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This book bridges both normative and interventional design processes, methodologies and products under gendered design as an overarching conceptual framework, with the goal of igniting reflexivity, awareness and action among design researchers, practitioners and educators on how designed things do and can have an impact on gender issues.

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"Among the few truly experimental composers in our cultural history, Harry Partch's life (1901-1974) and music embody most completely the quintessential American rootlessness, isolation, pre-civilized"

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"Offers an ambitious and pioneering analysis of the role of technique, genre, humour, and sincerity in the work of Genndy Tartakovsky, exploring of the impact of his work on contemporary Western animation"--

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"Offers an ambitious and pioneering analysis of the role of technique, genre, humour, and sincerity in the work of Genndy Tartakovsky, exploring of the impact of his work on contemporary Western animation"--

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This book is the first comprehensive examination of the relationship between dance and geography. It includes articles from geographers, anthropologists, dance historians, architects, and urban planners and examines how dance uses, transforms and gives meaning to the everyday spaces we inhabit.

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He wrote books and won numerous awards, and his nightclub and convention appearances did not stop until shortly before his death.

Through a thoughtful biography and detailed entries, this book serves as a comprehensive reference to the careers of Burns and Allen together and individually.

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This insightful biography of George Clooney looks at his work on-screen, his off-screen activities as a political activist, and the many things that make him stand out from the Hollywood crowd.

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One of the important British graphic artists of the nineteenth century, George Cruikshank (1792-1878) illustrated over 860 books, including several by Charles Dickens, and produced a number of etchings, paintings, and caricatures. This work shows how the insights of these seminal essays have been amplified by exhibitions and scholarship.

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George Crumb is a composer at the forefront of post-World War II American music, and never before has one volume combined a portrait of his life with a catalogue of his extensive work.

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American composer George Gershwin, an icon of the American Jazz Age, indelibly marked 20th-century music, with many of his works becoming standards in the popular and jazz music repertory, not to mention his world-famous classical works such as Rhapsody in Blue (1924) and Porgy and Bess (1935).

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Having retired from a career in government, Hyland has taken to writing about American popular music and here traces the life, personality, and work of composer Gershwin (1898-1937) from his birth in New York City to the impact his music continues to exert. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland,

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Hyland reveals both the man and his creations, revealing how Gershwin became the first composer to apply popular music to classical forms, how his work reflected the turmoil of America in the Jazz Age, and how, despite his fame, he never achieved the happiness and contentment a genius of his stature deserved.

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George Sidney directed a number of popular Hollywood films, such as Anchors Aweigh, Show Boat, Kiss Me Kate, and Bye Bye Birdie. But despite the popularity of his films, Sidney has been a largely unheralded figure in film history.

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Considered the "Dean of American Composers" from the 1880s through World War I, Chadwick and his music are enjoying a revival in this decade; this guide explores his life and work.

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The first comprehensive research guide and bibliography to the large literature surrounding the life and work of one of the 20th century's greatest artists, this volume includes information on more than 1,100 books and articles as well as a chronology, biographical sketch, and list of exhibitions.

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Gerald Finzi (1901-1956) was a British composer, editor, author and outdoorsman/agrarian. This work serves as an awareness tool, introducing Finzi as a miniaturist, a pastoral composer and a minor Edwardian musician.

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The first collection of essays on Gerhard Richter, who has been called the greatest modern painter.

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The name of Germaine Tailleferre (1892-1983) commonly brings to mind the intriguing group of French composers referred to in the 1920s as iconoclasts, and known as Les Six (with Poulenc, Auric, Durey, Milhaud, and Honegger).

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This book examines the significance of the thirty-two Krimi films produced by Rialto Film from 1959 to 1972, canonizing their role in the era of German popular cinema during Krimis rise to popularity and inevitable decline and evolution.

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