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  • Ballroom, Boogie, Shimmy Sham, Shake

    A Social and Popular Dance Reader

    by Julie Malnig, Julie Malnig, Elizabeth Aldrich, Barbara Cohen-Stratyner, Yvonne Daniel, Sherril Dodds, Lisa Doolittle, David F García, Nadine George-Graves, Jurretta Jordan Heckscher, Constance Valis Hill0, Karen W Hubbard1, Tim Lawrence2, Carol Martin3, Juliet McMains4, Terry Monaghan5, Halifu Osumare6, Sally R Sommer7, May Gwin Waggoner8, Tim Wall9, Christina Zanfagna0 ...
    This dynamic collection documents the rich and varied history of social dance and the multiple styles it has generated, while drawing on some of the most current forms of critical and theoretical inquiry. The essays cover different historical periods and styles; encompass regional influences from North and South America, Britain, Europe, and Africa; and emphasize a variety of methodological ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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  • Hip

    The History

    by John Leland ...
    Hip: The History is the story of how American pop culture has evolved throughout the twentieth century to its current position as world cultural touchstone. How did hip become such an obsession? From sex and music to fashion and commerce, John Leland tracks the arc of ideas as they move from subterranean Bohemia to Madison Avenue and back again. Hip: The History examines how hip has helped shape - ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul?

    Essays

    by Jesse McCarthy ...
    **2022 Whiting Award Winner for NonfictionFinalist • National Book Critics Circle Award (Criticism)Best Books of the Year: TIME, Kirkus Reviews"This is a very smart and soulful book. Jesse McCarthy is a terrific essayist." —Zadie SmithA supremely talented young critic’s essays on race and culture, from Toni Morrison to trap, herald the arrival of a major new voice in American letters.**Ranging ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • I Want to Be Ready

    Improvised Dance as a Practice of Freedom

    by Danielle Goldman ...
    "Danielle Goldman's contribution to the theory and history of improvisation in dance is rich, beautiful and extraordinary. In her careful, rigorously imaginative analysis of the discipline of choreography in real time, Goldman both compels and allows us to become initiates in the mysteries of flight and preparation. She studies the massive volitional resources that one unleashes in giving oneself ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • To Be An Artist

    by Camille Colatosti ...
    To Be An Artist is a conversation with today’s successful and prominent artists from a variety of disciplinesâ€"musicians, visual artists, digital artists, poets, writers, activists and scholars. All of them discuss what it means to be an artist today, how they perceive their craft and their world, and the role of art in society. They agree that artists’ creativity and success come not only ... Read more

    $19.95 USD

  • Exploring American Folk Music

    Ethnic, Grassroots, and Regional Traditions in the United States

    by Kip Lornell ...
    Series series American Made Music Series
    Exploring American Folk Music: Ethnic, Regional & Vernacular Traditions in the United States reflects the fascinating diversity of regional and grassroots music in the United States. The book covers the diverse strains of American folk music--Latin, Native American, African, French-Canadian, British, and Cajun--and offers a chronology of the development of folk music in the United States.The book ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Banding Together

    How Communities Create Genres in Popular Music

    by Jennifer C. Lena ...
    Why do some music styles gain mass popularity while others thrive in small niches? Banding Together explores this question and reveals the attributes that together explain the growth of twentieth-century American popular music. Drawing on a vast array of examples from sixty musical styles--ranging from rap and bluegrass to death metal and South Texas polka, and including several created outside ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • American Cultural History

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Eric Avila ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The iconic images of Uncle Sam and Marilyn Monroe, or the "fireside chats" of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the oratory of Martin Luther King, Jr.: these are the words, images, and sounds that populate American cultural history. From the Boston Tea Party to the Dodgers, from the blues to Andy Warhol, dime novels to Disneyland, the history of American culture tells us how previous generations of ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Whose Improv Is It Anyway? Beyond Second City

    by Amy E. Seham ...
    On both sides of the stage improv-comedy's popularity has increased exponentially throughout the 1980s and '90s and into the new millennium. Presto! An original song is created out of thin air. With nothing but a suggestion from the audience, daring young improvisers working without a net or a script create hilarious characters, sketches, and songs. Thrilled by the danger, the immediacy, and the ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Black Cultural Traffic

    Crossroads in Global Performance and Popular Culture

    Edited by Kennell Jackson, Harry Justin Elam Jr. ...
    "A shrewdly designed, generously expansive, timely contribution to our understanding of how 'black' expression continues to define and defy the contours of global (post)modernity. The essays argue persuasively for a transnational ethos binding disparate African and diasporic enactments, and together provide a robust conversation about the nature, history, future, and even possibility of 'blackness ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • New Orleans

    Creolization and all that Jazz

    by Berndt Ostendorf ...
    Ralph Ellison once wrote that the rules of performance in American culture are jazz-shaped. This book explores the Afro-creole core culture of New Orleans as the mainspring of this energizing music. Much of the cultural capital of the city is buried in a complex, tripartite racial history, which threatens the binary logic of North American racism with all sorts of sensual transgressions. Its jazz ... Read more

    $21.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hidden in the Mix

    The African American Presence in Country Music

    Edited by Diane Pecknold ...
    Country music's debt to African American music has long been recognized. Black musicians have helped to shape the styles of many of the most important performers in the country canon. The partnership between Lesley Riddle and A. P. Carter produced much of the Carter Family's repertoire; the street musician Tee Tot Payne taught a young Hank Williams Sr.; the guitar playing of Arnold Schultz ... Read more

    $22.29 USD