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This text describes the life and career of the American actress in a biography and chronology detailing her achievements in the different production media, with full credits, synopses, and review sources provided for the films and plays.

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"A follow-up to Hegarty's successful Noise/Music, this book looks at noise in a range of contexts within sound studies and cultural theory"--

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The Annual Review of Jazz Studies (ARJS) is a journal providing a forum for the ever expanding range and depth of jazz scholarship, from technical analyses to oral history to cultural interpretation. This 14th issue contains four articles that contravene accepted precepts of j...

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Another Mickey is a slice of Americana--the venture of an Air Force brat raised in a military family anchored in Texas culture, observations of people and places critical to folk and country music, and a revelation of the inner workings of a Texas music scene, and Texas songwriter--Townes Van Zandt--that had a prolific influence on American music in the late twentieth century.

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It provides fully annotated catalogues of his compositions, performances and reviews of his works, and his achievements as a teacher, writer, and lecturer.

The volume begins with a biographical survey of the life and works of Anthony Milner.

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The authors document the numerous attempts to ban or censor rock music, and dramatically show how it has been blamed for everything from anarchy and juvenile delinquency to drugs, deafness, teen pregnancy, suicide, abortion, pornography, and even murder. Here is the complete history of that "sick, repulsive, horrible, and dangerous" music as seen by its enemies.

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The author has researched Russian sources to make available this assessment of Rubinstein and has provided guidelines for further research.

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Compiled in cooperation with the Antonin Dvorak Society of Prague, Czechoslovakia, to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the composer's birth, this is the first book-length discography on Dvorak.

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This annotated survey identifies and evaluates the published literature of chamber and concertante music originally conceived for wind instruments. Entries, arranged by instrument, are organised chronologically by genre to highlight the historical development of the works.

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The new edition of an essential text offers an informative, engaging view of the architectural profession from education through practice.

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Provides insight into the effects of Frank Lloyd Wright's architectural theories and designs in Holland and Europe in the 1920s. It covers events and theories, including the assertion that Hendrik Theodor Wijdeveld was the catalytic source behind Wright's Taliesin Fellowship established in 1932.

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Two of the most ambitious religious edifices of the 20th century are the Our Lady of Peace Basilica in the West African country of the Ivory Coast and the Hassan II Mosque in Morocco.

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The single family house, for example, shares with its foreign contemporaries the basic elements of plan, and yet the way in which these elements are organized into a whole gives our houses certain qualities which we can call uniquely American.

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From Stonehnege, to the Millenium Dome, this volume contains 76 entries including palaces, castles, bridges and various public buildings and monuments.

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Covering all regions of Francefrom Avignon's Palace of the Popes to Versailles' Petit Trianonand all periods of French architecturefrom the Roman theater at Orange to the Arc de Triomphe in Paristhis volume examines more than 60 of France's most important architectural landmarks.

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From the Acropolis and the Temple of Zeus to the National Library and the Univerisity of Athens, this volume examines both the aesthetic design and cultural/social functions of 61 noted architectural landmarks throughout the nation of Greece.

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Covering all regions of Italyfrom Turin's Palace of Labor in northern Italy to the Monreale Cathedral and Cloister in Sicilyand all periods of Italian architecturefrom the first-century Colosseum in Rome to the Casa Rustica apartments built in Milan in the 1930sthis volume examines over 70 of Italy's most important architectural landmarks.

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Covering all regions of Spain, from Bilbao's Guggenheim Museum to Granada's Islamic palace of La Alhambra, and all periods of Spanish architecture, from the Roman aqueduct at Segovia to the modernistic German Pavilion in Barcelona, this volume examines 68 of Spain's most important architectural landmarks.

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The Jimi Hendrix Experience had one of the most dazzling and sensational careers of any band. Their roller-coaster ride through a schedule of sell-out tours and frantic recording sessions left them cr

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