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Author: Ray DiPalma
Publisher: Pressed Wafer Press
Published: 1988-01-01
Total Pages: 106
ISBN-13: 9780937013243
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPoetry. "At a controlled distance from a papery world Ray DiPalma constructs dense material thought. Words push against thought patterns and that shape they turn to you. It's a universe of marvelous tough slopes and gestures with abetted passions"-Alan Davies.
Author: David J. Steffen
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2014-01-10
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 0786451564
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLike any profound technological breakthrough, the advent of sound recording ushered in a period of explosive and imaginative experimentation, growth and competition. Between the commercial debut of Edison's "talking machine" in 1889 and the first commercial radio broadcast three decades later, the recording industry was uncharted territory in terms of both technology and content. This history of the earliest years of sound recording--the time between the phonograph's appearance and the licensing of commercial radio--examines a newly created technology and industry in search of itself. It follows the story from the earliest efforts to capture sound, to the fight among wire, cylinder and disk recordings for primacy in the market, to the growth and development of musical genres, record companies and business practices that remain current today. The work chronicles the people, events and developments that turned a novel, expensive idea into a highly marketable commodity. Two appendices provide extensive lists of popular genre and ethnic recordings made between 1889 and 1919. A bibliography and index accompany the text.
Author: Richard Gray
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2011-09-23
Total Pages: 933
ISBN-13: 1444345680
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUpdated throughout and with much new material, A History of American Literature, Second Edition, is the most up-to-date and comprehensive survey available of the myriad forms of American Literature from pre-Columbian times to the present. The most comprehensive and up-to-date history of American literature available today Covers fiction, poetry, drama, and non-fiction, as well as other forms of literature including folktale, spirituals, the detective story, the thriller, and science fiction Explores the plural character of American literature, including the contributions made by African American, Native American, Hispanic and Asian American writers Considers how our understanding of American literature has changed over the past?thirty years Situates American literature in the contexts of American history, politics and society Offers an invaluable introduction to American literature for students at all levels, academic and general readers
Author: Susan Smith Nash
Publisher:
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 110
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrama. "Susan Smith Nash's dramas are postmodern collisions of cultures and identities which ask the audience (and not always politely!) to look within themselves. They'll discover the prejudice and arrogance they thought belonged to someone else are festering inside their own minds. But, so festers freedom. And the world of possibilities" -Ana Erentxum.
Author: Richard Gray
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2015-03-30
Total Pages: 545
ISBN-13: 1118795350
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA History of American Poetry presents a comprehensive exploration of the development of American poetic traditions from their pre-Columbian origins to the present day. Offers a detailed and accessible account of the entire range of American poetry Situates the story of American poetry within crucial social and historical contexts, and places individual poets and poems in the relevant intertextual contexts Explores and interprets American poetry in terms of the international positioning and multicultural character of the United States Provides readers with a means to understand the individual works and personalities that helped to shape one of the most significant bodies of literature of the past few centuries
Author: Dennis Barone
Publisher:
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 414
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKPoetry. In THE ART OF PRACTICE, the poem is viewed as primary, not 'prior to or about experience, ' but itself experience... The editors make clear that neither expression, description, nor voice is the point of this poetry: 'it is the embodiment of the mind discovering' -- Jackson Mac Low
