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Eddie Cantor became one of the greatest entertainers of Depression-era America. This volume begins with a biography that discusses his upbringing and rise to stardom, and features a chronology which highlights his achievements.

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This work details each recording session, as well as the records on which each song appeared, and includes 104 songs that were never released.

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This study chronicles the life and career of Ellen Stewart and her experimental theater, Cafe La Mama. The volume includes a short biography, a chronology of the most significant events related to Stewart and La Mama, a record of the more than 1400 plays produced at La Mama, and an annotated bibliography.

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The influential rock musician Elvis Costello is recognized for the impressive breadth and scope of his music.

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This book compares the pleasures and anxieties provoked by extremes of emotion on Shakespeare's stage with the ways in which emotional excess is interpreted in the plays today.

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The book examines the aesthetic interactions between Britain and India during the Raj in relation to issues of empire and considers the visual culture of urban elites and princely states alongside popular arts. It explores the impact of the Anglo-Indian colonial encounter on the arts and aesthetic traditions of both countries. -- .

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Empires of light is a study of light, vision and power in colonial India. It examines the material cultures of light within imperial networks, drawing the colonial experience into contemporary debates on vision and optics to provide an art historical account of how a modern consciousness was forged amidst these dramatic transformations. -- .

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Painters, photographers, sculptors, and installation artists are among the seventy-five artists represented in this guide to Asian American artists.

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When viewers think of film noir, they often picture actors like Humphrey Bogart playing characters like Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon, the film based on the book by Dashiell Hammett.

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Providing an overview of the music, fashion, films, and philosophies behind the movement, this encyclopedia chronicles the history and development of heavy metal, including sub-movements such as death metal, speed metal, grindcore, and hair metal. It includes coverage on heavy metal fashion; and, masculine and feminine images.

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Independent rock, known as indie rock (rock independent of the major label corporations), is music dedicated to the art of rock: it's adventurous, eclectic, defiant, inventive, and restlessly creative.

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Encyclopedia of Jewish American Artists presents over 80 19th- and 20-century Jewish American artists, ranging from the critically neglected Theresa Bernstein, Ruth Gikow, and Jennings Tofel, to the well-known Eva Hesse, Roy Lichtenstein, and Larry Rivers.

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This unique encyclopedia chronicles American Jewish popular culture, past and present in music, art, food, religion, literature, and more.

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Contains more than 360 entries chronicling the development and use of special effects in the motion picture industry since its beginnings.

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Bob Leszczak has amassed several hundred examples of musical pseudonyms in The Encyclopedia of Pop Music Aliases, 1950-2000, describing the history of these artists from their obscure origins under another name to their rise to prominence as a major musical act.

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The British punk movement is thought to have begun in the mid-1970s with bands such as the Clash and the Sex Pistols, and the American punk movement in the early 1970s with bands such as the Ramones, Patti Smith, and Television playing at CBGB's in New York City's Lower East Side.