history and criticism

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One nation under a groove

Motown and American culture
  • Early, Gerald Lyn
1995
Explores the influence Motown has had on the country in respect to music and racial relationships and identity, looking at the social climate of the 1950s and 1960s and the rise of youth culture that set the stage for Berry Gordy and his business.

Television's second golden age

from Hill Street Blues to ER : Hill Street Blues, thirtysomething, St. Elsewhere, China Beach, Cagney & Lacey, Twin Peaks, Moonlighting, Northern Exposure, L.A. Law, Picket Fences, with brief reflections on Homicide, NYPD Blue, ER & Chicago Hope, and othe
  • Thompson, Robert J.
1996
Presents the argument that the 1980s heralded the start of the Golden Age of television and analyzes ten hour-long dramas that appeared during that period which fit the author's definition of quality programming.

Supernatural fiction writers

fantasy and horror
  • Bleiler, Everett Franklin
1985

Masterplots

1801 plot stories and critical evaluations of the world's finest literature
  • Magill, Frank Northen
1996
Examines the theme, characters, plot, style, and technique of more than 1800 works by prominent authors from around the world.

The birth of the beat generation

visionaries, rebels, and hipsters, 1944-1960
  • Watson, Steven
1995
Chronicles the lives of poets and novelists, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and others drawing connections between their unique brand of literature.

Chant of saints

a gathering of Afro-American literature, art, and scholarship
  • Harper, Michael S.
1979
An anthology of works by African-Americans professionally involved in literature and the arts.

Cats of any color

jazz black and white
  • Lees, Gene
1994
Looks at the pervasiveness of racism in jazz's past and present--both the white racism that long ghettoized the music of talented African-American musicians, and what Lees maintains is an increasingly virulent reverse racism aimed at white jazz musicians.

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