Author: Dean Alan HoffmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ballads, English
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
The Minstrelsy of the Greenwood
Author: Dean Alan HoffmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ballads, English
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
The Minstrelsy of the Greenwood: The Medieval English Outlaw Ballad in Literary and Social History
Author: Dean Alan HoffmanThe Minstrelsy of the Greenwood
Author: The Minstrelsy of Greenwood
Author: Dean Alan HoffmanThe Gallows in the Greenwood
Author: Phyllis Ann KarrPublisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1434438309
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 155
Book Description
Ann Karr has found a historical precedent to create a female Sheriff of Nottingham for this retelling of the Robin Hood legend ... A remarkable work which recasts the traditional roles and sheds new light on the relationship between the famous characters.
Inside the Minstrel Mask
Author: Annemarie BeanPublisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 9780819563002
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
A sourcebook of contemporary and historical commentary on America's first popular mass entertainment.
Come Hear Laugh!
Author: Ragged but Right
Author: Lynn AbbottPublisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1604731486
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
The commercial explosion of ragtime in the early twentieth century created previously unimagined opportunities for black performers. However, every prospect was mitigated by systemic racism. The biggest hits of the ragtime era weren't Scott Joplin's stately piano rags. “Coon songs,” with their ugly name, defined ragtime for the masses, and played a transitional role in the commercial ascendancy of blues and jazz. In Ragged but Right, Lynn Abbott and Doug Seroff investigate black musical comedy productions, sideshow bands, and itinerant tented minstrel shows. Ragtime history is crowned by the “big shows,” the stunning musical comedy successes of Williams and Walker, Bob Cole, and Ernest Hogan. Under the big tent of Tolliver's Smart Set, Ma Rainey, Clara Smith, and others were converted from “coon shouters” to “blues singers.” Throughout the ragtime era and into the era of blues and jazz, circuses and Wild West shows exploited the popular demand for black music and culture, yet segregated and subordinated black performers to the sideshow tent. Not to be confused with their nineteenth-century white predecessors, black, tented minstrel shows such as the Rabbit's Foot and Silas Green from New Orleans provided blues and jazz-heavy vernacular entertainment that black southern audiences identified with and took pride in.
Robin Hood
Author: Stephen Thomas KnightPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 9780859915250
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
The legends of Robin Hood are very familiar, but scholarship and criticism dealing with the long and varied tradition of the famous outlaw is as elusive as the identity of Robin himself, and is scattered in a wide range of sources, many difficult of access. This book is the first to bring together major studies of aspects of the tradition. The thirty-one studies take a variety of approaches, from archival exploration in quest of a real Robin Hood, to a political angle seeking the social meaning of the texts across time, to literary scholars concerned with origin, structures and generic variation, or moral and social significance; also included are considerations of theatre and film studies, and folklore and children's literature. Overall, the collection provides a valuable basis for further study. STEPHEN KNIGHT is Professor of English Literature at the University of Wales, Cardiff; he is well-known as an authority on the Robin Hood tradition, and has edited the recently-discovered Robin Hood Forresters Manuscript.
The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Daily Life in America [4 volumes]
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Author: Randall M. MillerPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313065365
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 2658
Book Description
The course of daily life in the United States has been a product of tradition, environment, and circumstance. How did the Civil War alter the lives of women, both white and black, left alone on southern farms? How did the Great Depression change the lives of working class families in eastern cities? How did the discovery of gold in California transform the lives of native American, Hispanic, and white communities in western territories? Organized by time period as spelled out in the National Standards for U.S. History, these four volumes effectively analyze the diverse whole of American experience, examining the domestic, economic, intellectual, material, political, recreational, and religious life of the American people between 1763 and 2005. Working under the editorial direction of general editor Randall M. Miller, professor of history at St. Joseph's University, a group of expert volume editors carefully integrate material drawn from volumes in Greenwood's highly successful Daily Life Through History series with new material researched and written by themselves and other scholars. The four volumes cover the following periods: The War of Independence and Antebellum Expansion and Reform, 1763-1861, The Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Industrialization of America, 1861-1900, The Emergence of Modern America, World War I, and the Great Depression, 1900-1940 and Wartime, Postwar, and Contemporary America, 1940-Present. Each volume includes a selection of primary documents, a timeline of important events during the period, images illustrating the text, and extensive bibliography of further information resources—both print and electronic—and a detailed subject index.