Reel Verse

Reel Verse
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Publisher : Everyman's Library
Total Pages : 259
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ISBN-10 : 9781101908037
ISBN-13 : 1101908033
Rating : 4/5 (37 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Reel Verse by : Michael Waters

Download or read book Reel Verse written by Michael Waters and published by Everyman's Library. This book was released on 2019-01-22 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique Pocket Poets anthology of a hundred years of poetic tributes to the silver screen, from the silent film era to the present. The variety of subjects is dazzling, from movie stars to bit players, from B-movies to Bollywood, from Clark Gable to Jean Cocteau. More than a hundred poets riff on their movie memories: Langston Hughes and John Updike on the theaters of their youth, Jack Kerouac and Robert Lowell on Harpo Marx, Sharon Olds on Marilyn Monroe, Louise Erdrich on John Wayne, May Swenson on the James Bond films, Terrance Hayes on early Black cinema, Maxine Kumin on Casablanca, and Richard Wilbur on The Prisoner of Zenda. Orson Welles, Leni Riefenstahl, and Ingmar Bergman share the spotlight with Shirley Temple, King Kong, and Carmen Miranda; Bonnie and Clyde and Ridley Scott with Roshomon, Hitchcock, and Bresson. In Reel Verse, one of our oldest art forms pays loving homage to one of our newest—the thrilling art of cinema.

Learning Directory

Learning Directory
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Total Pages : 1132
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015036929100
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (00 Downloads)

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Download or read book Learning Directory written by and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 1132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Jeannie Robertson

Jeannie Robertson
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Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Total Pages : 414
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ISBN-10 : 0870499041
ISBN-13 : 9780870499043
Rating : 4/5 (41 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Jeannie Robertson by : James Porter

Download or read book Jeannie Robertson written by James Porter and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining biography, folklore, oral history, and ethnomusicology, this book explores the life and repertoire of the Scottish traditional singer Jeannie Robertson (1908-1975) - an artist whom Alan Lomax hailed as "a monumental figure in twentieth-century folksong". Utilizing numerous quotations from Robertson's own oral accounts of her life, James Porter and Herschel Gower trace her career as a member of the marginal nomadic group in Northeast Scotland known as "travellers", whose origin is obscure. They explain the importance of traditional song in Robertson's family and community and include eighty of her songs, complete with musical notation.

The Illustrative Lesson Notes

The Illustrative Lesson Notes
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Total Pages : 376
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015069245507
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (07 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Illustrative Lesson Notes by : John Heyl Vincent

Download or read book The Illustrative Lesson Notes written by John Heyl Vincent and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

What Jane Knew

What Jane Knew
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Publisher : UNC Press Books
Total Pages : 443
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ISBN-10 : 9798890887368
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Rating : 4/5 (68 Downloads)

Book Synopsis What Jane Knew by : Maureen Konkle

Download or read book What Jane Knew written by Maureen Konkle and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2024-04-30 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The children of an influential Ojibwe-Anglo family, Jane Johnston and her brother George were already accomplished writers when the Indian agent Henry Rowe Schoolcraft arrived in Sault Ste. Marie in 1822. Charged by Michigan's territorial governor with collecting information on Anishinaabe people, he soon married Jane, "discovered" the family's writings, and began soliciting them for traditional Anishinaabe stories. But what began as literary play became the setting for political struggle. Jane and her family wrote with attention to the beauty of Anishinaabe narratives and to their expression of an Anishinaabe world that continued to coexist with the American republic. But Schoolcraft appropriated the stories and published them as his own writing, seeking to control their meaning and to destroy their impact in service to the "civilizing" interests of the United States. In this dramatic story, Maureen Konkle helps recover the literary achievements of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft and her kin, revealing as never before how their lives and work shed light on nineteenth-century struggles over the future of Indigenous people in the United States.

Hoedowns, Reels, and Frolics

Hoedowns, Reels, and Frolics
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Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Total Pages : 305
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ISBN-10 : 9780252097324
ISBN-13 : 0252097327
Rating : 4/5 (24 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Hoedowns, Reels, and Frolics by : Phil Jamison

Download or read book Hoedowns, Reels, and Frolics written by Phil Jamison and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Hoedowns, Reels, and Frolics, old-time musician and flatfoot dancer Philip Jamison journeys into the past and surveys the present to tell the story behind the square dances, step dances, reels, and other forms of dance practiced in southern Appalachia. These distinctive folk dances, Jamison argues, are not the unaltered jigs and reels brought by early British settlers, but hybrids that developed over time by adopting and incorporating elements from other popular forms. He traces the forms from their European, African American, and Native American roots to the modern day. On the way he explores the powerful influence of black culture, showing how practices such as calling dances as well as specific kinds of steps combined with white European forms to create distinctly "American" dances. From cakewalks to clogging, and from the Shoo-fly Swing to the Virginia Reel, Hoedowns, Reels, and Frolics reinterprets an essential aspect of Appalachian culture.

The Virginia Reel

The Virginia Reel
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Total Pages : 374
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ISBN-10 : UVA:X030599245
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Rating : 4/5 (45 Downloads)

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Download or read book The Virginia Reel written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: