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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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Communication in eighteenth-century music

Table of Contents: “…. -- Part I : Communication and verisimilitude in the eighteenth century / Paul Cobley -- Listening to listeners / Mark Evan Bonds -- Mannichfaltige Abweichungen von der gewohnlichen Sonaten-form : Beethoven's 'piano-solo' op. 31 no. 1 and the challenge of communication / Claudia Maurer Zenck -- Part II : Musical grammar -- Metre, phrase structure and manipulations of musical beginnings / Danuta Mirka -- National metrical types in music of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries / William Rothstein -- Schoenberg's 'second melody', or, 'Meyer-ed' in the bass / William E. Caplin -- Part III : Rhetorical form and topical decorum -- A metaphoric model of sonata form : two expositions by Mozart / Michael Spitzer -- Beethoven's op. 18 no. 3, first movement : two readings, with a comment on analysis / Kofi Agawu -- Mozart's K331, first movement : once more, with feeling / Wye J. …”
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Return : Nationalizing Transnational Mobility in Asia /

Table of Contents: “…Cowan -- Rescue, return, in place : deportees, "victims," and the regulation of Indonesian migration / Johan Lindquist -- Return of the global Indian : software professionals and the worlding of Bangalore / Carol Upadhya -- Ethnicizing, capitalizing, and nationalizing : South Korea and the returning Korean Chinese / Melody Chia-Wen Lu and Shin Hyunjoon.…”
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American showman Samuel "Roxy" Rothafel and the birth of the entertainment industry, 1908-1935 / by Melnick, Ross

Table 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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Public cowboy no. 1 the life and times of Gene Autry / by George-Warren, Holly

Table of Contents: “…-- At home and abroad -- Melody ranch -- A town called Gene Autry -- War! -- Sergeant Gene Autry -- Don't fence me in -- Back in the saddle -- Gene Autry, Inc. -- From horses to reindeer, from big screen to small -- Last of the pony riders -- On the road again--and again -- The last round-up.…”
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Clinical adult neurology

Table of Contents: “…Ryan -- Headaches / John T. Slevin and Melody Ryan -- Pain / Thomas C. Chelimsky -- Sleep disorders / Ruzica Kovacevic-Ristanovic and Tomasz J. …”
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Systematic musicology empirical and theoretical studies /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Albrecht Schneider, Arne von Ruschkowski -- Techno, decibels, and politics : an empirical study of modern dance music productions, sound pressure levels, and "loudness perception" / Albrecht Schneider, Arne von Ruschkowski -- Polynomial functions as a representation of melodic phrase contour / Daniel Müllensiefen, Geraint Wiggins -- Meloworks : an integrated retrieval, analysis and e-learning platform for melody research / Klaus Frieler, Frank Höger, Jörg Korries -- Perception of musical intervals at very low frequencies : some experimental findings / Albrecht Schneider, Valeri Tsatsishvili -- Nasality in musical sounds - a few intermediate results / Robert Mores -- Air modes in stringed lute-like instruments from Africa and China / Florian Pfeifle -- Psychoacoustic effects in wave field synthesis applications / Tim Ziemer -- Sound radiation patterns in classical singing styles / Orie Takada -- Some observations on a Stein-Conrad Hammerflügel from 1793 / Andreas Beurmann, Albrecht Schneider -- Playing "live" at the Star-Club : reconstructing the room acoustics of a famous music hall / Rolf Bader, Albrecht Schneider -- "You don't see the stitching" : some comments on stylistic diversity in rock using the example of Jethro Tull / Till Strauf -- Comments about Joni Mitchell's composing techniques and guitar style / Jan Clemens Moeller -- Egalitarianism and elitism in ethnomusicology and folk music scholarship / Ulrich Morgenstern -- Buddhism, animism, and entertainment in Cambodian melismatic chanting smot : history and tonal system / Rolf Bader -- Concerning the question of "loosely-knit" roughly equidistant scale in traditional music / Rytis Ambrazevičius.…”
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Governance, accountability and sustainable development /

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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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Invitation to an execution a history of the death penalty in the United States /

Table 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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Political Landscapes of Capital Cities /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : The spatial turn and political landscapes of capital cities / Eulogio Guzmán, Jessica Joyce Christie, and Jelena Bogdanović -- Akhenaten's Amarna in new kingdom Egypt : relations of landscape and ideology / Jessica Joyce Christie -- "Memorials of the ability of them all" : tetrarchic displays in the Roman Forum's central area / Gregor Kalas -- The relational spiritual geopolitics of Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire / Jelena Bogdanović -- Beyond the ashes : the making of Bangkok as the capital city of Siam / Melody Rod-ari -- Monumental perceptions of the Tiwanaku landscape / Alexei Vranich -- The Inka capital Cusco as the model of an imperial cultural landscape / Jessica Joyce Christie -- Making landfall : anchoring authority in the public and private political sphere of the basin of Mexico / Eulogio Guzmán -- Provincial capital vs. peasant capital : a subaltern perspective on urban rise and fall from grace / Anne Parmly Toxey -- La Parola al Piccone : demonstrations of fascism at the Imperial Fora and the mausoleum of Augustus / Stephanie Zeier Pilat -- Tehran : a revolution in making / Talinn Grigor -- Conclusions : Ontological relations and the spatial politics of capital cities / Jelena Bogdanović, Jessica Joyce Christie, and Eulogio Guzmán.…”
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Music and institutions in nineteenth-century Britain

Table 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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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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Distributed languaging, affective dynamics, and the human ecology. by Thibault, Paul J.

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Bending Opinion Essays on Persuasion in the Public Domain /

Table of Contents: “…Deliberation, free speech and the marketplace of ideas / Ineke Sluiter -- Rhetoric, classicism and democracy: the conveyance of moral and political values in late antique rhetorical education / Manfred Kraus -- Melody and rhythm in ancient political discourse. …”
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"Music makers" and world creators : the forms and functions of embedded poems in British fantasy narratives / by Hausmann, Michaela

Table of Contents: “…Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings (1954/1955) -- 6.1 Literary Influences and Mythopoeic Project -- 6.2 The Ring Verse -- 6.3 Ludic Lyrics and Poetic Power Play: The Hobbits and Tom Bombadil -- 6.4 Lyrical Lore of Past and Future -- 6.5 Martial Melodies and Death Dirges -- 6.6 Panegyrics for the Past…”
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Something's Gotta Give : Charleston Conference Proceedings, 2011 /

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Folk visions & voices : traditional music and song in North Georgia /

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Texas and Southwestern Lore / by Dobie, J. Frank (James Frank), 1888-1964

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