lsu press mär 2020 (5 Ergebnisse)

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'This encyclopedia is the definitive reference book on the numerous and incredibly influential native musicians who performed the indigenous music of Louisiana. It features biographical entries of nearly 1600 notable musicians that include birth and death dates and places; style(s) of music performed; instrumentation, and whether they were a composer and/or bandleader; summary of career; and notable work. Also included are 70 musicians who were born elsewhere but made an impact on the state's musical legacy. There are entries for two dozen regional producers who recorded Louisiana musicians, often in their own studios and issued on their own labels. In his introduction, Gene Tomko provides a detailed overview of how Louisiana's unique multicultural history and geographic location led to the creation of the various musical genres that developed in the state, producing more styles of indigenous music than anywhere else in the country. Hundreds of musicians' biographies are published here for the first time, and hundreds more are updated with the most accurate information. Tomko's extensive, meticulous research has produced new information on many enigmatic early jazz, blues, Cajun, Creole, swamp pop and gospel musicians, such as Country Jim, Henry Zeno, Burnell Santiago, Douglas Bellard, Blind Uncle Gaspard, Blazer Boy, Black Ivory King, Emma L. Jackson, Rocket Morgan, and many other shadowy Louisiana musical figures. Written with both the casual music fan and serious scholar in mind, 'The Encyclopedia of Louisiana Musicians' will be a valued addition to the library of anyone who has an interest in Louisiana's rich musical legacy and the remarkable important musicians it has produced'.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - ''Interpreting Southern Histories' is a collection of historiographical essays that updates and expands upon the iconic volumes 'Writing Southern History' (1967) and 'Interpreting Southern History' (1987), both published by Louisiana State University Press. This third volume includes nineteen essays and an introduction co-written by the most prominent historians working in southern history today. Two scholars, typically at different stages in their careers, collaboratively wrote each essay, providing a broad knowledge of the most recent historiography and expansive visions for historiographical contexts. Each essay connects intellectually with the earlier volumes but avoids unnecessary redundancy. Each also attends to ways in which the cultural turn of the 1980s and 1990s introduced the use of language and cultural symbols, including the influence of gender studies, postcolonial studies, and memory studies. The essays also broadly consider the gradual normalization of the South, relying less on conceptualizing the South as a distinct region and more on contextualizing it within national and global historiographies. In such consideration, however, the contributors also note where the historiography continues to insist on a distinctive 'South.' This book will be essential reading for every scholar and serious student of southern history'.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Moving beyond familiar myths about moonshiners, bootleggers, and hard-drinking writers, 'Southern Comforts' explores how alcohol and drinking helped shape the literature and culture of the U.S. South. Edited by Conor Picken and Matthew Dischinger, this collection of seventeen thought-provoking essays proposes that discussions about drinking in southern culture often orbit around familiar figures and mythologies that obscure what drinking has meant over time. Complexities of race, class, and gender remain hidden amid familiar images, catchy slogans, and convenient stories. As the first collection of scholarship that investigates the relationship between drinking and the South, 'Southern Comforts' challenges popular assumptions about alcohol in the South by examining evocative topics drawn from literature, music, film, city life, and cocktail culture. Taken together, the essays collected here illustrate that exaggerated representations of drinking oversimplify the region's relationship to alcohol, in effect absorbing it into narratives of southern exceptionalism that persist to this day. From Edgar Allan Poe to Richard Wright, Bessie Smith to Johnny Cash, Bourbon Street tourism to post-Katrina disaster capitalism and more, 'Southern Comforts: Drinking and the U.S. South' uncovers the reciprocal relationship between mythologies of drinking and mythologies of region'.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Although the physical environments that form its central subjects are scattered throughout the southeastern United States--the Atchafalaya, the Okefenokee, the Mississippi River delta, the Everglades, and the Great Dismal Swamp--this . collection challenges fixed notions of place and foregrounds the ways in which ecosystems shape cultures and creations on both local and global scales. Across seventeen scholarly essays, along with a critical introduction and afterword, [the book] introduces new frameworks for thinking about swamps in the South and beyond, with emphasis on subjects including Indigenous studies, ecocriticism, intersectional feminism, and the tropical sublime'.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - ''Interpreting Southern Histories' is a collection of historiographical essays that updates and expands upon the iconic volumes 'Writing Southern History' (1967) and 'Interpreting Southern History' (1987), both published by Louisiana State University Press. This third volume includes nineteen essays and an introduction co-written by the most prominent historians working in southern history today. Two scholars, typically at different stages in their careers, collaboratively wrote each essay, providing a broad knowledge of the most recent historiography and expansive visions for historiographical contexts. Each essay connects intellectually with the earlier volumes but avoids unnecessary redundancy. Each also attends to ways in which the cultural turn of the 1980s and 1990s introduced the use of language and cultural symbols, including the influence of gender studies, postcolonial studies, and memory studies. The essays also broadly consider the gradual normalization of the South, relying less on conceptualizing the South as a distinct region and more on contextualizing it within national and global historiographies. In such consideration, however, the contributors also note where the historiography continues to insist on a distinctive 'South.' This book will be essential reading for every scholar and serious student of southern history'.