American Naval Songs & Ballads
American Naval Songs & Ballads

Author: Robert Wilden Neeser

Publisher:

Published: 1938

Total Pages: 444

ISBN-13:

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A collection of largely anonymous songs, ballads, and poems commemorating naval engagements from the Revolutionary War to World War I.

The American Flag
The American Flag

Author: John R. Vile

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2018-10-05

Total Pages: 434

ISBN-13:

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At a time when the U.S. flag is both a source of both pride and controversy, this volume provides the first encyclopedic A-to-Z treatment of the U.S. flag in American history, culture, and law. This title is a comprehensive resource for understanding all aspects of the American flag and its relationship to the American people. The encyclopedia provides a thorough historical examination of key developments in the flag's design as well as laws and court decisions related to the flag and the First Amendment. In relation to the flag's history, it also discusses evolving public attitudes about its importance as a national symbol. The encyclopedia contains illuminating scholarly essays on presentations of the flag in American politics, the military, and popular culture including art, music, and journalism. Additionally, these essays address important rules of flag etiquette and modern controversies related to them, from flag-burning to refusing to stand during the playing of the U.S. National Anthem.

Cheap Print and Popular Song in the Nineteenth Century
Cheap Print and Popular Song in the Nineteenth Century

Author: Paul Watt

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-03-23

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 110816174X

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This book is a cultural history of the nineteenth-century songster: pocket-sized anthologies of song texts, usually without musical notation. It examines the musical, social, commercial and aesthetic functions songsters served and the processes by which they were produced and disseminated, the repertory they included, and the singers, printers and entrepreneurs that both inspired their manufacture and facilitated their consumption. Taking an international perspective, chapters focus on songsters from Ireland, North America, Australia and Britain and the varied public and private contexts in which they were used and exploited in oral and print cultures.