Browsing MLAS Student Research by Title
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(Vanderbilt University, 2009-10-15)Art and images serve as cultural memories for many diaspora groups, from early Judaic to African American communities. Religion is one of the strongest cultural beliefs subject to creolization when art attempts to preserve ...
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The Importation, Adaptation, and Creolization of Slave Leisure Forms in the Americas: 1600 to 1865 (Vanderbilt University, 2009)Leisure, the escape from the tedium of everyday existence, is found in all cultures including those in which slavery exists. At first glance the terms "slavery" and "leisure" may seem to be contradictory, mutually exclusive ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2009-08-27)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2006)This paper provides an overview of Delbert Mann's life from his community theatre activities in Nashville and Columbia, South Carolina, to his work in the early days of television and his subsequent career as a film director.
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(Vanderbilt University, 2009-08-27)
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(Vanderbilt Universityhttp://www.vanderbilt.edu/, 2009-04)Throughout the Transatlantic slave trade enslaved Africans sang. In holding pens called barracoons awaiting shipment, aboard slave ships crossing the Atlantic, and in the transatlantic colonies, singing was a common feature ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2009-12-17)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2009-08-27)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2009-08-27)