A sailor's Sweetheart

A sailor's Sweetheart PDF Author: William Clark Russell
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A sailor's Sweetheart

A sailor's Sweetheart PDF Author: William Clark Russell
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A sailor's sweetheart

A sailor's sweetheart PDF Author: William Clark Russell
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Languages : en
Pages : 362

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A Sailor's Log

A Sailor's Log PDF Author: Frederick T. Wilson
Publisher: Kent State University Press
ISBN: 9780873387828
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 438

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Frederick T. Wilson was an engineer who carried the rank of first-class petty officer and served in one of the US Navy's first modern battleships, the USS Oregon. He also participated in the relief of Peking during the Boxer rebellion. This is an uncensored picture of enlisted life.

An American Singing Heritage

An American Singing Heritage PDF Author: Norm Cohen
Publisher: A-R Editions, Inc.
ISBN: 1987207289
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 597

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This edition brings together representative transcriptions of folk songs and ballads in the British-Irish-American oral tradition that have enjoyed widespread familiarity throughout twentieth-century America. Within are the one hundred folk songs that most frequently occurred in a methodical survey of Roud’s Folk Song Index, catalogues of commercial early country (or "hillbilly") recordings, and relevant archival collections. The editors selected sources for transcriptions in a broad range of singing styles and representing many regions of the United States. The selections attempt to avoid the biases of previous collections and provide a fresh group of examples, many heretofore unseen in print. The sources for the transcriptions are recordings of traditional musicians from the 1920s through the early 1940s drawn from (1) commercial recordings of "hillbilly" musicians, and (2) field recordings in the collection of the Library of Congress’s Archive of American Folk Song, now part of the Archive of Folk Culture. Each transcription is accompanied by a brief contextualizing essay discussing the song’s history and influence, recording and performance information (whenever available), and an examination of the tune. The edition begins with a substantive essay about the history of folk song recordings and folk song scholarship, and the nature of traditional vocal music in the United States.

To Swear like a Sailor

To Swear like a Sailor PDF Author: Paul A. Gilje
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521762359
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 409

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This book explores American maritime world, including cursing, language, logbooks, storytelling, sailor songs, reading, and material culture.

Motion Picture Herald

Motion Picture Herald PDF Author:
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Category : Motion pictures
Languages : en
Pages : 698

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Catalog of Copyright Entries

Catalog of Copyright Entries PDF Author:
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Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1188

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The academy

The academy PDF Author:
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Languages : en
Pages : 620

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Life Prints

Life Prints PDF Author: Mary Mason
Publisher: Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN: 9781558612761
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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"Chronicles in seamless prose her own journeys as a person with a disability. She ends her memoir triumphantly, claiming proudly her identity as a feminist writer with a disability."--Library Journal

Women in Wartime

Women in Wartime PDF Author: Paula R. Backscheider
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421441691
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 456

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A revelatory history of the characters that playwrights and managers created out of the real lives of women in intimate relationships with military men to serve Great Britain's greatest needs during the war-saturated eighteenth century. During the long eighteenth century, Great Britain was almost continuously at war. As the era unfolded, the theatre gradually discovered the potential in having actresses, recently introduced to the stage in the 1660s, perform as wartime women characters. As playwrights and managers began casting women in transformative roles to meet each major national need, female characters came to be central figures in bringing the war home to the nation, transforming them into deeply patriotic British subjects. Paula Backscheider's Women in Wartime is the first study of theatrical representations of women with intimate connections to military men. Drawing upon her extensive expertise in gender, performance studies, popular culture, and archival studies, Backscheider traces the rise of the London theatre's acceptance that one of its responsibilities was to support its country's wars. Rather than focusing on the historical, mythical "warrior women" on the battlefield who have been much studied, Backscheider explores the lives and work of sweethearts, wives, mothers, sisters, barmaids, provision sellers, seaport prostitutes, and more, whose relationships to active-duty men made them recruits, volunteers, or even conscripts. They represent a distinct group of thousands of real women, and the actresses who portrayed them gave performances of change, struggle, celebration, mourning, survival, love, and patriotism. Backscheider explicates more than fifty plays—from main pieces, short farces, interludes, afterpieces, and comic operas to entr'actes, pantomimes, and even masques—as both entertainment and as ideological and propagandistic vehicles in times of severe crises. She also reveals how these works, many written by men with military experience, attest to the context of difficult, inescapable realities and momentous needs. Through the debunking of sexual stereotypes and attention to audience-pleasing roles such as impoverished-wife and breeches parts, Backscheider adds a dimension to theatrical history that substantially contributes to women's and military histories. Women in Wartime demonstrates the startling acuity and prescience of the repertoire in responding to the war-steeped culture of the period.