Dance category: 839 books
The Record Players
DJ Revolutionaries
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
From the co-authors of the classic Last Night a DJ Saved My Life: A fascinating oral history of record spinning told by the groundbreaking DJs themselves.
Acclaimed authors and music historians Bill Brewster and Frank Broughton have spent years traveling across the world to interview the revolutionary...
Anthropology of the Performing Arts
Artistry, Virtuosity, and Interpretation in Cross-Cultural Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2004
Anya Peterson Royce turns the anthropological gaze on the performing arts, attempting to find broad commonalities in performance, art, and artists across space, time, and culture. She asks general questions as to the nature of artistic interpretation, the differences between virtuosity and artistry,...
The Fabulous Sylvester
The Legend, the Music, the Seventies in San Francisco
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
A journey back through the music, madness, and unparalleled freedom of an era of change-the '70s-as told through the life of ultra-fabulous superstar Sylvester
Imagine a pied piper singing in a dazzling falsetto, wearing glittering sequins, and leading the young people of the nation to San...
Brotherhood In Rhythm
The Jazz Tap Dancing of the Nicholas Brothers
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2002
Tap dancing legends Fayard (b. 1914) and Harold (1918-2000) Nicholas amazed crowds with their performances in musicals and films from the 30s to the 80s. They performed with Gene Kelly in The Pirate, with Cab Calloway in Stormy Weather, with Dorothy Dandridge (Harold's wife) in Sun Valley Serenade,...
by alex trostanetskiy
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2013
Are you looking for a journey that will take you through The Greatest DJ's in United States of All Time: Top 100, along with funny comments and a word puzzle? Then this book is for you. Whether you are looking at this book for curiosity, choices, options, or just for fun; this book fits any criteria....
by j.w. carter
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
A local central valley fan's tribute to Cher and her rise to fame.
by Peter Andre
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
With his easy charm, down-to-earth personality and natural good looks, it's no wonder that Peter Andre has legions of fans across the globe. Whilst once best known for producing chart-topping pop songs, selling millions of records worldwide and performing sell-out venues all over the world, in recent...
by CatherinePawlick
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
In this absorbing volume, Catherine Pawlick traces Vaganova's story from her early years as a ballet student in tsarist Russia to her career as a dancer with the Mariinsky (Kirov) Ballet to her work as a pedagogue and choreographer. Pawlick then goes beyond biography to address Vaganova's legacy today,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2007
Ballet is a paradox: much loved but little studied. It is a beautiful fairy tale; detached from its origins and unrelated to the men and women who created it. Yet ballet has a history, little known and rarely presented. These great works have dark sides and moral ambiguities, not always nor immediately...
Swans of the Kremlin
Ballet and Power in Soviet Russia
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
Classical ballet was perhaps the most visible symbol of aristocratic culture and its isolation from the rest of Russian society under the tsars. In the wake of the October Revolution, ballet, like all of the arts, fell under the auspices of the Soviet authorities. In light of these events, many feared...
by Louie Shelley
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2014
A Year on the Manchester Music Scene is the collected writings of a freelance journalist who was commentating on the city's music and cultural scene up to the year 2000. Some of these articles were written for Manchester titles – yet some of them were written for national papers who seemed...
by alex trostanetskiy
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2013
Are you looking for a journey that will take you through The Greatest Guitarists of All Time: Top 100, along with funny comments and a word puzzle? Then this book is for you. Whether you are looking at this book for curiosity, choices, options, or just for fun; this book fits any criteria. Creating...
ALMOST ESSENTIALS
LYRICS FROM SONGS BY LAURIAN TALER
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
Over 100 lyrics from the songs by Laurian Taler, where you will encounter all the concerns and fulfilments generated by love and other feelings that appear in interpersonal relationships.
Gustav Mahlers Mental World
A Systematic Representation Translated by Ernest Bernhardt-Kabisch
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
With his extensive three-volume investigation, the author has newly drawn the image of Gustav Mahler for our time. Should Mahler’s symphonies really be categorized as «absolute music»? – Little-known manuscript sources contain significant hints to the contrary: programmatic titles and catchwords...