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Second Half First : a memoir
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ISBN: 9780857989796 Year: 2015 Publisher: Sydney : Random House,

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Livia
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ISBN: 128174073X 9786611740733 0300127162 9780300127164 9780300091960 0300091966 0300102984 9780300102987 6611740732 Year: 2002 Publisher: New Haven Yale University Press

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Livia (58 B.C.-A.D. 29)-the wife of the first Roman emperor, Caesar Augustus, and mother of the second, Tiberius-wielded power at the center of Roman politics for most of her long life. Livia has been portrayed as a cunning and sinister schemer, but in this biography (the first in English devoted to her) Livia emerges as a much more complex individual. Achieving influence unprecedented for a woman, she won support and even affection from her contemporaries and was widely revered after her death. Anthony A. Barrett, author of acclaimed biographies of Caligula and Agrippina, here examines Livia's life and her role in Roman politics. He recounts the events of her life, from her early days as a member of the wealthy and powerful Claudian family through her final conflicts with the new Emperor Tiberius. Barrett also considers how Livia helped shape the pattern of Roman government that prevailed for the next four centuries.

Ad Gallinas Albas : Villa di Liviai
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ISBN: 8882651673 9788882651671 Year: 2001 Volume: 8 Publisher: Roma: L'Erma di Bretschneider,

Portraits of Livia : imaging the imperial woman in Augustan Rome
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ISBN: 0521583942 Year: 1999 Publisher: Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press,


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Lift every voice and swing
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ISBN: 1479801836 1479892327 9781479801831 9781479892327 9781479890804 1479890804 Year: 2020 Publisher: New York

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Explores the role of jazz celebrities like Ella Fitzgerald, Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington, and Mary Lou Williams as representatives of African American religion in the twentieth centuryBeginning in the 1920s, the Jazz Age propelled Black swing artists into national celebrity. Many took on the role of race representatives, and were able to leverage their popularity toward achieving social progress for other African Americans. In Lift Every Voice and Swing, Vaughn A. Booker argues that with the emergence of these popular jazz figures, who came from a culture shaped by Black Protestantism, religious authority for African Americans found a place and spokespeople outside of traditional Afro-Protestant institutions and religious life. Popular Black jazz professionals--such as Ella Fitzgerald, Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington, and Mary Lou Williams--inherited religious authority though they were not official religious leaders. Some of these artists put forward a religious culture in the mid-twentieth century by releasing religious recordings and putting on religious concerts, and their work came to be seen as integral to the Black religious ethos. Booker documents this transformative era in religious expression, in which jazz musicians embodied religious beliefs and practices that echoed and diverged from the predominant African American religious culture. He draws on the heretofore unexamined private religious writings of Duke Ellington and Mary Lou Williams, and showcases the careers of female jazz artists alongside those of men, expanding our understanding of African American religious expression and decentering the Black church as the sole concept for understanding Black Protestant religiosity. Featuring gorgeous prose and insightful research, Lift Every Voice and Swing will change the way we understand the connections between jazz music and faith.

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spirituals. --- sex. --- religious race professionals. --- religious movement. --- rehabilitation. --- race representation. --- race histories. --- public intellectuals. --- polytheism. --- monotheism. --- memorialization. --- mainline Protestantism. --- jazz criticism. --- irreverence. --- interracial. --- interfaith. --- integration. --- accountability;Africo-American Presbyterian;Afro-Protestantism;artistry;authenticity;Bel Canto;Bible;Billy Strayhorn;Black Catholicism;black church;black middle class;black press;Bud Powell;Cab Calloway;Catholic;charity;Chick Webb;Christian;Christianity;civil rights;Come Sunday;consumer culture;conversion;creativity;dancing;desegregation;Drusilla Dunjee Houston;Duke Ellington;ecumenism;Ella Fitzgerald;emotionalism;entertainment;Episcopal;Ethiopianism;Geri Allen;God;Harlem;Hazel Scott;Hebrew Bible;hotel stationery. --- Yoruba. --- Wynton Marsalis. --- Star of Zion. --- Southern Christian Leadership Conference. --- Sonia Sanchez. --- Solomon. --- Sacred Concerts. --- Mary Lou Williams. --- Lionel Hampton. --- Jesus. --- Jennifer Holliday. --- James Morris Webb. --- Africo-American Presbyterian. --- Afro-Protestantism. --- Bel Canto. --- Bible. --- Billy Strayhorn. --- Black Catholicism. --- Bud Powell. --- Cab Calloway. --- Catholic. --- Chick Webb. --- Christian. --- Christianity. --- Come Sunday. --- Drusilla Dunjee Houston. --- Duke Ellington. --- Ella Fitzgerald. --- Episcopal. --- Ethiopianism. --- Geri Allen. --- God. --- Harlem. --- Hazel Scott. --- Hebrew Bible. --- accountability. --- artistry. --- authenticity. --- black church. --- black middle class. --- black press. --- charity. --- civil rights. --- consumer culture. --- conversion. --- creativity. --- dancing. --- desegregation. --- ecumenism. --- emotionalism. --- entertainment. --- hotel stationery. --- sexuality. --- Sex. --- Rehabilitation. --- Polytheism. --- Monotheism. --- Memorialization. --- Flippancy.


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Hadrian and the city of Rome
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ISBN: 0691035881 0691002185 0691224021 Year: 1987 Publisher: Princeton Princeton University Press

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The description for this book, Hadrian and the City of Rome, will be forthcoming.

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