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Shelf Matt Kaplan, associate professor of intergenerational programs and aging in the Department of Agricultural and Extension Education. Linking Lifetimes: A Global View of Intergenerational Exchange, published by Lanham, MD: University Press of America. Kaplan co-edited this book with Nancy Henkin, executive director of the Center for Intergenerational learning at Temple University, and Atsuko Kusano, associate professor in the Department of Education at Shinshu University in Japan. In Linking Lifetimes, the contributors explore the range of intergenerational programs and policies found across the globe, and examine their role in enhancing the lives of people of all ages, strengthening families and ensuring the transmission of cultural values from generation to generation. Sherry Roush, assistant professor of Italian. Hermes' Lyre: Italian Poetic Self-Commentary from Dante to Tommaso Campanella, University of Toronto Press. This book presents the first extensive critical study of poetic self-commentary, exploring the motivations for why poets write marginal glosses or other forms of presumably explanatory prose to circulate with their verse. Authors of particular focus include Dante Alighieri, Giovanni Boccaccio, Lorenzo de' Medici the Magnificent, Girolamo Benivieni, Giordano Bruno and Tommaso Campanella. Jerry Zolten, assistant professor of communication arts and sciences at Penn State Altoona. Great God A'Mighty! The Dixie Hummingbirds, published by Oxford University Press. Zolten details the impact of the Dixie Hummingbirds, one of gospel music's most durable and inspiring groups, on American cultural history and American music. His book chronicles the evolution of the Hummingbirds over 75 years and their influence on a changing music industry. Zolten said that through their work with Paul Simon, the Dixie Hummingbirds became one of the few black gospel groups to break through to the American pop mainstream. He sees their story as a bridge to connect the whole story of gospel music to the American public. In the book, Zolten, who believes that black gospel music is the bedrock of rock 'n' roll and other forms of popular American music, provides interviews with Hank Ballard, Otis Williams and other artists who worked with the Hummingbirds, as well as with members James Davis, Ira Tucker and Howard Carroll. Great God A'Mighty! The Dixie Hummingbirds, a book about the record industry and the African-American experience, and about one of the richest periods in the evolution of the American music industry, is for anyone interested in music as social history, musical impact and American cultural history. |