Download or read book The Smoke of the Gods written by Eric Burns and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2006-10-06 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of The Spirits of America, an energetic history of tobacco use.

Download or read book Shakespeare written by Harold Bloom and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2008-07 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harold Bloom, the doyen of American literary critics and author of 'The Western Canon', has spent a professional lifetime reading, writing about, and teaching Shakespeare. In this magisterial interpretation, Bloom explains Shakespeare's genius in a radical and provocative re-reading of the plays.

Download or read book My Father Marconi written by Degna Marconi and published by Guernica Editions. This book was released on 2001 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The daughter of Guglielmo Marconi draws upon her father's personal journals and letters as well as from scientific and historical records to chronicle the life and profession of the internationally known inventor.

Download or read book Resonances written by Esther M. Morgan-Ellis and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Resonances: Engaging Music in Its Cultural Context offers a fresh curriculum for the college-level music appreciation course. The musical examples are drawn from classical, popular, and folk traditions from around the globe. These examples are organized into thematic chapters, each of which explores a particular way in which human beings use music. Topics include storytelling, political expression, spirituality, dance, domestic entertainment, and more. The chapters and examples can be taught in any order, making Resonances a flexible resource that can be adapted to your teaching or learning needs. This textbook is accompanied by a complete set of PowerPoint slides, a test bank, and learning objectives.

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Download or read book Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan Performed in the Years 1852 1853 and 1854 written by Matthew Calbraith Perry and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Engaging Haydn written by Mary Kathleen Hunter and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-12 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Haydn is enjoying renewed appreciation: this book explores fresh approaches to his music and the cultural forces affecting it.

Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Stanley Kubrick written by Gene D. Phillips and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveys the director's life and career with information on his films, key people in his life, technical information, themes, locations, and film theory.

Download or read book Mark Twain in Context written by John Bird and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-02 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Twain In Context provides the fullest introduction in one volume to the multifaceted life and times of one of the most celebrated American writers. It is a collection of short, lively contributions covering a wide range of topics on Twain's life and works. Twain lived during a time of great change, upheaval, progress, and challenge. He rose from obscurity to become what some have called 'the most recognizable person on the planet'. Beyond his contributions to literature, which were hugely important and influential, he was a businessman, an inventor, an advocate for social and political change, and ultimately a cultural icon. Placing his life and work in the context of his age reveals much about both Mark Twain and America in the last half of the nineteenth century, the twentieth century, and the first decades of the twenty-first century.

Download or read book The Making of the English Middle Class written by Peter Earle and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first major study of a neglected yet extremely significant subject: the London middle classes in the period between 1660 and 1730, a period in which they created a society and economy that can be seen with hindsight to have ushered in the modern world. Using a wealth of material from contemporary sources--including wills, business papers, inventories, marriage contracts, divorce hearings, and the writings of Daniel Defoe and Samuel Pepys--Peter Earle presents a fully rounded picture of the "middling sort of people," getting to the hearts of their lives as men and women struggling for success in the biggest, richest, and most middle-class city in contemporary Europe. He examines in fascinating and convincing detail the business life of Londoners, from apprenticeship through the problems and potential rewards of different occupational groups, going on to look at middle-class family, social, political and material life--from relationships with spouses, children, servants, and neighbors, to food and clothes and furniture, to sickness, death, and burial. Stimulating, scholarly, and constantly illuminating, this book is an important and impressive contribution to English social history.

Download or read book The Concert Song Companion written by Charles Osborne and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: W HAT I H A V E attempted in this book is a survey of song; the kind of song which one finds variously described as 'concert', 'art', or sometimes even 'classical song'. 'Concert song' seems the most useful, certainly the least inexact or misleading, of some descriptions, especially since 'art song' sounds primly off putting, and 'classical song' really ought to be used only to refer to songs written during the classical period, i. e. the 18th century. Concert song clearly means the kind of songs one hears sung at concerts or recitals. Addressing myself to the general music-lover who, though he possesses no special knowledge of the song literature, is never theless interested enough in songs and their singers to attend recitals of Lieder or of songs in various languages, I have naturally confined myself to that period of time in which the vast majority of these songs was composed, though not necessarily only to those composers whose songs have survived to be remembered in recital programmes today. I suppose this to be roughly the three centuries covered by the years 1650-1950, though most of the songs we, as audiences, know and love were composed in the middle of this period, in other words in the 19th century.

Download or read book Afterlives of the Lady of Shalott and Elaine of Astolat written by Ann F. Howey and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-07-31 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates adaptations of The Lady of Shalott and Elaine of Astolat in Victorian and post-Victorian popular culture to explore their engagement with medievalism, social constructions of gender, and representations of the role of art in society. Although the figure of Elaine first appeared in medieval texts, including Malory’s Le Morte Darthur, Tennyson’s poems about the Lady and Elaine drew unprecedented response from musicians, artists, and other authors, whose adaptations in some cases inspired further adaptations. With chapters on music, art, and literature (including parody, young people’s literature, and historical fiction and fantasy), this book seeks to trace the evolution of these characters and the ways in which they reinforce or challenge conventional gender roles, represent the present’s relationship to the past, and highlight the power of art.

Download or read book Be Always Converting be Always Converted written by Rob Wilson and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wilson's reconceptualization of the American project of conversion begins with the story of Henry 'Ōpūkaha'ia, the first Hawaiian convert to Christianity, torn from his Native Pacific homeland and transplanted to New England. Wilson argues that 'Ōpūkaha'ia's conversion is both remarkable and prototypically American.

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Download or read book Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from 1833 to 1847 written by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Witches and Witchcraft written by Rosemary Guiley and published by Checkmark Books. This book was released on 1999-01 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Identifies famous witches, explains terms dealing with witchcraft, and describes related churches and organizations