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Author |
: Rob Kapilow |
Publisher |
: Liveright Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 480 |
Release |
: 2019-11-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781631490309 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1631490303 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (09 Downloads) |
Synopsis Listening for America: Inside the Great American Songbook from Gershwin to Sondheim by : Rob Kapilow
“Not since the late Leonard Bernstein has classical music had a combination salesman-teacher as irresistible as Kapilow.” —Kansas City Star Few people in recent memory have dedicated themselves as devotedly to the story of twentieth- century American music as Rob Kapilow, the composer, conductor, and host of the hit NPR music radio program, What Makes It Great? Now, in Listening for America, he turns his keen ear to the Great American Songbook, bringing many of our favorite classics to life through the songs and stories of eight of the twentieth century’s most treasured American composers—Kern, Porter, Gershwin, Arlen, Berlin, Rodgers, Bernstein, and Sondheim. Hardly confi ning himself to celebrating what makes these catchy melodies so unforgettable, Kapilow delves deeply into how issues of race, immigration, sexuality, and appropriation intertwine in masterpieces like Show Boat and West Side Story. A book not just about musical theater but about America itself, Listening for America is equally for the devotee, the singer, the music student, or for anyone intrigued by how popular music has shaped the larger culture, and promises to be the ideal gift book for years to come.
Author |
: Mark Michael Smith |
Publisher |
: UNC Press Books |
Total Pages |
: 392 |
Release |
: 2001 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0807849820 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780807849828 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (20 Downloads) |
Synopsis Listening to Nineteenth-century America by : Mark Michael Smith
Arguing for the importance of the aural dimension of history, Mark M. Smith contends that to understand what it meant to be northern or southern, slave or free--to understand sectionalism and the attitudes toward modernity that led to the Civil War--we mu
Author |
: Stuart Berg Flexner |
Publisher |
: Simon & Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 596 |
Release |
: 1982 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0671248952 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780671248956 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (52 Downloads) |
Synopsis Listening to America by : Stuart Berg Flexner
An illustrated survey of the origins, evolutions, and meanings of thousands of phrases, and expressions unique to American English adds up to an entertaining, reliable history of modern American idioms and speech.
Author |
: Jerry Falwell |
Publisher |
: Doubleday Books |
Total Pages |
: 296 |
Release |
: 1980 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105040281813 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (13 Downloads) |
Synopsis Listen, America! by : Jerry Falwell
Author |
: Andrew Forsthoefel |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages |
: 403 |
Release |
: 2017-03-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781632867025 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1632867028 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (25 Downloads) |
Synopsis Walking to Listen by : Andrew Forsthoefel
A memoir of one young man's coming of age on a journey across America--told through the stories of the people of all ages, races, and inclinations he meets along the way. Life is fast, and I've found it's easy to confuse the miraculous for the mundane, so I'm slowing down, way down, in order to give my full presence to the extraordinary that infuses each moment and resides in every one of us. At 23, Andrew Forsthoefel headed out the back door of his home in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, with a backpack, an audio recorder, his copies of Whitman and Rilke, and a sign that read "Walking to Listen." He had just graduated from Middlebury College and was ready to begin his adult life, but he didn't know how. So he decided to take a cross-country quest for guidance, one where everyone he met would be his guide. In the year that followed, he faced an Appalachian winter and a Mojave summer. He met beasts inside: fear, loneliness, doubt. But he also encountered incredible kindness from strangers. Thousands shared their stories with him, sometimes confiding their prejudices, too. Often he didn't know how to respond. How to find unity in diversity? How to stay connected, even as fear works to tear us apart? He listened for answers to these questions, and to the existential questions every human must face, and began to find that the answer might be in listening itself. Ultimately, it's the stories of others living all along the roads of America that carry this journey and sing out in a hopeful, heartfelt book about how a life is made, and how our nation defines itself on the most human level.
Author |
: Isabel Sawhill |
Publisher |
: Yale University Press |
Total Pages |
: 268 |
Release |
: 2018-09-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780300241068 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0300241062 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Synopsis Forgotten Americans by : Isabel Sawhill
A sobering account of a disenfranchised American working class and important policy solutions to the nation’s economic inequalities One of the country’s leading scholars on economics and social policy, Isabel Sawhill addresses the enormous divisions in American society—economic, cultural, and political—and what might be done to bridge them. Widening inequality and the loss of jobs to trade and technology has left a significant portion of the American workforce disenfranchised and skeptical of governments and corporations alike. And yet both have a role to play in improving the country for all. Sawhill argues for a policy agenda based on mainstream values, such as family, education, and work. While many have lost faith in government programs designed to help them, there are still trusted institutions on both the local and federal level that can deliver better job opportunities and higher wages to those who have been left behind. At the same time, the private sector needs to reexamine how it trains and rewards employees. This book provides a clear-headed and middle-way path to a better-functioning society in which personal responsibility is honored and inclusive capitalism and more broadly shared growth are once more the norm.
Author |
: Bill D. Moyers |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 362 |
Release |
: 1971 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015014628906 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (06 Downloads) |
Synopsis Listening to America by : Bill D. Moyers
This record of the author's 13,000 mile journey across America last summer describes his impressions and reports on his meetings with "college presidents, student radicals, American Legionnaires, street people, union rebels, clergymen, drug addicts, black spokesmen, political candidates, unemployed executives, business, leaders, country doctors, hard-working cops, and ordinary citizens." Publisher's note.
Author |
: Kim Johnson |
Publisher |
: Ember |
Total Pages |
: 417 |
Release |
: 2022-05-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780593118795 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0593118790 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Synopsis This Is My America by : Kim Johnson
"Incredible and searing." --Nic Stone, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dear Martin The Hate U Give meets Just Mercy in this unflinching yet uplifting first novel that explores the racist injustices in the American justice system. Every week, seventeen-year-old Tracy Beaumont writes letters to Innocence X, asking the organization to help her father, an innocent Black man on death row. After seven years, Tracy is running out of time--her dad has only 267 days left. Then the unthinkable happens. The police arrive in the night, and Tracy's older brother, Jamal, goes from being a bright, promising track star to a "thug" on the run, accused of killing a white girl. Determined to save her brother, Tracy investigates what really happened between Jamal and Angela down at the Pike. But will Tracy and her family survive the uncovering of the skeletons of their Texas town's racist history that still haunt the present? Fans of Nic Stone, Tiffany D. Jackson, and Jason Reynolds won't want to miss this provocative and gripping debut.
Author |
: Emily Thompson |
Publisher |
: MIT Press |
Total Pages |
: 518 |
Release |
: 2004-09-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0262701065 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780262701068 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (65 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Soundscape of Modernity by : Emily Thompson
A vibrant history of acoustical technology and aural culture in early-twentieth-century America. In this history of aural culture in early-twentieth-century America, Emily Thompson charts dramatic transformations in what people heard and how they listened. What they heard was a new kind of sound that was the product of modern technology. They listened as newly critical consumers of aural commodities. By examining the technologies that produced this sound, as well as the culture that enthusiastically consumed it, Thompson recovers a lost dimension of the Machine Age and deepens our understanding of the experience of change that characterized the era. Reverberation equations, sound meters, microphones, and acoustical tiles were deployed in places as varied as Boston's Symphony Hall, New York's office skyscrapers, and the soundstages of Hollywood. The control provided by these technologies, however, was applied in ways that denied the particularity of place, and the diverse spaces of modern America began to sound alike as a universal new sound predominated. Although this sound—clear, direct, efficient, and nonreverberant—had little to say about the physical spaces in which it was produced, it speaks volumes about the culture that created it. By listening to it, Thompson constructs a compelling new account of the experience of modernity in America.
Author |
: Clay S. Jenkinson |
Publisher |
: Koehler Books |
Total Pages |
: 208 |
Release |
: 2020-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1646630963 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781646630967 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (63 Downloads) |
Synopsis Repairing Jefferson's American: A Guide to Civility and Enlightened Citizenship by : Clay S. Jenkinson
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) was the greatest idealist of the Founding Fathers of America. He believed that average citizens are up to the challenge of governing themselves. He envisioned a republic of well-educated, well-informed, engaged, and vigilant citizens. Jefferson's dream of a semi-utopian American republic has nearly been swallowed up by cynical partisanship, government gridlock, consumer materialism, and the corrosive power of money in American politics. Jefferson believed in civility, majority rule, the primacy of science and reason, and harmony in all of our public and private relations. Public humanities scholar Clay S. Jenkinson believes we can return to Jeffersonian principles both in our private lives and the public sphere. Repairing Jefferson's America is a clear and concise guide for those who wish to live more rational, purposeful, and enlightened lives.