Publication date: 1990-05-31
Dewey code: 428.6
Review The Elvis Mystery (Edward Arnold Readers Library) / Nelson ELT:This book is part of a series of EFL readers which can be used for classroom reading or for students to read in their own time. The emphasis is on fiction, but it also includes non-fiction and biographical subjects. It makes cultural, idiomatic and unusual references accessible to the reader.
Publication date: 2003-04
Dewey code: 809
List Price: $265.00
Price: $255.99
Review Nineteenth Century Literature Criticism / Gacl:
Edition: Deluxe
Publication date: 2004-08-30
Dewey code: 790
List Price: $250.00
Price: $182.50
Review The Kid Stays in the Picture / New Millennium:A candid no-holds-barred autobiography by a former Hollywood studio chief, ex-husband of Ali McGraw, and friend to Nicholson and Kissinger, chronicles his rise and fall, naming names and telling outrageous tales and infamous anecdotes. 75,000 first printing. First serial, Premiere & New York.
Publication date: 1992-02-28
Dewey code: 016.786208996073
Price: $46.95
Review Piano Music by Black Women Composers: A Catalog of Solo and Ensemble Works (Music Reference Collection) / Greenwood Press:In recent years, considerable scholarly attention has been paid to women in music, and information on the music of a handful of black women composers, such as Florence Price and Mary Lou Williams, has been published. Determined search, however, is needed to locate what little data is available on most such composers. Proceeding from a desire to use music of black women composers in her piano performance and teaching, Helen Walker-Hill has dedicated herself to uncovering this material, utilizing secondary sources and numerous archives, conducting interviews with composers, and engaging in voluminous correspondence with individuals and institutions. The result is the most comprehensive catalog of music composed by African American women to date. The depth of detail required limiting the scope to solo and ensemble piano music. However, an introductory overview on the contributions of black women in music and biographical sketches on the fifty-four composers profiled in the catalog contain broader information. Over 300 piano works are listed, with detailed descriptive information on close to 200 works the author was able to obtain and study, including sources and levels of difficulty. Appendixes list available published music, ensemble instrumentation, music for teaching, and music published before 1920. A selected bibliography and a selected discography are also provided. This biographical dictionary and descriptive catalog will be most directly useful to performers and teachers, but the breadth of information makes it valuable for research in music history, African American studies, and women's studies.
Creator: G. Ross Roy
Edition: 2
Publication date: 1986-01-16
Dewey code: 821.6
List Price: $293.00
Price: $185.87
Review The Letters of Robert Burns: Volume I: 1780-1789 / Oxford University Press, USA:The Letters of Robert Burns is a complete revision of the earlier text established by J. De Lancey Ferguson. A number of new letters have been added and completed from manuscripts that have come to light since the Ferguson edition-there are letters to twenty-five new correspondents-and footnotes have been expanded to indicate the source of all Burns's quotations where these can be identified. The endnotes have been expanded to indicate letters to which Burns's are answers as well as answers received by Burns to the letters he sent. An appendix contains Currie's List of Letters to Burns, a document of major importance as it represents a selection of letters that were in the poet's possession at the time of his death.
Authors
- Nathaniel E. Reich
- Nathaniel E., M.D. Reich
Publication date: 1999-02
Dewey code: 809
Price: $10.95
Review The Facts of Life: A Collection of Essays / Vantage Pr:
Publication date: 1993-09
Dewey code: 791.430233092
Price: $68.50
Review The Cinema of Eisenstein / Harvard University Press:The Cinema of Eisenstein is David Bordwell's comprehensive analysis of the films of Sergei Eisenstein, arguably the key figure in the entire history of film. The director of such classics as Potemkin, Ivan the Terrible, October, Strike, and Alexander Nevsky, Eisenstein theorized montage, presented Soviet realism to the world, and mastered the concept of film epic. Discussing each film in illuminating detail, David Bordwell points out the traces of various artistic currents of the times, from Marxist modernism to Socialist Realism to Symbolist poetics, as well as the changing influence of Soviet politics. He guides us through Eisenstein's theoretical writings, including major texts that have only recently appeared in English. With close attention to the texture of the filmmaker's thought and work, Bordwell uncovers new depths of artistry and surprising new implications for the theory and history of cinema. Comprehensive, authoritative, and illustrated with more than three hundred stills, The Cinema of Eisenstein deserves to be on the shelf of every serious student of film. Sergei Eisenstein is arguably the most important single figure in the history of movies. He was certainly the most versatile. The director of the masterpieces Battleship Potemkin and Alexander Nevsky, Eisenstein also wrote ground-breaking essays on film art and taught classes on motion picture production. In this thoughtful, clear, and beautifully organized book, David Bordwell describes Eisenstein's development as a filmmaker, essayist, and teacher, demonstrating how each of his occupations comments upon and elucidates the other. [+]Playing the role of Eisenstein's biographer, historian, interpreter, and critic, Bordwell has composed one of the clearest and most complete views available of this difficult but exciting genius.
Publication date: 1989-06-26
Dewey code: 780.92
Price: $72.95
Review Ned Rorem: A Bio-Bibliography (Bio-Bibliographies in Music) / Greenwood Press:As a composer and as an author, Ned Rorem occupies a position of considerable influence and importance in American music. His numerous musical works are performed frequently, and his critical writings offer unmatched insights into contemporary music. This bibliography will serve as an important resource for those seeking more information about this distinguished American composer and his works. The book is divided into four sections: a brief biography, a complete list of works and performances, a discography of commercially produced sound recordings, and a bibliography of writings by and about Ned Rorem. The list of works and performances includes Rorem's plays and books, works in preparation, and his musical compositions. The latter are classified by genre and arranged alphabetically within each category. Each entry provides as much information as possible about the date of composition and publication, publisher, duration, medium of performance, literary source, commission, dedication, and dates of the premiere and subsequent performances. A directory of publishers and their addresses is also provided. Citations in the discography are arranged by label and number and include contents, performers, date of issue, and album title. The bibliographical section includes annotations or brief quotations from the cited item. [+]Three appendixes complete the work. The first provides an alphabetical listing of Rorem's compositions, including individual songs in cycles, distinctive subtitles, working titles, and titles of unpublished works. Appendix II is a chronological list of compositions and Appendix III provides a list of the literary sources for Rorem's works. This unique reference tool belongs in all music reference collections.
Creator: Terry Comito
Publication date: 1985-07
Dewey code: 791.4372
Price: $35.00
Review Touch of Evil/Orson Welles, Director (Rutgers Films in Print) / Rutgers Univ Pr:This book about "Touch of Evil" includes the continuity script, a biography of Orson Welles, an interview with Welles by Andre Bazih, an interview with Charlton Heston, excerpts from several critical essays, major reviews, a filmography and a bibliography.
Authors
- Jay F. Brakefield
- Alan B. Govenar
Publication date: 1998-11
Dewey code: 781.64097642812
Price: $29.95
Review Deep Ellum and Central Track: Where the Black and White Worlds of Dallas Converged / University of North Texas Press:Local histories are of far more than regional significance, particularly when the data relate to larger scenes, as is true in this study of Dallas's early-20th-century Jewish and Black ghettos-Deep Ellum and Central Track. The two groups had migrated to Dallas, individually expecting the traditions of segregation, a situation that brought about some degree of alliance. Sociological concerns do play a part in Govenar's coverage (including politics, economics, and crime), but his real subject is blues-an idiom that began to come into focus late in the 19th century and blossomed with Texan Blind Lemon Jefferson (1893-1929) and those who came under his influence. Although Govenar provides a very respectable bibliography, the majority of the footnoted sources are interviews, suggesting much of the information has not previously appeared in print. Included in the four appendixes are discographies of Dallas-related jazz, blues, gospel, and country and of the Light Crust Doughboys, a popular music ensemble active in the late 1930s (in fact, these two appendixes occupy more than a third of the book). Numerous photographs are also included. This will be a welcome addition to collections supporting study of the blues and of the US Southwest. Choice Magazine, May 1999. Review by D. R. [+]de Lerma, Lawrence University. "Through a mixture of contemporary interviews and historical research, Govenar and Brakefield provide us with a compelling portrait of Deep Ellum, a complex and often misunderstood section of Dallas. The nexus for many East Texas musicians during the 1920s and 1930s, Deep Ellum was a helter skelter mixture of clubs, pawnshops, and other small businesses that attracted the entire spectrum of vernacular musicians. This book is important not only for what it reveals about local blues, gospel, jazz, and western swing performers but for what it tells us about race relations and other poorly researched aspects of the city's social history. " -Kip Lornell, George Washington University, & the Smithsonian Institution "Like Beale Street in Memphis and Bourbon Street in New Orleans, Deep Ellum in Dallas, Texas, was famed in song and legend for its nightlife as well as its thriving daytime commerce. It was also a place in the segregated South where the races met in ways that they couldn't elsewhere. In the work of Govenar and Brakefield, Deep Ellum now takes its place in these other important southern urban districts of the early twentieth century. "-David Evans, Professor of Music, The University of Memphis "Alan Govenar is a gifted and meticulous researcher whose works are notable for a passionate respect for his subject. In its thoroughness and insight, Deep Ellum deepens our understanding of African-American music by re-connecting the art to its material base. It's a reminder that Harlem is only one chapter in the renaissance of African-American culture. "-Lorenzo Thomas, University of Houston-Downtown.
Publication date: 1996-11-14
Dewey code: 823.912
List Price: $55.00
Price: $183.99
Review Ford Madox Ford: A Dual Life Volume II: The After-War World / Oxford University Press, USA:The second volume of Saunder's biography takes up the story in 1916, when Ford enlisted in the army, and follows him through post-war Europe to his death in 1939. During this period, Ford solidified his canonical status in modern literature. Saunders analyzes Ford's post-war masterpiece, Parade's End, and describes the founding of the Transatlantic Review, the influential literary journal that published Hemingway, Ezra Pound, Picasso, and many more major writers and artists. Ford Madox Ford's greatest book, The Good Soldier, is considered a masterpiece for its use of an unreliable narrator who describes the tangled life of two couples. It seems Ford, born Ford Hermann Hueffer, exhibited traits of unreliability himself. As Max Saunders describes it, Ford often was "dishonest in matters of large change. " In this scholarly, 632-page work, Saunders doesn't so much attempt to set the record straight on Ford as he does to defend the writer's actions as central to his life and his style. "In all of Ford's writing, make-believe is inseparable from reminiscence," Saunders writes.
Edition: 7
Publication date: 1993-10-01
Dewey code: 808.10922
List Price: $150.00
Price: $183.95
Review INTL WHOS WHO POETRY7ED 93/94 (International Biographical Centre Reference Library) / Melrose Press:
Creator: Zbigniew Skowron
Publication date: 2001-09-13
Dewey code: 780
List Price: $257.00
Price: $182.52
Review Lutoslawski Studies / Oxford University Press, USA:Lutoslawski Studies presents for the first time an overview of the great twentieth-century composer Witold Lutoslawski's works and his compositional style, focusing on areas such as the composer's aesthetics, the evolution of his style, and the compositional strategies which apply to broader periods of his creativity. The international team of contributors bring to this study the results of recent research, offering a broader approach that links many issues which have been treated selectively in former studies, as well as throwing new light on the essence of the composer's music and the way in which modern and traditional elements co-exist.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1995-03-01
Dewey code: 700.92
List Price: $210.00
Price: $185.04
Review Life and Early Works (Michelangelo: Selected Scholarship in English) / Routledge:The volume begins with overviews of Michelangelo's life and work and contains more focused essays on the artist's political thought and his chief biographers, Ascanio Condivi and Giorgio Vasari. Other articles survey Michelangelo's early career and principal works, including the Rome Piet, the David, the Doni Tondo, and his commission to paint the Battle of Cascina in competition with Leonardo da Vinci.
Publication date: 1998-07
Dewey code: 823.914
Review Beethoven, My Immortal Beloved / Minerva Press:
Publication date: 1999-02
Dewey code: 782.421660922
Price: $25.00
Review Five Against One: The Pearl Jam Story / Diane Pub Co:More than any other band, Pearl Jam embodies the alternative style that dominates rock today. From their early days as fame-ducking grunge pioneers, through their headline-making battle with Ticketmaster, to their current status as self-assured survivors, Five Against One brings to life Pearl Jam's tumultuous ascent to superstardom in rich detail. A compelling portrait of the band's elusive leader Eddie Vedder and family photos never seen before by the public make this a must-have for every Pearl Jam fan.
Publication date: 1926
Review Pastiche;: A music-room book / Faber & Gwyer:
Creator: Thomas Riggs
Publication date: 2004-08
Dewey code: 790
List Price: $243.00
Price: $242.98
Review Contemporary Theatre, Film & Television: A Biographical Guide Featuring Performers, Directors, Writers, Producers, Designers, Managers, Choreographers, ... (Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television) / Gacl:
Authors
- K. Lothar Meisel
- Betty Vos
Publication date: 2007-09-01
Dewey code: 780
List Price: $225.00
Price: $225.00
Review Meisel Family Violinmakers: Klingenthal, Vogtland, Saxony / Singing River Publications:Early in 1949 at the age of only nineteen, a violinmaker who had just passed his apprenticeship examination made the dangerous journey from his Klingenthal home in East Germany s Music Corner to the West and to freedom. His name was Lothar Meisel, and in his veins flowed the blood of eight previous generations of Meisel family violinmakers who had passed the craft from father to son for nearly three centuries. Eventually Lothar came to settle in the United States in southern Minnesota, where he has continued to create and repair violins to the present day. The history of all nine generations of Meisel family violinmakers is chronicled in this upcoming September 2007 release from Singing River Publications of Ely, Minnesota. The book opens with an account of Lothar s decision to leave and his escape from East Germany. Subsequent chapters follow the life, times and instrument production of each of the nine makers, beginning with Johann Meisel in 1660. Detailed photographs of violins from all but the first maker are provided, along with thorough descriptions of each of the featured violins. Violins, violas and cellos made by Lothar Meisel and his family are on display in the United States at the National Museum of American History (Smithsonian Institution) in Washington, D. C, and the National Music Museum in Vermilion, South Dakota; and in Germany at the Klingenthal Museum, Vogtland, Saxony. Stringed instrument aficionados, museums and interested readers throughout the world will wish to add this book to their collection. [+]Readers throughout the world will find this historical contribution in English, German and French well worth the investment.
Publication date: 2004-08-12
Dewey code: 780
List Price: $26.75
Price: $182.49
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