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History of British Folklore
Author | : Richard Mercer Dorson |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 558 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780415204767 |
First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Monthly Review; Or Literary Journal Enlarged
Author | : Ralph Griffiths |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 626 |
Release | : 1833 |
Genre | : Bibliography |
ISBN | : |
Editors: May 1749-Sept. 1803, Ralph Griffiths; Oct. 1803-Apr. 1825, G.E. Griffiths.
General Catalogue of the Books Except Fiction, French, and German, in the Public Library of Detroit, Mich
Author | : Detroit Public Library |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 910 |
Release | : 1894 |
Genre | : Catalogs, Dictionary |
ISBN | : |
Play of a Fiddle
Author | : Gerald Milnes |
Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2021-10-21 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 081318388X |
Play of a Fiddle gives voice to people who steadfastly hold to and build on the folk traditions of their ancestors. While encountering the influences of an increasingly overwhelming popular culture, the men and women in this book follow age-old patterns of folklife and custom, making their own music and dance in celebration of them. Shedding new light on a region that maintains ties to the cultural identities of its earliest European and African inhabitants, Gerald Milnes shows how folk music in West Virginia borrowed rhythmic, melodic, and vocal forms from the Celtic, Anglo, Germanic, and African traditions. These elements have come together to create a body of music tied more to place and circumstance than to ethnicity. Milnes explores the legacies of the state's best-known performers and musical families. He discusses religious music, balladeering, the influence of black musicians and styles, dancing, banjo and dulcimer traditions, and the importance of old-time music as a cultural pillar of West Virginia life. A musician himself, Milnes has been collecting songs and stories in West Virginia for more than twenty-five years. The result is an enjoyable book filled with anecdotes, local history, and keen observations about musical lives.
Portraiture and British Gothic Fiction
Author | : Kamilla Elliott |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2012-10-19 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1421407175 |
Traditionally, kings and rulers were featured on stamps and money,the titled and affluent commissioned busts and portraits, and criminals and missing persons appeared on wanted posters. British writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, however, reworked ideas about portraiture to promote the value and agendas of the ordinary middle classes. According to Kamilla Elliott, our current practices of "picture identification" (driver's licenses, passports, and so on) are rooted in these late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century debates. Portraiture and British Gothic Fiction examines ways writers such as Horace Walpole, Ann Radcliffe, Mary Shelley, and C. R. Maturin as well as artists, historians, politicians, and periodical authors dealt with changes in how social identities were understood and valued in British culture—specifically, who was represented by portraits and how they were represented as they vied for social power. Elliott investigates multiple aspects of picture identification: its politics, epistemologies, semiotics, and aesthetics, and the desires and phobias that it produces. Her extensive research not only covers Gothic literature's best-known and most studied texts but also engages with more than 100 Gothic works in total, expanding knowledge of first-wave Gothic fiction as well as opening new windows into familiar work. -- Jerrold E. Hogle, University of Arizona