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Publisher
Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
319 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
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From the epic of Gilgamesh, almost two thousand years BCE, to the modern fantasys of Stephen King's Dark Tower series and J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter, authors have created fictional realms that have captivated audiences. Miller has guided a team of writers to unlock the mysteries and meanings of nearly 100 fantastical and awe-inspiring lands. The essays explore the contemporary events and circumstances that influenced each work, and examine how elements...
Publisher
Betty Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Documents L.A.'s original underground music from the cowboy rockers of the 1950s, the revivalists of the 1980s, and the mexi-billy stars of today. Includes rockabilly, western swing, garage growls, cumbia strolls, and doo-wop.
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"Beginning with the battle hymns of the revolution, and taking us through songs from the defining events of the Civil War, the fight for women's suffrage, the two world wars, the Great Depression, the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War, and into the twenty-first century, Meacham and McGraw explore the songs that defined generations, and the cultural and political climates that produced them. Readers will discover the power of music in the lives...
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"Now, in a seminal work, the classicist and linguist Susan Brind Morrow has recast the Pyramid Texts as a coherent work of art, arguing that they should be recognized as a formative event in the evolution of human thought. In The Dawning Moon of the Mind she explains how to read hieroglyphs, contextualizes their evocative imagery, and interprets the entire poem. The result is a magisterial religious and philosophical text revealing a profound consciousness...
8) Mariachi
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Publisher
Gibbs Smith
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
176 pages : color illustrations.
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Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
260 pages
Description
"Reinventing Pink Floyd follows the path taken by the remaining band members to establish a musical identity, develop a songwriting style, and create a new template for the manner in which albums are made and even enjoyed by listeners. As veteran music journalist Bill Kopp illustrates, that path was filled with failed experiments, creative blind alleys, one-off musical excursions, abortive collaborations, general restlessness, and?most importantly?a...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
512 pages ; 25 cm.
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"100 of the most moving and inspiring poems of the last 200 years from around the world, a collection that will comfort and enthrall anyone trapped by grief or loneliness, selected by the award-winning, best-selling, and beloved author of How to Read a Poem"--
12) Country music
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
8 DVDs (960 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Ken Burns chronicles the history of a uniquely American art form, rising from the experiences of remarkable people in distinctive regions of the nation. From its roots in ballads, hymns and the blues to its mainstream popularity, and meet the unforgettable characters and storytellers who made it 'America's Music.' Viewers will follow the evolution of country music over the course of the twentieth century, as it eventually emerged to become America's...
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xxvi, 394 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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"Richly illustrated with images from Art Spiegelman's work, Maus Now gathers together many of contemporary culture's leading critics, authors, and academics on the radical achievement and innovation of Maus more than forty years since its first publication. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Art Spiegelman is one of our most influential contemporary artists, and it is hard to overstate his effect on postwar American culture. Maus has shaped the fields...
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Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
xiii, 336 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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"For the fiftieth anniversary of the film, W.K. Stratton's definitive history of the making of The Wild Bunch, named one of the greatest Westerns of all time by the American Film Institute. Sam Peckinpah's film The Wild Bunch is the story of a gang of outlaws who are one big steal from retirement. When their attempted train robbery goes awry, the gang flees to Mexico and falls in with a brutal general of the Mexican Revolution, who offers them the...
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
544 pages cm
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"In his first book devoted exclusively to narrative fiction, America's most original and controversial literary critic and legendary Yale professor writes trenchantly about fifty-two masterworks spanning the Western tradition"--
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Grove Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
384 pages cm
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"The ten brilliant women who are the focus of Sharp came from different backgrounds and had vastly divergent political and artistic opinions. But they all made a significant contribution to the cultural and intellectual history of America and ultimately changed the course of the twentieth century, in spite of the men who often undervalued or dismissed their work."--Amazon.com.
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Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xii, 298 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : photographs, illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Description
"An illuminating deep dive into the making of Bruce Springsteen's most surprising album, Nebraska, revealing its pivotal role in Springsteen's career--from the New York Times bestselling author of Petty: The Biography. Without Nebraska, Bruce Springsteenmight not be who he is today. The natural follow-up to Springsteen's hugely successful The River should have been the hit-packed album Born in the U.S.A, but instead, in 1982, he came out with Nebraska,...
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
xi, 329 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
In this delightful collection, forty acclaimed writers explain what first made them interested in literature, what inspired them to read, and what makes them continue to do so. First published in 1992 in hardback only, original contributors include Margaret Atwood, J. G. Ballard, Melvyn Bragg, A. S. Byatt, Catherine Cookson, Carol Ann Duffy, Germaine Greer, Alan Hollinghurst, Doris Lessing, Candia McWilliam, Edna O'Brien, Ruth Rendell, Tom Stoppard,...
20) Wattstax
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
On Aug. 20, 1972, more than 100,000 people attended a concert that came to be known as 'the Black Woodstock.' Wattstax documents this historic event and includes the once-lost original ending.
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