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Showing 1 to 20 of 145 for “"blues"”.
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Sweetwater Blues
<p>A novel, "Sweetwater Blues," by the author.</p>
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Detroit blues women
<p>ABSTRACT</p> <p>DETROIT BLUES WOMEN</p> <p>by</p> <p>Michael Duggan Murphy</p> <p>August 2011</p> <p>Advisor: Dr. John J. Bukowczyk</p> <p>Major: History</p> <p>Degree: Doctor of Philosophy</p> <p>"Detroit Blues Women" explores how African American "women's blues" survived the twentieth century …
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Little Town Blues
<p>"Little Town Blues" is a novel about a woman burdened by a childhood accident and surviver's guilt. She sneaks into a vacation house on Friday nights to read a novel. Bored with her marriage and her work as a hairdresser, her behavior becomes increasingly riskier.</p>
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Rust Belt Blues
Alison Stine's Rust Belt Blues is a book-length work of linked creative nonfiction essays set in former manufacturing towns in Ohio, Indiana, and upstate New York. In pieces that range from autobiography to literary journalism, she focuses on abandoned places and people in the area known as the …
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Mercury River Blues
Mercury River Blues is a collection of poems, both lyric and narrative, which explores contemporary Appalachian history, social issues, aesthetics, and politics.
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The Same Old Blues Crap: Selling The Blues At Fat Possum Records
… with the goal of recording obscure hill country blues artists. Fat Possum gained recognition for its raw-sounding recordings of bluesmen, including R.L. Burnside, Junior Kimbrough, Cedell Davis, and T-Model Ford, as well as its irreverent marketing techniques. Adopting the tagline “not the same …
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Ballads, blues, and alterity
… Chapter 3, ‘“Found True and Unspoiled” | Blues, Performance, and the Mythology of Racial Display’, explores African American culture, showing how desires written into a revivalist gaze forced artists to assume what I term ‘black masks’ for the benefit of white male fantasy. Focusing on …
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The Blues Is Alright: Blues Music as a Root for Cultural Tourism and Public History
… of sites of music lore, places in which the blues have played a role in music tourism, and how public history is used in different ways to accomplish a similar goal. For cities with ties to blues history, blues music tourism can become a source for financial stability as well as a teaching …
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Blues e emancipação em Angela Davis
… is to explore the relationship between the blues and emancipation through Angela Davis, in an attempt to provide a reading that incorporates philosophical thinking, the use of music in the conception of the concept, and the practice of freedom. Proposing to connect to political and cultural …
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The "Aesthetic" of the Blues Aesthetic
This study of the “Blues Aesthetic” both supplements and revises the now-dominant socio-aesthetic paradigm by introducing the perspectives of cognitive aesthetics to African-American vernacular literary criticism. New methods of scansion, informed by literary and linguistic prosody, are developed …
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Back to nature to beat the blues
The purpose of this study was to demonstrate a reduction in depressive symptoms in nursing home residents by using a pet therapy intervention to increase levels of social support and social interaction within the nursing home facility.;The target population in this study consisted of two nursing …
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A Historical Analysis of Living Blues Magazine
This thesis examines Living Blues magazine and its history through its stated cultural focus on African American music.
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Blues Trope as a Cultural Intersection in Alice Walker's The Temple of My Familiar and Sherman Alexie's Reservation Blues
… Americans and Native Americans through the blues trope. The blues trope provides an intriguing literary platform for the psychological and physical struggles in finding an identity within such a diverse multiethnic society like the United States. For African American writer Alice Walker and …
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Decolonizing Revelation: A Spatial Reading of the Blues
… Revelation: A Spatial Reading of the Blues demonstrates that the cultural phenomenon of the blues is an indigenous way of knowing that offsets the hidden logic of racialized dominance within modern Christian understandings of revelation. In distinction from the Christian, Religious, …
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Halls without walls : perpetuation, development & dissemination of the discourse on blues music and blues culture in the digital age (1996-2016)
… digital remediation, on the discourse on blues music and blues culture since the introduction of the world-wide web in 1989, and the proliferation of computer-mediated communications (CMC) from 1996. In other words, blues music and blues culture undergo transformations of form and …
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TRANSNATIONAL JAZZ AND BLUES: AURAL AESTHETICS AND AFRICAN DIASPORIC FICTION
… dissertation examines the influence of jazz and blues on African Diasporic fiction. While the influences of jazz and blues on African American cultural production have received critical attention for many decades, I contend that literary criticism neglects to recognize that jazz and blues are …
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