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How and why did English come to be a global language?

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Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 2,0, Martin Luther University (Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik), course: English Rules the World? The Globalisation of English, language: English, abstract: The role of the English language among all other languages is constantly examined, researched and written ... Read more

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Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 2,0, Martin Luther University (Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik), course: English Rules the World? The Globalisation of English, language: English, abstract: The role of the English language among all other languages is constantly examined, researched and written
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US-American folk music and its political stances from the great depression to the present

by Cornelia Richter ...

Examination Thesis from the year 2008 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,5, Martin Luther University (Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik), language: English, abstract: Every country has a certain heritage of folklore. According to William John Thomas, who is supposed to have coined the term in 1846, folklore includes music as well as customs, clothing, ... Read more

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Examination Thesis from the year 2008 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,5, Martin Luther University (Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik), language: English, abstract: Every country has a certain heritage of folklore. According to William John Thomas, who is supposed to have coined the term in 1846, folklore includes music as well as customs, clothing,
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Outside the Gates of Eden

The Dream of America from Hiroshima to Now

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The cultural historian and author of Atomic Spaces offers a comprehensive account of the Baby Boomer years—from the atomic age to the virtual age.Born under the shadow of the atomic bomb, with little security but the cold comfort of duck-and-cover drills, the postwar generations lived through—and led—some of the most momentous changes in all of American history. In this new cultural history, Peter ... Read more

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The cultural historian and author of Atomic Spaces offers a comprehensive account of the Baby Boomer years—from the atomic age to the virtual age.Born under the shadow of the atomic bomb, with little security but the cold comfort of duck-and-cover drills, the postwar generations lived through—and led—some of the most momentous changes in all of American history. In this new cultural history, Peter
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Grown-Up Anger

The Connected Mysteries of Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, and the Calumet Massacre of 1913

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A brilliantly intertwined account of two revolutionary musicians, a miners' strike, and a deadly tragedy: "Reads like a historical detective story." — The New York Times Book ReviewAt thirteen, when he first heard Bob Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone," Daniel Wolff recognized the sound of anger. When he later discovered "Song for Woody," Dylan's tribute to folk musician Woody Guthrie, Wolff fixed on ... Read more

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A brilliantly intertwined account of two revolutionary musicians, a miners' strike, and a deadly tragedy: "Reads like a historical detective story." — The New York Times Book ReviewAt thirteen, when he first heard Bob Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone," Daniel Wolff recognized the sound of anger. When he later discovered "Song for Woody," Dylan's tribute to folk musician Woody Guthrie, Wolff fixed on
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Just around Midnight

Rock and Roll and the Racial Imagination

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By the time Jimi Hendrix died in 1970, the idea of a black man playing lead guitar in a rock band seemed exotic. Yet a mere ten years earlier, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley had stood among the most influential rock and roll performers. Why did rock and roll become “white”? Just around Midnight reveals the interplay of popular music and racial thought that was responsible for this shift within the ... Read more

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By the time Jimi Hendrix died in 1970, the idea of a black man playing lead guitar in a rock band seemed exotic. Yet a mere ten years earlier, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley had stood among the most influential rock and roll performers. Why did rock and roll become “white”? Just around Midnight reveals the interplay of popular music and racial thought that was responsible for this shift within the
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Flyboy 2

The Greg Tate Reader

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Since launching his career at the Village Voice in the early 1980s Greg Tate has been one of the premiere critical voices on contemporary Black music, art, literature, film, and politics. Flyboy 2 provides a panoramic view of the past thirty years of Tate's influential work. Whether interviewing Miles Davis or Ice Cube, reviewing an Azealia Banks mixtape or Suzan-Lori Parks's Topdog/Underdog, ... Read more

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Since launching his career at the Village Voice in the early 1980s Greg Tate has been one of the premiere critical voices on contemporary Black music, art, literature, film, and politics. Flyboy 2 provides a panoramic view of the past thirty years of Tate's influential work. Whether interviewing Miles Davis or Ice Cube, reviewing an Azealia Banks mixtape or Suzan-Lori Parks's Topdog/Underdog,
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Heavyweight

A Family Story of the Holocaust, Empire, and Memory

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A moving and provocative graphic memoir exploring inherited trauma, family history, and the ever-shifting understanding of our own identities, for readers of Gender Queer and I Was Their American Dream.Solomon Brager grew up with accounts of their great-grandparents’ escape from Nazi Germany, told over and over until their understanding of self was bound up with the heroic details of their ... Read more

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A moving and provocative graphic memoir exploring inherited trauma, family history, and the ever-shifting understanding of our own identities, for readers of Gender Queer and I Was Their American Dream.Solomon Brager grew up with accounts of their great-grandparents’ escape from Nazi Germany, told over and over until their understanding of self was bound up with the heroic details of their
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Flyboy in the Buttermilk

Essays on Contemporary America

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Nein.

A Manifesto

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This "witty and droll" collection of philosophical tweets from the popular @NeinQuarterly offers a "perfect antidote to relentless positivity" ( Publishers Weekly)."Rome didn't burn in a day." — Nein. A ManifestoEric Jarosinski is the self-described "failed intellectual" behind @NeinQuarterly, a "Compendium of Utopian Negation" that uses the aphoristic potential of Twitter to plumb the existential ... Read more

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This "witty and droll" collection of philosophical tweets from the popular @NeinQuarterly offers a "perfect antidote to relentless positivity" ( Publishers Weekly)."Rome didn't burn in a day." — Nein. A ManifestoEric Jarosinski is the self-described "failed intellectual" behind @NeinQuarterly, a "Compendium of Utopian Negation" that uses the aphoristic potential of Twitter to plumb the existential
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Entertaining Race

Performing Blackness in America

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A compelling vision on race in America from the New York Times bestselling author and one of the nation's most celebrated public intellectuals"Entertaining Race is a splendid way to spend quality time reading one of the most remarkable thinkers in America today."—Speaker Nancy Pelosi"To read Entertaining Race is to encounter the life-long vocation of a teacher who preaches, a preacher who teaches ... Read more

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A compelling vision on race in America from the New York Times bestselling author and one of the nation's most celebrated public intellectuals"Entertaining Race is a splendid way to spend quality time reading one of the most remarkable thinkers in America today."—Speaker Nancy Pelosi"To read Entertaining Race is to encounter the life-long vocation of a teacher who preaches, a preacher who teaches
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Singing Out

An Oral History of America's Folk Music Revivals

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Intimate, anecdotal, and spell-binding, Singing Out offers a fascinating oral history of the North American folk music revivals and folk music. Culled from more than 150 interviews recorded from 1976 to 2006, this captivating story spans seven decades and cuts across a wide swath of generations and perspectives, shedding light on the musical, political, and social aspects of this movement. The ... Read more

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Intimate, anecdotal, and spell-binding, Singing Out offers a fascinating oral history of the North American folk music revivals and folk music. Culled from more than 150 interviews recorded from 1976 to 2006, this captivating story spans seven decades and cuts across a wide swath of generations and perspectives, shedding light on the musical, political, and social aspects of this movement. The
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Finding Fogerty

Interdisciplinary Readings of John Fogerty and Creedence Clearwater Revival

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Finding Fogerty: Interdisciplinary Readings of John Fogerty and Creedence Clearwater Revival, edited by Thomas M. Kitts, begins to correct the scholarly neglect of John Fogerty, one of America’s great songwriters, one of the rock era’s great vocalists, and one of its underrated guitarists and producers. This essential collection pulls together scholars from a wide range of disciplines and ... Read more

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Finding Fogerty: Interdisciplinary Readings of John Fogerty and Creedence Clearwater Revival, edited by Thomas M. Kitts, begins to correct the scholarly neglect of John Fogerty, one of America’s great songwriters, one of the rock era’s great vocalists, and one of its underrated guitarists and producers. This essential collection pulls together scholars from a wide range of disciplines and
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