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This book examines text books used in English and American schools
and determines the way in which national bias has been instilled
into school children by the use of history books. This study
reveals that the deliberate distortion common a generation ago has
disappeared, but has been displaced by a more subtle form of bias
that is more dangerous because it is less easily recognised. It
deals in particular with the treatment of the American War of
Indepdendence, the War of 1812 and World War I. The report contains
positive suggestions to authors and publishers designed to
eliminate all bias and to help them achieve historical objectivity.
This book examines text books used in English and American schools
and determines the way in which national bias has been instilled
into school children by the use of history books. This study
reveals that the deliberate distortion common a generation ago has
disappeared, but has been displaced by a more subtle form of bias
that is more dangerous because it is less easily recognised. It
deals in particular with the treatment of the American War of
Indepdendence, the War of 1812 and World War I. The report contains
positive suggestions to authors and publishers designed to
eliminate all bias and to help them achieve historical objectivity.
This first part of Billington's popular American history has basic
facts, names and dates underlined so that important information can
be seen at a glance. Includes typical questions and answers, as
well as helpful hints on how to prepare for examinations.
Draws on field recordings and interviews with dozens of local New
York singers to tell the story of sacred quartet singing in New
York City's African-American church community, tracing its
evolution and its role in worship and culture.
Jump Up! Caribbean Carnival Music in New York City is the first
comprehensive history of Trinidadian calypso and steelband music in
the diaspora. Carnival, transplanted from Trinidad to Harlem in the
1930s and to Brooklyn in the late 1960s, provides the cultural
context for the study. Blending oral history, archival research,
and ethnography, Jump Up! examines how members of New York's
diverse Anglophile-Caribbean communities forged transnational
identities through the self-conscious embrace and transformation of
select Carnival music styles and performances. The work fills a
significant void in our understanding of how Caribbean Carnival
music-specifically calypso, soca (soul/calypso), and
steelband-evolved in the second half of the twentieth century as it
flowed between its Island homeland and its bourgeoning New York
migrant community. Jump Up! addresses the issues of music,
migration, and identity head on, exploring the complex cycling of
musical practices and the back-and-forth movement of singers,
musicians, arrangers, producers, and cultural entrepreneurs between
New York's diasporic communities and the Caribbean.
With Questions And Answers. Littlefield College Outlines.
Interdisciplinary perspectives on the life and work of the esteemed
"ultra-modern" American composer and pioneering folk music
activist, Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901-1953). Ruth Crawford Seeger's
Worlds offers new perspectives on the life and pioneering musical
activities of American composer and folk music activist Ruth
Crawford Seeger (1901-1953). Ruth Crawford developed a unique
modernist style with such now-esteemed works as her String Quartet
1931. In 1933, after marrying Charles Seeger, she turned to the
work of teaching music to children and of transcribing, arranging,
and publishing folk songs. Thiscollection of studies by
musicologists, music theorists, folklorists, historians, music
educators, and women's studies scholars reveals how innovation and
tradition have intertwined in surprising ways to shape the cultural
landscape of twentieth-century America. Contributors: Lyn Ellen
Burkett, Melissa J. De Graaf, Taylor A. Greer, Lydia Hamessley,
Bess Lomax Hawes, Jerrold Hirsch, Roberta Lamb, Carol J. Oja, Nancy
Yunhwa Rao, Joseph N. Straus,Judith Tick. Ray Allen (Brooklyn
College) is author of Singing in the Spirit: African-American
Sacred Quartets in New York City. Ellie M. Hisama (Columbia
University) is author of Gendering Musical Modernism: The Music of
Ruth Crawford Seeger, Marion Bauer, and Miriam Gideon.
Jump Up! Caribbean Carnival Music in New York City is the first
comprehensive history of Trinidadian calypso and steelband music in
the diaspora. Carnival, transplanted from Trinidad to Harlem in the
1930s and to Brooklyn in the late 1960s, provides the cultural
context for the study. Blending oral history, archival research,
and ethnography, Jump Up! examines how members of New York's
diverse Anglophile-Caribbean communities forged transnational
identities through the self-conscious embrace and transformation of
select Carnival music styles and performances. The work fills a
significant void in our understanding of how Caribbean Carnival
music-specifically calypso, soca (soul/calypso), and
steelband-evolved in the second half of the twentieth century as it
flowed between its Island homeland and its bourgeoning New York
migrant community. Jump Up! addresses the issues of music,
migration, and identity head on, exploring the complex cycling of
musical practices and the back-and-forth movement of singers,
musicians, arrangers, producers, and cultural entrepreneurs between
New York's diasporic communities and the Caribbean.
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