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Book No Dancin  in Anson

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ricardo C. Ainslie
  • Publisher : Jason Aronson
  • Release : 1995
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 378 pages

Download or read book No Dancin in Anson written by Ricardo C. Ainslie and published by Jason Aronson. This book was released on 1995 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story of a community's struggle with its ethnic transformation. The book's portraits of individuals provide an engagement with the complexities of ethnic tensions. It examines the difficulties in fashioning a national identity which can accommodate people's differences.

Book Dancin  in Anson

    Book Details:
  • Author : Paul Howard Carlson
  • Publisher : Grover E. Murray Studies in th
  • Release : 2014
  • ISBN : 9780896728912
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Dancin in Anson written by Paul Howard Carlson and published by Grover E. Murray Studies in th. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ""Explores the history and reenactment of the Texas Cowboys' Christmas Ball held in Anson, TX every year since 1934; analyzes the poem by William Lawrence Chittenden written about the Anson Christmas dances in the 1880s and is the basis for the reenactment."--Provided by publisher"--

Book No Dancin  in Anson

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ricardo C. Ainslie
  • Publisher : Jason Aronson
  • Release : 1995
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 376 pages

Download or read book No Dancin in Anson written by Ricardo C. Ainslie and published by Jason Aronson. This book was released on 1995 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story of a community's struggle with its ethnic transformation. The book's portraits of individuals provide an engagement with the complexities of ethnic tensions. It examines the difficulties in fashioning a national identity which can accommodate people's differences.

Book Goldmine Record Album Price Guide

Download or read book Goldmine Record Album Price Guide written by Dave Thompson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just like you, Goldmine is passionate about vinyl. It rocks our world. So trust us when we say that the Goldmine Record Album Price Guide is a vinyl collector's best friend. Inside these pages you'll find the latest pricing and identification information for rock, pop, alternative, jazz and country albums valued at $10 or more. And that's just for starters. Goldmine Record Album Price Guide features: • Updated prices for more than 100,000 American vinyl LPs released since 1948. • A detailed explanation of the Goldmine Grading Guide, the industry standard. • Tips to help you accurately grade and value your records--including promo pressings. • An easy-to-use, well-organized format. Whether you're new to the scene or a veteran collector, Goldmine Record Album Price Guide is here to help!

Book Texas Curiosities

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Kelso
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 2018-09-01
  • ISBN : 1493023705
  • Pages : 224 pages

Download or read book Texas Curiosities written by John Kelso and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-09-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Texas Curiosities brings to the reader with humor and affection—and a healthy dose of attitude—the oddest, quirkiest, and most outlandish places, personalities, events, and phenomena found within the state’s borders and in the chronicles of its history. From the world’s largest squirrel (property of Cedar Creek) to the world’s oldest washing machine (at the Washing Machine Museum in Mineral Wells), Texas Curiosities is a who's who of unusual and unsung heroes that will amuse Texas residents and visitors alike.

Book The Palace Hotel

    Book Details:
  • Author : Richard Harned
  • Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 9780738559698
  • Pages : 132 pages

Download or read book The Palace Hotel written by Richard Harned and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When it opened in 1875, the Palace Hotel was the largest and most luxurious hotel in the world, a perfect symbol of one of the most remarkable eras in San Francisco history. Built at a time when Nevada's fabulously rich silver mines were pouring millions of dollars each month into San Francisco, it typified the color and grandiose extravagances of the whole bonanza period. After the original hotel was destroyed in the 1906 earthquake and fire, a successor Palace Hotel took its place and remains one of the most prestigious hotels in San Francisco today.

Book Texas Off the Beaten Path

Download or read book Texas Off the Beaten Path written by June Naylor and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2011-11-08 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Texas Off the Beaten Path features the things travelers and locals want to see and experience––if only they knew about them. From the best in local dining to quirky cultural tidbits to hidden attractions, unique finds, and unusual locales, Texas Off the Beaten Path takes the reader down the road less traveled and reveals a side of Texas that other guidebooks just don't offer.

Book Free Speech Beyond Words

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mark V. Tushnet
  • Publisher : NYU Press
  • Release : 2020-02-15
  • ISBN : 1479805513
  • Pages : 269 pages

Download or read book Free Speech Beyond Words written by Mark V. Tushnet and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2020-02-15 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Supreme Court has unanimously held that Jackson Pollock’s paintings, Arnold Schöenberg’s music, and Lewis Carroll’s poem “Jabberwocky” are “unquestionably shielded” by the First Amendment. Nonrepresentational art, instrumental music, and nonsense: all receive constitutional coverage under an amendment protecting “the freedom of speech,” even though none involves what we typically think of as speech—the use of words to convey meaning. As a legal matter, the Court’s conclusion is clearly correct, but its premises are murky, and they raise difficult questions about the possibilities and limitations of law and expression. Nonrepresentational art, instrumental music, and nonsense do not employ language in any traditional sense, and sometimes do not even involve the transmission of articulable ideas. How, then, can they be treated as “speech” for constitutional purposes? What does the difficulty of that question suggest for First Amendment law and theory? And can law resolve such inquiries without relying on aesthetics, ethics, and philosophy? Comprehensive and compelling, this book represents a sustained effort to account, constitutionally, for these modes of “speech.” While it is firmly centered in debates about First Amendment issues, it addresses them in a novel way, using subject matter that is uniquely well suited to the task, and whose constitutional salience has been under-explored. Drawing on existing legal doctrine, aesthetics, and analytical philosophy, three celebrated law scholars show us how and why speech beyond words should be fundamental to our understanding of the First Amendment.

Book Goldmine Jazz Album Price Guide

Download or read book Goldmine Jazz Album Price Guide written by Tim Neely and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collectors of jazz on vinyl know how difficult it can be to find pristine copies of original classic jazz recordings, and ever-changing market values can make pricing those albums even more difficult. With this fantastic, updated 2nd edition, collectors will be able to accurately price records using the most current US market values. This all-encompassing reference features all types of jazz issued on 331/3 rpm long-playing records, including Dixieland, bebop, big band, swing, West Coast, fusion, modern and many others. It includes over 40,000 albums released between 1948 and today, valued in three grades of condition, as well as a thoroughly illustrated label guide for easy distinction between first editions and later pressings. Collectors will discover thousands of records not listed in any other price guide.

Book Prairie Nights to Neon Lights

Download or read book Prairie Nights to Neon Lights written by Joe Carr and published by Texas Tech University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the regional bands of the 1930s and 1940s to the impact of Elvis Presley on the musicians and singers of the 1950s, Prairie Nights to Neon Lights takes us inside the heart of West Texas music.

Book Texas

    Book Details:
  • Author : June Naylor
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 2008-11-25
  • ISBN : 0762762438
  • Pages : 299 pages

Download or read book Texas written by June Naylor and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2008-11-25 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Elmwood Park

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kenneth J. Knack
  • Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
  • Release : 2014
  • ISBN : 1467111201
  • Pages : 128 pages

Download or read book Elmwood Park written by Kenneth J. Knack and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In less than 50 years, a blink of the eye in the history of mankind, Elmwood Park transformed itself from prairie to prosperity. Fertile lands once home to Native Americans sprouted a development unlike any that had ever been seen in the Chicago area. The Westwood subdivision, started by John Mills just before the start of the Great Depression, resulted in the construction of over 1,500 brick bungalows in two years. A second postwar boom coincided with the Italian American migration from the old Chicago neighborhoods. The next 50 years would see continued growth and change. When people think of Elmwood Park, images of food often accompany those thoughts. Envisioning a barbecue pork sandwich or a combo, juicy, sweet and large ice, no-lid brings back memories of standing in long lines, cash in hand, among people of all races united in the desire to satisfy their appetites."

Book Psychoanalysis in an Age of Accelerating Cultural Change

Download or read book Psychoanalysis in an Age of Accelerating Cultural Change written by Neil Altman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-02 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychoanalysis in an Age of Accelerating Cultural Change: Spiritual Globalization addresses the current status of mental health work in the public and private sectors. The careful, thorough, approach to the individual person characteristic of psychoanalysis is mostly the province of an affluent few. Meanwhile, community-based mental health treatment, given shrinking budgets, tends to emphasize medication and short-term therapies. In an increasingly diverse society, considerations of culture in mental health treatment are given short shrift, despite obligatory nods to cultural competence. The field of mental health has suffered from the mutual isolation of psychoanalysis, community-based clinical work, and cultural studies. Here, Neil Altman shows how these areas of study and practice require and enrich each other - the field of psychoanalysis benefits by engaging marginalized communities; community-based clinical work benefits from psychoanalytic concepts, while all forms of clinical work benefit from awareness of culture. Including reports of clinical experiences and programmatic developments from around the world, its international scope explores the operation of culture and cultural differences in conceptions of mental health. In addition the book addresses the origin and treatment of mental illness, from notions of spirit possession treated by shamans, to conceptions of psychic trauma, to biological understandings and pharmacological treatments. In the background of this discussion is globalization, the impact of which is tracked in terms of its psychological effects on people, as well as on the resources and programs available to provide psychological care around the world. As a unique examination of current mental health work, this book will appeal to psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, community-based mental health workers, and students in Cultural Studies. Neil Altman is a psychoanalytic psychologist, Visiting Professor at Ambedkar University of Delhi, India, and faculty and supervisor at the William Alanson White Institute. He is an Honorary Member of the William Alanson White Society and Editor Emeritus of Psychoanalytic Dialogues. Author of The Analyst in the Inner City: Race, Class, and Culture through a Psychoanalytic Lens (Routledge, 2nd edition, 2010)

Book Racism

    Book Details:
  • Author : Albert J. Wheeler
  • Publisher : Nova Publishers
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9781594544798
  • Pages : 276 pages

Download or read book Racism written by Albert J. Wheeler and published by Nova Publishers. This book was released on 2005 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all mankinds' vices, racism is one of the most pervasive and stubborn. Success in overcoming racism has been achieved from time to time, but victories have been limited thus far because mankind has focused on personal economic gain or power grabs ignoring generosity of the soul. This bibliography brings together the literature.

Book The Big Bands

    Book Details:
  • Author : George T. Simon
  • Publisher : Schirmer Trade Books
  • Release : 2012-03-08
  • ISBN : 0857128124
  • Pages : 192 pages

Download or read book The Big Bands written by George T. Simon and published by Schirmer Trade Books. This book was released on 2012-03-08 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book you will find an astounding 400 biographies that highlight the history and personnel of the great bands. It is organized into four sections: “The Big Bands--Then” (the scene, the leaders, the public, the musicians, vocalists, arrangers and businessmen, recordings, radio, movies and the press); “Inside the Big Bands” (profiles of 72 top bands); “Inside More of the Big Bands” (hundreds of additional profiles arranged by categories (“The Arranging Leaders,” “The Horn-playing Leaders,” etc.); and “The Big Bands Now.” The Big Bands is one of the best books on the subject. It is both readable and an invaluable reference source for the study of jazz standards since many were written by big band leaders or musicians or were popularized through their performances and recordings. The index is comprehensive with names but lists no songs. George T. Simon was one of the original organizers and members of the Glenn Miller Orchestra for which he played the drums. He was also one of the first writers for Metronome Magazine where he remained from 1935 until 1955.

Book Lone Star Swing

    Book Details:
  • Author : Duncan McLean
  • Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN : 9780393317565
  • Pages : 332 pages

Download or read book Lone Star Swing written by Duncan McLean and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1998 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High Fidelity meets Blue Highways in this gloriously offbeat quest for the true roots of Texas Swing.

Book Oddball Texas

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jerome Pohlen
  • Publisher : Chicago Review Press
  • Release : 2006-02
  • ISBN : 1569764727
  • Pages : 401 pages

Download or read book Oddball Texas written by Jerome Pohlen and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2006-02 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This amusing travel guide to the Lone Star State doesn't waste travelers' time telling them where to find antiques in the Hill Country, take breathtaking hikes through Big Bend, or gaze upon the Alamo. Instead, it guides television fans to a modern replica of the Munsters's mansion, leads the nonsqueamish to the world's only Cockroach Hall of Fame, and points the curious towards a small town filled with hippo statues. Among other things, Texas is home to Goliath-sized roadside attractions, and directions are provided on how to reach the World's Largest Six-Shooter, World's Largest Rattlesnake, and World's Largest Wooden Nickel. The accompanying photographs and maps instruct visitors on how to get to these and other extraordinary spots, including the Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, the Celebrity Shoe Musuem, Alley Oop's Fantasyland, and the Birthplace of Fritos. A dose of wacky Texas history is also included with answers to questions such as "Did a UFO really crash into a windmill northwest of Fort Worth in 1897? "and "What does an Abilene Kinko's have to do with the early retirement of Dan Rather?"