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"This anthology of essays, interviews, and autobiographical pieces provides an invaluable overview of the evolution of contemporary music--from chromaticism, serialism, and indeterminacy to jazz, vernac"

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An attempt to show how the film industry has homogenised the Latin, the Chicano, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Mexican, South American and Caribbean into an ethnic enemy, whose negative traits and character have been conditioned by their national origins; and then has profited from this.

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This volume is the first to survey the work of the most important and representative contemporary Polish dramatists and directors and to analyze their contributions to both Polish and Slavic theatrical traditions.

A chronology of important premieres and other productions provides a guide to the unfolding of Polish drama since 1956.

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A reference to a range of American musical styles, from Barbershop to Bluegrass and from Ragtime to Rockabilly. It also includes discussions on cultural, historical and geographic origins; technical musical characteristics; instrumentation and use of voice; lyrics and language; and, typical features of performance and presentation.

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A compiled set of studies in the contrapuntal style of harmony.

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Includes interviews between legendary "Rolling Stone" journalist Paul Nelson and Clint Eastwood who has forged a remarkable career as a movie star, director, producer and composer.

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By 1982 Francis Ford Coppola had won five Academy Awards; at the same time he was over $20 million in debt following the disastrous failure of One from the Heart. This astute biography critically exam

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"Explores Coraline's technological and aesthetic approaches, its narrative and visual roots, and its impact on contemporary stop-motion filmmaking and children's media"--

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The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series, now repackaged in award-winning modern covers to inspire Shakespearians of all ages.

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This book provides an interdisciplinary introduction to the Neapolitan Baroque, through original and in-depth interpretations of pivotal masterpieces of Neapolitan art, literature, philosophy, and theater. The book also presents the city of Naples as a cultural space in which the body functions as a visual, literary, and urban metaphor.

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"An exciting overview of Costa-Gavras oeuvre, while also attending to the Greek-French filmmaker's life as it weaves through history from his own childhood and adolescence in World War II and Cold War Greece to his last socio-political films"--

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"An exciting overview of Costa-Gavras oeuvre, while also attending to the Greek-French filmmaker's life as it weaves through history from his own childhood and adolescence in World War II and Cold War Greece to his last socio-political films"--

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Over its history, country music has evolved from parochial scenes in the US South with little-known local talents, to a multimillion dollar business boasting superstar musicians. This volume examines country music as it developed in the US, from the first country-music radio broadcasts of the 1920s, to the contemporary Nashville sound.

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"Celebrating the dark origins of our most American music, Country reveals a wild shadowland of history that encompasses blackface minstrels and yodeling cowboys; honky-tonk hell and rockabilly heaven;"

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This fun, relaxing coloring experience offers an easy way to unwind and let go of the stresses and responsibilities of life.

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Now in paperback: From jazz saxophonist to one of President Nixon's closest advisers-"I zipped through Crazy Rhythm in record time and enjoyed every last page."-Saul Bellow.

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A first of its kind, all-in-one guide to creating short-form TV series for the Internet. Written in a hip and entertaining style in the language of the cyber generation, this book guides the aspiring videomaker from an initial series idea through writing, production, and uploading and marketing a polished pilot and successive episodes of his or her own original Internet TV series.

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