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Full-Text Articles in American Studies
Woodie Guthrie And Billie Holiday- Revolutionizing Music And Society In The Great Depression, Mark Naison
Woodie Guthrie And Billie Holiday- Revolutionizing Music And Society In The Great Depression, Mark Naison
Occasional Essays
No abstract provided.
Appropriating Black Music While Segregating Black People: The Paradox Of 1920’S American Culture, Mark Naison
Appropriating Black Music While Segregating Black People: The Paradox Of 1920’S American Culture, Mark Naison
Occasional Essays
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Why Hip Hop Began In The Bronx- Lecture For C-Span, Mark Naison
Why Hip Hop Began In The Bronx- Lecture For C-Span, Mark Naison
Occasional Essays
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Cool: How Air Conditioning Changed Everything [Table Of Contents], Salvatore Basile
Cool: How Air Conditioning Changed Everything [Table Of Contents], Salvatore Basile
History
It’s a contraption that makes the lists of “Greatest Inventions Ever”; at the same time, it’s accused of causing global disaster. It has changed everything from architecture to people’s food habits to their voting patterns, to even the way big business washes its windows. It has saved countless lives . . . while causing countless deaths. Most of us are glad it’s there. But we don’t know how, or when, it got there.
It’s air conditioning.
For thousands of years, humankind attempted to do something about the slow torture of hot weather. Everything was tried: water power, slave power, electric …
The Amazing Adventures Of Bob Brown: A Real-Life Zelig Who Wrote His Way Through The 20th Century [Table Of Contents], Craig Saper
The Amazing Adventures Of Bob Brown: A Real-Life Zelig Who Wrote His Way Through The 20th Century [Table Of Contents], Craig Saper
Biography
“A cross between an intellectual biography of this literary dynamo and a picaresque novel. Bob Brown has found a sensitive, insightful, and appreciative biographer who knows not only how to narrate (and condense) his amazing adventures but also how to draw the connections that make this overflowing life of letters seem all the more meaningful and significant in our era of digital multimedia.” —Louis Kaplan, Professor of History and Theory of Photography and New Media, University of Toronto
Bronx Soundscape: Reflections On The Multicultural Roots Of Hip Hop In Bronx Neighborhoods, Mark Naison
Bronx Soundscape: Reflections On The Multicultural Roots Of Hip Hop In Bronx Neighborhoods, Mark Naison
Occasional Essays
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