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Author : Russel Blaine Nye
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The Unembarrassed Muse: the Popular Arts in America. (Second Printing.). written by Russel Blaine Nye and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : R. B. Nye
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (473 download)
Download or read book The unembarrassed muse : the popular arts in America written by R. B. Nye and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Russel Blaine Nye
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (248 download)
Download or read book The unembarrassed muse : the popular arts in America written by Russel Blaine Nye and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Russell Nye
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Unembarrassed Muse written by Russell Nye and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Pells
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300171730
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Modernist America written by Richard Pells and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-29 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's global cultural impact is largely seen as one-sided, with critics claiming that it has undermined other countries' languages and traditions. But contrary to popular belief, the cultural relationship between the United States and the world has been reciprocal, says Richard Pells. The United States not only plays a large role in shaping international entertainment and tastes, it is also a consumer of foreign intellectual and artistic influences.Pells reveals how the American artists, novelists, composers, jazz musicians, and filmmakers who were part of the Modernist movement were greatly influenced by outside ideas and techniques. People across the globe found familiarities in American entertainment, resulting in a universal culture that has dominated the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and fulfilled the aim of the Modernist movement--to make the modern world seem more intelligible."Modernist America" brilliantly explains why George Gershwin's music, Cole Porter's lyrics, Jackson Pollock's paintings, Bob Fosse's choreography, Marlon Brando's acting, and Orson Welles's storytelling were so influential, and why these and other artists and entertainers simultaneously represent both an American and a modern global culture.
Author : David Nasaw
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0345802977
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (458 download)
Download or read book Children of the City written by David Nasaw and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2012-09-18 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The turn of the twentieth century was a time of explosive growth for American cities, a time of nascent hopes and apparently limitless possibilities. In Children of the City, David Nasaw re-creates this period in our social history from the vantage point of the children who grew up then. Drawing on hundreds of memoirs, autobiographies, oral histories and unpublished—and until now unexamined—primary source materials from cities across the country, he provides us with a warm and eloquent portrait of these children, their families, their daily lives, their fears, and their dreams. Illustrated with 68 photographs from the period, many never before published, Children of the City offers a vibrant portrait of a time when our cities and our grandparents were young.
Author : Carroll Engelhardt
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609381173
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)
Download or read book The Farm at Holstein Dip written by Carroll Engelhardt and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2012-08-15 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Carroll Engelhardt brings us into the world of his fourth-generation farm family, who lived by the family- and faith-based work ethic and concern for respectability they inherited from their German and Norwegian ancestors. The Farm at Holstein Dip is both a loving coming-of-age memoir and an educational glimpse into rural and small-town life of the 1940s and 1950s."--Page 4 of cover.
Author : Madelon Powers
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226677699
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (776 download)
Download or read book Faces Along the Bar written by Madelon Powers and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1999-06 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction Pt. I: The Criteria for Comradeship1: The Importance of Being Regular 2: Gender, Age, and Marital Status 3: Occupation, Ethnicity, and Neighborhood Pt. II: The Gentle Art of Clubbing4: Drinking Folkways 5: Clubbing by Treat 6: Clubbing by CollectionPt. III: More Lore of the Barroom7: Games and Gambling 8: Talk and Storytelling 9: Songs and Singing 10: The Free Lunch ConclusionNotesIndex Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author : Clarence Karr
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 9780773521094
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Authors and Audiences written by Clarence Karr and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2000 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the 1890s through the 1920s, the best-selling fiction of Ralph Connor, Robert Stead, Nellie McClung, Lucy Maud Montgomery, and Arthur Stringer was internationally recognized. In this intriguing cultural history of the conception, production, and reception of popular fiction, Clarence Karr challenges the common assumption that best sellers are a conservative cultural influence, reflecting and promoting traditional values. By focusing on a society and its cultural leaders at a period when they were coming to grips with modernity, Karr provides a new perspective on popular culture and the interaction between readers and popular authors.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book ZAA written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Lawrence Connelly
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807104743
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (47 download)
Download or read book The Marble Man written by Thomas Lawrence Connelly and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1978-07-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert E. Lee was both a military genius and a spiritual leader, considered by many—southerners and nonsoutherners alike—to have been a near saint. In The Marble Man a leading Civil War military historian examines the hold of Lee on the American mind and traces the campaign in historiography that elevated him to national hero status.
Author : Joel Shrock
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313062218
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book The Gilded Age written by Joel Shrock and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2004-06-30 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gilded Age—the time between Reconstruction and the Spanish-American War—marked the beginnings of modern America. The advertising industry became an important part of selling the American Dream. Americans dined out more than ever before, and began to take leisure activities more seriously. Women's fashion gradually grew less restrictive, and architecture experienced an American Renaissance. Twelve narrative chapters chronicle how American culture changed and grew near the end of the 20th century. Included are chapter bibliographies, a timeline, a cost comparison, and a suggested reading list for students. This latest addition to Greenwood's American Popular Culture Through History series is an invaluable contribution to the study of American popular culture. American Popular Culture Through History is the only reference series that presents a detailed, narrative discussion of U.S. popular culture. This volume is one of 17 in the series, each of which presents essays on Everyday America, The World of Youth, Advertising, Architecture, Fashion, Food, Leisure Activities, Literature, Music, Performing Arts, Travel, and Visual Arts
Author : Paul Ashdown
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 0809337894
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Imagining Wild Bill written by Paul Ashdown and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2020-08-27 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wild Bill’s ever-evolving legend When it came to the Wild West, the nineteenth-century press rarely let truth get in the way of a good story. James Butler “Wild Bill” Hickok’s story was no exception. Mythologized and sensationalized, Hickok was turned into the deadliest gunfighter of all, a so-called moral killer, a national phenomenon even while he was alive. Rather than attempt to tease truth from fiction, coauthors Paul Ashdown and Edward Caudill investigate the ways in which Hickok embodied the culture of glamorized violence Americans embraced after the Civil War and examine the process of how his story emerged, evolved, and turned into a viral multimedia sensation full of the excitement, danger, and romance of the West. Journalists, the coauthors demonstrate, invented “Wild Bill” Hickok, glorifying him as a civilizer. They inflated his body count and constructed his legend in the midst of an emerging celebrity culture that grew up around penny newspapers. His death by treachery, at a relatively young age, made the story tragic, and dime-store novelists took over where the press left off. Reimagined as entertainment, Hickok’s legend continued to enthrall Americans in literature, on radio, on television, and in the movies, and it still draws tourists to notorious Deadwood, South Dakota. American culture often embraces myths that later become accepted as popular history. By investigating the allure and power of Hickok’s myth, Ashdown and Caudill explain how American journalism and popular culture have shaped the way Civil War–era figures are remembered and reveal how Americans have embraced violence as entertainment.
Author : Jean-Paul Gabilliet
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1628469994
Total Pages : 595 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (284 download)
Download or read book Of Comics and Men written by Jean-Paul Gabilliet and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2013-03-25 with total page 595 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in France and long sought in English translation, Jean-Paul Gabilliet's Of Comics and Men: A Cultural History of American Comic Books documents the rise and development of the American comic book industry from the 1930s to the present. The book intertwines aesthetic issues and critical biographies with the concerns of production, distribution, and audience reception, making it one of the few interdisciplinary studies of the art form. A thorough introduction by translators and comics scholars Bart Beaty and Nick Nguyen brings the book up to date with explorations of the latest innovations, particularly the graphic novel. The book is organized into three sections: a concise history of the evolution of the comic book form in America; an overview of the distribution and consumption of American comic books, detailing specific controversies such as the creation of the Comics Code in the mid-1950s; and the problematic legitimization of the form that has occurred recently within the academy and in popular discourse. Viewing comic books from a variety of theoretical lenses, Gabilliet shows how seemingly disparate issues—creation, production, and reception—are in fact connected in ways that are not necessarily true of other art forms. Analyzing examples from a variety of genres, this book provides a thorough landmark overview of American comic books that sheds new light on this versatile art form.
Author : Elizabeth Ewen
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1583673709
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (836 download)
Download or read book Immigrant Women written by Elizabeth Ewen and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the daily experiences of Jewish and Italian immigrant women in New York City.
Author : R. Gerald Alvey
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813184142
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Dulcimer Maker written by R. Gerald Alvey and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dulcimer making has long been considered an art. The exquisite design is also functional, and the best instruments sound as beautiful as they look. Homer Ledford, a legend among dulcimer makers, is known for his innovative but traditional craftsmanship. A biography and a step-by-step guide to dulcimer making, this classic book illuminates and celebrates the work of a master craftsman, musician, and folk artist. This new edition presents a foreword by Ron Pen, director of the John Jacob Niles Center for American Music at the University of Kentucky, and an enlightening afterword featuring a conversation with Ledford. In an era when Americans are rediscovering their musical roots, Dulcimer Maker offers a unique look at a bluegrass legend.
Author : Sarah Meer
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820327372
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (273 download)
Download or read book Uncle Tom Mania written by Sarah Meer and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom-Mania looks at the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin and the songs, plays, sketches, translations and imitations it inspired. In particular it shows how the theatrical mode of blackface minstrelsy, the slavery question, and America's emerging cultural identity affected how the novel was read, discussed, dramatized, merchandized and politicised.
