Recent Social Trends in the United States, 1960-1990
Recent Social Trends in the United States, 1960-1990

Author: Theodore Caplow

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 1994-03-21

Total Pages: 612

ISBN-13: 9780773512122

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On Rachel Carson and her work and on current environmental challenges. The four authors present information on various American trends: demographic, macroeconomic, and macro-technological. Descriptions, tables, and graphs trace the dynamics of population, specifically in relation to the expansion which followed the 1982-83 recession, and analyze achievements in intelligence, genetic engineering, and space travel. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

American Mainline Religion
American Mainline Religion

Author: Wade Clark Roof

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 9780813512167

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Wade Clark Roof and William McKinney argue that a new voluntarism is slowly eroding the old social and economic boundaries that once defined and separated religious groups and is opening new cleavages along moral and life-style lines. Nowhere has the impact of these changes been more profoundly felt than by the often-overlooked religious communities of the American center, or mainline--Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish. "American Mainline Religion" provides a new "mapping" of the families of American religion and the underlying social, cultural, and demographic forces that will reshape American religion in the century to come. Going beyond the headlines in daily newspapers, Roof and McKinney document the decline of the Protestant establishment, the rise of a more assimilated and public-minded Roman Catholicism, the place of black Protestantism and Judaism, and the resurgence of conservative Protestantism as a religious and cultural force.

The Statesman's Year-Book 1988-89
The Statesman's Year-Book 1988-89

Author: J. Paxton

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-12-16

Total Pages: 1731

ISBN-13: 0230271170

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The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.

The School of Arizona Dranes
The School of Arizona Dranes

Author: Timothy Dodge

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2013-09-12

Total Pages: 207

ISBN-13: 0739167138

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Arizona Dranes (1889-1963) was a true musical innovator whose recordings made for the Okeh label during the years 1926-1928 helped lay the foundations for what would soon be known as gospel music. Her unique blend of ragtime, barrelhouse, and boogie woogie piano plus her exciting and emotional Pentecostal style of singing influenced the development of gospel music for the next forty years and beyond. The School of Arizona Dranes: Gospel Music Pioneer covers the life and career of Dranes and situates her accomplishments in the broader history of African American gospel music and the rise of the Pentecostal movement. Starting with the earliest recordings of the music in the late nineteenth century, this book provides a history of African American sacred and gospel music that convincingly demonstrates the revolutionary nature of Dranes’s musical accomplishment. Using specific examples, the author traces the far-reaching influence of Arizona Dranes on African American gospel piano playing and singing.