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Paul Robeson and the Cold War performance complex race, madness, activism / by Perucci, Tony

Table of Contents: “…Black performances and the stagecraft of statecraft -- Performing, informing, and shrieking innocence: surveillance, informance, and the performance of performance -- Discordant tones and the melody of freedom at Peekskill -- Anticommunism and the American lynching imagination -- Shedding blood and beating back fascists -- Staging anticommunism, staging racist violence -- Coda: the complex and the rupture.…”
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The most musical nation Jews and culture in the late Russian empire / by Loeffler, James Benjamin

Table of Contents: “…Emancipating sounds : Anton Rubinstein and the rise of the Russian Jewish musician -- National voices, imperial echoes : Joel Engel and the Russian Jewish musical fin de siècle -- The most musical nation : the birth of the Society for Jewish Folk Music -- Frozen folk songs : modern Jewish culture between art and commerce -- The neighbors' melodies : the politics of music in war and revolution.…”
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Nightmare alley film noir and the American dream / by Osteen, Mark

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: film noir and the American dream -- "Someone else's nightmare": exploring noir dreamscapes -- Missing persons: self-erasure and reinvention -- Vet noir: masculinity, memory and trauma -- Framed: forging noir identities -- Noir's cars: automobility and amoral space -- Nocturnes in black and blue: memory, morality and jazz melody -- Femmes vital: film noir and women's work -- Left-handed endeavor: crime, capitalism, and the Hollywood left -- Conclusion: American nightmares.…”
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The Republican Party and American Politics from Hoover to Reagan by Mason, Robert, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. From old Home Melodies to jazz music: 1928-1933; 2. As Maine goes, so goes Vermont: 1933-1939; 3. …”
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Writing Anthropologists, Sounding Primitives : The Poetry and Scholarship of Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, and Ruth Benedict / by Reichel, A. Elisabeth

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : poets, anthropologists, primitives -- Of mumbling melody, soft singing, and slow speech : constructions of sonic otherness in the poetry of Edward Sapir -- On alternating sounds : musical alterities in Sapir's poetry and critical writings -- Interlude : French-Canadian folk songs in translation -- "For you have given me speech!" …”
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The point is to change it poetry and criticism in the continuing present / by McGann, Jerome J.

Table of Contents: “…Philological investigations -- Truth in the body of falsehood -- The alphabet, spelt from Silliman's leaves -- The apparatus of loss : Bruce Andrews writing -- Art and error, with special thanks to the poetry of Robert Duncan -- Private enigmas and critical functions, with special thanks to the poetry of Charles Bernstein -- From Sight to Shenandoah -- Marxism, romanticism, postmodernism : an American case history -- Looney tunes and unheard melodies : an Oulipian colonescapade, with a critique of "The great-ape love song corpus" and its lexicon -- The evidence of things not seen : a play -- Ivanhoe : a playful portrait -- Modernity and complicity : a conversation with Johanna Drucker.…”
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Striptease the untold history of the girlie show / by Shteir, Rachel, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…"A startled fawn upon the stage" -- Legs -- "Yvette goes to bed": the first undressing acts -- From Ziegfeld to Minsky: respectable undressing and the rise of modern burlesque -- After the doughboys returned: nudity in burlesque and on broadway -- The first strippers and teasers -- Pansies, reformers, and a "frenzy of congregate cootchers": the birth of modern striptease -- A pretty girl is like a melody, sort of -- The burlesque soul of striptease -- "Minskyville" -- "I never made any money until I took my pants off": fans and bubbles around the nation -- "Temporary entertainment for morons and perverts": LaGuardia kicks striptease out of New York -- Gypsy -- From literary strippers to queens of burlesque -- "Clamouring for a table and pounding for an encore": striptease at the world's fair -- Striptease during wartime -- The private lives of strippers -- Stripty-second streets -- The seamy sides of striptease -- Striptease confidential -- You've gotta get a gimmick -- Topless dancing -- 1969: who killed striptease?…”
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman and her contemporaries literary and intellectual contexts /

Table of Contents: “…Tuttle -- Creating great women : Mary Austin and Charlotte Perkins Gilman / Melody Graulich -- From near-dystopia to utopia : a source for Herland in Inez Haynes Gillmore's Angel Island / Charlotte Rich -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman's With her in Ourland : Herland meets heterodoxy / Lisa A. …”
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Encyclopedia of contemporary Christian fiction from C.S. Lewis to Left behind / by Tischler, Nancy M.

Table of Contents: “…Davis (and Isabella Bunn) -- Butler, Robert Olen, Jr. -- Carlson, Melody -- Cavanaugh, Jack -- Collins, Randilyn -- Cramer, W. …”
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