Publication date: 2007-05-28
Dewey code: 792
Review Teatro Malandro Omar Porras / Villegas Editores:
Publication date: 1996-06
Dewey code: 791
Price: $21.95
Review The Best Butler in the Business: Tom Daly of the National Film Board of Canada / University of Toronto Press:
Publication date: 2002-11-11
Review Elgar and Chivalry / Elgar Editions:
Creator: Lynn M. Zott
Publication date: 2003-03
Dewey code: 809
List Price: $265.00
Price: $256.34
Review Nineteenth Century Literature Criticism: Excerpts from Citicism of the Works of Novelists, Philosphers, and Other Creative Writers Who Died Between 1800 and 1899, from the First Published cri / Gacl:
Publication date: 2003-11
Dewey code: 788.7165092
Review Gerry Mulligan's Ark / Owlet Press:
Publication date: 2001-08-30
Dewey code: 790
Price: $27.00
Review Old Gods Almost Dead: The 40-year Odyssey of the Rolling Stones / Diane Pub Co:The acclaimed, bestselling rock-and-roll biographer delivers the first complete, unexpurgated history of the world’s greatest band. The saga of the Rolling Stones is the central epic in rock mythology. From their debut as the intermission band at London’s Marquee Club in 1962 through their latest record—setting Bridges to Babylon world tour, the Rolling Stones have defined a musical genre and experienced godlike adulation, quarrels, addiction, legal traumas, and descents into madness and death_while steadfastly refusing to fade away. Now Stephen Davis, the New York Times bestselling author of Hammer of the Gods and Walk This Way, who has followed the Stones for three decades, presents their whole story, replete with vivid details of the Stones’ musical successes_and personal excesses. Born into the wartime England of air-raid sirens, bombing raids, and strict rationing, the Rolling Stones came of age in the 1950s, as American blues and pop arrived in Europe. Among London’s most ardent blues fans in the early 1960s was a short blond teenage guitar player named Brian Jones, who hooked up with a lorry driver’s only son, Charlie Watts, a jazz drummer. At the same time, popular and studious Michael Philip Jagger–who, as a boy, bawled out a phonetic version of “La Bamba” with an eye-popping intensity that scared his parents–began sharing blues records with a primary school classmate, Keith “Ricky” Richards, a shy underachiever, whose idol was Chuck Berry. In 1962 the four young men, joined by Bill Perks (later Wyman) on bass, formed a band rhythm and blues band, which Brian Jones named the “the Rollin’ Stones” in honor of the Muddy Waters blues classic. Using the biography of the Rolling Stones as a narrative spine, Old God Almost Dead builds a new, multilayered version of the Stones’ story, locating the band beyond the musical world they dominated and showing how they influenced, and were influenced by, the other artistic movements of their era: the blues revival, Swinging London, the Beats, Bob Dylan’s Stones-inspired shift from protest to pop, Pop Art and Andy Warhol’s New York, the “Underground” politics of the 1960s, Moroccan energy and European orientalism, Jamaican reggae, the Glam and Punk subcultures, and the technologic advances of the video and digital revolution. At the same time, Old Gods Almost Dead documents the intense backstage lives of the Stones: the feuds, the drugs, the marriages, and the affairs that inspired and informed their songs; and the business of making records and putting on shows. [+]The first new biography of the Rolling Stones since the early 1980s, Old Gods Almost Dead is the most comprehensive book to date, and one of the few to cover all the band’s members. Illustrated throughout with photos of pivotal moments, it is a celebration of the Rolling Stones as an often courageous, often foolish gang of artists who not only showed us new worlds, but new ways of living in them. It is a saga as raunchily, vibrantly entertaining as the Stones themselves.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2001-09-01
Dewey code: 920
Price: $37.00
Review Jani Christou (Contemporary Music Studies) / Routledge:In this first extensive study in English of the Greek composer Jani Christou (1926-1970), Anna M. Lucciano presents his exceptionally striking personality, that of a highly original composer who made an essential contribution to new music. Anna M. Lucciano has long studied the private archives of Jani Christou. She is a musicologist specializing in Greek contemporary music and is Professor of the History of Music, Musical Aesthetics and Analysis at the Conservatoire d'Aix-en Provence.
Authors
- John Barrowman
- Carole E. Barrowman
Review Anything Goes: The Autobiography / Michael O'Mara Books:
Publication date: 1998-09
Dewey code: 791.430233092
List Price: $58.50
Price: $199.95
Review Robert Siodmak: A Biography, With Critical Analyses of His Films Noirs and a Filmography of All His Works / McFarland & Company:This study opens with a detailed biography of the director, focusing on the development and evolution of his thematic and visual style. Critical analyses of each of his noir films are next presented, with plot synopses and comments on the movie's place in the Siodmak canon. An exhaustive filmography follows, with cast and credits, running time, release date, alternate titles, and studio.
Publication date: 1964-06
Dewey code: 780.92
Price: $21.95
Review Larry Gorman (International Folklore) / Ayer Co Pub:Lumberman Larry Gorman was no respecter of borders - nor of anything else, it seems. From the time he was a young man growing up on Prince Edward Island until his death in Brewer, Maine in 1917. Larry Gorman composed satirical songs about friend and foe, relative and stranger, without fear or favour. This new edition of Sandy Ives' celebrated book features more than 70 of Gorman's songs, 29 with music.
Publication date: 1997-01-08
Review Butterfly / Agenda Ltd:
Publication date: 1990-02
Dewey code: 780
Price: $19.95
Review Hal Blaine & the Wrecking Crew / Hal Leonard Corp:
Publication date: 1997-03
Dewey code: 892.8709
Price: $24.95
Review Black Lions: The Creative Lives of Modern Ethiopia's Literary Giants and Pioneers / Red Sea Press:
Publication date: 1973-06
Dewey code: 709
Price: $63.00
Review Edward Hicks Painter of the Peaceable Kingdom / Periodicals Service Co:America's most recognizable naive artist. Edward Hicks was virtually unknown in his own time. Raised by a family friend after his mother's death when he was three years old, Hicks was apprenticed to a carriage painter. His artisanship however, often had to take a back seat to his religious calling. In his early twenties, Hicks became known as a fiery Quaker minister. traveling into Canada and down into the southern states to preach his firm belief in temperance, abolition, and devotion to the holy life. Hicks termed his painting a "weakness", yet returned to its solace again and again, as he found himself haunted by the schisms in the Quaker church and his own shortcomings. He painted nearly 100 versions of "The Peaceable Kingdom", his own vision of peace in a flawed world, little knowing that his art would become a touchstone for a young country hungry for its own legends.
Creator: Vladimir Kush
Publication date: 2001-08-31
Dewey code: 700
List Price: $100.00
Price: $176.60
Review Metaphorical Journey / Kush Fine Art:Experience the art of Vladimir Kush and his new style of Metaphorical Realism. This beautiful coffee-table book spans more than ten years of the artist’s burgeoning career. In addition to biographical information and philosophical explanations, each page shows off at least one full color painting, and many have drawings and sketches that gave birth to the artist ideas. Previously only found in galleries, this is the first time the book is widely available. 172 page, cloth-bound hardback, with full-color jacket.
Edition: The Life and Films of Terence Fisher
Publication date: 1991-07-01
Dewey code: 791.430233092
Price: $78.00
Review The Charm of Evil / The Scarecrow Press, Inc.:Terence Fisher brought the modern Gothic horror film to life in the second half of the twentieth century. As director John Carpenter (Halloween) notes in his introduction, Terence Fisher and The Curse of Frankenstein was the beginning of it all for the modern horror film. 4808; PER004030.
Creator: Scott DeVeaux
Publication date: 1993-02-17
Dewey code: 781.64
Price: $55.00
Review The Music of James Scott (Smithsonian Library of American Music) / Smithsonian:
Publication date: 2005-08
Dewey code: 782.42162951
List Price: $182.00
Price: $177.97
Review The Tapestry of Popular Songs in Sixteenth-and Seventeenth-Century China: Reading, Imitation, and Desire (Sinica Leidensia) (Sinica Leidensia) / Brill Academic Pub:Popular songs in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century China form a rich and intriguing body of materials hardly studied so far in the English-speaking world. This book is about these songs and their impact on Chinese culture and literary practice. It examines the tapestry books in which popular songs circulated, how books shaped readers, how books were shaped by a range of literacies, and how arrangements of performance-texts aided imitation and selection of words or phrases. Publishing histories of the popular song collections bring to light how songs were duplicated for readers among the elite and sub-elite. The analysis of how popular songs bring together the "high" and the "low" is of special value for literary scholars and intellectual historians, and challenges the traditonal dichotomy between elite and popular culture.
Authors
- Bruce N. Wright
- Jane King Hession
- Rip Rapson
Dewey code: 709
Price: $250.00
Review Ralph Rapson: Sixty Years of Modern Design / Afton Historical Society Pr:Ralph Rapson is the most influential Minnesota architect of the twentieth century. Architect, artist, furniture designer, and teacher, he has played a leading role in the development and practice of modern architecture and design, both nationally and internationally. Beginning in the late 1930s, at Cranbrook under Eliel Saarinen, Rapson became famous for his rapid, exquisite renderings and his creative reexamination of traditional furniture and housing forms. He also began a career-long involvement in architectural competitions and experimental programs that helped shape the future of modernism in America. In postwar Europe, his designs for nine U. S. embassy projects established a new international model for the American embassy abroad. In 1954 Rapson assumed leadership of the University of Minnesota’s School of Architecture, beginning a thirty-year tenure that would transform not only the school itself but the standing of the design profession within the state. Over sixty years and against the tides and assaults of architectural fads and fashion, Ralph Rapson has maintained a consistency and commitment to the basic and best principles of modern architecture, unswervingly and without distraction. He has never lost sight of the larger questions of architecture—its potential for community betterment and enrichment of the human experience.
Publication date: 1996-10
Review Marlon Brando: Portraits and Film Stills, 1946-95 (Schirmer Art Books on Film, Showbusiness & Performing Arts) / Schirmer/Mosel Verlag GmbH:
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