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  • Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press  (6)
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  • Zeitschriften zur Ethnologie
  • American Studies  (6)
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  • 1
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    Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press
    ISBN: 9780748634255
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (1 online resource (257 p.))
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Twentieth-Century American Culture
    Series Statement: EBL-Schweitzer
    Parallel Title: Druckausg.
    DDC: 306.097309041
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    Keywords: Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century ; United States -- Civilization -- 1865-1918 ; United States -- Intellectual life -- 1865-1918 ; Popular culture ; United States ; History ; 20th century ; United States ; Civilization ; 1865-1918 ; United States ; Intellectual life ; 1865-1918 ; Nineteen tens ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: This book provides a fresh account of the major cultural and intellectual trends of the United State in the 1910s, a decade characterised by war, the flowering of modernism, the birth of Hollywood, and Progressive interpretations of culture and society. Chapters on fiction and poetry, art and photography, film and vaudeville, and music, theatre, and dance explore these developments, linking detailed commentary with focused case studies of influential texts and events. These range from Tarzan of the Apes to The Birth of a Nation, from the radical modernism of Gertrude Stein and the Provincetown
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  • 2
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    Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press
    ISBN: 9780748637164
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (329 pages)
    Series Statement: Introducing Ethnic Studies
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.896073
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    Keywords: Ethnology Study and teaching ; African Americans Study and teaching ; African Americans ; Study and teaching ; Ethnology ; Study and teaching ; United States ; Electronic books ; Biografie ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This book presents the diverse, expansive nature of African American Studies and its characteristic interdisciplinarity. It is intended for use with undergraduate/ beginning graduate students in African American Studies, American Studies and Ethnic Studies.
    Abstract: Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Series Editor's Foreword -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Part i History and Theoretical Perspectives in African American Studies -- Chapter 2 African American Studies: Discourses and Paradigms -- Chapter 3 Afrocentricity and Africology: Theory and Practice in the Discipline -- Part ii Community Service, Social Activism and the Academy -- Chapter 4 Town and Gown: Reaffirming Social Responsibility in Africana Studies -- Chapter 5 Reflections on the Journey: Interview with Danny Glover (May 2008) -- Chapter 6 Black Studies for the Public: Interview with Manning Marable (September 2008) -- Part iii International Perspectives -- Chapter 7 Africa and its Importance to African American Studies -- Chapter 8 Black Studies in the UK and US: A Comparative Analysis -- Part iv Selected Areas of Scholarship -- Chapter 9 Africana Studies and Oral History: A Critical Assessment -- Chapter 10 African American Philosophy: Through the Lens of Struggle -- Chapter 11 Song and Dance Nexus in the Africana Aesthetic: An Approach -- Chapter 12 Perspectives on Womanism, Black Feminism, and Africana Womanism -- Chapter 13 Theorizing African American Religion -- Part v Commentary -- Chapter 14 African American Studies: Vital, Transformative, and Sustainable -- Notes on the Editor, Contributors, and Interviewees -- Index.
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  • 3
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    Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press
    ISBN: 0748626026 , 1281947725 , 0748626018 , 9780748631322 , 9781281947727 , 9780748626021 , 9780748626014
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xii, 324 p)
    Edition: Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Parallel Title: Print version American Thought and Culture in the 21st Century
    DDC: 306.0973
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    Keywords: Culture 21st century ; Culture ; 21st century ; United States ; Civilization ; 21st century ; Electronic books ; United States Civilization 21st century ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Will the twenty-first century be the next American Century? Will American power and ideas dominate the globe in the coming years? Or is the prestige of the United States likely to crumble beneath the pressure of new international challenges?. This ground-breaking book explores the changing patterns of American thought and culture at the dawn of the new millennium, when the world's richest nation has never been more powerful or more controversial. It brings together some of the most eminent North American and European thinkers to investigate the crucial issues and challenges facing the United S
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes on the Contributors; Introduction: The Next American Century?; Part 1: Politics; 1. American Politics in the 1990s and 2000s; 2. American Leadership into the New Century; 3. 9/11 and US Foreign Policy; 4. Three Variations on American Liberalism; 5. The Rise of Postmodern Conservatism; 6. US Propaganda; Part 2: Society; 7. Contemporary Social Criticism; 8. Religion in Post-secular America; 9. The US and Globalisation; 10. The Future of Medicine; 11. Technology in the 21st Century; 12, America and the Environment; Part 3: Culture
    Description / Table of Contents: 13. Contemporary American Culture14. Cultural Pluralism and National Identity; 15. Writing in the Wake of 9/11; 16. American Ways of Seeing; 17. Television and DIgital Media; 18. Animation and DIgital Culture; Bibliography; Index
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-317) and index , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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  • 4
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    Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press
    ISBN: 9780748630349
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (313 pages)
    Series Statement: Twentieth-Century American Culture
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Print version American Culture in the 1940s
    DDC: 306.0973/09044
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    Keywords: Nineteen forties ; Popular culture ; United States ; History ; 20th century ; United States ; Civilization ; 1918-1945 ; United States ; Civilization ; 1945- ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: A clear overview of the major cultural forms of 1940s America: fiction and non-fiction (specifically newspapers and magazines), music and radio, film and theatre, serious and popular visual arts, and case studies of influential texts and practitioners of the decade.
    Abstract: COVER -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Case Studies -- Acknowledgements -- Chronology of 1940s American Culture -- Introduction: The Intellectual Context -- 1. Fiction and Journalism -- 2. Radio and Music -- 3. Theatre and Film -- 4. Visual Art, Serious and Popular -- 5. The Arts of Sacrifice and Consumption -- Conclusion: The 1940s in the Contemporary American Imagination -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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  • 5
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    Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press
    ISBN: 9780748622580
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (289 p.)
    Series Statement: Twentieth-Century American Culture
    Parallel Title: Print version American Culture in the 1930s
    DDC: 306.097309043
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    Keywords: Culture ; United States ; United States ; Civilization ; 1918-1945 ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: This book provides an insightful overview of the major cultural forms of 1930s America: literature and drama, music and radio, film and photography, art and design, and a chapter on the role of the federal government in the development of the arts. The intellectual context of 1930s American culture is a strong feature, whilst case studies of influential texts and practitioners of the decade - from War of the Worlds to The Grapes of Wrath and from Edward Hopper to the Rockefeller Centre - help to explain the cultural impulses of radicalism, nationalism and escapism that characterize the United
    Description / Table of Contents: COVER; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Case Studies; Acknowledgements; Chronology of 1930s American Culture; Introduction: The Intellectual Context; Chapter 1 Literature and Drama; Chapter 2 Film and Photography; Chapter 3 Music and Radio; Chapter 4 Art and Design; Chapter 5 New Deal Culture; Conclusion: The Cultural Legacy of the 1930s; Notes; Bibliography; Index;
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  • 6
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    Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press
    ISBN: 9781474473293 , 1474473296
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 193 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: BAAS paperbacks
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Townsend, Peter, 1948- Jazz in American culture
    DDC: 781.65/0973
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    Keywords: Jazz Social aspects ; Jazz ; Social aspects ; Manners and customs ; Jazz ; Culturele invloeden ; Jazz ; Aspect social ; États-Unis ; Kultur ; Jazz ; MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Jazz ; United States Social life and customs 20th century ; United States ; États-Unis ; Moeurs et coutumes ; 20e siècle ; USA ; Electronic books
    Abstract: 1.Language: Jazz as Music.p. 1.
    Abstract: 2.'A Marvel of Social Organization': Jazz as a Culture.p. 35.
    Abstract: 3.Rhythm is our Business: The Swing Era 1935-45.p. 65.
    Abstract: 4.Telling the Story: The Representation of Jazz.p. 92.
    Abstract: 5.'An Analagous Dynamic in the Design': Jazz as Aesthetic Model.p. 137.
    Abstract: 6.'A Tamed Richness': Jazz as Myth.p. 160.
    Abstract: Select Bibliography.p. 186.
    Abstract: Index.p. 190.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 186-189) and index
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