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An enriching, interpretive mode that focuses on the transnational connections between subjects of African descent as the central pole for investigation. This journey of radical new process invites readers to see creations by artists of African descent as legible within the context of African diasporic historical and cultural debates.

Captures the story of the beloved American music - Bluegrass. This work includes an introduction that describes and traces the development of the music from its origins in Anglo-American folk tradition, overlaid with African American influences, to the popularity of Ralph Stanley, Alison Krauss, and the "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" soundtrack.

The powerful interconnections of poet Denise Levertov's life and work

Understanding an infamous political movement's grounding in festivity and defiance

Reconceptualises the orphanage as day care

An intimate biography of honky-tonk great Faron Young

Presents the racism, history and unique drive behind the changing roles of Latin baseball players.

Explores how the city's eight-hour movement intersected with a Protestant religious culture that supported long hours to keep workers from idleness, intemperance, and secular leisure activities.

Marvin Miller changed major league baseball and the business of sports. Drawing on research and interviews with Miller and others, this book offers the first biography covering the pivotal labor leader's entire life and career.

Provides a more nuanced view of the musical world of Bach's time while revealing in more specific terms than ever how and why Bach's own music remains fresh and compelling.

Expands how we understand intellectual possibilities, economic success, and social mobility in post-Reconstruction America.

Analyzes and challenges the crucial boundary that separates an artistic concept from its actual implementation in life.

This pioneering study treats sex tourism as a complex and multidimensional phenomenon that involves a range of activities and erotic connections, from sex work to romantic transnational relationships.

A thematic foundation for an interdisciplinary conversation about gendered resistance in locations including Brazil, Yemen, India, and the United States.

Offers important perspectives on the relationship of labour and the state.

Examines the regional and national history that shaped Cline's career and the popular culture that she so profoundly influenced with her music.

The accordion in the new world

Presents early twentieth-century Chicago as a vital centrepiece of Black thought and expression