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American Indian grandmothers
traditions and transitions
Schweizer blends documentary history, oral history, and ethnographic observation to shed light on the world of grandmothering in Native America. The cultural and emotional resources of their ethnic traditions help grandmothers grapple with the social, economic, cultural and political challenges they face in the late twentieth century. Indian grandmothers are almost universally occupied with child care and child rearing at some time, but such variables as lineal descent, clan membership, kinship patterns,...
Engels | 239 pagina's | University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque | 1999
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Perspectives on American music since 1950
Engels | 482 pagina's | Garland, New York [etc.] | 1999
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Entertaining crime
television reality programs
Engels | 218 pagina's | Aldine De Gruyter, New York | 1998
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The new American cinema
Collection of essays providing a survey of Hollywood and independent films from the mid-sixties to the present. The essays are divided into three sections: movies and money, cinema and culture and independents and independence. Focus lies among others on the economics of the film industry, the distribution of studio and independent films, the political significance of films, the films of women, the stereotyping of African Americans.
Engels | 405 pagina's | Duke University Press, Durham [etc.] | 1998
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Critical issues in public art
content, context, and controversy
Defining national values: American monuments, murals and memorials; politics, patronage and public art. Public art is a complex achievement that must speak to increasingly diverse groups and causes often controversies. Public art overtly and covertly conveys civic values and national culture. Each work can only be understood by analysing the context in which it is commissioned, built and recieved.
Engels | 314 pagina's | Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington [etc.] | 1998
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Max Wilk They're playing our song
conversations with America's classic songwriters
Non-fictie
Engels | 294 pagina's | Da Capo Press, New York | 1997
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Musics of multicultural America
a study of twelve musical communities
Engels | 348 pagina's | Schirmer Books, New York | 1997
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New world Hasidim
ethnographic studies of Hasidic Jews in America
Engels | 285 pagina's | State University of New York Press, Albany, N.Y. | 1995
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Present tense
rock & roll and culture
Engels | 317 pagina's | Duke University Press, Durham [etc.] | 1992
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The extreme right in Europe and the USA
Engels | 320 pagina's | St. Martin's Press, New York | 1992
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Gene Lees Waiting for Dizzy
Essays over jazz en Amerikaanse jazzmusici vanaf ca 1920 tot heden.
Engels | 251 pagina's | Oxford University Press, New York [etc.] | 1991
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Henry E. Legler Library ideals
Engels | 78 pagina's | Open Court Publishing Company, Chicago | 1918
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