Paul Devlin
Biographic Data
| ID | 3584156 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Devlin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Devlin |
| SIGNATURE | DEVLIN P |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
August Wilson in Context
Ralph Ellison in Context
Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man is the second-most assigned American novel since 1945 and is one of the most enduring. It is studied by many thousands of high school and college students every year and has been since the 1950s. His landmark essays, with their blend of personal history and cultural theory, have been extraordinarily influential. Ralph Ellison in Context includes authoritative chapters summing up longstanding conversations, while offe…
Albert Murray's The Spyglass Tree and the 1923 Armed Defense of Tuskegee Institute
In Albert Murray’s novel The Spyglass Tree (1991), which is set in a town similar to Tuskegee, Alabama and at a college similar to Tuskegee Institute in the 1930s, the protagonist hears a tale in a barbershop of how the campus community defended itself from the Ku Klux Klan in the previous decade. The protagonist uses this story, which is an approximately accurate re-telling of the historical defense of Tuskegee Institute from the Klan in 1923, a…
Country Soul
Reviewed by: Country Soul: Making Music and Making Race in the American South by Charles L. Hughes Paul Devlin Charles L. Hughes. Country Soul: Making Music and Making Race in the American South. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 2015. 280 pp. $29.95. Country Soul: Making Music and Making Race in the American South by Charles L. Hughes is a nuanced, elegant, and authoritative history of an important corner of the Southern popular music industry…
Jazz Autobiography and the Cold War
This article explores several key autobiographies by jazz musicians and the ways in which they represent the use of jazz by the United States on the cultural front of the Cold War. It examines varying approaches to writing about the involvement of the autobiographical subject with the cultural diplomacy (or cultural containment) policies of the United States and investigates the historical effort made by the United States to feature jazz as an im…
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Jazz Autobiography and the Cold War
This article explores several key autobiographies by jazz musicians and the ways in which they represent the use of jazz by the United States on the cultural front of the Cold War. It examines varying approaches to writing about the involvement of the autobiographical subject with the cultural diplomacy (or cultural containment) policies of the United States and investigates the historical effort made by the United States to feature jazz as an im…
Country Soul
Reviewed by: Country Soul: Making Music and Making Race in the American South by Charles L. Hughes Paul Devlin Charles L. Hughes. Country Soul: Making Music and Making Race in the American South. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 2015. 280 pp. $29.95. Country Soul: Making Music and Making Race in the American South by Charles L. Hughes is a nuanced, elegant, and authoritative history of an important corner of the Southern popular music industry…
Albert Murray's The Spyglass Tree and the 1923 Armed Defense of Tuskegee Institute
In Albert Murray’s novel The Spyglass Tree (1991), which is set in a town similar to Tuskegee, Alabama and at a college similar to Tuskegee Institute in the 1930s, the protagonist hears a tale in a barbershop of how the campus community defended itself from the Ku Klux Klan in the previous decade. The protagonist uses this story, which is an approximately accurate re-telling of the historical defense of Tuskegee Institute from the Klan in 1923, a…
Ralph Ellison in Context
Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man is the second-most assigned American novel since 1945 and is one of the most enduring. It is studied by many thousands of high school and college students every year and has been since the 1950s. His landmark essays, with their blend of personal history and cultural theory, have been extraordinarily influential. Ralph Ellison in Context includes authoritative chapters summing up longstanding conversations, while offe…
August Wilson in Context
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