The Anthony Memorial

The Anthony Memorial
Title The Anthony Memorial PDF eBook
Author Brown University. Library
Publisher Providence, [R.I.] : Providence Press Company
Pages 358
Release 1886
Genre American poetry
ISBN

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Blackface Nation

Blackface Nation
Title Blackface Nation PDF eBook
Author Brian Roberts
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Pages 371
Release 2017-04-18
Genre History
ISBN 022645164X

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Introduction -- Carnival -- The Vulgar Republic -- Jim Crow's Genuine Audience -- Black Song -- Meet the Hutchinsons -- Love Crimes -- The Middle-Class Moment -- Culture Wars -- Black America -- Conclusion: Musical without End

The Hymn

The Hymn
Title The Hymn PDF eBook
Author
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Pages 270
Release 2000
Genre Church music
ISBN

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Beware Euphoria

Beware Euphoria
Title Beware Euphoria PDF eBook
Author George Fisher
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 505
Release 2024
Genre Education
ISBN 0197688489

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George Fisher seeks the moral roots of America's antidrug regime and challenges claims that early antidrug laws arose from racial animus. Those moral roots trace to early Christian sexual strictures, which later influenced Puritan condemnations of drunkenness, and ultimately shaped the early American drug war. Early laws against opium dens, cocaine, and cannabis rarely rose from racial strife, but sprang from the traditional moral censure of intoxication and perceived threats to respectable white women and youth. The book closes with an examination of cannabis legalization, driven in part by the movement for racial justice.

Sweet Freedom's Song

Sweet Freedom's Song
Title Sweet Freedom's Song PDF eBook
Author the late Robert James Branham
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 289
Release 2002-03-28
Genre Music
ISBN 0195350294

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Although it isn't the official national anthem, America may be the most important and interesting patriotic song in our national repertoire. Sweet Freedom's Song: "My Country 'Tis of Thee" and Democracy in America is a celebration and critical exploration of the complicated musical, cultural and political roles played by the song America over the past 250 years. Popularly known as My Country 'Tis of Thee and as God Save the King/Queen before that this tune has a history as rich as the country it extols. In Sweet Freedom's Song, Robert Branham and Stephen Hartnett chronicle this song's many incarnations over the centuries. Colonial Americans, Southern slaveowners, abolitionists, temperance campaigners and labor leaders, among others, appropriated and adapted the tune to create anthems for their own struggles. Because the song has been invoked by nearly every grassroots movement in American history, the story of America offers important insights on the story of democracy in the United States. An examination of America as a historical artifact and cultural text, Sweet Freedoms Song is a reflection of the rebellious spirit of Americans throughout our nations history. The late Robert James Branham and his collaborator, Stephen Hartnett, have produced a thoroughly-researched, delightfully written book that will appeal to scholars and patriots of all stripes.

The Well-tempered Lyre

The Well-tempered Lyre
Title The Well-tempered Lyre PDF eBook
Author George Wilmeth Ewing
Publisher
Pages 308
Release 1977
Genre Music
ISBN 9780870740008

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City Water, City Life

City Water, City Life
Title City Water, City Life PDF eBook
Author Carl Smith
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Pages 340
Release 2013-04-17
Genre History
ISBN 022602251X

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A city is more than a massing of citizens, a layout of buildings and streets, or an arrangement of political, economic, and social institutions. It is also an infrastructure of ideas that are a support for the beliefs, values, and aspirations of the people who created the city. In City Water, City Life, celebrated historian Carl Smith explores this concept through an insightful examination of the development of the first successful waterworks systems in Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago between the 1790s and the 1860s. By examining the place of water in the nineteenth-century consciousness, Smith illuminates how city dwellers perceived themselves during the great age of American urbanization. But City Water, City Life is more than a history of urbanization. It is also a refreshing meditation on water as a necessity, as a resource for commerce and industry, and as an essential—and central—part of how we define our civilization.