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For decades the most racially repressive state in the nation fought bitterly and violently to maintain white supremacy. John Dittmer traces the monumental battle waged by civil rights organizations and by local people, particularly courageous members of the black communities who were willing to put their lives on the line to establish basic human ......
Winner of the Evans Biography Award and the John Whitmer Association Best Book Award''One of the best biographies yet written about any Latter Day Saint leader in either the Reorganized church or Utah Mormon church. . . . 'Must' reading for all students of Mormon history.'' -- Newell Bringhurst, Sunstone''An important appraisal of the man who ......
Whether they're decorating Easter trees or celebrating Wagner's birthday by playing recordings of his Ring cycle operas and incinerating a model of Valhalla on an outdoor barbecue to the closing strains of ''Gotterdämerung,'' Americans know both how to create and how to celebrate holidays! Jack Santino's guide to such frivolity is a wonderfully ......
''Searing. . . . With an even hand and understated prose, Ms. Rosenberg, now a New York City psychotherapist, bravely depicts Nazi carnage in chilling detail.'' -- Susan Shapiro, New York Times Book Review ''[A] harrowing account of intrigue and danger with all the elements of a war movie adventure.'' -- Miriam Rinn, The Forward This memoir of how ......
The complete story of the origins and evolution of the black American blues tradition, drawing extensively on oral history interviews. ''The opening chapters are among the best things ever published on the blues. It's a thoughtful, substantial, solidly constructed, information packed work, and should be in every serious blues enthusiast's library. ......
People's Songs, American Communism, and the Politics of Culture, 1930-50
Winner of an ASCAP Deems Taylor Award, 1990.''A spirited and scholarly account of the relationship between the U.S. Communist movement and the folk music revival of the 1940s and 1950s.'' -- Paul C. Mishler, Nature, Society, and Thought''Shows the ways in which the folk music revival of the 1960s and the participatory cultures of the civil rights ......
An unusual contribution to the large body of literature dealing with Native American music and its cultural context. . . . It is interestingly written, includes considerable verbatim materials from interviews, and is readily accessible to the educated general reader.'' -- Bruno Nettl, Choice''Filled with information and insights that rarely ......
The award-winning historian Stuart Schwartz offers revisionist views of some of the most controversial issues related to Brazilian slavery, in a book that will be of special interest to all historians of Brazil and of slavery in the Americas. He notes that the study of slavery has dropped its apparent preoccupation with the economic system, ......
''Rolfe's voice is one that many of us feared was buried forever. . . . He stands in the forefront of an entire 'lost generation' of left-wing writers who fused artistic craft with irrepressible political commitment.'' -- Alan Wald, author of The Responsibility of Intellectuals: Selected Essays on Marxist Traditions in Cultural Commitment ......
