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Yodel in hi-fi from kitsch folk to contemporary electronica / by Plantenga, Bart

Table of Contents: “…An introduction to the insane logic of yodeling -- In the beginning was the holler -- The black voice heard blue around the world -- Yodel-spotting in the big-small world -- The great leap from low to high culture -- Ego vs. echo -- The yodel that ate celluloid -- Swiss yodels.…”
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Yodel in hi-fi from kitsch folk to contemporary electronica / by Plantenga, Bart

Table of Contents: “…An introduction to the insane logic of yodeling -- In the beginning was the holler -- The black voice heard blue around the world -- Yodel-spotting in the big-small world -- The great leap from low to high culture -- Ego vs. echo -- The yodel that ate celluloid -- Swiss yodels.…”
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States of inquiry social investigations and print culture in nineteenth-century Britain and the United States / by Frankel, Oz, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Monuments in print -- Blue books and the market of information -- The battle of the books -- The bee in the book -- The culture of the social fact -- Scenes of commission -- Facts speak for themselves -- Can freedmen be citizens? …”
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States of Inquiry : Social Investigations and Print Culture in Nineteenth-Century Britain and the United States / by Frankel, Oz, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Monuments in print -- Blue books and the market of information -- The battle of the books -- The bee in the book -- The culture of the social fact -- Scenes of commission -- Facts speak for themselves -- Can freedmen be citizens? …”
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States of inquiry social investigations and print culture in nineteenth-century Britain and the United States / by Frankel, Oz, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Monuments in print -- Blue books and the market of information -- The battle of the books -- The bee in the book -- The culture of the social fact -- Scenes of commission -- Facts speak for themselves -- Can freedmen be citizens? …”
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States of Inquiry : Social Investigations and Print Culture in Nineteenth-Century Britain and the United States / by Frankel, Oz, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Monuments in print -- Blue books and the market of information -- The battle of the books -- The bee in the book -- The culture of the social fact -- Scenes of commission -- Facts speak for themselves -- Can freedmen be citizens? …”
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What is this thing called jazz? African American musicians as artists, critics, and activists / by Porter, Eric (Eric C.)

Table of Contents: “…A marvel of paradox : jazz and African American modernity -- Dizzy atmosphere : the challenge of bebop -- Passions of a man : the poetics and politics of Charles Mingus -- Straight ahead : Abbey Lincoln and the challenge of jazz singing -- Practicing "creative music" : the black arts imperative in the jazz community -- Writing "creative music" : theorizing the art and politics of improvisation -- The majesty of the blues : Wynton Marsalis's jazz canon.…”
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Beautiful enemies friendship and postwar American poetry / by Epstein, Andrew, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Situating the avant-garde in postwar America: community, individualism, and Cold War culture -- Emerson, pragmatism, and the "new American poetry" -- "my force is in mobility": selfhood and friendship in Frank O'Hara's poetry -- Growing up with our brothers all around: John Ashbery and the interpersonal -- Amiri Baraka and the poetics of turning away -- "Against the speech of friends": Baraka's white friend blues -- "A rainy wool Frankie and Johnny": O'Hara, Ashbery, and the paradoxes of friendship.…”
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Immigration and American popular culture an introduction / by Rubin, Rachel, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Hollywood, 1930 : Jewish gangster masquerade -- Los Angeles, 1943 : zoot suit style, immigrant politics -- Broadway, 1957 : West Side Story and the Nuyorican blues -- Monterey, 1967 : the hippies meet Ravi Shankar -- South Bronx, 1977 : Jamaican migrants, born Jamericans, and global music -- Cyberspace, y2k : giant robots, Asian punks -- Afterword : Chelsea, 2006 ; wandering popular culture.…”
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Whiskey river (take my mind) the true story of Texas honky-tonk / by Bush, Johnny

Table of Contents: “…I love you so much it hurts -- The pipeliner blues -- Forever and always -- Crazy arms -- Night life -- Devil's disciple -- The other woman -- The sound of a heartache -- Undo the right -- You gave me a mountain -- Whiskey river -- Man with no soul at all -- Time changes everything -- Please talk to my heart -- Home to Texas.…”
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Prophet singer the voice and vision of Woody Guthrie / by Jackson, Mark Allan

Table of Contents: “…: revisioning "this land is your land" -- Busted, disgusted, down and out : documenting the stories of America's agricultural workers -- The poor, hard-working man blues ; documenting the troubles of other American workers -- Skin trouble : documenting race and redemption -- Stepping outside the law : class consciousness in Guthrie's outlaw songs -- The union feeling : tracing a vision of a better world.…”
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Music makes me Fred Astaire and jazz / by Decker, Todd R.

Table of Contents: “…Astaire in jazz and popular music: "Keep time with the time and with the times" ; "Jazz means the blues" ; "Anything that will send me" ; "You play and I'll dance."…”
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Erotic grotesque nonsense the mass culture of Japanese modern times / by Silverberg, Miriam Rom, 1951-2008

Table of Contents: “…Japanese modern times -- Japanese modern within modernity -- Japanese modern sites -- The modern girl as militant (movement on the streets) -- The café waitress sang the blues -- Friends of the movies (from Ero to empire) -- The household becomes modern life -- Asakusa--honky-tonk tempo -- Asakusa eroticism -- Down-and-out grotesquerie -- Modern nonsense.…”
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Jazz in the time of the novel : the temporal politics of American race and culture / by Barnhart, Bruce, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Jazz and the novel in the cultural and imaginative landscape -- Music, race, and sublimation: ragtime and symphonic time in the autobiography of an ex-colored man -- "Carolina shout" and the rhythms of rent-party performance -- Forms of repetition and jazz sociality in The Great Gatsby -- Vibratory time in Smith and Armstrong's "St. Louis Blues" -- Rhythmicizing the novel: temporal taxonomies from Larsen to Hemingway, Stein to Hughe.…”
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Music makes me Fred Astaire and jazz / by Decker, Todd R.

Table of Contents: “…Astaire in jazz and popular music: "Keep time with the time and with the times" ; "Jazz means the blues" ; "Anything that will send me" ; "You play and I'll dance."…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Erotic grotesque nonsense the mass culture of Japanese modern times / by Silverberg, Miriam Rom, 1951-2008

Table of Contents: “…Japanese modern times -- Japanese modern within modernity -- Japanese modern sites -- The modern girl as militant (movement on the streets) -- The café waitress sang the blues -- Friends of the movies (from Ero to empire) -- The household becomes modern life -- Asakusa--honky-tonk tempo -- Asakusa eroticism -- Down-and-out grotesquerie -- Modern nonsense.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Jazz in the time of the novel : the temporal politics of American race and culture / by Barnhart, Bruce, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Jazz and the novel in the cultural and imaginative landscape -- Music, race, and sublimation: ragtime and symphonic time in the autobiography of an ex-colored man -- "Carolina shout" and the rhythms of rent-party performance -- Forms of repetition and jazz sociality in The Great Gatsby -- Vibratory time in Smith and Armstrong's "St. Louis Blues" -- Rhythmicizing the novel: temporal taxonomies from Larsen to Hemingway, Stein to Hughe.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

What is this thing called jazz? African American musicians as artists, critics, and activists / by Porter, Eric (Eric C.)

Table of Contents: “…A marvel of paradox : jazz and African American modernity -- Dizzy atmosphere : the challenge of bebop -- Passions of a man : the poetics and politics of Charles Mingus -- Straight ahead : Abbey Lincoln and the challenge of jazz singing -- Practicing "creative music" : the black arts imperative in the jazz community -- Writing "creative music" : theorizing the art and politics of improvisation -- The majesty of the blues : Wynton Marsalis's jazz canon.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Beautiful enemies friendship and postwar American poetry / by Epstein, Andrew, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Situating the avant-garde in postwar America: community, individualism, and Cold War culture -- Emerson, pragmatism, and the "new American poetry" -- "my force is in mobility": selfhood and friendship in Frank O'Hara's poetry -- Growing up with our brothers all around: John Ashbery and the interpersonal -- Amiri Baraka and the poetics of turning away -- "Against the speech of friends": Baraka's white friend blues -- "A rainy wool Frankie and Johnny": O'Hara, Ashbery, and the paradoxes of friendship.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Immigration and American popular culture an introduction / by Rubin, Rachel, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Hollywood, 1930 : Jewish gangster masquerade -- Los Angeles, 1943 : zoot suit style, immigrant politics -- Broadway, 1957 : West Side Story and the Nuyorican blues -- Monterey, 1967 : the hippies meet Ravi Shankar -- South Bronx, 1977 : Jamaican migrants, born Jamericans, and global music -- Cyberspace, y2k : giant robots, Asian punks -- Afterword : Chelsea, 2006 ; wandering popular culture.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view