wyszukanych pozycji: 5
Schtick
ISBN: 9781608462704 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Schtick is a tale of Jewish assimilation and its discontents: a sweeping exposition on Jewish American culture in all its bawdy, contradictory, inventive glory. Exploring--in his own family and in culture and politics at large--how Jews have shed their minority status in the United States, poet Kevin Coval shows us a people's transformation out of diaspora, landing on both sides of the color line.
Schtick is a tale of Jewish assimilation and its discontents: a sweeping exposition on Jewish American culture in all its bawdy, contradictory,...
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70,93 zł |
Studs Terkel: Politics, Culture, But Mostly Conversation
ISBN: 9781583675946 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Studs Terkel was an American icon who had no use for America's cult of celebrity. He was a leftist who valued human beings over political dogma. In scores of books and thousands of radio and television broadcasts, Studs paid attention - and respect - to -ordinary- human beings of all classes and colors, as they talked about their lives as workers, dreamers, survivors. Alan Wieder's Studs Terkel: Politics, Culture, But Mostly Conversation is the first comprehensive book about this man. Drawing from over one hundred interviews of people who knew and worked with Studs, Alan Wieder...
Studs Terkel was an American icon who had no use for America's cult of celebrity. He was a leftist who valued human beings over political dogma. In sc...
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549,24 zł |
L-vis Lives!: Racemusic Poems
ISBN: 9781608461516 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. FROM THE POET the "Chicago Tribune" calls "the new voice of Chicago," comes "L-vis Lives ," a bold new collection of poetry and prose exploring the collision of race, art, and appropriation in American culture.
L-vis is an imagined persona, a representation of artists who have used and misused Black music. Like so many others who gained fame and fortune from their sampling, L-vis is as much a sincere artist as he is a thief. In Kevin Coval's poems, L-vis' story is equal parts forgotten history, autobiography, and re-imaginings. We see shades of Elvis Presley, the Beastie Boys, and Eminem,... FROM THE POET the "Chicago Tribune" calls "the new voice of Chicago," comes "L-vis Lives ," a bold new collection of poetry and prose exploring the co...
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81,85 zł |
This Is Modern Art: A Play
ISBN: 9781608465972 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Graffiti crews are willing to risk anything for their art. Called vandals, criminals, even creative terrorists, graffiti artists set out to make their voices heard and alter the way people view the world. But when one crew finishes the biggest graffiti bomb of their careers, the consequences get serious and spark a public debate asking, "Where does art belong?"
Kevin Coval is the author of Schtick, L-vis Lives, the American Library Association "Book of the Year" Finalist Slingshots: A Hip-Hop Poetica, and an editor of The BreakBeat... Graffiti crews are willing to risk anything for their art. Called vandals, criminals, even creative terrorists, graffiti artists set out to make their...
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73,86 zł |
A People's History of Chicago
ISBN: 9781608466719 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Known variously as "'the Windy City,"' "'the City of Big Shoulders,"' or "'Chi-Raq,"' Chicago is one of the most widely celebrated, routinely demonized, and thoroughly contested cities in the world. Chicago is the city of Gwendolyn Brooks and Chief Keef, Al Capone and Richard Wright, Lucy Parsons and Nelson Algren, Harold Washington and Studs Terkel. It is the city of Fred Hampton, House Music, and the Haymarket Martyrs. Writing in the tradition of Howard Zinn, Kevin Coval's A People's History of Chicago celebrates the history of this great American city from the perspective... Known variously as "'the Windy City,"' "'the City of Big Shoulders,"' or "'Chi-Raq,"' Chicago is one of the most widely celebrated, routinely demon... |
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74,08 zł |