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Ethnic Irony In Melvin B. Tolson's "Dark Symphony", Elizabeth Newton
Ethnic Irony In Melvin B. Tolson's "Dark Symphony", Elizabeth Newton
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This article historicizes musical symbolism in Melvin B. Tolson’s poem “Dark Symphony” (1941). In a time when Black writers and musicians alike were encouraged to aspire to European standards of greatness, Tolson’s Afro-modernist poem establishes an ambivalent critical stance toward the genre in its title. In pursuit of a richer understanding of the poet’s attitude, this article situates the poem within histories of Black music, racial uplift, and white supremacy, exploring the poem’s relation to other media from the Harlem Renaissance. It analyzes the changing language across the poem’s sections and, informed by Houston A. Baker Jr.’s study of “mastery …
Mabou Mines’ Dead End Kids And Performing Artists For Nuclear Disarmament, Hillary Miller
Mabou Mines’ Dead End Kids And Performing Artists For Nuclear Disarmament, Hillary Miller
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Performance studies scholar and theater historian Hillary Miller offers a new study of the 1980 production of Dead End Kids: A History of Nuclear Power by the New York-based avant-garde theater collective, Mabou Mines. Through a close reading of the play, Miller explores the relationship between this production and the little researched organization, Performing Artists for Nuclear Disarmament (PAND), revealing the correlations between collaboratively-generated theater practices and concurrent protest movements.
Arnold Whitridge: Scholar And Veteran Of Two Armies And Two Wars, Keith J. Muchowski
Arnold Whitridge: Scholar And Veteran Of Two Armies And Two Wars, Keith J. Muchowski
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This is an invited blog post written for Roads to the Great War, a site dedicated to the study of the First World War edited by historian Mike Hanlon. The article discusses the life and career of Arnold Whitridge, a soldier, scholar and grandson of British poet Matthew Arnold.
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http://roadstothegreatwar-ww1.blogspot.com/2017/01/arnold-whitridge-scholar-and-veteran-of.html
Feminism, The Left, And Postwar Literary Culture By Kathlene Mcdonald (Review), Danica Savonick
Feminism, The Left, And Postwar Literary Culture By Kathlene Mcdonald (Review), Danica Savonick
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Reviews the book Feminism, the Left, and Postwar Literary Culture by Kathlene McDonald,University of Mississippi Press, 2012.
Sacco And Vanzetti: The Italian American Legacy, Fred L. Gardaphé
Sacco And Vanzetti: The Italian American Legacy, Fred L. Gardaphé
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