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Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Miles Davis

A Twentieth-Century Transnational Biography

By: Aaron Lefkovitz

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Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Miles Davis

A Twentieth-Century Transnational Biography

By: Aaron Lefkovitz

This book examines Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Miles Davis as distinctively global symbols of threatening and nonthreatening black masculinity. It centers them in debates over U.S. cultural exceptionalism, noting how they have been part of the definition of jazz as a jingoistic and exclusively American form of popular culture.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1498567525

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9781498567527

Jimi Hendrix and the Cultural Politics of Popular Music

By: Aaron Lefkovitz

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Jimi Hendrix and the Cultural Politics of Popular Music

By: Aaron Lefkovitz

This book, on Jimi Hendrix’s life, times, visual-cultural prominence, and popular music, with a particular emphasis on Hendrix’s relationships to the cultural politics of race, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, class, and nation. Hendrix, an itinerant “Gypsy” and “Voodoo child” whose racialized “freak” visual image continues to internationally circulate, exploited the exoticism of his race, gender, and sexuality and Gypsy and Voodoo transnational political cultures and religion. Aaron E. Lefkovitz argues that Hendrix can be located in a legacy of black-transnational popular musicians, from Chuck Berry to the hip hop duo Outkast, confirming while subverting established white supremacist and hetero-normative codes and conventions. Focusing on Hendrix’s transnational biography and centrality to US and international visual cultural and popular music histories, this book links Hendrix to traditions of blackface minstrelsy, international freak show spectacles, black popular music’s global circulation, and visual-cultural racial, gender, and sexual stereotypes, while noting Hendrix’s place in 1960s countercultural, US-exceptionalist, cultural Cold War, and rock histories.

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159

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Springer

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3319770136

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9783319770130

Transnational Cinematic and Popular Music Icons

Lena Horne, Dorothy Dandridge, and Queen Latifah, 1917-2017

By: Aaron Lefkovitz

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Transnational Cinematic and Popular Music Icons

Lena Horne, Dorothy Dandridge, and Queen Latifah, 1917-2017

By: Aaron Lefkovitz

Transnational Cinematic & Popular Music Icons: Lena Horne, Dorothy Dandridge, & Queen Latifah, 1917-2017 centers twentieth and twenty-first century black-transnational stereotypes, celebrities, and symbols Lena Horne's, Dorothy Dandridge;s, and Queen Latifah’s transnational popular cultural struggles between domination and autonomy, with a particular emphasis on their films and popular music. Linking each performer to twentieth century U.S., African-American, and global gender histories and noting the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, class, and empire in their overlapping transnational biographies, Transnational Cinematic & Popular Music Icons: Lena Horne, Dorothy Dandridge, & Queen Latifah, 1917-2017 connects Horne, Dandridge, and Latifah to each other and legacies of Hollywood stereotypes and popular music’s internationally-routed politics. Through a close reading of Horne's, Dandridge's, and Latifah’s films and popular music, the performers tie to historic black-transnational caricatures, from the “tragic mulatto” to Sapphire, Mammy, and Jezebel, and additional, non-white female performers, from Josephine Baker to Halle Berry, maneuvering within transnational popular culture industrial matrices and against white supremacist and hetero-patriarchal forces.

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Lexington Books

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1498555764

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9781498555760

I Still See Her Haunting Eyes

The Holocaust and a Hidden Child Named Aaron

By: Aaron Elster,Joy Erlichman Miller

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I Still See Her Haunting Eyes

The Holocaust and a Hidden Child Named Aaron

By: Aaron Elster,Joy Erlichman Miller

Tells the story of Aaron Elster and his escape from the Nazis and how he endured two years hidden in a cold dark attic by a couple who reluctantly sheltered him. In his solitude, the boy questions why his mother abandoned him and his very existence in this world. Yet, what haunts Aaron the man is the last time he saw his baby sister as she stood crying during the liquidation of his village.

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I Still See Her Hauning Eyes

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0975987526

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9780975987520

Esther in Ancient Jewish Thought

By: Aaron Koller

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Esther in Ancient Jewish Thought

By: Aaron Koller

The book of Esther was a conscious reaction to much of the conventional wisdom of its day, challenging beliefs regarding the Jerusalem Temple, the land of Israel, Jewish law, and even God. Aaron Koller identifies Esther as primarily a political work, and shows that early reactions ranged from ignoring the book to 'rewriting' Esther in order to correct its perceived flaws. But few biblical books have been read in such different ways, and the vast quantity of Esther-interpretation in rabbinic literature indicates a conscious effort by the Rabbis to present Esther as a story of faith and traditionalism, and bring it into the fold of the grand biblical narrative. Koller situates Esther, and its many interpretations, within the intellectual and political contexts of Ancient Judaism, and discusses its controversial themes. His innovative line of enquiry will be of great interest to students and scholars of Bible and Jewish studies.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107729807

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9781107729803

Jimi Hendrix and the Cultural Politics of Popular Music

By: Aaron Lefkovitz

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Transnational Cinematic and Popular Music Icons

Lena Horne, Dorothy Dandridge, and Queen Latifah, 1917-2017

By: Aaron Lefkovitz

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Lena Horne, Dorothy Dandridge, and Queen Latifah, 1917-2017

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Transnational Cinematic and Popular Music Icons

Lena Horne, Dorothy Dandridge, and Queen Latifah, 1917-2017

By: Aaron E. Lefkovitz

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Lena Horne, Dorothy Dandridge, and Queen Latifah, 1917-2017

By: Aaron E. Lefkovitz

This book explores the films and popular music of Lena Horne, Dorothy Dandridge, and Queen Latifah, connecting each performer to female black-transnational histories and nonwhite female performers' representational struggles.

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Book's by Aaron Lefkovitz

Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Miles Davis

Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Miles Davis

Jimi Hendrix and the Cultural Politics of Popular Music

Jimi Hendrix and the Cultural Politics of Popular Music

Transnational Cinematic and Popular Music Icons

Transnational Cinematic and Popular Music Icons

I Still See Her Haunting Eyes

I Still See Her Haunting Eyes

Esther in Ancient Jewish Thought

Esther in Ancient Jewish Thought

Jimi Hendrix and the Cultural Politics of Popular Music

Jimi Hendrix and the Cultural Politics of Popular Music

Transnational Cinematic and Popular Music Icons

Transnational Cinematic and Popular Music Icons

Transnational Cinematic and Popular Music Icons

Transnational Cinematic and Popular Music Icons

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