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Greasepaint Puritan

Boston to 42nd Street in the Queer Backstage Novels of Bradford Ropes

By: Maya Cantu

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Greasepaint Puritan

Boston to 42nd Street in the Queer Backstage Novels of Bradford Ropes

By: Maya Cantu

Greasepaint Puritan details the life and work of Bradford Ropes, author of the bawdy 1932 novel 42nd Street, on which the classic film and its stage adaptation are based. Inspired by Ropes’s own experiences as a performer, 42nd Street “reads less like a novel than like a documentary about the lives of New York’s theatre people and, above all, about the practicalities, the personalities, and the sexual politics that go into the making of a show,” according to Richard Brody in The New Yorker. Why did Ropes’s body of work--which included a trilogy of backstage novels--and consequently his biographical footsteps, disappear into obscurity? Descended from Mayflower Pilgrims, Ropes rebelled against the “Proper Bostonian” life, in a career that touched upon the Jazz Age, American vaudeville, and theater censorship. Greasepaint Puritan follows Ropes’s successful career as both a performer and the author of the backstage novels 42nd Street, Stage Mother, and Go Into Your Dance. Populated by scheming stage mothers, precocious stage children, grandiose bit players, and tart-tongued chorines, these novels centered on the lives and relationships of gay men on Broadway during the Jazz Age and Prohibition era. Rigorously researched, Greasepaint Puritan chronicles Ropes’s career as a successful screenwriter in 1930s and ’40s Hollywood, where he continued to be a part of a dynamic gay subculture within the movie industry before returning to obscurity in the 1950s. His legacy lives on in the Hollywood and Broadway incarnations of 42nd Street—but Greasepaint Puritan restores the “forgotten melody” of the man who first envisioned its colorful characters.

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331

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University of Michigan Press

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0472221434

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9780472221431

A Guide to the Latin American Art Song Repertoire

An Annotated Catalog of Twentieth-Century Art Songs for Voice and Piano

By: Maya Hoover

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A Guide to the Latin American Art Song Repertoire

An Annotated Catalog of Twentieth-Century Art Songs for Voice and Piano

By: Maya Hoover

A reference guide to the vast array of art song literature and composers from Latin America, this book introduces the music of Latin America from a singer's perspective and provides a basis for research into the songs of this richly musical area of the world. The book is divided by country into 22 chapters, with each chapter containing an introductory essay on the music of the region, a catalog of art songs for that country, and a list of publishers. Some chapters include information on additional sources. Singers and teachers may use descriptive annotations (language, poet) or pedagogical annotations (range, tessitura) to determine which pieces are appropriate for their voices or programming needs, or those of their students. The guide will be a valuable resource for vocalists and researchers, however familiar they may be with this glorious repertoire.

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369

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Indiana University Press

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0253003962

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9780253003966

Prison by Any Other Name

The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms

By: Maya Schenwar,Victoria Law

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Prison by Any Other Name

The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms

By: Maya Schenwar,Victoria Law

A crucial indictment of widely embraced "alternatives to incarceration" that exposes how many of these new approaches actually widen the net of punishment and surveillance "But what does it mean—really—to celebrate reforms that convert your home into your prison?" —Michelle Alexander, from the foreword Electronic monitoring. Locked-down drug treatment centers. House arrest. Mandated psychiatric treatment. Data-driven surveillance. Extended probation. These are some of the key alternatives held up as cost-effective substitutes for jails and prisons. But many of these so-called reforms actually widen the net, weaving in new strands of punishment and control, and bringing new populations, who would not otherwise have been subject to imprisonment, under physical control by the state. As mainstream public opinion has begun to turn against mass incarceration, political figures on both sides of the spectrum are pushing for reform. But—though they're promoted as steps to confront high rates of imprisonment—many of these measures are transforming our homes and communities into prisons instead. In Prison by Any Other Name, activist journalists Maya Schenwar and Victoria Law reveal the way the kinder, gentler narrative of reform can obscure agendas of social control and challenge us to question the ways we replicate the status quo when pursuing change. A foreword by Michelle Alexander situates the book in the context of criminal justice reform conversations. Finally, the book offers a bolder vision for truly alternative justice practices.

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317

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The New Press

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1620973111

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9781620973110

CURRENT Diagnosis and Treatment Pediatrics, Twenty-Fifth Edition

By: William W. Hay,Myron J. Levin,Mark J. Abzug,Maya Bunik

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CURRENT Diagnosis and Treatment Pediatrics, Twenty-Fifth Edition

By: William W. Hay,Myron J. Levin,Mark J. Abzug,Maya Bunik

The most practical, up-to-date, and well-referenced guide to the diagnosis and treatment of children—from birth to adolescence A Doody's Core Title for 2021! Following the "Current" outline format to make it super easy for you to find the answers you need, this comprehensive, clinically focused guide delivers evidence-based information on the pediatric medical conditions most often encountered in daily clinical practice. Complete with an invaluable guide to normal laboratory values and 600 photos and illustrations, CURRENT Diagnosis and Treatment Pediatrics offers succinct, authoritative overviews of important pediatric health concerns, such as childhood nutrition and eating disorders; substance abuse; psychiatric disorders; child abuse; oral medicine and dentistry; immunization; and emergencies and injuries. The authors provide detailed descriptions of diseases as well as diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, and everything is presented in the time-saving LANGE CURRENT style: Problem, Essentials of Diagnosis, Clinical Findings, Differential Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prognosis.

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McGraw Hill Professional

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1260457818

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9781260457810

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Greasepaint Puritan

Greasepaint Puritan

A Guide to the Latin American Art Song Repertoire

A Guide to the Latin American Art Song Repertoire

Prison by Any Other Name

Prison by Any Other Name

CURRENT Diagnosis and Treatment Pediatrics, Twenty-Fifth Edition

CURRENT Diagnosis and Treatment Pediatrics, Twenty-Fifth Edition

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