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Bourbon Street : a history / by Campanella, Richard

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Carnival theater Uruguay's popular performers and national culture / by Remedi, Gustavo

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Cultural history of early modern European streets

Table of Contents: “…Cultural history of early modern European streets : an introduction / Riitta Laitinen and Thomas V. …”
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Twilight visions surrealism and Paris / by Lichtenstein, Therese

Subjects: “…Street photography France Paris Exhibitions.…”
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Sweeney Todd the demon barber of fleet street /

“…Fleet Street (London, England) Fiction.…”
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A season of night New Orleans life after Katrina / by McNulty, Ian, 1973-

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To the city urban photographs of the New Deal / by Foulkes, Julia L.

Subjects: “…Street photography United States History 20th century.…”
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Chinatowns around the world : gilded ghetto, ethnopolis, and cultural diaspora /

Table of Contents: “…Li and Eva Xiaoling Li -- From Mott Street to East Broadway : Fuzhounese Immigrants and the Revitalization of New York's Chinatown / Kenneth J. …”
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Juneteenth Texas /

Table of Contents: “…"Bongo Joe" : a traditional street performer /…”
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The tenants of East Harlem by Sharman, Russell Leigh, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…East Harlem -- Pleasant Avenue : the Italians -- 106th street : the Puerto Ricans -- 125th Street : the African Americans -- 116th Street : the Mexicans -- Third Avenue : the West Africans -- Second avenue : the Chinese -- Urban "renewal" and the final migration.…”
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The Philadelphia Mummers building community through play / by Masters, Patricia Anne, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…From play to play community : the early years of the Mummers parade -- Expanding the play community : the contemporary parade -- Blacks, women, and the "new" immigrants : the Mummers and diversity -- "Going up the street" : the experience of the parade -- Rituals and the play community -- Family, club, and neighborhood -- The experience of play -- The Mummers past and future.…”
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Brownies and Kalashnikovs a Saudi woman's memoir of American Arabia and wartime Beirut / by Basrawi, Fadia

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A different place in the making : the everyday life practices of Chinese rural migrants in urban villages / by Yuan, Yan, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Re-grounding the migratory subjects in place -- The politics of place-making and the geography of migrant settlement in urban China -- Doing ethnography in urban villages -- Street life in the urban villages -- Co-inhabitation and transformation : knowing the locality through housing -- Possession, location, connection : the place of television in home-making -- The politics of place in the spring festival -- A televised spring festival and its consumption in the urban villages -- Conclusions.…”
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Orpheus in America / by Offenbach, Jacques, 1819-1880

Table of Contents: “…Before my departure -- The crossing -- New York, the Gilmore Garden -- The house, the street, the cars -- The theatres of New York -- The restaurants, three types of waiters -- Women, the introductions, the park -- The story of two statues -- The liberties in America -- Organizations -- Advertising -- The races -- The American press -- Some portraits -- Philadelphia -- Offenbach Garden -- To Niagara, Pullman cars -- Niagara Falls -- The Dauphin Eleazar -- Returning from Niagara sleeping cars -- The tortures of a musician -- Banquets, baton, and Brevet -- Farewell soiree -- The return.…”
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Biting through the skin an Indian kitchen in America's heartland / by Furstenau, Nina Mukerjee, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Transformation -- Two brides -- Little India -- Journey -- Table grace -- Small things satisfied -- Indian breads -- Grand Lake menu for a guru -- An Indian kitchen in Kansas -- Attic fans and flying typewriters -- Mother tongue -- On the road with Amiya and Rani -- All our Tupperware is stained with turmeric -- Strength of a nation -- Street foods -- Six recipe cards, a wing and a prayer, circa 1984 -- Bishshwayya -- A (not so) funny thing happened on the way to Didu's house -- Pop culture India.…”
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Pageantry and Power : A cultural history of the early modern Lord Mayor's Show 1585–1639 / by Hill, Tracey

Table of Contents: “…From low-obscure beginnings raysde to fame : critical and historical contexts of the Lord Mayor's Show -- Our devices for that solemne and Iouiall daye : the writers, the artificers and the livery companies -- A day of well compos'd variety of speach and shew : bringing the shows to life -- A briefe narration of each seuerall shew : the show from street to print -- To prune and dresse the tree of gouernment : political and contemporary contexts of the shows -- Appendices. …”
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The Chican@ hip hop nation politics of a new millennial mestizaje / by McFarland, Pancho

Table of Contents: “…: Chican@ and Mexican@ identities in rap -- Barrio logos: the sacred and profane word of Chicano emcees -- Identities old and new -- Sonido indígena: Mexica hip-hop and masculine identity -- Paísas, compas, inmigrantes -- Barrio locos: street hop and Amerikan identity -- Mexicanidad, africanidad -- Multiracial macho: Kemo the Blaxican's hip-hop masculinity -- The rap on Chicano/Mexicano and Black masculinity -- "Soy la kalle": radio, reggaetón, and latin@ identity -- Hip-hop and justice -- A hip-hop pedagogy for social justice -- Afterword. …”
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Figures of Southeast Asian modernity

Table of Contents: “…Indonesia / Joshua Barker and Johan Lindquist -- Telecommunications and multimedia expert / Karen Strassler -- Muslim television preacher / James Hoesterey -- Spiritual trainer / Daromir Rudnyckyj -- Person with HIV/AIDS / Tom Boellstorff -- Activist / Doreen Lee -- Ex-combatant from the Free Aceh Movement / Jesse Grayman -- NGO worker / Aryo Danusiri -- Overseas female labor migrant / Rachel Silvey -- Field agent / Johan Lindquist -- Street vendor / Sheri Gibbings -- Street kid(s) / Chris Brown -- Mr. …”
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Fire in the water, earth in the air legends of West Texas music / by Oglesby, Christopher J. (Christopher Joseph), 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Terry Allen : going back to the dirt -- Richard Bowden : underground Lubbock -- Lloyd Maines : it's amazing how much gets done -- Jay Boy Adams : chicken-fried memories -- Don Caldwell : selling the family farm for a song -- Bobby Keys : like a rolling stone -- Tom X Hancock : the supernatural family band -- Butch Hancock : the universe in a grain of sand -- Angela Strehli : blues in a Texas town -- Jesse "Guitar" Taylor : a bad loud place -- Ponty Bone : illumination on the streets of Lubbock -- Bruce Jaggers : the greatest show on earth -- Joe Ely : lord of the highway -- Sharon Ely : living on dreams -- Kimmie Rhodes : West Texas angel -- Jo Harvey Allen : take me back to Paradox City -- Jo Carol Pierce : bad girl upset by the truth -- Guy Juke : life imitates art -- David Halley : hitchhiking to nirvana -- Cary Swinney : desperate searcher -- Doug Smith : music ordained by God -- Downé Burns : back to the basics of love -- Bob Livingston : gonzo compadre -- Wade Parks : nothing else to do -- Colin Gilmore : living in dichotomy -- Jimmie Dale Gilmore : Hub City mover -- Mac Davis : happiness is Lubbock, Texas.…”
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Out of many, one people the historical archaeology of colonial Jamaica /

Table of Contents: “…Woodward -- Port Royal and Jamaica : wrought-iron hand tools recovered as archaeological evidence and the material culture mentioned in probate inventories ca. 1692 / Marianne Franklin -- Evidence for Port Royal's British colonial merchant class as reflected in the New Street Tavern Site assemblage / Maureen J. Brown -- pt. 2. …”
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