USA: Oxmoor Press, a subsidiary of The Progressive Farmer Company, Birmingham, Alabama
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D10009
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Copy also located in the James F. Evans Collection, 114 pages., An edited collection written to "build something of the spirit that has always pervaded the lives of rural people." Features brief stories, poems, and commentaries. Sections include love of the land, joys of country living, the farmer and his family, creeds for farm living, the soil and growing things, cotton, animal friends, the business of farming, and the lighter side.
USA: American Agricultural Editors' Association (AAEA).
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 47 Document Number: D10711
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69 pages., Claude W. Gifford Collection. Beyond his materials in the ACDC collection, the Claude W. Gifford Papers, 1919-2004 are deposited in the University of Illinois Archives. Serial Number 8/3/81. Locate finding aid at https://archives.library.illinois.edu/archon/, Features award-winning article and photos in this national recognition program.
Posted at http://www.agrimarketingdigital.com/?iid=9297, Pages 33-35 in 2008 Agribusiness Employer Guide, a special supplement of Agri Marketing magazine. One featured career involves an agricultural communicator who works with an advertising agency. Another involves an agricultural cartoonist.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Surveys the origins of rock 'n' roll from the minstrel era to the emergence of Bill Haley and Elvis Presley. Dispelling common misconceptions, this book examines rock's origins in hokum songs and big-band boogies as well as Delta blues, detailing the embrace by white artists of African-American styles long before rock 'n' roll appeared. This study ranges far and wide, highlighting not only the contributions of obscure but key precursors like Hardrock Gunter and Sam Theard but also the influence of celebrity performers like Gene Autry and Ella Fitzgerald. Too often, rock historians treat the genesis of rock 'n' roll as a bolt from the blue, an overnight revolution provoked by the bland pop music that immediately preceded it and created through the white appropriation of music until then played only by and for black audiences. Here, Birnbaum argues a more complicated history of rock's evolution from a heady mix of ragtime, boogie-woogie, swing, country music, mainstream pop, and R&B—a melange of genres that influenced one another along the way, from the absorption of blues and boogies into jazz and pop to the integration of country and Caribbean music into R&B.
[By the way [Anthony Morgan], in another University publication you're quoted as saying: "I think the bigger issue is how little we know about the history and historical contributions of Jamaicans." Well, the issue is way bigger than Jamaica; it's a "race" issue, targeting and ridiculing Black people, all of whom are people of African descent, sons and daughters of slaves.] So those students, froshers, "...were just having fun," eh? There was "nò mal-intent?" according to director [Michel Patry]. Surely they could've found another and more interesting and humanly innocuous way to have (even more) fun. The blackface skit is a sad cliché, it's passé, plus it's not funny. Except for [White] people as they seek ways to fulfill their final stage of life: their pursuit of happiness, by any means. It serves us right; it's the 'house divided' maxim. We are fractured from pulling in so many directions. We lack cohesion and the essential elements that hold people together to secure a strong !foundation. We've long cut the ties that bind, so it's very easy for people to have their way with us.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 184 Document Number: D00317
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John Harvey Collection, 45 pages., Author's illustrated stories describing adventures of/with Charley, "one of the finest bulls to ever pass through a sales ring. Sometimes it seems as though it was a dream. Do we own Charley, or does Charley own us?"
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C29918
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223 pages., One of the featured campaigns (Chapter 13) involves the creation of Phileas Fogg to help establish a brand by British snack food marketer, Derwent Valley Foods.
Includes an anecdote about USDA information officer John Baker's response to U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy after receiving a letter questioning some of the statements Baker was assumed to have made, as supposed evidence he was sympathetic to Communism. Another anecdote involves food served in a USDA buffet.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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212 p., Examines writers, such as Louise Bennett, Aimé Césaire, Junot Díaz, Zora Neale Hurston, Derek Walcott, and Anthony Winkler, who engage humor to challenge representations of people of African descent within canonical Western texts and forms.
27 pages, via online journal, This study explored whether satire (an emotional blend of humor/indignation) can minimize the emotional tradeoffs researchers have documented for humorous appeals about climate change. Using a sample of U.S. young adults, we conducted a 2 (humor: present/absent) × 2 (indignation: present/absent) + 1 (control) experiment in which we manipulated a climate change segment from Jimmy Kimmel Live! Our evidence suggests that it is possible for a late-night host to affect young adults’ climate change risk perception and behavioral intentions under certain conditions. Moderation analyses indicated that avoiding humor helped close the partisan gap in risk perception between Republicans and Democrats.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C27737
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255 pages., Focuses on a popular radio comedy series that was broadcast from 1931 until 1954. "The show is a rare example of a lasting national network program on rural themes."
Online via keyword search of UI Library eCatalog., Sampling of Twain's writing style in his reporting for the Sacramento Daily Union newspaper in covering horse races, the livestock show, attractions, incidents, and other activities at the California state fair in 1866.
Australia: University of Western Australia Press, Crawley.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C25274
Notes:
James F. Evans Collection, Insights about life, conditions, people and perspectives in rural Australia, as reflected in selected sayings from essays, poems, Bush songs, novels, books, advertisements, rural residents and other sources. Photographs by Richard Woldendorp, widely acclaimed for his landscape photographs.
Priddy, Veronica (author), Alison, Kathy (author), and Hively, Peg (author)
Format:
Manuscript
Publication Date:
1980s
Published:
USA: International Training Division, Office of International Cooperation and Development, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 156 Document Number: D07282
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Paul Hixson Collection., Unpublished mimeograph. 2 pages., Guidelines for teaching courses in ways that build group cohesion among culturally diverse groups.
