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 "Classical"
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Arnold
Schönberg
(September 13, 1874 - July 13, 1951) |
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"Prelude"
to Gurrelieder (first performed February 23, 1913) [06 min.
53 sec.] |
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"Finale"
of Variations for Orchestra (1926-1928) [06 min. 07 sec.] |
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Igor
Stravinsky
(June 17, 1882 - April 6, 1971) |
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Le Sacre du Printemps
[The Rite of Spring] [composed 1910-1912, first performed May 29, 1913] |
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part 1: "Introduction.
Lento," "The Spring Divinations -- Dances of the Young Girls," Mock Abduction,"
"Spring Round Dances" [11 min. 23 sec.] |
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Béla
Viktor János Bartók
(March 25, 1881 - September 26, 1945) |
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"Allegro
moderato," from Piano Concerto No. 1, for piano & orchestra
in A Major, Sz. 83, BB 91 (1926) [08 min. 45 sec.] |
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Charles
Ives
(October 20, 1874 - May 19, 1954) |
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Three
Places in New England (composed around 1908-1914, first performed
1931) |
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"The
'Saint-Gaudens' in Boston Common (Col. Robert Gould Shaw and his Colored
Regiment)" [09 min. 24 sec.] |
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"Putnam's
Camp, Redding, Connecticut" [05 min. 43 sec.] |
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"The
Housatonic at Stockbridge" [03 min. 57 sec.] |
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Alban Berg (February 9, 1885 - December 24,
1935) |
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| The
Blues (read discussion by
David Tripp) |
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Son
House
(March 21, 1902 - October 19, 1988) |
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“My
Black Mama Pt. II” (recorded May 28, 1930) (03 min. 12 sec.) |
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Robert
Johnson
(May 8, 1911 - August 16, 1938) |
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“I
Believe I’ll Dust My Broom” (recorded November 23, 1936)
[02 min. 56 sec.] |
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“Sweet
Home Chicago” (recorded November 23, 1936) [02 min. 56 sec.] |
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“Preachin'
Blues (Up Jumped the Devil)” (recorded November 27, 1936)
[02 min. 48 sec.] |
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“Walkin’
Blues” (recorded November 27, 1936) [02 min. 26 sec.] |
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“Hell
Hound on My Trail” (recorded June 20, 1937) [02 min. 34
sec.] |
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Muddy
Waters
(April 4, 1915 - April 30, 1983) |
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“Country
Blues” (recorded around August 24-31, 1941) [03 min. 33
sec.] |
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“Interview
#1” by Alan Lomax (recorded around August 24-31, 1941) [03
min. 51 sec.] |
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“I
Feel Like Going Home” (1948) [03 min. 07 sec.] |
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“Walkin’
Blues” (1950) [02 min. 54 sec.] |
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“Hoochie
Coochie Man” (1954) [02 min. 44 sec.] |
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“Mannish
Boy” (1955) [02 min. 54 sec.] |
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B. B. King
(September 16, 1925 -) |
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“The Thrill
Is Gone” (recorded June 1969) [05 min. 16 sec.] |
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Jimi
Hendrix
(November 27, 1942 - September 18, 1970) |
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“Red
House” (from In the West, released January 1, 1971) [03
min. 48 sec.] |
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Eric
Clapton
(March 30, 1945 -) |
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“Runnin'
on Faith” (from Unplugged, released August 25, 1992) [06
min. 29 sec.] |
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“Walkin’
Blues” (from Unplugged, released August 25, 1992) [03 min.
37 sec.] |
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“When
You Got a Good Friend” (from Me and Mr. Johnson, released
March 30, 2004) [03 min. 17 sec.] |
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Bonnie
Raitt
(November 8, 1949 -) |
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“Love
me Like a Man” (originally recorded 1972; this version from
Road
Tested, released November 7, 1995) [04 min. 45 sec.] |
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Guy
Davis
(May 12, 1952 -) |
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“I Believe
I’ll Dust My Broom” (from Stomp Down Rider -- recorded November
14, 1993; album released October 17, 1995) [02 min. 32 sec.] |
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“Walkin’
Blues” (from Stomp Down Rider -- recorded November 14, 1993;
album released October 17, 1995) [04 min. 33 sec.] |
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Stevie Ray Vaughan
(October 3, 1954 - August 27, 1990) |
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“Texas
Flood” (from Texas Flood -- recorded November 22, 1982;
album released June 13, 1983) [05 min. 19 sec.] |
| Pictures
from the World War I Cultural Matrix |
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| Pictures
of Paintings, Photography, and Sculpture from the World War I Cultural
Matrix |
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Wassily Vasilyevich
Kandinsky
(December 4, 1866 - December 13, 1944) |
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"München-Schwabing
mit Ursulakirche" [Munich-Schwabing with the Church of St. Ursula]
(1908) |
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"Untitled"
[First Abstract Watercolor] (1910) |
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"Composition
VII" (1913) |
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"Moscow
I" (1916) |
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"Composition
VIII" (1923) |
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"Composition
X" (1939) |
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Edward Sheriff
Curtis
(February 16,
1868 - October 19, 1952) |
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The North American Indian (20
volumes, 1907-1930) |
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volume 1: The Apache. The Jicarillas.
The Navaho |
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frontispiece: "The
pool (Apache)" (1906) |
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Henri
Matisse
(December 31, 1869 - November 3, 1954) |
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"Notre-Dame,
une fin d'apres-midi" [A Glimpse of Notre Dame in the Late Afternoon]
(1902) |
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"La
Joie [bonheur] de vivre" [The Joy of Life] (1905-1906) |
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"La
Danse (I)" [Dance (I)] (early 1909) |
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"La
Danse (II)" [Dance (II)] (late 1909 - summer 1910) |
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"Deux
figures dans un paysage" [Two Figures Reclining in a Landscape]
(1921) |
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"La
Musique" [Music] (1939) |
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Maxfield Parrish
(July 25, 1870 - March 30, 1966) |
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"The
Dinky Bird" (1904) |
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"Daybreak"
(1922, distributed as the most successful art print of the twentieth
century) |
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"Ecstasy"
(1930) |
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Maurice Denis
(November 25, 1870 – November 1943) |
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"Orphée
et Eurydice" [Orpheus and Eurydice] (1910) |
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Albert Marquet
(March 27, 1875 - June 14, 1947) |
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"Le
Jour pluvieux à Paris" [Rainy Day. Notre Dame de Paris]
(1910) |
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Maurice de Vlaminck
(April 4, 1876 - October 11, 1958) |
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"Le
cirque" [The Circus] (1906) |
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Alfred Leopold
Isidor Kubin (April 10, 1877 - August 20, 1959) |
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"Die
Straße zur Hölle" [The Road to Hell] (1900) |
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"Der
Goldkäfer" [The Gold Bug] (1908) |
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Achille Émile
Othon
Friesz (February 6, 1879 - January 10, 1949) |
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"Le
Port d'Anvers" [The Port of Anvers] (1906) |
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André
Derain (June 10, 1880 - September 8, 1954) |
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"Pont
de Charing Cross" [Charing Cross Bridge, also known as Westminster
Bridge] (1906) |
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"L'Enchanteur
pourrissant" [The Rotting Magician] (1909) -- one of thirty-two
woodcuts in the book by Guillaume Apollinaire |
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"Martigues"
[Harbor in Provence] (1913) |
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Pablo Picasso
(October 25, 1881 - April 8, 1973) |
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"Nu
sur fond rouge" [Nude on Red Background] (1906) |
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"Les
Demoiselles d'Avignon" [The Young Ladies of Avignon] (1907) |
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"Fille
à la mandoline (Fanny Tellier)" [Girl with a Mandolin (Fanny
Tellier)] (late spring 1910) |
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"Musiciens
aux masques" [Three Musicians] (Fontainebleau, summer 1921) |
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"La
Minotauromachie" [Minotauromachy] (1935) |
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"Guernica"
(1937) |
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Edward Hopper
(July 22, 1882 - May 15, 1967) |
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"Cape
Cod Afternoon" (1936) |
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"Cape
Cod Evening" (1939) |
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"The
Nighthawks" (1942) |
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"Cape
Cod Morning" (1950) |
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Auguste Herbin
(April 29, 1882 - January 30/31, 1960) |
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"Le
Pré Saint-Gervais" [The Pré Saint-Gervais] (1911) |
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"Paysage
cubiste" [Cubist Landscape] (1912) |
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"Le
Grande arbre déraciné" [The Big Tree Uprooted] (1913) |
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Amedeo
Clemente Modigliani (July 12, 1884 - January 24, 1920) |
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"Head"
(around 1911) |
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"The
Sculptor Jacques Lipchitz and His Wife Berthe Weill" |
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Georgia
O'Keefe
(November 15, 1887 - March 6, 1986) |
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"Music
- Pink and Blue II" (1919) |
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"Two
Calla Lillies on Pink" (1928) |
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"Black
Cross" (1929) |
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"Summer
Days" (1936) |
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Thomas Hart Benton
(April 15, 1889 - January 19, 1975) |
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"The
Ballad of the Jealous Lover of Lone Green Valley" (1934) |
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"Hollywood"
(1937) |
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Paul Nash (11
May 1889 - July 11, 1946) |
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"We
are Making a New World" (1918) |
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Vera Ignat'evna
Mukhina (July 1, 1889 - 1953) |
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"Rabochy
i Kolhoznitsa" [The Worker and Collective-Farm Girl]
(1937, World's Fair in Paris) |
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Dorothea Lange
(May 26, 1895 - October 11, 1965) |
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"Destitute
Pea Pickers in California. Mother of Seven Children. Age Thirty-Two. Nipomo,
California." [commonly called: "Migrant Mother"] (February 1936) |
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"Migrant
woman from Arkansas living in a contractor’s camp near Westley, California."
(April 1939) |
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"Migrant
woman from Arkansas living in a contractor’s camp. She would prefer to
live in a government camp, but the contractor system prevents this for
fear of losing control over the allocation of work." (April
1939) |
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Salvador Felipe
Jacinto Dalí
Domènech, Marquis of Pubol or Salvador Felip Jacint Dalí
Domènech (May 11, 1904 - January 23, 1989), |
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"The
Persistence of Memory" (1931) |
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"The
Weaning of Furniture - Nutrition" (1934) |
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"Soft
Construction with Boiled Beans: Premonition of Civil War" (1936) |
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"Dream
Caused by the Flight of a Bee around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening"
(1944) |
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Nazi
Postcards (1933-1939) -- a small collection of propaganda postcards |
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"Youth
Must Fly" (Soviet Realism, 1934) |
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| Political
and Social Documents from the World War I Cultural Matrix |
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Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (April 22, 1870
- January 21, 1924) |
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"What
is to be Done?" (1902) |
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"Imperialism,
The Highest State of Capitalism" (1916) |
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Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856
- February 3, 1924) |
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"War
Address" (April 2, 1917) -- making
the world "Safe for Democracy" |
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"Fourteen
Points Address" (January 8, 1918) -- making
the world "fit and safe to live in" |
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"The
Treaty of Versailles" (June 28th, 1919) |
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Maximilian Carl Emil Weber
(April 21, 1864 - June 14, 1920) |
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Economics and Society:
An Outline of Interpretive Sociology (published posthumously
in 1922) |
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Part Three: Types of Rule, Chapter
6, "Bureaucracy" |
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Adolf Hitler (April 20, 1889
- April 30, 1945) |
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Mein
Kampf (July 1925) |
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vol. 01, ch. 06: "War
Propaganda" |
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vol. 02, ch. 11: "Propaganda
and Organization" |
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Other
Nazi Propaganda |
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Benito Mussolini (July 29, 1883
- April 28, 1945) |
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"What
is Fascism?" (1932) |
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Houston Stewart Chamberlain
(September 9, 1855 - January 9, 1927) |
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"The
Importance of Race" (1926) |
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Richard Wright (September 4, 1908
- November 28, 1960) |
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"The
Ethics of Living Jim Crow" (1937) |
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Virginia Woolf (January 25, 1882
- March 28, 1941) |
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"A
Room of One's Own" (1929) |
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Meridel LeSueur (February 22, 1900
- November 14, 1996) |
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"Women
on the Breadlines," New Masses (January 1932) |
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| Essays
and Other Non-Fiction from the World War I Cultural Matrix |
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Sigmund Freud (May 6, 1856
- September 23, 1939) |
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selection
from The Interpretation of Dreams, 3rd ed. (1911) |
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selection
from Civilization and Its Discontents (1929) |
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Wassily Vasilyevich
Kandinsky
(December 4, 1866 - December 13, 1944) |
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Concerning
the Spiritual in Art [Über das Geistige in der Kunst]
(1911) |
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selection
from Concerning the Spiritual in Art, Part 1, Chapter 3 |
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"On
the Problem of Form" [Über die Formfrage] (from Der Blaue
Reiter [The Blue Rider], 1912) |
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André Breton (February 19,
1896
- September 28, 1966) |
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"First
Surrealist Manifesto" [Le Manifeste du Surréalisme] (1924) |
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"What
is Surrealism?" (1934) |
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| Poetry
from the World War I Cultural Matrix |
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William Butler Yeats (June 13, 1865
- January 28, 1939) |
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Responsibilities and Other Poems
(1916) |
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"No
Second Troy" |
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"The
Second Coming" (1920) |
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Robert Frost (March 26, 1874
- January 29, 1963) |
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"The
Road Not Taken" (1916) |
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"Neither
out Far nor in Deep" (1936) |
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Nicholas Vachel Lindsay (November
10, 1879 - December 5, 1931) |
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"The
Congo" (1919) |
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Ezra Pound (October 30, 1885
- November 1, 1972)) |
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"Canto
1" (1925) |
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"Canto
13" (1932) |
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"Canto
49" (1937) |
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Siegfried Sassoon (September 8, 1886
- September 1, 1967) |
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Counter-Attack
and Other Poems (1918) |
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T. S. Eliot
(September 26,
1888 - January 4, 1965) |
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"The
Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (1915) |
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"The
Waste Land" (1922) |
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Edna St. Vincent Millay (February
22, 1892 - October 19, 1950) |
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selection
from
The Harp Weaver and Other Poems (1920) |
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Wilfred
Owen (March 18, 1893
- November 4, 1918) |
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"Sonnet
- ON SEEING A PIECE OF OUR HEAVY ARTILLERY BROUGHT INTO ACTION"
(1917) |
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"The
Parable of the Old Man and the Young" (1917) |
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"At
a Calvary near the Ancre" (1917) |
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"The
End" (1917) |
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"The
Next War" (1917) |
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"Anthem
for Doomed Youth" (1917) |
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"Dulce
Et Decorum Est" (1917) |
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"Futility"
(1917) |
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"Strange
Meeting" (1917) |
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"But
I was Looking at the Permanent Stars" (1917) |
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Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky
(July 19, 1893 - April 14, 1930) |
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"A
Cloud in Trousers [Part 1]" (1915) |
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e.e. cummings (October 14, 1894
- September 3, 1962) |
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"she
being Brand" (1926) |
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André Breton (February 19,
1896
- September 28, 1966) |
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Le Révolver à cheveux blancs
[The Revolver Has White Hair] (1932) |
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"Le
Verbe Être" [The
Verb To Be] (1932) |
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Hart Crane
(July 21, 1899 - April 26, 1932) |
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"Black
Tambourine" (1921) |
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"Chaplinesque"
(1921) |
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"To
Brooklyn Bridge" (1927) |
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"The
Broken Tower" (1932) |
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Langston
Hughes
(February 1, 1902 - May 22, 1967) and the
Harlem Renaissance |
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"The
Negro Speaks of Rivers" (1921) |
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Pablo
Neruda
(July 12, 1904 - September 23, 1973); Nobel
Prize, 1971 |
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["Sonata"]
(around 1924) |
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| Novels
from the World War I Cultural Matrix |
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Hermann Hesse (July 2, 1877
- August 9, 1962)); Nobel
Prize, 1946 |
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Siddhartha
(1922) |
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Aldous Leonard Huxley
(July 26, 1894 - November 22, 1963) |
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Brave
New World (1932) |
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Joseph Roth (September 2, 1894
- May 27, 1939) |
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Hotel Savoy (1924) |
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"The Bust of
the Emperor" |
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John
Dos Passos (January 14, 1896-
September 28, 1970) |
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U.S.A., The Big Money (1936) |
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"Charley
Anderson" |
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"The
Campers at Kitty Hawk" |
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F. Scott Fitzgerald (September 24,
1896
- December 2, 1940) |
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The Great Gatsby (1925) |
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Chapter
1 |
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Chapter
9 |
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William Faulkner (September 25, 1897
- July 6, 1962) |
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selection
from The Sound and the Fury (1929) |
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JohnSteinbeck (February 27, 1902
- December 20, 1968) |
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The Grapes of Wrath (1939) |
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Chapter
21 |
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Chapter
22 |
Europe
on the Eve of World War I (1914)
