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This is a 50-year retrospective of some of the work of scrimshander Marvin M. Cohen.

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This collection grounds contemporary anxieties about race and class, domesticity and American exceptionalism in its nineteenth-century setting through a close reading of the Deadwood series.

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This collection grounds contemporary anxieties about race and class, domesticity and American exceptionalism in its nineteenth-century setting through a close reading of the Deadwood series.

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Studies the unique achievements of Chabrol's last fourteen years of filmmaking, during which he made nine remarkable films which combine a formally complex and highly self-conscious style with a thematic focus on the opacity of the relationship between human thought and action.

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The intimate chronicle of one of our leading composers and writers.

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In a sequel to Dave Oliphant's The Early Swing Era: 1930 to 1941, McClellan (professional education, Berklee College of Music, Boston) profiles big bands, vocalists, and small groups playing swing music during World War II and--unlike most commentators-- on through the next decade.

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This study of the Latin American art song and its development in the context of musical nationalism shows how the song is a mirror in which the processes of conformation to Latin American national identity are reflected.

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This study of the Latin American art song and its development in the context of musical nationalism shows how the song is a mirror in which the processes of conformation to Latin American national identity are reflected.

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This book is a comparative analysis of the history of popular music and folk studies in Chile, Argentina, and Brazil as it relates to society, culture, and representations of national identity.

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For everyone who has fallen in love with Latin music, a guide to its many styles that also traces its place in American music and culture

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From the terrified double-takes of Lou Costello and Bob Hope and the rapid-fire wisecracks of Michael Keaton's Beetlejuice to the ghoulish sight gags of Shaun of the Dead, horror and humor have been intertwined, on screens large and small, for decades. This edited collection o...

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The purpose of this book is simple: to serve as a picture book to aide you on your journey toward inner peace and spiritual enlightenment.

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"At the time of Mark Rothko's apparent suicide in 1970, the deeply troubled, pioneering artist of Abstract Expressionism was at the height of fame and financial success; yet within months of the funera"

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This work examines the creative lives and careers of Muhidin Maalim Gurumo and Hassan Rehani Bitchuka, two of Tanzanias most well-known singers in the popular music genre known as muziki wa dansi (literally, "music for dancing"), through an ethnomusicological lens.

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Art and Lives of Twelve Great Bluesmen

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"Preferring Paul to John was like preferring Cliff Richard to Elvis Presley, or Donovan to Dylan. John was the leader; he was his own man."-Martin Amis

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This is the first complete edition of the letters and notebooks of actress Mary Devlin, Edwin Booth's first wife, and is the first reference of its kind in nineteenth-century American theatre scholarship.

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"Huddie Ledbetter (1889--1949), known to millions of fans simply as Leadbelly, was arguably the most famous black singer in American history. His close musical associations included such towering figure"

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The first overview of music journalist Ralph J. Gleason, and a discussion of in what ways music journalists contribute to the people and music they write about.