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American Ballads: The Photographs of Marty StuartAlthough known primarily as a country music star, Marty Stuart has been taking photographs of the people and places surrounding him since he first went on tour with bluegrass performer Lester Flatt at age twelve. His inspirations to do this include his own mother,...
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The Who's the Who Sell OutReleased in the U.S. in January 1968, The Who Sell Out was, according to critic Dave Marsh, a complete backfire--the album sold well, but not spectacularly and was] ultimately a nostalgic in-joke: Who but a pop intellectual could appreciate such a thing? Further rarifying...
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Fusion: A Study in Contemporary Music for the Drums: The Collective: Contemporary Styles Series(Percussion). The genre fusion, as the name implies, is a blend of many styles and influences. This book and CD utilize four tunes as a basis to show how this fusion-blending process can occur and expose you to major trends that exist. You are...
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Bob Dylan: Together Through Life(Music Sales America). Matching folio to Bob Dylan's 2009 release arranged for piano, vocals, and guitar. Together Through Life is Dylan's 33rd studio album, and remarkably his first No. 1 album since the 1970s. Widely critically acclaimed, and supported by Dylan's 'never-ending' tour, the...
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The Best Dulcimer Method Yet(Ashley Publications). Easy instructions plus 139 selections by Albert Gamse for all 3 and 4 string dulcimers.Author: Albert GamsePublisher: Ashley PublishingPublished: 09/01/1996Pages: 96Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.63lbsSize: 12.00h x 8.94w x 0.30dISBN: 9780825653698
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Autoharp Complete Method(Ashley Publications). Includes instruction of stroking, strumming, fingering, transposing, melody picking, and over 150 songs.Author: Hal Leonard CorpPublisher: Ashley PublishingPublished: 09/01/1996Pages: 96Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.62lbsSize: 11.92h x 8.78w x 0.24dISBN: 9780825653650About the AuthorHal Leonard Corp: - Founded in 1947, Hal Leonard LLC has become...
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Absolute Beginners - Voice [With 2 CDsWith Pull Out Chart](Music Sales America). The Absolute Beginners approach has been designed to make learning to sing easier than ever before! Suitable for both male and female beginners, this step-by-step guide takes you through the basics, from how to stand and breathe correctly, to singing your...
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Paul Simon - Easy Pickings(Music Sales America). Easy Pickings is the new way to play classic songs in the fingerpicking style. The music in this book doesn't use standard notation. Instead, a simple system shows the guitar strings. Chord boxes show you where to place your fingers with...
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A Tune a Day: A Beginning Scale Book(Music Sales America). These are the original editions of the ever-popular instruction books for various instruments by C. Paul Herfurth. The books are packed full of lessons, illustrations, fingering charts, daily practice records, test questions, and manuscript paper for homework. Perfect for use in...
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The Piano Treasury of Classical Music [With CD](Music Sales America). The Piano Treasury of Classical Music is designed to be the cornerstone of your personal music library. This tremendous piano collection contains 400 pages of great music literature, specially selected and edited for the pianist who loves classical music. No other...
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Bassology of AC/DC: Bass Tab(Music Sales America). Learn to play over 20 high-voltage AC/DC bass lines with these transcriptions in tab and standard notation with complete lyrics and chord symbols. Also includes band history and discography.Author: Ac/DCPublisher: Music SalesPublished: 01/01/2007Pages: 160Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.37lbsSize: 11.76h x 8.90w x...
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The Piano Bench of Classical Music: Piano Solo(Music Sales America). Over 125 great masterpieces from the Baroque, Classical, Romantic and Modern eras. Contents: RENAISSANCE & BAROQUE: BACH: Two-Part Inventions: No. 1, No. 4, & No. 8 * Three-Part Invention No. 9 * Prelude and Fugue in C * Chorale * Sarabande...
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Solo Guitar Playing - Volume 2(Music Sales America). This second volume of the popular classical guitar method features instruction, graded exercises, practice studies, and a survey of the guitar repertoire. Volume Two develops technique, sightreading, and includes an advanced repertoire of thirty works.Author: Frederick NoadPublisher: Music SalesPublished: 02/01/1999Pages: 160Binding...
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Real Country: Music and Language in Working-Class CultureIn Lockhart, Texas, a rural working-class town just south of Austin, country music is a way of life. Conversation slips easily into song, and the songs are full of conversation. Anthropologist and musician Aaron A. Fox spent years in Lockhart making research notes, music,...
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Hello, Hello Brazil: Popular Music in the Making of Modern Brazil"Hello, hello Brazil" was the standard greeting Brazilian radio announcers of the 1930s used to welcome their audience into an expanding cultural marketplace. New genres like samba and repackaged older ones like choro served as the currency in this marketplace, minted in the capital...
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Sudden Music: Improvisation, Sound, NatureMusic, said Zen patriarch Hui Neng, "is a means of rapid transformation." It takes us home to a natural world that functions outside of logic, where harmony and dissonance, tension and release work in surprising ways. Weaving memoir, travelogue, and philosophical reflection, Sudden Music...
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Slave Songs of the Georgia Sea IslandsA valuable collection of folk music and lore from the Gullah culture, Slave Songs of the Georgia Sea Islands preserves the rich traditions of slave descendants on the barrier islands of Georgia by interweaving their music with descriptions of their language, religious and social...
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To Be, or Not... to BopYou don't have to know John Birks 'Dizzy' Gillespie's songs to feel his influence. The self-taught trumpet player rose from a poor but musically driven upbringing to become a jazz mastermind, founding the bebop movement and giving rise to Afro-Cuban music.Author: Dizzy Gillespie, Al...
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Indigenous Pop: Native American Music from Jazz to Hip HopPopular music compels, it entertains, and it has the power to attract and move audiences. With that in mind, the editors of Indigenous Pop showcase the contributions of American Indian musicians to popular forms of music, including jazz, blues, country-western, rock and roll, reggae,...
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The Implacable Urge to Defame: Cartoon Jews in the American Press, 1877-1935From the 1870s to the 1930s, American cartoonists devoted much of their ink to outlandish caricatures of immigrants and minority groups, making explicit the derogatory stereotypes that circulated at the time. Members of ethnic groups were depicted as fools, connivers, thieves, and individuals hardly...
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