Love Songs

Love Songs
Author: Ted Gioia
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2015
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0199357579

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Uncovers the unexplored history of the love song, from the fertility rites of ancient cultures to the sexualized YouTube videos of the present day, and discusses such topics as censorship, the legacy of love songs, and why it is a dominant form of modern musical expression.


Love Songs
Language: en
Pages: 332
Authors: Ted Gioia
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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Uncovers the unexplored history of the love song, from the fertility rites of ancient cultures to the sexualized YouTube videos of the present day, and discusse
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
Language: en
Pages: 816
Authors: Honoree Fanonne Jeffers
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-08-24 - Publisher: HarperCollins

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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2021 AN OPRAH BOOK CLUB SELECTION WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR
Love Songs for a Lost Continent
Language: en
Pages: 264
Authors: Anita Felicelli
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-10 - Publisher:

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"[This is] the book we needed to read yesterday... a book we will still be reading tomorrow." - Porochista Khakpour, author of Sick and Sons and Other Flammable
American Love Songs & Ballads
Language: en
Pages: 113
Authors: Jerry Silverman
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-02-25 - Publisher: Mel Bay Publications

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A fascinating collection of fifty historic American love songs and ballads. the songs are arranged in piano/vocal format with guitar chords shown and range from
Congo Love Song
Language: en
Pages: 469
Authors: Ira Dworkin
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-04-27 - Publisher: UNC Press Books

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In his 1903 hit "Congo Love Song," James Weldon Johnson recounts a sweet if seemingly generic romance between two young Africans. While the song's title may app