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| Author | : Hamlin Garland |
| Publisher | : |
| Release Date | : 1893 |
| ISBN | : |
| Pages | : 172 pages |
| Rating | : 4.3/5 (91 download) |
Download or read book Prairie Songs written by Hamlin Garland and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
| Author | : MYRA PEPPER WELLER |
| Publisher | : Lulu.com |
| Release Date | : 2013-04-18 |
| ISBN | : 1300949279 |
| Pages | : 47 pages |
| Rating | : 4.3/5 (9 download) |
Download or read book PRAIRIE SONGS written by MYRA PEPPER WELLER and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-04-18 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry of an Iowa farm lady in an era of real people untainted by modern media exposure.
| Author | : Gary Bigelow |
| Publisher | : Lulu.com |
| Release Date | : 2016-10-20 |
| ISBN | : 136538831X |
| Pages | : 110 pages |
| Rating | : 4.3/5 (653 download) |
Download or read book Sweetgrass and Prairie Songs written by Gary Bigelow and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-10-20 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gary's free-verse poems are an amalgam of short epiphanies, surreal insight, dark humor, love, romance, loss, harsh realities, strong women, and mania, a of life vividly observed with an artist's perspective, like the Hopper-esque The Man on a Street Corner in a Small Town, or the Epiphany Somewhere Between Clyde Park and Nowhere. There is also a humorous side to Gary's work like Tumbleweed Memories of the Boy with the Red Tobacco Tin or My Past Life as a Barn Cat. Hill 57, Asylum Girl, and Rez Girl are examples of harsh realities, witnessed firsthand.
| Author | : John T Price |
| Publisher | : University of Iowa Press |
| Release Date | : 2014-06 |
| ISBN | : 1609382463 |
| Pages | : 385 pages |
| Rating | : 4.6/5 (93 download) |
Download or read book The Tallgrass Prairie Reader written by John T Price and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2014-06 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tallgrass prairie of the early 1800s, a beautiful and seemingly endless landscape of wildflowers and grasses, is now a tiny remnant of its former expanse. As a literary landscape, with much of the American environmental imagination focused on a mainstream notion of more spectacular examples of wild beauty, tallgrass is even more neglected. Prairie author and advocate John T. Price wondered what it would take to restore tallgrass prairie to its rightful place at the center of our collective identity. The answer to that question is his Tallgrass Prairie Reader, a first-of-its-kind collection of literature from and about the tallgrass bioregion. Focusing on autobiographical nonfiction in a wide variety of forms, voices, and approaches—including adventure narrative, spiritual reflection, childhood memoir, Native American perspectives, literary natural history, humor, travel writing and reportage—he honors the ecological diversity of tallgrass itself and provides a range of models for nature writers and students. The chronological arrangement allows readers to experience tallgrass through the eyes and imaginations of forty-two authors from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries. Writings by very early explorers are followed by works of nineteenth-century authors that reflect the fear, awe, reverence, and thrill of adventure rampant at the time. After 1900, following the destruction of the majority of tallgrass, much of the writing became nostalgic, elegiac, and mythic. A new environmental consciousness asserted itself midcentury, as personal responses to tallgrass were increasingly influenced by larger ecological perspectives. Preservation and restoration—informed by hard science—emerged as major themes. Early twenty-first-century writings demonstrate an awareness of tallgrass environmental history and the need for citizens, including writers, to remember and to help save our once magnificent prairies.
| Author | : Laurel Means |
| Publisher | : FriesenPress |
| Release Date | : 2017-01-04 |
| ISBN | : 1460278526 |
| Pages | : 236 pages |
| Rating | : 4.4/5 (62 download) |
Download or read book Prairie Grass and Other Leaves written by Laurel Means and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2017-01-04 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Midwest prairie grass has many leaves and many moods, and each of the sixteen short stories of this collection graphically conveys the challenge, pathos, and beauty evoked by that dramatic setting. "Prairie Voices" speaks through the voices of early pioneers, while "Songs of Experience" adapts Blake's poems to contemporary gender relationships. "What is Unspoken" transforms the prairies into a surreal and terrifying world, where yet humor might just -- just might --surface. "Places of the Heart" discovers those secret places in which the spirit may find home, not in a barren landscape, but one teeming with life, growth, and revelation. A richly varied series in its detailed setting and imagery, deeply satisfying in its in-depth depiction of characters and fast-moving narrative.
| Author | : Jean Holloway |
| Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
| Release Date | : 2014-12-15 |
| ISBN | : 1477307168 |
| Pages | : 362 pages |
| Rating | : 4.4/5 (773 download) |
Download or read book Hamlin Garland written by Jean Holloway and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-12-15 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hamlin Garland’s Main-Travelled Roads is recognized as one of the early landmarks of American literary realism. But Garland’s shift in mid-career from the harsh verisimilitude of Prairie Folks and Prairie Songs to a romanticizing of the Far West, and from ardent espousal of the principles of “veritism” to violent denunciations of naturalism, is a paradox which has long puzzled literary historians. In tracing the evolution of Garland’s work, the various reactions of his stories under the influence of editorial comment and of contemporary critical reaction, Jean Holloway suggests that the Garland apostasy was an illusion produced by his very intellectual immobility amidst the swirling currents of American thought. His extensive correspondence with Gilder of the Century, Alden of Harper’s Monthly, McClure of McClure’s, and Bok of the Ladies’ Home Journal is adduced in support of the thesis that the writer’s choices of subject and of treatment were psychologically forced rather than conditioned primarily by literary theory. As a subject for biography, however, Garland has an appeal far beyond the scope of his literary influence. The friendships of this gregarious peripatetic with the famous began with Howells, Twain, Whitman, and Stephen Crane, stretched down the years to include such younger men as Bret Harte and Carl Van Doren, and crossed the seas to embrace such British literary lions as Barrie, Shaw, and Kipling. Garland’s fervent espousal of “causes”—the Single Tax Movement, psychic experimentation, Indian rights-brought him into close contact with other prominent men—Henry George, Theodore Roosevelt, and William Jennings Bryan. These public figures form the incidental characters in Garland’s spate of autobiographical works. Yet it is the central figure of his own story which has become permanently identified with the “Middle Border,” that region “between the land of the hunter and the harvester” which Augustus Thomas defined as “wherever Hamlin Garland is.” In A Son of the Middle Border Garland nostalgically recreated his boyhood on the frontier and, regardless of the detractions of literary critics, preserved for posterity an important segment of American social history.
| Author | : P.H. Carder |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Release Date | : 2014-11-21 |
| ISBN | : 0786483172 |
| Pages | : 247 pages |
| Rating | : 4.7/5 (864 download) |
Download or read book George F. Root, Civil War Songwriter written by P.H. Carder and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-11-21 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Civil War broke out in 1861, “The Battle Cry of Freedom” became perhaps the most common patriotic song echoing throughout the North. The author of that famous tune was George F. Root, and his many other patriotic songs established him as “the musician of the people.” This biography follows Root’s dual career as a nationally-known traveling teacher and a composer of popular songs. His wartime songs expressed the emotions of the soldiers and of the people at home. His later songs document such events as the assassination of President Lincoln, the settling of the West, the literature and humor of his day, and the many reform movements that defined the values of that era. His biography reveals how he became the musician of the people and how his critics responded.
| Author | : Melvin R. Gilmore |
| Publisher | : DigiCat |
| Release Date | : 2022-11-21 |
| ISBN | : |
| Pages | : 112 pages |
| Rating | : 4.8/5 (596 download) |
Download or read book Prairie Smoke, a Collection of Lore of the Prairies written by Melvin R. Gilmore and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-21 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prairie Smoke, a Collection of Lore of the Prairies by Melvin R. Gilmore is about the lives and culture of Native American tribes throughout what is now considered North Dakota. Excerpt: "The native tribes of North Dakota are of three different linguistic stocks or races. These are the Algonkian, Siouan and Caddoan. The Algonkian race is represented in North Dakota by one nation, the Chippewa or Ojibwa. The Siouan race is represented within our state boundaries by three nations, the Dakota (sometimes called Sioux), the Mandan, and the Hidatsa (who are also called Gros Ventre and Minnetari). The Caddoan race is represented by one nation, the Arikara. Other nations of the Caddoan race are the Pawnees, the Wichita, and the Waco farther south."
| Author | : Cecelia Tichi |
| Publisher | : Duke University Press |
| Release Date | : 1998 |
| ISBN | : 9780822321682 |
| Pages | : 428 pages |
| Rating | : 4.3/5 (216 download) |
Download or read book Reading Country Music written by Cecelia Tichi and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its steel guitars, Opry stars, and honky-tonk bars, country music is an American original. Bringing together a wide range of scholars and critics from literature, communications, history, sociology, art, and music, this anthology looks at everything from the inner workings of the country music industry to the iconography of certain stars to the development of distinctive styles within the country music genre. 72 photos.
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| Release Date | : 1895 |
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| Pages | : pages |
| Rating | : 4.:/5 (31 download) |
Download or read book The Atlantic Monthly written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
| Author | : Anna Hoefnagels |
| Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
| Release Date | : 2012-02-24 |
| ISBN | : 0773587136 |
| Pages | : 520 pages |
| Rating | : 4.7/5 (735 download) |
Download or read book Aboriginal Music in Contemporary written by Anna Hoefnagels and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2012-02-24 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Nations, Inuit, and Métis music in Canada is dynamic and diverse, reflecting continuities with earlier traditions and innovative approaches to creating new musical sounds. Aboriginal Music in Contemporary Canada narrates a story of resistance and renewal, struggle and success, as indigenous musicians in Canada negotiate who they are and who they want to be. Comprised of essays, interviews, and personal reflections by Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal musicians and scholars alike, the collection highlights themes of innovation, teaching and transmission, and cultural interaction. Individual chapters discuss musical genres ranging from popular styles including country and pop to nation-specific and intertribal practices such as powwows, as well as hybrid performances that incorporate music with theatre and dance. As a whole, this collection demonstrates how music is a powerful tool for articulating the social challenges faced by Aboriginal communities and an effective way to affirm indigenous strength and pride. Juxtaposing scholarly study with artistic practice, Aboriginal Music in Contemporary Canada celebrates and critically engages Canada's vibrant Aboriginal music scene. Contributors include Véronique Audet (Université de Montreal), Columpa C. Bobb (Tsleil Waututh and Nlaka'pamux, Manitoba Theatre for Young People), Sadie Buck (Haudenosaunee), Annette Chrétien (Métis), Marie Clements (Métis/Dene), Walter Denny Jr. (Mi'kmaw), Gabriel Desrosiers (Ojibwa, University of Minnesota, Morris), Beverley Diamond (Memorial University), Jimmy Dick (Cree), Byron Dueck (Royal Northern College of Music), Klisala Harrison (University of Helsinki), Donna Lariviere (Algonquin), Charity Marsh (University of Regina), Sophie Merasty (Dene and Cree), Garry Oker (Dane-zaa), Marcia Ostashewski (Cape Breton University), Mary Piercey (Memorial University), Amber Ridington (Memorial University), Dylan Robinson (Stó:lo, University of Toronto), Christopher Scales (Michigan State University), Gilles Sioui (Wendat), Gordon E. Smith (Queen's University), Beverly Souliere (Algonquin), Janice Esther Tulk (Memorial University), Florent Vollant (Innu) and Russell Wallace (Lil'wat).
| Author | : Jim Douglas |
| Publisher | : Libraries Unlimited |
| Release Date | : 1998 |
| ISBN | : 1563086107 |
| Pages | : 127 pages |
| Rating | : 4.5/5 (63 download) |
Download or read book Music in Every Classroom written by Jim Douglas and published by Libraries Unlimited. This book was released on 1998 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helps music specialists and nonspecialists identify resources that support the integration of music with core curriculum for kindergarten through eighth grade.
| Author | : Ronald D. Cohen |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Release Date | : 2006 |
| ISBN | : 0415971608 |
| Pages | : 264 pages |
| Rating | : 4.4/5 (159 download) |
Download or read book Folk Music written by Ronald D. Cohen and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2006 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Folk Music: TheBasics gives a brief introduction to British and American folk music. It is an excellent introduction to the players, the music, and the styles that make folk music an enduring and well-loved musical style.
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| Release Date | : 1894 |
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| Pages | : 636 pages |
| Rating | : 4.:/5 (55 download) |
Download or read book The Midland Monthly written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
| Author | : Rod A. Janzen |
| Publisher | : UPNE |
| Release Date | : 1999 |
| ISBN | : 9780874519310 |
| Pages | : 348 pages |
| Rating | : 4.5/5 (193 download) |
Download or read book The Prairie People written by Rod A. Janzen and published by UPNE. This book was released on 1999 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An eyewitness account of life among a unique group of Anabaptists.
| Author | : Joe Carr |
| Publisher | : Texas Tech University Press |
| Release Date | : 1997 |
| ISBN | : 9780896723658 |
| Pages | : 262 pages |
| Rating | : 4.7/5 (236 download) |
Download or read book Prairie Nights to Neon Lights written by Joe Carr and published by Texas Tech University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the regional bands of the 1930s and 1940s to the impact of Elvis Presley on the musicians and singers of the 1950s, Prairie Nights to Neon Lights takes us inside the heart of West Texas music.
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| Release Date | : 1897 |
| ISBN | : |
| Pages | : 788 pages |
| Rating | : 4.3/5 (91 download) |
Download or read book Author, Playwright and Composer written by and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
