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Explores the ways that musicians - particularly female artists - have established a 'natural' country identity. This book focuses on revealing moments in country performance including: blackface comedy on radio and stage before 1945 (concentrating on Opry performers Jamup and Honey), and the minstrel's 'rube' or hillbilly equivalent.

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Uchinanchu is the term used by Okinawan immigrants and their descendants in Hawai'i to identify themselves as an ethnic group distinct from the Yamatunchu or Naichi of Japan's four main islands. Though Japanese, linguistic and cultural differences as well as their late arrival in the islands made the Uchinanchu targets of Naichi prejudice in the past. Pressure from without and determination from within the group caused Hawai'i's Uchinanchu to ...

A comprehensive guide to getting out of a marijuana charge in Georgia. Former Judge David Clark, aka "Smoove D" provides inside tips from his 20 years of experience as one of Georgia's top criminal defense lawyer defending pot smokers.

The Golden Locket is a true romance ... a love story between a girl, her life and those who populated it. Through two world wars, recession, proud poverty and days of boundless joy she told her tales. Story telling was a passion. But one story - the best she knew - she kept till last. You are holding it in your hands. Dorothy Kathleen Kirby made a promise to herself, her family and generations unborn that she would complete this book ...

This is the hard cover edition of Joan Cartwright's first book of memoirs, poetry, songs, and lectures.

Offers a vision of the dynamics of the main disasters in South America, describing their mechanisms and consequences on South American societies. This book includes human-induced disasters, such as desertification in Patagonia and soil erosion in Brazil.

This is my second collection of poetry (the first was King Arthur's Raid on Hell and other poems). Most of these poems are written in medieval fixed forms, or approximations of medieval forms - one of my on-going quests being a search for ways of reproducing the sound and feel of medieval Welsh poetry in modern English. And yet, because the bardic art I practice is a performance art, these are in a larger sense not my poems at all, but merely ...

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Unlike the Buffalo Soldiers or the Tuskegee Airmen, whose stories have received considerable scholarly attention and exposure in the popular media, the men of Mont ford Point remain virtually unknown. I personally have spoken with young black Marines on the grounds of the original Camp Mont ford Point who knew nothing of its history. Conversations with numerous white career veterans of the Corps revealed that they were equally unaware of the h...

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Wendell Long, Entrepreneur and genius, had a great life. Head of a multinational corporation, a beautiful wife, resident and owner, of a penthouse suite. He had it all, until that fateful day... Sudden earthquake shock sent his lovely wife hurtling down from the balcony that broke loose from the suite railing. Devastated by the horrendous loss, Wendell literally threw himself into his work. He set about perfecting an early-warning-sensor which...