Filene, Benjamin:Romancing the Folk: Public Memory and American Roots Music
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St. Petersburg, FL: St. Petersburg Printing Company, 1972. First Edition, First Printing, Stated. Octavo, turqoise cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, 159 pp. Fine, in a Very Good dust ja… Mehr…
St. Petersburg, FL: St. Petersburg Printing Company, 1972. First Edition, First Printing, Stated. Octavo, turqoise cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, 159 pp. Fine, in a Very Good dust jacket with light edgewear. From dust jacket: The Way It Happened, written by one of the elder statesmen of the savings and loan business in the United States is a fascinating view of this important business from its early days, through its growth, to its currently dynamic position in the economy of contemporary America. Oscar R. Kreutz has written The Way It Happned from his personal experience, not merely from objective observation. He began his study of the savings and loan business in late 1922 and became actively involved in early 1923. When Mr. Kreutz writes about such subjects as the slow-moving days o the 20s, the Great Depression, constituionality of Federal chartering, the Los Angeles Bank and Long Beach Federal affair, he knows whereof he speaks because he was there. When Mr. Kreutz writes about management methods that produce sound growth, his record speaks for his qualifications. He organized an association when he was onlyu 25 years old. He was a founding director of a Federal Home Loan Bank in 1932 and later senoir vice president of another. He held key positions with the Federal Home Loan Bank Board in Washington for ten years. Currently Mr. Kreutz is chairman of the board of First Federal Savings and Loan Association of St. Petersburg, Florida, which grew more than $600 million after he joined it in 1953., St. Petersburg Printing Company, 1972. First Edition, First Printing, Stated., 1972, 0, Stow, Massachusetts: Stow Historical Society Publishing Company, (1990). Octavo, paperbound (stiff gold photo. illus. wrappers), x, 132 pp. Near Fine. Contents include: Foreword; Pilot Grove Farm Owners from 1782 to 1990; Introduction; The People Who Came: The English; Revolutionary War Prisoners Who Stayed; The IRish; The Danes; The Norwegians and Swedes; Returned Loyalists; More English, Scots, and Irish; The Finns; The Poles; The Greeks and Albanians; The Canadians; The Germans; Farming in Stow: Dairy Farming, Princeton Pasture, Orchards, Marketing Produce in Boston, Haying, Hay Crops, Market Gardening, Poultry Farming, Horses, Sleigh Bells, Veterinarians, Farm Organizations; Growing Up in Stow; Stow Businesses of the Past; Stories of Stow; Town Affairs; Stories about Stow Personalities; Quotations and Memorabilia; Appendix A: Boundaries of Stow; Appendix B: Public Lands in Stow (from Town Records)., Stow Historical Society Publishing Company, (1990)., 1990, 0, Post Hill Press. New. This seminal work of nonfiction recounts the new, journalistic mass movement of today Compiled from more than a decade of investigative reporting, coupled with a vast reference of philosophical research, American Muckraker is the definitive guide of truth-telling in the video ageOn powerThey do have tremendous power But in part, it is because we give it to them We are nothing, but we are not alone Awe cannot live in fear The moment you stop caring about what the media establishment thinks of you is the moment you become truly free On insidersThe USPS whistleblower, a Marine Corps combat veteran, said, "I would rather be back in Afghanistan, getting shot at by Afghans, honest to God, than be interrogated by federal agent Russell Strasser," who coerced him by saying, "I am trying to twist you a little bit, because your mind will kick in I am not scaring you, but I am scaring you" On privacyThe right to record is closely tied to the right to speak, or even to take contemporaneous notes about what one sees and hears As 60 Minutes producer Don Hewitt quipped, "People committing malfeasance don't have any right to privacy What are we saying - that Upton Sinclair shouldn't have smuggled his pencil in?" On means and endsWhereas the novelist Ernest Hemingway said, "What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after," Thomas B Morgan of the 1960s New Journalism contends, "Morally defensible journalism is rarely what you feel good about afterward; it is only that which makes you feel better than you would otherwise" On litigation"Polling does not decide the truth nor speak to evidence The New York Times have not met their burden to prove that Veritas is deceptiveclaiming protections from an upstart competitor armed with a cell phone and a website There is a substantial basis in law to proceed, to permit Project Veritas, to conduct discovery into The New York Times" (Project Veritas v New York Times Company; New York Supreme Court, March 18, 2021), Post Hill Press, 6, Little, Brown and Company. New. Little, Brown and Company, 2018-01-22 New Football coaches, players, and fans called Aaron Hernandez unstoppable His four-year-old daughter called him Daddy The law called him inmate #174594 He was a college All-American who became the youngest player in the NFL and later a Super Bowl veteran He was a star tight end on the league-dominant New England Patriots, who extended his contract for a record $40 million Aaron Hernandez's every move as a professional athlete played out in the headlines, yet he led a secret life-one that ended in a maximum security prison What drove him to go so wrong, so fast?Son of a University of Connecticut football hero known as "the King" and brother to a Huskies quarterback, Hernandez was the best athlete Connecticut's Bristol Central High had ever produced He chose to play football at the University of Florida, but by the time he arrived in Gainesville, he was already courting troubleBetween the summers of 2012 and 2013, not long after Hernandez made his first Pro Bowl, he was linked to a series of violent incidents culminating in the death of Odin Lloyd, a semi-pro football player who dated the sister of Hernandez's fiancee, Shayanna Jenkins All-American Murder is the first book to investigate-from the unique vantage point of the world's most popular thriller writer-Aaron Hernandez's first-degree murder conviction and the mystery of his own untimely and shocking death Drawing on original and in-depth reporting, this is an explosive true story of a life cut short in the dark shadow of fame, Little, Brown and Company, 6, Bristol, CT: American Clock and Watch Museum. Fine. 1974. Reprint. Paperback. 0960026479 . B&W Illustrations; 6 X 9; 94 pages; Soft cover is stapled wraps. Slight sunning to covers. B/w illustrations. Orignally published in 1885. A 1971 reprint. 'In 1867, Silas B. Terry and his four sons formed the Terry Clock Company at Waterbury, Conn. Renting a factory building from the American Flask & Cap Company. Concerned about Terry's poor financial record in the past, the firm was incorporated in 1868.Though the Terry Clock Company produced some wooden cased clocks, the majority of their production prior to 1880 was for clocks with cases that were primarily cast iron, painted black and had various degrees of hand-striping and decoration. Not only did Terry receive some patents for movement escapements and cast iron case fronts, but also for fishing reels which the firm was manufacturing in the 1870's. ...' ., American Clock and Watch Museum, 1974, 5, New York, N. Y., U.S.A.: Miramax, 2003. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. At a time when the American left is foundering, Danny Goldberg stands tall. A maverick champion of First Amendment rights, he has also been pop culture's most vocal defender against assault by anyone who uses entertainment as a scapegoat for social problems, from violence to lousy test scores. In DISPATCHES FROM THE CULTURE WARS, Goldberg takes a hard look at what has happened to American cultural politics since the turbulent sixties, particularly in the area of censorship. Goldberg's vantage point is fascinating. As a journalist, publicist, manager, producer, and, ultimately, head of four different major record companies, he has nurtured some of the most signicant musical artists of his time, from Bonnie Raitt and Neil Young to KISS, Madonna, Sonic Youth, and Nirvana. He has made audio recordings of such controversial intellectuals as Allen Ginsberg and Timothy Leary and has gone head-to-head with every politician from Ronald Reagan to Ralph Nader to Joseph Lieberman and John McCain. A lively, totally original, no-holds-barred commentary on the cultural state of the union from the 1960s to the present, DISPATCHES FROM THE CULTURE WARS speaks to those disenfranchised by today's tepid, cautious liberal elite. As new, unread, fsirst edition, first printing, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket.{Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} NF13, Miramax, 2003, 5.5, University of North Carolina Press, 2000. Softcover. Like New. 6x0x9. In American music, the notion of "roots" has been a powerful refrain, but just what constitutes our true musical traditions has often been a matter of debate. As Benjamin Filene reveals, a number of competing visions of America's musical past have vied for influence over the public imagination in this century.Filene builds his story around a fascinating group of characters--folklorists, record company executives, producers, radio programmers, and publicists--who acted as middlemen between folk and popular culture. These cultural brokers "discovered" folk musicians, recorded them, and promoted them. In the process, Filene argues, they shaped mainstream audiences' understanding of what was "authentic" roots music.Filene moves beyond the usual boundaries of folk music to consider a wide range of performers who drew on or were drawn into the canon of American roots music--from Lead Belly and Woody Guthrie, to Muddy Waters and Willie Dixon, to Pete Seeger and Bob Dylan. Challenging traditional accounts that would confine folk music revivalism to the 1930s and 1960s, he argues instead that the desire to preserve and popularize America's musical heritage is a powerful current that has run throughout this century's culture and continues to flow today., University of North Carolina Press, 2000, 5<
