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A passion for polka : old-time ethnic music in America
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ISBN: 0520075846 9780520075849 Year: 1992 Publisher: Berkeley Los Angeles Oxford University of California Press

America's instrument : the banjo in the nineteenth-century
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ISBN: 0807824844 Year: 1999 Publisher: Chapel Hill London The University of North Carolina Press


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The architecture of Bruce Goff : 1904-1982
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ISBN: 0865591385 379131453X 9783791314532 Year: 1995 Publisher: Munich...New York: Prestel,


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Zeit als Prozess und Epiphanie in der experimentellen amerikanischen Musik.
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ISBN: 9783515090339 3515090339 Year: 2007 Volume: 60 Publisher: Stuttgart Steiner

The Cambridge history of American music
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ISBN: 0521454298 0521545544 9780521454292 9781139055383 9780521545549 Year: 1998 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University press


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Re-imagining Greek tragedy on the American stage
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ISBN: 9780520272446 0520272447 0520283872 0520953657 1283622807 9780520953659 9781283622806 Year: 2012 Volume: 70 Publisher: Berkeley

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This book explores the emergence of Greek tragedy on the American stage from the nineteenth century to the present. Despite the gap separating the world of classical Greece from our own, Greek tragedy has provided a fertile source for some of the most innovative American theater. Helene P. Foley shows how plays like Oedipus Rex and Medea have resonated deeply with contemporary concerns and controversies-over war, slavery, race, the status of women, religion, identity, and immigration. Although Greek tragedy was often initially embraced for its melodramatic possibilities, by the twentieth century it became a vehicle not only for major developments in the history of American theater and dance, but also for exploring critical tensions in American cultural and political life. Drawing on a wide range of sources-archival, video, interviews, and reviews-Reimagining Greek Tragedy on the American Stage provides the most comprehensive treatment of the subject available.

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