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Who kidnapped excellence? : what stops us from giving and being our best / by Paul, Harry,1950-; Britt, John,1962-; Jent, Ed.;

Includes bibliographical references and index.Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction -- 2. Excellence Kidnapped -- 3. The Demand for the Return of Excellence -- 4. A Plan for Average -- 5. Below Average -- 6. Passion Meets N. Different -- 7. Competency Meets N. Ept -- 8. Flexibility Meets N. Flexibility -- 9. Communication Meets Miss Communication -- 10. Ownership Meets Poser -- 11. Leadership Meets with the Employees -- 12. What Every Leader, Manager, Supervisor and Employee Must Know About Excellence -- 13. Now ELEVATE Your Excellence -- 14. People and Companies Who 'Get It'."In the tradition of "Who Killed Change?," the book begins with a crime being committed: Excellence (personified) has been kidnapped and Leadership assembles Excellence's team (Passion, Flexibility, Communication, Competency and Ownership) and challenges them to work together to get their Excellence back. And who is the culprit? It is Average who has kidnapped Excellence, and replaced Excellence's team with his own: N. Different, N. Ept, N. Flexible, Miss Communication, and Poser. But then a mysterious ransom note sparks a struggle between Average and Excellence. Integrated into this story of organizational excellence is a personal story of Dave, a delivery man The abduction of Excellence forces Dave to contemplate the level of excellence in his personal life. Throughout the story, the paths of personal best and organizational excellence cross and intertwine. "Who Kidnapped Excellence?" is a parable that helps organizations or individuals to achieve their best and maintain excellence in every aspect of their lives"--"In this entertaining parable, bestselling authors Paul and Britt tell how to give and be your best in five critical work dimensions - passion, competency, flexibility, communication, and ownership - and foster excellence in your organization"--

Subjects: Organizational effectiveness.; Work ethic.; Employee motivation.; Success in business.; Success.;

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Fish! for life : a remarkable way to achieve your dreams / by Lundin, Stephen C.,1941-; Christensen, John,1959-; Paul, Harry,1950-;

Drawing on the FISH! principles, the authors demonstrate how to deal with life's challenges, confront everyday issues, and accomplish one's full potential, covering such issues as personal finance, weight loss, and relationships.

Subjects: Conduct of life.;

© 2004., Hyperion,

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Fish! : a remarkable way to boost morale and improve results / by Lundin, Stephen C.,1941-; Paul, Harry,1950-; Christensen, John,1959-;

A guide to improving the atmosphere at work, given in the format of a novel: a fictional manager learns how to improve her co-workers' morale and production by following the lead of the remarkably energetic Pike Place Fish market in Seattle.

Subjects: Employee motivation.; Customer services.; Personnel; Service à la clientèle.; Motivation.; Morale.; Attitude.; Workplace; Organizational Innovation.; Leadership.; Consumer Satisfaction.;

© c2000., Hyperion,

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Fish! tales : real-life stories to help you transform your workplace and your life / by Lundin, Stephen C.,1941-; Paul, Harry,1950-; Christensen, John,1959-;

Introduction -- The fundamentals of FISH! -- Sec. 1. Play. Play is not just an activity; it's a state of mind that brings new energy and sparks creativity -- Sec. 2. Make their day. The world becomes a better place the moment you act on an intention to serve another -- Sec. 3. Be there. You can multi-task with "stuff," but you need to "be there" for people -- Sec. 4. Choose you attitude. The attitude you have right now is the one you are choosing. Is it the one you want? -- Sec. 5. Let's go FISH!ing. FISH! For 12 weeks and discover the richer and more rewarding life that is just a few choices away.

Subjects: Employee motivation.; Customer services.;

© c2002., Hyperion,

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A Beautiful Mind / by Howard, Ron,1954-drt; Grazer, Brian,1953-pro; Goldsman, Akiva.sce; Sherwood, Karen Kehela,1965-pro; Hallowell, Todd.pro; Crowe, Russell,1964-act; Harris, Ed,1950-act; Connelly, Jennifer.act; Bettany, Paul,1971-act; Goldberg, Adam,1970-act; Hirsch, Judd.act; Lucas, Josh.act; Rapp, Anthony.act; Plummer, Christopher.act; Pendleton, Austin.act; Gray-Stanford, Jason.act; Deakins, Roger A.,1949-cng; Hill, Mike(Michael J.)flm; Horner, James.cmp; Hanley, Dan,1955-flm; Ryack, Rita.cst; Thomas, Wynn P.; Motion picture adaptation of (work):Nasar, Sylvia.Beautiful mind.; Universal Pictures (Firm),production company.; Dreamworks Pictures.production company.; Imagine Entertainment (Firm),production company.; Universal Studios Home Entertainment (Firm),film distributor.;

DVD format, NTSC, region 1, anamorphic widescreen (1.85:1) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround, dual layer.Russell Crowe, Ed Harris, Jennifer Connelly, Paul Bettany, Adam Goldberg, Judd Hirsch, Josh Lucas, Anthony Rapp, Christopher Plummer, Austin Pendleton, Jason Gray-Stanford.Director of photography, Roger Deakins ; art director, Robert Guerra ; editors, Mike Hill, Dan Hanley ; music, James Horner ; costume designer, Rita Ryack ; production designer, Wynn Thomas ; executive producers, Karen Kehela, Todd Hallowell.The true story of a troubled Princeton mathematician who is able to overcome years of suffering from schizophrenia to win the Nobel Prize.MPAA rating: PG-13; intense thematic material, sexual content, and a scene of violence.

Subjects: Biographical films.; Film adaptations.; Fiction films.; Feature films.; Feature films; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Nash, John F., Jr., 1928-2015; Nasar, Sylvia; Mathematicians; Schizophrenics;

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Smithsonian Civil War : inside the national collection / by Kagan, Neil,editor.; Hyslop, Stephen G.(Stephen Garrison),1950-editor.;

This book takes readers inside the public displays as well as private cabinets, storerooms, and vaults to learn the stories of its most fascinating and significant pieces. Curators from thirteen Smithsonian museums and archives crafted this immersive exploration to illuminate the full scope of the political, military, social, and cultural climate of the era. In 150 entries to honor the 150th anniversary of the war, each curator tells a truly unique story focused on one-of-a-kind, famous, and previously unseen relics handpicked from the Smithsonian Institution collections. The objects featured range from military uniforms and weaponry to recruiting posters, portraits, jewelry, letters home, and currency, and span the prewar era, the war, and its aftermath--From back cover.Includes index.

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The Oxford book of American poetry / by Lehman, David,1948-editor.;

Includes bibliographical references and index.Anne Bradstreet -- Edward Taylor -- Philip Freneau -- Phillis Wheatley -- Joel Barlow -- Francis Scott Key -- Clement Moore -- Fitz-Greene Halleck -- William Cullen Bryant -- Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- John Greenleaf Whittier -- Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Edgar Allan Poe -- Jones Very -- Henry David Thoreau -- Julia Ward Howe -- James Russell Lowell -- Walt Whitman -- Herman Melville -- Frederick Goddard Tuckerman -- Henry Timrod -- Emily Dickinson -- Emma Lazarus -- Edwin Markham -- Katharine Lee Bates -- Ernest Lawrence Thayer -- Edgar Lee Masters -- Edwin Arlington Robinson -- Stephen Crane -- James Weldon Johnson -- Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Robert Frost -- Amy Lowell -- Gertrude Stein -- Trumbull Stickney -- Adelaide Crapsey -- Carl Sandburg -- Wallace Stevens -- Angelina Weld Grimke -- Mina Loy -- William Carlos Williams -- Ezra Pound -- Elinor Wylie -- H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) -- Robinson Jeffers -- Marianne Moore -- T.S. Eliot -- John Crowe Ransom -- Conrad Aiken -- Claude McKay -- Archibald Macleish.Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Samuel Greenberg -- Dorothy Parker -- E.E. Cummings -- Charles Reznikoff -- H. Phelps Putnam -- Bessie Smith -- Jean Toomer -- Mark Van Doren -- Louise Bogan -- John Wheelwright -- Stephen Vincent Benet -- Melvin B. Tolson -- Leonie Adams -- Hart Crane -- Allen Tate -- Yvor Winters -- Sterling A. Brown -- Laura Riding -- Kenneth Fearing -- Langston Hughes -- Ogden Nash -- Countee Cullen -- Edwin Denby -- Lorine Niedecker -- Louis Zukofsky -- Stanley Kunitz -- Kenneth Rexroth -- Robert Penn Warren -- W.H. Auden -- Lincoln Kirstein -- Josephine Jacobsen -- George Oppen -- Theodore Roethke -- Charles Olson -- Winfield Townley Scott -- Elizabeth Bishop -- J.V. Cunningham -- Paul Goodman -- Josephine Miles -- Anne Porter -- Robert Johnson -- Jean Garrigue -- Robert Hayden -- Muriel Rukeyser -- David Schubert -- Delmore Schwartz -- Karl Shapiro -- May Swenson -- John Berryman -- Randall Jarrell -- Weldon Kees -- William Stafford -- Ruth Stone -- Gwendolyn Brooks -- Ruth Herschberger -- Robert Lowell -- Joan Murray -- William Bronk -- Robert Duncan -- Charles Bukowski -- Amy Clampitt -- Barbara Guest -- Howard Nemerov -- Mona Van Duyn -- Richard Wilbur -- Howard Moss -- Anthony Hecht -- Richard Hugo -- Denise Levertov -- James Schuyler -- Louis Simpson -- Donald Justice -- Carolyn Kizer -- Kenneth Koch -- Jack Spicer -- A.R. Ammons -- Robert Bly -- Robert Creeley.Allen Ginsberg -- James Merrill -- Frank O'hara -- W.D. Snodgrass -- David Wagoner -- Lew Welch -- John Ashbery -- Galway Kinnell -- W.S. Merwin -- James Wright -- Donald Hall -- Philip Levine -- Anne Sexton -- John Hollander -- Richard Howard -- Adrienne Rich -- Harry Mathews -- Gary Snyder -- Sylvia Plath -- Ted Berrigan -- Joseph Ceravolo -- Mark Strand -- Jay Wright -- Russell Edson -- Mary Oliver -- Charles Wright -- Frederick Seidel -- C.K. Williams -- Charles Simic -- Frank Bidart -- Carl Dennis -- Tom Disch -- Fanny Howe -- Robert Pinsky -- Tom Clark -- Billy Collins -- Bob Dylan -- Robert Hass -- Lyn Hejinian -- Marilyn Hacker -- Linda Gregg -- Ann Lauterbach -- William Matthews -- Sharon Olds -- Ron Padgett -- Louis Gluck -- Michael Palmer -- James Tate -- Douglas Crase -- Paul Violi -- John Koethe -- Bernadette Mayer -- J.D. McClatchy -- Alice Notley -- Kay Ryan -- Terence Winch -- Patti Smith -- Rae Armantrout -- Aaron Fogel -- Jane Kenyon -- Yusef Komunyakaa -- Susan Mitchell -- Molly Peacock -- Bob Perelman -- David Shapiro -- James Cummins -- Rachel Hadas -- Lawrence Joseph -- Heather McHugh -- Lynn Emanuel -- Katha Pollitt -- Charles Bernstein -- Anne Carson -- Carolyn Forche -- Dana Gioia -- Jorie Graham -- Edward Hirsch -- Rodney Jones -- John Yau.This collection redefines the great canon of American poetry from its origins in the 17th century right up to the present. It features the work of more than 200 poets, almost three times as many as the 1976 edition. The book includes not only writers born since the previous edition, but also many fine poets overlooked in earlier editions or little known in the past but highly deserving of attention. Many more women and African-American poets are represented, and unexpected figures such as the musicians Bob Dylan, Patti Smith and Robert Johnson have a place.--From publisher description.

Subjects: American poetry.; American poetry.; Poetry.;

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Roots [videorecording] / by Blinn, William,producer,screenwriter.; Wolper, David L.,producer.; Margulies, Stan,producer.; Cohen, M. Charles,screenwriter.; Kinoy, Ernest,screenwriter.; Lee, James,1923-2002,screenwriter.; Chomsky, Marvin J.,1929-director.; Erman, John,1935-director.; Greene, David,1921-2003,director.; Moses, Gilbert,director.; Amos, John,1939-actor.; Angelou, Maya,actor.; Asner, Edward,actor.; Bridges, Lloyd,actor.; Brown, Georg Stanford,actor.; Burton, LeVar,actor.; Carey, Macdonald,actor.; Cole, Olivia,1942-actor.; Collins, Gary,1938-2012,actor.; Connors, Chuck,1921-1992,actor.; Crothers, Scat Man,actor.; Cumbuka, Ji-Tu,actor.; Davis, Brad,1949-1991,actor.; Duncan, Sandy,1946-actor.; George, Lynda Day,actor.; Gossett, Louis,Jr.,1936-actor.; Greene, Lorne,actor.; Gunn, Moses,1929-1993,actor.; Hamilton, George,1939-actor.; Hicks, Hilly,1950-actor.; Ives, Burl,1909-1995,actor.; Hilton-Jacobs, Lawrence,1953-actor.; Jones, Carolyn,1930-1983,actor.; McClure, Doug,1935-1995,actor.; McShane, Ian,1942-actor.; Moody, Lynne,1950-actor.; Morrow, Vic,1931-1982,actor.; Rasulala, Thalmus,1939-1991,actor.; Reed, Robert,1932-1992,actor.; Rhodes, Hari,actor.; Roundtree, Richard,1942-actor.; St. Jacques, Raymond,1930-actor.; Schuck, John,1940-actor.; Shenar, Paul,actor.; Simpson, O. J.,1947-actor.; Sinclair, Madge,actor.; Todd, Beverly,1946-actor.; Tyson, Cicely,actor.; Uggams, Leslie,actor.; Vereen, Ben,actor.; Waite, Ralph,1928-2014,actor.; Watson, William,1938-1997,actor.; Woods, Ren,actor.; Larner, Stevan,director of photography.; Wilcots, Joseph M.,1939-director of photography.; Heckert, James T.,editor of moving image work.; Kirby, Peter(Peter William),editor of moving image work.; Travis, Neil,editor of moving image work; Fried, Gerald,composer.; Jones, Quincy,1933-composer.; Haley, Alex.Roots.; Wolper Productions.; Warner Bros. Television.;

DVD, region 1; Dolby digital mono ; standard screen.John Amos, Maya Angelou, Edward Asner, Lloyd Bridges, Georg Stanford Brown, LeVar Burton, Macdonald Carey, Olivia Cole, Gary Collins, Chuck Connors, Scatman Crothers, Ji-Tu Cumbuka, Brad Davis, Sandy Duncan, Lynda Day George, Louis Gossett Jr., Lorne Greene, Moses Gunn, George Hamilton, Hilly Hicks, Burl Ives, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Carolyn Jones, Doug McClure, Ian McShane, Lynne Moody, Vic Morrow, Thalmus Rasulala, Robert Reed, Harry Rhodes, Richard Roundtree, Raymond St. Jacques, John Schuck, Paul Shenar, O.J. Simpson, Madge Sinclair, Beverly Todd, Cicely Tyson, Leslie Uggams, Ben Vereen, Ralph Waite, William Watson, Ren Woods.Directors of photography, Stevan Larner, Joseph M. Wilcots ; film editors, James T. Heckert, Peter Kirby, Neil Travis ; music by Gerald Fried, Quincy Jones.Not ratedAn adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", in which Haley traces his African American family's history from the mid-18th century to the Reconstruction era.Golden Globes (USA), 1978: Best TV-Series - Drama.Emmy Awards, 1977: Outstanding Achievement in Film Sound Editing for a Series ; Outstanding Achievement in Music Composition for a Series (Dramatic Underscore) ; Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series (Greene, ep. 1); Outstanding Film Editing in a Drama Series ; Outstanding Lead Actor for a Single Appearance in a Drama or Comedy Series (Gossett) ; Outstanding Limited Series ; Outstanding Single Performance by a Supporting Actor in a Comedy or Drama Series (Asner) ; Outstanding Single Performance by a Supporting Actress in a Comedy or Drama Series Cole) ; Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series (Kinoy, Blinn; ep.2).

Subjects: Television mini-series.; Historical television programs.; Biographical television programs.; Television adaptations.; Fiction television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Haley, Alex; Haley family; Jackson family; Kinte family; Moore family; African Americans; Slaves; Slaveholders; African American families; Slavery; African Americans; Haley, Alex;

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Music in the USA : a documentary companion / by Tick, Judith.edt; Beaudoin, Paul E.,1960-edt;

Includes bibliographical references and index.1540-1770. -- 1. Early encounters between indigenous peoples and European explorers / (Castañeda, Drake, de Meras, Smith, Wood) -- 2. From the Preface to the first edition of the Bay psalm book -- 3. Four translations of Psalm 100 / (Tehilim, Bay Psalm Book, 1640 and 1698, Watts) -- 4. From the diaries of Samuel Sewall -- 5. The ministers rally for musical literacy / (Mather, Walter, Symmes) -- 6. Benjamin Franklin advises his brother on how to write a ballad and how not to write like Handel -- 7. Social music for the elite in colonial Williamsburg -- 8. Advertisements and notices from colonial newspapers.1770-1830. 9. "Christopher Crotchet, singing master from Quavertown" -- 10. Singing the revolution / (Adams, Dickinson, Greeley) -- 11. Elisha Bostwick hears a Scots prisoner sing "Gypsie Laddie" -- 12. A sidebar into ballad scholarship : the wanderings of "The gypsy laddie" / (Child, Sharp, Coffin, Bronson) -- 13. William Billings and the new sacred music / (Billings, Gould) -- 14. Daniel Read on pirating and "scientific music" -- 15. Turn-of-the-century theater songs from Reinagle, Rowson, and Carr : "America, commerce, and freedom" and "The little sailor boy" -- 16. Padre Narciso Durán describes musical training at the Mission San Jose -- 17. Moravian musical life at Bethlehem / (Henry, Till, Bowne) -- 18. Reverend Burkitt brings camp meeting hymns from Kentucky to North Carolina in 1803 -- 19. John Fanning Watson and errors in Methodist worship -- 19. Reverend James B. Finley and Mononcue sing "Come thou fount of every blessing."1830-1880. -- 21. Thomas D. Rice acts out Jim Crow and Cuff -- 22. William M. Whitlock, banjo player for the Virginia Minstrels -- 23. Edwin P. Christy, Stephen Foster, and "Ethiopian minstrelsy" -- 24. Stephen Foster's legacy / (Foster, Gordon, Robb, Simpson, Willis, Galli-Curci, Ellington, Charles) -- 25. The Fasola folk, The southern harmony, and The sacred harp / (Walker, White, King) -- 26. A sidebar into the discovery of shape-note music by a national audience / (Jackson, The sacred harp, 1991) -- 27. The Boston public schools set a national precedent in music education -- 28. Lorenzo Da Ponte recruits an Italian opera company for New York -- 29. Music education for American girls -- 30. Early expressions of cultural nationalism / (Hopkins, Fry, Putnam's Monthly) -- 31. John S. Dwight remembers how he and his circle "were but babes in music" -- 32. George Templeton Strong hears the American premiere of Beethoven's Fifth -- 33. German Americans adapting and contributing to musical life -- 34. Emil Klauprecht's German-American novel, Cincinnati, oder, Die Geheimnisse des Westens -- 35. P.T. Barnum and the Jenny Lind fever -- 36. Miska Hauser, Hungarian violinist, pans for musical gold -- 37. From the journals of Louis Moreau Gottschalk -- 38. The 'four-part blend' of the Hutchinson Family -- 39. Walt Whitman's conversion to opera -- 40. Clara Kellogg and the memoirs of an American prima donna -- 41. Frederick Douglass from My bondage and my freedom -- 42. Harriet Beecher Stowe and two scenes from Uncle Tom's cabin -- 43. From Slave songs of the United States (1867) -- 44. A sidebar into memory : slave narratives from the Federal Writers' Project in the new deal -- 45. George F. Root recalls how he wrote a classic union song -- 46. A confederate girl's diary during the Civil War -- 47. Soldier-musicians from the North and the South recall duties on the front -- 48. Ella Sheppard Moore, a Fisk Jubilee Singer --- 49. Patrick S. Gilmore and the golden age of bands / (Newspaper review, Herbert) -- 50. Theodore Thomas and his musical manifest destiny / (Rose Fay Thomas, Theodore Thomas).1880-1920. -- 51. John Philip Sousa : excerpts from his Autobiography -- 52. Why is a good march like a marble statue? / (Pryor, Fennell) -- 3. Willa Cather mourns the passing of the small-town opera house -- 54. Henry Lee Higginson and the founding of the Boston Symphony Orchestra -- 55. American classical music goes to the Paris World's Fair of 1889 -- 56. George Chadwick's ideals for composing classical concert music -- 57. Late 19th-century cultural nationalism : the paradigm of Dvořák / (Creelman, Paine, Burleigh) -- 58. Henry Krehbiel explains a critic's craft and a listener's duty -- 59. Amy Fay tackles the "woman question" -- 60. Amy Beach, composer, on "Why I chose my profession" -- 61. Edward MacDowell, poet-musician, remembered / (Currier, Gilman) -- 62. Paul Rosenfeld's manifesto for American composers -- 63. From the writings of Charles Ives -- 64. Frederic Louis Ritter looks for the "people's song" -- 65. Frances Densmore and the documentation of American Indian songs and poetry -- 66. A sidebar into national cultural policy : the Federal Cylinder Project -- 67. Charles K. Harris on writing hits for Tin Pan Alley -- 68. Scott Joplin, ragtime visionary / (Scott Joplin, Lottie Joplin) -- 69. A sidebar into the ragtime revival of the 1970s : William Bolcom reviews The collected works of Scott Joplin -- 70. James Reese Europe on the origin of "modern dances" -- 71. Irving Berlin on "love-interest as a commodity" in popular songs -- 72. Caroline Caffin on the "music and near-music" of Vaudeville -- 73. Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton describes New Orleans and the discipline of jazz.1920-1950. -- 74. Bessie Smith, artist and blues singer / (press notice, Bailey, Schuller) -- 75. Thomas Andrew Dorsey "Brings the people up" and carries himself along -- 76. Louis Armstrong in his own words -- 77. Gilbert Seldes waves the flag of pop -- 78. Al Jolson and The jazz singer -- 79. Carl Stalling : master of cartoon music : an interview -- 80. A sidebar into postmodernism: John Zorn Turns Carl Stalling into a Prophet -- 81. Alec Wilder writes lovingly about Jerome Kern -- 82. George Gershwin explains that "Jazz is the voice of the American soul" -- 83. William Grant Still, pioneering African American composer / (Still, Locke, Still) -- 84. The inimitable Henry Cowell as described by the irrepressible Nicolas Slonimsky -- 85. Ruth Crawford and her "astonishing juxtapositions" -- 86. "River Sirens, Lion Roars, all music to Varèse" : an interview in Santa Fe -- 87. Leopold Stokowski and "debatable music" -- 88. Henry Leland Clark on the Composers Collective -- 89. Marc Blitzstein in and out of the treetops of The cradle will rock -- 90. Samuel Barber and the controversy around the premiere of Adagio for strings / (Downes, Pettis, Menotti, Harris) -- 91. Virgil Thomson, composer and critic -- 92. Arthur Berger divides Aaron Copland into two styles and Copland puts himself back together again -- 93. Aaron Copland on the "personality of Stravinsky" -- 94. The American period of Arnold Schoenberg / (Sessions, Newlin) -- 95. Uncle Dave Macon, banjo trickster at the Grand Ole Opry -- 96. The Bristol sessions and country music -- 97. A sidebar into the folk revival : Harry Smith's canon of old-time recordings -- 98. Zora Neale Hurston on "spirituals and neo-spirituals" -- 99. The hard times of Emma Dusenbury, source singer -- 100. John and Alan Lomax propose a "Canon for American folk song" -- 101. Woody Guthrie praises the "spunkfire" attitude of a folk song -- 102. Fred Astaire dances like a twentieth-century American / (Williams) -- 103. The innovations of Oklahoma! / (de Mille, Engel) -- 104. Duke Ellington on swing as a way of life -- 105. Malcolm X recalls the years of swing -- 106. The many faces of Billie Holiday / (Holiday, Wilson, Bennett) -- 107. Ralph Ellison and the birth of bebop at Minton's.1950-1975. -- 108. Ella Fitzgerald on stage / (Peterson) -- 109. Leonard Bernstein charts an epic role for musical theater -- 110. Stephen Sondheim on writing theater lyrics -- 111. Muddy Waters explains "why it doesn't pay to run from trouble" -- 112. Elvis Presley in the eye of musical twister / (newspaper reviews, Gould, Lewis) -- 113. Chuck Berry in his own words -- 114. The five string banjo : hints from the 1960s speed-master, Earl Scruggs -- 115. Pete Seeger, a TCUAPSS, Sings out!" -- 116. Bob Dylan turns liner notes into poetry -- 117. Janis Joplin grabs pieces of our hearts / (Joplin, Graham) -- 118. "Handcrafting the grooves" in the studio: Aretha Franklin at Muscle Shoals / (Wexler) -- 119. Jimi Hendrix, virtuoso of electricity / (Hendrix, Bloomfield) -- 120. Amiri Baraka theorizes a black nationalist aesthetic -- 121. Greil Marcus and the new rock criticism -- 122. Charles Reich on the music of "Consciousness III" -- 123. McCoy Tyner on "the jubilant experience of John Coltrane"s classic quartet -- 124. Miles Davis : excerpts from his autobiography -- 125. A Vietnam vet remembers rocking and rolling in the mud of war -- 126. George Crumb and Black angels : "A quartet in time of war" -- 127. Milton Babbitt on electronic music / (Babbitt, Brody and Miller) -- 128. Edward T. Cone satirizes music theory's new vocabulary -- 129. Mario Davidovsky, an introduction / (Chasalow) -- 130. Elliot Carter on the "different time worlds" in String quartets no. 1 and 2 -- 131. John Cage, words and Music for changes / (Cage, Anderson) -- 132. Harold Schonberg on "art and bunk, matter and anti matter" -- 133. Pauline Oliveros, composer and teacher -- 134. Steve Reich on "music as a gradual process."1975-2000. -- 135. Star Wars meets Wagner / (Dyer, Tomlinson) -- 136. Tom Johnson demonstrates what minimalism is all about -- 137. Morton Feldman and his West German fan base / (Feldman, Post) -- 138. Philip Glass and the roots of reform opera -- 139 Laurie Anderson does "stand-up" performance art / (Anderson, Gordon) -- 140. Meredith Monk and the revelation of voice -- 141. Recapturing the soul of the American orchestra / (Duffy, Tower) -- 142. Two economists measure the impact of blind auditions -- 143. John Harbison on modes of composing -- 144. Wynton Marsalis on learning from the past for the sake of the present -- 145. John Adams, an American master -- 146. The incorporation of the American Folklife Center -- 147. Daniel J. Boorstin's welcoming remarks at the Conference on Ethnic Recordings in America -- 148. Willie Colón on "conscious salsa" -- 149. The accordion travels through "roots music" / (Savoy) -- 150. Conjunto music--"a very beautiful accordiante flower / (Santiago Jiménez, Flaco Jiménez, Jordán) -- 151. Gloria Anzaldúa on Vistas y corridos : my native tongue -- 152. Contemporary Native American music and the Pine Ridge Reservation / (Porcupine Singers, Frazier) -- 153. MTV and the music video / (MoMA, Hoberman) -- 154. Turning points in the career of Michael Jackson / (Jackson, Jones) -- 155. Sally Banes explains why "breaking is hard to do" -- 156. Two members of public enemy discuss sampling and copyright law -- 157. DJ Qbert, master of turntable music -- 158. A press release from the Country Music Association -- 159. Ephemeral music : Napster's congressional testimony."Music in the USA: A Documentary Companion charts a path through American music and musical life using as guides the words of composers, performers, writers and the rest of us ordinary folks who sing, dance, and listen. The anthology of primary sources contains about 160 selections from 1540 to 2000. Sometimes the sources are classics in the literature around American music, for example, the Preface to the Bay Psalm Book, excerpts from Slave Songs of the United States, and Charles Ives extolling Emerson. But many other selections offer uncommon sources, including a satirical story about a Yankee music teacher; various columns from 19th-century German American newspapers; the memoirs of a 19th-century diva; Lottie Joplin remembering her husband Scott; a little-known reflection of Copland about Stravinsky; an interview with Muddy Waters from the Chicago Defender; a letter from Woody Guthrie on the "spunkfire" attitude of a folk song; a press release from the Country Music Association; and the Congressional testimony around "Napster." "Sidebar" entries occasionally bring a topic or an idea into the present, acknowledging the extent to which revivals of many kinds of music play a role in American contemporary culture. This book focuses on the connections between theory and practice to enrich our understanding of the diversity of American musical experiences. Designed especially to accompany college courses which survey American music as a whole, the book is also relevant to courses in American history and American Studies." "The primary audience for this book is students in college courses in American music or in American culture, American media, and American history. The book will be of great interest to scholars in these areas as well, and will be a longstanding reference. The book will appeal to the general audience as well."--Jacket.

Subjects: Music; Whitman College;

© 2008., Oxford University Press,

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