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Book Synopsis That's Entertainment by : Tighe E. Zimmers
Download or read book That's Entertainment written by Tighe E. Zimmers and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arthur Schwartz (1900-1984), a premier composer of American Popular Song during the mid-20th century, has been overlooked by historians. This first full-length biography covers his work on Broadway and in Hollywood, where he was known as the "master of the intimate revue" for his songs in the 1930s with Howard Dietz. Schwartz wrote music for films in the 1940s--with Academy Award nominations for They're Either Too Young or Too Old and A Gal in Calico--produced two popular movie musicals--Cover Girl and Night and Day--and was among the first songwriters to work in the new medium of television. The author describes his creative process and includes behind-the-scenes stories of each of his major musicals.
Book Synopsis Enduring Military Boredom by : B. Maeland
Download or read book Enduring Military Boredom written by B. Maeland and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-08-13 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is often said that war is 5% horror and 95% boredom. In this sense, military boredom is historically enduring as well as personally enduring for the soldiers who have to endure it. This book contributes to a deeper understanding – historically, empirically and theoretically – of the complex phenomenon of boredom in a military context.
Book Synopsis An American Dictionary of the English Language ... Thoroughly Rev. and Greatly Enlarged and Improved by C.A. Goodrich and Noah Porter ... with an Appendix of Useful Tables ... Also a New Pronouncing Biographical Dictionary by : Noah Webster
Download or read book An American Dictionary of the English Language ... Thoroughly Rev. and Greatly Enlarged and Improved by C.A. Goodrich and Noah Porter ... with an Appendix of Useful Tables ... Also a New Pronouncing Biographical Dictionary written by Noah Webster and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 1964 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A cruise upon wheels by : Charles Allston Collins
Download or read book A cruise upon wheels written by Charles Allston Collins and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Listening and Longing by : Daniel Cavicchi
Download or read book Listening and Longing written by Daniel Cavicchi and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2011-12-15 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Northeast Popular Culture Association’s Peter C. Rollins Book Award (2012) Winner of the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award (2012) Listening and Longing explores the emergence of music listening in the United States, from its early stages in the antebellum era, when entrepreneurs first packaged and sold the experience of hearing musical performance, to the Gilded Age, when genteel critics began to successfully redefine the cultural value of listening to music. In a series of interconnected stories, American studies scholar Daniel Cavicchi focuses on the impact of industrialization, urbanization, and commercialization in shaping practices of music audiences in America. Grounding our contemporary culture of listening in its seminal historical moment—before the iPod, stereo system, or phonograph—Cavicchi offers a fresh understanding of the role of listening in the history of music.
Book Synopsis English and Cantonese Dictionary by : John Chalmers
Download or read book English and Cantonese Dictionary written by John Chalmers and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Greece and Rome by : Jacob von Falke
Download or read book Greece and Rome written by Jacob von Falke and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The History of the Renowned Don Quixote de la Mancha by : Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Download or read book The History of the Renowned Don Quixote de la Mancha written by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra and published by . This book was released on 1733 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Lecturing the Atlantic by : Tom F. Wright
Download or read book Lecturing the Atlantic written by Tom F. Wright and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-06 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early nineteenth century, the public lecture emerged as one of the Anglo-American world's most important cultural forms. On both sides of the Atlantic, audiences and performers transformed a cultural practice with origins in the medieval cloister into an unexpected flashpoint medium of public life. In the United States, as part of the "lyceum movement," lecturing became crucial to literary and political life, multiple social reform movements, and the rise of public intellectualism, offering speakers from across the cultural spectrum a platform from which to promote their ideas and explain contemporary life. Lecturing the Atlantic argues for a new interpretation of this neglected institution. It reorients our understanding of the lyceum by seeing it as an international and cross-media phenomenon patterned by cultural investment in an "Anglo-American commons." Tom F. Wright shows how some of the mid-century North Atlantic world's most enduring cultural figures, such as Frederick Douglass, William Makepeace Thackeray, and Ralph Waldo Emerson, as well as fascinating marginal voices such as Lola Montez and John B. Gough, used lecture hall discussions of a transatlantic imaginary to offer powerful commentaries on slavery, progress, comedy, order, tradition, and reform. Crucially, this world was a matter as much of print as performance, since as the book reveals, a remarkable culture of newspaper commentary allowed oratory to resonate far beyond the realm of the lecture hall. Through a series of inventive readings of Anglo-American relations as understood through performance and print re-mediation, Wright connects the transatlantic turn in cultural studies to important recent debates in media theory and public sphere scholarship. Lecturing the Atlantic speaks to those interested in the literature and history of Victorian Britain and the early US, to students of performance, communication and rhetoric, and all those seeking a deeper understanding of nineteenth-century public culture.
Book Synopsis The Works of Richard Hurd, Lord Bishop of Worcester: Critical works by : Richard Hurd
Download or read book The Works of Richard Hurd, Lord Bishop of Worcester: Critical works written by Richard Hurd and published by . This book was released on 1811 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Critical works written by Richard Hurd and published by . This book was released on 1811 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Tolerable Entertainment by : John Evelev
Download or read book Tolerable Entertainment written by John Evelev and published by Univ of Massachusetts Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh look at the social context of a great American writer In TolerableEntertainment, Herman Melville's life and literary work serve as windowson the tumultuous world of antebellum New York City. Charting Melville'swritings from Typee (1846) to Pierre (1852) as responses to hisexperience of living in the city, this book reveals the dramatic shifts inAmerican life occurring at the time. Perhaps more than any othernineteenth-century writer, Melville has been read and understood in thecontext of his career, embodied in a narrative of the trajectory fromimmature emergence, through brilliant ascendance, to collapse intoneglect.
Book Synopsis Shakespeare in a Divided America by : James Shapiro
Download or read book Shakespeare in a Divided America written by James Shapiro and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the New York Times Ten Best Books of the Year • A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist • A New York Times Notable Book A timely exploration of what Shakespeare’s plays reveal about our divided land. “In this sprightly and enthralling book . . . Shapiro amply demonstrates [that] for Americans the politics of Shakespeare are not confined to the public realm, but have enormous relevance in the sphere of private life.” —The Guardian (London) The plays of William Shakespeare are rare common ground in the United States. For well over two centuries, Americans of all stripes—presidents and activists, soldiers and writers, conservatives and liberals alike—have turned to Shakespeare’s works to explore the nation’s fault lines. In a narrative arching from Revolutionary times to the present day, leading scholar James Shapiro traces the unparalleled role of Shakespeare’s four-hundred-year-old tragedies and comedies in illuminating the many concerns on which American identity has turned. From Abraham Lincoln’s and his assassin, John Wilkes Booth’s, competing Shakespeare obsessions to the 2017 controversy over the staging of Julius Caesar in Central Park, in which a Trump-like leader is assassinated, Shakespeare in a Divided America reveals how no writer has been more embraced, more weaponized, or has shed more light on the hot-button issues in our history.
Book Synopsis Herman Melville by : Katie McGettigan
Download or read book Herman Melville written by Katie McGettigan and published by University of New Hampshire Press. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this imaginative book, Katie McGettigan argues that Melville's novels and poetry demonstrate a sustained engagement with the physical, social, and economic materiality of industrial and commercial forms of print. Further, she shows that this "aesthetics of the material text," central both to Melville's stylistic signature and to his innovations in form, allows Melville to explore the production of selfhood, test the limits of narrative authenticity, and question the nature of artistic originality. Combining archival research in print and publishing history with close reading, McGettigan situates Melville's works alongside advertising materials, magazine articles, trade manuals, and British and American commentary on the literary industry to demonstrate how Melville's literary practice relies on and aestheticizes the specific conditions of literary production in which he worked. For Melville, the book is a physical object produced by particular technological processes, as well as an entity that manifests social and economic values. His characters carry books, write on them, and even sleep on them; they also imagine, observe, and participate in the buying and selling of books. Melville employs the book's print, paper, and binding - and its market circulations - to construct literary figures, to shape textual form, and to create irony and ambiguity. Exploring the printed book in Melville's writings brings neglected sections of his poetry and prose to the fore and invites new readings of familiar passages and images. These readings encourage a reassessment of Melville's career as shaped by his creative engagements with print, rather than his failures in the literary marketplace. McGettigan demonstrates that a sustained and deliberate imaginative dialogue with the material text is at the core of Melville's expressive practice and that, for Melville, the printed book served as a site for imagining the problems and possibilities of modernity.
Book Synopsis The Works of Oliver Goldsmith by : Oliver Goldsmith
Download or read book The Works of Oliver Goldsmith written by Oliver Goldsmith and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Recollections of R.J.S.Stevens by : Mark Argent
Download or read book Recollections of R.J.S.Stevens written by Mark Argent and published by Springer. This book was released on 1992-06-02 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: R.J.S.Stevens was an organist, composer and singer, active in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century London. His Recollections give a fascinating glimpse of the life of an ordinary musician as he went about his daily business serving as a church organist, singing glees - occasionally with the Prince of Wales - and teaching. They show how the events of his time bore, or failed to bear, on the lives of ordinary people, and present an entertaining insider's view of the famous musical institutions of London, including the Anacreontic Society, whose club song is now The Star-Spangled Banner, the national anthem of the USA.
Book Synopsis Herman Melville by : Corey Evan Thompson
Download or read book Herman Melville written by Corey Evan Thompson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-06-23 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reference work covers both Herman Melville's life and writings. It includes a biography and detailed information on his works, on the important themes contained therein, and on the significant people and places in his life. The appendices include suggestions for further reading of both literary and cultural criticism, an essay on Melville's lasting cultural influence, and information on both the fictional ships in his works and the real-life ones on which he sailed.
