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Understanding W.G. Sebald

By: Mark Richard McCulloh

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This volume provides a dissection of W.G. Sebald's fiction and his acclaim. A German writer who taught in England for 30 years, he published four novels, first in German and then in English. His work gained even greater acclaim after his death in 2001, just months after the publication of his title Austerlitz.

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Univ of South Carolina Press

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1570035067

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Scary Monsters

Monstrosity, Masculinity and Popular Music

By: Mark Duffett,Jon Hackett

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Scary Monsters

Monstrosity, Masculinity and Popular Music

By: Mark Duffett,Jon Hackett

Popular music and masculinity have rarely been examined through the lens of research into monstrosity. The discourses associated with rock and pop, however, actually include more 'monsters' than might at first be imagined. Attention to such individuals and cultures can say things about the operation of genre and gender, myth and meaning. Indeed, monstrosity has recently become a growing focus of cultural theory. This is in part because monsters raise shared concerns about transgression, subjectivity, agency, and community. Attention to monstrosity evokes both the spectre of projection (which invokes familial trauma and psychoanalysis) and shared anxieties (that in turn reflect ideologies and beliefs). By pursuing a series of insightful case studies, Scary Monsters considers different aspects of the connection between music, gender and monstrosity. Its argument is that attention to monstrosity provides a unique perspective on the study of masculinity in popular music culture.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1501313398

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9781501313394

Slavery in North America Vol 3

From the Colonial Period to Emancipation

By: Mark M Smith,Peter S Carmichael,Timothy Lockley,Jonathan Daniel Wells

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Slavery in North America Vol 3

From the Colonial Period to Emancipation

By: Mark M Smith,Peter S Carmichael,Timothy Lockley,Jonathan Daniel Wells

First published in 2009. From the founding of Jamestown to the American Civil War, slavery and abolition shaped American national, regional and racial identities. This four-volume reset edition draws together rare sources relating to American slavery systems. Volume 3 includes the Antebellum Period from 1828 to 1859.

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Routledge

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1000559432

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Chosen Voices

The Story of the American Cantorate

By: Mark Slobin

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Chosen Voices

The Story of the American Cantorate

By: Mark Slobin

Chosen Voices is the definitive survey of an often overlooked aspect of American Jewish history and ethnomusicology, and an insider's look at a profession that is also a vocation.Week after week, year after year, Jews turn to sacred singers for spiritual and emotional support. The job of the hazzan--much more than the traditional ""messenger to God""--is deeply embedded in cultural, social, and religious symbolism, negotiated between the congregation and its chosen voices. Drawing on archival sources, interviews with cantors, and photographs, Slobin traces the development of the American cantorate from the nebulous beginnings of the hazzan as a recognizable figure through the heyday of the superstar sacred singer in the early twentieth century to a diverse portrait of today's cantorate, which now includes women as well as men. Slobin's focus on the current nature of the profession includes careful consideration of the sacred singer's part in creating and maintaining the worship service, the recent relationship between the rabbi and the hazzan within the synagogue, and the music that contemporary cantors sing. This first paperback edition features a new preface by the author. A thirty-five-minute cassette for use with Chosen Voices is available separately from the University of Illinois Press.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252070895

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9780252070891

Ellington

The Early Years

By: Mark Tucker

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Ellington

The Early Years

By: Mark Tucker

For nearly fifty years, Edward Kennedy 'Duke' Ellington was one of America's most famous musicians. Tucker traces Ellington's childhood and young adult years in Washington, D. C. where he got his start as a ragtime pianist, and also draws on accounts from newspapers, periodicals, and trade publications.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252065093

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American States of Nature

The Origins of Independence, 1761-1775

By: Mark Somos

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American States of Nature

The Origins of Independence, 1761-1775

By: Mark Somos

American States of Nature transforms our understanding of the American Revolution and the early makings of the Constitution. The journey to an independent United States generated important arguments about the existing condition of Americans, in which rival interpretations of the term "state of nature" played a crucial role. "State of nature" typically implied a pre-political condition and was often invoked in support of individual rights to property and self-defense and the right to exit or to form a political state. It could connote either a paradise, a baseline condition of virtue and health, or a hell on earth. This mutable phrase was well-known in Europe and its empires. In the British colonies, "state of nature" appeared thousands of times in juridical, theological, medical, political, economic, and other texts from 1630 to 1810. But by the 1760s, a distinctively American state-of-nature discourse started to emerge. It combined existing meanings and sidelined others in moments of intense contestation, such as the Stamp Act crisis of 1765-66 and the First Continental Congress of 1774. In laws, resolutions, petitions, sermons, broadsides, pamphlets, letters, and diaries, the American states of nature came to justify independence at least as much as colonial formulations of liberty, property, and individual rights did. In this groundbreaking book, Mark Somos focuses on the formative decade and a half just before the American Revolution. Somos' investigation begins with a 1761 speech by James Otis that John Adams described as "a dissertation on the state of nature," and celebrated as the real start of the Revolution. Drawing on an enormous range of both public and personal writings, many rarely or never before discussed, the book follows the development of America's state-of-nature discourse to 1775. The founding generation transformed this flexible concept into a powerful theme that shapes their legacy to this day. No constitutional history of the Revolution can be written without it.

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Oxford University Press

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0190462868

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Simon Episcopius' Doctrine of Original Sin

By: Mark A. Ellis

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Simon Episcopius' Doctrine of Original Sin

By: Mark A. Ellis

Simon Episcopius (1583-1643), who began his theological career as the protégé of Jacobus Arminius, led the Arminians at the Synod of Dort and was instrumental in guaranteeing Arminianism's survival. This book breaks new ground by clearly showing how, in the process of working out the implications of the theological trajectories which Arminius established, Episcopius introduced significant changes in his master's theology. It begins by demonstrating changes between Episcopius' early theological works and Arminius' writings, and then even greater changes in his mature theological work, Institutiones Theologicæ. It defends the idea that Arminianism represented a pre-Calvinist movement within the Netherlands, which not only rejected Genevan predestination, but also intentionally moved away from Reformed Scholasticism. This book is useful for seminars in early Arminian theology and the Arminian controversy in the Netherlands.

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Peter Lang

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0820481092

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On the Bus with Bill Monroe

My Five-Year Ride with the Father of Blue Grass

By: Mark Hembree

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On the Bus with Bill Monroe

My Five-Year Ride with the Father of Blue Grass

By: Mark Hembree

A backstage audition led Mark Hembree into a five-year stint (1979–1984) as the bassist for Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys. Hembree’s journey included playing at the White House and on the acclaimed album Master of Bluegrass. But it also put him on a collision course with the rigors of touring, the mysteries of Southern culture, and the complex personality of bandleader-legend Bill Monroe. Whether it’s figuring out the best time for breakfast (early) or for beating the boss at poker (never), Hembree gives readers an up-close look at the occasionally exalting, often unglamorous life of a touring musician in the sometimes baffling, always colorful company of a bluegrass icon. The amusing story of a Yankee fish out of water, On the Bus with Bill Monroe mixes memoir with storytelling to recount the adventures of a Northerner learning new ways and the Old South.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252053419

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9780252053412

The Unfinished Legacy

A Brief History of Western Civilization

By: Mark A. Kishlansky,Patrick J. Geary,Patricia O'Brien

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The Unfinished Legacy

A Brief History of Western Civilization

By: Mark A. Kishlansky,Patrick J. Geary,Patricia O'Brien

Concise and engaging, The Unfinished Legacy, 2E, brings the study of Western Civilization alive with comprehensive coverage of a wide array of characters and events.

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0673980723

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A Brief History of Western Civilization

The Unfinished Legacy

By: Mark A. Kishlansky,Patrick J. Geary,Patricia O'Brien

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A Brief History of Western Civilization

The Unfinished Legacy

By: Mark A. Kishlansky,Patrick J. Geary,Patricia O'Brien

* Four Color Design. The new four-color format enhances the value of the maps and graphics and makes the book more visually exciting, more accessible, and easier to read. * Primary Sources. Selections from primary source documents designed to stimulate student interest in history. Each source is accompanied by an explanatory headnote that provides the necessary historical context. * Geographical Tours of Europe. Thematic tours, each accompanied by a map, to guide the student around the changing contours of the geography of Western history. * TECHNOLOGY ADVANTAGE: Discovering Western Civilization On-Line. This end-of-chapter annotated website resource links students to top-rated sites of documents, images, and cultural resources. * Updated scholarship and coverage in the post-World War II chapters. * Special Feature Essays will be available on the Companion Website. There will be a link in the Discovering Western Civilization On-Line section. * Balanced approach that spotlights comprehensive coverage of social history within a traditional, political framework. * Increased Coverage of Hellenism recognizes how Hellenism influenced the cultures of the western Mediterranean. * The Visua

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0321097009

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Understanding W.G. Sebald

By: Mark Richard McCulloh

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Understanding W.G. Sebald

By: Mark Richard McCulloh

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Understanding W.G. Sebald

Understanding W.G. Sebald

Scary Monsters

Scary Monsters

Slavery in North America Vol 3

Slavery in North America Vol 3

Chosen Voices

Chosen Voices

Ellington

Ellington

American States of Nature

American States of Nature

Simon Episcopius' Doctrine of Original Sin

Simon Episcopius' Doctrine of Original Sin

On the Bus with Bill Monroe

On the Bus with Bill Monroe

The Unfinished Legacy

The Unfinished Legacy

A Brief History of Western Civilization

A Brief History of Western Civilization

Understanding W.G. Sebald

Understanding W.G. Sebald

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