Table of Contents: “…Recovering the creole synthesis : the roots of blackface minstrelsy -- The creole synthesis in the new world : cultures in contact -- Long Island and the Lower East Side : Mount's background, youth, and apprenticeships -- Minstrelsy's material culture : the evidence of Mount's portraiture -- Melody's polyrhythmic polysemic possibilities : the bodily evidence of Mount's music -- Akimbo culture : dance and the participatory pleasures of the body -- Conclusion : the Creole synthesis in American culture.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Writing Songs That Connect ; Building a Song ; Let the Music Play ; Writing Unique and Memorable Melodies ; Finding the Right Words to Say ; Rewriting -- Part Two. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Overture -- Authenticity : this is what expression sounds like -- Realism : this is what music looks like -- Novelty : this is what risk-taking sounds like -- Melody : this is what music feels like -- Lyrics : this is what identity sounds like -- Rhythm : this is what music moves like -- Timbre : this is what music conjures -- Form and function : this is what it sounds like to a record producer -- Falling in love : the music of you -- Coda.…”

Table of Contents: “…9780719071447; 9780719071447; Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; A note on the texts; Introduction; 1 'An aching pulse of melodies': Dante Gabriel Rossetti's poetic magnetism; 2 Walter Pater's 'strange veil of sight'; 3 Of Venus, vagueness, and vision: Vernon Lee, Eugene Lee-Hamilton, and 'the spell of the fragment'; 4 Theodore Watts-Dunton's Aylwin and the reduplications of Romanticism; 5 Thomas Hardy's poetry: 'the intenser stare of the mind'; Index.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Rhythm in 20th-century music.--Kliewer, V. L. Melody: linear aspects of 20th-century music.--Reisberg, H. …”

Table of Contents: “…Psycho killer -- Heaven -- Thank you for sending me an angel -- Found a job -- Slippery people -- Burning down the house -- Life during wartime -- Making flippy floppy -- Swamp -- What a day that was -- Naive melody (This must be the place) -- Once in a lifetime -- Genius of love -- A girlfriend is better -- Take me to the river -- Cross-eyes and painless -- Bonus tracks: Cities -- Big business / I Zimbra.…”

Table of Contents: “…From the shtetl to the city (1888-1919) -- The Markus family in Eastern Europe -- Munich, war, and marriage -- Berlin Expressionist circles -- Inflation-era illustrations (1920-1923) -- Classic world literature -- Grotesque Yiddish figures -- Hebrew melodies -- The wild side of Weimar (1924-1933) -- Newspaper artist -- Sexuality and the Bible -- The Jewish Käthe Kollwitz -- Exile in Paris (1933-1942) -- From Berlin to the School of Paris -- Holocaust fates.…”

Table of Contents: “…Bicultural identity negotiation / Sun No, Ching Wan, Melody Manchi Chao, Jennifer L. Rosner and Ying-yi Hong -- 13. …”

Table of Contents: “…Sigmund Romberg : the man and his music -- Finding a voice : operetta, revue, and musical comedy -- Staging nostalgia : the road to maytime -- Continued success : The magic melody and Blossom time -- Young love in old Heidelberg : The student Prince -- Romance and exoticism in North Africa : The desert song -- Exploring new possibilities : from Cherry blossoms to The new moon -- Emulating the past : later stage works -- Romberg in Hollywood -- Building a legacy.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Olympic time and dilemmas of development in China's Tibet -- The dangers of the gift master -- The mountain deity and the state : voice, deity mediumship and land expropriation in Jima village -- Othering spaces, cementing treasure : concrete, money, and the politics of value in Kharnak village school -- The melodious sound of the right-turning conch : historiography and Buddhist counter-development in Langmo village -- Spectacular compassion : "natural" disasters, national mourning, and the unquiet dead -- Epilogue : the kindly solemn face of the female Buddha.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Eight Hundred Million Notes and but Two Plays Done -- CHAPTER ONE: From Spithead to Tao House -- CHAPTER TWO: Løvborg's Lost Manuscript -- CHAPTER THREE: The Remainder in the Middle -- CHAPTER FOUR: Sara Melody and the American Dream -- CHAPTER FIVE: Climbing the Harford Family Tree -- CHAPTER SIX: Stripped Stark Naked -- CHAPTER SEVEN: Beyond the Threshold -- CHAPTER EIGHT: The Glencairn Template -- The Eleven-Play Lineup: "A Tale of Possessors Self-Dispossessed" -- Chronology of the Cycle…”
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Table of Contents: “…Snyder -- The triumph of "instrumental melody" : aspects of musical poetics in Bach's St. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Berger -- Theory as practice : some dialectics of generality and specificity in folklore scholarship ; Horizons of melody and the problem of the self / Harris M. Berger -- The role of reflexivity in the aesthetics of performance : verbal art, public display, and popular music / Harris M. …”

Table of Contents: “…Prologue -- American Dreams : Francis Scott Key and the Writing of The Star-Spangled Banner -- Origins of a Melody : The Music of The Star- Spangled Banner -- Banner Ballads : The Many Lyrics of The Star- Spangled Banner -- The Banner at War : A Song Sanctified -- Play Ball! …”

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: avant-garde culture and technological transformations -- Reframing the historical avant-garde -- media, historiography and method -- The dialectics of self-conception -- film avant-garde and industry around 1930 -- Strategic convergence and functional differentiation -- the film societies and ciné-clubs of the 1920s and 30s -- Mapping a totality of networks, nodes and flows -- discourses as practice -- Vanishing point Soviet Union -- Soviet cinema and the West between innovation and repression -- Melodies across the oceans -- the intersection of documentary and avant-garde -- Conclusion -- bridging the gaps, connecting the dots.…”
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Table of Contents: “…The Politics of Sonic Space at a Zulu Wedding -- Songs of Sacrifice: uMemulo and the Politics of Gender and Generation -- Phenomenology of iNgoma: isiShameni Dance and the Politics of Proximity -- uMaskandi iziBongo: The Politics and Poetics of Popular Praises -- Inscribing Tradition: Poverty, Inequality, and the Politics of Performance in Schools -- Sounds of Tongaland: Environmental Justice at Ndumo Game Reserve -- Unsung Melodies: Reciprocity in Sound -- Conclusion.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Affirming and contradicting gender stereotypes / Judy Fentress-Williams and Melody D. Knowles.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Foreword: When butterflies are red: Mariposa literary activism / Maythee Rojas -- Introduction: About Retablos, about Mariposa memory -- The Truman Capote Aria -- Confessions of a gay Catholic boy -- Orphans in the terrorist world -- Easter rock: 1983 -- Memory lessons, memory lesions -- Andrés Montoya: the ice worker still sings -- The poet Ai: an appreciation -- Beloved Jotoranos -- Lullaby from Thomas James -- Roxana's melody -- To the writer, to the activist, to the citizen -- The Gay Brown Beret suit -- Toward a Mariposa consciousness.…”

Table of Contents: “…Front matter; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Opening speeches: an introduction; Law and lawyers: 'the prerogative of the wig'; The stage: 'the court presented a very imposing spectacle'; Bodies in court: 'Hogarth would have admired him forever'; Speech, sympathy and eloquence: 'it is a voice full of manly melody'; The cross-examination: 'he's putting me in such a doldrum'; Storytelling: 'quoting the poet'; On character and truth: 'you see McDonnell the value of a good character'; Closing arguments: a conclusion; Select bibliography; Index.…”
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