Temple University Press: 180 books
I Walked With Giants
The Autobiography of Jimmy Heath
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2010
Composer of more than 100 jazz pieces, three-time Grammy nominee, and performer on more than 125 albums, Jimmy Heath has earned a place of honor in the history of jazz. Over his long career, Heath knew many jazz giants such as Charlie Parker and played with other innovators including John Coltrane,...
Hapa Girl
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2007
In the mid-1960s, Winberg Chai, a young academic and the son of Chinese immigrants, married an Irish-American artist. In Hapa Girl ("hapa" is Hawaiian for "mixed") their daughter tells the story of this loving family as they moved from Southern California to New York to a South...
Musicians from a Different Shore
Asians and Asian Americans in Classical Music
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2008
Musicians of Asian descent enjoy unprecedented prominence in concert halls, conservatories, and classical music performance competitions. In the first book on the subject, Mari Yoshihara looks into the reasons for this phenomenon, starting with her own experience of learning to play piano in Japan...
by Kathy Peiss
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2011
What did young, independent women do for fun and how did they pay their way into New York City's turn-of-the-century pleasure places? Cheap Amusements is a fascinating discussion of young working women whose meager wages often fell short of bare subsistence and rarely allowed for entertainment expenses.
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The Dance of Politics
Gender, Performance, and Democratization in Malawi
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2009
Election campaigns, political events, and national celebration days in Malawi usually feature groups of women who dance and perform songs of praise for politicians and political parties. These lively performances help to attract and energize throngs of prospective voters. However, as Lisa Gilman explains,...
Silent Gesture
The Autobiography of Tommie Smith
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2008
n 1968, Tommie Smith and his teammate John Carlos won the gold and silver medals, respectively, for the 200 meter dash. Receiving their medals on the dais, they raised their fists and froze a moment in time that will forever be remembered as a powerful day of protest. In this, his autobiography,...
Latino Lives in America
Making It Home
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2010
Latinos are the largest and fastest growing ethnic group in the United States, with increased levels of political mobilization and influence. In the timely and thoroughgoing Latino Lives in America*,* six prominent Latino scholars explore the profound implications of Latinos’ population growth and...
by John Raines
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2011
"Religious suffering is at one and the same time the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world and the soul of soulless conditions."Few people would ever expect that Karl Marx is the writer...
Cowboys As Cold Warriors
The Western And U S History
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
Though the United States emerged from World War II with superpower status and quickly entered a period of economic prosperity, the stresses and contradictions of the Cold War nevertheless cast a shadow over American life. The same period marked the heyday of the western film. Cowboys as Cold Warriors...
by Alex Lubet
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2010
Musical talent in Western culture is regarded as an extraordinary combination of technical proficiency and interpretative sensitivity. In Music, Disability, and Society, Alex Lubet challenges the rigid view of technical skill and writes about music in relation to disability studies. He addresses...
Unchopping a Tree
Reconciliation in the Aftermath of Political Violence
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2009
Political violence does not end with the last death. A common feature of mass murder has been the attempt at destroying any memory of victims, with the aim of eliminating them from history. Perpetrators seek not only to eliminate a perceived threat, but also to eradicate any possibility of alternate,...
Spirits Of America
A Social History Of Alcohol
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2004
"Thousands of years ago, before Christ or Buddha or Muhammad...before the Roman Empire rose or the Colossus of Rhodes fell," Eric Burns writes, "people in Asia Minor were drinking beer." So begins an account as entertaining as it is extensive, of alcohol's journey through world—and,...
Race Appeal
How Candidates Invoke Race in U.S. Political Campaigns
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
In our evolving American political culture, whites and blacks continue to respond very differently to race-based messages and the candidates who use them. Race Appeal examines the use and influence such appeals have on voters in elections for federal office in which one candidate is a member of a...
Culinary Fictions
Food in South Asian Diasporic Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2009
For South Asians, food regularly plays a role in how issues of race, class, gender, ethnicity, and national identity are imagined as well as how notions of belonging are affirmed or resisted. Culinary Fictions provides food for thought as it considers the metaphors literature, film, and TV shows...