Faking It (Inbunden)
avHugh Barker, Yuval Taylor, Hugh Barker
ISBN: 9780393060782 - UTGIVEN: 200702Did Elvis sing from the heart, or was he just acting? Were the Sex Pistols more real than disco? Why do so many musicians base their approach on being "authentic," and why do music buffs fall for it every time? By investigating this obsession in the last century through the stories of John Lennon, K[...]
Darkest America (Inbunden)
avYuval Taylor, Jake Austen
ISBN: 9780393070989 - UTGIVEN: 201208Yuval Taylor and Jake Austen investigate the complex history of black minstrelsy, adopted in the mid-nineteenth century by African American performers who played the grinning blackface fool to entertain black and white audiences. We now consider minstrelsy an embarrassing relic, but once blacks and [...]
Growing Up in Slavery (Häftad)
avYuval Taylor
ISBN: 9781556526350 - UTGIVEN: 2006-10Culled from full-length autobiographies, the voices of ten slaves--all under the age of nineteen--describe the full range of slave experiences, from starvation, torture, and violence, to love, laughter, and family life.[...]
