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For a thousand tongues to sing! life and hymns of Charles Wesley by Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm), Infobase, Lathika International Film & Entertainment

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River sing me home Berkley hardcover edition. by Shearer, Eleanor

Vocal virtuosity : the origins of the coloratura soprano in nineteenth-century opera by Parr, Sean M.

Subjects: “…Singing History 19th century.…”
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The mechanical song : women, voice, and the artificial in nineteenth-century French narrative by Miller Frank, Felicia, 1952-

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Sentimental collaborations : mourning and middle-class identity in nineteenth-century America by Kete, Mary Louise

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Walt Whitman and the Civil War by Monterey Media

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Recording Russia : trying to listen in the nineteenth century by Safran, Gabriella, 1967-

Contents: “…Ringing -- Singing -- Nesting -- Crossing -- Paper making -- Dreaming -- Insulting -- Laughing.…”

Ventures into childland : Victorians, fairy tales, and femininity by Knoepflmacher, U. C.

Contents: “…Entering childhood : the double perspectives of generation and sex -- Resisting growth : Ruskin's The king of the golden river -- Growing up ironic : Thackeray's The rose and the ring -- Mixing levity and the grave : MacDonald's "The light princess" -- Expanding Alice : from Underground to Wonderland -- Shrinking Alice : from Wonderland to Looking-glass land -- Erasing borders : MacDonald's At the back of the north wind -- Sundering women from boys : Ingelow's Mopsa the fairy -- Razing male preserves : from "Goblin market" to Sing-Song -- Avenging Alice : from Sing-Song to Speaking likenesses -- Repairing female authority : Ewing's "Amelia and the dwarfs".…”

Unbroken spirits : three extraordinary Southern Colorado women First edition. by Faris-Avery, Kay Beth

Contents: “…Story one: White Singing Bird (Dove), Chipeta -- story two: the wanderer, Marian Sloan Russell -- story three: the lady from Ludlow, Mary Pearl Waters Jolly.…”

Rodgers and Hammerstein's The King and I by Rodgers, Richard, 1902-1979

Contents: “…Special features: Widescreen format (Aspect ratio: 2.55:1) -- Interactive menus -- Scene selection -- Original theatrical trailer -- Languages: English, 5.1 surround ; English, Stereo ; French, Mono -- Subtitles: English ; Spanish -- Movietone news trailers -- Sing along.…”

Romantic vacancy : the poetics of gender, affect, and radical speculation by Singer, Kate, 1977-

Contents: “…Introduction: the poetics of vacancy -- Charlotte Smith and the taste of aporia -- Mary Robinson's intensities: sensation after oblivion -- Reaping songs & ineffable tales: William Wordsworth's and Percy Shelley's singing women and the rave of affect -- Felicia Hemans's ruined minds: cognitive overload and the soul of freedom -- Maria Jane Jewsbury and the phantom feelings of the moving image --Coda: the phantom menace and the spirit of affect.…”

Stepchildren of the shtetl : the destitute, disabled, and mad of Jewish Eastern Europe, 1800-1939 by Meir, Natan M.

Contents: “…: charity, Jewish backwardness, and the specter of the Jewish idler -- Madness and the mad : from family burden to national affliction -- "We singing Jews, we Jews possessed" : the Jewish outcast as national icon.…”

J. S. Bach A Concise Biography by Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm), Infobase

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George Bernard Shaw A Concise Biography by Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm), Infobase

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Part One, The Early Years (1819-1855) by Andrew Kaplan (Firm)

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Ladies' pages : African American women's magazines and the culture that made them by Rooks, Noliwe, 1963-

Contents: “…To make a lady Black and bid her sing: clothes, class, and color -- 4. "Colored faces looking out of fashion plates. …”
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The Oxford handbook of topic theory

Contents: “…Music and dance in the ancien régime / Lawrence Zbikowski ; Ballroom dances of the late eighteenth century / Eric McKee ; Hunt, military, and pastoral topics / Andrew Haringer ; Turkish and hungarian-gypsy styles / Catherine Mayes ; The singing style / Sarah Day-O'Connell ; Fantasia and sensibility / Matthew Head ; Ombra and tempesta / Clive McClelland ; Learned style and learned styles / Keith Chapin ; The brilliant style / Roman Ivanovitch -- Analysing topics. …”

Walt Whitman, an American : a study in biography by Canby, Henry Seidel, 1878-1961

Contents: “…-- 'I was looking a long while for intentions' -- 'Sail forth -- steer for the deep waters only' -- 'Shut not your doors to me proud libraries' -- 'Old poor, and paralyzed, I thank thee' -- 'Ah you foes that in conflict have overcome me' -- 'I hear America singing' -- 'Who learns my lesson complete?' -- 'Who touches this touches a man' -- 'Good-bye my fancy'.…”

Blackface nation : race, reform, and identity in American popular music, 1812-1925 by Roberts, Brian, 1957-

My wars are laid away in books : the life of Emily Dickinson 1st ed. by Habegger, Alfred

Contents: “…Part one, 1636-1830: Amherst and the fathers -- Emily Norcross of Monson -- 1826-1828: winning Emily Norcross -- 1828-1830: shifting foundations -- Part two, 1830-1840: 1830-1835: a warm and anxious nest -- 1836-1840: the fire-stealer's girlhood -- Part three, 1840-1847: First years on West Street -- Amherst Academy -- Death and friendship -- Part four, 1847-1852: 1847-1848: Mount Holyoke Female Seminary -- 1848-1850: first drunkenness -- 1850-1852: somebody's rev-e-ries -- Part five, 1852-1858: 1852-1854: a sheltered life -- 1853-1855: news of the ancient school of true poets -- 1855-1858: troubles and riddles -- Part six, 1858-1865: 1858-1860: nothing's small -- 1860-1862: carrying and singing the heart's heavy freight -- 1862-1865: the fighting years -- Part seven, 1866-1886: 1866-1870: repose -- 1870-1878: wisdom that won't go stale -- 1878-1884: late adventures in friendship and love -- 1880-1886: exquisite containment -- Family charts -- Appendices: A second photography of Emily Dickinson? …”
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