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Author : Milton Meltzer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Violins & Shovels written by Milton Meltzer and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines art projects run during the 1930's which were funded by the Work Projects Administration.
Author : Sandra Opdycke
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317588460
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)
Download or read book The WPA written by Sandra Opdycke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Established in 1935 in the midst of the Great Depression, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) was one of the most ambitious federal jobs programs ever created in the U.S. At its peak, the program provided work for almost 3.5 million Americans, employing more than 8 million people across its eight-year history in projects ranging from constructing public buildings and roads to collecting oral histories and painting murals. The story of the WPA provides a perfect entry point into the history of the Great Depression, the New Deal, and the early years of World War II, while its example remains relevant today as the debate over government's role in the economy continues. In this concise narrative, supplemented by primary documents and an engaging companion website, Sandra Opdycke explains the national crisis from which the WPA emerged, traces the program's history, and explores what it tells us about American society in the 1930s and 1940s. Covering central themes including the politics, race, class, gender, and the coming of World War II, The WPA: Creating Jobs During the Great Depression introduces readers to a key period of crisis and change in U.S. history.
Author : Harry Bolick
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496804023
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)
Download or read book Mississippi Fiddle Tunes and Songs from the 1930s written by Harry Bolick and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2015-11-09 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While in the Mississippi State Archives tracking down Abbott Ferriss's beautiful photographic portraits of musicians from 1939, author Harry Bolick discovered, to his amazement, a treasure trove of earlier fiddle tunes in manuscript form. Since then he has worked to understand how this collection came to exist and be set aside. With Stephen T. Austin, Bolick has transcribed the subsequent 1939 audio recordings. Mississippi Fiddle Tunes and Songs from the 1930s presents the history of the collecting work, with over three hundred of the tunes and songs and a beautiful selection of period photographs. In the summer of 1936, over one hundred fiddle tunes, many of them unique, along with thousands of songs, were collected and notated throughout a large part of Mississippi. Roughly 130 novice field workers captured beautiful tunes and tantalizing fragments. As a body of work, it is an unparalleled and fascinating snapshot of vernacular music as heard in Mississippi in the early part of the recorded era. However, this music was unpublished and forgotten. In 1939, building on the contacts made three years earlier, Herbert Halpert led one of the last and best executed of the WPA folklore projects which recorded audio performances in Mississippi. Some, but not all, of those distinctive fiddle tune recordings have been published. Additionally through cassette tape copies passed hand to hand, some of these distinctive tunes have regained currency and popularity among contemporary fiddlers. In Mississippi Fiddle Tunes and Songs from the 1930s, this great music is at last widely available. Selected tunes in this book are available from Document Records. Get Harry Bolick's CD with 22 tunes from the book, more information, a video, and free downloads of the sound files at www.mississippifiddle.com.
Author : Elaine Scarry
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199741220
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
Download or read book The Body in Pain written by Elaine Scarry and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1985-09-26 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part philosophical meditation, part cultural critique, The Body in Pain is a profoundly original study that has already stirred excitement in a wide range of intellectual circles. The book is an analysis of physical suffering and its relation to the numerous vocabularies and cultural forces--literary, political, philosophical, medical, religious--that confront it. Elaine Scarry bases her study on a wide range of sources: literature and art, medical case histories, documents on torture compiled by Amnesty International, legal transcripts of personal injury trials, and military and strategic writings by such figures as Clausewitz, Churchill, Liddell Hart, and Kissinger, She weaves these into her discussion with an eloquence, humanity, and insight that recall the writings of Hannah Arendt and Jean-Paul Sartre. Scarry begins with the fact of pain's inexpressibility. Not only is physical pain enormously difficult to describe in words--confronted with it, Virginia Woolf once noted, "language runs dry"--it also actively destroys language, reducing sufferers in the most extreme instances to an inarticulate state of cries and moans. Scarry analyzes the political ramifications of deliberately inflicted pain, specifically in the cases of torture and warfare, and shows how to be fictive. From these actions of "unmaking" Scarry turns finally to the actions of "making"--the examples of artistic and cultural creation that work against pain and the debased uses that are made of it. Challenging and inventive, The Body in Pain is landmark work that promises to spark widespread debate.
Author : Ai Weiwei
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262525747
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)
Download or read book Ai Weiwei: Spatial Matters written by Ai Weiwei and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2014-04-04 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A richly illustrated exploration of Ai Weiwei's installation and architecture projects, focusing on the artist's use of space. Outspoken, provocative, and prolific, the artist Ai Weiwei is an international phenomenon. In recent years, he has produced an astonishingly varied body of work while continuing his role as activist, provocateur, and conscience of a nation. Ai Weiwei is under “city arrest” in Beijing after an 81-day imprisonment; he is accused of tax evasion, but many suspect he is being punished for his political activism, including his exposure of shoddy school building practices that led to the deaths of thousands of children in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake. In 2009, he was badly beaten by the police during his earthquake investigations. Ai Weiwei's work reflects his multiple artistic identities as conceptual artist, architect, filmmaker, designer, curator, writer, and publisher. This monumental volume, developed in association with the artist, draws on the full breadth of Ai Weiwei's architectural, installation, and activist work, with a focus on his use of space. It documents a huge range of international projects with drawings, plans, and photographs of finished work. It also includes excerpts from Ai Weiwei's famous blog (shut down by Chinese authorities in 2009), in which he offers pithy and scathing commentary on the world around him. Essays by leading critics and art historians and interviews with the artist, drawing out his central concerns, accompany the 450 beautifully reproduced color illustrations of his work.
Author : Emerson Pitt Harris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.L/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Community Newspaper written by Emerson Pitt Harris and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anita Price Davis
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476621144
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book New Deal Art in Alabama written by Anita Price Davis and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-08-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the United States struggled to recover from the Great Depression, 24 towns in Alabama would directly benefit from some of the $83 million allocated by the Federal Government for public art works under the New Deal. In the words of Harold Lloyd Hopkins, administrator of the Federal Emergency Relief Act, “artists had to eat, too,” and these funds aided people who needed employment during this difficult period in American history. This book examines some of the New Deal art—murals, reliefs, sculptures, frescoes and paintings—of Alabama and offers biographical sketches of the artists who created them. An appendix describes federal art programs and projects of the period (1933–1943).
Author : Thomas Lamb Phipson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Famous Violinists and Fine Violins written by Thomas Lamb Phipson and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1682 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1978 with total page 1682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hugh Reginald Haweis
Publisher : Hugh Reginald Haweis
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Old violins and violin lore written by Hugh Reginald Haweis and published by Hugh Reginald Haweis. This book was released on 1898 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Old violins and violin lore
Author : Donna Nitz Muller
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1483497143
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (834 download)
Download or read book The Violin Case written by Donna Nitz Muller and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-02-21 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1920, Mabel Hitchman's Aunt Iona and cousin Douglas migrate to South Dakota from Germany. Unbeknownst to Mabel, Iona is a world-class forger, and Mabel is sent away for five years to keep her innocent of the family business. In 1938, a changed Mabel carries forged papers in her violin case to Vienna, Austria. Her job is to deliver the documents to three Jews and one political enemy trying to escape the Nazi regime. As she evades a marauding death squad, she learns that one of the men she believed safe remains in the Vienna ghetto, so she forms a plan that could get people killed. Smuggling the documents into Austria was easy; getting back to South Dakota could cost her everything.
Author : United States. Patent Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1522 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office written by United States. Patent Office and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 1522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : USA Patent Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1306 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (57 download)
Download or read book Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office written by USA Patent Office and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 1306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dennis OKeefe
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
ISBN 13 : 1662436777
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (624 download)
Download or read book Molly Tanner's Violin written by Dennis OKeefe and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2021-06-29 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the 1860s, Molly Tanner’s Violin is the epic story of US Marshal Colt Patterson. The hero of Dennis Okeefe’s award-winning novel, Dixon’s Edge, and a sequel to his novel, Two Hearts, in which he joins with Kathleen Oberholt, the heroine of Two Hearts, to fulfill a vision of a Navajo mystic in which the Navajo tribe is released from the hellhole of the prison camp, Bosque Redondo, and allowed to return to their beloved land of Canyon De Chelley in Arizona. As they fulfill the vision, they cross paths with the horrific but compelling poisoner, Elroy Peoples, and equally evil US Army Colonel Pickering, which climaxes in a cataclysmic confrontation in the high desert of New Mexico. This novel is filled with page-to-page action, romance, and compassion. Though fiction, it is based on events that really occurred, and it is definitely a worthwhile read for those who enjoy historical fiction.
Author : Virginia Lee Burton
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547350570
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (473 download)
Download or read book Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel written by Virginia Lee Burton and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2010-06-28 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A modern classic that no child should miss. Since it was first published in 1939, Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel has delighted generations of children. Mike and his trusty steam shovel, Mary Anne, dig deep canals for boats to travel through, cut mountain passes for trains, and hollow out cellars for city skyscrapers -- the very symbol of industrial America. But with progress come new machines, and soon the inseparable duo are out of work. Mike believes that Mary Anne can dig as much in a day as one hundred men can dig in a week, and the two have one last chance to prove it and save Mary Anne from the scrap heap. What happens next in the small town of Popperville is a testament to their friendship, and to old-fashioned hard work and ingenuity.
Author : Sharon Ann Musher
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022624718X
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)
Download or read book Democratic Art written by Sharon Ann Musher and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-05-04 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At its height in 1935, the New Deal devoted roughly $27 million ($320 million today) to supporting tens of thousands of needy writers, dancers, actors, musicians, and visual artists, who created over 100,000 worksbooks, murals, plays, concertsthat were performed for or otherwise imbibed by millions of Americans. But why did the government get so involved with the arts in the first place? Musher addresses this question and many others by exploring the political and aesthetic concerns of the 1930s, as well as the range of responsesfrom politicians, intellectuals, artists, and taxpayersto the idea of active government involvement in the arts. In the process, she raises vital questions about the roles that the arts should play in contemporary society."
Author : Holly Saari
Publisher : Weigl Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1489660186
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (896 download)
Download or read book Violins written by Holly Saari and published by Weigl Publishers. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you know that violins are the biggest section in an orchestra? Violins are played by moving a bow across the instrument’s strings. Discover more intriguing facts in Violins, a Musical Instruments book.
