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America's Banquet of Cultures

Author : Ronald Fernández
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313002487
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book America's Banquet of Cultures written by Ronald Fernández and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2000-06-30 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The melting pot is a myth, according to Fernandez, who shows that the United States is and always has been a banquet of cultures. As he argues, the best way to deal with the more than 20 million new immigrants since 1965 is to accept, recognize, and eagerly explore the differences among the American people. Fernandez seeks to forge a positive national consensus based on two building blocks. First, the nation's many ethnic groups can be a powerful source of unprecedented economic, artistic, and scientific creativity. Secondly, the nation's many ethnic groups offer a way to erase the black/white dichotomy which, masks the shared injustices of millions of European, Asian, African, Native, and Latino Americans. This is a provocative analysis of how we arrived at our current ethnic and racial dilemmas and what can be done to move beyond them. Scholars and students of American immigration and social policy as well as concerned citizens will find the book equally rewarding.

Between the Middle East and the Americas

Author : Evelyn Alsultany
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472069446
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Between the Middle East and the Americas written by Evelyn Alsultany and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2013-02-12 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perceptions of the Middle East in conflicting discourses from North America, South America, and Europe

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner Now?

Author : Angela D. Dillard
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814719406
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Book Synopsis Guess Who's Coming to Dinner Now? by : Angela D. Dillard

Download or read book Guess Who's Coming to Dinner Now? written by Angela D. Dillard and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2002-02-11 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "...could not be more of the moment." (New York Times Book Review) "If you, like many, marveled that George W. Bush not only did but could put together a cabinet and staff that was racially diverse as well as fiscally and morally conservative, here's a book you'll want to read." (Ms. magazine)

The Reception of Chinese Art Across Cultures

Author : Michelle Ying Ling Huang
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443868558
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book The Reception of Chinese Art Across Cultures written by Michelle Ying Ling Huang and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-02 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Reception of Chinese Art Across Cultures is a collection of essays examining the ways in which Chinese art has been circulated, collected, exhibited and perceived in Japan, Europe and America from the fourteenth century to the twenty-first. Scholars and curators from East Asia, Europe and North America jointly present cutting-edge research on cultural integration and aesthetic hybridisation in relation to the collecting, display, making and interpretation of Chinese art and material culture. Stimulating examples within this volume emphasise the Western understanding of Chinese pictorial art, while addressing issues concerning the consumption of Chinese art and Chinese-inspired artistic productions from early times to the contemporary period; the roles of collector, curator, museum and auction house in shaping the taste, meaning and conception of art; and the art and cultural identity of the Chinese diaspora in a global context. This book espouses a multiplicity of aesthetic, philosophical, socio-cultural, economic and political perspectives, and encourages academics, students, art and museum practitioners to re-think their encounters with the objects, practices, people and institutions surrounding the study of Chinese art and culture in the past and the present.

American Nations

Author : Colin Woodard
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143122029
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book American Nations written by Colin Woodard and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-09-25 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • A New Republic Best Book of the Year • The Globalist Top Books of the Year • Winner of the Maine Literary Award for Non-fiction Particularly relevant in understanding who voted for who during presidential elections, this is an endlessly fascinating look at American regionalism and the eleven “nations” that continue to shape North America According to award-winning journalist and historian Colin Woodard, North America is made up of eleven distinct nations, each with its own unique historical roots. In American Nations he takes readers on a journey through the history of our fractured continent, offering a revolutionary and revelatory take on American identity, and how the conflicts between them have shaped our past and continue to mold our future. From the Deep South to the Far West, to Yankeedom to El Norte, Woodard (author of American Character: A History of the Epic Struggle Between Individual Liberty and the Common Good) reveals how each region continues to uphold its distinguishing ideals and identities today, with results that can be seen in the composition of the U.S. Congress or on the county-by-county election maps of any hotly contested election in our history.

Transatlantic Trade and Global Cultural Transfers Since 1492

Author : Martina Kaller
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429763573
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)

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Download or read book Transatlantic Trade and Global Cultural Transfers Since 1492 written by Martina Kaller and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-31 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Access to new plants and consumer goods such as sugar, tobacco, and chocolate from the beginning of the sixteenth century onwards would massively change the way people lived, especially in how and what they consumed. While global markets were consequently formed and provided access to these new commodities that increasingly became important in the ‘Old World’, especially with regard to the establishment early modern consumer societies. This book brings together specialists from a range of historical fields to analyse the establishment of these commodity chains from the Americas to Europe as well as their cultural implications.

Culture, History, and the Reception of Tennessee Williams in China

Author : Shouhua Qi
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031169344
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (311 download)

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Book Synopsis Culture, History, and the Reception of Tennessee Williams in China by : Shouhua Qi

Download or read book Culture, History, and the Reception of Tennessee Williams in China written by Shouhua Qi and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-10-30 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first comprehensive study of the reception of Tennessee Williams in China, from rejection and/or misgivings to cautious curiosity and to full-throated acceptance, in the context of profound changes in China’s socioeconomic and cultural life and mores since the end of the Cultural Revolution. It fills a conspicuous gap in scholarship in the reception of one of the greatest American playwrights and joins book-length studies of Chinese reception of Shakespeare, Ibsen, O’Neill, Brecht, and other important Western playwrights whose works have been eagerly embraced and appropriated and have had catalytic impact on modern Chinese cultural life.

The Reception of Ancient Virtues and Vices in Modern Popular Culture

Author : Eran Almagor
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004347720
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book The Reception of Ancient Virtues and Vices in Modern Popular Culture written by Eran Almagor and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-07-31 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Ancient Virtues and Vices in Modern Popular Culture, Eran Almagor and Lisa Maurice offer a comprehensive collection of chapters dealing with the reception of antiquity in popular media of the modern era (19th-21st centuries). These media include theatrical plays, cinematic representations, Television drama, popular newspapers or journals, poems and outdoor festivals. For the first time in Classical Reception Studies, ancient Jewish literature and imagery are included in the discussion. The focus of the volume is both the continuity and variance between ancient and modern sets of values, which appear in the new interpretations of the ancient stories, figures and protagonists.

Manners, Culture and Dress of the Best American Society,

Author : Richard A. Wells
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Manners, Culture and Dress of the Best American Society, written by Richard A. Wells and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Music and Culture in America, 1861-1918

Author : Michael Saffle
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135598010
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (355 download)

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Download or read book Music and Culture in America, 1861-1918 written by Michael Saffle and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of new essays focuses on the crucial period at the end of the 19th and early 20th century when American music developed its own unique social and cultural institutions.

Cultural Narratives of Old Age in the Lives, Work, and Reception of Old Musicians

Author : Joseph Straus
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040114571
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Cultural Narratives of Old Age in the Lives, Work, and Reception of Old Musicians written by Joseph Straus and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-08-23 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Operating largely within the world of European-American classical music, this book discusses the creative work of old musicians—composers, performers, listeners, and scholars—and how those forms of music- making are received and understood. Like everything else about old age, music-making is usually understood as a decline from a former height, a deficiency with respect to a youthful standard. Against this ageist mythology, this book argues that composing oldly, performing oldly, and listening oldly are distinctive and valuable ways of making music—a difference, not a deficit; to be celebrated, not ignored or condemned. Instead of the usual biomedical or gerontological understanding of old age, with its focus on bodily, cognitive, and sensory decline, this book follows Age Studies in seeing old age through a cultural lens, as something created and understood in culture. This book seeks to identify the ways that old musicians (composers, performers, listeners, and scholars) accept, resist, adapt, and transform the cultural scripts for the performance of old age. Musicking oldly (making music in old age) often represents an attempt to rewrite ageist cultural scripts and to find ways of flourishing musically in a largely hostile landscape.

Early Cinema in Russia and its Cultural Reception

Author : Yuri Tsivian
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317928369
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book Early Cinema in Russia and its Cultural Reception written by Yuri Tsivian and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-13 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the development of cinematic form and culture in Russia, from its late nineteenth-century beginnings as a fairground attraction to the early post-Revolutionary years. The author traces the changing perceptions of cinema and its social transition from a modernist invention to a national art form. He explores reactions to the earliest films from actors, novelists, poets, writers and journalists. His richly detailed study of the physical elements of cinematic performance includes the architecture and illumination of the cinema foyer, the speed of projection and film acoustics. In contrast to standard film histories, this book focuses on reflected images: rather than discussing films and film-makers, it features the historical film-goer and early writings on film. The book presents a vivid and changing picture of cinema culture in Russia in the twilight of the tsarist era and the first decades of the twentieth century. The study expands the whole context of reception studies and opens up questions about reception relevant to other national cinemas.

Current History and Modern Culture

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1086 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Current History and Modern Culture written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 1086 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

American Literature and the Culture of Reprinting, 1834-1853

Author : Meredith L. McGill
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812209745
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book American Literature and the Culture of Reprinting, 1834-1853 written by Meredith L. McGill and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-10-11 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The antebellum period has long been identified with the belated emergence of a truly national literature. And yet, as Meredith L. McGill argues, a mass market for books in this period was built and sustained through what we would call rampant literary piracy: a national literature developed not despite but because of the systematic copying of foreign works. Restoring a political dimension to accounts of the economic grounds of antebellum literature, McGill unfolds the legal arguments and political struggles that produced an American "culture of reprinting" and held it in place for two crucial decades. In this culture of reprinting, the circulation of print outstripped authorial and editorial control. McGill examines the workings of literary culture within this market, shifting her gaze from first and authorized editions to reprints and piracies, from the form of the book to the intersection of book and periodical publishing, and from a national literature to an internally divided and transatlantic literary marketplace. Through readings of the work of Dickens, Poe, and Hawthorne, McGill seeks both to analyze how changes in the conditions of publication influenced literary form and to measure what was lost as literary markets became centralized and literary culture became stratified in the early 1850s. American Literature and the Culture of Reprinting, 1834-1853 delineates a distinctive literary culture that was regional in articulation and transnational in scope, while questioning the grounds of the startlingly recent but nonetheless powerful equation of the national interest with the extension of authors' rights.

The History of Mankind: The cultured races of America

Author : Friedrich Ratzel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The History of Mankind: The cultured races of America written by Friedrich Ratzel and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Reception of Anglo-American Drama in Croatian Political and Cultural Life, 1860-1970

Author : Ivan Matković
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis The Reception of Anglo-American Drama in Croatian Political and Cultural Life, 1860-1970 by : Ivan Matković

Download or read book The Reception of Anglo-American Drama in Croatian Political and Cultural Life, 1860-1970 written by Ivan Matković and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Printed Book in Contemporary American Culture

Author : Heike Schaefer
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030225453
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book The Printed Book in Contemporary American Culture written by Heike Schaefer and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-08-28 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essay collection explores the cultural functions the printed book performs in the digital age. It examines how the use of and attitude toward the book form have changed in light of the digital transformation of American media culture. Situated at the crossroads of American studies, literary studies, book studies, and media studies, these essays show that a sustained focus on the medial and material formats of literary communication significantly expands our accustomed ways of doing cultural studies. Addressing the changing roles of authors, publishers, and readers while covering multiple bookish formats such as artists’ books, bestselling novels, experimental fiction, and zines, this interdisciplinary volume introduces readers to current transatlantic conversations on the history and future of the printed book.