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Author : Christie Photinos
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : American literature
ISBN : UCSD:31822028304855
Author : S. Andrew Granade
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781580464956
During the Great Depression, Harry Partch rode the railways, following the fruit harvest across the country. From his experience among hoboes he found what he called ""a fountainhead of pure musical Americana."" Although he later wrote immense stage works for instruments of his own creation, he is still regularly called a hobo composer for the compositions that grew out of this period of his life. Yet few have questioned the label''s impact on his musical output, compositional life, and reception. Focusing on Partch the person alongside the cultural icon he represented, this study examines Par.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography
ISBN : UVA:X004731830
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2001-02
Category : Dissertations, Academic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110578833
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 816 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Dissertation abstracts
ISBN : UOM:39015086908152
Author : Todd DePastino
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226143804
In the years following the Civil War, a veritable army of homeless men swept across America's "wageworkers' frontier" and forged a beguiling and bedeviling counterculture known as "hobohemia." Celebrating unfettered masculinity and jealously guarding the American road as the preserve of white manhood, hoboes took command of downtown districts and swaggered onto center stage of the new urban culture. Less obviously, perhaps, they also staked their own claims on the American polity, claims that would in fact transform the very entitlements of American citizenship. In this eye-opening work of American history, Todd DePastino tells the epic story of hobohemia's rise and fall, and crafts a stunning new interpretation of the "American century" in the process. Drawing on sources ranging from diaries, letters, and police reports to movies and memoirs, Citizen Hobo breathes life into the largely forgotten world of the road, but it also, crucially, shows how the hobo army so haunted the American body politic that it prompted the creation of an entirely new social order and political economy. DePastino shows how hoboes—with their reputation as dangers to civilization, sexual savages, and professional idlers—became a cultural and political force, influencing the creation of welfare state measures, the promotion of mass consumption, and the suburbanization of America. Citizen Hobo's sweeping retelling of American nationhood in light of enduring struggles over "home" does more than chart the change from "homelessness" to "houselessness." In its breadth and scope, the book offers nothing less than an essential new context for thinking about Americans' struggles against inequality and alienation.
Author : Owen Wister
Publisher : The Floating Press
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781775455219
This groundbreaking novel is considered by many to be one of the most important early entries in the western genre. Recounting in rich detail the daily life of a foreman on a vast ranch in Wyoming, this gripping tale has sparked imaginations for more than a century, inspiring at least six film and television versions.
Author : C. M. Kornbluth
Publisher : Rare Treasure Editions
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-06T14:56:00Z
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781774643150
Defeated in battle, will the United States be forced to surrender to the armies of China and Russia?
Author : Robert H. Patton
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250089007
The lyrics of a Cajun waltz may be dark as midnight with heartache and trouble, but still the music swings. The same goes for what happens after a shifty musician and a lonely shopgirl let destiny sweep them into an ill-suited marriage in swampy southwest Louisiana on the eve of the Depression. Love doesn’t much figure between Richie Bainard and Esther Block. They build a business together while dreaming opposite dreams of fulfillment. But like a gumbo simmering with peppers and spice, desires finally come to a boil. Three generations of the volatile clan grapple with the region’s economic struggles and racial tensions. The Bainard children, twins Bonnie and R.J. and their half-brother, Seth, pursue separate cravings for money, sex, and religion. The chase in each case runs off the rails thanks to an ex-marine with a soft heart and a brutish devotion, a dazzling young stepmother of mixed race and mixed motives, and a high school tart who proves tougher and truer than all of them. Ultimately it takes the mass devastation of Hurricane Audrey in 1957 to cleanse the reckless passions. The aftermath is painful but pure, like an old blues song that puts tears in your eyes while you dance.
Author : Victor Witter Turner,Edward M. Bruner
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Education
ISBN : 0252012496
Fourteen authors, including many of the best-known scholars in the field, explore how people actually experience their culture and how those experiences are expressed in forms as varied as narrative, literary work, theater, carnival, ritual, reminiscence, and life review. Their studies will be of special interest for anyone working in anthropological theory, symbolic anthropology, and contemporary social and cultural anthropology, and useful as well for other social scientists, folklorists, literary theorists, and philosophers.
Author : Harry Alverson Franck
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 623 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547179108
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "A Vagabond Journey Around the World" (A Narrative of Personal Experience) by Harry Alverson Franck. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : H. Roger Grant
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-17
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780253006370
“[A] wealth of vignettes and more than 100 black-and-white illustrations . . . Does a fine job of humanizing the iron horse” (The Wall Street Journal). In this social history of the impact of railroads on American life, H. Roger Grant concentrates on the railroad’s “golden age,” from 1830 to 1930. He explores four fundamental topics—trains and travel, train stations, railroads and community life, and the legacy of railroading in America—illustrating each with carefully chosen period illustrations. Grant recalls the lasting memories left by train travel, both of luxurious Pullman cars and the grit and grind of coal-powered locals. He discusses the important role railroads played for towns and cities across America, not only for the access they provided to distant places and distant markets but also for the depots that were a focus of community life, and reviews the lasting heritage of the railroads in our culture today. This is “an engaging book of train stories” from one of railroading’s finest historians (Choice). “Highly recommended to train buffs and others in love with early railroading.” —Library Journal “With plenty of detail, Grant brings a bygone era back to life, addressing everything from social and commercial appeal, racial and gender issues, safety concerns, and leaps in technology . . . A work that can appeal to both casual and hardcore enthusiasts.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Author : Eugen Bleuler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1203385311
Author : Robert Ezra Park,E. W. Burgess
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 1534 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547252047
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Introduction to the Science of Sociology" by Robert Ezra Park, E. W. Burgess. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1916
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UIUC:30112002528336
A novelist and short-story writer, Willa Cather is today widely regarded as one of the foremost American authors of the twentieth century. Particularly renowned for the memorable women she created for such works as My Antonia and O Pioneers!, she pens the portrait of another formidable character in The Song of the Lark. This, her third novel, traces the struggle of the woman as artist in an era when a woman's role was far more rigidly defined than it is today. The prototype for the main character as a child and adolescent was Cather herself, while a leading Wagnerian soprano at the Metropolitan Opera (Olive Fremstad) became the model for Thea Kronborg, the singer who defies the limitations placed on women of her time and social station to become an international opera star. A coming-of-age-novel, important for the issues of gender and class that it explores, The Song of the Lark is one of Cather's most popular and lyrical works. Book jacket.