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The creolization of American culture : William Sidney Mount and the roots of blackface minstrelsy /
Published 2013Table of Contents: “…Recovering the creole synthesis : the roots of blackface minstrelsy -- The creole synthesis in the new world : cultures in contact -- Long Island and the Lower East Side : Mount's background, youth, and apprenticeships -- Minstrelsy's material culture : the evidence of Mount's portraiture -- Melody's polyrhythmic polysemic possibilities : the bodily evidence of Mount's music -- Akimbo culture : dance and the participatory pleasures of the body.…”
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Paul Robeson and the Cold War performance complex race, madness, activism /
Published 2012Table 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 /
Published 2010Table 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 /
Published 2013Table 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
Published 2012Table 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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Striptease the untold history of the girlie show /
Published 2004Table 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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American showman Samuel "Roxy" Rothafel and the birth of the entertainment industry, 1908-1935 /
Published 2012Table of Contents: “…A new art for a new art form: Roxy and the development of motion picture exhibition (1908-1913) -- Broadway melody: Roxy, Riesenfeld, and the deluxe theater movement (1913-1917) -- The movie house as recruiting center: Roxy, World War I documentaries, and the engineering of consent (1917-1918) -- "The man who gave the movies a college education": Roxy, Rapee, and motion pictures at the Capitol Theatre (1919-1922) -- Roxy and the birth of media convergence (1922-1936). …”
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman and her contemporaries literary and intellectual contexts /
Published 2004Table 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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Invitation to an execution a history of the death penalty in the United States /
Published 2010Table of Contents: “…Buenviaje -- The death penalty in the Midwest / Melody M. Miyamoto, Charles W. Showalter -- The death penalty in the great plains / John Gregory Jacobsen -- The death penalty in the Pacific Northwest / Joseph Laythe -- To do no harm: medicine and the death penalty in England and Texas / Norwood Andrews -- Means of death: methods of execution in California, 1937-2007 / Thomas Bojorquez -- Capital punishment and executions in Montana / Ellen Baumler -- The death penalty in Arizona and New Mexico / Daniel Stackhouse -- Arkansas and Missouri: the death penalty / Timothy R. …”
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Music and institutions in nineteenth-century Britain
Published 2012Table of Contents: “…The management of nineteenth-century Dublin music societies in the public and private spheres : the Philharmonic Society and the Dublin Musical Society / Catherine Ferris -- Three Madrigal Societies in Early nineteenth-Century England / James Hobson -- 'A Melodious Phenomenon' : the Institutional Influence on Town-Hall Music-Making / Rachel E. …”
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