City Ballads
Author: Will Carleton
Publisher: University of Michigan Library
Published: 1886
Total Pages: 184
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Author: Will Carleton
Publisher: University of Michigan Library
Published: 1886
Total Pages: 184
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Michael L. Lasser
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Published: 2019
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 1580469523
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Nothing defines the songs of the great American songbook more richly and persuasively than their urban sensibility. During the first half of the twentieth century, songwriter such as Harold Arlen, Irving Berlin, Dorothy Fields, George and Ira Gershwin, and Thomas 'Fats' Waller flourished in New York City, the home of Tin Pan Alley, Broadway, and Harlem. Many of these remarkably deft and forceful creators were native New Yorkers. Others got to Gotham as fast as they could. Either way, it was as if, from their vantage point on the West Side of Manhattan, these artists were describing America--not its geography of politics, but its heart--to Americans and to the world at large. In City songs and American life, 1900-1950, renowned author and broadcaster Michael Lasser offers an evocative and probing account of the popular songs--including some written originally for the stage or screen--that America heard, and sang, and danced to during the turbulent first half of the twentieth century. Lasser demonstrates how the spirit of the teeming city pervaded these wildly diverse songs. Often that spirit took form overtly in songs that portrayed the glamor of Broadway of the energy and jazz age culture of Harlem. But a city-bred spirit--or even a specifically New York City way of feeling and talking--also infused many other widely known and loved songs, stretching from the early decades of the century to the twenties (the age of the flapper, bathtub gin, and women's right to vote), the Great Depression, and, finally, World War II. Throughout this remarkable book, Lasser emphasizes how the soul of city life, as echoes in the nation's songs, developed and changed in tandem with economic, social, and political currents in America as a whole"--Dust jacket flap.
Author: John Clark Ridpath
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Published: 1899
Total Pages: 554
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Published: 1885
Total Pages: 1006
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Published: 1887
Total Pages: 604
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Published: 1896
Total Pages: 330
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
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Published: 1907
Total Pages: 1310
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Published: 1907
Total Pages: 1312
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Lālana Śāha
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 649
ISBN-13: 0190680229
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCarol Salomon dedicated over thirty years of her life to researching, translating, and annotating this compilation of songs by the Bengali poet and mystical philosopher Lalan Sai (popularly transliterated as Lalon) who lived in the village of Cheuriya in Bengal in the latter half of the nineteenth century. One major objective of his lyrical riddles was to challenge the restrictions of cultural, political, and sexual identity, and his songs accordingly express a longing to understand humanity, its duties, and its ultimate destiny. His songs also contain thinly veiled references to esoteric yogic practices (sadhana), including body-centered Hathayogic techniques that are related to those found in Buddhist, Kaula, Natha, and Sufi medieval tantric literature. Dr. Salomon's translation of the work is the first dedicated English translation of Lalan's songs to closely follow the Bangla text, with all of its dialectical variations, and is here produced alongside the original text. Although her untimely death left her work unpublished, the editors have worked diligently to reconstruct her translations from her surviving printed and handwritten manuscripts. The result is a finished product that can finally share her groundbreaking scholarship on Baul traditions with the world.
Author: Chicago Public Library
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Published: 1904
Total Pages: 140
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