Place and belonging in America / by Jacobson, David, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Terra firma -- An American Eden -- Surveying the landscape : place and identity in the early republic -- Nature's nation : preserving the future -- Spatial rhythms -- Intangible property -- The labyrinth of the soul : a coda.…”
CONNECT

The story of boogie-woogie : a left hand like God / by Silvester, Peter J.

Table of Contents: “…The spirituals to swing concerts ; Café society days ; The post-café society period ; On the crest of the wave ; The parting of the ways : rhythm and blues and big-band boogie -- The final curtain. …”
CONNECT

Recorded music in American life : the phonograph and popular memory, 1890-1945 / by Kenney, William Howland

Table of Contents: “…Two "circles of resonance": audience uses of recorded music -- "The Coney Island crowd": the phonograph and popular recordings before World War I -- "His master's voice": the Victor Talking Machine Company and the social reconstruction of the phonograph -- The phonograph and the evolution of "foreign" and "ethnic" records -- The gendered phonograph: women and recorded sound, 1890-1930 -- African American blues and the phonograph: from race records to rhythm and blues -- Economics and the invention of hillbilly records in the south -- A renewed flow of memories: the Depression and the struggle over "hit records" -- Popular recorded music within the context of national life.…”
CONNECT

Other Germanies : questioning identity in women's literature and art /

Table of Contents: “…Dealing with the other in German cultural discourse: intercultural Germanistik and Aysel 菺akin's Journeys of exile / 蕬ker G诫berk -- Reinventions of Turkey: Ernine Sevgi 菺darnar's Life is a caravanserai / Margrit Fr诬ich -- Rethinking Germanness: two Afro-German women journey "home" / Erin Crawley -- Is female to nation as nature is to culture?: Bo麥na N饭cov⡬ Libu鳥 Mon⩫ov⡬ and the female folkloric / Katie Trumpener -- Between "inner Bohemia" and "outer Siberia": Libuse Monfkovi destabilizes notions of nation and gender / Karen Jankowsky -- Ethno-documentary discourse and cultural otherness in Ulrike Ottinger's Johanna d'Arc of Mongolia / Shanta Rao -- Amputation, dismembered identities, and the rhythms of elimination: reading Pina Bausch / Heidi Gilpin -- Deconstructing identity: Eva-Maria Sch诮's Origin of species / Barbara C. …”
CONNECT