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Nutcracker Nation: How an Old World Ballet Became a Christmas Tradition in the New World
by Jennifer FisherThe Nutcracker is the most popular ballet in the world, adopted and adapted by hundreds by hundreds of communities across the United States and Canada every Christmas season. In this entertainingly informative book, Jennifer Fisher offers new insights into the Nutcracker phenomenon, examining it as a dance scholar and critic, a former participant, an observer of popular culture, and an interviewer of those who dance, present, and watch the beloved ballet. Fisher traces The Nutcracker's history from its St. Petersburg premiere in 1892 through its emigration to North America in the mid-twentieth century to the many productions of recent years. She notes that after it was choreographed by another Russian immigrant to the New World, George Balanchine, the ballet began to thrive and variegate: Hawaiians added hula, Canadians added hockey, Mark Morris set it in the swinging sixties, and Donald Byrd placed it in Harlem. The dance world underestimates The Nutcracker at its peril, Fisher suggests, because the ballet,is one of its most powerfully resonant traditions. After starting life as a Russian ballet based on a German tale about a little girl's imagination, The Nutcracker has become a way for Americans to tell a story about their communal values and themselves.
Nutrition for Dance and Performance
by Jasmine ChallisNutrition for Dance and Performance is the first complete textbook written by an experienced dietitian specialising in the field of dance nutrition. It seeks to provide both dancers-in-training and instructors with practical advice on dance nutrition for health and performance. It is also highly relevant for dance professionals. With an in-depth and extensive coverage on all nutrition topics relevant to dancers, this book covers nutrition for the scenarios dancers face, including day-to-day training and rehearsals, peak performance, injuries, immunonutrition, nutrition and stress management. Information is included on topics applicable to individual dancers including advice for dancers with Type 1 diabetes and clinical conditions relating to gut health. The book guides the reader through the macronutrients making up the diet, their chemical structure and their role in health and optimal performance. Readers are shown how to estimate energy and nutrient needs based on their schedule, type of dance undertaken and personal goals before considering the practical aspects of dance nutrition; from nutrition planning to dietary supplements, strategies for assessing the need to alter body composition and guidance on undertaking health-focused changes. Nutrition for Dance and Performance combines and condenses the author’s knowledge and many years of experience working in the dance industry to translate nutrition science into a practical guide. Bringing together the latest research in dance science and nutrition, this book aims to be a trusted reference and practical textbook for students of Dance, Dance Nutrition, Dance Performance, Sport Nutrition and Sport Science more generally as well as for those training in the dance industry, dance teachers and professionals. Jasmine Challis is a freelance Registered Nutritionist (UK Association for Nutrition) and Dietitian registered with the Health Care Professions Council, and is on the UK Sport and Exercise Nutrition Register (SENR) focusing on dance. She completed an MRes in Sport and Exercise Science in 2018. She is on the Dance Medicine and Science Expert Panel for One Dance UK and is on the board of The Bridge Dance Project. She has worked across the dance field for over 30 years giving talks, running workshops and providing 1:1 sessions for dancers and dance students.
Nutrition for Dance and Performance
by Jasmine ChallisNutrition for Dance and Performance is the first complete textbook written by an experienced dietitian specialising in the field of dance nutrition. It seeks to provide both dancers-in-training and instructors with practical advice on dance nutrition for health and performance. It is also highly relevant for dance professionals. With an in-depth and extensive coverage on all nutrition topics relevant to dancers, this book covers nutrition for the scenarios dancers face, including day-to-day training and rehearsals, peak performance, injuries, immunonutrition, nutrition and stress management. Information is included on topics applicable to individual dancers including advice for dancers with Type 1 diabetes and clinical conditions relating to gut health. The book guides the reader through the macronutrients making up the diet, their chemical structure and their role in health and optimal performance. Readers are shown how to estimate energy and nutrient needs based on their schedule, type of dance undertaken and personal goals before considering the practical aspects of dance nutrition; from nutrition planning to dietary supplements, strategies for assessing the need to alter body composition and guidance on undertaking health-focused changes. Nutrition for Dance and Performance combines and condenses the author’s knowledge and many years of experience working in the dance industry to translate nutrition science into a practical guide. Bringing together the latest research in dance science and nutrition, this book aims to be a trusted reference and practical textbook for students of Dance, Dance Nutrition, Dance Performance, Sport Nutrition and Sport Science more generally as well as for those training in the dance industry, dance teachers and professionals. Jasmine Challis is a freelance Registered Nutritionist (UK Association for Nutrition) and Dietitian registered with the Health Care Professions Council, and is on the UK Sport and Exercise Nutrition Register (SENR) focusing on dance. She completed an MRes in Sport and Exercise Science in 2018. She is on the Dance Medicine and Science Expert Panel for One Dance UK and is on the board of The Bridge Dance Project. She has worked across the dance field for over 30 years giving talks, running workshops and providing 1:1 sessions for dancers and dance students.
Nutrition for Dancers: Basics, Performance Enhancement, Practical Tips
by Liane Simmel Eva-Maria KraftDancers are top performance athletes on stage – to keep fit andhealthy proper nutrition is an integral part of an optimal dancetraining. Nutrition for Dancers provides the principles of nutritionfor dancers of all genres. Authors Liane Simmel and Eva-Maria Kraft clarify widespread nutritional mistakes and giveadvice on how a healthy diet can be incorporated into the everydaylife of dancers.
Nuts and Bolts Filmmaking: Practical Techniques for the Guerilla Filmmaker
by Dan RahmelNuts and Bolts Filmmaking, an ideal book for the rapidly growing number of low-budget filmmakers, provides how-to information on the day-to-day techniques of actual low-budget production. Containing construction details describing how to replicate expensive tools for under $30 a piece, this book provides quick and inexpensive remedies to both the most common and most difficult production challenges. Nuts and Bolts Filmmaking is an invaluable resource to anyone looking to make a film without a big budget.
Nuts & Bolts: Industrial Jewelry in the Steampunk Style
by Marthe Le VanThose with a taste for modern jewelry, including steampunk fashionistas, will treasure this how-to guide to designing striking ornaments. In keeping with steampunk's do-it-yourself spirit, this manual shows how to use tubes, rods, metal sheets, and other industrial items to create chic jewelry. Comprehensive instructions for 24 projects include lists of tools and parts as well as illustrated directions for assembly. In addition, a full-color gallery of items by professional jewelry artists offers a wealth of inspiration.Suitable for jewelry-makers at all levels of experience, the designs include Chain Link Earrings; an Orbit Cuff with coppery discs that appear to float; the Galaxy Necklace, featuring prepunched square metal shapes; and the City Lights Stick Pin, which juxtaposes tubes and guitar strings. Other creative and exciting jewelry designs include brooches, matching sets of necklaces and earrings, rings, and bracelets.
The Nutshell Technique: Crack the Secret of Successful Screenwriting
by Jill ChamberlainA veteran Hollywood script consultant unlocks the secrets of storytelling in this &“clever, fresh way of analyzing structure&” (Creative Screenwriting magazine). Veteran script consultant Jill Chamberlain knows that most first-time screenwriters don&’t understand how to tell a story. These writers may have snappy dialogue, interesting characters, and clever plot devices—but what they deliver isn&’t a story. It&’s a situation. In order to explain the difference, Chamberlain created the Nutshell Technique, a method whereby writers identify eight dynamic, interconnected elements that are required to successfully tell a story. In this book, Chamberlain uses easy-to-follow diagrams (&“nutshells&”) to explain how the Nutshell Technique can make or break a film script. She takes readers step-by-step through thirty classic and contemporary movies, showing how such dissimilar screenplays as Casablanca, Chinatown, Pulp Fiction, Little Miss Sunshine, Juno, and Argo all have the same system working behind the scenes. She then teaches readers how to apply these principles to their own screenwriting.
The Nutshell Technique: Crack the Secret of Successful Screenwriting
by Jill ChamberlainA veteran Hollywood script consultant unlocks the secrets of storytelling in this &“clever, fresh way of analyzing structure&” (Creative Screenwriting magazine). Veteran script consultant Jill Chamberlain knows that most first-time screenwriters don&’t understand how to tell a story. These writers may have snappy dialogue, interesting characters, and clever plot devices—but what they deliver isn&’t a story. It&’s a situation. In order to explain the difference, Chamberlain created the Nutshell Technique, a method whereby writers identify eight dynamic, interconnected elements that are required to successfully tell a story. In this book, Chamberlain uses easy-to-follow diagrams (&“nutshells&”) to explain how the Nutshell Technique can make or break a film script. She takes readers step-by-step through thirty classic and contemporary movies, showing how such dissimilar screenplays as Casablanca, Chinatown, Pulp Fiction, Little Miss Sunshine, Juno, and Argo all have the same system working behind the scenes. She then teaches readers how to apply these principles to their own screenwriting.
Nuyorican and Diasporican Visual Art: A Critical Anthology
by Arlene Dávila and Yasmin Ramirez with Néstor David Pastor, Gabriel Magraner, and Nikki MyersAlthough Puerto Rican artists have always been central figures in contemporary American and international art worlds, they have largely gone unrecognized and been excluded from art history canons. Nuyorican and Diasporican Visual Art provides a critical survey of Puerto Rican art production in the United States from the 1960s to the present. The contributors assert the importance and contemporaneity of the Nuyorican art movement by tracing its emergence alongside other American vanguardist movements, highlighting its innovations, and exploring it as an expression of Puerto Rican culture beyond New York to include cities such as Chicago, Philadelphia, and Orlando. They also foreground the contributions and radical aesthetics of female, Black, and queer Puerto Rican artists. Following the expansion and decentralization of the Puerto Rican diaspora and its artistic output, this volume is a call to action for scholars, curators, and artists to address the historical inequalities that have marginalized Diasporican artists and reassess the presence of Puerto Rican artists.With: Néstor David Pastor, Gabriel Magraner, and Nikki MyersContributors. Joseph Anthony Cáceres, Taína Caragol, Arnaldo M. Cruz-Malavé, Deborah Cullen-Morales, Arlene Dávila, Kerry Doran, Elizabeth Ferrer, Yomaira C. Figueroa-Vásquez, Al Hoyos-Twomey, Teréz Iacovino, Johnny Irizarry, Johana Londoño, Urayoán Noel, Néstor David Pastor, Yasmin Ramirez, Melissa M. Ramos Borges, Raquel Reichard, Rojo Robles, Abdiel D. Segarra Ríos, Wilson Valentín-Escobar
Nuyorican Feminist Performance: From the Café to Hip Hop Theater
by Patricia HerreraThe Nuyorican Poets Café has for the past forty years provided a space for multicultural artistic expression and a platform for the articulation of Puerto Rican and black cultural politics. The Café’s performances—poetry, music, hip hop, comedy, and drama—have been studied in detail, but until now, little attention has been paid to the voices of its women artists. Through archival research and interview, Nuyorican Feminist Performance examines the contributions of 1970s and ’80s performeras and how they challenged the Café’s gender politics. It also looks at recent artists who have built on that foundation with hip hop performances that speak to contemporary audiences. The book spotlights the work of foundational artists such as Sandra María Esteves, Martita Morales, Luz Rodríguez, and Amina Muñoz, before turning to contemporary artists La Bruja, Mariposa, Aya de León, and Nilaja Sun, who infuse their poetry and solo pieces with both Nuyorican and hip hop aesthetics.
The Nyonya Kebaya
by Datin SeriThis longtime Malaysian fashion icon was originally a long, straight, Arab-inspired top of plain woven cotton. <P><P>The Nyonyas, the women of the early Peranakan community, gradually transformed it into a shapely, embroidered, translucent blouse, fastened with a set of chained brooches and worn with a matching hand-drawn batik sarong.Sheer, romantic, alluring, yet sedate, the designs of Nyonya kebaya crosses several generations and cultures.This book showcases the collection of Datin Seri Endon Mahmood, wife of the Prime Minister of Malaysia.
Nyx in the House of Night: Mythology, Folklore and Religion in the PC and Kristin Cast Vampyre Series
by Kristin Cast Jordan DaneThe House of Night is no ordinary school—and not just because it's for vampyres. It's a place where magic, religion, folklore, and mythology from multiple traditions merry meet and meld to create something incredible and new. In Nyx in the House of Night—a 2-color illustrated companion to the House of Night series—some of your favorite YA authors, plus a few experts, help you navigate the influences behind the House of Night series in a guide that would get even Damien's seal of approval. Travel with P.C. Cast as she gets her first tattoo in Ireland, climbs the ruins of Sgiach's castle, and discovers the lore that led to the Isle of Skye vampyres. Read Kristin Cast's defense of women in history and mythology who, like Zoey, have made a practice of juggling multiple men. Sit in on a vampyre lecture by Bryan Lankford, the real-life basis for House of Night instructor Dragon Lankford, on the parallels between Wiccan and vampyre circle rituals. Tour Tulsa's House of Night landmarks with local Amy H. Sturgis. Plus: Karen Mahoney on Nyx and other goddesses of the night John Edgar Browning on vampires in folklore, fiction, and reality Jana Oliver on tattoos and other Marks Ellen Steiber on feline familiars Yasmine Galenorn on priestesses and goddess worship Jordon Dane on Zoey's Cherokee heritage Jeri Smith-Ready on the Raven Mockers and Kalona's less than heavenly inspiration Christine Zika on the connection between Nyx and the Virgin Mary Triniy Faegen on the Greek version of the Otherworld Nyx in the House of Night also includes an appendix of character names that reveals the myth behind Zoey's last name, which House of Night cats have ties to Camelot, Egypt, and Middle-earth, and more!
O Abismo de Camille
by Ana Claudia Antunes Enrique Laso"O Abismo de Camille" é um diário. Através das palavras, cheias de culpa, de Edouard Faret, diretor do centro psiquiátrico de Montdevergues, iremos abordar a vida de Camille Claudel, uma mulher excepcional. Camille foi uma escultora incomparável e amante de Rodin, que procurou em um mundo de homens (no final do século XIX) fazer um nome, fama e prestígio que seu trabalho merecia. Ela não teve êxito. Em 1913, após a morte de seu pai que tanto a amava, ela foi internada à força em um hospício por sua própria família. Permaneceu ali por trinta anos, durante os quais ficou presa contra a sua vontade, até sua morte, embora os médicos e alguns parentes sabiam perfeitamente bem que ela não estava louca. "O Abismo de Camille" narra de uma forma poética esta terrível tragédia de uma mulher sem igual, uma artista brilhante que teve uma existência marcada pelo destino. Pela primeira vez um autor discorre sobre os anos de internamento de Camille, uma época um tanto sombria e anteriormente revista somente com alguma profundidade. É a mais profunda e relevante novela que Enrique Laso gerou até o momento. Nela conseguiu transmitir e transmutar sua admiração por Camille, enquanto vem da sua ira em um mundo que por inúmeras vezes se mostra injusto. Um mundo em que os miseráveis podem acabar ganhando...
O Controle De Pragas Na Jardinagem Orgânica
by Amber Richards Janaina De Oliveira RibeiroO uso de produtos químicos venenosos no jardim, especialmente quando está cultivando frutas, ervas e vegetais é uma preocupação para você? Pois deveria ser, uma vez que esses produtos podem provocar risco à saúde da sua família, animais de estimação e para o ambiente. Porém, existe um problema. Como você protegerá o jardim das diversas pragas e doenças que podem destruí-lo? O Controle de Pragas na Jardinagem Orgânica é um e-book para jardineiros (especialmente útil para os iniciantes), que oferece métodos práticos, e às vezes surpreendentes para lidar com esses problemas de maneira natural. Os alimentos orgânicos cultivados por você são mais saudáveis, mais frescos e deliciosos do que os concorrentes, que são tratados com produtos químicos. O cultivo orgânico também promove um ambiente mais saudável para todos. Cultivar o seu próprio alimento orgânico pode reduzir os gastos com comida, além de ser uma alternativa de lazer prazerosa. Mesmo que você não tenha o espaço, ou tempo para uma horta completa, canteiros suspensos e containers são alternativas ótimas. Para seguir o cultivo orgânico, você precisará da informação desse livro, a fim de conseguir os melhores resultados e, para obter uma colheita robusta e saudável. Faça o download da sua cópia agora.
O Estilo De Vida Minimalista - Simplifique, Organize E Descomplique A Sua Vida
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O Falsificador de Vermeers
by Lázaro DroznesA incrível história de Hans Van Meegeren, o pintor holandês que produziu Vermeer melhores que os originais, conseguiu enganar toda a comunidade artística, inclusive a Herman Goering, mas que posteriormente teve que confessar suas falsificações para escapar da pena de morte.
O Glorious City: A Love Letter to San Francisco
by Jeremy FishO Glorious City is an exuberant love letter to San Francisco from Jeremy Fish, a beloved artist who enjoys a massive fan base for his edgy artwork. When Fish was invited to create 100 new works of art in honor of City Hall's 100th birthday, he moved his studio into a City Hall office to become the city's first-ever artist in residence. This celebratory book gathers all 100 pieces of artwork—each rendered in his signature whimsical style—featuring everything from the city's famous architecture and treasured local landmarks to portraits of colorful local residents in a gallery of "unofficial mayors." Together these images form an energetic, visual tour de force showcasing San Francisco's vivacious spirit and vibrant history.
O Let Us Howle Some Heavy Note: Music for Witches, the Melancholic, and the Mad on the Seventeenth-Century English Stage
by Amanda Eubanks WinklerIn the 17th century, harmonious sounds were thought to represent the well-ordered body of the obedient subject, and, by extension, the well-ordered state; conversely, discordant, unpleasant music represented both those who caused disorder (murderers, drunkards, witches, traitors) and those who suffered from bodily disorders (melancholics, madmen, and madwomen). While these theoretical correspondences seem straightforward, in theatrical practice the musical portrayals of disorderly characters were multivalent and often ambiguous.O Let Us Howle Some Heavy Note focuses on the various ways that theatrical music represented disorderly subjects--those who presented either a direct or metaphorical threat to the health of the English kingdom in 17th-century England. Using theater music to examine narratives of social history, Winkler demonstrates how music reinscribed and often resisted conservative, political, religious, gender, and social ideologies.
O melhor que a lua possa dar: Romance sobre a Bíblia
by Elena ChernikovaEste romance tragicómico de Elena Chernikova baseia-se nos eventos verídicos ocorridos na Rússia pós-soviética. A 18 de Fevereiro de 2006, numa conferência de imprensa realizada em Moscovo, um ministro bem-intencionado tinha declarado que todas as ciências provaram finalmente a veracidade da Bíblia relativamente à origem do Homem, apresentando um relatório interdisciplinar e avisando que «chegou a hora de reescrever todos os livros didácticos de Biologia, inserindo na educação um componente religioso». Esta declaração do ministro transtornou imediatamente a vida pessoal e familiar dos cidadãos, causando um apocalipse.
O. N. Pruitt's Possum Town: Photographing Trouble and Resilience in the American South (Documentary Arts and Culture, Published in association with the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University)
by Berkley HudsonPhotographer O. N. Pruitt (1891–1967) was for some forty years the de facto documentarian of Lowndes County, Mississippi, and its county seat, Columbus--known to locals as "Possum Town." His body of work recalls many FSA photographers, but Pruitt was not an outsider with an agenda; he was a community member with intimate knowledge of the town and its residents. He photographed his fellow white citizens and Black ones as well, in circumstances ranging from the mundane to the horrific: family picnics, parades, river baptisms, carnivals, fires, funerals, two of Mississippi's last public and legal executions by hanging, and a lynching. From formal portraits to candid images of events in the moment, Pruitt's documentary of a specific yet representative southern town offers viewers today an invitation to meditate on the interrelations of photography, community, race, and historical memory. Columbus native Berkley Hudson was photographed by Pruitt, and for more than three decades he has considered and curated Pruitt's expansive archive, both as a scholar of media and visual journalism and as a community member. This stunning book presents Pruitt's photography as never before, combining more than 190 images with a biographical introduction and Hudson's short essays and reflective captions on subjects such as religion, ethnic identity, the ordinary graces of everyday life, and the exercise of brutal power.
O Óscar da Felicidade
by Elena Chernikova Nonna PintoEste relato autobiográfico tem valor documental porque nele a autora não se limita relatar somente a história da sua própria vida, mas apresenta um testemunho do tempo e do espaço em que ocorreram as suas vivências. Nascida em 30 de Abril de 1960 em Voronej, na Rússia Soviética, Eléna Tchérnikova publicou o seu primeiro poema aos 15 anos. Ao entrar na Faculdade de Letras com dezassete, aprendeu que «existem editores, ideologia, dificuldades sociais, familiares, situacionais» e, por isso, quando terminou, escolheu a arte jornalística para se esconder «em jornais e rádio, e por muito tempo». Esperou quase até reforma pelo o momento em «que proibissem a luta de classes, qualquer ideologia, censura e redactores, para que pudesse escrever prosa.» (A presente edição não segue a grafia do novo Acordo Ortográfico.)
O Roteiro de Durões da Luta na Escola Secundária Killimore
by Joe RasselorAgora, o clássico e-book de wrestling, Wrestling Thugs of Killimore High School, foi escrito como roteiro. Possui muitas linhas opcionais e terminações alternativas. Leia, aja e lute por sua conta e risco.
O salão dos artistas exilados na Califórnia: Salka Viertel acolheu no exílio atores e intelectuais proeminentes fugidos do nazismo
by Núria AñóSalka Viertel acolheu em seu exílio atores, intelectuais proeminentes e pessoas anônimas fugidas do nazismo. Biografia sobre a figura de Salka Viertel, uma atriz judia que emigrou para Hollywood e ficou popularmente conhecida como a roteirista da atriz Greta Garbo. Além disso, tinha um salão em Santa Mônica, Califórnia, ao qual ia grande parte da intelectualidade europeia no exílio. Salka foi uma mulher muito moderna e interessante para a época e que deve ser conhecida como merece. No libro aparecem temas como a suposta bissexualidade de Salka Viertel e a quantidade de reconhecido amigos que teve, citando apenas alguns: Albert Einstein, Charles Chaplin, Sergei Eisenstein, F. W. Murnau, Max Reinhardt, Arnold Schönberg, Thomas Mann, Bertolt Brecht, Greta Garbo, Montgomery Clift… Da mesma forma como Gertrude Stein e outras mulheres notórias, ela teve seu próprio salão literário pelo qual passaram escritores como Truman Capote, Christopher Isherwood, Gore Vidal e um longo etecetera. Outros temas que engloba são: a Berlim dos anos 20, a passagem do cinema mudo ao falado, visto a partir da Meca de Hollywood. Logo, a ascensão de Hitler e o que isso acarretou para a condição judia, devido à Segunda Guerra Mundial. Mais adiante a Guerra Fria e a caça às bruxas contra o comunismo. O certo é que a motivação da vida de Salka Viertel e do seu círculo de amigos engloba os grandes acontecimentos do século XX. Com tal projeto, a autora recebeu as bolsas de Shanghai Writing Program (China, 2016) e Baltic Centre (Suécia, 2017). “Um relato muito interessante e ainda penso nesses tempos como atuais, já que aos meus olhos, não avançamos muito na questão da aceitação dos “sentimentos interpessoais” em geral. Um grande livro, extremamente importante sobre a Hollywood dos anos trinta e quarenta e a influência de artistas de países eur
O Solo Homo: The New Queer Performance
by Holly Hughes David Román“Fresh, funny, sad, and sexy . . . [A] diverse collection of good, honest, and soundly structured monologue writing” (David Drake, Obie Award–winning actor and playwright). O Solo Homo is a diverse, definitive, and hugely entertaining collection representing the cutting edge of queer solo performance. The pieces in O Solo Homo touch nerves that run deep—from sex, politics, community, and health to the struggles and joys of family, friends, and lovers. Peggy Shaw, of Split Britches, revisits how she learned to be butch. The late Ron Vawter, of the Wooster Group, juxtaposes the lives of two very different men who died of AIDS: diva filmmaker Jack Smith and Nixon crony Roy Cohn. Tim Miller, one of the NEA 4, surveys the landscape of gay desire before and after the advent of AIDS. And Carmelita Tropicana, the “national songbird of Cuba,” makes an unforgettable, hilarious return to Havana. “A funny, personal, powerful primer of identity, performance and politics. O Solo Homo is a must read.” —Paula Vogel, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of How I Learned to Drive “Naked passion, fiery intellect and dissatisfaction with the status quo mark all good performance art. This collection embodies those elements at their best. Each piece makes you sit up and listen.” —Jewelle Gomez, author of The Gilda Stories “O Solo Homo represents the most significant and vibrant cross-section of queer solo performance since the gospels. A must-have field guide for the amateur and professional alike. Ten thumbs up!” —The Five Lesbian Brothers
Oak Cliff (Images of Modern America)
by Mary Elliott Skinner Leigh Gettman-AllenThe community of Oak Cliff is one of progress and transformation, experiencing a "rebirth" over the last few decades. Covering approximately one fourth of Dallas County, Oak Cliff has become one of the most ethnically diverse and culturally opulent neighborhoods in the state of Texas. From the events surrounding the death of Pres. John F. Kennedy to the demographic shifts over the last 40 to 50 years, Oak Cliff has become a symbol of inimitability, re-establishing its image as one of the most desirable neighborhoods in the United States.