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The Death of Expertise
The Campaign against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Technology and increasing levels of education have exposed people to more information than ever before. These societal gains, however, have also helped fuel a surge in narcissistic and misguided intellectual egalitarianism that has crippled informed debates on any number of issues. Today, everyone...
Wizardry:Baseball's All-Time Greatest Fielders Revealed
Baseball's All-Time Greatest Fielders Revealed
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2011
The systematic analysis of baseball statistics, often called "sabermetrics," has evolved in recent years to resemble something of a science, attracting fans from diverse professional and educational backgrounds, all fascinated by the analysis itself and its insights into the game. But one...
Sounds French
Globalization, Cultural Communities and Pop Music, 1958-1980
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Sounds French examines the history of popular music in France between the arrival of rock and roll in 1958 and the collapse of the first wave of punk in 1980, and the connections between musical genres and concepts of community in French society. During this period, scholars have tended to view the...
Tap Dancing America
A Cultural History
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2010
Here is the vibrant, colorful, high-stepping story of tap -- the first comprehensive, fully documented history of a uniquely American art form, exploring all aspects of the intricate musical and social exchange that evolved from Afro-Irish percussive step dances like the jig, gioube, buck-and-wing,...
Anything Goes
A History of American Musical Theatre
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2013
Ethan Mordden has been hailed as "a sharp-eared listener and a discerning critic," by Opera News, which compares his books to "dinner with a knowledgeable, garrulous companion." The "preeminent historian of the American musical" (New York Times), he "brings boundless...
Show Tunes
The Songs, Shows, and Careers of Broadway's Major Composers
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2010
Show Tunes fully chronicles the shows, songs, and careers of the major composers of the American musical theatre, from Jerome Kern's earliest interpolations to the latest hits on Broadway. Legendary composers like Gershwin, Rodgers, Porter, Berlin, Bernstein, and Sondheim have been joined by more...
by Ethan Mordden
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
When films like The Jazz Singer started to integrate synchronized music, in the late 1920s many ambitious songwriting pioneers of the Great White Way - George and Ira Gershwin, Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers, and Lorenz Hart, among many others - were enticed westward by Hollywood studios' promises of...
by Jonathan F. Vance
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
In a country this diverse, 'culture' has different meanings. Vance tells a story from the wind-swept Arctic where a stranded Innu woman, fighting to survive, took the time to decorate her clothing with rich designs. A British explorer was amazed at her efforts, but Vance reminds us of the inseparable...
by Sjeng Scheijen
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2010
Featuring an eight-page gallery of full-color illustrations, here is a major new biography of Serge Diaghilev, founder and impresario of the Ballets Russes, who revolutionized ballet by bringing together composers such as Stravinsky and Prokofiev, dancers and choreographers such as Nijinsky and Karsavina,...
Alan Jay Lerner
A Lyricist's Letters
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
The man behind "I Could Have Danced all Night" and "Almost Like Being in Love", lyricist Alan Jay Lerner (1918-1986) is widely regarded as one of the most important figures of the American musical stage. In penning the lyrics to some of the most well-known and beloved Broadway...
Raphael
(Grove Art Essentials)
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
The Italian painter, draughtsman, and architect known as Raphael has always been acknowledged as one of the greatest European artists. In his own time he was one of the most famous painters working in Italy during the High Renaissance, commissioned to create celebrated altarpieces and devotional paintings,...
Sandro Botticelli
(Grove Art Essentials)
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Sandro Botticelli, painter and draughtsman, was one of the most esteemed painters in Italy in his lifetime, enjoying the patronage of the leading families of Florence, summoned to take part in the decoration of the Sistine Chapel in Rome, and commended by the great diplomatic, scholarly, and artistic...
Fra Filippo Lippi & Filippino Lippi
(Grove Art Essentials)
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Fra Filippo Lippi, a Carmelite monk who was one of the leading painters in Renaissance Florence, was patronized by the powerful Medici family. His large-scale altarpieces and fresco cycles had a decisive impact on the painting styles of the 16th century and he produced some of the earliest autonomous...
Titian
(Grove Art Essentials)
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Tiziano Vecellio, or Titian, the Italian painter, draughtsman and printmaker, was not only immensely successful in his lifetime but since his death has always been considered the greatest painter of the Venetian school. Equally pre-eminent in all the branches of painting practised in the 16th century...