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Author | : Richard M. Gamble |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 219 |
Release | : 2012-05-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1441162321 |
The American history of the 'city on a hill' metaphor from its Puritan beginnings to its role in Reagan's American civil religion and beyond.
Author | : Katia Pizzi |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2002-02-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0567244970 |
Poised between the Mediterranean and the Mitteleuropa, crossroads of civilizations and seat of vibrant cultural and literary life, Trieste is now acknowledged as enjoying unrivalled cultural status amongst Italian cities. This volume, the first comprehensive study of Triestine literature in English, originally reassesses TriesteÆs literary identity, paying particular attention to the period between 1918 and 1954 when local writing became intensely aware of its local specificity and some of its central motifs came prominently to the fore. TriesteÆs singular border identity, mirrored in a variegated literary output, emerges here as laden with complexities and ambiguities, such as the controversial notion of triestinita, the ambiguous relation with nationalism, specifically in its Fascist inflection, and the anxieties generated by repeated re-definitions of the areaÆs historical borders.
Author | : Alejandro Nava |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2017-09-12 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0520966759 |
In Search of Soul explores the meaning of “soul” in sacred and profane incarnations, from its biblical origins to its central place in the rich traditions of black and Latin history. Surveying the work of writers, artists, poets, musicians, philosophers and theologians, Alejandro Nava shows how their understandings of the “soul” revolve around narratives of justice, liberation, and spiritual redemption. He contends that biblical traditions and hip-hop emerged out of experiences of dispossession and oppression. Whether born in the ghettos of America or of the Roman Empire, hip-hop and Christianity have endured by giving voice to the persecuted. This book offers a view of soul in living color, as a breathing, suffering, dreaming thing.
Author | : Alejandro L. Madrid |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 019021578X |
In the 1920s, Mexican composer Julián Carrillo (1875-1965) developed a microtonal system he metaphorically called El Sonido 13 (The 13th Sound). Although his pioneering role as one of the first proponents of microtonality gave him a cult figure status among European avant-garde circles in the 1960s and 1970s, his music and legacy have remained largely ignored by scholars and critics. This book explores his ideas not only in relation to the historical moments of their inception but also in relation to the various cultural projects that kept them alive and resignified them into the 21st century.
Author | : RAY FAZAKAS |
Publisher | : Trafford Publishing |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 2012-02-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1466913002 |
The massacre of the Donnellys by their fellow church members has fascinated the public in the English-speaking world for well over a hundred years. Contained in this book are intriguing new photographs never before published and significant new information, which will pique the interest even of those who have been familiar for years with this bit of North American folk history with Irish roots.
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Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 1919 |
Genre | : Baltimore (Md.) |
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Author | : David E. James |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 564 |
Release | : 2005-05-30 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0520242580 |
Los Angeles has nourished a dazzling array of independent cinemas: avant-garde and art cinema, ethnic and industrial films. This panoramic history of film production outside the commercial studio system reconfigures Los Angeles, rather than New York, as the true centre of avant-garde cinema in the US.
Author | : Rosie Heywood |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Cities and towns |
ISBN | : 9781409519058 |
Revealing the secrets of the city, this amazingly detailed book for young children shows what goes on under the streets, how a skyscraper is built and much more. The accent of the book is on fun with each page containing clues to solve puzzles.
Author | : Elana Goldberg Shohamy |
Publisher | : Multilingual Matters |
Total Pages | : 383 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1847692974 |
Elana Shohamy is a professor and chair of the language education program at the School of Education, Tel Aviv University, where she teaches, researches and writes about multiple issues relating to multilingualism: language policy, language testing and language in the public space. --
Author | : Guadalupe Garcia |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520286049 |
"Once one of the most important port cities in the New World, Havana was a model for the planning and construction of other colonial cities. This book tells the story of how Havana was conceived, built, and managed and explores the relationship between colonial empire and urbanization in the Americas. Guadalupe García shows how the policing of urban life and public space by imperial authorities from the sixteenth century onward was explicitly centered on politics of racial exclusion and social control. She illustrates the importance of colonial ideologies in the production of urban space and the centrality of race and racial exclusion as an organizing ideology of urban life in Havana. Beyond the Walled City connects colonial urban practices to contemporary debates on urbanization, the policing of public spaces, and the urban dislocation of black and ethnic populations across the region"--Provided by publisher.