Chiefs and Challengers: Indian Resistance and Cooperation in Southern California

Phillips, George Harwood

History

Univ. Of California Pr.

The final book in a three-volume history of California’s Native peoples, “Bringing Them under Subjection” chronicles the development and demise of the state’s first permanent reservation, the Sebastian Military Reserve, better known as the Tejón Reservation. George Harwood Phillips explains how local Native peoples were instrumental in the initial success of the reservation and how the institution was undermined by squatters and a Native policy emphasizing caution over innovation. Because the scope of the study encompasses most of the San Joaquin Valley in central California, events related to but unfolding beyond the reservation are also given considerable attention, in particular the founding and functioning of quasi reservations called “Indian farms,” the resistance offered by Native peoples in the southern valley, the degradation they underwent in the gold fields, and the survival of their progeny to the present. 
Drawing upon Native oral testimony and the accounts of state and federal officials, military officers, newspaper reporters, settlers, miners, and ranchers, Phillips provides a detailed and balanced account of a volatile period in California history.

"Bringing Them under Subjection": California's Tejón Indian Reservation and Beyond, 1852-1864

Americas

University Of Nebraska Press

Assigning Indians their rightful place in the history of California before the Gold Rush, Phillips portrays these people not as passive refugees plying the margins of the Spanish mission system but as active members of independent, evolving societies. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Indians and Intruders in Central California, 1769-1849 (Civilization of the American Indian Series)

Univ of Oklahoma Pr

Describing the Indians of California as full participants in the events shaping their destiny in the wake of the 1849 gold rush, Phillips (history, U. of Colorado-Boulder) narrates how they negotiated large portions in the interior of the state as reservations in turn for letting the miners dig unimpeded. He also challenges the claim that the reservations failed, documenting how they functioned perfectly well for two years until the state of California succeeded in getting the treaties rejected as usurping states' rights. This is the second in his three-volume series chronicling relations between natives and intruders in California. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Indians and Indian Agents: The Origins of the Reservation System in California, 1849-1852

When his friend George Gershwin persuaded Vladimir Dukelsky to change his name to Vernon Duke, what the music world already knew became apparent to the public at large—the man had two musical personas—one as a composer, the other as a tunesmith. One wrote highbrow music, the other lowbrow. Yet the two sides complemented each other. Neither could function without the other. Born and classically trained in imperial Russia, Vladimir Dukelsky (1903–1969) fled the Bolshevik Revolution with his family, discovered American popular music in cosmopolitan Constantinople, and pursued his budding interest to New York before his passion for classical music drew him to Paris, where the impresario Serge Diaghilev hired him to compose a ballet for the Ballets Russes. Taking a Chance on Love immerses us in Duke’s dizzying globe-hopping and genre-swapping, as financial concerns and musical passions drive him from composing symphonies to writing songs, from brilliant successes to Broadway flops, and from performing with classical performers to writing books and articles. Throughout, as he crisscrosses the landscape of American music, collaborating with lyricists such as Howard Dietz, Ira Gershwin, and Sammy Cohn, the incomparable Vernon Duke emerges clearly from these pages: sometimes charming, sometimes infuriating, always entertaining. Although Vernon Duke has entered the canon of American standards with such songs as “Taking a Chance on Love,” “I Can’t Get Started,” and “April in Paris,” little is known about the composer with two personas. Taking a Chance on Love brings the intriguing double life of Dukelsky/Duke back into the spotlight, restoring a chapter to the history of the Great American Songbook and to the story of twentieth-century music.

Taking a Chance on Love: The Life and Music of Vernon Duke (Volume 5) (American Popular Music Series)

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

University of Oklahoma Press

Indian labor was vital to the early economic development of the Los Angeles region. This first volume in the new series Before Gold: California under Spain and Mexico explores for the first time Native contributions to early Southern California.
Opening with a survey of the economic dimension of traditional southern California Indian cultures, Phillips then examines the origins and collapse of the missions, the emergence and expansion of the pueblo of Los Angeles, and the creation and decline of the ranchos. He closely considers the Indians’ incorporation into these foreign-imposed institutions and the resulting impact on the region’s economy and society. While concentrating on the Tongvas (Gabrielinos), Phillips also considers Indians who entered the region from the south.
Based on exhaustive research, Phillips’s account focuses on California Indians more as workers than as victims. He describes the work they performed and how their relations evolved with the missionaries, settlers, and rancheros who employed them. Phillips emphasizes the importance of Indian labor in shaping the economic history of what is now Los Angeles, Orange, and Riverside counties.
Featuring more than two-dozen illustrations and maps, Vineyards and Vaqueros demonstrates that no history of the region is complete without a consideration of the Indian contribution.

Vineyards and Vaqueros: Indian Labor and the Economic Expansion of Southern California, 1771–1877 (Volume 1) (Before Gold: California under Spain and Mexico Series)

Business & Money

Economics

The Arthur H. Clark Company

This book applies the specific to explain the general. It takes one song, written in the mid 1930s, and uses it to address larger issues regarding popular music in the twentieth century. The song— ”I Can’t Get Started With You”—is discussed in considerable detail, but so is jazz and its connection with the musical theater, the early lives and collaborations of the song’s creators, the nature of lyric writing, the structure of the popular song, the legacy of George Gershwin, the musicians who performed and recorded “I Can’t Get Started” (its common title), and the later lives, independent musical contributions, and legacies of Vernon Duke and Ira Gershwin.

The Tunesmith & The Lyricist: Vernon Duke, Ira Gershwin and the Making of a Standard

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Coyote Hill Press

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