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The Incredible Rise of The Kingston Trio

by William J. Bush
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012

How big an act was the Kingston Trio? Big enough that the their first 19 albums not only reached Billboard's Top 100, but 14 of them entered the top 10, with five albums alone hitting the no. 1 spot! At the height of their popularity, the Kingston Trio was arguably the most popular vocal group in...

Adopted

The Ultimate Teen Guide

by Suzanne Buckingham Slade
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013

The challenging teen years can be even more difficult for adopted teenagers, many of whom have unanswered questions that may result in fear, anger, and low self-esteem. These feelings may be compounded by the isolation they feel because most friends and family members cannot fully relate to their...

Teens, Loss, and Grief

The Ultimate Teen Guide

by Edward Myers
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2006

Teens, Loss, and Grief is a self-help guide for teenagers who are struggling with bereavement and the emotional difficulties it presents. This book provides an overview of grief as a painful but normal process, offering insights from bereavement experts as well as practical suggestions for coping...

Death, Loss, and Grief in Literature for Youth

A Selective Annotated Bibliography for K-12

by Alice Crosetto, Rajinder Garcha
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2012

All human beings encounter loss and death, as well as the grief associated with these experiences. It is therefore important for children and adolescents to understand that such events are inevitable and to learn how to accept loss and cope with their emotions. In order to help children through their...

Religion and Spirituality in America

The Ultimate Teen Guide

by Kathlyn Gay
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2006

The United States has more religious groups than any other country in the world. Religion and Spirituality in America: The Ultimate Teen Guide provides an introduction to some of the diverse religious practices, traditions, and expressions in the United States and focuses on how teenagers view their...

Reaching Your Goals

The Ultimate Teen Guide

by Anne Courtright
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2009

Teens don't often realize that their daydreams can be transformed into real accomplishments. If they take those dreams seriously, and turn thoughts into action, even some of the wildest notions can become reality. Reaching Your Goals: The Ultimate Teen Guide show readers how important setting goals...

Black, Blanc, Beur

Rap Music and Hip-Hop Culture in the Francophone World

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Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2002

Rap music was born in America in the early 1980s. Over the last decade it has not only grown in popularity within the United States, with rap music soaring to the top of the music charts, but it has also influenced other cultures around the world. Black, Blanc, Beur is about the emergence and growing...

Off-Broadway Musicals since 1919

From Greenwich Village Follies to The Toxic Avenger

by Thomas S. Hischak
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2011

Although the venue Off Broadway has long been the birthplace of innovative and popular musicals, there have been few studies of these influential works. Long-running champs, such as The Fantasticks and Little Shop of Horrors, are discussed in many books about American musicals, but what of the hundreds...

At the Piano

Interviews with 21st-Century Pianists

by Caroline Benser
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011

In At the Piano: Interviews with 21st-Century Pianists, Caroline Benser explores the kaleidoscopic world of twenty-first-century pianism through a series of extended interviews with eight major pianists: Leif Ove Andsnes, Jonathan Biss, Simone Dinnerstein, Marc-André Hamelin, Stephen Hough, Steven...

Shura Cherkassky

The Piano's Last Czar

by Elizabeth Carr
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2006

Shura Cherkassky's life story, like his piano playing, is provocative and captivating. At his death in 1995, Cherkassky was considered one of history's greatest pianists, as well as the last direct link to the Romantic piano tradition of Chopin, Liszt, and Anton Rubinstein. Cherkassky's story...

Chopin's Prophet

The Life of Pianist Vladimir de Pachmann

by Edward Blickstein, Gregor Benko
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013

Vladimir de Pachmann was perhaps history’s most notorious pianist. Widely regarded as the greatest player of Chopin’s works, Pachmann embedded comedic elements—be it fiddling with his piano bench or flirting with the audience—within his classic piano recitals to alleviate his own anxiety over...

The Late Victorian Folksong Revival

The Persistence of English Melody, 1878-1903

by E. David Gregory
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010

In The Late Victorian Folksong Revival: The Persistence of English Melody, 1878-1903, E. David Gregory provides a reliable and comprehensive history of the birth and early development of the first English folksong revival. Continuing where Victorian Songhunters, his first book, left off, Gregory systematically...
by Lilian H. Zirpolo
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2009

The Renaissance era was launched in Italy and gradually spread to the Netherlands, Germany, Spain, France, and other parts of Europe and the New World, with figures like Robert Campin, Jan van Eyck, Rogier van der Weyden, Albrecht DYrer, and Albrecht Altdorfer. It was the era that produced some of...
by James Fisher, Felicia Hardison Londré
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2009

The 50-year period from 1880 to 1929 is the richest era for theater in American history, certainly in the great number of plays produced and artists who contributed significantly, but also in the centrality of theater in the lives of Americans. As the impact of European modernism began to gradually...
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