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Participates in the creation of the postmillennial Bob Dylan by exploring three central records of the twenty-first century - "Love and Theft" (2001), Modern Times (2006), and Tempest (2012) - along with the 2003 film Masked and Anonymous, which Dylan helped write and in which he appears as an actor and musical performer.

Traces how the best of intentions to protect children can nonetheless hurt them when leaving them unprepared to act on their own behalf. Susan Honeyman utilizes literary parallels and discursive analysis to highlight the unchecked protectionism that has left minors increasingly isolated in dwindling social units and vulnerable to injustice.

Presents the first collection of interviews with the beloved children's book author best known for her 1962 Newbery Award-winning novel, A Wrinkle in Time. The thirteen interviews collected here reveal an amazing feat of authorial self-fashioning, as L'Engle transformed from novelist to children's author to Christian writer.

Presents the first collection of interviews with the beloved children's book author best known for her 1962 Newbery Award-winning novel, A Wrinkle in Time. The thirteen interviews collected here reveal an amazing feat of authorial self-fashioning, as L'Engle transformed from novelist to children's author to Christian writer.

Throughout his life, Louis Armstrong tried to explain how singing with a barbershop quartet on the streets of New Orleans was foundational to his musicianship. Creating the Jazz Solo shows that Armstrong understood exactly the relationship between what he sang and what he played, and that he he was singing through his horn.

Despite a substantial artistic legacy, there has never been a book devoted to Greek music in America until now. This volume provides a singular platform for understanding the scope, practice, and development of Greek music in America through essays and profiles written by principal scholars in the field.

Despite a substantial artistic legacy, there has never been a book devoted to Greek music in America until now. This volume provides a singular platform for understanding the scope, practice, and development of Greek music in America through essays and profiles written by principal scholars in the field.

Offers a judicious selection of interviews spanning the writing career of Jim Harrison (1937-2016) from its beginnings in the 1960s to the last interview he gave weeks before his death in March 2016. These interviews supply a lively narrative of his progress as a major contemporary American author.

Millions of southerners left the South in the twentieth century in a mass migration that has, in many ways, rewoven the fabric of American society on cultural, political, and economic levels. Mary Weaks-Baxter analyses narratives by and about those who left the South and how those narratives have remade what it means to be southern.

Based on meticulous archival research and oral history interviews with over one hundred parents, teachers, students, principals, superintendents, community leaders, and school board members, Natalie G. Adams and James H. Adams explore the arduous and complex task of implementing school desegregation.

Chronicles for the first time the fifty-year history of the Disney recording companies launched by Walt Disney and Roy Disney in the mid-1950s. The book provides a perspective on all-time Disney favourites and features anecdotes, reminiscences, and biographies of the artists who brought Disney magic to audio.

Using cultural theory, author R. Bruce Brasell investigates issues surrounding the discursive presentation of the American South as biracial and explores its manifestation in documentary films, including such works as Tell about the South, bro*ken/ground, and Family Name. After considering the emergence of the region's biraciality through a consideration of the concepts of racial citizenry and racial performativity, Brasell examines two problems associated with this framework. First, the framework assumes racial purity, and, second, it assumes that two races exist. In other words, biraciality enacts two denials, first, the existence of miscegenation in the region and, second, the existence of other races and ethnicities.Brasell considers bodily miscegenation, discussing the racial closet and the southeastern expatriate road film. Then he examines cultural miscegenation through the lens of racial poaching and 1970s southeastern documentaries that use redemptive ethnography. In the subsequent chapters, using specific documentary films, he considers the racial in-betweenness of Spanish-speaking ethnicities (Mosquitoes and High Water, Living in America, Nuestra Communidad), probes issues related to the process of racial negotiation experienced by Asian Americans as they seek a racial position beyond the black and white binary (Mississippi Triangle), and engages the problem of racial legitimacy confronted by federally nonrecognized Native groups as they attempt the same feat (Real Indian).

An unforgettable chronicle by the first full-time African American reporter for the Washington Post and Jet magazine's White House correspondent for a half-century

Getting in touch with a spiritual side is a craving many are unable voice, but readers and viewers seek out this connection through animation, cinema, anime, and art. This book offers a range of explorations of the meanings of the spirited and spiritual in the dynamic, polarized creative environment of the twenty-first century.

Examines southern literature and the culture within the United States from the period just before the Cold War through the civil rights movement to show how this literature won a significant place in Cold War culture and shaped America through the time of The Hillbilly Elegy.

Highlights how Blake Edwards created the hugely successful Pink Panther franchise; his long partnership with award-winning composer Henry Mancini; his principles of comedy as influenced by the comic greats of film history, especially silent comedies; his marriage and film collaborations with Julie Andrews; and his unique philosophy of life.

The seventeen interviews in this volume, most of which have been translated into English for the first time, offer new insights into Claude Chabrol's remarkably wide-ranging filmography, providing a sense of his attitudes and ideas about a number of subjects.

The first collection of interviews with the renowned poet of Home/Bass and other much-admired works. Spanning thirty years and drawn from literary and scholarly journals and other media, these interviews offer insights into his poetic innovation of blues and jazz and his mastery of black vernacular in poetry.

Presents the first book-length study of Eudora Welty's full range of achievements in nonfiction and photography. A preeminent Welty scholar, Pearl Amelia McHaney offers clear-eyed and complex assessments of Welty's journalism, book reviews, letters, essays, autobiography, and photographs. Each chapter focuses on one genre, filling in gaps left by previous books.

Post-Blackness. Post-Soul. Post-Black Art. New Blackness. Cameron Leader-Picone suggests that this proliferation of terms, along with the renewed focus on questioning the relationship between individual black artists and the larger black community, indicates the arrival of novel forms of black identity and black art.

Explores the impact of neoliberalism and welfare reform on depictions of poverty. Sarah Robertson examines representations of southern poor whites across various types of literature, including travel writing, photo-narratives, life-writing, and eco-literature, and reveals a common interest in communitarianism.

Presents a collection of anecdotal reflections that relate many of the experiences that shaped Barry Gifford as a writer. Representative of Gifford's body of work, this volume is divided into three sections: books, film and television, and music. Within these sections, Gifford's best work is showcased.

Provides a substantial study of a new body of contemporary African diasporic literature called migritude literature. Migritude indicates the work and ideas of a disparate yet distinct group of younger African authors born after independence in the 1960s.

Analyses how the highly biased, white historical memories of what had been a wealthy southern hub originated from the experiences and hardships of the Civil War. These collective narratives eventually culminated in a heritage tourism enterprise still in business today.

Charles Burnett (b. 1944) is a groundbreaking African American filmmaker and one of America's finest directors, yet he remains largely unknown, and few filmgoers have seen his films or heard of Burnett. The interviews in this volume explore this paradox and collectively shed light on the work of a rare film master.

Getting in touch with a spiritual side is a craving many are unable voice, but readers and viewers seek out this connection through animation, cinema, anime, and art. This book offers a range of explorations of the meanings of the spirited and spiritual in the dynamic, polarized creative environment of the twenty-first century.

More and more educators are using comics in the classroom. As such, this edited volume sets out the stakes, definitions, and exemplars of recent comics pedagogy, from K-12 contexts to higher education instruction to ongoing communities of scholars working outside of the academy.

Looks at the world of professional wrestling from a fan's-eye-view high in the stands and from ringside in the wrestlers' gym. Sharon Mazer investigates how performances are constructed and sold to spectators, and a close-up view of a group of wrestlers as they work out and dream of stardom.

Analyses Progressive Era popular culture, providing a critical angle to approach visual and literary humor about ethnicity - how avenues of comedy serve as expressions of solidarity, commiseration, and empowerment.

More and more educators are using comics in the classroom. As such, this edited volume sets out the stakes, definitions, and exemplars of recent comics pedagogy, from K-12 contexts to higher education instruction to ongoing communities of scholars working outside of the academy.