Provides biographical, critical, and bibliographical information on 12 African American writers including James Baldwin, Ntozake Shange and Alice Walker.
Traces the geographical and ethnic roots of pop music and discusses how many different types of music have influenced the music of the late twentieth century.
An anthology of critical essays that provide a wide range of information and opinion about the sixteenth-century comedy "A Midsummer Night's Dream," and its author, William Shakespeare.
Photographs and text chronicle the history of American roots music, encompassing blues, country and western, gospel, Cajun, zydeco, Tejano, Native American, and other American genres of folk music.
An anthology of critical essays that provide a wide range of information and opinion about the nineteenth-century novel "A Christmas Carol," and its author, Charles Dickens.
Presents thirty-five essays, each examining a theme as it is treated in several of Shakespeare's plays; examples include fate, fathers and daughters, male friendship, and the tragic flaw.
Examines short stories, poems, plays, and novels by literary greats such as Shakespeare, Keats, Austen, Whitman, and Hemingway to show twenty-first-century readers the pleasure and power of reading.
Offers a survey of twentieth-century American drama, providing information on the most popular plays and writers, excerpts from the writings of the most influential dramatists, and study questions designed to help students understand the texts.
Explores the lives and works of eight authors of science fiction for young readers, including Orson Scott Card, Douglas Hill, Octavia Butler, Pamela Service, Piers Anthony, and Douglas Adams.
A history of jazz, from its roots in blues, ragtime, and swing to its various contemporary manifestations, discussing the major performers and the music's reflection of the experiences of African-Americans.
