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Jelly Roll, Bix, and Hoagy Gennett Records and the rise of America's musical grassroots / by Kennedy, Rick, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…-- Old-time music in the new electronic era -- When Gennett Records gets the blues -- Yet the music lives on -- Suggested listening : fifty classics by Gennett Records.…”
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Reel schools schooling and the nation in Australian cinema / by May, Josephine, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the cinematic vernacular of Australian schooling -- The silent era: "a school of sentiment" -- High tide of nationalist portrayal 1930s-1960s -- Nation and the girls' boarding school in the 1970s -- Nation and the boys' school in the 1970s -- State high school blues in the early 1980s -- The school film in the late 1980s -- Multicultural nation at school in the 1980s-1990s -- Private school fantasies in the 2000s -- Conclusion.…”
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Jelly Roll, Bix, and Hoagy Gennett Records and the rise of America's musical grassroots / by Kennedy, Rick, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…-- Old-time music in the new electronic era -- When Gennett Records gets the blues -- Yet the music lives on -- Suggested listening : fifty classics by Gennett Records.…”
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Reel schools schooling and the nation in Australian cinema / by May, Josephine, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the cinematic vernacular of Australian schooling -- The silent era: "a school of sentiment" -- High tide of nationalist portrayal 1930s-1960s -- Nation and the girls' boarding school in the 1970s -- Nation and the boys' school in the 1970s -- State high school blues in the early 1980s -- The school film in the late 1980s -- Multicultural nation at school in the 1980s-1990s -- Private school fantasies in the 2000s -- Conclusion.…”
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Unlearning to fly by Brice, Jennifer

Table of Contents: “…At the airport : a romance -- Lullaby for Lloyd -- Wild music : reflections on big oil and innocence -- Three paragraphs -- Grease monkey -- My mother's body -- The metaphysics of being stuck -- Angle of attack -- Blue storm -- Unlearning to fly.…”
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Unlearning to fly by Brice, Jennifer

Table of Contents: “…At the airport : a romance -- Lullaby for Lloyd -- Wild music : reflections on big oil and innocence -- Three paragraphs -- Grease monkey -- My mother's body -- The metaphysics of being stuck -- Angle of attack -- Blue storm -- Unlearning to fly.…”
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Israeli feminism liberating Judaism blood and ink / by Haberman, Bonna Devora, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Rhizomes and plateaus -- Genesis: sacred circles -- Between text and action -- Lascivious voices -- An expedition to the azure blue fringes -- Customs in and out of place -- Women counting -- Conceiving Exodus -- Blood and ink of Exodus -- Sea change -- Beyond the wall.…”
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Israeli feminism liberating Judaism blood and ink / by Haberman, Bonna Devora, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Rhizomes and plateaus -- Genesis: sacred circles -- Between text and action -- Lascivious voices -- An expedition to the azure blue fringes -- Customs in and out of place -- Women counting -- Conceiving Exodus -- Blood and ink of Exodus -- Sea change -- Beyond the wall.…”
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The billfish story : swordfish, sailfish, marlin, and other gladiators of the sea / by Ulanski, Stan L., 1946-

Table of Contents: “…The rise of billfish -- The interlocking web of ocean life: from plankton to -- Billfish -- Billfish through the ages -- Anatomy of tournaments -- The ultimate billfish: blue marlin -- Night stalkers: swordfish -- Billfish bantamweights: spearfish, white marlin, and -- Sailfish -- The fate of billfish.…”
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The billfish story : swordfish, sailfish, marlin, and other gladiators of the sea / by Ulanski, Stan L., 1946-

Table of Contents: “…The rise of billfish -- The interlocking web of ocean life: from plankton to -- Billfish -- Billfish through the ages -- Anatomy of tournaments -- The ultimate billfish: blue marlin -- Night stalkers: swordfish -- Billfish bantamweights: spearfish, white marlin, and -- Sailfish -- The fate of billfish.…”
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Masculinities without men? female masculinity in twentieth-century fictions / by Noble, Jean Bobby

Table of Contents: “…Alibis of essence and enemies within : at the well of obscenity -- Passionate fictions : Radclyffe Hall's The well of loneliness -- Impressions of the man : sacred countries and the Stone butch blues -- Boys do cry : Hilary Swank and the politics of a pronoun -- Postscript : notes towards a radical (re)thinking of the politics of gender.…”
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African intimacies race, homosexuality, and globalization / by Hoad, Neville Wallace, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…African sodomy in the missionary position : corporeal intimacies and signifying regimes -- Decolonizing the body : the African and African American in Wole Soyinka's The interpreters -- Neoliberalism and the church : the World Conference of Anglican Bishops -- White man's burden, white man's disease : tracking lesbian and gay human rights -- The intellectual, the archive, and the pandemic : Thabo Mbeki's AIDS blues -- An elegy for African cosmopolitanism : Phaswane Mpe's Welcome to our Hillbrow.…”
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Opportunity denied limiting Black women to devalued work / by Branch, Enobong Hannah, 1983-

Table of Contents: “…Hierarchies of preference at work : the need for an intersectional approach -- As good as any man : Black women in farm labor -- Excellent servants : domestic service as Black women's work -- Existing on the industrial fringe : Black women in the factory -- You're blues ain't nothing like mine : race and gender as keys to occupational -- Opportunity -- The illusion of progress : Black women's work in the post-civil rights era.…”
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Siren city sound and source music in classic American noir / by Miklitsch, Robert, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…House sound : reverb, offscreen sound, and voice-over narration in early RKO noir -- Sonic effects : sound and fury in Forties noir -- Audio technologies : intercoms and dictaphones, telephones and radios, phonographs and jukeboxes -- Blues in the night : popular and classical instrumental source music -- Singing detectives and bluesmen, black jazzwomen and torch singers -- The big number (side b) : killing them softly -- The big number (a side) : siren city.…”
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Opportunity denied limiting Black women to devalued work / by Branch, Enobong Hannah, 1983-

Table of Contents: “…Hierarchies of preference at work : the need for an intersectional approach -- As good as any man : Black women in farm labor -- Excellent servants : domestic service as Black women's work -- Existing on the industrial fringe : Black women in the factory -- You're blues ain't nothing like mine : race and gender as keys to occupational -- Opportunity -- The illusion of progress : Black women's work in the post-civil rights era.…”
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Siren city sound and source music in classic American noir / by Miklitsch, Robert, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…House sound : reverb, offscreen sound, and voice-over narration in early RKO noir -- Sonic effects : sound and fury in Forties noir -- Audio technologies : intercoms and dictaphones, telephones and radios, phonographs and jukeboxes -- Blues in the night : popular and classical instrumental source music -- Singing detectives and bluesmen, black jazzwomen and torch singers -- The big number (side b) : killing them softly -- The big number (a side) : siren city.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Masculinities without men? female masculinity in twentieth-century fictions / by Noble, Jean Bobby

Table of Contents: “…Alibis of essence and enemies within : at the well of obscenity -- Passionate fictions : Radclyffe Hall's The well of loneliness -- Impressions of the man : sacred countries and the Stone butch blues -- Boys do cry : Hilary Swank and the politics of a pronoun -- Postscript : notes towards a radical (re)thinking of the politics of gender.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

African intimacies race, homosexuality, and globalization / by Hoad, Neville Wallace, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…African sodomy in the missionary position : corporeal intimacies and signifying regimes -- Decolonizing the body : the African and African American in Wole Soyinka's The interpreters -- Neoliberalism and the church : the World Conference of Anglican Bishops -- White man's burden, white man's disease : tracking lesbian and gay human rights -- The intellectual, the archive, and the pandemic : Thabo Mbeki's AIDS blues -- An elegy for African cosmopolitanism : Phaswane Mpe's Welcome to our Hillbrow.…”
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The Worlds of Langston Hughes : Modernism and Translation in the Americas / by Kutzinski, Vera M., 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : in others' words : translation and survival -- Nomad heart : heterolingual autobiographical -- Southern exposures : Hughes in Spanish -- Buenos Aires blues : modernism in the creole city -- Havana vernaculars : the Cuba Libre project -- Back in the USSA : Joe McCarthy's mistranslations.…”
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The Worlds of Langston Hughes : Modernism and Translation in the Americas / by Kutzinski, Vera M., 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : in others' words : translation and survival -- Nomad heart : heterolingual autobiographical -- Southern exposures : Hughes in Spanish -- Buenos Aires blues : modernism in the creole city -- Havana vernaculars : the Cuba Libre project -- Back in the USSA : Joe McCarthy's mistranslations.…”
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