Jazz Transatlantic, Volume II

By Gerhard Kubik
Categories: Music And Ethnomusicology
Series: American Made Music Series

A CHOICE 2018 Outstanding Academic Title

In Jazz Transatlantic, Volume II, renowned scholar Gerhard Kubik extends and expands the epic exploration he began in Jazz Transatlantic, Volume I. This second ...

Eleanor Cameron

By Paul V. Allen
Foreword by Gregory Maguire
Categories: Literature

Eleanor Cameron (1912-1996) was an innovative and genre-defying author of children's fiction and children's literature criticism. From her beginnings as a librarian, Cameron went on to become a prominent ...

Jazz Transatlantic, Volume I

By Gerhard Kubik
Categories: Music And Ethnomusicology
Series: American Made Music Series

A CHOICE 2018 Outstanding Academic Title

In Jazz Transatlantic, Volume I, renowned scholar Gerhard Kubik takes the reader across the Atlantic from Africa to the Americas and then back in pursuit of the ...

Exploring Southeastern Archaeology

Edited by Patricia K. Galloway & Evan Peacock
Foreword by Jeffrey P. Brain
Categories: History

Contributions by Keith A. Baca, Jeffrey P. Brain, Samuel O. Brookes, Ian W. Brown, Philip J. Carr, Jessica Crawford, Patricia Galloway, Alison M. Hadley, Christopher T. Hays, Edward R. Henry, Cliff Jenkins, ...

Walking Raddy

Edited by Kim Vaz-Deville
Foreword by Karen Trahan Leathem
Categories: Louisiana

Contributions by Jennifer Atkins, Vashni Balleste, Mora J. Beauchamp-Byrd, Ron Bechet, Melanie Bratcher, Jerry Brock, Ann Bruce, Violet Harrington Bryan, Rachel Carrico, Sarah Anita Clunis, Phillip Colwart, ...

Death, Disability, and the Superhero

By José Alaniz
Categories: Comics Studies

The Thing. Daredevil. Captain Marvel. The Human Fly. Drawing on DC and Marvel comics from the 1950s to the 1990s and marshaling insights from three burgeoning fields of inquiry in the humanities—disability ...

Sowing the Wind

By Dorothy Overstreet Pratt
Categories: History

In 1890, Mississippi called a convention to rewrite its constitution. That convention became the singular event that marked the state's transition from the nineteenth century to the twentieth and set ...

Maverick Gardeners

By Felder Rushing
Categories: Natural History And Outdoors

“Be forewarned that this book honors people like the woman in my hometown who paints the numbers of her favorite NASCAR drivers on her elephant ears, and a Tokyo gardener with over a hundred bonsai ...

Intergenerational Solidarity in Children’s Literature and Film

Edited by Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak & Zoe Jaques
Categories: Literature
Series: Children's Literature Association Series

Winner of the 2023 Edited Book Award from the International Research Society for Children's Literature

Contributions by Aneesh Barai, Clémentine Beauvais, Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak, Terri Doughty, Aneta ...

The Amazing Jimmi Mayes

By Jimmi Mayes
With V. C. Speek
Categories: Music And Ethnomusicology
Series: American Made Music Series

Association of Recorded Sound Collections Awards for Excellence
Best Research in Recorded Blues, Hip-Hop, Rhythm & Blues – Certificate of Merit (2014)

For more than fifty years, Chicago drummer Jimmi ...