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Steel Drums and Steelbands: A History is a vivid account of the events that led to the "accidental" invention of the steel drum: the only acoustic musical instrument invented in the 20th century. Angela Smith walks readers through the evolution of the steel drum from an object...

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In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Steve Reich was considered a fringe experimentalist. Hoek's bio-bibliography serves as an essential guide to this literature, comprehensively surveying Reich's life and work.

Included are details of all of Reich's compositions: dates, instrumentation, premiere performances, and publishers;

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This book analyzes the 500 top-grossing films of the last 20 years to show how speakers of traditionally stigmatized dialects are represented, underrepresented, misrepresented, and mocked. Ultimately, the author demonstrates how Hollywood reinforces long-standing negative beliefs about the languages of marginalized communities.

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Still Life: The Photographs of Maggie St.Thomas is a gorgeous 104 page hardback book of photo-journalistic work spanning four decades by music and entertainment Photographer Maggie St.Thomas, specializing in her formative years with the underground LA goth scene. Foreword written by Exene Cervenka.
Cover Model: Rita Elvira
Layout and Design: Biff Butler

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In Sting and The Police: Walking in Their Footsteps, Aaron J. West explores the cultural and musical impact of Stewart Copeland, Andy Summers, and Sting. West details the distinctive hybrid character of The Polices musical output, which would also characterize Stings post-Police development as a musician.

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Protest songs are united by the fact they all have something to say, something to dispute, or something to rile against. This book covers 50 of the most influential musical protests and statements recorded.

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Contains 25 story theater scripts appropriate for Grades 2-6. The scripts are designed to accommodate whole-classroom participation. The book also includes a description of the process for working with students to create a school Story Fest. Grades 2-6.

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Want to use puppets in storytelling but think you lack the confidence or talent Her hands-in approach includes scripts and ideas for group activities accompanied by tried and true techniques for creating and using puppets to introduce books, lead songs, and tell stories.

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Whether you want to become a full time storyteller, expand your storytelling repertoire, or simply hire a storyteller, this guide is for you. Prejudice, censorship, and other issues related to storytelling are highlighted in the final chapter, and an appendix contains How to Host a Freelance Storyteller at Your School or Library.

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Thirty years of collecting and 15 years of research have resulted in this discography that features all known recordings, transcriptions, and films made by Cole until 1950, when his jazz style faded away, and a selection of his later jazz-related trio sides.

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A new edition of this classic of rock journalism that first asked the question: What one album would you bring to a desert island, and why

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"The personality of Vincent van Gogh (1853--1890)--a 19th-century combination of dropout, rebel, and genius--and the source of his enormous achievement continue to fascinate people as deeply as his vivid,"

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This collection provides the first book-length study of how audiovisual streaming is reshaping media ecologies and cultural life across the global South, including Asia, North Africa, and South America.

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Emphasizing the importance of cultural theory for film history, this book guides readers on a series of "inferential walks" through Italian culture in the first decades of the 21st century. It draws a cultural history that persuasively argues for a spatial, corporal interpretation of film language.

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Following the pattern established with his pioneering work, Woodwind Music of Black Composers, Aaron Horne now presents a comparable work for the string music of Black composers.

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A wide variety of essays by colleagues and former students reflect Professor Strunk's particular role as music historian, teacher, and a pre-eminent musicologist. Donald Grout provides the introduction and outlines the problems confronting musicology today. Other essays are devoted to early Christian music, Renaissance music, early Italian opera; A

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A study of the changes in the style of Guercino and of related 17th century Italian painters.