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Author : Lari A. Bishop
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)
Download or read book Environment, Health, and Safety written by Lari A. Bishop and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ann Pescatello
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 0822976854
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)
Download or read book Charles Seeger written by Ann Pescatello and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2010-11-23 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ann M. Pescatello presents the first biography of Charles Seeger, who was a force in American music for most of the twentieth century. Part composer, teacher, performer, musicologist, bureaucrat, and inventor-Seeger's ninety-two year life touched many people and many areas of American music. As both a traditionalist and champion of the new, he established the University of California's music department and the nation's first curriculum in musicology, and taught at the Institute of Musical Arts (later Julliard), and at the New School in New York. He was also a music activist-defending the artistic value of American folk music, and seeking global cooperation for musical enterprise at the Resettlement administraion, the WPA, and the Pan American Union.
Author : Catherine Parsons Smith
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520933834
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Making Music in Los Angeles written by Catherine Parsons Smith and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2007-10-16 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fascinating social history of music in Los Angeles from the 1880s to 1940, Catherine Parsons Smith ventures into an often neglected period to discover that during America's Progressive Era, Los Angeles was a center for making music long before it became a major metropolis. She describes the thriving music scene over some sixty years, including opera, concert giving and promotion, and the struggles of individuals who pursued music as an ideal, a career, a trade, a business--or all those things at once. Smith demonstrates that music making was closely tied to broader Progressive Era issues, including political and economic developments, the new roles played by women, and issues of race, ethnicity, and class.
Author : Kenneth J. Bindas
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 9781572332522
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (325 download)
Download or read book All of This Music Belongs to the Nation written by Kenneth J. Bindas and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2016-08-23 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historical study of the Federal Music Project (FMP) investigates the paradoxical mission of employing popular musicians during the depression and "raising" musical tastes by emphasizing European classical traditions. Bindas (history, Kent State U.) reveals the obvious tensions between FMP leadership and its musicians, particularly the racial and ethnic segregation perpetuated by its policies. However, in an even-handed treatment, the project's successes in bringing music to millions of listeners is also highlighted. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Robert Cantwell
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674951334
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (513 download)
Download or read book When We Were Good written by Robert Cantwell and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When We Were Good traces the many and varied cultural influences on the folk revival of the late fifties and sixties. In his capacious analysis of the ideologies, traditions, and personalities that created an extraordinary moment in American popular culture, Cantwell explores the idea of folk at the deepest level.
Author : Jerrold Hirsch
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807854891
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (548 download)
Download or read book Portrait of America written by Jerrold Hirsch and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How well do we know our country? Whom do we include when we use the word "American"? These are not just contemporary issues but recurring and seemingly permanent questions Americans have asked themselves throughout their history-and questions that were ad
Author : Jon Cruz
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400823218
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Culture on the Margins written by Jon Cruz and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1999-07-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Culture on the Margins, Jon Cruz recounts the "discovery" of black music by white elites in the nineteenth century, boldly revealing how the episode shaped modern approaches to studying racial and ethnic cultures. Slave owners had long heard black song making as meaningless "noise." Abolitionists began to attribute social and political meaning to the music, inspired, as many were, by Frederick Douglass's invitation to hear slaves' songs as testimonies to their inner, subjective worlds. This interpretive shift--which Cruz calls "ethnosympathy"--marks the beginning of a mainstream American interest in the country's cultural margins. In tracing the emergence of a new interpretive framework for black music, Cruz shows how the concept of "cultural authenticity" is constantly redefined by critics for a variety of purposes--from easing anxieties arising from contested social relations to furthering debates about modern ethics and egalitarianism. In focusing on the spiritual aspect of black music, abolitionists, for example, pivoted toward an idealized religious singing subject at the expense of absorbing the more socially and politically elaborate issues presented in the slave narratives and other black writings. By the end of the century, Cruz maintains, modern social science also annexed much of this cultural turn. The result was a fully modern tension-ridden interest in culture on the racial margins of American society that has long had the effect of divorcing black culture from politics.
Author : Suzanne Forrest
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Preservation of the Village written by Suzanne Forrest and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history of Anglo-Hispanic relations in New Mexico for most of the 20th century through responses to the New Deal programs.
Author : Loren Kruger
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226454979
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (549 download)
Download or read book The National Stage written by Loren Kruger and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1992-08 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea of staging a nation dates from the Enlightenment, but the full force of the idea emerges only with the rise of mass politics. Comparing English, French, and American attempts to establish national theatres at moments of political crisis—from the challenge of socialism in late nineteenth-century Europe to the struggle to "salvage democracy" in Depression America—Kruger poses a fundamental question: in the formation of nationhood, is the citizen-audience spectator or participant? The National Stage answers this question by tracing the relation between theatre institution and public sphere in the discourses of national identity in Britain, France, and the United States. Exploring the boundaries between history and theory, text and performance, this book speaks to theatre and social historians as well as those interested in the theoretical range of cultural studies.
Author : Chris Matthews
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9780743240871
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (48 download)
Download or read book American written by Chris Matthews and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003-11-03 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A "New York Times" and "Washington Post" bestseller, "American" is an exuberant look at the spirit that makes us who we are, from one of America's top political commentators.
Author : Barbara Melosh
Publisher : Smithsonian Books (DC)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)
Download or read book ENGENDERING CULTURE written by Barbara Melosh and published by Smithsonian Books (DC). This book was released on 1991-10-17 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the iconography of New Deal murals and plays to interpret the cultural history of the 1930s, Engendering Culture demonstrates that the visual and dramatic images of each form contain an underlying vocabulary of gender: a stock of commonly used poses, subjects, settings, and dramatic roles that encode recognizable characteristics of manhood and womanhood.
Author : John McCain
Publisher : Twelve
ISBN 13 : 0446198714
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (461 download)
Download or read book Hard Call written by John McCain and published by Twelve. This book was released on 2007-08-14 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's most inspiring politician pays tribute to men and woman who have exhibited composure, wisdom and intellect in the face of tough decisions. John McCain draws from experiences of both extraordinary people and people in extraordinary circumstances, culling lessons about the process and nature of judicious and effective decision-making. Acclaimed authors John McCain and Mark Salter describe the anatomy of great decisions in history by telling the remarkable stories of men and women who have exemplified composure, wisdom, and intellect in the face of life's toughest decisions. They identify six qualities typically represented in the best decisions: Awareness. Timing. Foresight. Confidence. Humility. Inspiration. These qualities are personified by the exceptional individuals in this book, each of whom made a hard call, including: Henry Ford's decision to sacrifice his company's competitive edge by reducing the work day and guaranteeing a minimum wage; Branch Rickey's decision to offer Jackie Robinson a contract to play for the Brooklyn Dodgers in the face of public opposition; Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf 's decision to return to wartorn Liberia after receiving an economics degree from Harvard; General Fred Weyand's decision to redeploy fifteen of his battalions despite resistance from senior American military commanders in Vietnam. Woven into these stories are John McCain's own views on the process and art of decision-making and examples of the hard calls we face in our lives. "When I assess a decision," McCain writes, "I want to know all I can about the character of the decision maker before I examine the properties of the decision, its outcome or how it was arrived at." Hard Call is a testament to the people whose choices serve as a beacon for us all.
Author : Harvard Sitkoff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Fifty Years Later written by Harvard Sitkoff and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revised and expanded papers originally presented at a symposium sponsored by the Dept. of History, University of New Hampshire, and held Mar. 17-18, 1983.
Author : Ari Fleischer
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061755141
Total Pages : 649 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (617 download)
Download or read book Taking Heat written by Ari Fleischer and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 649 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The early years of the twenty-first century were a tumultuous time in America. The country faced a hotly contested presidential election, the largest terrorist attack in the nation's history, and the early stages of war. Through it all, President George W. Bush surrounded himself with a handful of close advisers. During this time the man beside the President was Ari Fleischer, his press secretary and one of his most trusted confidants. In this role, Fleisher was present for every decision and became an eyewitness to history. In this riveting account, Fleischer goes behind the scenes as he recalls his experiences in the West Wing. Through the ups and downs of this time, he took the heat, fielded the questions, and brought the President's message into living rooms around the world. In Taking Heat, Fleischer, for the first time, gives his perspective on: The 2000 election, from the recounts to the transition to power September 11, 2001, its aftermath, and the anthrax scare The pressure-filled buildup to the war in Iraq and the President's thoughts as the war began Life in the White House, from learning to adjust to the pace of the West Wing and his early briefings to his relationship with the press The White House press corps, who they are, and how they report the news The factors that led to his decision to leave Washington behind. This is the story of the men and women of the White House press corps and the cornerstones of democracy: freedom of speech and the freedom of the press. Fleischer presents an in-depth, insider's view on the Washington political arena from a perspective few have seen. Fleischer writes of his belief that the press has a bias in Washington. It's not a question of partisanship or press-driven ideology. Instead, it's a focus on conflict, particularly if it's a conflict they can attach to the President. It's the nature of the White House press corps, regardless of who's in power. The members of the White House press corps are masters at being devil's advocate, able to take with passion the opposite side of whatever issue the President supports. Fleischer's job was to calmly field their questions, no matter how pointed. Taking Heat is an introspective exploration of the top political events in the first half of the Bush administration, as well as the candid observations of a professional who stood in the bright lights of the world stage.
Author : Newt Gingrich
Publisher : HarperTorch
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book To Renew America written by Newt Gingrich and published by HarperTorch. This book was released on 1996 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The #1 New York Times bestseller by America's most outspoken political leader is now available in paper. With characteristic bluntness, Gingrich describes where he believes this country should go and how these monumental goals can be achieved. Here, the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives offers his fellow citizens an unparalleled opportunity to encounter the man himself and his dramatic vision of our nation's future.
Author : Barbara L. Tischler
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195040234
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book An American Music written by Barbara L. Tischler and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1986 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that a true American music has resulted from an invovlement with the European musical heritage and suggests that periods of isolationism have resulted in little notable music
