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  • American Melodies

    Popular Music, Ecology, and the Quest for Community

    de Robert McParland ...
    Series series For the Record: Studies in Rock and Popular Music
    Robert McParland explores American music as a bridge between art, audiences, and the environment.American Melodies is a study of America's varied music genres that is grounded in interviews with folk, rock, and jazz musicians, music listeners, songwriters, and organizers of music programs in local communities. The author explores artists' ecological, social, and technological concerns and the ways ... Leer más

    $97.99 USD

  • The Rock Music Imagination

    de Robert McParland ...
    Series series For the Record: Studies in Rock and Popular Music
    The Rock Music Imagination is an exploration of rock artists in their social and artistic contexts, particularly between 1964 and 1980, and of rock music in relation to literature, that is, creative expression, fantastic imagination, and contemporary fiction about rock. Robert McParland analyzes how rock music touches our imaginative lives by looking at themes that appear in classic rock music: ... Leer más

    $34.99 USD

  • Myth and Magic in Heavy Metal Music

    de Robert McParland ...
    Myth pervades heavy metal. With visual elements drawn from medieval and horror cinema, the genre's themes of chaos, dissidence and alienation transmit an image of Promethean rebellion against the conventional. In dialogue with the modern world, heavy metal draws imaginatively on myth and folklore to construct an aesthetic and worldview embraced by a vast global audience. The author explores the ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • The People We Meet in Stories

    Literary Characters That Defined the 1950s

    de Robert McParland ...
    Novels bring us into fictional worlds where we encounter the lives, struggles, and dreams of characters who speak to the underlying pulse of society and social change. In this book, post–World War II America comes alive again as literary critic Robert McParland tilts the rearview mirror to see the characters that captured the imaginations of millions of readers in the most popular and influential ... Leer más

    $37.99 USD

  • Charles Dickens's American Audience

    de Robert McParland ...
    From 1837 to 1912, Charles Dickens was by far the most popular writer for American readers. Through several sources including statistics, literary biography, newspapers, memoirs, diaries, letters, and interviews, Robert McParland examines a historical time and an emerging national consciousness that defined the American identity before and after the Civil War. American voices present their views, ... Leer más

    $46.99 USD

  • Bestseller

    A Century of America's Favorite Books

    de Robert McParland ...
    Whether curled up on a sofa with a good mystery, lounging by the pool with a steamy romance, or brooding over a classic novel, Americans love to read. Despite the distractions of modern living, nothing quite satisfies many individuals more than a really good book. And regardless of how one accesses that book—through a tablet, a smart phone, or a good, old-fashioned hardcover—those choices have ... Leer más

    $37.99 USD

  • From Native Son to King's Men

    The Literary Landscape of 1940s America

    de Robert McParland ...
    Series series Contemporary American Literature
    On the heels of the Great Depression and staring into the abyss of a global war, American writers took fiction and literature in a new direction that addressed the chaos that the nation—and the world—was facing. These authors spoke to the human condition in traumatic times, and their works reflected the dreams, aspirations, values, and hopes of people living in the World War II era.In FromNative ... Leer más

    $44.99 USD

  • Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young's 50-Year Quest

    Music to Change the World

    de Robert McParland ...
    Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young, with their distinct vocal harmonies, blending of rock, jazz, folk, and blues, and political and social activism, have remained one of the most enduring musical acts of the 1960s. This book examines their songs and themes, which continue to resonate with contemporary listeners, and argues that Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young reflect part of the broader story of ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Shamrock

    de Robert McParland ...
    Shamrock, a notorious figure often described as an assassin, has become a guardian of justice in Northern Ireland in the turbulent days before the Good Friday agreement. He confronts a splinter group of "the real IRA" which has targeted a charismatic female member of Parliament. A Special Branch investigator attempts to unravel the mystery of Shamrock, while protecting the MP. A bookish man ... Leer más

    $5.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Beyond Gatsby

    How Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Writers of the 1920s Shaped American Culture

    de Robert McParland ...
    Series series Contemporary American Literature
    Many of the heralded writers of the 20th century—including Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and William Faulkner—first made their mark in the 1920s, while established authors like Willa Cather and Sinclair Lewis produced some of their most important works during this period. Classic novels such as The Sun Also Rises, The Great Gatsby, Elmer Gantry, and The Sound and the Fury ... Leer más

    $29.99 USD

  • Singer-Songwriters of the 1970s

    150+ Profiles

    de Robert McParland ...
    The 1970s saw a wave of singer-songwriters flood the airwaves and concert halls across the United States. This book organizes the stories of approximately 150 artists whose songs created the soundtrack to people's lives during the decade that forever shaped musical composition. Some well-known, others less known, these artists were the song-poets and storytellers who wrote their own music and ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • Mark Twain's Audience

    A Critical Analysis of Reader Responses to the Writings of Mark Twain

    de Robert McParland ...
    Mark Twain has been one of the most popular American writers since 1868. This book shifts the focus of Twain studies from the writer to the reader. This study of Twain’s readership and lecture audiences makes use of statistics, literary biography, twentieth-century newspapers, memoirs, diaries, travel journals, letters, literature, interviews, and reading circle reports. The book allows the ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD