Robert Pruter's Books

A Blues Bibliography

By: Robert Ford

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A Blues Bibliography, Second Edition is a revised and enlarged version of the definitive blues bibliography first published in 1999. Material previously omitted from the first edition has now been included, and the bibliography has been expanded to include works published since then. In addition to biographical references, this work includes entries on the history and background of the blues, instruments, record labels, reference sources, regional variations and lyric transcriptions and musical analysis. The Blues Bibliography is an invaluable guide to the enthusiastic market among libraries specializing in music and African-American culture and among individual blues scholars.

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Routledge

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1135865078

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Life Flows on in Endless Song

Folk Songs and American History

By: Robert V. Wells

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Life Flows on in Endless Song

Folk Songs and American History

By: Robert V. Wells

An engaging survey of what folk songs tell us about the American past

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University of Illinois Press

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0252076508

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9780252076503

First Taste of Freedom

A Cultural History of Bicycle Marketing in the United States

By: Robert Turpin

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First Taste of Freedom

A Cultural History of Bicycle Marketing in the United States

By: Robert Turpin

The bicycle has long been a part of American culture but few would describe it as an essential element of American identity in the same way that it is fundamental to European and Asian cultures. Instead, American culture has had a more turbulent relationship with the bicycle. First introduced in the United States in the 1830s, the bicycle reached its height of popularity in the 1890s as it evolved to become a popular form of locomotion for adults. Two decades later, ridership in the United States collapsed. As automobile consumption grew, bicycles were seen as backward and unbecoming—particularly for the white middle class. Turpin chronicles the story of how the bicycle’s image changed dramatically, shedding light on how American consumer patterns are shaped over time. Turpin identifies the creation and development of childhood consumerism as a key factor in the bicycle’s evolution. In an attempt to resurrect dwindling sales, sports marketers reimagined the bicycle as a child’s toy. By the 1950s, it had been firmly established as a symbol of boyhood adolescence, further accelerating the declining number of adult consumers. Tracing the ways in which cycling suffered such a loss in popularity among adults is fundamental to understanding why the United States would be considered a "car" culture from the 1950s to today. As a lens for viewing American history, the story of the bicycle deepens our understanding of our national culture and the forces that influence it.

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Syracuse University Press

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0815654391

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Historic Preservation Technology

A Primer

By: Robert A. Young

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Historic Preservation Technology

A Primer

By: Robert A. Young

This introduction to historic preservation goes well beyond the Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Rehabilitation and shows how wood, stone, masonry, and metal were used in the past and how adaptive re-use can be employed to bring modern amenities to historic structures. The book covers all aspects of the exterior and interior building fabric, including windows, roofing, doors, porches, and electrical and mechanical systems for both residential and small-scale commercial buildings. Richly illustrated with photographs showing typical elements of historic buildings, decay mechanisms, and remediation techniques, the book also contains a variety of useful case studies and features a companion Website that offers dozens of additional images and resources.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0471788368

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9780471788362

The Music of Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds

By: Robert Reynolds

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The Music of Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds

By: Robert Reynolds

In the mid-60s, a group of studio musicians turned an Alka-Seltzer commercial into a novelty hit, "No Matter What Shape (Your Stomach's In)". Unwilling to go on the road to promote it, a new group was formed by Dan Hamilton, Joe Frank Carollo and Tommy Reynolds, who were then credited with the song. When its popularity waned, the three formed a new group using the name "Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds." Their first record resulted in the hit song "Don't Pull Your Love," and earned a Gold record, Reynolds unexpectedly left the band. Soon Hamilton, Carollo and Alan Dennison signed a contract with Playboy Records, with the stipulation they keep their original band name. They struck gold again with their first record for Playboy, "Fallin' In Love." It was Playboy's only #1 pop hit. This is the story about how this great soft rock group came to be. It looks carefully at the group's entire music legacy and explores previously unreleased songs that were discovered during research for the book.

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Lulu.com

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1365288765

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Directory of Hydrobiological Laboratories and Personnel in North America

By: Robert W. Hiatt

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Directory of Hydrobiological Laboratories and Personnel in North America

By: Robert W. Hiatt

Growing interest in hydrobiology and the resulting increase in facilities for education and research have made an up-to-date directory of hydrobiological laboratories in North America a necessity. The present directory, listing 187 laboratories, with provisions for instruction and research and scope of activities, is designed to be useful not only research scholars but to young scientists in training and to visiting investigators as well. The address, senior officer, institutional affiliation, objectives, scope of activities, season of operation, and environments stressed are given for each laboratory. In addition, major research facilities, capital equipment, and provisions for publications are indicated as well as descriptions of accommodations available, instructional program, teaching facilities and scientific staff. Biographical sketches of 1,300 personnel give institutional affiliation, mailing address, field of specialization, current research project, and field experience by geographical region. A cross-reference index lists each laboratory under its official name, the sponsoring agency, and the area in which it is located. Data for all laboratories are broken down into a treatment of inland laboratories (fresh-water) and coastal laboratories (marine), and finally segregated by geographical area.

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824884701

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9780824884703

Sacred Steel

Inside an African American Steel Guitar Tradition

By: Robert Stone

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Sacred Steel

Inside an African American Steel Guitar Tradition

By: Robert Stone

A Pioneering work on the emergence, development, and current status of a vital but long overlooked tradtition. Enlightening and engaging." --Scott Barretta, musci historian and former editor of Living Blues magazine.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252035542

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9780252035548

Korean War Filmography

91 English Language Features through 2000

By: Robert J. Lentz

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Korean War Filmography

91 English Language Features through 2000

By: Robert J. Lentz

The Korean experience changed the way Americans viewed war. The lack of a clear-cut victory inspired filmmakers to try to make sense of fighting another country's civil war and risking American lives for an unpopular cause. This filmography details more than 90 English-language films. Each entry includes complete cast and credit listings, a plot synopsis, evaluation, review snippets, and notice of video availability. This book places each film in its historical context, assesses the essential truthfulness of each film and evaluates its entertainment value, and discusses how--and why--Korean War films differ from other Hollywood war genres. Four appendices list the films by chronology; production company and studio; level of historical accuracy; and subject and theme. Additional appendices list films with incidental references to the Korean War; documentaries on the Korean War; and South Korean films about the war. Photographs, a bibliography, and an index are included.

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McFarland

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1476621543

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Ballists, Dead Beats, and Muffins

Inside Early Baseball in Illinois

By: Robert D. Sampson

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Ballists, Dead Beats, and Muffins

Inside Early Baseball in Illinois

By: Robert D. Sampson

Baseball’s spread across Illinois paralleled the sport’s explosive growth in other parts of the country. Robert D. Sampson taps a wealth of archival research to transport readers to an era when an epidemic of “base ball on the brain” raged from Alton to Woodstock. Focusing on the years 1865 to 1869, Sampson offers a vivid portrait of a game where local teams and civic ambition went hand in hand and teams of paid professionals displaced gentlemen’s clubs devoted to sporting fair play. This preoccupation with competition sparked rules disputes and controversies over imported players while the game itself mirrored society by excluding Black Americans and women. The new era nonetheless brought out paying crowds to watch the Rock Island Lively Turtles, Fairfield Snails, and other teams take the field up and down the state. A first-ever history of early baseball in Illinois, Ballists, Dead Beats, and Muffins adds the Prairie State game’s unique shadings and colorful stories to the history of the national pastime.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252054342

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9780252054341

A City Called Heaven

Chicago and the Birth of Gospel Music

By: Robert M. Marovich

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A City Called Heaven

Chicago and the Birth of Gospel Music

By: Robert M. Marovich

In A City Called Heaven, Robert M. Marovich follows gospel music from early hymns and camp meetings through its growth into the sanctified soundtrack of the city's mainline black Protestant churches. Marovich mines print media, ephemera, and hours of interviews with artists, ministers, and historians--as well as relatives and friends of gospel pioneers--to recover forgotten singers, musicians, songwriters, and industry leaders. He also examines the entrepreneurial spirit that fueled gospel music's rise to popularity and granted social mobility to a number of its practitioners. As Marovich shows, the music expressed a yearning for freedom from earthly pains, racial prejudice, and life's hardships. Yet it also helped give voice to a people--and lift a nation. A City Called Heaven celebrates a sound too mighty and too joyous for even church walls to hold.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252097084

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9780252097089

Bluegrass Breakdown

The Making of the Old Southern Sound

By: Robert Cantwell

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Bluegrass Breakdown

The Making of the Old Southern Sound

By: Robert Cantwell

Bluegrass music is an original characterization, simply called a 'representation, ' of traditional Appalachian music in its social form.

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0252071174

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Pacific Salmon & their Ecosystems

Status and Future Options

By: Deanna J. Stouder,Peter A. Bisson,Robert J. Naiman

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Pacific Salmon & their Ecosystems

Status and Future Options

By: Deanna J. Stouder,Peter A. Bisson,Robert J. Naiman

This text examines the ecology of the Pacific salmon

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Springer Science & Business Media

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0412986914

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9780412986918

Peace Be Still

How James Cleveland and the Angelic Choir Created a Gospel Classic

By: Robert Marovich

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Peace Be Still

How James Cleveland and the Angelic Choir Created a Gospel Classic

By: Robert Marovich

A Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2022 In September of 1963, Reverend Lawrence Roberts and the Angelic Choir of the First Baptist Church of Nutley, New Jersey, teamed with rising gospel star James Cleveland to record Peace Be Still. The LP and its haunting title track became a phenomenon. Robert M. Marovich draws on extensive oral interviews and archival research to chart the history of Peace Be Still and the people who created it. Emerging from an established gospel music milieu, Peace Be Still spent several years as the bestselling gospel album of all time. As such, it forged a template for live recordings of services that transformed the gospel music business and Black worship. Marovich also delves into the music's connection to fans and churchgoers, its enormous popularity then and now, and the influence of the Civil Rights Movement on the music's message and reception. The first in-depth history of a foundational recording, Peace Be Still shines a spotlight on the people and times that created a gospel music touchstone.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252053052

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9780252053054

Sound Law and Analogy

Papers in Honor of Robert S.P. Beekes on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday

By: Robert Stephen Paul Beekes

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Sound Law and Analogy

Papers in Honor of Robert S.P. Beekes on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday

By: Robert Stephen Paul Beekes

From the contents: Old Frisian 'fendsen' and 'hwendsen' (Alfred Bammesberger).- Puzzling datives in Old Frisian (Dirk Boutkan).- Vowel raising in the anonymous Lithuanian catechism of 1605 (Rick Derksen).- Laryngeals and Vedic metre (Jost Gippert).- Indo-European initial yod in Greek (Eric P. Hamp).- Vedic denominatives to thematic a-stems (Stanley Insler).- Syncope and anaptyxis in Hittite (H. Craig Melchert).

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Rodopi

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9042003219

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9789042003217

Doowop

The Chicago Scene

By: Robert Pruter

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Doowop

The Chicago Scene

By: Robert Pruter

The Chicago Tribune's Bill Dahl praised Robert Pruter's Doowop for "vividly describ ing] an enchanting time on the local music scene, when a handful of teenagers could taste rock 'n' roll stardom with harmonies they cooked up on a street corner." Pruter foraged sources from fanzines to the Chicago Defender and conducted extensive interviews in cooking up Doowop, which chronicles the careers of such legendary 1950s groups as the Flamingos, the Moonglows, the Spaniels, and the El Dorados, along with virtually every other Chicago doowop group that contributed to that era.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252065069

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The Rise of American High School Sports and the Search for Control

1880-1930

By: Robert Pruter

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The Rise of American High School Sports and the Search for Control

1880-1930

By: Robert Pruter

Nearly half of all American high school students participate in sports teams. With a total of 7.6 million participants as of 2008, this makes the high school sports program in America the largest organized sports program in the world. Pruter’s work traces the history of high school sports from the student-led athletic clubs of the 1800s through to the establishment of educator control of high school sports under a national federation by the 1930s. Pruter’s research serves not only to highlight this rich history but also to provide new perspectives on how high school sports became the arena by which Americans fought for some of the most contentious issues in society, such as race, immigration and Americanization, gender roles, religious conflict, the role of the military in democracy, and the commercial exploitation of our youth.

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