Christopher Morris Books
Becoming Southern: The Evolution of a Way of Life, Warren County and Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1770-1860
Mississippi, perhaps more than any other state, epitomized the Old South and all it stood for. Yet, at one time, this area had more in common with newly settled northwest territories than it did wi...
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Reading Opera between the Lines
"A characteristic feature of Wagnerian and post-Wagnerian opera is the tendency to link scenes with numerous and often surprisingly lengthy orchestral interludes, frequently performed with the curt...
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The New Sweet Style
By Vasilii Pavlovich Aksenov, Vassily Aksyonov
The adventures of a Russian actor in 1980s California--from parking attendant to film director. In the process he assesses the Russian emigré scene, the twilight of the Soviet Union and American cu...
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