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Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 564
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Saga of Southern Illinois
Author: International Bibliography of Book Reviews of Scholarly Literature Chiefly in the Fields of Arts and Humanities and the Social Sciences
Author: Tommy Thompson
Author: Lewis M. SternPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476635544
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Tommy Thompson arrived in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, in 1963, smitten by folk and traditional Appalachian music. In 1972, he teamed with Bill Hicks and Jim Watson to form the nontraditional string band the Red Clay Ramblers. Mike Craver joined in 1973, and Jack Herrick in 1976. Over time, musicians including Clay Buckner, Bland Simpson and Chris Frank joined Tommy, who played with the band until 1994. Drawing on interviews and correspondence, and the personal papers of Thompson, the author depicts a life that revolved around music and creativity. Appendices cover Thompson's banjos, his discography and notes on his collaborative lyric writing.
Freedom’s Dominion (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize)
Author: Jefferson CowiePublisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 154167281X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY An "important, deeply affecting—and regrettably relevant" (New York Times) chronicle of a sinister idea of freedom: white Americans’ freedom to oppress others and their fight against the government that got in their way. American freedom is typically associated with the fight of the oppressed for a better world. But for centuries, whenever the federal government intervened on behalf of nonwhite people, many white Americans fought back in the name of freedom—their freedom to dominate others. In Freedom’s Dominion, historian Jefferson Cowie traces this complex saga by focusing on a quintessentially American place: Barbour County, Alabama, the ancestral home of political firebrand George Wallace. In a land shaped by settler colonialism and chattel slavery, white people weaponized freedom to seize Native lands, champion secession, overthrow Reconstruction, question the New Deal, and fight against the civil rights movement. A riveting history of the long-running clash between white people and federal authority, this book radically shifts our understanding of what freedom means in America.
Ancestral North
Author: Ross HagenPublisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 1666917575
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
Ancestral North: Spirituality and Cultural Imagination in Nordic Ritual Folk Music offers a detailed exploration of Nordic ritual folk music, a music scene focused on the revival of ancient folkways and archaic music that has found remarkable popularity around the globe. Once the domain of Viking reenactors and neopagan practitioners, the niche sonic and visual aesthetics of this music have found widespread visibility through a new generation of popular films, television series, and video games. The authors argue that many of these musical and media products connect with longstanding cultural attitudes about the Nordic region that conceive of it as wild, exotic, and dangerous, while also being a place of honor, community, and virtue. As such, the Nordic region and its music often becomes a vessel for reactionary escapes from all manner of modern discontentment. However, the authors also posit that spending time re-creating the music of an imaginary past offers participants the possibility for engagement and re-enchantment in the multicultural present.
Grafters and Goo Goos
Author: James L. MerrinerPublisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 9780809325719
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Examines the roles of politicians and reformers in Chicago against a backdrop of social history from 1833-2003.
Lawyers and Savages
Author: Kaius TuoriPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131781598X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Legal primitivism was a complex phenomenon that combined the study of early European legal traditions with studies of the legal customs of indigenous peoples. Lawyers and Savages: Ancient History and Legal Realism in the Making of Legal Anthropology explores the rise and fall of legal primitivism, and its connection to the colonial encounter. Through examples such as blood feuds, communalism, ordeals, ritual formalism and polygamy, this book traces the intellectual revolution of legal anthropology and demonstrates how this scholarship had a clear impact in legitimating the colonial experience. Detailing how legal realism drew on anthropology in order to help counter the hypothetical constructs of legal formalism, this book also shows how, despite their explicit rejection, the central themes of primitive law continue to influence current ideas – about indigenous legal systems, but also of the place and role of law in development. Written in an engaging style and rich in examples from history and literature, this book will be invaluable to those with interests in legal realism, legal history or legal anthropology.
American Vikings
Author: Martyn WhittockPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1639365362
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.
Encountering Modernity
Author: Keyan G. TomaselliPublisher: Rozenberg Publishers
ISBN: 9051708866
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 203
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