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Scope includes artists who were born, or artistically active, in Kansas.
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Page : 257 pages
File Size : 14,20 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Artists
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Scope includes artists who were born, or artistically active, in Kansas.
Author : Henry Augustin Beers
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Page : 646 pages
File Size : 32,49 MB
Release : 1897
Category : American literature
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Author : Judith Tick
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 34,48 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Composers
ISBN : 0195137922
Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901-1953) is frequently considered the most significant American female composer in the twentieth century. With Aaron Copland and Henry Cowell she was a key member of the 1920s musical avant-garde, and she was the first woman to win a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in music composition. But her legacy extends far beyond the cutting edge of modern music. Collaborating with poet Carl Sandburg on fork song arrangements in the twenties, and with the famous folk-song collectors John and Alan Lomax in the 1930s, she emerged as a central figure in the American fork music revival. In addition, she became an energetic proponent of social change and devoted much of her last decades to progressive causes. This engrossing new biography emphasizes the choices Crawford Seeger made in her roles as composer, activist, teacher, wife and mother.
Author : Marc Edge
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Page : 348 pages
File Size : 33,88 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
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The second generation of Aspers that now runs Canada's largest news media company is much like the first. Israel "Izzy" Asper's three children often appear in today's headlines. David is bidding to buy the Winnipeg Blue Bombers football team. Gail heads fundraising efforts for the new Canadian Museum of Human Rights. Leonard sits in his father's place as head of CanWest Global Communications. Like its founder, they also use their media empire to influence public opinion. Asper Nation explains why Canadians should be concerned about where the country's first family of news media is coming from, politically. Izzy Asper was an oddity as a Liberal politician in the 1970s. Fiscally, he was to the right of most Conservatives. As a nationally syndicated newspaper columnist, he called for a flat tax and "workfare." As a best-selling author, he helped thwart a plan to shift Canada's tax burden from the middle class onto corporations. But when Asper took his policies to Manitobans as Liberal leader in 1973, he was soundly defeated. Asper got into the television business instead and built Canada's third network. Asper made CanWest the country's most profitable broadcaster by feasting on regulations that encouraged the importation of cheap American programming. He took his formula to the world in the 1990s, buying television networks in New Zealand, Australia, and Ireland. Then in 2000, Asper pioneered media "convergence," buying Canada's largest newspaper chain from Conrad Black. Southam dailies were soon ordered to run "national" editorials written at CanWest Global headquarters in Winnipeg. This corporate news control brought protest from journalists and two government inquiries. Neither resulted in long-sought limits on media ownership, however. Marc Edge offers a compelling account of the political perils involved in allowing the Asper family to dominate Canadian media.
Author : Hezekiah Butterworth
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Page : 298 pages
File Size : 28,4 MB
Release : 1875
Category : Hymn writers
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Author : Alison K. Brown
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 33,77 MB
Release : 2005-06-28
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1134463782
This volume combines some of the most influential published research in this emerging field with newly commissioned essays on the issues, problems and lessons involved in collaborating museums and source communities. Focusing on museums in the UK, North America and the Pacific, the book highlights three areas which demonstrate the new developments most clearly: the museum as field site or 'contact zone' - a place which source community members enter for purposes of consultation and collaboration visual repatriation - the use of photography to return images of ancestors, historical moments and material heritage to source communities exhibition case studies - these are discussed to reveal the implications of cross-cultural and collaborative research for museums, and how such projects have challenged established attitudes and practices. As the first overview of its kind, this collection will be essential reading for museum staff working with source communities, for community members involved with museum programmes, and for students and academics in museum studies and social anthropology.
Author : Carlos Slafter
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Page : 340 pages
File Size : 32,72 MB
Release : 1905
Category : Education
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Author : Thomas Henry Huxley
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Page : 582 pages
File Size : 21,8 MB
Release : 1900
Category : Naturalists
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Author : Lucy Jane Cutler Kellogg
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Page : 716 pages
File Size : 15,64 MB
Release : 1902
Category : Bernardston (Mass.)
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Author : Stuart Charles Wade
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Page : 124 pages
File Size : 44,58 MB
Release : 1900
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