to shape the contours of these debates. The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Ethnicity provides an authoritative and up-to-date survey of original research from leading experts which will set the tone for future scholarly conversation.
Author : Betty Casey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781574411188
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (111 download)
Download or read book International Folk Dancing U.S.A. written by Betty Casey and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an extensive work on international folk dancing as practiced in the United States. It tells how to do the hopak, czardas and the bamboo pole dance; plan an international folk dance program; do the little finger hold and the hambo swing. International Folk Dancing U.S.A. presents historical vignettes on pioneer folk dance leaders; instructions for 180 dances from 30 countries; contributions from 60 folk dance authorities; easy-to-follow dance step descriptions; a Glossary of folk dance terms; many helpful illustrations.
Author : Mark Anthony Neal
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317646606
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)
Download or read book New Black Man written by Mark Anthony Neal and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-02-11 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten years ago, Mark Anthony Neal’s New Black Man put forth a revolutionary model of Black masculinity for the twenty-first century—one that moved beyond patriarchy to embrace feminism and combat homophobia. Now, Neal’s book is more vital than ever, urging us to imagine a New Black Man whose strength resides in family, community, and diversity. Part memoir, part manifesto, this book celebrates the Black man of our times in all his vibrancy and virility. The tenth anniversary edition of this classic text includes a new foreword by Joan Morgan and a new introduction and postscript from Neal, which bring the issues in the book up to the present day.
Author : Charles Ashleigh
Publisher : Charles H Kerr Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780882862729
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (627 download)
Download or read book The Rambling Kid written by Charles Ashleigh and published by Charles H Kerr Publishing Company. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the best and move informative books concerning the IWW. First published in London in 1930, this is, astonishingly, the first American edition. Soapboxer, writer, poet, agitator, and publicist, the British-born Ashleigh was active in the IWW from 1912 until his deportation 9 years later. As a first-hand account of the Wobbly way of life in the 1910s, The Rambling Kid was few equals. "Charles Ashleigh's semi-autobiographical novel fills a void in the record of the events that led to the federal government's brutal attempts to suppress the 'One Big Union' during World War 1. Ashleigh's characters ride alongside IWW job delegates, bindle-stiffs, and gandy dancers as they crisscross the country hopping freight trains en route to jobs and strikes and everything in between. .....an intimate glimpse into pre-World War 1 workers' culture on the eve of the Russian Revolution. Steve Kellerman's superb introduction provides the critical and biographical context for understanding the importance of Ashleigh's work and the historical forces that produced The Rambling Kid" [Salvatore Salerno]
Author : Gary Zukav
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061926388
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (619 download)
Download or read book The Dancing Wu Li Masters written by Gary Zukav and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The most exciting intellectual adventure I've been on since reading Robert Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.” —Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, New York Times Gary Zukav’s timeless, humorous, New York Times bestselling masterpiece, The Dancing Wu Li Masters, is arguably the most widely acclaimed introduction to quantum physics ever written. Scientific American raves: “Zukav is such a skilled expositor, with such an amiable style, that it is hard to imagine a layman who would not find his book enjoyable and informative.” Accessible, edifying, and endlessly entertaining, The Dancing Wu Li Masters is back in a beautiful new edition—and the doors to the fascinating, dazzling, remarkable world of quantum physics are opened to all once again, no previous mathematical or technical expertise required.
Author : Perry Aayr
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 059524825X
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (952 download)
Download or read book Gandy Dancing written by Perry Aayr and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gandy Dancing begins one of the more remarkable sagas of the last fifty years, the story of Malcolm Ward and his betrayal into the feared and violent world of the 1950's Insane Asylum when Thorozine was only an experiment and attendants routinely walked in pairs and laced up hobnail boots. Whoever would have thought One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was really the lighthearted version. Written by a man who was there and who still survived.
