Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1624
Book Description
Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1624
Book Description
A Complement to Genealogies in the Library of Congress
Author: Library of CongressPublisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 9780806316680
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1148
Book Description
Previously published by Magna Carta, Baltimore. Published as a set by Genealogical Publishing with the two vols. of the Genealogies in the Library of Congress, and the two vols. of the Supplement. Set ISBN is 0806316691.
Genealogies in the Library of Congress
Author: Marion J. KaminkowPublisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 9780806316673
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 882
Book Description
This ten-year supplement lists 10,000 titles acquired by the Library of Congress since 1976--this extraordinary number reflecting the phenomenal growth of interest in genealogy since the publication of Roots. An index of secondary names contains about 8,500 entries, and a geographical index lists family locations when mentioned.
Pioneer Voices
Author: Harry G. EnochPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1300423943
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Transcriptions of interviews, conducted by John D. Shane, with pioneers in Central Kentucky in the 1840s-50s. Includes introductory and supplementary material throughout the text.
The Dozens
Author: Elijah WaldPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199895406
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Following his groundbreaking explorations of the blues and American popular music in Escaping the Delta and How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll, Elijah Wald turns his attention to the tradition of African American street rhyming and verbal combat that ruled urban neighborhoods long before rap: the viciously funny, outrageously inventive insult game called "the dozens."At its simplest, the dozens is a comic concatenation of "yo' mama" jokes. At its most complex, it is a form of social interaction that reaches back to African ceremonial rituals. Whether considered vernacular poetry, verbal dueling, a test of street cool, or just a mess of dirty insults, the dozens has been a basic building block of African-American culture. A game which could inspire raucous laughter or escalate to violence, it provided a wellspring of rhymes, attitude, and raw humor that has influenced pop musicians from Jelly Roll Morton to Ice Cube. Wald explores the depth of the dozens' roots, looking at mother-insulting and verbal combat from Greenland to the sources of the Niger, and shows its breadth of influence in the seminal writings of Richard Wright, Langston Hughes, and Zora Neale Hurston; the comedy of Richard Pryor and George Carlin; the dark humor of the blues; the hip slang and competitive jamming of jazz; and most recently in the improvisatory battling of rap. A forbidden language beneath the surface of American popular culture, the dozens links children's clapping rhymes to low-down juke joints and the most modern street verse to the earliest African American folklore.In tracing the form and its variations over more than a century of African American culture and music, The Dozens sheds fascinating new light on schoolyard games and rural work songs, serious literature and nightclub comedy, and pop hits from ragtime to rap.
Colonial Virginians and Their Maryland Relatives
Author: Norma TuckerPublisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 0806345071
Category : Maryland
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
This copiously documented volume sheds new light on one of the earliest families to settle in Virginia, that of Captain William Tucker of London, and on a number of allied families whose progenitors figured in the early history of the Virginia and Maryland colonies.
Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1618
Book Description
The History of Reynard the Fox
Author: Fredrick Startridge EllisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
The History of Reynard the Fox
Author: William CaxtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors' presentation copies (Provenance)
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Author: Naomi Vivian Ridge