Nonviolent Politics and the Resurrection of the Dead
!Presente! develops a lived theology of nonviolence through an extended case study of the movement to close the School of the Americas (also known as the SOA or WHINSEC). Specifically,it analyzes how the presence of the dead-a presence proclaimed at the annual vigil of the School of the Americas Watch-shapes a distinctive, transnational, ......
Nonviolent Politics and the Resurrection of the Dead
!Presente! develops a lived theology of nonviolence through an extended case study of the movement to close the School of the Americas (also known as the SOA or WHINSEC). Specifically,it analyzes how the presence of the dead-a presence proclaimed at the annual vigil of the School of the Americas Watch-shapes a distinctive, transnational, ......
African-Americans in Newport and Saratoga Springs, 1870-1930
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, northern resort towns were in their heyday as celebrated retreats for America's wealthy. ''Lord, Please Don't Take Me in August'' documents the experiences of African Americans in Saratoga Springs, New York, and Newport, Rhode Island--towns that provided a recurring season of expanded ......
Awarded the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award (2007).Described by New York Times critic John Rockwell as ''one of the best non-famous composers this country has to offer,'' Ben Johnston reconceives familiar idioms--ranging from neoclassicism and serialism to jazz and southern hymnody--using just intonation. Johnston studied with Darius Milhaud, Harry ......
Two of Wrigley's finest collections of poems are now together in one volume.''One of the finest new poets to come along in years: strong, imaginative, and resolute.'' -- James Dickey''An acute eye for authentic detail and a subtle ear for the rhythms and cadences of real speech, and what he has to say is worth hearing.'' -- Booklist''Robert ......
People""s Songs, American Communism, and the Politics of Culture, 1930-50
Winner of an ASCAP Deems Taylor Award, 1990.''A spirited and scholarly account of the relationship between the U.S. Communist movement and the folk music revival of the 1940s and 1950s.'' -- Paul C. Mishler, Nature, Society, and Thought''Shows the ways in which the folk music revival of the 1960s and the participatory cultures of the civil rights ......
This book compares the work, family, and economic experiences of enslaved women and men in upcountry and lowland Georgia during the nineteenth century. Mining planters' daybooks, plantation records, and a wealth of other sources, Daina Ramey Berry shows how slaves' experiences on large self-contained plantations contrasted with those on small ......