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Book The Oxford Handbook of Oral History

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Oral History written by Donald A. Ritchie and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past sixty years, oral history has moved from the periphery to the mainstream of academic studies and is now employed as a research tool by historians, anthropologists, sociologists, medical therapists, documentary film makers, and educators at all levels. The Oxford Handbook of Oral History brings together forty authors on five continents to address the evolution of oral history, the impact of digital technology, the most recent methodological and archival issues, and the application of oral history to both scholarly research and public presentations. The volume is addressed to seasoned practitioners as well as to newcomers, offering diverse perspectives on the current state of the field and its likely future developments. Some of its chapters survey large areas of oral history research and examine how they developed; others offer case studies that deal with specific projects, issues, and applications of oral history. From the Holocaust, the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commissions, the Falklands War in Argentina, the Velvet Revolution in Eastern Europe, to memories of September 11, 2001 and of Hurricane Katrina, the creative and essential efforts of oral historians worldwide are examined and explained in this multipurpose handbook.

Book Miles and Smiles  Years and Tears

Download or read book Miles and Smiles Years and Tears written by John DeFoore and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2017-04-06 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of stories, moments and events in the life of one man. They are the high points and the low points of a journey. They detail the heights of the mountain tops and the depths of the valleys through which the author has journeyed. Of course, every person has his or her own journey and these roads as personal as one's breath. These events might stimulate your thinking or they may not. However they were significant times for the author. I hope you will find them interesting for you.

Book Miles Davis  Miles Smiles  and the Invention of Post Bop

Download or read book Miles Davis Miles Smiles and the Invention of Post Bop written by Jeremy Yudkin and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on one of the legendary musicians in jazz, this book examines Miles Davis's often overlooked music of the mid-1960s with a close examination of the evolution of a new style: post bop. Jeremy Yudkin traces Davis's life and work during a period when the trumpeter was struggling with personal and musical challenges only to emerge once again as the artistic leader of his generation. A major force in post-war American jazz, Miles Davis was a pioneer of cool jazz, hard bop, and modal jazz in a variety of small group formats. The formation in the mid-1960s of the Second Quintet with Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, and Tony Williams was vital to the invention of the new post bop style. Yudkin illustrates and precisely defines this style with an analysis of the 1966 classic Miles Smiles.

Book Marching Together

    Book Details:
  • Author : Melinda Chateauvert
  • Publisher : University of Illinois Press
  • Release : 2024-04-22
  • ISBN : 0252056841
  • Pages : 308 pages

Download or read book Marching Together written by Melinda Chateauvert and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2024-04-22 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP) was the first national trade union for African Americans. Standard BSCP histories focus on the men who built the union. Yet the union's Ladies' Auxiliary played an essential role in shaping public debates over black manhood and unionization, setting political agendas for the black community, and crafting effective strategies to win racial and economic justice. Melinda Chateauvert explores the history of the Ladies' Auxiliary and the wives, daughters, and sisters of Pullman porters who made up its membership and used the union to claim respectability and citizenship. As she shows, the Auxiliary actively educated other women and children about the labor movement, staged consumer protests, and organized local and national civil rights campaigns ranging from the 1941 March on Washington to school integration to the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Chateauvert also sheds light on the plight of Pullman maids, who—relegated to the Auxiliary—found their problems as working women neglected in favor of the rhetoric of racial solidarity.

Book Tears of a Tiger

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sharon M. Draper
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2013-07-23
  • ISBN : 1442489138
  • Pages : 25 pages

Download or read book Tears of a Tiger written by Sharon M. Draper and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-07-23 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The death of high school basketball star Rob Washington in an automobile accident affects the lives of his close friend Andy, who was driving the car, and many others in the school.

Book Missouri Historical Review

Download or read book Missouri Historical Review written by Francis Asbury Sampson and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A  Philip Randolph

Download or read book A Philip Randolph written by Andrew Edmund Kersten and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2007 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the emergence of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., there were several key leaders who fought for civil rights in the United States. Among them was A. Philip Randolph, who perhaps best embodied the hopes, ideals, and aspirations of black Americans. In this concise and engaging new book, historian Andrew E. Kersten explores Randolph's influences and accomplishments as both a labor and civil rights leader.

Book The Rotarian

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1915-01
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 144 pages

Download or read book The Rotarian written by and published by . This book was released on 1915-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Established in 1911, The Rotarian is the official magazine of Rotary International and is circulated worldwide. Each issue contains feature articles, columns, and departments about, or of interest to, Rotarians. Seventeen Nobel Prize winners and 19 Pulitzer Prize winners – from Mahatma Ghandi to Kurt Vonnegut Jr. – have written for the magazine.

Book Tales of the Driftnpoet

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  • Author : Darrell Kellogg
  • Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
  • Release : 2009-11-18
  • ISBN : 1441598472
  • Pages : 51 pages

Download or read book Tales of the Driftnpoet written by Darrell Kellogg and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-11-18 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no available information at this time.

Book Poems on sacred and miscellaneous subjects  By Mrs  Frederic Fowell

Download or read book Poems on sacred and miscellaneous subjects By Mrs Frederic Fowell written by Mrs. Frederic FOWELL and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book His Alone

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  • Author : Alexa Riley
  • Publisher : Carina Press
  • Release : 2017-03-28
  • ISBN : 1488022674
  • Pages : 201 pages

Download or read book His Alone written by Alexa Riley and published by Carina Press. This book was released on 2017-03-28 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR Ryan Justice may be her boss, but nothing will stop him from making her his. New York Times and #1 ebook bestselling author Alexa Riley entices with a brand-new, full-length novel. She thinks I'm perfect. A good boss, a good man. She thinks that I play by the rules. She has no idea who I truly am. Why I'm really here. Paige Turner is trying to outrun her past, but there it is, tossed back in her face anytime she manages to get two steps ahead. She has no idea what a man like me will do to get what he wants. Her need for Ryan got in the way of revenge, took her off course. Redirected her focus. Before she knew it, he'd made his way into her life. Into her heart. I'm dirtier than she knows. She thinks I'm good to the core, but she doesn't know the things I've done. The things I would do for her. True love doesn't let secrets as big as these stay buried. And when the truth about Paige's father is finally exposed, Ryan will do anything to fix everything. Paige has always been his—and his alone. This book is approximately 75,000 words One-click with confidence. This title is part of the Carina Press Romance Promise: all the romance you're looking for with an HEA/HFN. It's a promise!

Book Miles Smiles

    Book Details:
  • Author : Divine Miss Jill
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
  • Release : 2008-12-13
  • ISBN : 1409250520
  • Pages : 90 pages

Download or read book Miles Smiles written by Divine Miss Jill and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-12-13 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A colour and read book age 4 - 6 years. For adults and children to learn how a smile can brighten their day and smile for miles and miles.

Book Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters

Download or read book Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters written by Robert L Allen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters created a sea of change in labour and race relations in the US. For the first time in US history, a black labour union played a central role in shaping labor and civil rights policy. Based on interviews and archival research, this new book tells the story of the union and its charismatic leader C.L. Dellums, starting from the BSCP's origins as the first national union of black workers in 1925. In 1937, the BSCP made history when it compelled one of the largest US corporations - the Pullman Company - to recognize and negotiate a contract with a black workers' union. C. L. Dellums was a leading civil rights activist as well as a labor leader. In 1948, he was chosen to be the first West Coast Regional Director of the NAACP. This book is an inspiring testament to both him and the unions transformative impact on US society.

Book On the Job

    Book Details:
  • Author : Heather Akou
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2024-02-22
  • ISBN : 1350349402
  • Pages : 257 pages

Download or read book On the Job written by Heather Akou and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-02-22 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a variety of archival documents, artefacts, illustrations, and references to primary and secondary literature, On the Job explores the changing styles, business practices, and lived experiences of the people who make, sell, and wear service-industry uniforms in the United States. It highlights how the uniform business is distinct from the fashion business, including how manufacturing developed outside of the typical fashion hubs such as New York City; and gives attention to the ways that various types of employers (small business, corporate, government and others) differ in their ambitions and regulations surrounding uniforms. On the Job sheds new light on an understudied yet important field of dress and clothing within everyday life, and is an essential addition to any fashion historian's library, appealing to all those interested in material culture, the service industry, heritage and history.

Book All the Year Round

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1885
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 590 pages

Download or read book All the Year Round written by and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Thousand Mile Song

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  • Author : David Rothenberg
  • Publisher : Basic Books
  • Release : 2008-04-29
  • ISBN : 0465012469
  • Pages : 306 pages

Download or read book Thousand Mile Song written by David Rothenberg and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2008-04-29 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Thousand Mile Song, musician and philosopher David Rothenberg uses the enigma of whale sounds to explore whether we can truly understand nonhuman minds. Interviewing scholars around the world as they attempt to decipher underwater music, Rothenberg tells the story of scientists and artists confronting an unknown as vast as the ocean. Along the way, he plays his clarinet live with whales in their native habitats, from Russia to Hawaii, making interspecies music that appears on the included CD. Richly detailed and deeply entertaining, Thousand Mile Song is an imaginative look at the most intriguing creatures of the ocean.