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by Alex Ross
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
One of The Telegraph's Best Music Books 2011
Alex Ross's award-winning international bestseller, The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, has become a contemporary classic, establishing Ross as one of our most popular and acclaimed cultural historians. Listen to This, which takes...
Every Song Ever
Twenty Ways to Listen in an Age of Musical Plenty
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
What is music in the age of the cloud? Today, we can listen to nearly anything, at any time. It is possible to flit instantly across genres and generations, from 1980s Detroit techno to 1890s Viennese neo-romanticism. This new age of listening brings with it astonishing new possibilities--as well...
by Allen Shawn
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
A composer's study and celebration of a difficult but influential artist, his work, and his time
Proposing that Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) has been more discussed than heard, more tolerated than loved, composer Allen Shawn puts aside ultimate judgments about Schoenberg's place in musical...
The Chicago Cubs
Story of a Curse
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
The New York Times bestselling author of Monsters: The 1985 Chicago Bears and the Wild Heart of Football “knocks it out of the park” (Vanity Fair) in this captivating blend of sports reportage and memoir, exploring the history of the 2016 World Series champions, the Chicago Cubs.
Now a...
At Play
Teaching Teenagers Theater
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2006
Young people and improvisational theater should be a natural combination—so why do we so rarely find this combo in today's classrooms? According to Elizabeth Swados—playwright, director, composer, poet, author of children's books and of an acclaimed family memoir—improvisational theater is the...
The Dark Flood Rises
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
One of the Washington Post's 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2017 and a New York Times Notable Book of 2017
From the great British novelist Dame Margaret Drabble comes a vital and audacious tale about the many ways in which we confront aging and living in a time of geopolitical rupture.
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by Jamaica Kincaid
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2002
From "The Talk of the Town," Jamaica Kincaid's first impressions of snobbish, mobbish New York
Talk Pieces is a collection of Jamaica Kincaid's original writing for the New Yorker's "Talk of the Town," composed during the time when she first came to the United States from...
Writing in the Dark, Dancing in The New Yorker
An Arlene Croce Reader
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2003
The best of America's best writer on dance
"Theoretically, I am ready to go to anything-once. If it moves, I'm interested; if it moves to music, I'm in love."
From 1973 until 1996 Arlene Croce was The New Yorker's dance critic, a post created for her. Her entertaining, forthright,...
Asian American Dreams
The Emergence of an American People
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2000
The fascinating story of the rise of Asian Americans as a politically and socially influential racial group
This groundbreaking book is about the transformation of Asian Americans from a few small, disconnected, and largely invisible ethnic groups into a self-identified racial group that is...
Retromania
Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2011
One of The Telegraph's Best Music Books 2011
We live in a pop age gone loco for retro and crazy for commemoration. Band re-formations and reunion tours, expanded reissues of classic albums and outtake-crammed box sets, remakes and sequels, tribute albums and mash-ups . . . But what happens...
Somebody Scream!
Rap Music's Rise to Prominence in the Aftershock of Black Power
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
For many African Americans of a certain demographic the sixties and seventies were the golden age of political movements. The Civil Rights movement segued into the Black Power movement which begat the Black Arts movement. Fast forward to 1979 and the release of Sugarhill Gang's "Rapper's Delight."...
Against Interpretation
And Other Essays
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Includes the essay "Notes on Camp," the inspiration for the 2019 exhibition Notes on Fashion: Camp at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Against Interpretation was Susan Sontag's first collection of essays and is a modern classic. Originally published in 1966, it has never...
Seven Pleasures
Essays on Ordinary Happiness
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2009
What does it mean to be happy? Americans have had an obsession with "the pursuit of happiness" ever since the Founding Fathers enshrined it—along with life and liberty—as our national birthright. Whether it means the accumulation of wealth or a more vaguely understood notion of self-fulfillment...
Great Expectations
The Sons and Daughters of Charles Dickens
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
The strange and varied lives of the ten children of the world's most beloved novelist
Charles Dickens, famous for the indelible child characters he created—from Little Nell to Oliver Twist and David Copperfield—was also the father of ten children (and a possible eleventh). What happened...