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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.
Publisher
The Teaching Company
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (ca. 720 min.) in 2 containers : sd., color ; 4 3/4 in. + 2 course guidebooks (ii, 161 pages ; 20 cm.)
Description
This course covers the 200-year evolution of American music theater, including the minstrel era, the vaudeville era, the age of ragtime, the revue, and the book musical. Because recorded examples of music from recent Broadway musicals are readily available in retail stores, these are used less frequently here than the older, rarer recordings, without which most listeners would have little knowledge of the sound of the early musicals. The shows chosen...
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Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
274 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Description
Traces the achievements of such influential counter-culture directors as Wes Craven, Roman Polanski, and John Carpenter, describing how they incorporated modern politics and gritty realism into their films to reinvent the horror film genre in the 1970s.
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Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
x, 307 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm
Description
"Andrew Dickos's Street with No Name traces the film noir genre back to its roots in German expressionist cinema and the French cinema of the interwar years. Dickos describes the development of the film noir in America from 1941 through the 1970s and examines how this development expresses a modern cinema. He argues that, in its most satisfying form, the film noir exists as a series of conventions with an iconography and characters of distinctive...
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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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"In Bookends, Pulitzer Prize winning author Michael Chabon offers a compilation of pieces about literature--age-old classics as well as his own--that presents a unique look into his literary origins and influences, the books that shaped his taste and formed his ideas about writing and reading"--
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Publisher
Little Bee Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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Presents the history of hip-hop including, how it evolved from folktales, spirituals, and poetry, to the showmanship of James Brown, to the culture of graffiti art and breakdancing that formed around the art form.
70) Face value
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Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (60 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Explores the making of the 1981 album Face value through archival footage and interviews with Phil Collins, engineer Hugh Padgham, Eric Clapton and other musicians involved in the production. Includes special performances by Phil of songs which were eventually omitted from the album.
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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...
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Publisher
BMG Video
Pub. Date
p2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 85 min.) : sd., col. b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This video explores the blues-- with all its poetic irony and sly humor, its eroticism and timeless power. It traces its roots from the beginning of the 20th century through the Mississippi Delta to Louisiana, Texas, Kansas City and Chicago. It includes music by: Son House, Leadbelly, Big Bill Broonzy, Bessie Smith, Count Basie, Louis Jordan, Jimmy Rushing, T-Bone Walker, Big Joe Turner, Sonny Boy Williamson, Muddy Waters, Dinah Washington and many...
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Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
448 pages
Description
"The incredible true story of the making of The Godfather-one of America's most popular cinematic masterpieces-featuring interviews with the director, producer, cast, and crew, just in time for the film's fiftieth anniversary"--
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Publisher
Graywolf
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
viii, 189 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
Robert Boswell has been writing, reading, and teaching literature for over twenty years. In this sparkling collection of essays, he brings this vast experience and a keen critical eye to bear on craft issues facing literary writers. Examples from masters such as Leo Tolstoy, Flannery O'Connor, and Alice Munro illustrate this engaging discussion of what makes great writing." "At the same time, Boswell moves readers beyond the classroom, candidly sharing...
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
xv, 361 p. ill. ; 25 cm.
Description
Unfolds the ongoing history and evolution of the piano and all its myriad wonders: how its very sound provides the basis for emotional expression and individual style, and why it has so powerfully entertained generation upon generation of listeners.
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