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  • Explosion of Deferred Dreams

    Musical Renaissance and Social Revolution in San Francisco, 1965–1975

    by Mat Callahan ...
    As the fiftieth anniversary of the Summer of Love floods the media with debates and celebrations of music, political movements, “flower power,” “acid rock,” and “hippies,”The Explosion of Deferred Dreams offers a critical reexamination of the interwoven political and musical happenings in San Francisco in the Sixties. Author, musician, and native San Franciscan Mat Callahan explores the dynamic ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Working-Class Heroes

    A History of Struggle in Song: A Songbook

    Edited by Mat Callahan, Yvonne Moore ...
    Working-Class Heroes is an organic melding of history, music, and politics that demonstrates with remarkably colorful evidence that workers everywhere will struggle to improve their conditions of life. And among them will be workers who share an insight: in order to better our lot, we must act collectively to change the world. This profusely illustrated treasury of song sheets, lyrics, photographs ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Songs of Freedom

    The James Connolly Songbook

    by James Connolly, Theo Dorgan ...
    From the rollicking welcome of “A Festive Song” to the defiant battle cry of “Watchword of Labor,” Songs of Freedom accomplishes the difficult task of making contemporary music out of old revolutionary songs. Far from the archival preservation of embalmed corpses, the inspired performance of a rocking band turns the timeless lyrics of James Connolly into timely manifestos for today’s young rebels. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bombs Bursting in Air

    Music and the State

    Edited by Mat Callahan ...
    Contributions by Franz Andres Morrissey, Mat Callahan, Suzanne G. Cusick, James E. Dillard, Steven Garabedian, Jim Rogers, Elissa Stroman, Britta Sweers, and Dick WeissmanWhat exactly is American music? Is blackface minstrelsy American music? Is Hawaiian music? Is “The Star-Spangled Banner,” written by an Englishman, American music? And what exactly is “Rockin’ in the Free World”? Why does the ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • A Songbook of Slavery and Emancipation

    Edited by Mat Callahan ...
    Series series Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies
    Throughout the history of slavery in the Americas, music carried messages of survival, rebellion, and solidarity. Enslaved people composed songs that were far more than laments—they were calls for liberty and revolution, celebrating heroes like Gabriel Prosser and Nat Turner and the triumph of the Haitian Revolution.Alongside these songs, fugitive and free Black people and white abolitionist ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Songs of Slavery and Emancipation

    by Mat Callahan, Kali Akuno ...
    Series series Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies
    Throughout the history of slavery, enslaved people organized resistance, escape, and rebellion. Sustaining them in this struggle was their music, some examples of which are sung to this day. While the existence of slave songs, especially spirituals, is well known, their character is often misunderstood. Slave songs were not only lamentations of suffering or distractions from a life of misery. Some ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Explosion of Deferred Dreams

    Musical Renaissance and Social Revolution in San Francisco, 1965-1975

    by Mat Callahan ...
    As the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love floods the media with debates and celebrations of music, political movements, 'flower power', 'acid rock' and 'hippies'; The Explosion of Deferred Dreams offers a critical re-examination of the interwoven political and musical happenings in San Francisco in the '60s. Author, musician and native San Franciscan Mat Callahan explores the dynamic links ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • A Critical Guide to Intellectual Property

    Edited by Mat Callahan, Dr. Jim Rogers ...
    Ours is an era when human genes can be copied and patented. From genetically modified foods to digital piracy, the concept of intellectual property (IP) and the laws upholding it play a foundational role in our society, but its political and ideological dimensions have rarely been understood outside of specialist circles. This collection cuts through the legal jargon that so often surrounds IP, to ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Working-Class Heroes

    by Mat Callahan, Yvonne Moore ...
    Working-Class Heroes is an organic melding of history, music, and politics that demonstrates with remarkably colourful evidence that workers everywhere will struggle to improve their conditions of life. And among them will be workers who share an insight: in order to better our lot, we must act collectively to change the world. Carefully curated by Mat Callahan and Yvonne Moore, this profusely ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • And There Was Light

    Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle

    by Jon Meacham ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer Jon Meacham chronicles the life of Abraham Lincoln, charting how—and why—he confronted secession, threats to democracy, and the tragedy of slavery to expand the possibilities of America.“Meacham has given us the Lincoln for our time.”—Henry Louis Gates, Jr.Winner of the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize • Longlisted for the Biographers ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • The Slave's Cause

    A History of Abolition

    by Manisha Sinha ...
    "Traces the history of abolition from the 1600s to the 1860s . . . a valuable addition to our understanding of the role of race and racism in America."— Florida CourierReceived historical wisdom casts abolitionists as bourgeois, mostly white reformers burdened by racial paternalism and economic conservatism. Manisha Sinha overturns this image, broadening her scope beyond the antebellum period ... Read more

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  • Abe

    Abraham Lincoln in His Times

    by David S. Reynolds ...
    **Now an Apple TV+ documentary, Lincoln's Dilemma, airing February 18, 2022.One of the Wall Street Journal's Ten Best Books of the Year | A Washington Post Notable Book | A Christian Science Monitor and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2020Winner of the Gilder Lehrman Abraham Lincoln Prize and the Abraham Lincoln Institute Book Award"A marvelous cultural biography that captures Lincoln in all his ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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