The Arts

The first major study of slavery in the maritime South, The Watermans Song chronicles the world of slave and free black fishermen, pilots, rivermen, sailors, ferrymen, and other laborers who, from the colonial era through Reconstruction, plied the vast inland waters of North Carolina from the Outer Banks to the upper reaches of tidewater rivers.

A musician, documentarian, scholar, and one of the founding members of the influential folk revival group the New Lost City Ramblers, Mike Seeger (19332009) spent more than fifty years collecting, performing, and commemorating the culture and folk music of white and black southerners, which he called music from the true vine.

With this stunning collection of images of the Southern Appalachians, James Valentine presents an enduring portrait of the regions unique natural character.

In a unique analysis of Cuban literature inside and outside the countrys borders, Eduardo Gonzlez looks closely at the work of three of the most important contemporary Cuban authors to write in the post-1959 diaspora: Guillermo Cabrera Infante (19292005), who left Cuba for good in 1965 and established himself in London; Antonio Bentez-Rojo (19312005), who settled in the United States; and Leonardo Padura Fuentes (b.

During the Cold War, culture became another weapon in Americas battle against communism.

Charleston, South Carolina, today enjoys a reputation as a destination city for cultural and heritage tourism.

Classical music was central to German national identity in the early twentieth century.

Emerging from a matrix of Old Left, black nationalist, and bohemian ideologies and institutions, African American artists and intellectuals in the 1960s coalesced to form the Black Arts Movement, the cultural wing of the Black Power Movement.

In the first full biography of actor Sidney Poitier, Aram Goudsouzian analyzes the life and career of a Hollywood legend, from his childhood in the Bahamas to his 2002 Oscar for lifetime achievement.

Nineteenth-century newspaper editor Jane Grey Swisshelm (18151884) was an unconventionally ambitious woman.

From the Mormon Churchs public announcement of its sanction of polygamy in 1852 until its formal decision to abandon the practice in 1890, people on both sides of the Mormon question debated central questions of constitutional law.

From the Potomac to the Gulf, artists were creating in the South even before it was recognized as a region.

Over the course of several centuries, Venice fashioned and refined a portrait of itself that responded to and exploited historical circumstance.

Renowned ceramic artist Karen Karnes has created some of the most iconic pottery of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

Out on Assignment illuminates the lives and writings of a lost world of women who wrote for major metropolitan newspapers at the start of the twentieth century.

In the early 1890s, black performer Bob Cole turned blackface minstrelsy on its head with his nationally recognized whiteface creation, a character he called Willie Wayside.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2023 im Fachbereich Kunst / Kunstwissenschaft / Kunstgeschichte, Note: 1,00, Universität Kassel (Kunstwissenschaft), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Das übergeordnete Ziel dieser Arbeit ist es, die Besonderheiten von Protestkunst zu beleuchten, insbesondere anhand der Untersuchung der Guerrilla Girls, und dabei herauszufinden, wie diese Kunstform auf das Publikum wirkt und welche Rolle sie in aktuellen gesellschaftlichen Debatten spielt.

In the first full biography of actor Sidney Poitier, Aram Goudsouzian analyzes the life and career of a Hollywood legend, from his childhood in the Bahamas to his 2002 Oscar for lifetime achievement.

Surveying the past, present, and future of historic preservation in America, this book features fifteen essays by some of the most important voices in the field.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2023 im Fachbereich Musik - Instrumenten- und Partiturkunde, Note: 1,0, Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf (Musikwissenschaftliches Institut), Veranstaltung: Einführung in die Musikanalyse, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Mit dem sphärischen Vorspiel zu Richard Wagners Lohengrin öffnet sich der musikalische Vorhang nur ein kleines Stück weit, dahinter liegt eine klangliche Verheißung verborgen, die einen vagen Einblick in die verborgene Welt des Grals gewährt.

A century ago, daily life ground to a halt when the circus rolled into town.

In 1930, dancer and choreographer Martha Graham proclaimed the arrival of dance as an art of and from America.

Were movies in the East Bloc propaganda or carefully veiled dissent?

Heide Fehrenbach analyzes the important role cinema played in the reconstruction of German cultural and political identity between 1945 and 1962.

Longleaf forests once covered 92 million acres from Texas to Maryland to Florida.

Thomas Nast (18401902), the founding father of American political cartooning, is perhaps best known for his cartoons portraying political parties as the Democratic donkey and the Republican elephant.

For more than thirty years, the architectural research department at Colonial Williamsburg has engaged in comprehensive study of early buildings, landscapes, and social history in the Chesapeake region.

World War II coincided with cinemas golden age.

Written by an eminent scholar in a style that represents American musicological writing at its communicative best, A History of the Oratorio offers a synthesis and critical appraisal so exhaustive and reliable that the serious student of the oratorio will be compelled to look to these volumes as an indispensable source.

With this volume, Howard Smither completes his monumental History of the Oratorio.

Created by George Gershwin and DuBose Heyward and sung by generations of black performers, Porgy and Bess has been both embraced and reviled since its debut in 1935.

The Oratorio in the classical Era is the third volume of Howard Smithers monumental History of the Oratorio, continuing his synthesis and critical appraisal of the oratorio.

Howard Smither has written the first definitive work on the history of the oratorio since Arnold Schering published his Geschichte des Oratoriums in 1911.

In the 1990s, there was only one real punk rock band still standing.

While there are times when the mix of old and new buildings and the chaotic activities of thousands of students can give a haphazard appearance to the university, campus planning has in fact become a highly refined form of architecture.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2021 im Fachbereich Kunst - Übergreifende Betrachtungen, Note: 2,3, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit dem Einfluss von "Cézannes Anschauungsraum" auf andere Kunstbereiche und befasst sich mit der Frage: Wird Cézannes einmaliger Anschauungsraum auf die Kunstwelt über sein damals gewähltes Medium, nämlich die Malerei, hinaus von Kunstschaffenden aus der Literatur, dem Film und der Fotografie weitergelebt und weiterentwickelt?

The Drama of the American Short Story, 1800-1865 argues that to truly understand the short story form, one must look at how it was shaped by the lively, chaotic, and deeply politicized world of 19th-century transatlantic theater and performance culture.

World War II coincided with cinemas golden age.

When it first appeared in the 1930s, FM radio was a technological marvel, providing better sound and nearly eliminating the static that plagued AM stations.

It may have taken them a few years to achieve a stable line-up, but Faith No More did just that with the arrival of enigmatic frontman Mike Patton in 1988.

Greek tragedy is currently being performed more frequently than at any time since classical antiquity.

This book explores the way in which church architecture from the earliest centuries of Christianity has been shaped by holy bones - the physical remains or 'relics' of those whom the Church venerated as saints.

This monograph is a wide-ranging and sophisticated analysis of representations in text and image of the English past between 1830 and 1870.

In this innovative and compelling book Nigel Saul approaches the world of the medieval gentry through the monuments they left behind them.

This book capitalizes on brilliant recent work on sixteenth-century iconoclasm to extend the study of images, both their making and their breaking, into an earlier period and wider discursive territories.

This lavishly illustrated book offers the first full, interdisciplinary investigation of the historical evidence for the presence of ancient Greek tragedy in the post-Restoration British theatre, where it reached a much wider audience - including women - than had access to the original texts.

Henri Michaux is widely recognized as a major twentieth-century French poet and painter.

Fuseli's Milton Gallery challenges the antipictorial theories and canons of Romantic period culture.

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2011 in the subject American Studies - Miscellaneous, grade: 2,3, University of Gottingen (Philosophische Fakultat), language: English, abstract: At the turn of the nineteenth century, the city of New York underwent a tremendous change that is regarded as a complete "e;transformation of American culture"e; (Zurier).

Gain some new ideas along with the principles and history of Japanese stone gardening with this useful and beautiful garden design book.