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Social Science : African-American Studies

African-American Studies eBooks

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How Long? How Long?
By: Robnett, Belinda
Published by: Oxford University Press (US)

To the perennial question "which comes first, the music or the words?" Ira Gershwin always responded, "the contract." The jest reveals both Ira's consummate professionalism and the self-effacing wit with which he ducked the spotlight whenever possible. Yet the ingeniously inventive melodies George Gershwin composed for such classic songs as "Someone to Watch Over Me," "Embraceable You," "Fascinating Rhythm," "It Ain't Necessarily So," and "Love is Here to Stay" live on in no small part because of the equally unforgettable lyrics of Ira Gershwin, lines crafted with a precision that earned him the sobriquet "The Jeweller" among his Broadway peers. In Ira Gershwin: The Art of the Lyricist, the older and less flamboyant of the Gershwin brothers at last steps out of the shadows to claim his due as one of American songwriting's most important and enduring innovators. Philip Furia traces the development of Ira Gershwin's lyrical art from his early love of light verse and Gilbert and Sullivan, through his apprentice work in Tin Pan Alley, to his emergence as a prominent writer for the Broadway musical theater in the 1920s. Furia illuminates his work in satirical operettas such as Of Thee I Sing and Strike Up the Band, the smart "little" revues of the 1930s, and his contributions to the opera Porgy and Bess. After describing the Gershwin brothers' brief but brilliant work in Hollywood before George's sudden death--work that produced such classics as "They Can't Take That Away From Me" and "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off"--Furia follows Ira's career through such triumphs as Lady in the Dark with Kurt Weill, Cover Girl with Jerome Kern, and A Star is Born, with Harold Arlen. Along the way, Furia provides much insight into the art of the lyricist and he captures the magic of a golden era when not only the Gershwins, but Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II, Gertrude Lawrence, Fred Astaire, and other luminaries made the lights of Broadway and the Hollywo more...

Price: $50.00


Images of the Woman Reader in Victorian British and American Fiction
By: Golden, Catherine J.
Published by: University Press of Florida

“By comparing 'ideologies surrounding women and books' on both sides of the Atlantic, it offers new interpretations of canonical texts in a series of fascinating pairings of British and American texts. . . . The most original aspect of the book is its examination of the woman reader as she appeared in illustrations in popular novels and the way illustration functioned as ‘a vehicle for illuminating issues of gender. more...

Price: $59.95


In the Black: A History of African Americans on Wall Street
By: Bell, Gregory S.
Published by: John Wiley & Sons, Inc

'A compelling account of the pioneers who broke the color barrier on Wall Street and began a story that is still being written.' — E. Stanley O'Neal, President and CEO, Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. ' In the Black is an inspiring yet fair account of how African Americans overcame the challenges of our society on Wall Street. It wonderfully depicts how these pioneers hurdled the obstacles of yesterday and positioned themselves for tomorrow's challenges.' — Bill Donaldson, cofounder, Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette more...

Price: $24.95


In the Break
By: Moten, Fred
Published by: University of Minnesota Press

Fred Moten investigates the provocative connections between jazz, sexual identity, and radical black politics. He focuses in particular on the brilliant improvisatory jazz of John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Albert Ayler, Eric Dolphy, Charles Mingus, and others, arguing that all black performance—culture, politics, sexuality, identity, and blackness itself—is improvisation. more...

Price: $67.50


James Baldwin and Toni Morrison
By: King, Lovalerie (ed.); Scott, Lynn Orilla (ed.)
Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

A collection of comparative critical and theoretical essays that examine James Baldwin and Toni Morrison's reciprocal literary relationship. This collection forges different avenues of discovery and interpretation related to their representations of African American and American literature and cultural experience. more...

Price: $69.95


The Journey to the Promised Land
By: Mungazi, Dickson A.
Published by: Greenwood Press

A study of African American development since the Civil War, as measured by progress in four critical areas of national life: economic, political, educational and social. It includes discussion of important watershed events and key individuals who helped to redefine the nation's history. more...

Price: $77.00


Just My Soul Responding
By: Ward, Brian
Published by: Routledge

A study of the links between Black consciousness and Black American popular music from the advent of R&B in the 1950s to the militant hip-hop groups of the 1990s. more...

Price: $37.95


Kindred Specters
By: Peterson, Christopher
Published by: University of Minnesota Press

Probing Derrida's notion of spectrality as well as Orlando Patterson's concept of Òsocial death,Ó Christopher Peterson examines how death, mourning, and violence condition all kinship relations.Tracing the connections between kinship and mourning in American literature and culture, Peterson argues that socially dead ÒothersÓ can be reanimated only if we avow the mortality and mourning that lie at the root of all kinship relations. more...

Price: $67.50


L.A. City Limits
By: Sides, Josh
Published by: University of California Press

In 1964 an Urban League survey ranked Los Angeles as the most desirable city for African Americans to live in. In 1965 the city burst into flames during one of the worst race riots in the nation's history. How the city came to such a pass--embodying both the best and worst of what urban America offered black migrants from the South--is the story told for the first time in this history of modern black Los Angeles. more...

Price: $15.95


Ladies of the Night and other stories
By: Prince, Althea
Published by: Insomniac Library

Ladies of the Night is set in Toronto and Antigua. With women's loves and lives as their focus, the stories contain dramatic twists and turns: some humorous, others shocking and disturbing, all leaving a haunting melody behind. The Toronto stories capture the issues women face as they walk the ground of intimate and family relationships in that city. The Antiguan setting of some of the stories are reflective of Prince's insight into relationships, captured in her novel and essays. The characters reveal their different ways of managing a range of struggle, pain, rage, love and pure unadulterated joy. The humour of some stories complement the plaintive sadness and emotionality of the strings some other stories pluck. more...

Price: $16.95


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