Biography: arts and entertainment Books
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Enrico Caruso
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£29.44
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Jean Langlais The Man and His Music Amadeus
Book SynopsisJEAN LANGLAIS THE MAN AND HIS MUSIC
£35.00
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Astor Piazzolla
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£25.49
Hal Leonard Corporation Images: The Piano Music of Claude Debussy
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£29.44
Hal Leonard Corporation Pierre Monteux, Maitre
Book SynopsisPierre Monteux became famous at the age of 38 for conducting the riotous world premiere of Igor Stravinsky's ÊRite of SpringÊ in Paris on May 29 1913. The composer fearing bodily harm escaped through a backstage window while the imperturbable conductor persisted forever to be identified with the event. He would also conduct the first concert performance and one of the first two recordings of Stravinsky's masterpiece the other one conducted by Stravinsky himself. Though French by birth the distinctively portly man with the walrus mustache resisted being typecast as a French conductor. He could have been a European maestro: he played for Brahms worked with Grieg presided over the world premieres of major works by Ravel Stravinsky and many others was Diaghilev's conductor of choice. But it was Monteux's American audiences especially in San Francisco and Boston who would love him the most over the course of a long career. He conducted many American premieres works of Debussy Falla Ravel and among the more than a dozen Boston premieres those of ÊThe Rite of SpringÊ and of Mahler's ÊFirst SymphonyÊ. Canarina a conductor and teacher of conducting himself studied with Monteux for seven summers and brings great personal warmth and understanding to this wise admiring and honest book the first full-length biography of the man whom so many knew and loved as Maitre.
£30.00
Seal Press From Cradle to Stage
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£22.50
Boydell & Brewer Ltd Going My Way: Bing Crosby and American Culture
Book SynopsisBing Crosby's innovations as recording artist, actor, businessman, and radio and television performer. A multidisciplinary exploration, plus personal testimony from family members and colleagues. Going My Way: Bing Crosby and American Culture is the first serious study of the singer/actor's art and of his centrality to the history of twentieth-century popular music, film, and the entertainment industry. The volume uses a wide range of scholarly and cultural perspectives to explore Crosby's unique and lasting achievements. It also includes tributes and reminiscences from Bing's widow Kathryn, his grandson Steve, his record producer Ken Barnes, and one of his most popular successors, Michael Feinstein. Other contributors include Gary Giddins, the author of a widely acclaimed recent biography of the singer, and Will Friedwald, the acknowledged expert on the developmentof the "great American songbook." In addition to studying Bing Crosby's innovations and remarkable achievements as a recording artist, Going My Way explores his accomplishments as an actor, businessman, and radio and television performer. Going My Way makes an impressive case not only for Crosby's considerable talent and inimitable style, but also for his raising the quality of popular singing to the level of art. Contributors: Ken Barnes, Samuel L. Chell, Kathryn Crosby, Steven C. Crosby, John Mark Dempsey, Bernard F. Dick, Deborah Dolan, Michael Feinstein, Will Friedwald, Jeanne Fuchs, Gary Giddins, Peter Hammar, M. Thomas Inge, Malcolm MacFarlane, Eric Michael Mazur, Martin McQuade, Elaine Anderson Phillips, Ruth Prigozy, Walter Raubicheck, Linda A. Robinson, Stephen C. Shafer, David White, F.W. Wiggins Ruth Prigozy is Professor of English at Hofstra University. Walter Raubicheck is Professor of English and Chair of the English Department at Pace University.Trade ReviewThese essays focus on the legendary performer in various media during [the years 1931-57]. . . This wide-ranging collection makes it clear that Crosby's importance is not and should never be forgotten. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. * CHOICE *The splendid essays in Going My Way form an intricate collage that captures Crosby at the intersection of so many aspects of American culture. From jazz to film, Catholicism to cartoons, rock 'n' roll to the revolutionary taping of broadcasts, Crosby emerges as a more complex and fascinating figure than any single biographer or historian could render. -- Philip Furia, Professor of Creative Writing, University of North Carolina, Wilmington * . *This is a fine book about one of the great entertainers in America. It tells of our culture and of one of the biggest stars America ever had, one I was privileged to know and work with. Not only was Bing Crosby the best singer I ever heard but he was also a great actor, and he brought humor and honesty to anything he did. Going My Way captures the essence of Bing. -- Margaret WhitingTable of ContentsIntroduction: Bing Crosby -- Nothing Is What It Seems - Gary Giddins Analogies of Ignorance in Going My Way - David E. White Going My Way?: Crosby and Catholicism on the Road to America - Eric Michael Mazur Saint Bing: Apatheia, Masculine Desire, and the Films of Bing Crosby - Elaine Anderson Phillips Bing on a Binge: Casting-Against-Type in The Country Girl - Linda A. Robinson Bing Crosby: Rock 'n' Roll Godfather - John Mark Dempsey American Archetypes: How Crosby and Hope Became Hollywood's Greatest Comedy Team - Walter Raubicheck Crosby at Paramount: From Crooner to Actor - Bernard F. Dick Bing Crosby, Walt Disney, and Ichabod Crane - M. Thomas Inge A Couple of Song and Dance Men: Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire - Jeanne Fuchs Rivalries: The Mutual Mentoring of Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra - Samuel J. Chell From Crooner to American Icon: Caricatures of Bing Crosby in American Cartoons from the 1930s to the 1950s - Stephen C. Shafer Not Just "The Crooner": Bing Crosby's Research and Business Endeavors in World War II - Deborah Dolan Bing's Entertainment and War Bond Sales Activities During World War II - Malcolm Macfarlane Bing Crosby's Magnetic Tape Revolution - Peter Hammar and Martin McQuade The Bing Crosby Fan Clubs - F. B. (Wig) Wiggins Conclusion: Bing Crosby -- Architect of Twentieth-Century Style - Will Friedwald Sing, Bing, Sing - Kathryn Crosby Thoughts on Relationships: Father, Son, Grandson - Steven Crosby The Real Bing Crosby - Ken Barnes
£44.00
Monthly Review Press,U.S. Studs Terkel: Politics, Culture, but Mostly
Book SynopsisStuds Terkel was an American icon who had no use for America's cult of celebrity. He was a leftist who valued human beings over political dogma. In scores of books and thousands of radio and television broadcasts, Studs paid attention - and respect - to "ordinary" human beings of all classes and colours, as they talked about their lives as workers, dreamers, survivors. Alan Wieder's Studs Terkel: Politics, Culture, But Mostly Conversation is the first comprehensive book about this man. Drawing from over fifty interviews of people who knew and worked with Studs, Alan Wieder creates a multi-dimensional portrait of a run-of-the-mill guy from Chicago who, in public life, became an acclaimed author and raconteur, while managing, in his private life, to remain a mensch. We see Studs, the eminent oral historian, the inveterate and selfless supporter of radical causes, especially civil rights. We see the actor, the writer, the radio host, the jazz lover, whose early work in television earned him a notorious place on the McCarthy blacklist. We also see Studs the family man and devoted husband to his adored wife, Ida. Studs Terkel: Politics, Culture, But Mostly Conversation allows us to realize the importance of reaching through our own daily realities - increasingly clogged with disembodied, impersonal interaction - to find value in actual face-time with real humans. Wieder's book also shows us why such contact might be crucial to those of us in movements rising up against global tyranny and injustice. The book is simply the best introduction available to this remarkable man. Reading it will lead people to Terkel's enormous body of work, with benefits they will cherish thr
£57.00
Lethe Press Dirty Poole: A Sensual Memoir
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Penguin Adult Hc/Tr Always by My Side: The Healing Gift of a Father's
Book SynopsisThe New York Times bestseller, now in paperback. America''s most visible sports commentator recounts some of the most dramatic moments in American sports and pays tribute to the man who inspired him-his beloved father As vivid as an instant replay, Always by My Side gives readers an insider''s look into an unprecedented sixty-three- day stretch from February through April of 2007, when Jim Nantz became the first broadcaster to call the Super Bowl, the Final Four, and the Masters. Though Nantz was unable to share the voyage with his dad, the devoted son felt his father''s presence every step of the way, and used this championship odyssey to celebrate the people, venues, and moments that tapped into all the goodness that his dad-and his dad''s generation- represent. In recounting the highlights of more than two thrilling decades with CBS Sports, Nantz recalls legendary voices of his youth-such as Jim McKay, Chris Schenkel, Pat Summerall, Jack Whitaker, and Dick Enberg-who sparked his imagination and shaped his style. Always by My Side traces Nantz''s life and career, and along the way readers are treated to an array of memories, including Nantz''s special relationship with former president George H. W. Bush and his friendships with such sports royalty as Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, Peyton Manning, Tony Dungy, Tom Brady, Bill Belichick, Mike Krzyzewski, John Wooden, and many others. Always by My Side turns every day into Father''s Day.
£16.70
Gotham Books Big Day Coming: Yo La Tengo and the Rise of Indie Rock
Book SynopsisThe first biography of Yo La Tengo, the massively influential band who all but defined indie music. Yo La Tengo has lit up the indie scene for three decades, part of an underground revolution that defied corporate music conglomerates, eschewed pop radio, and found a third way. Going behind the scenes of one of the most remarkable eras in American music history, Big Day Coming traces the patient rise of husband-and-wife team Ira Kaplan and Georgia Hubley, who—over three decades—helped forge a spandex-and-hairspray-free path to the global stage, selling millions of records along the way and influencing countless bands.Using the continuously vital Yo La Tengo as a springboard, Big Day Coming uncovers the history of the legendary clubs, bands, zines, labels, record stores, college radio stations, fans, and pivotal figures that built the infrastructure of the now-prevalent indie rock world. Journalist and freeform radio DJ Jesse Jarnow draws on all-access interviews and archives for mesmerizing trip through contemporary music history told through one of its most creative and singular acts.
£18.85
SLG Publishing My Diecast Life
£9.49
Soft Skull Press Falling Cars And Junkyard Dogs
£13.59
£13.50
BearManor Media Daws Butler - Characters Actor
£21.38
BearManor Media Guy Williams: The Man Behind the Mask
£20.90
BearManor Media Names You Never Remember, with Faces You Never Forget
£18.10
BearManor Media Cordially Yours, Ann Sothern
£23.63
BearManor Media On the Good Ship Hollywood
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BearManor Media Fred MacMurray
£21.94
BearManor Media Kay Francis
£21.94
BearManor Media Hollywood's Babe
£22.77
BearManor Media That's Still Not All Folks!!
£21.03
BearManor Media Endless Summer: My Life with the Beach Boys
£21.90
BearManor Media Elvis, Sherlock & Me
£17.00
BearManor Media George Raft
£21.90
BearManor Media 30 Years of British Television
£19.31
BearManor Media Shirley Booth
£21.90
BearManor Media Fred Macmurray Hb
£31.35
BearManor Media Otay! - The Billy Buckwheat Thomas Story
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£33.15
BearManor Media The Films of Donald Pleasence
£22.80
BearManor Media Bob Burns' Monster Kid Memories
£21.60
BearManor Media Final Cuts: The Last Films of 50 Great Directors
£23.37
BearManor Media Mr. Towers of London: A Life in Show Business
£20.05
BearManor Media Orson Welles and Roger Hill: A Friendship in Three Acts
£22.51
BearManor Media For Art's Sake: The Biography & Filmography of Ben Turpin
£30.59
BearManor Media Inside Seka
£22.80
BearManor Media Joe Estevez: Wiping Off the Sheen
£19.70
BearManor Media Affectionately, Jayne Mansfield
£23.30
BearManor Media Stooges Among Us
£21.22
BearManor Media John Holmes, a Life Measured in Inches
£23.94
BearManor Media Googies, Coffee Shop to the Stars Vol. 2
£21.03
BearManor Media Whatever Happened to Baby Peggy?
£23.00
BearManor Media Don't Wear Silver in the Winter
£12.40
BearManor Media Virginia Bruce
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