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The Body in Sound, Music and Performance: Studies in Audio and Sonic ArtsThe Body in Sound, Music and Performance brings together cutting-edge contributions from women working on and researching contemporary sound practice. This highly interdisciplinary book features a host of international contributors and places emphasis on developments beyond the western world, including movements growing across Latin...
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Writing-Enriched Curricula: Models of Faculty-Driven and Departmental TransformationThis edited collection explores theoretical and practical applications of the Writing-Enriched Curriculum (WEC) approach, an innovative and sustainable alternative to writing across the curriculum and writing in the disciplines. The collection's purpose is to inform writing program administrators, teachers, scholars, and university officials about...
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DC Go-Go: Ten Years BackstageDC Represent!There's a party over here, there's a party over there! In go-go the party never stops, and neither does the beat. The bands, the stars, the clubs, the spots, the sweat, the late nights and the passion are the sound of the city--all...
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Cello Time Runners Piano AccompanimentContains all the piano accompaniments for Cello Time Runners (the cello duets are unaccompanied and so printed in the cello book only). Characterful and easy to play, these piano parts provide the perfect stylish accompaniment to the cellist's first tunes, and help capture the...
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La MusiqueLA MUSIQUE rythme la vie des humains, où qu'ils soient sur la planète, depuis la préhistoire. Si chaque culture possède ses traditions musicales, la musique évolue aussi au gré des époques, des progrès technologiques et du mélange des cultures, se déployant en un vaste...
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The Art of Pink Floyd the WallThe Art of Pink Floyd The Wall is a sumptuously illustrated book, collecting Gerald Scarfe's iconic work for Pink Floyd. First The Wall was an album, then it was a stage show, a film - now there will be the definitive book, which will...
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Armenian Duduk: Complete Method and Repertoire: Complete Method and RepertoireThe Third Edition of Armenian Duduk Method is the only trilingual comprehensive and easy-to-use guide designed for anyone interested in playing Armenian Duduk from the complete novice just learning the basics to the more advanced player. Using his prominent performance and pedagogy background Georgy...
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The Complete Book of 1900s Broadway MusicalsBroadway musicals of the 1900s saw the emergence of George M. Cohan and his quintessentially American musical comedies which featured contemporary American stories, ragtime-flavored songs, and a tongue-in-cheek approach to musical comedy conventions. But when the Austrian import The Merry Widow opened in 1907,...
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Easy Kids Piano Sheet MusicBeginners First Book of Easy to Play Classic Songs 50 Songs (Beginner Piano Books for Children)Easy Kids Piano Sheet Music is a great first songbook for budding pianists. Inside you will find 50 of the most popular familiar favourites ranging from classic, Christmas, Nursery...
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Treasures of Mechanical MusicThis book contains over four hundred fifty tuning scales, tracker scales and key frame layouts for player and reproducing pianos, coin pianos and orchestrions, music boxes, table-top organettes, reed, pipe, and electronic organs, barrel organs and various other miscellaneous mechanical musical instruments. In addition...
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Breaks in the Air: The Birth of Rap Radio in New York CityIn Breaks in the Air John Klaess tells the story of rap's emergence on New York City's airwaves by examining how artists and broadcasters adapted hip hop's performance culture to radio. Initially, artists and DJs brought their live practice to radio by buying time...
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Story-Lives of Master Musicians (Yesterday's Classics)An engaging introduction to 22 of the world's greatest musicians, highlighting their struggles and triumphs, beginning in boyhood and lasting until the end of their days. Much emphasis is placed on the ways they learned their craft, whether at a father's knee, by copying...
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Orbit: Mötley Crüe: Livin' the Fast LifeThe band known as much for their talent onstage as their antics offstage, Mötley Crüe epitomized the drug-fueled, sex-riddled excess of 1980's metal acts. In the process, they forged a rock dynasty few other bands have been able to achieve. Nikki Sixx, Tommy Lee,...
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Audio Mastering Secrets: The Pros Don't Want You To Know!The #1 Best Selling Audio Mastering Book The Last Three Years Combined!If you're into audio engineering, this is a great music production book to add to your home recording studio collection. Packed with step-by-step proven methods.Audio Mastering Secrets is the first audio mastering books...
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Quick How to Read MusicFor musicians, by musicians, the latest guide by the best-selling music learning author Jake Jackson. A new compact format from best-selling music author Jake Jackson. A clear, simple, direct solution for anyone learning any instrument, particularly the guitar or keyboard, and for those needing...
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The Golden Age Musicals of Darryl F. Zanuck: The Gentleman Preferred BlondesBeginning with The Jazz Singer (1927) and 42nd Street (1933), legendary Hollywood film producer Darryl F. Zanuck (1902-1979) revolutionized the movie musical, cementing its place in American popular culture. Zanuck, who got his start writing stories and scripts in the silent film era, worked...
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Nothing But Noise: Timbre and Musical Meaning at the EdgeNothing but Noise: Timbre and Musical Meaning at the Edge explores how timbre shapes musical affect and meaning. Integrating perspectives from musicology with the cognitive sciences, author Zachary Wallmark advances a novel model of timbre interpretation that takes into account the bodily, sensorimotor dynamics...
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Rock 'n' Roll Plays Itself: A Screen HistoryA raucous cultural history of rock's relationship with the moving image. When rock 'n' roll burst into life in the 1950s, the shockwaves echoed around the world, amplified by images of untamed youth projected on cinema screens. But for the performers themselves, corporate showbusiness...
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Wake Up, Mr. West: Kanye West and the Double Consciousness of Black CelebrityBlack celebrities in America have always walked a precarious line between their perceived status as spokespersons for their race and their own individual success----and between being not black enough for the black community or too black to appeal to a broader audience. Few know...
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The Politics of Vibration: Music as a Cosmopolitical PracticeIn The Politics of Vibration Marcus Boon explores music as a material practice of vibration. Focusing on the work of three contemporary musicians-Hindustani classical vocalist Pandit Pran Nath, Swedish drone composer and philosopher Catherine Christer Hennix, and Houston-based hip-hop musician DJ Screw-Boon outlines how...
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