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This book tells the story of how the young Englishman Eric Fenby met his idol and became his aide.

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This definitive text explores the complex relationship between participation in the arts and participation in politics in America. Political science and arts management students, as well as arts advocates, will find that this text provides a clear picture of participation in the arts and politics in America.

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Presents a critical history of Disney feature animation that uproots common misconceptions and brings fresh scholarly definition to a busy field. In addition to challenging certain misconceptions concerning the studio's development, this study also brings scholarly definition to hitherto neglected aspects of contemporary Disney.

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An innovative critical history of Disney feature animation that uproots common misconceptions and brings fresh scholarly definition to a busy field.

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Desi Rap explores the connection between South Asian Americans and hip-hop as both a sociopolitical/cultural movement and performative identity. This groundbreaking collection of essays is the first book of its kind to interrogate ideas about ownership of culture while asserti...

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Residents look at their neighborhood differently than visitors and designers do. in particular, the importance of involving residents in defining and resolving their own problems, and the need to accept space management and social organization as proper concerns of design.

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How design for disabled people and mainstream design could inspire, provoke, and radically change each other.

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This retrospective on the career of Academy Award-winning production designer Richard Sylbert takes readers behind the scenes of some of the most influential films of the past fifty years.

The Manchurian Candidate, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, The Graduate, Rosemary's Baby, Chinatown, Dick Tracy.

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Offering a look at the creative power of institutions, this book explores the rise of the modern idea of the artist in the 19th century, a period that also witnessed the emergence of the museum and the professional critic. Drawing upon neoclassical art and theory, it aims to bring to life the artistic passions and anxieties of an entire era.

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The definitive account of rock in the city that has produced louder, more important, in-your-face rock than anywhere else on the planet, told from the bands- the Stooges, MC5, Grand Funk Railroad, Ted Nugent, the White Stripes, Kid Rock, and more- the fans, and everyone who was there to witness it.

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As the popularity of the genre increases and special effects are pushed to greater extremes of terror and cruelty, more and more people have begun to wonder, what is the attraction of horror films

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"In the history of twentieth-century ballet, no company has had so profound and far-reaching an influence as the Ballets Russes. Under the direction of impresario extraordinaire Serge Diaghilev (1872--1"

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Early in the century, a handful of American composers began creating a new musical culture in the United States. This movement, known as experimentalism, peaked during the 1950s and 1960s, when the music of composers like John Cage, Henry Cowell, and Charles Ives reached a new wide audience.

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"Marcel Duchamp, one of this century's pioneer artists, moved his work through the retinal boundaries which had been established with impressionism into t field with impressionism into t field where l"

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This edited volume is a collection of scholarly research on filmmaker Gurinder Chadhas work representing Indian culture in foreign lands. Contributors discuss the implications of such admixtures on acculturation processes, diasporic formations, and specific cultural experiences.

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Aims to provide comprehensive information on the technology of music. The encyclopaedia's entries cover an immense musical field. Included are entries on traditional and electronic instruments, and on such topics as computer music composition, microphone placement and psychoacoustics.

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Documentation for approximately three hundred shows, from A Trip to Coontown (1898) to 1981's Dreamgirls, is provided in part I. The Dictionary concludes with a chronology of all shows included in the text, a discography of black shows, and a selected bibliography of studies related to black theatre history and criticism.

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This ground-breaking work brings dance into current discussions of the African presence in American culture. Hip hop culture and rap are related to contemporary performance, showing how a disenfranchised culture affects the culture in power.

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This ground-breaking work brings dance into current discussions of the African presence in American culture. Hip hop culture and rap are related to contemporary performance, showing how a disenfranchised culture affects the culture in power.

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