Author: Dean Milano
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Keywords: images, america, 1970s, 1960s, music, scene, chicago
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2009-11-04
List price: $21.99
ISBN-10: 0738577294
ISBN-13: 9780738577296

This is the story of two decades of the Chicago music scene-the 1960s and 1970s, an incredibly vibrant period in urban and suburban music scenes across the country and throughout the world. Chicago was a major player throughout those decades. It was a time when jazz, rock and roll, country and western, folk, blues, and R & B flowed through the streets of Chicagoland. Much has been written about the national and international talent of that time, but not enough has been written regarding local music scenes. This story focuses on the city of Chicago (along with its suburban club scene) and t

Author: Carl Oglesby
Publisher: Scribner
Keywords: anti, war, movement, 1960s, history, storm, personal, ravens
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2008-02-11
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 1416547363
ISBN-13: 9781416547365

In 1964, Carl Oglesby, a young copywriter for a Michigan-based defense contractor, was asked by a local Democratic congressman to draft a campaign paper on the Vietnam War. Oglesby’s report argued that the conflict was misplaced and unwinnable. He had little idea that its subsequent publication would put him on a fast track to becoming the president of the now-legendary protest movement Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). In this book, Oglesby shares the triumphs and tribulations of an organization that burgeoned across America, only to collapse in the face of surveillance by the U.

Author: Susan Waggoner
Publisher: Stewart, Tabori & Chang
Keywords: fancies, 1920s, 1960s, fads, activities, memories, gifts, christmas
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2009-10-01
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 1584797894
ISBN-13: 9781584797890

Oh, those Christmas memories. We all have them, locked away in our hearts. But what about the Christmases we weren’t there for? The one our favorite heirloom ornament came from, or the one we know only from a picture of our newlywed parents smiling under the mistletoe?In Christmas Memories, Susan Waggoner, author of STC’s It’s a Wonderful Christmas and Under the Tree, looks at bygone holidays from the perspective of those who lived them. Beginning with “Christmas in the Melting Pot,” which depicts yuletide in the early 1920s, the author presents detailed snapshots that re-create holid

Author: Robert Cohen
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: legacy, 1960s, radical, savio, orator, mario, freedom
Number of Pages: 544
Published: 2009-08-27
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0195182936
ISBN-13: 9780195182934

Here is the first biography of Mario Savio, the brilliant leader of Berkeley’s Free Speech Movement, the largest and most disruptive student rebellion in American history. Savio risked his life to register black voters in Mississippi in the Freedom Summer of 1964 and did more than anyone to bring daring forms of non-violent protest from the civil rights movement to the struggle for free speech and academic freedom on American campuses. Drawing upon previously unavailable Savio papers, as well as oral histories from friends and fellow movement leaders, Freedom’s Orator illuminates M

Author: Christine Recker
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Keywords: writings, 1950s, 1960s, american, jazz, literary, interpretations, varieties
Number of Pages: 102
Published: 2008-10-24
List price: $87.90
ISBN-10: 364019327X
ISBN-13: 9783640193271

Thesis (M.A.) from the year 2006 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Dusseldorf "Heinrich Heine", 113 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: In a retrospective, black musical forms experienced a fast stylistic development and an increasing popularity amongst a wide audience of artists and youngsters inclined to American subculture all through the 1940s, ’50s, and ’60s. One of the most influential and significant among these musical forms was jazz music. Writers began to apply it to their own work in manifold ways. From a re

Author: Amy J. Elias
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Keywords: parallax, visions, culture, society, fiction, 1960s, desire, history, post, sublime
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2001-10-19
List price: $52.00
ISBN-10: 0801867339
ISBN-13: 9780801867330

Has twentieth-century political violence destroyed faith in historical knowledge? What happens to historical fiction when history is seen as either a form of Western imperialism or a form of postmodern simulation? In Sublime Desire, Amy Elias examines our changing relationship to history and how fiction since 1960 reflects that change. She contends that postmodernism is a post-traumatic imagination that is pulled between two desires: the political desire to acknowledge the physical violence of twentieth-century history, and the yearning for an escape from that history into a ravishing rea

Authors:Michael Omi, Howard Winant,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: critical, social, thought, 1990s, 1960s, formation, united, states, racial
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 1994-03-22
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0415908647
ISBN-13: 9780415908641

First published in 1986, Racial Formation in the United States is now considered a classic in the literature on race and ethnicity. This second edition builds upon and updates Omi and Winant’s groundbreaking research. In addition to a preface to the new edition, the book provides a more detailed account of the theory of racial formation processes. It includes material on the historial development of race, the question of racism, race-class-gender interrelationships, and everyday life. A final chapter updates the developments in American racial politics up to the present, focusing on su