Expressing America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Expressing America write by George Ritzer. This book was released on 1995-02-09. Expressing America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The explosive growth of consumer credit, as well as the shift from cash to "plastic" in societies throughout the world signals a transformation in social relations, which is the focus of this book. For student readers who know the world of credit cards all too well, this is a great way to interest and educate them on the power of thinking sociologically.
Music in America
Music in America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Music in America write by Adelaida Reyes. This book was released on 2005. Music in America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Music in America is one of several case-study volumes that can be used along with Thinking Musically, the core book in the Global Music Series. Thinking Musically incorporates music from many diverse cultures and establishes the framework for exploring the practice of music around the world. It sets the stage for an array of case-study volumes, each of which focuses on a single area of the world. Each case study uses the contemporary musical situation as a point of departure, covering historical information and traditions as they relate to the present. America's music is a perennial work in progress. Music in America looks at both the roots of American musical identity and its many manifestations, seeking to answer the complex question: "What does American music sound like?" Focusing on three themes--identity, diversity, and unity--it explores where America's music comes from, who makes it, and for what purpose. Rather than chronologically tracing America's musical history, author Adelaida Reyes considers how musical culture is shaped by space and time, by geography and history, by social, economic, and political factors, and by people who use music to express themselves within a community. Introducing the diversity that dominates the contemporary American musical landscape, Reyes draws on a dazzling range of musical styles--from ethnic and popular music idioms to contemporary art music--to highlight the ways in which sounds from various cultural origins come to share a national identity. Packaged with a 65-minute CD containing examples of the music discussed in the book, Music in America features guided listening and hands-on activities that allow readers to become active participants in the music.
Free Expression and Democracy in America
Free Expression and Democracy in America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Free Expression and Democracy in America write by Stephen M. Feldman. This book was released on 2009-05-15. Free Expression and Democracy in America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the 1798 Sedition Act to the war on terror, numerous presidents, members of Congress, Supreme Court justices, and local officials have endorsed the silencing of free expression. If the connection between democracy and the freedom of speech is such a vital one, why would so many governmental leaders seek to quiet their citizens? Free Expression and Democracy in America traces two rival traditions in American culture—suppression of speech and dissent as a form of speech—to provide an unparalleled overview of the law, history, and politics of individual rights in the United States. Charting the course of free expression alongside the nation’s political evolution, from the birth of the Constitution to the quagmire of the Vietnam War, Stephen M. Feldman argues that our level of freedom is determined not only by the Supreme Court, but also by cultural, social, and economic forces. Along the way, he pinpoints the struggles of excluded groups—women, African Americans, and laborers—to participate in democratic government as pivotal to the development of free expression. In an age when our freedom of speech is once again at risk, this momentous book will be essential reading for legal historians, political scientists, and history buffs alike.
Mariachi Music in America
Mariachi Music in America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mariachi Music in America write by Daniel Edward Sheehy. This book was released on 2006. Mariachi Music in America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Accompanying 50-minute CD contains examples of music discussed in the book.
Documentary Expression and Thirties America
Documentary Expression and Thirties America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Documentary Expression and Thirties America write by William Stott. This book was released on 1986-06-15. Documentary Expression and Thirties America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "A comprehensive inquiry into the attitudes and ambitions that characterized the documentary impulse of the thirties. The subject is a large one, for it embraces (among much else) radical journalism, academic sociology, the esthetics of photography, Government relief programs, radio broadcasting, the literature of social work, the rhetoric of political persuasion, and the effect of all these on the traditional arts of literature, painting, theater and dance. The great merit of Mr. Stott's study lies precisely in its wide-ranging view of this complex terrain."—Hilton Kramer, New York Times Book Review "[Scott] might be called the Aristotle of documentary. No one before him has so comprehensively surveyed the achievement of the 1930s, suggesting what should be admired, what condemned, and why; no one else has so persuasively furnished an aesthetic for judging the form."—Times Literary Supplement
