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Brand: Will Kaufman
EAN: 9788862312578
Categoria: Libri e riviste

\"Woody Guthrie. American radical\" delinea il profilo politico del più famoso autore di ballate che l'America abbia mai prodotto. Sebbene oggi sia considerato un eroe nazionale e il suo volto campeggi sui francobolli degli Stati Uniti, e sebbene la sua This Land Is Your Land sia percepita come una sorta di secondo inno ufficiale americano, Woody Guthrie dedicò la sua esistenza alla lotta politica radicale. In questo saggio, Will Kaufman traccia il pensiero e l'attivismo di Guthrie lungo gli anni della Grande Depressione, della Seconda Guerra Mondiale, della Guerra Fredda, della Guerra di Corea, delle battaglie per i Diritti Civili e dei veleni del maccartismo. Esaminandone il ruolo avuto nello sviluppo di una coscienza proletaria nel contesto di un radicalismo guidato dal Partito Comunista Americano, dal Fronte Popolare e dal Congresso delle Organizzazioni Industriali, Kaufman dimostra l'importanza di Guthrie nel perpetuare gli obiettivi del fronte culturale nell'era della New Left e ancora oltre, sottolineando la sua influenza sui movimenti di protesta americani e internazionali. Attraverso una prosa chiara ed efficace e una miniera di materiali d'archivio prima inediti - lettere, testi di canzoni, saggi, appunti personali, manoscritti vari - il libro ci consegna un Woody Guthrie finora sconosciuto: l'astuto stratega, il filosofo irregolare e l'attivista culturale, aspetti troppo spesso oscurati dalla romantica celebrazione del \"Dust Bowl Troubadour\".

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Brand: Will Kaufman
EAN: 9781316514337
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Long before anyone ever heard of 'protest music', people in America were singing about their struggles. They sang for justice and fairness, food and shelter, and equality and freedom; they sang to be acknowledged. Sometimes they also sang to oppress. This book uncovers the history of these people and their songs, from the moment Columbus made fateful landfall to the start of the Second World War, when 'protest music' emerged as an identifiable brand. Cutting across musical genres, Will Kaufman recovers the passionate voices of America itself. We encounter songs of the mainland and the conquered territories of Hawai'i, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines; we hear Indigenous songs, immigrant songs and Klan songs, minstrel songs and symphonies, songs of the heard and the unheard, songs of the celebrated and the anonymous, of the righteous and the despicable. This magisterial book shows that all these songs are woven into the very fabric of American history.

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Brand: Will Kaufman
EAN: 9780806161785
Categoria: Libri e riviste

I ain't got no home, I'm just a-roamin' round,\"\" Woody Guthrie lamented in one of his most popular songs. A native of Oklahoma, he was still in his teens when he moved to Pampa, Texas, where he experienced the dust storms that would play such a crucial role in forming his identity and shaping his work. He later joined thousands of Americans who headed to California to escape the devastation of the Dust Bowl. There he entered the West Coast stronghold of the Popular Front, whose leftward influence on his thinking would continue after his move in 1940 to New York, where the American folk music renaissance began when Guthrie encountered Pete Seeger and Lead Belly.\n\n Guthrie kept moving throughout his life, making friends, soaking up influences, and writing about his experiences. Along the way, he produced more than 3,000 songs, as well as fiction, journalism, poetry, and visual art, that gave voice to the distressed and dispossessed. In this insightful book, Will Kaufman examines the artist's career through a unique perspective: the role of time and place in Guthrie's artistic evolution.\n\n Guthrie disdained boundaries - whether of geography, class, race, or religion. As he once claimed in his inimitable style, \"\"There ain't no such thing as east west north or south.\"\" Nevertheless, places were critical to Guthrie's life, thought, and creativity. He referred to himself as a \"\"compass-pointer man,\"\" and after his sojourn in California, he headed up to the Pacific Northwest, on to New York, and crossed the Atlantic as a merchant marine.\n\n Before his death from Huntington's disease in 1967, Guthrie had one more important trip to take: to the Florida swamplands of Beluthahatchee, in the heart of the South. There he produced some of his most trenchant criticisms of Jim Crow racism - a portion of his work that scholars have tended to overlook.\n\n To map Guthrie's movements across space and time, the author draws not only on the artist's considerable recorded and published output but on a wealth of unpublished sources - including letters, essays, song lyrics, and notebooks - housed in the Woody Guthrie Archives in Tulsa, Oklahoma. This trove of primary documents deepens Kaufman's intriguing portrait of a unique American artist.

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Brand: Susan Kaufman
EAN: 9781419759376
Categoria: Libri e riviste

From photographer Susan Kaufman, an intimate celebration of the beauty and charm of New York City\nFor some people, New York City exists only in their imaginations, a big-screen beacon of wonder and twenty-four seven delight. For others, it’s a dream destination: the diverse urban center where they will finally feel they belong. And still for many, it’s the place they already call home. No matter how you view New York, longtime fashion editor and photographer Susan Kaufman will help you see the city with fresh, appreciative eyes.     \n\nAs she travels with her camera through New York, Susan Kaufman invites readers to see the city as she does: from the sidewalk. She explores the beauty of the city found in its charming townhouses, decorated shops, lovely parks, shop facades, and serene streetscapes. New York may be known as the city that never sleeps, but beneath the bustle, there’s a soulful side, with its own quiet power and universal allure. Walk with Me New York invites readers to appreciate the streets and buildings that have made the world’s most iconic city survive centuries of change yet retain its vitality and aspirational magnetism.

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Brand: Josh Kaufman
EAN: 9780670921928
Categoria: Libri e riviste

'Lots of books promise to change your life. This one actually will' Seth Godin, bestselling author of Purple Cow\n\nHave you always wanted to learn a new language? Play an instrument? Launch a business? What's holding you back from getting started? Are you worried about the time it takes to acquire new skills - time you can't spare?\n\n------------------------------------------------\n\nPick up this book and set aside twenty hours to go from knowing nothing to performing like a pro. That's it.\n\nJosh Kaufman, author of international bestseller The Personal MBA, has developed a unique approach to mastering anything. Fast.\n\n'After reading this book, you'll be ready to take on any number of skills and make progress on that big project you've been putting off for years' Chris Guillebeau, bestselling author of Un-F*ck Yourself \n\n'All that's standing between you and playing the ukulele is your TV time for the next two weeks' Laura Vanderkam, author of What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast

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Brand: Meagan Spooner
EAN: 9780062422323
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Fans of Danielle Paige, Marissa Meyer, and Alex Flinn will devour New York Times bestselling author Meagan Spooner’s next fierce fairy tale-inspired story, which Illuminae author Amie Kaufman calls “a kick-ass, gender-flipped feminist retelling.”\n\nRobin of Locksley is dead. \n\nMaid Marian doesn’t know how she’ll go on, but the people of Locksley town, persecuted by the Sheriff of Nottingham, need a protector. And the dreadful Guy of Gisborne, the Sheriff’s right hand, wishes to step into Robin’s shoes as Lord of Locksley and Marian’s fiancé. \n\nWho is there to stop them? \n\nMarian never meant to tread in Robin’s footsteps—never intended to stand as a beacon of hope to those awaiting his triumphant return. But with a sweep of his green cloak and the flash of her sword, Marian makes the choice to become her own hero: Robin Hood.

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