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Category : Cooperation
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Midland Bulletin
Author: The Delta Kappa Gamma Bulletin
Author: The Sacred Harp
Author: Buell E. Cobb, Jr.Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820323713
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
On any Sunday afternoon a traveler through the Deep South might chance upon the rich, full sound of Sacred Harp singing. Aided with nothing but their own voices and the traditional shape-note songbook, Sacred Harp singers produce a sound that is unmistakable--clear and full-voiced. Passed down from early settlers in the backwoods of the Southern Uplands, this religious folk tradition hearkens back to a simpler age when Sundays were a time for the Lord and the “singings.” Illustrated with forty-one songs from the original songbook, The Sacred Harp is a comprehensive account of a unique form of folk music. Buell Cobb’s study encompasses the history of the songbook itself, an analysis of the music, and an intimate portrait of the singers who have kept alive a truly American tradition.
Camden County Centennial
Author: Abraham Charles CorotisPublisher:
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Category : Camden County (N.J.)
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
"...We offer a chronology of outstanding events in each of the 100 years Camden County has lived. Within these covers is the name of every person who has represented Camden County on its governing bodies, in its various public offices, in Trenton and in Washington. ...We have charted the origin of each of the county's 36 municipalities in a brand-new way ...you will find a comprehensive analysis of each of the county's physical improvements made during the century, the cost of each, how each was financed, how much remains unpaid and the schedule of payments projected into the future." -- P. 3.
News for Farmer Cooperatives
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Category : Agriculture, Cooperative
Languages : en
Pages : 1200
Book Description
Wilson Library Bulletin
Author: Stanley KunitzPublisher:
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Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 854
Book Description
Michigan History Magazine
Author: Michigan History Magazine
Author: George Newman FullerPublisher:
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Category : Local history
Languages : en
Pages : 754
Book Description
Eakins Revealed
Author: Henry AdamsPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199729468
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
Thomas Eakins is widely considered one of the great American painters, an artist whose uncompromising realism helped move American art from the Victorian era into the modern age. He is also acclaimed as a paragon of integrity, one who stood up for his artistic beliefs even when they brought him personal and professional difficulty--as when he was fired from the Pennsylvania Academy of Art for removing a model's loincloth in a drawing class. Yet beneath the surface of Eakins's pictures is a sense of brooding unease and latent violence--a discomfort voiced by one of his sitters who said his portrait "decapitated" her. In Eakins Revealed, art historian Henry Adams examines the dark side of Eakins's life and work, in a startling new biography that will change our understanding of this American icon. Based on close study of Eakins's work and new research in the Bregler papers, a major collection never fully mined by scholars, this volume shows Eakins was not merely uncompromising, but harsh and brutal both in his personal life and in his painting. Adams uncovers the bitter personal feuds and family tragedies surrounding Eakins--his mother died insane and his niece committed suicide amid allegations that Eakins had seduced her--and documents the artist's tendency toward psychological abuse and sexual harassment of those around him. This provocative book not only unveils new facts about Eakins's life; more important, it makes sense, for the first time, of the enigmas of his work. Eakins Revealed promises to be a controversial biography that will attract readers inside and outside the art world, and fascinate anyone concerned with the mystery of artistic genius.
Emancipation
Author: John Clay Smith (Jr.)Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812216851
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 764
Book Description
"Emancipation is an important and impressive work; one cannot read it without being inspired by the legal acumen, creativity, and resiliency these pioneer lawyers displayed. . . . It should be read by everyone interested in understanding the road African-Americans have traveled and the challenges that lie ahead."—From the Foreword, by Justice Thurgood Marshall