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  • “‘The Future is the Past’: Music and History in Firefly,” Space and Time: Essays on Visions of History in Science Fiction and Fantasy,

    Author(s):
    Kendra Leonard (see profile)
    Date:
    2010
    Subject(s):
    American history, Music, Television
    Item Type:
    Book chapter
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M69X20
    Abstract:
    Analysis of American folk music in the television series Firefly.
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    Publisher:
    McFarland Press
    Pub. Date:
    2010
    Book Title:
    Space and Time: Essays on Visions of History in Science Fiction and Fantasy,
    Author/Editor:
    David C. Wright and Allen W. Austin
    Status:
    Published
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    3 months ago
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