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Over the Rainbow, "Stormy Weather," and "One for My Baby" are just a few of Harold Arlen's well-loved compositions. Yet his name is hardly known - except to the musicians who venerate him.
At a gathering of songwriters George Gershwin called him "the best of us." Irving Berlin agreed. Paul ......
Following the master songsmith along the Great White Way and the Yellow Brick Road.
"Over the Rainbow," "Stormy Weather," and "One for My Baby" are just a few of Harold Arlen's well-loved compositions. Yet his name is hardly known - except to the musicians who venerate him. At a ......
Evelyn Underhill (1875-1941) achieved international fame in 1911 with the publication of her book Mysticism. In the course of her long career she published nearly forty books, including three novels and three volumes of poetry, as well as numerous poems in periodicals. She was the religion editor for Spectator, a friend of T. S. Eliot (her ......
Violence and Vigilantism in Central Texas, 1836-1916
On May 15, 1916, a crowd of fifteen thousand witnessed the lynching of an eighteen-year-old black farm worker named Jesse Washington. Most central Texans of the time failed to call for the punishment of the mob's leaders. In The Making of a Lynching Culture, now in paperback, William D. Carrigan seeks to explain not how a fiendish mob could lynch ......
A Black Entrepreneur in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco
Mary Ellen Pleasant arrived in Gold Rush-era San Francisco a free black woman with abolitionist convictions and a predilection for entrepreneurial success. Behind the convenient and trusted disguise of ''Mammy,'' she transformed domestic labor into enterprise, amassed remarkable real estate, wealth, and power, and gained notoriety for her work in ......
A comprehensive guide to the texts and tunes of an American musical traditionThis authoritative reference work investigates the roots of the Sacred Harp, the central collection of the deeply influential and long-lived southern tradition of shape-note singing. Where other studies of the Sacred Harp have focused on the sociology of present-day ......
The classic study on the director of Citizen Kane and Touch of Evil, in an updated, revised edition
Prodigy. Iconoclast. Genius. Exile. Orson Welles remains one of the most discussed figures in cinematic history. In the centenary year of Welles's birth, James Naremore presents a revised third ......
