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by Charles Dickens, Red Deer Classics
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2018
This edition has been professionally formatted and contains several tables of contents. The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work,...
by Amber Easby, Henry Oliver
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2007
ONCE,
T-shirts were just unadorned undergarments. But with the evolution of screen printing and the birth of band merchandising, T-shirts became so much cooler. Now every band with an ounce of savvy knows the importance of T-shirts not only as a lucrative sideline but also as a means of self-...
Artificial Hells
Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
Since the 1990s, critics and curators have broadly accepted the notion that participatory art is the ultimate political art: that by encouraging an audience to take part an artist can promote new emancipatory social relations. Around the world, the champions of this form of expression are numerous,...
by Robert Henri
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
A classic work of advice, criticism, and inspiration for aspiring artists and lovers of art
"Art when really understood is the province of every human being." So begins The Art Spirit, the collected words, teachings, and wisdom of innovative artist and beloved teacher Robert Henri....
The Bakersfield Sound
How a Generation of Displaced Okies Revolutionized American Music
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
In California’s Central Valley, two thousand miles away from country music’s hit machine, the hard edge of the Bakersfield Sound transformed American music in the latter half of the twentieth century. It turned displaced Oklahomans like Buck Owens and Merle Haggard into household names, and it...
by Iain Munn
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011
Paul Weller wrote some of the best songs during his sabbatical with The Style Council - from savvy socially-conscious pop to effortless love songs. Between 1983 and 1985, its as if Paul was happiest taking chances, usurping expectations, borrowing magpie-like from the past and remoulding it for the present...
I Want My MTV
The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011
**Remember When All You Wanted Was Your MTV? The perfect gift for the music fan or child of the eighties in your life.
Named One of the Best Books of 2011 by NPR – Spin - USA Today – CNBC - Pitchfork - The Onion - The Atlantic - The Huffington Post – VEVO - The Boston Globe - The San...
The Sound of Things to Come
An Audible History of the Science Fiction Film
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
A groundbreaking approach to sound in sci-fi films offers new ways of construing both sonic innovation and science fiction cinema
Including original readings of classics like The Day the Earth Stood Still, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Star Wars, and Blade Runner, The Sound of Things to Come delivers...
Reichsrock
The International Web of White-Power and Neo-Nazi Hate Music
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
From rap to folk to punk, music has often sought to shape its listeners’ political views, uniting them as a global community and inspiring them to take action. Yet the rallying potential of music can also be harnessed for sinister ends. As this groundbreaking new book reveals, white-power music...
Blue Nippon
Authenticating Jazz in Japan
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2001
Japan’s jazz community—both musicians and audience—has been begrudgingly recognized in the United States for its talent, knowledge, and level of appreciation. Underpinning this tentative admiration, however, has been a tacit agreement that, for cultural reasons, Japanese jazz “can’t swing.”...
El amor te hará inmortal
Música, memoria y vida
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Ramon Gener, director y conductor del exitoso programa de televisión This is Opera, nos sorprende con un libro imaginativo y distinto, un apasionante viaje por las emociones a través de la música repleto de historias inspiradoras que se convierten en lecciones de vida.
«Mi padre murió...
The Revolution Was Televised
The Cops, Crooks, Slingers, and Slayers Who Change
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
A phenomenal account, newly updated, of how twelve innovative television dramas transformed the medium and the culture at large, featuring Sepinwall’s take on the finales of Mad Men and Breaking Bad.
In The Revolution Was Televised, celebrated TV critic Alan Sepinwall chronicles the remarkable...
It's Bigger Than Hip Hop
The Rise of the Post-Hip-Hop Generation
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2008
In It's Bigger Than Hip Hop, M. K. Asante, Jr. looks at the rise of a generation that sees beyond the smoke and mirrors of corporate-manufactured hip hop and is building a movement that will change not only the face of pop culture, but the world.
Asante, a young firebrand poet, professor, filmmaker,...
Five Came Back
A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
Now a Netflix original documentary series, also written by Mark Harris, premiering on March 31,2017: the extraordinary wartime experience of five of Hollywood's most important directors, all of whom put their stamp on World War II and were changed by it forever
Here is the remarkable, untold...