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Many listeners first heard “Hound Dog” when Elvis Presley’s single topped the pop, country, and R&B charts in 1956. But some fans already knew the song from Big Mama Thornton’s earlier recording, a giant but exclusively R&B hit. In Hound Dog Eric Weisbard examines the racial, commercial, and cultural ramifications of Elvis’s appropriation of a Black woman’s anthem. He rethinks the history and influences of rock music in light of Rolling Stone's replacement of Presley’s “Hound Dog” with Thornton’s version in its 2021 “500 Greatest Songs of All Time” list. Taking readers...
Many listeners first heard “Hound Dog” when Elvis Presley’s single topped the pop, country, and R&B charts in 1956. But some fans already knew t...
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345,62 zł |
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Many listeners first heard “Hound Dog” when Elvis Presley’s single topped the pop, country, and R&B charts in 1956. But some fans already knew the song from Big Mama Thornton’s earlier recording, a giant but exclusively R&B hit. In Hound Dog Eric Weisbard examines the racial, commercial, and cultural ramifications of Elvis’s appropriation of a Black woman’s anthem. He rethinks the history and influences of rock music in light of Rolling Stone's replacement of Presley’s “Hound Dog” with Thornton’s version in its 2021 “500 Greatest Songs of All Time” list. Taking readers...
Many listeners first heard “Hound Dog” when Elvis Presley’s single topped the pop, country, and R&B charts in 1956. But some fans already knew t...
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76,67 zł |
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Resilient Kitchens: American Immigrant Cooking in a Time of Crisis, Essays and Recipes
ISBN: 9781978832510 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Resilient Kitchens is a stimulating collection of essays about the lives of immigrants in the United States before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, told through the lens of food. It includes a vibrant mix of perspectives from food writers, restaurateurs, scholars, and activists, accompanied by delicious recipes, gorgeous photography and hand-drawn illustrations.
Resilient Kitchens is a stimulating collection of essays about the lives of immigrants in the United States before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, t...
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111,91 zł |
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Monuments and Memory-Making: The Debate over the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, 1981-1982
ISBN: 9781469673899 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Monuments and Memory-Making immerses students in the conversations and controversies that emerged as the nation grappled with how best to memorialize what was at the time the longest military conflict in US history. As students engage in the historical process of memory-making, they will work to reconcile the varied and often contradictory voices that rose up after the fall of Saigon. Students will tackle questions such as How do we create a national memory of the past? How do we reckon with a war that was widely understood as a defeat for the United States? How do we remember the dead while...
Monuments and Memory-Making immerses students in the conversations and controversies that emerged as the nation grappled with how best to memorialize ...
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126,51 zł |
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The Gayborhood: From Sexual Liberation to Cosmopolitan Spectacle
ISBN: 9781793609854 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Gayborhood: From Sexual Liberation to Cosmopolitan Spectacle explores the lived experiences of LGBT+ persons in an era of heightened visibility. The contributors analyze the future of LGBT+ politics and look beyond the commercialized rainbow spectacle of gayborhoods into the communities and aspirations within.
The Gayborhood: From Sexual Liberation to Cosmopolitan Spectacle explores the lived experiences of LGBT+ persons in an era of heightened visibility. T...
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146,03 zł |
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The Foxfire Book of Appalachian Women: Stories of Landscape and Community in the Mountain South
ISBN: 9781469670034 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1966 in Rabun County, Georgia, a group of high school English students created theFoxfire magazine, a literary journal that celebrated Appalachian stories, peoples, and culture. The publication was filled with poetry and prose from local students and authors and featured interviews with community members. These oral histories quickly became the focal point of the magazine and, eventually, the material that generated the multivolume Foxfire book series. Now, pulled from the vast Foxfire archive comes the first volume in the series focused specifically on the lives of Appalachian women....
In 1966 in Rabun County, Georgia, a group of high school English students created theFoxfire magazine, a literary journal that celebrated Appalachian ...
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99,92 zł |
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Vaccines War: Covid-19 Crisis
ISBN: 9798823080064 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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153,38 zł |
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Vaccines War: Covid-19 Crisis
ISBN: 9798823080057 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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76,56 zł |
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The Foxfire Book of Appalachian Women: Stories of Landscape and Community in the Mountain South
ISBN: 9781469670027 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1966 in Rabun County, Georgia, a group of high school English students created theFoxfire magazine, a literary journal that celebrated Appalachian stories, peoples, and culture. The publication was filled with poetry and prose from local students and authors and featured interviews with community members. These oral histories quickly became the focal point of the magazine and, eventually, the material that generated the multivolume Foxfire book series. Now, pulled from the vast Foxfire archive comes the first volume in the series focused specifically on the lives of Appalachian women....
In 1966 in Rabun County, Georgia, a group of high school English students created theFoxfire magazine, a literary journal that celebrated Appalachian ...
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399,16 zł |
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Oh, Didn\'t They Ramble: Rounder Records and the Transformation of American Roots Music
ISBN: 9781469674995 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What is American roots music? Any definition must account for a kaleidoscope of genres from bluegrass to blues, western swing to jazz, soul and gospel to rock and reggae, Cajun to Celtic. It must encompass the work of artists as diverse as Alice Gerard and Alison Kraus, George Thorogood and Sun Ra, Bela Fleck and Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, the Blake Babies and Billy Strings. What do all these artists and music styles have in common? The answer is a record label born in the wake of the American folk revival and 1960s movement politics, formed around the eclectic tastes and audacious ideals of...
What is American roots music? Any definition must account for a kaleidoscope of genres from bluegrass to blues, western swing to jazz, soul and gospel...
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107,60 zł |
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Public Confessions: The Religious Conversions That Changed American Politics
ISBN: 9781469677415 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Personal reinvention is a core part of the human condition. Yet in the mid-twentieth century, certain private religious choices became lightning rods for public outrage and debate. Public Confessions reveals the controversial religious conversions that shaped modern America. Rebecca L. Davis explains why the new faiths of notable figures including Clare Boothe Luce, Whittaker Chambers, Sammy Davis Jr., Marilyn Monroe, Muhammad Ali, Chuck Colson, and others riveted the American public. Unconventional religious choices charted new ways of declaring an "authentic" identity amid escalating Cold...
Personal reinvention is a core part of the human condition. Yet in the mid-twentieth century, certain private religious choices became lightning rods ...
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97,30 zł |
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Live Dead: The Grateful Dead, Live Recordings, and the Ideology of Liveness
ISBN: 9781478020707 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Grateful Dead were one of the most successful live acts of the rock era. Performing more than 2,300 shows between 1965 and 1995, the Grateful Dead’s reputation as a “live band” was—and continues to be—sustained by thousands of live concert recordings from every era of the group’s long and colorful career. In Live Dead, musicologist John Brackett examines how live recordings—from the group’s official releases to fan-produced tapes, bootlegs to “Betty Boards,” and Dick’s Picks to From the Vault—have shaped the general history and popular mythology of the Grateful...
The Grateful Dead were one of the most successful live acts of the rock era. Performing more than 2,300 shows between 1965 and 1995, the Grateful Dead...
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418,64 zł |
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Live Dead: The Grateful Dead, Live Recordings, and the Ideology of Liveness
ISBN: 9781478025481 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Grateful Dead were one of the most successful live acts of the rock era. Performing more than 2,300 shows between 1965 and 1995, the Grateful Dead’s reputation as a “live band” was—and continues to be—sustained by thousands of live concert recordings from every era of the group’s long and colorful career. In Live Dead, musicologist John Brackett examines how live recordings—from the group’s official releases to fan-produced tapes, bootlegs to “Betty Boards,” and Dick’s Picks to From the Vault—have shaped the general history and popular mythology of the Grateful...
The Grateful Dead were one of the most successful live acts of the rock era. Performing more than 2,300 shows between 1965 and 1995, the Grateful Dead...
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102,18 zł |
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Longing for Connection: Entangled Memories and Emotional Loss in Early America
ISBN: 9781421448305 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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138,35 zł |
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Ecopoetic Place-Making
ISBN: 9783837669343 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. American ecopoetries of migration explore the conflicted relationships of mobile subjects to the nonhuman world and thus offer valuable environmental insight for our current age of mass mobility and global ecological crisis. In Ecopoetic Place-Making, Judith Rauscher analyzes the works of five contemporary American poets of migration, drawing from ecocriticism and mobility studies. The poets discussed in her study challenge exclusionary notions of place-attachment and engage in ecopoetic place-making from different perspectives of mobility, testifying to the potential of poetry as a means of...
American ecopoetries of migration explore the conflicted relationships of mobile subjects to the nonhuman world and thus offer valuable environmental ...
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214,14 zł |
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The Multiverse of Office Fiction
ISBN: 9783031126901 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Multiverse of Office Fiction liberates Herman Melville’s 1853 classic, “Bartleby, the Scrivener,” from a microcosm of Melville studies, namely the so-called Bartleby Industry. This book aims to illuminate office fiction—fiction featuring office workers such as clerks, civil servants, and company employees—as an underexplored genre of fiction, by addressing relevant issues such as evolution of office work, integration of work and life, exploitation of women office workers, and representation of the Post Office. In achieving this goal, Bartleby plays an essential role...
The Multiverse of Office Fiction liberates Herman Melville’s 1853 classic, “Bartleby, the Scrivener,” from a microcosm of Melville s...
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484,18 zł |
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The Campus Queen in Literature and Culture: Prom Queen Profiles.
ISBN: 9783031403521 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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443,82 zł |
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Divided by Terror: American Patriotism After 9/11
ISBN: 9781469679303 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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107,05 zł |
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Third Worlds Within
ISBN: 9781478030164 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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116,78 zł |
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87,06 zł |
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