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Louise Pound
Scholar, Athlete, Feminist Pioneer
Inbunden, 2009
481 kr
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Louise Pound (1872–1958) was a distinguished literary scholar, renowned athlete, accomplished musician, and devoted women's sports advocate. She is perhaps best remembered for her groundbreaking work in the field of linguistics and folklore and for her role as the first woman president of the …
Sword and the Dagger
A Novel
Ljudbok, 2019
403 kr
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The Sword and the Dagger is an epic YA historical adventure by debut novelist Robert Cochran, the Emmy Award-winning executive producer and co-creator of the hit TV series 24 . When empires clash, a Princess, a Knight, and an Assassin embark on the quest of a lifetime During the time of the …
Reporting for Arkansas
The Documentary Films of Jack Hill
Av Dale Carpenter, Robert Cochran
Häftad, 2022
229 kr
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Jack Hill was a pioneering Arkansas documentary filmmaker dedicated to sharing his state’s history with a wider public. Following a decade as an award-winning investigative journalist and news anchor at KAIT in Jonesboro, Hill was pushed out by new management for his controversial reporting on …
Haunted Man's Report
Reading Charles Portis
Inbunden, 2024
481 kr
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Robert Cochran’s Haunted Man’s Report is a pioneering study of the novels and other writings of Arkansan Charles Portis (1933–2020), best known for the novel True Grit and its film adaptations. Hailed by one critic as “the author of classics on the order of a twentieth-century Mark Twain” and as …
Haunted Man's Report
Reading Charles Portis
Häftad, 2024
304 kr
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Robert Cochran’s Haunted Man’s Report is a pioneering study of the novels and other writings of Arkansan Charles Portis (1933–2020), best known for the novel True Grit and its film adaptations. Hailed by one critic as “the author of classics on the order of a twentieth-century Mark Twain” and as …
Singing in Zion
Music and Song in the Life of an Arkansas Family
Inbunden, 1999
526 kr
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This book is a lyrical, scholarly exploration of the connection between one family's musical traditions and its rural community of Zion, Arkansas. In 1959, three Gilbert sisters—Alma, Helen, and Phydella—began compiling songs they remembered as their own and sending them to one another in letters. …
Singing in Zion
Music and Song in the Life of an Arkansas Family
Häftad, 1999
304 kr
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This book is a lyrical, scholarly exploration of the connection between one family's musical traditions and its rural community of Zion, Arkansas. In 1959, three Gilbert sisters—Alma, Helen, and Phydella—began compiling songs they remembered as their own and sending them to one another in letters. …
Lights! Camera! Arkansas!
From Broncho Billy to Billy Bob Thornton
Av Robert Cochran, Suzanne McCray
Häftad, 2015
304 kr
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Lights! Camera! Arkansas! traces the roles played by Arkansans in the first century of Hollywood’s film industry, from Hollywood’s first cowboy star, Broncho Billy Anderson, to Mary Steenburgen, Billy Bob Thornton, and many others. The Arkansas landscape also plays a starring role; North Little …
Photographer of Note
Arkansas Artist Geleve Grice
Av Geleve Grice, Robert Cochran
Inbunden, 2003
510 kr
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In a selection of more than one hundred black and white images taken over a period of sixty years, this book bears witness to the life of a remarkable photographer and to small-town African American life in the middle of the twentieth century. Geleve Grice was born and raised near Pine Bluff, and …
Come Walk with Me
The Art of Dorris Curtis
Av Dorris Curtis, Robert Cochran
Inbunden, 2004
510 kr
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Come Walk with Me: The Art of Dorris Curtis has enormous appeal both as a memoir and as a collection of wonderful paintings. Dorris Curtis, like Grandma Moses, began painting at a late age. She worked as a school teacher for over forty years and upon retirement at the age of sixty-five, began to …
Our Own Sweet Sounds
A Celebration of Popular Music in Arkansas
Häftad, 2005
223 kr
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A rich portrait of the community that is Arkansas manifested in song, Our Own Sweet Sounds celebrates the diversity of musical forms and music makers that have graced the state since territorial times. Beginning with the earliest references to Quapaw and Caddo music as first reported by …
Ozarks
An American Survival of Primitive Society
Av Vance Randolph, Robert Cochran
Häftad, 2017
338 kr
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Vance Randolph was perfectly constituted for his role as the chronicler of Ozark folkways. As a self-described “hack writer,” he was as much a figure of the margins as his chosen subjects, even as his essentially romantic identification with the region he first visited as the vacationing child of …
