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Simon & Schuster The Grouchy Historian
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A smart, often entertaining polemic." * Kirkus Reviews *"An unabashedly biased, deeply researched book that refutes the right-wing argument that the framers of the U.S. Constitution favored small government, limited taxation and minimal regulation. . . . The book’s subtitle doesn’t mince words.” -- Edward Guthmann * The San Francisco Chronicle *“If Michele Bachmann, Sarah Palin, and Teds Nugent and Cruz can call themselves Constitutional conservatives, then Asner can call them out on their so-called knowledge of America's bedrock documents. . . . Although it is, indeed, wry and witty, Asner’s 'defense' is no mere entertainer’s polemic.” * Booklist *
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Scribner Book Company Coyote
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Open Road Media I Like What I Know
Book SynopsisPublished in 1959, this book is what Vincent Price called his “visual autobiography” — the story of his life through his 48th year as seen through the lens of his greatest passion, the visual arts. Peppered with lively stories about both his art collecting and advocacy as well as his career as an actor, I Like What I Know is written in an approachable and entertaining style, capturing what has drawn fans to Vincent Price throughout his distinguished 65-year-career and in the two decades since his death in 1993.
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Open Road Integrated Media, Inc. Judy
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Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Ozzy Osbourne Ozzology Volume 1 1970-1989: An Unauthorized Video History
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Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Sally Phipps: Silent Film Star
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Xlibris Sheila Florance - On The Inside
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Createspace Independent Publishing Platform From Cabbagetown to Tinseltown and places in between...: The autobiography of Tommy Roe
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Createspace Independent Publishing Platform American Legends: The Life of Charles Bronson
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Cornerstone I Heard Her Call My Name
Book SynopsisMoving' THE NEW YORK TIMESA joy' THE WASHINGTON POSTVibrant' LIT HUBPowerful' NEW YORKERLucy Sante has often felt like an outsider. Born in Belgium to conservative Catholic working-class parents, she was transplanted to the United States without ever entirely settling here. But a feeling of home finally arrived when she moved to New York City in the early 1970s amidst her fellow bohemians. Through those electric years, some of her friends would die young, from drugs and AIDS, and others would become jarringly famous. Lucy flirted with both fates, on her way to building a glittering career as a writer. But she could never shake that feeling.When she was finally ready, Lucy decided to confront the façade she'd been presenting to everyone, including herself, over these years. I Heard Her Call My Name is the story of that confrontation, of a life with a missing piece that with t
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VIP Ink Publishing Group, Inc. / Printhouse Books HIP-HOP History (Book 1 of 3): The Incorporation of Hip-Hop: Circa 1970-1989
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VIP Ink Publishing Group, Inc. / Printhouse Books HIP-HOP History (Book 2 of 3): The Incorporation of Hip-Hop: Circa 1990-1999
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VIP Ink Publishing Group, Inc. / Printhouse Books Hip-Hop History (Book 3 of 3): The Incorporation of Hip-Hop: Circa 2000 -2010
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Createspace Independent Publishing Platform The Allcroft Family: From Worcester to Stokesay
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Grand Central Publishing Leslie Fcking Jones
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Bookouture Big Dumb Eyes
Book SynopsisFrom one of the hottest stand-up comedians, Nate Bargatze brings his everyman comedy to the page in this hilarious collection of personal stories, opinions, and confessions.Nate Bargatze used to be a genius. That is, until the summer after seventh grade when he slipped, fell off a cliff, hit his head on a rock, and "my skull got, like, dented or something." Before this accident, he dreamed of being "an electric engineer, or a doctor that does brain stuff, or a math teacher who teaches the hardest math on earth." Afterwards, all he could do was stand-up comedy.* But the "brain stuff" industry''s loss is everyone else''s gain because Nate went on to become one of today''s top-grossing comedians, breaking both attendance and streaming records.
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Grand Central Publishing Conversations on Faith
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Grand Central Publishing Last Rites
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Grand Central Publishing 100 Rules for Living to 100
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Grand Central Publishing Sell It Like Serhant
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Createspace Independent Publishing Platform It Just Wasn't Perfect for Me: My 50 Years in Television and Radio Broadcasting
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Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Country Music Icons: The Lives and Careers of Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, and Dolly Parton
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Createspace Independent Publishing Platform American Legends: The Life of Red Skelton
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Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Hawkwind: Sonic Assassins
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Createspace Independent Publishing Platform American Legends: The Life of Charles Bronson
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Createspace Independent Publishing Platform American Legends: The Life of Sharon Tate
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Createspace Independent Publishing Platform American Legends: The Life of Buddy Holly
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Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Bing Crosby and Bob Hope: The Golden Era of Hollywood's Most Popular Show Business Stars
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BookBaby Summertime in Murdertown: How I Survived Where
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Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Nowhere Man: Los últimos días de John Lennon
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Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Steve McQueen & Charles Bronson: The Lives and Careers of the Top Action Stars of the 1970s
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Little, Brown & Company The Pursuit of Porsha: How I Grew Into My Power
Book SynopsisIn The Pursuit of Porsha, media personality and entrepreneur Porsha Williams opens up about family, faith, fame, and becoming an agent for change. Porsha Williams is one of today's most recognizable faces in pop culture and a remarkable voice in the television and podcast communities. In The Pursuit of Porsha, she takes readers on a deeply personal journey filled with tragedy, triumphs, humor, and tears as she shares her search for happiness and self-acceptance, giving fans a first-hand look into the defining moments that have never been captured on-screen or in the press. Charged with candor, vulnerability, and the sharp wit Porsha is known and loved for, The Pursuit of Porsha brings readers back to the beginning and along her path of self-reflection and discovery. From her upbringing as the granddaughter of civil rights activist Hosea Williams to painful recollections of childhood bullying to her roles as a pop culture personality, mother, and entrepreneur, Porsha shares every moment that has tried – and restored – her faith, over and over again. Through it all, Porsha has proven she is more than a soundbite, headline, or rumor. She is an empowering role model to black women and an icon for women everywhere. In The Pursuit of Porsha, Porsha's fans will connect with her like they never have before.
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press Centre and Periphery, Roots and Exile: Interpreting the Music of István Anhalt, György Kurtág, and Sándor Veress
Book SynopsisThis book examines the impact place and displacement can have on the composition and interpretation of Western art music, using as its primary objects of study the work of István Anhalt (1919-2012), György Kurtág (1926-), and Sándor Veress (1907-92). Although all three composers are of Hungarian origin, their careers followed radically different paths. Whereas, Kurtág remained in Budapest for most of his career, Anhalt and Veress left: the former in 1946 and immigrated to Canada and the latter in 1948 and settled in Switzerland. All three composers have had an extraordinary impact in the cultural environments within which their work took place. In the first section, ""Place and Displacement,"" contributors examine what happens when composers and their music migrate in the culturally complex world of the late twentieth century. The past one hundred years produced record numbers of refugees, and this fact is now beginning to resonate in the study of music. As Anhalt himself forcefully asserts, however, not all composers who emigrate should be understood as exiles. The first chapters of this book explore some of the problems and questions surrounding this issue. Essays in the second section, ""Perspectives on Reception, Analysis, and Interpretation,"" look at how performing acts of interpretation on music implies bringing the time, place, and identity of the musician, the analyst, and the teacher to bear on the object of study. Like Kodály, Kurtág considers his work to be ""naturally"" embedded in Hungarian culture, but he is also a quintessentially European artist. Much of his production - he is one of the twentieth century's most prolific composers of vocal music - involves the setting of Hungarian texts, but in the late 1970s his cultural horizons expanded to include texts in Russian, German, French, English, and ancient Greek. The book explores how musicologists' divergent cultural perspectives impinge on the interpretation of this work. The final section, ""The Presence of the Past and Memory in Contemporary Music,"" examines the impact time and memory can have on notions of place and identity in music. All living art taps into the personal and collective past in one way or another. The final four chapters look at various aspects of this relationship.Table of Contents List of Examples List of Plates and Figures List of Tables Acknowledgements Introduction Friedemann Sallis First Word 1 István Anhalt: A Character Sketch John Beckwith (University of Toronto) 2 Kurtág, as I Know Him Gergely Szokolay 3 ""A Kind of Musical Autobiography"": Reading Traces in Sándor Veress's Orbis tonorum Claudio Veress Place and Displacement 4 Of the Centre, Periphery; Exile, Liberation; Home and the Self István Anhalt (Queen's University) 5 István Anhalt's Kingston Triptych Robin Elliott (University of Toronto) 6 István Anhalt's The Tents Of Abraham: Where Music Cannot Heal, Let It Be Restored William Benjamin (University of British Columbia) 7 Which Displacement? Tracing Exile in the Postwar Compositions of István Anhalt and Mátyás Seiber Florian Scheding (University of Southampton) 8 Letters to America Rachel Beckles Willson (Royal Holloway, University of London) 9 Roots and Routes: Travel and Translation in István Anhalt's Operas Gordon Smith (Queen's University) 10 Le fonds István Anhalt (MUS 164) à Bibliothéque et Archives Canada : auto-construction du compositeur et rôle du lieu dans son oeuvre Rachelle Chiasson-Taylor (Bibliothéque et archives Canada) Perspectives on Reception, Analysis, and Interpretation 11 Sewing Earth to Sky: István Anhalt and the Pedagogy of Transformation Austin Clarkson (York University) 12 György Kurtág's Játékok: A ""Voyage"" into the Child's Musical Mind Stefano Melis (Conservatorio di musica ""L. Canepa"" di Sassari) 13 Arracher la figure au figuratif: la musique vocale de György Kurtág Alvaro Oviedo (Université Paris 8, Vincennes Saint-Dénis) 14 Dirges and Ditties: György Kurtág's Latest Settings of Poetry by Anna Akhmatova Julia Galieva-Szokolay (Royal Conservatory of Music, Toronto) 15 Interpreting György Kurtág and George Crumb: Through the Looking Glass Dina Lentsner (Capital University, Columbus, Ohio) The Presence of the Past and Memory in Contemporary Music 16 György Kurtág et Walter Benjamin : considérations sur l'aura dans la musique Jean-Paul Olive (Université Paris 8, Vincennes Saint-Dénis) 17 What Presence of the Past? Artistic Autobiography in György Kurtág's Music Ulrich Mosch (Paul Sacher Foundation) 18 ""Listening to inner voices"": István Anhalt's Sonance•Resonance (Welche Töne?) Alan Gillmor (Carleton University) 19 Music Written from Memory in the Late Work of István Anhalt Friedemann Sallis (University of Calgary) Final Word 20 On Doubleness and Life in Canada: An Interview with István Anhalt The Contributors Index
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press This Awareness of Beauty: The Orchestral and Wind Band Music of Healey Willan
Book SynopsisThis Awareness of Beauty is the first book to consider the orchestral and wind band music of Canadian composer Healey Willan, who was known primarily for his choral work. A succinct biography accompanies historical, analytical, and critical investigations of Willan's instrumental music, asserting Willan's seminal place in Canadian music and the significance of his orchestral and wind band music both nationally and internationally.Each composition is investigated in chronological order to illustrate the composer's evolution as a creator of instrumental music from his early years in England to his later, and more notable, accomplishments in Canada. Willan's orchestral music may be seen as both a reaction to and a stimulus for the significant improvement in Canadian orchestral performance during the 1930s and 40s, a factor in the creation of his large-scale compositions, including two symphonies and a piano concerto.Although much has been written about Willan, most of it has centred on his choral work, with biography and/or musicology as the frame of reference; this project considers his instrumental music in terms of performance, provides historical context for many of the works included, and corrects errors that have crept into the literature.Trade Review`It is in the chapter on the band works that the author's enthusiasms emerge most strongly--and it is here that his book breaks valuable new ground. One of Willan's best-known instrumental pieces, the Royce Hall Suite for concert band, composed in 1949, bears on its title page the indication 'edited and scored by William Teague.'. Teague, a staff arranger with the New York firm Associated Music Publishers, performed this assignment using written indications by the composer. Kinder has examined their correspondence, and uses it in presenting a bar-by-bar critique of the score, concluding with the judgement that a new instrumentation giving greater respect to Willan's notes would greatly improve the Suite's effectiveness. These pages are the most vivid in the book, and make one hope to one day hear a new version, perhaps prepared by Kinder, an experienced band director, himself.'' -- John Beckwith -- CAML Review, 42, no. 2, August 2014, 201409Table of Contents This Awareness of Beauty: The Orchestral and Wind Band Music of Healey Willan by Keith W. Kinder List of Musical Examples Preface and Acknowledgments ""English by Birth, Irish by Extraction, Canadian by Adoption, and Scotch by Absorption"": Introduction and Biographical Sketch Part One: ""Tender, Lyrical, Forceful, Arresting"": The Orchestral Music 1. The Early Orchestral Works 2. The Works for Small Orchestra 3. Shorter Orchestral Works 4. Works for Piano and Orchestra 5. The Symphonies Part Two: ""A Couple of Very Pretty Tunes"": Works for Wind Band 6. Concert Band Works 7. Pedagogical Music 8. The Fanfares Conclusion Appendix 1: Works Reviewed with Sources Notes Bibliography Index
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Hal Leonard Corporation The World of George Jean Nathan: Essays, Reviews
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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Clifford Odets American Playwright
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Hal Leonard Corporation John Gielgud: The Authorized Biography
Book SynopsisSir John Gielgud's acting career was among the most distinguished of his generation. In a lifetime that lasted nearly a century he appeared in hundreds of theatrical productions and films receiving virtually every acting honor given including an Academy Award for his performance as Hobson the butler in the film ÊArthurÊ. Now in this insightful authorized biography written with unprecedented access to Gielgud's diaries and personal letters author Sheridan Morley traces not only the actor's career but gives a refreshingly frank look into Gielgud the man and how his professional success as an actor often came at the expense of his personal happiness.
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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Somewhere for Me A Biography of Richard Rodgers
Book SynopsisSOMEWHERE FOR ME: A BIOGRAPHY OF RICHARD RODGERS
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Hal Leonard Corporation The Other Chekhov: A Biography of Michael
Book SynopsisThe first 30 years of the 20th-century produced a theatrical explosion whose reverberations are still felt today. Stanislavsky Meyerhold Vakhtanghov Michael Chekhov in Russia; Reinhardt Piscator & Brecht in Germany; and Copeau Barrault & Artaud in France collectively demolished the 19th-century aesthetic and in their wake created the modernity which is the hallmark of today's theatre.ÞMost of these men have already been turned into modern icons; there is no shortage of bios on the pioneers of the Moscow Arts Theatre and the achievements of the others are chronicled and archived for posterity. Only one of these artists remains murky and ill-defined. He is Michael Chekhov (1891-1955) nephew of the famous playwright Anton Chekhov the man that Stanislavsky described as the most brilliant actor in all of Russia. ÞA charismatic actor an inspiring director and a teacher that developed a dynamic antidote to Russian Naturalism Chekhov remains the invisible man of the modern theatre. Was he as Lee Strasberg alleged a dangerous mystic who would subvert the vigor of Stanislavsky's teachings and undermine the integrity of The Group Theatre? Or was he as his disciples ä Yul Brynner Gregory Peck Ingrid Bergman Anthony Quinn Jack Palance Leslie Caron Jennifer Jones Patricia Neal Anthony Hopkins Jack Nicholson & Marilyn Monroe ä believed a man who had discovered a unique approach to acting which transcended the precepts enshrined in Stanislavsky's System. ÞCharles Marowitz was granted special access to the Chekhov archives in Devon England and he interviewed actors and directors who worked closely with Chekhov both in Europe and America. The book chronicles Chekhov's influential period in Hollywood when he was nominated for an Oscar for his performance as the avuncular psychiatrist in Alfred Hitchcock's 1945 film ÊSpellboundÊ. It also describes his close association with Marilyn Monroe at the most delicate stage of her career.
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Hal Leonard Corporation Groucho Marx and Other Short Stories and Tall
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Workman Publishing Tab Hunter Confidential: The Making of a Movie Star
Book Synopsis"Mesmerizing." —The New York Times Book Review Welcome to Hollywood, circa 1950, the end of the Golden Age. A remarkably handsome young boy, still a teenager, gets "discovered" by a big-time movie agent. Because when he takes his shirt off young hearts beat faster, because he is the picture of innocence and trust and need, he will become a star. It seems almost preordained. The open smile says, "You will love me," and soon the whole world does. The young boy's name was Tab Hunter—a made-up name, of course, a Hollywood name—and it was his time. Stardom didn't come overnight, although it seemed that way. In fact, the fame came first, when his face adorned hundreds of magazine covers; the movies, the studio contract, the name in lights—all that came later. For Tab Hunter was a true product of Hollywood, a movie star created from a stable boy, a shy kid made even more so by the way his schoolmates—both girls and boys—reacted to his beauty, by a mother who provided for him in every way except emotionally, and by a secret that both tormented him and propelled him forward. In Tab Hunter Confidential: The Making of a Movie Star, Hunter speaks out for the first time about what it was like to be a movie star at the end of the big studio era, to be treated like a commodity, to be told what to do, how to behave, whom to be seen with, what to wear. He speaks also about what it was like to be gay, at first confused by his own fears and misgivings, then as an actor trapped by an image of boy-next-door innocence. And when he dared to be difficult, to complain to the studio about the string of mostly mediocre movies that were assigned to him, he learned that just like any manufactured product, he was disposable—disposable and replaceable. Hunter's career as a bona fide movie star lasted a decade. But he persevered as an actor, working continuously at a profession he had come to love, seeking—and earning—the respect of his peers, and of the Hollywood community. And so, Tab Hunter Confidential is at heart a story of survival—of the giddy highs of stardom, and the soul-destroying lows when phone calls begin to go unreturned; of the need to be loved, and the fear of being consumed; of the hope of an innocent boy, and the rueful summation of a man who did it all, and who lived to tell it all.
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Interlink Publishing Group, Inc Monkey Business: The Lives And Legends Of The
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University of Tennessee Press Tom Ashley Sam Tom Ashley, Sam McGee, Bukka White: Tennessee Traditional Singers
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Penguin Putnam Inc Kurt Cobain Journals
Book SynopsisThe lyrics notebook and personal journals of Kurt Cobain, revealing new insight and meaning to the iconic signer of the band Nirvana. Kurt Cobain filled dozens of notebooks with lyrics, drawings, and writings about his plans for Nirvana and his thoughts about fame, the state of music, and the people who bought and sold him and his music. His journals reveal an artist who loved music, who knew the history of rock, and who was determined to define his place in that history. Here is a mesmerizing, incomparable portrait of the most influential musician of his time.
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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Jussi
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