"Voicing the Popular" brings together aspects of political economy, cultural history, and musical interpretation to examine the rise of popular music over the past 50 years. A unifying theme is that of "voice," by which Middleton means the sphere of vocality through which popular songs are delivered, as well as a broader, metaphorical sense of "voice" as a vehicle through which subjects articulate, understand, and represent identities and personae. Tackling large themes in the field--including gender, race authenticity, and repetition as a means of structuring popular song--Middleton hopes to...

"Voicing the Popular" brings together aspects of political economy, cultural history, and musical interpretation to examine the rise of popular music over the past 50 years. A unifying theme is that of "voice," by which Middleton means the sphere of vocality through which popular songs are delivered, as well as a broader, metaphorical sense of "voice" as a vehicle through which subjects articulate, understand, and represent identities and personae. Tackling large themes in the field--including gender, race authenticity, and repetition as a means of structuring popular song--Middleton hopes to...

Emphasizes the role of teamwork in the British government's conduct of the Seven Year's War.

Pontiac's War: Its Causes, Course, and Consequence, 1763-1765 is a compelling retelling of one of the most pivotal points in American colonial history, in which the Native peoples staged one of the most successful campaigns in three centuries of European contact. With his balanced analysis of the organization and execution of this important conflict, Middleton sheds light on the military movement that forced the British imperial forces to reinstate diplomacy to retain their authority over the region.

Spotlighting the Native American perspective, Pontiac's...

For much of the 17th and 18th centuries, European Americans and Native Americans lived in harmony as traders and hunters. This work explains the 'who, what, when, where, why' of the war that changed things between the native people and the European settler

Richard Middleton was a British poet and short story writer. The Ghost Ship is his best-known work. Stories in this collection include The Ghost Ship, A Drama of Youth, The New Boy, On the Birghton Road, A Tragedy in Little, Shepherd's Boy, The Story of a Book, The Bird in the Garden, Children of the Moon, The Coffin Merchant, The Soul of a Policeman, The Conjurer, The Poet's Allegory, And Who Shall say, The Biography of a Superman, Blue Blood, Fate and the Artist, The Great Man, and A Wet day.