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Languages : en
Pages : 452
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The Match-girl
Author: The Youth's Cabinet
Author: Mary Wolcott JanvrinPublisher:
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Category : Archery
Languages : en
Pages : 126
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Sentiment & Celebrity
Author: Thomas Nelson BakerPublisher:
ISBN: 0195120736
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 271
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Sentiment and Celebrity tells the story of a man the New York Times once called "the most talked-about author in America." A widely admired, if controversial, master of the sentimental appeal, poet and "magazinist" Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806-1867) was a pioneer in the modern business of celebrity. By charting the shape and thrust of the various controversies that surrounded Willis, this book shows how the cultural and commercial impulses that fostered the development of antebellum America's love affair with fame and fashion drew power and sustenance from the concurrent allure of genteel cultivation and sentiment.
The Fireman
Author: David D. DanaThe Fireman: the Fire Departments of the United States, with a Full Account of All Large Fires, Statistics of Losses and Expenses, Theatres Destroyed by Fire, and Accidents, Anecdotes and Incidents ... Illustrated with Numerous Engravings. Second Edition
Author: David D. DANALily Bell
Author: Alice FayEdna, Or, An Antique Tale
Author: Emma CarraPublisher:
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Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386
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Incidents on Land and Water, Or Four Years on the Pacific Coast
Author: Mrs. D. B. BatesPublisher:
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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Everybody's Doin' It: Sex, Music, and Dance in New York, 1840-1917
Author: Dale CockrellPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393608956
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 326
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"Racy scholarship does the Grizzly Bear here with theoretical rigor." —William Lhamon, author of Raising Cain Everybody’s Doin’ It is the eye-opening story of popular music’s seventy-year rise in the brothels, dance halls, and dives of New York City. It traces the birth of popular music, including ragtime and jazz, to convivial meeting places for sex, drink, music, and dance. Whether coming from a single piano player or a small band, live music was a nightly feature in New York’s spirited dives, where men and women, often black and white, mingled freely—to the horror of the elite. This rollicking demimonde drove the development of an energetic dance music that would soon span the world. The Virginia Minstrels, Juba, Stephen Foster, Irving Berlin and his hit “Alexander’s Ragtime Band,” and the Original Dixieland Jass Band all played a part in popularizing startling new sounds. Musicologist Dale Cockrell recreates this ephemeral underground world by mining tabloids, newspapers, court records of police busts, lurid exposés, journals, and the reports of undercover detectives working for social-reform organizations, who were sent in to gather evidence against such low-life places. Everybody’s Doin’ It illuminates the how, why, and where of America’s popular music and its buoyant journey from the dangerous Five Points of downtown to the interracial black and tans of Harlem.
The Ins and Outs of Paris
Author: Julie de MarguerittesPublisher:
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Category : Paris (France)
Languages : en
Pages : 418
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