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Drawing on examples including rap music, Qwaali and Kirtan, Sacred and Secular Musics offers new empirical material and new insights into conceptualising religion and music, and the ways in which music performs sacredness and secularity in different geographical and historical spaces.

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This book offers a history of films with Biblical, spiritual, and supernatural themes.

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The first and only collection of its kind, Sacred Symphony contains 100 transcriptions of muscial excerpts from the chanted sermons of contemporary black preachers.

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The Latin sound called salsa, or, more correctly, Afro-Hispanic music of the Antilles, is a vital force on the international contemporary music scene.

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Boggs presents a history of salsa, showing how Afro-Cuban music was embraced in New York City, how it has undergone cycles of popularity, and how it has been replicated abroad. The text contains interviews with such key figures as Palladium Mambero and Ernie Ensley.

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No dramatist in the recent history of the American theatre has gained more celebrity than Sam Shepard.

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This work traces Sam Shepard's rise from an Off-Off-Broadway renegade to a Hollywood leading man, exploring his evolution from counterculture to cultural icon.

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Hennessee provides a biographical overview of the life of Samuel Barber, one of America's foremost composers, as well as comprehensive bibliographical information about his complete oeuvre. The volume consists of four main sections: a brief biography, a complete list of works and performances, a discography, and an annotated bibliography.

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SankShuned Photography Art Book Volume 4 captures my first trip to Egypt and Jordan. I show photographs which highlight my 14 day trip. Also included are two incredible interviews, one with cultural historian, Anthony Browder and the other interview with Egyptian historian, Heba Seoudi.

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This book explores the life and pedagogy of Sarah Anna Glover, the female music education pioneer of congregational singing (psalmody) and singing in nineteenth-century schools. Jane Southcott analyzes Glovers methods, history, and memory, and works to correct inaccuracies and misrepresentations that have emerged since Glovers death.

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Through a study of the actress' films, records and writings, Gerda Taranow reconstructs the rigorously developed artistry that lay behind the superb performances. Analyzing each histrionic element and discussing repertoire she shows how Bernhardt adapted the techniques learned at the Conservatoire and in the theatre to her own particular strengths

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"In all my whole career the Brick House was one of the toughest joints I ever played in. It was the honky-tonk where levee workers would congregate every Saturday night and trade with the gals who'd s

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A valuable, jubilant look at a great man and artist.-New York Times Book Review

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One of the United States' musical greats, the influence of trumpeter Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong extended well beyond the world of jazz. This encyclopedia presents alphabetic short entries discussing such topics as musical styles, friends and colleagues, family, tours, writings, recordings, record com

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When pressed to name the most influential musician of the 20th century, many music historians will name Louis Satchmo Armstrong.

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With 26 films to his credit and numerous international prizes, Satyajit Ray is India's most recognized filmmaker--yet, no extended study of his films has previouly been published in English in the West.