How to Listen to Jazz
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In How to Listen to Jazz, award-winning music scholar Ted Gioia presents a lively, accessible...
The Strange Career of Porgy and Bess: Race Culture and Americas Most Famous Opera
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Created by George Gershwin and DuBose Heyward and sung by generations of black performers, Porgy and...
World War I on Film: English Language Releases Through 2014
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One of the central events of modern history, World War I has been poorly presented in English...
The Pew and the Picket Line: Christianity and the American Working Class
Christopher D. Cantwell, Heath W. Carter and Janine Giordano Drake
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The Pew and the Picket Line collects works from a new generation of scholars working at the nexus...
September 1st, 1939
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This a book about a poet, about a poem, about a city, and about a world at a point of change. More...
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The Woman Who Had Two Navels and Tales of the Tropical
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Nick Joaquin is widely considered one of the greatest Filipino writers, but he has remained...
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Akata Warrior: Akata Witch Series
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A year ago, Sunny Nwazue, a 12-year-old American born girl raised mostly in Nigeria, was inducted...
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Tango: The Art History of Love
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In this generously illustrated book, world- renowned Yale art historian Robert Farris Thompson gives...
The Daughters of Temperance Hobbs
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Connie Goodwin is an expert on America’s fractured past with witchcraft. A young, tenure-track...
The Suicide of Claire Bishop
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Greenwich Village, 1959. Claire Bishop sits for a portrait—a gift from her husband—only to...