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Author | : Mel Watkins |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2002-07 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0743245415 |
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From a renowned editor of The New York Times comes a moving memoir that recounts his life from its start. Beginning with his turbulent childhood as an African American coming of age in the 1950s and 1960s, Mel Watkins pens a poignant and powerful memoir of his life at all stages, including his relationship with his brother who was addicted to drugs and violence and his connection with his grandmother, who inspired him to reach for the sky. “Mel Watkins has written a lovely book—warm and smart—that is much more than a memoir. Ohio and its black population have never been better served.” — Toni Morrison
Author | : Inga Clendinnen |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2005-06-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521851378 |
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This 2005 book tells the story of the first British settlers of Australia and the people they found living there.
Author | : Inga Clendinnen |
Publisher | : Virago Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Dancing with Strangersis the most important and compulsively readable book about Australian history and identity to appear for many years. Inga Clendinnen tells the story of what happened between the British settlers of New South Wales and the Australian inhabitants they found there. 'These people mixed with ours,' wrote James Bradley a few days after the First Fleet made landfall in 1788, 'and all hands danced together.' Clendinnen, the distinguished historian of early Spanish America and award-winning author of Tiger's Eyeand Reading the Holocaust,turns her incomparable eye to the extraordinary events attending the first British settlement in Australia. She offers a fresh reading of reports, letters and journals of British participants to reconstruct the difficult path to friendship and conciliation pursued by Arthur Phillip and the local leader Bennelong; and then traces the painful destruction of that hard-won friendship as profound cultural differences asserted themselves.
Author | : Heather Gilion |
Publisher | : Tate Publishing |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2010-05 |
Genre | : Bereavement |
ISBN | : 1607998718 |
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Holly and Heather share their story and help to walk the reader through the painful yet necessary healing process for when life deals us its harshest blows. Dancing on my ashes soothes and empathizes with the broken heart, while sharing the truth of scripture, and the hope that comes from the heart of God.
Author | : Barbara Ehrenreich |
Publisher | : Metropolitan Books |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2007-12-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1429904658 |
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From the bestselling social commentator and cultural historian comes Barbara Ehrenreich's fascinating exploration of one of humanity's oldest traditions: the celebration of communal joy In the acclaimed Blood Rites, Barbara Ehrenreich delved into the origins of our species' attraction to war. Here, she explores the opposite impulse, one that has been so effectively suppressed that we lack even a term for it: the desire for collective joy, historically expressed in ecstatic revels of feasting, costuming, and dancing. Ehrenreich uncovers the origins of communal celebration in human biology and culture. Although sixteenth-century Europeans viewed mass festivities as foreign and "savage," Ehrenreich shows that they were indigenous to the West, from the ancient Greeks' worship of Dionysus to the medieval practice of Christianity as a "danced religion." Ultimately, church officials drove the festivities into the streets, the prelude to widespread reformation: Protestants criminalized carnival, Wahhabist Muslims battled ecstatic Sufism, European colonizers wiped out native dance rites. The elites' fear that such gatherings would undermine social hierarchies was justified: the festive tradition inspired French revolutionary crowds and uprisings from the Caribbean to the American plains. Yet outbreaks of group revelry persist, as Ehrenreich shows, pointing to the 1960s rock-and-roll rebellion and the more recent "carnivalization" of sports. Original, exhilarating, and deeply optimistic, Dancing in the Streets concludes that we are innately social beings, impelled to share our joy and therefore able to envision, even create, a more peaceable future. "Fascinating . . . An admirably lucid, level-headed history of outbreaks of joy from Dionysus to the Grateful Dead."—Terry Eagleton, The Nation
Author | : Billy Idol |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2015-09-29 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 145162851X |
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A candid memoir by the multiplatinum recording artist chronicles his life from his childhood in England and rise to fame at the height of the punk-pop revolution to his popular hits and his collaborations with fellow artists.
Author | : Gary Blankenburg |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780940475496 |
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Author | : Beatriz Dujovne |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2011-09-07 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0786486791 |
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The tango is easily the most iconic dance of the last century, its images as familiar as an old friend. But are they the whole story? Peeling back the poster propaganda that has always characterized the tango publicly, this intimate study shows the invisible heart of the dance and the culture that raised it. Drawing on direct experience and conversations with dancers, it reveals much about the role of the tango in Argentinean culture. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
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Publisher | : iUniverse |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 0595326390 |
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Author | : Elizabeth Van Steenwyk |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780425097205 |
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