USA:Lyric Culture

Smack: The Album, Vol. 1
$12.99
i got this for my son the begining of feb & he watches it everyday, he loves it!

In the Mood: 17 Choral Arrangements of Classic Popular Songs (Lighter Choral Repertoire)
$19.95
In the Mood is an anthology of choral arrangements of seventeen classic popular songs by such great names as Fats Waller, George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Jerome Kern, and Richard Rodgers. All the pieces are expertly arranged by the editors to suit the needs of amateur SATB groups--school choirs, youth choirs, or chamber choirs of any description--looking for lighter popular repertoire. There is a mixture of accompanied and unaccompanied numbers in a variety of styles: smoky blues, up-tempo scat, sentimental swing, exuberant Dixieland, sophisticated close-harmony, and a couple of opulent show-stoppers like "Somewhere over the Rainbow."

Hoodz: Street Armageddon
$16.98
To the Hoodz, from the Hoodz, by the Hoodz. Street politics live raw and uncut from the hoodz of Atlanta, Boston, New York, Philadelphia, new Jersey, Birmingham, Houston, Chicagho and more. Includes a bonus CD.

The Regenerate Lyric: Theology and Innovation in American Poetry (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture)
$36.99
In her book The Regenerate Lyric, Elisa New presents a major revision of the accepted historical account of Emerson as the source of the American poetic tradition. New challenges the majority opinion that Emerson not only overthrew New England religious orthodoxy but founded a poetic tradition that fundamentally renounced that orthodoxy in favor of a secular, Romantic approach. She contends that Emerson's reinvention of the religion as a species of poetry is tested and found wanting by the very poetic innovators whom Emerson addressed and that a counter-tradition is evident in his major heirs--Whitman, Dickinson, Crane, Stevens, Frost, and Lowell. Indeed, Emerson's own poetry failed in many ways to live up to his views and instead revealed an inherent paradox: that coopting of religion by a poetic theory alienates religion from its life principle--theology--and disables the poem as well.