The New American Songster

The New American Songster

Author: Charles W. Darling

Publisher: Lanham, Md. :$bUniversity Press of America,$cc1992.

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 432

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A revised and updated edition (first in 1983) of Darling's wonderful compilation of North American folk music in the Anglo-Scots-Irish- African tradition, with notes, discographies, bibliography, and a new section on mail-order companies specializing in folk music. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR


Working Women's Music

Working Women's Music

Author: Evelyn Alloy

Publisher:

Published: 1976

Total Pages: 52

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"[The author] intersperses commentary on the history of America's women laborers with the songs they have sung to express their fury at being exploited and their determination to win a better life for themselves and their sisters."--Back cover.


Novel Notions

Novel Notions

Author: Katherine E. Kickel

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 206

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First Published in 2007. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.


Haunting and Displacement in African American Literature and Culture

Haunting and Displacement in African American Literature and Culture

Author: Marisa Parham

Publisher:

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 170

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Looking at texts including Jean Toomer's "Cane", Toni Morrison's "Beloved", James Baldwin's "Another Country", and 'Beat' poetry by Bob Kaufmann, this work describes the phenomena of haunting, displacement, and ghostliness as endemic to modern African American literature and culture.


Aesthetic Hysteria

Aesthetic Hysteria

Author: Ankhi Mukherjee

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Published: 2007

Total Pages: 148

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Aesthetic Hysteria is a deconstructive psychoanalytic study of hysteria, bringing together several academic foci - the history of medicine, aesthetic theory, speech act theory, feminism, and gender and performance studies.