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I. B. Tauris & Company The Plays and Films of Bahram Beyzaie
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Celebrity Bromance and Comradery Capital in Asia
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Warner Modern School For Xylophone Marimba Vibraphone
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Warner Style Studies for the Creative Drummer Concepts
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Warner Moonlight Sonata Op 27 No 2 Complete Belwin
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Warner Bros. Publications Inc.,U.S. Lord of the Rings Instrumental Solos for Strings
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Warner Top 50 Movie Songs of All Time Easy Piano
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Warner Drum Techniques of Led Zeppelin NoteForNote
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Alfred Publishing Company Band Expressions Book One Student Edition
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Concordia Publishing House Living the Liturgy
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AltaMira Press Torch Singing
Book SynopsisIn this innovative book, Stacy Holman Jones presents torch singing as a much more complicated phenomenon than the familiar trope of a woman lamenting her victimhood. With an ethnographer''s eye, she observes the bluesy torch singers, asking if they are possibly performing critiques of the very lyrics they sing. From this perspective, we see the singer giving expression not not only to desire but also to an incipient determination to resist and change. Holman Jones also reveals points of contact in the opposition between spectators and performers, emotion and intellect, and love and power. Instead of interpreting the expression of love as a woman''s violent mistakeas willing deception and passive fateHolman Jones allows us to hear an active search for hope.Trade ReviewThis is a powerful, richly nuanced, evocative work; a stunning and brilliantly innovative pedagogical intervention. It provides ground zero—the starting place for the next generation of performance scholars who study desire, intimacy, the stories we tell ourselves about who we are, torch singers, love's wounds, healing and hearing new musical sounds, lyrics for torching, new ways of writing and breathing our selves into being. -- Norman K. Denzin, University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignTorch Singing is as lyrical and inviting as the songs that Stacy Holman Jones takes as her subject. The text itself is like a torch song, calling out for a response from the reader/listener. Moving among autobiography, critical ethnography, musicaland performance analysis, and music history (especially of the blues and Tin Pan Alley), this book is self-conscious and self-reflexive politically, intellectually, and methodologically. Holman Jones is deeply conversant with feminist theory, critical ethnography, performance theory, and the history of popular music, and her writing calls up the singers and songs with acuity and evocative detail. Holman Jones also performs herself in the text and foregrounds the process of research and scholarship, the affective, desirous nature of fandom, and the political exigencies of feminism to re-examine this music and these singers. This is a fascinating study of the history of torch songs and divas, including Sarah Vaughan, Billie Holiday, Lena Horne, Barbra Streisand, and k.d. lang, as well as many other singers whom the author saw perform and often interviewed. Torch Singing documents and celebrates the form of ?singers of suffering? as a resistant, pleasurable, political, feminist performance practice. A -- Stacy Wolf, Associate Professor, Performance as Public Practice Program, Department of Theatre and Dance, University of Texas at Austin, anThis book is a virtuoso performance of the desiring self shaped by the contexts and lyrics of others—some real, some hauntingly remembered, and some fully imagined—through a voice every bit as soulful, ironic, sexy, and full of longing as the torch singers she brings to life. Greil Marcus says somewhere that the only books about music worth reading are those that make the experience of listening to the music better. Stacy Holman Jones does that in this remarkably sensuous little volume, so full of deep personal knowledge of women who are called to torch singing and called by it, so rich in historical and critical resources, and ultimately so deliciously feverish to the ear. -- H.L. (Bud) Goodall, Professor and Head of the Hugh Downs School of Communication at Arizona State UniversityTorch Singing is as lyrical and inviting as the songs that Stacy Holman Jones takes as her subject. The text itself is like a torch song, calling out for a response from the reader/listener. Moving among autobiography, critical ethnography, musical and performance analysis, and music history (especially of the blues and Tin Pan Alley), this book is self-conscious and self-reflexive politically, intellectually, and methodologically. Holman Jones is deeply conversant with feminist theory, critical ethnography, performance theory, and the history of popular music, and her writing calls up the singers and songs with acuity and evocative detail. Holman Jones also performs herself in the text and foregrounds the process of research and scholarship, the affective, desirous nature of fandom, and the political exigencies of feminism to re-examine this music and these singers. This is a fascinating study of the history of torch songs and divas, including Sarah Vaughan, Billie Holiday, Lena Horne, Barbra Streisand, and k.d. lang, as well as many other singers whom the author saw perform and often interviewed. Torch Singing documents and celebrates the form of “singers of suffering” as a resistant, pleasurable, political, feminist performance practice. A beautiful, engaging song of a book. -- Stacy Wolf, Associate Professor, Performance as Public Practice Program, Department of Theatre and Dance, University of Texas at Austin, andTable of Contents1 Interpreter of Lies 2 The Scene of Desire 3 Sing Me a Torch Song 4 The Way You Haunt my Dreams 5 Hearing Voices 6 Love's Wounds 7 Hopeful Openness 8 Circular Breathing 9 Music for Torching
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AuthorHouse Saturday Night Live Equal Opportunity Offender The Uncensored Censor
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AuthorHouse Creative Critics Romantic Composers as Friends and Rivals
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AuthorHouse Living the Dream A Collection of Essays from Film School
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AuthorHouse Symphonic Paradox The Misadventures of a Wayward Musician
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AuthorHouse Destinys Daughters 9 Voices of PJ Gibson
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University Press of America Dramatic Approaches to Creative Fidelity
Book SynopsisDramatic Approaches to Creative Fidelity is a unique study of the work of Gabriel Marcel, a twentieth-century philosopher of international renown. This book brings a fresh perspective to the examination of Marcel''s thought, highlighting facets that are sure to interest many different audiences. Dramatic Approaches to Creative Fidelity presents a clear exposition of the nature of creative fidelity, a central theme in Marcel''s life and work. The distinctive contribution of this book, however, is its illustration of how theater and philosophy are complementary in Marcel''s investigation and reflective clarification of life''s existential questions. Each chapter of the book studies a play and a contemporary philosophic essay and examines how they relate to clarify a particular aspect of creative fidelity. Thus, this work communicates Marcel''s understanding of the nature of creative fidelity, illustrates the relationship that links theater and philosophy, and demonstrates the important rTable of ContentsPart 1 Introduction by Paul Ricoeur Part 2 Foreword Part 3 Part One: Gabriel Marcel: Philosopher-Dramatist-Musician Chapter 4 Chapter I. Introduction to Gabriel Marcel's Philosophic Quest Part 5 Part Two: Dramatic Approaches to Creative Philosophy Chapter 6 Chapter II. The Unfathomable: A Search for Presence Chapter 7 Chapter III. The Lantern: and The Light of Truth Chapter 8 Chapter IV. Dot the I: An Existential Witness of the Light of Truth Chapter 9 Chapter V Rebellious Heart: and Human Creativity Chapter 10 Chapter VI. The Double Expertise: Fidelity and Infidelity Chapter 11 Chapter VII. Colombyre or the Torch of Peace: The Role of Person-Community in Living Creative Fidelity to Values Chapter 12 Chapter VIII. The Sting: Threatening the Foundations of Fidelity Chapter 13 Chapter IX. Rome Is No Longer in Rome: Challenge for Creative Incarnations of Fidelity Chapter 14 Chapter X. Conclusion: Creative Fidelity, Sketch of the Essential Features Highlighted Part 15 Part Three: Resources for Research Chapter 16 I. Biblio-biography Chapter 17 II. Parallel of Theater and Philosophy Chapter 18 III. Works by Gabriel Marcel in chronological order of composition Chapter 19 IV. Bibliographic References Chapter 20 V. Partial List of Plays Produced Chapter 21 VI. Centers of Research Part 22 Index
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Hamilton Books My Musical Notes
Book SynopsisAn inside view of the life of internationally famous twentieth-century French concert pianists, Robert and Gaby Casadesus who left Paris in 1940 and emigrated to the United States on the eve of the German invasion. The husband and wife team went on to become some of the most revered cultural figures in French musical repertory.
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Rp Minis The Golden Girls Stylized Finger Puppets
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Running Press,U.S. The Annotated Godfather 50th Anniversary Edition
Book Synopsis Celebrating the 50th anniversary of The Godfather, this authorized, annotated and illustrated edition of the complete, unedited screenplay includes all the little-known facts, behind-the-scenes intrigue, and first-person reflections from cast and crew members on the making of this landmark film. From its ingenious cinematic innovations and memorable, oft-quoted script to its iconic cast, including Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, James Caan, The Godfather is considered by many to be the greatest movie ever made. And yet, the history of its making is so colorful, so chaotic, that one cannot help but marvel at the seemingly insurmountable odds it overcame to become a true cinematic masterpiece, and a film that continues to captivate its audience decades after its release. In this annotated and illustrated edition of the complete original screenplay, nearly every scene is examined and dissected, including: Fascinating commentary on technical details about the filming and shooting locations Tales from the set, including arguments, accidents, and anecdotes Profiles of the actors and stories of how they were cast Deleted scenes that never made the final cut, and the goofs and gaffes that did And much more Interviews with former Paramount executives, cast and crew members, and and all-new foreword by Francis Ford Coppola, round out the commentary and shed new light on everything you thought you knew about this most influential film. With more than 200 photographs, this a truly unique, collectable keepsake for every Godfather fan.
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Running Press,U.S. Frog and Toad Are Doing Their Best A Parody
Book SynopsisAt home, work, and out in our ever-changing world, we're all just doing our best. In this modern parody, Frog and Toad are here to commiserate and lend some laughter.Full of wry humor and deep compassion for our modern vulnerabilities, the stories in Frog and Toad Are Doing Their Best perfectly capture the heartwarming authenticity of Lobel’s famous amphibian friends while revealing razor-sharp truths about the world we live in today. Through Frog and Toad, we see the anxieties that are woven throughout our everyday existence, from our well-meaning but often-failed attempts at practicing self-care to our struggle to balance the gifts and burdens of technology. Toad ponders a variety of questionable schemes to pay off his credit cards, while Frog spends too much time scrolling through the newsfeed on his phone. But despite their daily frustrations and existential concerns, they know that having a friend to share life’s burdens makes ev
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Running Press Book Publishers CrissCross
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Running Press Book Publishers The Haunted Mansion Madame Leota Crystal Ball
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Running Press Adult Disney Princess CrossStitch
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Running Press Book Publishers Disney Tim Burtons the Nightmare Before Christmas
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Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers Best Wishes Warmest Regards
Book Synopsis NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERGLOBE AND MAIL BESTSELLERThe official tie-in book for the beloved, nine-time Emmy® Award-winning series Schitt's Creek. This beautifully produced, keepsake coffee-table book is the ultimate celebration of the series, the town, the characters, and the state of mind that is Schitt's Creek. Capturing the essence and alchemy of all six seasons of what is now considered to be one of the most groundbreaking comedy television series of the last decade, Best Wishes, Warmest Regards is a gift to fans everywhere who have made the show their own.Included are character profiles from the cast of Johnny, Moira, David, and Alexis, and all of the characters that populate the town, major moments from Moira's endorsement of Herb Ertlinger Winery, to Patrick and David's first kiss, to Cabaret and the Rose Family Christmas episode. Also included are special features, such as the complete, illustrated catalogs of David's knits and Moira's wigs, Moira's vocabulary, Alexis's adventures, and behind-the-scenes moments from Dan and Eugene Levy and the cast of Schitt's Creek.
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Schiffer Publishing, Ltd. Seven Decades of Deep Purple
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Schiffer Publishing, Ltd. Ultimate Pop Divas Coloring Book
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Crown Hip Hoptionary Tm The Dictionary of Hip Hop Terminology
Book SynopsisThe bumpin’ book for hip-hop disciples (a.k.a. fiends), songwriters, all other writers, pop culture fans, linguists, and parents who are just trying to figure out what their kids are saying.The inventive sounds of hip-hop (which became America’s number two music genre in 2001, outselling country) have echoed far from their Bronx beginnings of twenty years ago. Making its way from Compton sidewalks to suburban malls, garnering commentary from The Wall Street Journal alongside Vibe, hip-hop by definition delivers its messages in the most creative language possible. Celebrating hip-hop’s boon to the realm of self-expression, Hip Hoptionary™ translates dozens of phrases like “marinating in the rizzi with your road dawg” (relaxing in your car with your friend), including:• Big bodies: SUVs or luxury vehicles• Government handle: registered birth name• 411: the latest scoop or information
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Crown Publishing Group (NY) Lynyrd Skynyrd
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Crown New York The Movie Lovers Guide The Ultimate Insider Tour of Movie New York
Book SynopsisThe classic guide to who-did-what-where in New York, on- and off-screen, including: Classic film and TV locations: Marilyn Monroe’s infamous Seven Year Itch subway grating . . . the deli where Meg Ryan famously faked an orgasm in When Harry Met Sally . . . the diner where Courteney Cox (in Friends) and Kirsten Dunst (in Spider-Man) waitressed . . . Men in Black’s Manhattan headquarters . . . The Godfather mansion on Staten Island…the Greenwich Village apartment where Jack Nicholson terrorized Greg Kinnear in As Good as It Gets . . . Ghostbusters’ Tribeca firehouse . . . Michael Douglas and Gwyneth Paltrow’s A Perfect Murder palazzo . . . the landmark West Side building that housed Tom Cruise in Vanilla Sky and Mia Farrow in Rosemary’s Baby . . . the Greenwich Village apartment of Friends . . . Will & Grace’s Upper West Side building . . .
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Crown The Great Movies II
Book SynopsisContinuing the pitch-perfect critiques begun in The Great Movies, Roger Ebert's The Great Movies II collects 100 additional essays, each one of them a gem of critical appreciation and an amalgam of love, analysis, and history that will send readers back to films with a fresh set of eyes and renewed enthusiasm—or perhaps to an avid first-time viewing. Neither a snob nor a shill, Ebert manages in these essays to combine a truly populist appreciation for today's most important form of popular art with a scholar's erudition and depth of knowledge and a sure aesthetic sense. Once again wonderfully enhanced by stills selected by Mary Corliss, former film curator at the Museum of Modern Art, The Great Movies II is a treasure trove for film lovers of all persuasions, an unrivaled guide for viewers, and a book to return to again and again.Films featured in The Great Movies II12 Angry Men · The Adventures of Robin Hood · Ali
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Crown Publishing Group (NY) Lady Sings the Blues
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Random House USA Inc Clapton The Autobiography
Book SynopsisWith striking intimacy and candor, Eric Clapton tells the story of his eventful and inspiring life in this poignant and honest autobiography. More than a rock star, Eric Clapton is an icon, a living embodiment of the history of rock music. Well known for his reserve in a profession marked by self-promotion, flamboyance, and spin, he now chronicles, for the first time, his remarkable personal and professional journeys. Born illegitimate in 1945 and raised by his grandparents, Eric never knew his father and, until the age of nine, believed his actual mother to be his sister. In his early teens his solace was the guitar, and his incredible talent would make him a cult hero in the clubs of Britain and inspire devoted fans to scrawl “Clapton is God” on the walls of London’s Underground. With the formation of Cream, the world's first supergroup, he became a worldwide superstar, but conflicting personalities tore the band apart within two years. His s
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Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc) My First Five Husbands
Book SynopsisRue McClanahan, best known for her portrayal of Blanche Devereaux on the Emmy-award winning series The Golden Girls reveals her life in and out of the spotlight in a laugh-out-loud funny memoir about love, marriage, men, and getting older that is every bit as colorful as the characters she played. Raised in small-town Oklahoma in a house “thirteen telephone poles past the standpipe north of town,” Rue developed her two great passions—theater and men—at an early age. She arrived in New York City in 1957 with two-weeks worth of money in her pocket, hustled her way into a class with the legendary Uta Hagen, and began working her way up in the acting world against the vibrant, free-spirited backdrop of the sixties. That’s when she met and married Husband #1—a handsome rogue of an aspiring actor who quickly left her with a young son. Still, she was determined to make it on the stage and screen—and in the years that follo
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Warner Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Movie Selections
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