Author: Robert C. Murphy
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780848811112
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: Robert Cushman Murphy
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780962849206
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 90

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Author: Denise Von Glahn
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252052951
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 569

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Composers like Charles Ives, Duke Ellington, Aaron Copland, and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich created works that indelibly commemorated American places. Denise Von Glahn analyzes the soundscapes of fourteen figures whose "place pieces" tell us much about the nation's search for its own voice and about its ever-changing sense of self. She connects each composer's feelings about the United States and their reasons for creating a piece to the music, while analyzing their compositional techniques, tunes, and styles. Approaching the compositions in chronological order, Von Glahn reveals how works that celebrated the wilderness gave way to music engaged with humanity's influence--benign and otherwise--on the landscape, before environmentalism inspired a return to nature themes in the late twentieth century. Wide-ranging and astute, The Sounds of Place explores high art music's role in the making of national myth and memory.

Author: Edmund Clarence Stedman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 674

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Author: Walt Whitman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 484

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Author: Walt Whitman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 348

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Author: Walt Whitman
Publisher: New York : C.L. Webster & Company
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 402

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Author: Walt Whitman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 464

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Author: Walt Whitman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bookbinding
Languages : en
Pages : 332

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Author: Walt Whitman
Publisher: Race Point Publishing
ISBN: 0760362750
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 492

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First published in 1855 with Whitman’s own money, Leaves of Grass is a highly sensual collection of verses that became a monument to American poetry. The journalist, philosopher, clerk, and Civil War nurse spent the following four decades revising and expanding the work from twelve poems to a massive four-hundred-poem compilation. Celebrating nature and human sexuality with explicit imagery, his poetry was controversial but also drew high praise from the likes of Alfred Tennyson and D. H. Lawrence, who called him the “greatest modern poet.” With its sensuous and highly imaginative free-form verses, Walt Whitman’s greatest masterpiece is now available in an elegantly designed clothbound edition with an elastic closure and a new introduction.