Author: Russel Blaine NyePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
The Unembarrassed Muse: the Popular Arts in America. (Second Printing.).
Author: Russel Blaine NyeThe unembarrassed muse : the popular arts in America
Author: R. B. NyeThe Unembarrassed Muse
Author: Russel Blaine NyePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
The Unembarrassed Muse
Author: Russell NyeChildren of the City
Author: David NasawPublisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0345802977
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
The turn of the twentieth century was a time of explosive growth for American cities, a time of nascent hopes and apparently limitless possibilities. In Children of the City, David Nasaw re-creates this period in our social history from the vantage point of the children who grew up then. Drawing on hundreds of memoirs, autobiographies, oral histories and unpublished—and until now unexamined—primary source materials from cities across the country, he provides us with a warm and eloquent portrait of these children, their families, their daily lives, their fears, and their dreams. Illustrated with 68 photographs from the period, many never before published, Children of the City offers a vibrant portrait of a time when our cities and our grandparents were young.
Modernist America
Author: Richard PellsPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300171730
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
America's global cultural impact is largely seen as one-sided, with critics claiming that it has undermined other countries' languages and traditions. But contrary to popular belief, the cultural relationship between the United States and the world has been reciprocal, says Richard Pells. The United States not only plays a large role in shaping international entertainment and tastes, it is also a consumer of foreign intellectual and artistic influences.Pells reveals how the American artists, novelists, composers, jazz musicians, and filmmakers who were part of the Modernist movement were greatly influenced by outside ideas and techniques. People across the globe found familiarities in American entertainment, resulting in a universal culture that has dominated the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and fulfilled the aim of the Modernist movement--to make the modern world seem more intelligible."Modernist America" brilliantly explains why George Gershwin's music, Cole Porter's lyrics, Jackson Pollock's paintings, Bob Fosse's choreography, Marlon Brando's acting, and Orson Welles's storytelling were so influential, and why these and other artists and entertainers simultaneously represent both an American and a modern global culture.
ZAA
Author: Faces Along the Bar
Author: Madelon PowersPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226677699
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction Pt. I: The Criteria for Comradeship1: The Importance of Being Regular 2: Gender, Age, and Marital Status 3: Occupation, Ethnicity, and Neighborhood Pt. II: The Gentle Art of Clubbing4: Drinking Folkways 5: Clubbing by Treat 6: Clubbing by CollectionPt. III: More Lore of the Barroom7: Games and Gambling 8: Talk and Storytelling 9: Songs and Singing 10: The Free Lunch ConclusionNotesIndex Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
The Marble Man
Author: Thomas Lawrence ConnellyPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 9780807104743
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Robert E. Lee was both a military genius and a spiritual leader, considered by many—southerners and nonsoutherners alike—to have been a near saint. In The Marble Man a leading Civil War military historian examines the hold of Lee on the American mind and traces the campaign in historiography that elevated him to national hero status.
Authors and Audiences
Author: Clarence KarrPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773521094
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
From the 1890s through the 1920s, the best-selling fiction of Ralph Connor, Robert Stead, Nellie McClung, Lucy Maud Montgomery, and Arthur Stringer was internationally recognized. In this intriguing cultural history of the conception, production, and reception of popular fiction, Clarence Karr challenges the common assumption that best sellers are a conservative cultural influence, reflecting and promoting traditional values. By focusing on a society and its cultural leaders at a period when they were coming to grips with modernity, Karr provides a new perspective on popular culture and the interaction between readers and popular authors.