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Different Drummers: Jazz in the Culture of Nazi Germany Michael H. Kater
 Book DescriptionWhen the African-American dancer Josephine Baker visited Berlin in 1925, she found it dazzling. ""The city had a jewel-like sparkle,"" she said, ""the vast cafes reminded me of ocean liners powered by the rhythms of their orchestras. There was music everywhere."" Eager to look ahead after the crushing defeat of World War I, Weimar Germany embraced the modernism that swept through Europe and was crazy over jazz. But with the rise of National Socialism came censorship and proscription: anart form born on foreign soil and presided over by Negroes and Jews could have no place in the culture of a ""master race."" In Different Drummers, Michael Kater--a distinguished historian and himself a jazz musician--explores the underground history of jazz in Hitler's Germany. He offers a frightening and fascinating look at life and popular culture during the Third Reich, showing that for the Nazis, jazz was an especially threatening form of expression. Not only were its creators at......
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Lightning at Dinner: Poems Jim Moore
 Graywolf Press. УJim Moore writes of history, of love, of pain, of the intimate revelations of a consciousness alive to itself.Ф ЧC. K. williams It is not beautiful, this dying, but it is what this god has for atool. Чfrom УBlood HarmonyФ Jim MooreТs sixth collectionЧurgent and devotionalЧbears down on loss and how to render it in art with clarity enough to outlast our small, brief lives. These poems explore the places where the self meets the world, whether in the guise of a dying mother, another country, or a war fought against oneТs wishes, in oneТs own name....
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My China Eye: Memoirs of a Jew and a Journalist Israel Epstein
 Long River Press. My China Eye is the long-awaited memoir by Israel Epstein (1915-2005), one of the last of the Old China Hands and one of the very few Western journalists to experience the Chinese Communist Revolution from its earliest days to the highestlevels of power. Born in Poland and raised in China, Epstein?s writings from the front lines of the Chinese War of Resistance and Communist-Nationalist struggle have influenced?and infuriated?U.S. policy, which sought to "roll back" the Chinese Revolution in the Cold War era. Epstein took Chinese citizenship, only to be imprisoned by the Red Guards as social order collapsed during the Cultural Revolution. During this dark period, Epstein found his ideals challenged in ways he never imagined, yet his lifelong struggle for social equality has never wavered. This powerful memoir resonates with some of the Twentieth century?s most turbulent social movements....
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The Girl with Bees in Her Hair (Lannan Literary Selections) Eleanor Rand Wilner
 Book Description Eleanor Wilner's sixth collection creates a mythology that sees a planet too small and a universe too immense to support humanity's illusions of importance. Her poems become a "choral work of the imagination" in which science is re-envisioned, gender assumptions challenged and beliefs rigorously questioned. As the old gods are reabsorbed into the modern world, Wilner discovers new insights into culture and the human psyche. "I have always treasured Wilner's poetry for its visionary amplitude and revolutionary intelligence."-Alicia Ostriker Eleanor Rand Wilner is the author of six books of poetry and the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship. She lives in Philadelphia, teaches at Warren Wilson College, and is a lifelong activist for civil rights and peace....
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Metaphysical Media: The Occult Experience in Popular Culture Emily D. Edwards
 Book DescriptionConsidered sinister by Western religious traditions and bizarre in mainstream America, supernatural beliefs and the rituals of occult traditions are often publicly disparaged. But they are paradoxically embraced and exposed by popular culture, in television shows such as Bewitched and in movies from The Wizard of Oz to The Craft , according to Emily D. Edwards. Metaphysical Media: The Occult in Popular Culture is an in-depth discussion of the media?s presentation of a wide spectrum of the occult that also serves as a comprehensive sourcebook of movies and television programs that deal with supernatural characters and themes. Metaphysical Media focuses on the blurred definitions of topics associated with the occult as they are presented in popular culture to show moving image media as devices that help structure an understanding of the supernatural world. Edwards examines what media treatment of supernatural subjects and the......
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