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The Arts

Classic Book Illustration
A Treasury of American Book Illustration
  by Henry C. Pitz

English Book Illustration, 1800-1900
  by Philip James

Modern Book-Illustration in Great Britain and America (early 1900's)
  by F.J. Harvey Darton


Political Uses of Music
Rhythm and Resistance: Explorations in the Political Uses of Popular Music
 by Ray Pratt

Rockin' the Boat: Mass Music and Mass Movements
 edited by Reebee Garofalo

Acting in Concert: Music, Community, and Political Action
 by Mark Mattern


The Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance: The One and the Many
 by Mark Helbling

Pages from the Harlem Renaissance: A Chronicle of Performance
 by Anthony D. Hill

Black Culture and the Harlem Renaissance
 by Cary D. Wintz


Social Commentary of Cartoons and Comics
Cartooning for Suffrage
 by Elisabeth Israels Perry & Alice Sheppard

The Comic-Stripped American: What Dick Tracy, Blondie, Daddy Warbucks
and Charlie Brown Tell Us about Ourselves

  by Arthur Asa Berger

The Art of the Funnies : An Aesthetic History
 by Robert C. Harvey

Cultural Argument and Organizational Constraint in the Comic Book Industry
  by Matthew Paul McAllister, in Journal of Communication


How Accurately Do Films Portray Reality?
Screening the Past: Film and the Representation of History
  by Tony Barta

Why Docudrama? Fact-Fiction on Film and TV
  by Alan Rosenthal

Women's Film and Female Experience, 1940-1950
 by Andrea S. Walsh


The Origin of Jazz
Jazz: Its Evolution and Essence
 by André Hodeir & David Noakes

The History of Jazz
  by Ted Gioia

The Story of Jazz
 by Marshall W. Stearns

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