Looking Back At The Jazz Age

Author : Nancy von Rosk
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781443813334

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Looking Back at the Jazz Age by Nancy von Rosk Pdf

From Britain’s Downton Abbey and Dancing on the Edge to Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris and Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby, the Jazz Age’s presence in recent popular culture has been striking and pervasive. This volume not only deepens the reader’s knowledge of this iconic period, but also provides a better understanding of its persistent presence “in our time.” Situating well-known Jazz Age writers such as Langston Hughes in new contexts while revealing the contributions of lesser-known figures such as Fannie Hurst, Looking Back at the Jazz Age brings together an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars who draw on a wide range of academic fields and critical methods: New Historicism, biography, philosophy, queer theory, psychoanalytical theory, geography, music theory, film studies, and urban studies. The volume includes provocative new readings of the flapper, an intricate examination of the intersections between literature and music, as well as some reflections on the twenty first century’s preoccupation with the Jazz Age. Building on recent scholarship and suggesting avenues for further research, this collection will be of interest to scholars and students in American literature, American history, American studies, cultural studies, and film studies.

Author : Sarah Coffin,Stephen Harrison,Stephen G. Harrison,Emily Marshall Orr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Art deco
ISBN : 0300224052

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The Jazz Age by Sarah Coffin,Stephen Harrison,Stephen G. Harrison,Emily Marshall Orr Pdf

An exhilarating look at Art Deco design in 1920s America, using jazz as its unifying metaphor Capturing the dynamic pulse of the era's jazz music, this lavishly illustrated publication explores American taste and style during the golden age of the 1920s. Following the destructive years of the First World War, this flourishing decade marked a rebirth of aesthetic innovation that was cultivated to a great extent by American talent and patronage. Due to an influx of European émigrés to the United States, as well as American enthusiasm for traveling to Europe's cultural capitals, a reciprocal wave of experimental attitudes began traveling back and forth across the Atlantic, forming a creative vocabulary that mirrored the ecstatic spirit of the times. The Jazz Age showcases developments in design, art, architecture, and technology during the '20s and early '30s, and places new emphasis on the United States as a vital part of the emerging marketplace for Art Deco luxury goods. Featuring hundreds of full-color illustrations and essays by two leading historians of decorative arts, this comprehensive catalogue shows how America and the rest of the world worked to establish a new visual representation of modernity. Distributed for the Cleveland Museum of Art Exhibition Schedule: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York (04/07/17-08/20/17) Cleveland Museum of Art (09/30/17-01/14/18)

Author : Christopher Lasch
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1991-09-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780393348422

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The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics by Christopher Lasch Pdf

"A major and challenging work. . . . Provocative, and certain to be controversial. . . . Will add important new dimension to the continuing debate on the decline of liberalism." —William Julius Wilson, New York Times Book Review Can we continue to believe in progress? In this sobering analysis of the Western human condition, Christopher Lasch seeks the answer in a history of the struggle between two ideas: one is the idea of progress - an idea driven by the conviction that human desire is insatiable and requires ever larger production forces. Opposing this materialist view is the idea that condemns a boundless appetite for more and better goods and distrusts "improvements" that only feed desire. Tracing the opposition to the idea of progress from Rousseau through Montesquieu to Carlyle, Max Weber and G.D.H. Cole, Lasch finds much that is desirable in a turn toward moral conservatism, toward a lower-middle-class culture that features egalitarianism, workmanship and loyalty, and recognizes the danger of resentment of the material goods of others.

Author : James O. Windell
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781498704144

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Looking Back in Crime by James O. Windell Pdf

Just as people are captivated by murder mysteries, detective stories, and legal shows, they are also compulsively interested in the history of criminal justice. Looking Back in Crime: What Happened on This Day in Criminal Justice History? features a treasure trove of important dates and significant events in criminal justice history.Offering hundre

Author : F. Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher : VM eBooks
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Tales of the Jazz Age by F. Scott Fitzgerald Pdf

Author : F Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1672365503

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Echoes of the Jazz Age by F Scott Fitzgerald Pdf

The word jazz in its progress toward respectability has meant first meal, then dancing, then music. It is associated with a state of nervous stimulation, not unlike that of big cities on the edge of a war zone.

Author : Nat Shapiro,Nat Hentoff
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780486171364

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Hear Me Talkin' to Ya by Nat Shapiro,Nat Hentoff Pdf

In this marvelous oral history, the words of such legends as Louis Armstrong, Fats Waller, Jelly Roll Morton, Duke Ellington, and Billy Holiday trace the birth, growth, and changes in jazz over the years.

Author : Sohnya Sayres
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317612551

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Susan Sontag (Routledge Revivals) by Sohnya Sayres Pdf

First published in 1990, this is the first book-length study of Susan Sontag: essayist and analyst of culture, author of ‘Notes on Camp’ and Illness as Metaphor, novelist, reviewer, and filmmaker. It was modernism, and the excitement it created in her, that "rescued" Sontag from childhood in Southern California and sent her abroad in the 1950s. Sohnya Sayres looks into the foundations and directions of Sontag’s imposing work and in doing so discovers a unity of design and subject that Sontag has only recently acknowledged to have been an ambition all along. Sayres’s Sontag is the "elegiac modernist", committed to a modernism whose high noon has long since passed. And yet Sayres finds in Sontag’s lifelong indebtedness to modernism’s aesthetic an inherent conservatism. While guiding us through the work of a brilliant critic, Sayres questions whether Sontag is not herself caught in the paradoxes of the modernism she herself so much admires. A comprehensive analysis of the work of a remarkable intellectual, this title will be of value to any student of American modernism and literary life.

Author : Nick Davis
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780199993161

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The Desiring-Image by Nick Davis Pdf

The Desiring-Image redefines queer cinema as a kind of filmmaking that conveys sexuality and desire as fundamentally fluid for all people, exceeding familiar stories and themes in many LGBT movies.

Author : F. Scott Fitzgerald,Anne Margaret Daniel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192598233

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Tales of the Jazz Age by F. Scott Fitzgerald,Anne Margaret Daniel Pdf

'I tender these tales of the Jazz Age into the hands of those who read as they run and run as they read.' Tales of the Jazz Age (1922) was Fitzgerald's second collection of short stories, and it contains some of the best examples of his talent as a writer of short fiction. Often overshadowed by his major novels, Fitzgerald's short stories demonstrate the same originality and inventive range, as he chronicles with wry and astute observation the temper of the hedonistic 1920s. In 'May Day' and 'The Diamond as Big as the Ritz', two of his greatest stories, he conjures up the spirit of the age; in other stories he adopts a variety of forms - parody, a one-act play, fantasy - with unrivalled versatility. 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button', a tale of a man living his life backwards, features among the 'Fantasies' in Fitzgerald's self-deprecatory Table of Contents, alongside the groupings 'My Last Flappers' and 'Unclassified Masterpieces'. Fitzgerald chose the stories for his second collection when he was just twenty-five years old, and in the full flush of wild literary success. Tales of the Jazz Age is a quirky, electrifying selection reaching back into his college days, showing Fitzgerald's strengths not only as one of America's leading short story authors in the early 1920s, but as a playwright, farcical satirist, melodramatist, and fantastical novella-writer. He went in all these directions with equal ease and flash in 1922. Tales of the Jazz Age was a sensation then, and remains so now. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Author : Howard Zinn,Anthony Arnove
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 665 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1583226281

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Voices of a People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn,Anthony Arnove Pdf

Letter, poems, speeches, and essays are collected in this book that tells the story of the United States from the perspective of people left out of history books, such as women, workers, Native Americans, and Latinos. Original. 60,000 first printing.

Author : Ted Merwin
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0813538092

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In Their Own Image by Ted Merwin Pdf

The Jazz Age of the 1920s is an era remembered for illegal liquor, innovative music and dance styles, and burgeoning ideas of social equality. It was also the period during which second-generation Jews began to emerge as a significant demographic in New York City. In TheirOwn Image examines thegrowing cultural visibility of Jewish life amid this vibrant scene. From the vaudeville routines of Fanny Brice, Eddie Cantor, George Jessel, and Sophie Tucker, to the slew of Broadway comedies about Jewish life and the silent films that showed immigrant families struggling to leave the ghetto, images and representations of Jews became staples of interwar popular culture. Through the performing arts, Jews expressed highly ambivalent feelings about their identification with Jewish and American cultures. Ted Merwin shows how they became American by producing and consuming not images of another group, but images of themselves. As a result, they humanized Jewish stereotypes, softened anti-Semitic attitudes, and laid the groundwork for today's Jewish comedians. An entertaining look at the role popular culture plays in promoting the acculturation of an ethnic group, In Their Own Image enhances our understanding of American Jewish history and provides a model for the study of other groups and their integration into mainstream society.

Author : James Ciment
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317471653

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Encyclopedia of the Jazz Age: From the End of World War I to the Great Crash by James Ciment Pdf

This illustrated encyclopedia offers in-depth coverage of one of the most fascinating and widely studied periods in American history. Extending from the end of World War I in 1918 to the great Wall Street crash in 1929, the Jazz age was a time of frenetic energy and unprecedented historical developments, ranging from the League of Nations, woman suffrage, Prohibition, the Red Scare, the Ku Klux Klan, the Lindberg flight, and the Scopes trial, to the rise of organized crime, motion pictures, and celebrity culture."Encyclopedia of the Jazz Age" provides information on the politics, economics, society, and culture of the era in rich detail. The entries cover themes, personalities, institutions, ideas, events, trends, and more; and special features such as sidebars and photos help bring the era vividly to life.

Author : Nick Cohen
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780007319954

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Waiting for the Etonians: Reports from the Sickbed of Liberal England by Nick Cohen Pdf

Selected writings from one of the most important commentators of our generation covering the wreckage of Labour’s 10 year love affair with the Right

Author : Kathleen Morgan Drowne
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814209974

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Spirits of Defiance by Kathleen Morgan Drowne Pdf