wyszukanych pozycji: 4
Jump Jim Crow: Lost Plays, Lyrics, and Street Prose of the First Atlantic Popular Culture
ISBN: 9780674010628 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 478 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Beginning in the 1830s, the white actor Thomas D. Rice took to the stage as Jim Crow, and the ragged and charismatic trickster of black folklore entered--and forever transformed--American popular culture. Jump Jim Crow brings together for the first time the plays and songs performed in this guise and reveals how these texts code the complex use and abuse of blackness that has characterized American culture ever since Jim Crow's first appearance. Along with the prompt scripts of nine plays performed by Rice--never before published as their original audiences saw them--W. T.... Beginning in the 1830s, the white actor Thomas D. Rice took to the stage as Jim Crow, and the ragged and charismatic trickster of black folklore en... |
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384,13 zł |
Deliberate Speed: The Origins of a Cultural Style in the American 1950s, with a New Preface
ISBN: 9780674008731 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. W. T. Lhamon 's Deliberate Speed is a cultural history of the 1950s in the United States that directly confronts the typical view of this decade as an arid wasteland. By surveying the artistic terrain of the period--examining works by figures as varied as Miles Davis, Ralph Ellison, Robert Frank, Allen Ginsberg, Little Richard, Charlie Parker, Jackson Pollock, Thomas Pynchon, and Ludwig Wittgenstein--Lhamon demonstrates how many of the distinctive elements that so many attribute to the revolutionary period of the 1960s had their roots in the fertile soil of the 1950s. Taking... W. T. Lhamon 's Deliberate Speed is a cultural history of the 1950s in the United States that directly confronts the typical view of this de... |
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169,96 zł |
Raising Cain: Blackface Performance from Jim Crow to Hip Hop
ISBN: 9780674001930 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Cain made the first blackface turn, blackface minstrels liked to say of the first man forced to wander the world acting out his low place in life. It wasn't the "approved" reading, but then, blackface wasn't the "approved" culture either--yet somehow we're still dancing to its renegade tune. The story of an insubordinate, rebellious, truly popular culture stretching from Jim Crow to hip hop is told for the first time in Raising Cain, a provocative look at how the outcasts of official culture have made their own place in the world. Unearthing a wealth of long-buried plays and... Cain made the first blackface turn, blackface minstrels liked to say of the first man forced to wander the world acting out his low place in life. ... |
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169,96 zł |
Gnomaggedon
ISBN: 9781490389783 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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44,28 zł |