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Dietrich Icon

Author : Gerd Gemünden
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822389673
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Dietrich Icon written by Gerd Gemünden and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2007-04-12 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few movie stars have meant as many things to as many different audiences as the iconic Marlene Dietrich. The actress-chanteuse had a career of some seventy years: one that included not only classical Hollywood cinema and the concert hall but also silent film in Weimar Germany, theater, musical comedy, vaudeville, army camp shows, radio, recordings, television, and even the circus. Having renounced and left Nazi Germany, assumed American citizenship, and entertained American troops, Dietrich has long been a flashpoint in Germany’s struggles over its cultural heritage. She has also figured prominently in European and American film scholarship, in studies ranging from analyses of the directors with whom she worked to theories about the ideological and psychic functions of film. Dietrich Icon, which includes essays by established and emerging film scholars, is a unique examination of the many meanings of Dietrich. Some of the essays in this collection revisit such familiar topics as Germany’s complex relationship with Dietrich, her ambiguous sexuality, her place in the lesbian archive, her star status, and her legendary legs, but with fresh critical perspective and an emphasis on historical background. Other essays establish new avenues for understanding Dietrich’s persona. Among these are a reading of Marlene Dietrich’s ABC—an eclectic autobiographical compendium containing Dietrich’s thoughts on such diverse subjects as “steak,” “Sternberg (Joseph von),” “Stravinsky,” and “stupidity”—and an argument that Dietrich manipulated her voice—through her accent, sexual innuendo, and singing—as much as her visual image in order to convey a cosmopolitan world-weariness. Still other essays consider the specter of aging that loomed over Dietrich’s career, as well as the many imitations of the Dietrich persona that have emerged since the star’s death in 1992. Contributors. Nora M. Alter, Steven Bach, Elisabeth Bronfen, Erica Carter, Mary R. Desjardins, Joseph Garncarz, Gerd Gemünden, Mary Beth Haralovich, Amelie Hastie, Lutz Koepnick, Alice A. Kuzniar, Amy Lawrence, Judith Mayne, Patrice Petro, Eric Rentschler, Gaylyn Studlar, Werner Sudendorf, Mark Williams

ShowTime Piano Jazz & Blues - Level 2A

Author : Nancy Faber
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1616772948
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (167 download)

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Download or read book ShowTime Piano Jazz & Blues - Level 2A written by Nancy Faber and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Faber Piano Adventures ). ShowTime Piano Jazz & Blues is a spirited collection of jazz and blues pieces arranged for the Level 2A piano student. The student will enjoy creating the sounds of jazz and blues while improving reading and rhythmic skills. The book offers a pleasing variety of sounds, ranging from soulful blues to jazz originals, including: Blue Moon * Bye, Bye Blackbird * The Rainbow Connection * and more.

Green Grow the Lilacs

Author : Lynn Riggs
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780573609626
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Green Grow the Lilacs written by Lynn Riggs and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1931 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drama / 10m, 4f, extras This evocative play charting the rocky romance between headstrong farmgirl Laurey and cocky cowhand Curley in a tale of early America during the settlement of the midwest was the basis of the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Oklahoma! Using the colorful vernacular of the period, Green Grow the Lilacs paints a picture of pioneer farmlife with colorful characters and language, presenting a dramatic challenge to professionals and amateurs alike.

The Cambridge Companion to the Musical

Author : Nicholas Everett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521796392
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (963 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the Musical written by Nicholas Everett and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-12-09 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Companion to the Musical provides an accessible introduction to one of the liveliest and most popular forms of musical performance. Written by a team of specialists in the field of musical theatre especially for students and theatregoers, it offers a guide to the history and development of the musical in England and America (including coverage of New York s Broadway and London s West End traditions). Starting with the early history of the musical, the volume comes right up to date and examines the latest works and innovations, and includes information on the singers, audience and critical reception, and traditions. There is fresh coverage of the American musical theatre in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the British musical theatre in the middle of the twentieth century, and the rock musical. The Companion contains an extensive bibliography and photos from key productions.

Reading Lyrics

Author : Robert Gottlieb
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 : 0375400818
Total Pages : 738 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (754 download)

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Download or read book Reading Lyrics written by Robert Gottlieb and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2000-11-21 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive anthology bringing together more than one thousand of the best American and English song lyrics of the twentieth century; an extraordinary celebration of a unique art form and an indispensable reference work and history that celebrates one of the twentieth century’s most enduring and cherished legacies. Reading Lyrics begins with the first masters of the colloquial phrase, including George M. Cohan (“Give My Regards to Broadway”), P. G. Wodehouse (“Till the Clouds Roll By”), and Irving Berlin, whose versatility and career span the period from “Alexander’s Ragtime Band” to “Annie Get Your Gun” and beyond. The Broadway musical emerges as a distinct dramatic form in the 1920s and 1930s, its evolution propelled by a trio of lyricists—Cole Porter, Ira Gershwin, and Lorenz Hart—whose explorations of the psychological and emotional nuances of falling in and out of love have lost none of their wit and sophistication. Their songs, including “Night and Day,” “The Man I Love,” and “Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered,” have become standards performed and recorded by generation after generation of singers. The lure of Broadway and Hollywood and the performing genius of such artists as Al Jolson, Fred Astaire, Ethel Waters, Judy Garland, Frank Sinatra, and Ethel Merman inspired a remarkable array of talented writers, including Dorothy Fields (“A Fine Romance,” “I Can’t Give You Anything but Love”), Frank Loesser (“Guys and Dolls”), Oscar Hammerstein II (from the groundbreaking “Show Boat” of 1927 through his extraordinary collaboration with Richard Rodgers), Johnny Mercer, Yip Harburg, Andy Razaf, Noël Coward, and Stephen Sondheim. Reading Lyrics also celebrates the work of dozens of superb craftsmen whose songs remain known, but who today are themselves less known—writers like Haven Gillespie (whose “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town” may be the most widely recorded song of its era); Herman Hupfeld (not only the composer/lyricist of “As Time Goes By” but also of “Are You Makin’ Any Money?” and “When Yuba Plays the Rumba on the Tuba”); the great light versifier Ogden Nash (“Speak Low,” “I’m a Stranger Here Myself,” and, yes, “The Sea-Gull and the Ea-Gull”); Don Raye (“Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy,” “Mister Five by Five,” and, of course, “Milkman, Keep Those Bottles Quiet”); Bobby Troup (“Route 66”); Billy Strayhorn (not only for the omnipresent “Lush Life” but for “Something to Live For” and “A Lonely Coed”); Peggy Lee (not only a superb singer but also an original and appealing lyricist); and the unique Dave Frishberg (“I’m Hip,” “Peel Me a Grape,” “Van Lingo Mungo”). The lyricists are presented chronologically, each introduced by a succinct biography and the incisive commentary of Robert Gottlieb and Robert Kimball.

The Cambridge Companion to the Musical

Author : William A. Everett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107114748
Total Pages : 503 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the Musical written by William A. Everett and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-21 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An expanded and updated edition of this acclaimed, wide-ranging survey of musical theatre in New York, London, and elsewhere.

Words with Music

Author : Lehman Engel
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1557835543
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (578 download)

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Download or read book Words with Music written by Lehman Engel and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2006 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dean of Broadway musical directors examines the dynamics of how the book, music and lyrics work together to create such hits as My Fair Lady, Fiddler on the Roof, Guys and Dolls, Hair, Pal Joey, West Side Story, Company, South Pacific, Threepenny Opera and Porgy and Bess. Howard Kissel, chief theater critic for the New York Daily News, extends the reach of Engel's subjects by bringing them up to date with commentary on such shows as A Chorus Line, Nine, Sunday in the Park with George, Rent, Working and Falsettos. Kissel offers a thoughtful history on how musical theater has evolved in the three decades since Engel wrote Words with Music (1972) and how Engel's classic work remains vital and illuminating today.

The Gig Book: Showtunes

Author : Wise Publications
Publisher : Wise Publications
ISBN 13 : 085712689X
Total Pages : 493 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (571 download)

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Download or read book The Gig Book: Showtunes written by Wise Publications and published by Wise Publications. This book was released on 2011-09-23 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gig Book: Showtunes is packed with 85 of the biggest songs in musical theatre. Presented with melody lines in standard notation, guitar chord boxes and complete lyrics, this is perfect for guitarists, pianists and all other musicians. Songlist: - All Good Gifts (Godspell) - As Long As He Needs Me (Oliver!) - Aquarius (Hair) - Be Italian (Nine) - Beauty And The Beast (Beauty And The Beast) - Beggin' (Jersey Boys) - Bless Your Beautiful Hide (Seven Brides For Seven Brothers) - Big Spender (Sweet Charity) - Bring Him Home (Les Misérables) - Can You Feel The Love Tonight (The Lion King) - Close Every Door (Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat) - Company (Company) - Copacabana (At The Copa) - Dammit, Janet (Rocky Horror) - Dancing Queen (Mamma Mia) - Defying Gravity (Wicked) - Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes) - Don't Cry For Me Argentina (Evita) - Drinking Song (The Student Prince) - Electricity (Billy Elliot) - Five Guys Named Moe (Five Guys Named Moe) - Everyday (Buddy) - Feeling Good (The Roar Of The Greasepaint, The Smell Of The Crowd) - Getting To Know You (The King And I) - Good Morning Baltimore (Hairspray) - Happy Talk (South Pacific) - Grow For Me (Little Shop of Horrors) - Honeysuckle Rose (Ain't Misbehavin') - How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying (How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying) - How Many Tears? (Martin Guerre) - I Dreamed A Dream (Les Misérables) - I Still Believe (Miss Saigon) - I Will Survive (The Adventures Of Priscilla Queen Of The Desert) - If I Were A Rich Man (Fiddler On The Roof) - If He Really Knew Me (They're Playing Our Song) - If I Loved You (Carousel) - It Might As Well Be Spring (State Fair) - The Impossible Dream (Man Of La Mancha) - (I've Had) The Time Of My Life (Dirty Dancing) - June Is Bustin' Out All Over (Carousel) - The Lambeth Walk (Me And My Girl) - Losing My Mind (Follies) - Love Never Dies (Love Never Dies) - Luck Be A Lady (Guys And Dolls) - Love Changes Everything (Aspects Of Love) - Maybe This Time (Cabaret) - My Favourite Things (The Sound Of Music) - Night Fever (Saturday Night Fever) - No Matter What (Whistle Down The Wind) - Ol' Man River (Show Boat) - Once In Love With Amy (Where's Charley?) - One (A Chorus Line) - One Night In Bangkok (Chess) - Promises, Promises (Promises, Promises) - The Perfect Year (Sunset Boulevard) - The Phantom Of The Opera (The Phantom Of The Opera) - The Rhythm Of Life (Sweet Charity) - Seasons Of Love (Rent) - She Loves Me (She Loves Me) - Shoes Upon The Table (Blood Brothers) - So Much Better (Legally Blonde) - Sit Down, You're Rockin' The Boat (Guys & Dolls) - Smoke Gets In Your Eyes (Roberta) - The Song Of Purple Summer (Spring Awakening) - The Song That Goes Like This (Monty Python's Spamalot) - Springtime For Hitler (The Producers) - Starlight Express (Starlight Express) - Standing On The Corner (The Most Happy Fella) - The Sun Has Got His Hat On (Me And My Girl) - Supercalifragilisticexpialigetisch (Mary Poppins) - Superstar (Jesus Christ Superstar) - The Surrey With The Fringe On Top (Oklahoma!) - Tell Me It's Not True (Blood Brothers) - Tell Me On A Sunday (Song And Dance) - There Is A Sucker Born Ev'ry Minute (Barnum) - This Is My Jerry Springer Moment (Jerry Springer The Opera) - Thoroughly Modern Millie (Thoroughly Modern Millie) - Till There Was You (Music Man) - 'Til Tomorrow (Fiorello) - Under Pressure (We Will Rock You) - What Kind Of Fool Am I? (Stop The World - I Want To Get Off) - Written In The Stars (Aida) - Yakety Yak (Phantom of the Ritz) - You're The One That I Want (Grease)

Worklife

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book Worklife written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Methods and Nations

Author : Michael J. Shapiro
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135943400
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Methods and Nations written by Michael J. Shapiro and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-06-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Methods and Nations critiques one of the primary deployments of twentieth-century social science: comparative politics whose major focus has been "nation-building" in the "Third World," often attempting to universalize and render self-evident its own practices. International relations theorists, unable to resist the "cognitive imperialism" of a state-centric social science, have allowed themselves to become colonized. Michael Shapiro seeks to bring recognition to forms of political expression-alternative modes of intelligibility for things, people, and spaces-that have existed on the margins of the nationhood practices of states and the complicit nation-sustaining conceits of social science.

The Broadway Musical: A Critical and Musical Survey

Author : Joseph P. Swain
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810843765
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book The Broadway Musical: A Critical and Musical Survey written by Joseph P. Swain and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2002-11-19 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To see a Broadway musical is to experience how a drama, using melody, harmony, and rhythm, evokes the emotion needed to perpetuate a story line. Without music, many of these plays would not succeed, failing to convey the intended message. This new edition of Swain's classic text, winner of the 1991 ASCAP Deems Taylor Award, reveals how a musical drama achieves plot movement, character development and conflict through strategic placement of song and music in 20 musical plays. Unlike critical literature that has simply explored theatrical style and production histories, this survey focuses mainly on the power of music. Illustrated with more than 150 musical excerpts and essays, Swain includes the latest research and viewpoints of contemporary critics, offering insight into dramatic expression and how renowned composers including Jerome Kern, George Gershwin, Jerry Bock, Stephen Sondheim and Andrew Lloyd Webber influenced the Broadway musical. This provides insights into the many impressive musicals to hit the stage between the years of 1927 and 1987, illuminating how specific revisions to productions such as Showboat and, Oklahoma! forever changed their popularity. Learn how music is used as a symbol for psychological or emotional action from Shakespearean drama's such as Kiss Me, Kate and West Side Story, to more current dramas including Godspell, A Chorus Line, and Jesus Christ Superstar. Replete with a never seen before essay on Les Misérables, this edition also includes an expanded epilogue highlighting the phenomena behind Miss Saigon and Phantom of the Opera, "megamusicals" that changed the direction of the Broadway tradition. For professors of dramatic arts and people interested in Broadway musicals, theater, popular music and opera.

The Richard Rodgers Reader

Author : Geoffrey Block
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195139542
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book The Richard Rodgers Reader written by Geoffrey Block and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002-06-06 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the centennial of Richard Rodgers' birth comes a new collection of writings by and about one of America's favorite composers. Includes selections from more than 30 years of Rodgers' own writings on a wide variety of topics. 5 halftones.

School of Music Programs

Author : University of Michigan. School of Music
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1152 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book School of Music Programs written by University of Michigan. School of Music and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 1152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Miles Davis

Author : Clarence Bernard Henry
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317228391
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Miles Davis written by Clarence Bernard Henry and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This research and information guide provides a wide range of scholarship on the life, career, and musical legacy of Miles Davis, and is compiled for an interdisciplinary audience of scholars in jazz and popular music, musicology, and cultural studies. It serves as an excellent tool for librarians, researchers, and scholars sorting through the massive amount of material in the field.

Wonderful Design

Author : Lloyd Whitesell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190843845
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Wonderful Design written by Lloyd Whitesell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-06 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As one of the most beloved and beguiling genres of entertainment, the film musical wears its style ostentatiously. The genre allows for hyperbolic expression, extravagant sonic and visual decor, and extremely stylized forms of movement and performance. By staging a glittering spectacle, by releasing a current of lush sentiment, by unveiling a world of elegance and romance, the film musical woos us with patterns, textures, finesse and sensory display. In this book, author Lloyd Whitesell asks what, exactly, makes film musicals so glamorous. As he argues, glamour projects an aura of ethereality or sophistication by way of suave deportment, sensuous textures, elevated styles, and aesthetically refined effects. Glamour, in other words, is what unites "Cheek to Cheek" from Top Hat and the title song from Beauty and the Beast, each a sonic evocation of luxury, sparkle, grace, and finesse. Whitesell redirects our attention from visual cues like sequins and evening gloves to explore how glamour resides in the sonic. Discussing dozens of musical numbers, analyzing ingenious orchestration, and appraising the distinctive styles of favorite musical stars, Whitesell illuminates fundamental traits of the genre, its aesthetic strategies, and cultural ambitions.

The Oxford Companion to the American Musical

Author : Thomas S. Hischak
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199887322
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Companion to the American Musical written by Thomas S. Hischak and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-06-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the silver screen to the Great White Way, small community theatres to television sets, the musical has long held a special place in America's heart and history. Now, in The Oxford Companion to the American Musical, readers who flocked to the movies to see An American in Paris or Chicago, lined up for tickets to West Side Story or Rent, or crowded around their TVs to watch Cinderella or High School Musical can finally turn to a single book for details about them all. For the first time, this popular subject has an engaging and authoritative book as thrilling as the performances themselves. With more than two thousand entries, this illustrated guide offers a wealth of information on musicals, performers, composers, lyricists, producers, choreographers, and much more. Biographical entries range from early stars Fred Astaire, Bing Crosby, Mary Martin, and Mae West to contemporary show-stoppers Nathan Lane, Savion Glover, and Kristin Chenoweth, while composers Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Richard Rodgers, and Andrew Lloyd Webber all have articles, and the choreography of Bob Fosse, Tommy Tune, and Debbie Allen receives due examination. The plays and films covered range from modern hits like Mamma Mia! and Moulin Rouge! to timeless classics such as Yankee Doodle Dandy and Show Boat. Also, numerous musicals written specifically for television appear throughout, and many entries follow a work-Babes in Toyland for example-as it moves across genres, from stage, to film, to television. The Companion also includes cross references, a comprehensive listing of recommended recordings and further reading, a useful chronology of all the musicals described in the book, plus a complete index of Tony Award and Academy Award winners. Whether you are curious about Singin' in the Rain or Spamalot, or simply adore The Wizard of Oz or Grease, this well-researched and entertaining resource is the first place to turn for reliable information on virtually every aspect of the American musical.

The Plum Thicket

Author : Janice Holt Giles
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 9780813128313
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (283 download)

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Download or read book The Plum Thicket written by Janice Holt Giles and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 1954 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Janice Holt Giles had a life before her marriage and writing career in Kentucky. Born in Altus, Arkansas, Giles spent many childhood summers visiting her grandparents there. After the success of her historical novel The Kentuckians in 1953, she planned to write a second frontier romance. But a visit to Altus caused her imagination to drift from Kentucky in 1780 to western Arkansas in 1913. At age forty-eight -- the same age as Giles at the writing of the novel -- the heroine Katie Rogers recalls her first visit alone to her grandparent's home in Stanwick, Arkansas. Eight-year-old Katie spends her summer climbing the huge mulberry tree and walking with her wise grandfather, a veteran of bloody Shiloh. She is fascinated, not frightened, by the grave of an unknown child in the nearby plum thicket. Throughout the visit Katie helps Aunt Maggie plan her wedding and looks forward to the three-day Confederate Reunion. But the Reunion -- and the summer -- end violently, as guilt, repression, and miscegenation are unearthed. "That summer was the end of a whole way of life," Katie realizes, for she can never again dwell in the paradise of childhood. In Katie Rogers, Giles voiced her own lament for "the beautiful and the unrecoverable past." To her publisher Giles wrote, "Out of my forty-odd years of living, much of whatever wisdom I have acquired has been distilled into this book." This new edition of The Plum Thicket gives Giles's many fans a powerful, moving glimpse into the mind and heart of this beloved author. Janice Holt Giles (1905-1979), author of nineteen books, lived and wrote near Knifley, Kentucky, for thirty-four years. Her biography is told in Janice Holt Giles: A Writer's Life.