UNIVERSITY PRESS OF KANSAS

(P/B) HIP-HOP REVOLUTION
In this groundbreaking book, Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar celebrates hip-hop and confronts the cult of authenticity that defines its essential character. Deftly balancing an insider's love of the culture with a scholar's detached critique, he traces hip-hop's rise as a cultural juggernaut and persuasively challenges widely held notions that hip-hop is socially dangerous - to black youth in particular. "Hip-Hop Revolution" is a balanced cultural history that looks past negative stereotypes of hip-hop as a monolith of hedonistic, unthinking noise to ...
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(P/B) WHEN TITANS CLASHED

(P/B) AMERICAN FOLKLORE STUDIES
Folklore. Washington Irving and Mark Twain used it in their fiction. Sigmund Freud and William James incorporated it into their work; Henry Ford and Franklin Roosevelt promoted it. Their efforts were set against the background of folklorists who brought collections of traditional tales, songs, and crafts to the attention of a modernizing society. The ideas of these folklorists influenced how Americans thought about the character of their society and the directions it was taking. Here for the first time is a history of American folkloristic...
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STOPPED AT STALINGRAD

(H/B) HIP-HOP REVOLUTION

(P/B) BLACK SOCIAL CAPITAL

(P/B) LAUNCHING LIBERALISM: ON LOCKEAN POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

LIVING IN THE LANDSCAPE (H/B)

(CLOTH) QUANDARIES AND VIRTUES - AGAINST REDUCTIVISM IN ETHICS

BATTLE FOR LENINGRAD 1941-1944 (H/B)

REEL HISTORY (P/B)
This book challenges the familiar negative assessments and recommends a more open-minded view of cinema. It suggests that movies can communicate important ideas about the past, but not in the way that teachers and scholars approach the subject when they deliver lectures or write books. [...] A book is vastly superior to a feature film as a source of detailed information and abstract analysis. Motion pictures cannot deliver a plethora of information or a variety of interpretive perspectives as effectively as a lengthy publication can. Never...
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OLIVER STONE' S USA (P/B)