Download or read book Rhymes from a Hill Billy written by Leon C. Hiegel and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hillbilly written by Anthony Harkins and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-11-20 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this pioneering work of cultural history, historian Anthony Harkins argues that the hillbilly-in his various guises of "briar hopper," "brush ape," "ridge runner," and "white trash"-has been viewed by mainstream Americans simultaneously as a violent degenerate who threatens the modern order and as a keeper of traditional values of family, home, and physical production, and thus symbolic of a nostalgic past free of the problems of contemporary life. "Hillbilly" signifies both rugged individualism and stubborn backwardness, strong family and kin networks but also inbreeding and bloody feuds. Spanning film, literature, and the entire expanse of American popular culture, from D. W. Griffith to hillbilly music to the Internet, Harkins illustrates how the image of the hillbilly has consistently served as both a marker of social derision and regional pride. He traces the corresponding changes in representations of the hillbilly from late-nineteenth century America, through the great Depression, the mass migrations of Southern Appalachians in the 1940s and 1950s, the War on Poverty in the mid 1960s, and to the present day. Harkins also argues that images of hillbillies have played a critical role in the construction of whiteness and modernity in twentieth century America. Richly illustrated with dozens of photographs, drawings, and film and television stills, this unique book stands as a testament to the enduring place of the hillbilly in the American imagination. Hillbilly received an Honorable Mention, John G. Cawelti Book Award of the American Culture Association.
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries New Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1929 with total page 2334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part 1, Books, Group 1, v. 25 : Nos. 1-121 (March - December, 1928)
Download or read book The Popular Rhymes Sayings and Proverbs of the County of Berwick written by George Henderson and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book When Blackness Rhymes with Blackness Dalkey Archive Scholarly Series written by Rowan Ricardo Phillips and published by Dalkey Archive Press. This book was released on 2010-07-20 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lyrical, provocative, and highly original—a groundbreaking book by one of America’s smartest young poet-critics. In When Blackness Rhymes with Blackness, Rowan Ricardo Phillips pushes African American poetry to its limits by unraveling “our desire to think of African American poetry as African American poetry.” Phillips reads African American poetry as inherently allegorical and thus “a successful shorthand for the survival of a poetry but unsuccessful shorthand for the sustenance of its poems.” Arguing in favor of the “counterintuitive imagination,” Phillips demonstrates how these poems tend to refuse their logical insertion into a larger vision and instead dwell indefinitely at the crux between poetry and race, “where, when blackness rhymes with blackness, it is left for us to determine whether this juxtaposition contains a vital difference or is just mere repetition.” From When Blackness Rhymes with Blackness: Phillis Wheatley, like the epigraphs that writers fit into the beginning of their texts, is first and foremost a cultural sign, a performance. It is either in the midst of that performance (“at a concert”), or in that performance’s retrospection (“in a cafe?”), that a retrievable form emerges from the work of a poet whose biography casts a far longer shadow than her poems ever have. Next to Langston Hughes, of all African American poets Wheatley’s visual image carries the most weight, recognizable to a larger audience by her famed frontispiece, her statue in Boston, and the drama behind the publication of her book, Poems on Various Subjects Religious and Moral. All of this will be fruit for discussion in the pages that follow. Yet, I will also be discussing the proleptic nature with which African American literature talks, if you will, Phillis Wheatley.
Download or read book Alan Lomax Assistant in Charge written by Ronald D. Cohen and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2010-12-08 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alan Lomax (1915-2002) began working for the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress in 1936, first as a special and temporary assistant, then as the permanent Assistant in Charge, starting in June 1937, until he left in late 1942. He recorded such important musicians as Woody Guthrie, Muddy Waters, Aunt Molly Jackson, and Jelly Roll Morton. A reading and examination of his letters from 1935 to 1945 reveal someone who led an extremely complex, fascinating, and creative life, mostly as a public employee. While Lomax is noted for his field recordings, these collected letters, many signed "Alan Lomax, Assistant in Charge," are a trove of information until now available only at the Library of Congress. They make it clear that Lomax was very interested in the commercial hillbilly, race, and even popular recordings of the 1920s and after. These letters serve as a way of understanding Lomax's public and private life during some of his most productive and significant years. Lomax was one of the most stimulating and influential cultural workers of the twentieth century. Here he speaks for himself through his voluminous correspondence.
Download or read book Creating Country Music written by Richard A. Peterson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-04-26 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Creating Country Music, Richard Peterson traces the development of country music and its institutionalization from Fiddlin' John Carson's pioneering recordings in Atlanta in 1923 to the posthumous success of Hank Williams. Peterson captures the free-wheeling entrepreneurial spirit of the era, detailing the activities of the key promoters who sculpted the emerging country music scene. More than just a history of the music and its performers, this book is the first to explore what it means to be authentic within popular culture. "[Peterson] restores to the music a sense of fun and diversity and possibility that more naive fans (and performers) miss. Like Buck Owens, Peterson knows there is no greater adventure or challenge than to 'act naturally.'"—Ken Emerson, Los Angeles Times Book Review "A triumphal history and theory of the country music industry between 1920 and 1953."—Robert Crowley, International Journal of Comparative Sociology "One of the most important books ever written about a popular music form."—Timothy White, Billboard Magazine
Download or read book Am I Wasting My Time on You written by Howard E. Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essential Songwriter s Rhyming Dictionary written by Kevin Mitchell and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on 2005-05-03 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed by the New York Times as "part muse, part quick reference," this dictionary is an easy-to-use tool geared specifically toward the contemporary songwriter. A concise collection of the most-often used words in popular music, this enhanced format allows for fast reference with ease, while the 15,000 entries provide more than ample rhyming options.
Download or read book Negro Poets and Their Poems written by Robert Thomas Kerlin and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Most Uninitiated Hillbilly written by Wallen Bean and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his moving memoir, Wallen Bean tells the story of his Appalachian boyhood during the Great Depression, giving us a glimpse of the "olden days"as they really were. We meet his extended family and a quirky cast of town characters who nourish him and give him the solid beginnings a boy needs to go off into the world. Wallen reaches for a larger life and he finds it, sort of, in college, where his rough-hewn Appalachian soul, a stunning combination of true goodness and hayseed naivety, is challenged. But he endures, even gets a girlfriend, and goes off to Boston University School of Theology. Wallen's second life is lived as a Methodist minister in five New England churches. He and his wife Christine (yes, the same girlfriend) thrive in some parishes, fail miserably in one. They live in big and small parsonages, become parents, and learn tough love in dealing with different congregations. He develops a special talent for working with young people, a desperate need in 1960s America.Wallen Bean, the social worker, is coming into full bloom and, again, he reaches out to change his life. In his third incarnation, Wallen leaves the ministry and plunges into youth work, from the Job Corps in New Bedford to Revival House in Fall River, where he works with troubled young people. Along the way, he finds spiritual nourishment at the local Friends Meeting, especially the Quaker belief in the power of small groups. He never quite loses his Appalachian soul, but he is transformed from uninitiated hillbilly to one who confronts and negotiates a gritty, heartbreaking world with wisdom and sophistication. One man's journey honestly told, even his fish stories.
Download or read book Dictionary Catalog of the Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays Brown University Library Providence Rhode Island written by Brown University. Library and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Interpreting Popular Music written by David Brackett and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2000-10-25 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book David Brackett crosses the disciplines of cultural studies in music theory to consider how listeners evaluate popular songs and how they come to attribute a rich variety of meanings to them.
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Download or read book Musicalia written by J. H. Davies and published by Pergamon. This book was released on 1969 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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