This is really one story in three parts. First we have the high school philosophy teacher who has to resign his position much as Aristotle had to when the authorities came looking for him. Part two is of an indigent Irish family who emigrate from the Emerald Isle to the... Lees meer.
Bill Potter is charged with murdering his Friday night squeeze. Michael Jellico Bill s bumbling lawyer steps out of a dead-end job of contracts and leases to save Bill from being strapped to Old Spanky. Bill s wife returns after a twenty year absence to muddy the wa... Lees meer.
The story of a bank robber who finds his moment of epiphany in a shack with six lost little boys. He goes home after twenty years on the lamb to have Christmas with his family and to right his wrongs. But he finds his past is in hot pursuit and the new life he finds is... Lees meer.
Here is the vibrant colorful high-stepping story of tap--the first comprehensive fully documented history of a uniquely American art form exploring all aspects of the intricate musical and social exchange that evolved from Afro-Irish percussive step dances like the... Lees meer.
Dancing the World Smaller examines international dance performances in New York City in the 1940s as sites in which dance artists and audiences contested what it meant to practice globalism in mid-twentieth-century America. Debates over globalism in dance proxied larger... Lees meer.
In America s Daughter the second book of the trilogy the author arrives in the United States in the company of Catherine Murray an American high-school teacher. Her adjustment to a new culture includes shocking doses of American-style racial discrimination and Nhambu... Lees meer.
Where did big bands and swing music go. They didn t leave. . . but many Americans actually believe they disappeared along with ballrooms jukeboxes bobby sox and zoot suits decades ago. Band leader Brooks Tegler who has recreated the great music of World War II with... Lees meer.
This book explores cosmological concepts and ritual actions of the Ga people of southeastern Ghana through case studies of calendrical agricultural rites social status transition rites and redressive rites. Based on fieldwork in the 1960s the essays present descripti... Lees meer.
In America s Daughter the second book of the trilogy the author arrives in the United States in the company of Catherine Murray an American high-school teacher. Her adjustment to a new culture includes shocking doses of American-style racial discrimination and Nhambu... Lees meer.
Chaos and Dancing Star discusses the anarchist revolutionary feminist and nationalist influences on Wagner the revolutionary who turned the world of opera upside down. Chaos and Dancing Star discusses the anarchist revolutionary feminist and nationalist influenc... Lees meer.
In America s Daughter the second book of the trilogy the author arrives in the United States in the company of Catherine Murray an American high-school teacher. Her adjustment to a new culture includes shocking doses of American-style racial discrimination and Nhamb... Lees meer.