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The Poetics of Failure in Ancient GreeceThe Poetics of Failure in Ancient Greece offers an innovative approach to archaic and classical Greek literature by focusing on an original and rather unexplored topic. Through close readings of epic, lyric, and tragic poetry, the book engages into a thorough discourse on error,...
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Hearing Form: Musical Analysis with and Without the ScoreHearing Form: Musical Analysis With and Without the Score, Third Edition is a complete course package for undergraduate courses on musical forms, with comprehensive coverage from the Baroque to the Romantic. Placing emphasis on listening, it teaches students to analyze music both with and...
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Time Has Come TodayCompleting a trilogy that began with The Rhino Records Story (2013) and continued with My British Invasion (2017), this 40-year diary documents Harold Bronson's progress from student musician and journalist to label executive, where his fandom, wit and wildly creative imagination augmented and altered...
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God Only Knows: The Story of Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys and the California MythAn intimate look at Brian Wilson's rollercoaster of a life and career, it's told through the eyes of those who were there during Wilson's most legendary productions including Pet Sounds and Good Vibrations.Originally published in 1978 as The Beach Boys and the California Myth,...
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Key Changes: The Ten Times Technology Transformed the Music IndustryTells a new story about the history of the music business and the ten technological advances that disrupted it over the last century. In recent years, narratives about the music industry tend to hew to a common theme: it was humming along for decades...
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Amy Winehouse: The Biography, 1983-2011A detailed biography that pays tribute to the award-winning singer whose turbulent life and untimely death have captivated the world An indisputable musical icon and controversial celebrity figure, Amy Winehouse's unique blend of jazz, pop, and soul singing and songwriting brought her a host...
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By Faith, Not by Sight: The Inspirational Story of a Blind Prodigy, a Life-Threatening Illness, and an Unexpected GiftA moving story of hope, faith, persistence and the power of dreams.A piano prodigy, a nineteen-year-old college grad, a Marshall scholar, and an American Idol finalist. This guy had it made. He could sing.He could ski blind. What couldn't he do?Even if you saw...
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SoundThis highly informative and fascinating book brings together perspectives on sound by leading experts from a wide variety of disciplines. These include anthropology, physiology, zoology, physics, music, phonetics and film. Through crossing disciplinary boundaries, the volume hopes to inspire a richer and more creative...
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Long Shadows, High Hopes: The Life and Times of Matt Johnson and the theMatt Johnson is a film soundtrack composer, publisher, broadcaster, conservationist, and local activist, although he is best known as the creative force behind THE THE. Written with the cooperation of Matt Johnson and with full access to his archives, Long Shadows, High Hopes: The...
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Looking Through You: Rare & Unseen Photographs from the Beatles Book Archive (HaIn 1963, it was unusual for a pop group to have a monthly magazine devoted exclusively to their career. Only Elvis Presley had been considered important enough to warrant such an honour. But then the Beatles were unusual. Within the space of that pivotal...
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Rise of the HaugenberrysIt's an age-old tale, really. You're lounging at your favorite Denver dive bar, and from the tiny stage two seven-foot country-boy brothers start crooning a Gordon Lightfoot song, the blood harmony dripping from the stage like a tipped pot of golden honey. Then, naturally,...
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KCGB The Boy From the PorchMy Dying Mom and Kurt Cobain tell the story of when the world-famous musician came to visit our Mother in the months preceding her death, three years after he took his own life. She knew very little about his legend leading up to her...
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A Singer's Manual of Foreign Language Dictions: Sixth Edition, Updated 2012Precise Guides for Seven Foreign Languages: French German Hebrew Italian Russian Spanish Roman Church LatinAuthor: Richard F. Sheil, Christine Walters McMastersPublisher: YBK PublishersPublished: 11/01/2012Pages: 194Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.76lbsSize: 9.25h x 7.50w x 0.41dISBN: 9781936411214This title is not returnable
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Heavy Metal Youth Identities: Researching the Musical Empowerment of Youth Transitions and Psychosocial WellbeingDrawing on repeat interviews with metal youth, the book examines why they were first attracted to metal during high school; how they used metal music and identities as coping strategies; and ways that their metal affiliations took on further significance for helping them make...
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The Death Archives: Mayhem 1984-94Mayhem are the most influential Black Metal band in the world, and obviously no strangers to controversy. Death Archives offer never before seen photographs and unique insight into one of music's most extreme subcultures. The Death Archives is a ravishingly illustrated first-person account of...
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X-Ray: The Unauthorized AutobiographyThis subversively brilliant, one-of-a-kind rock autobiography ingeniously styled as a biography, is written by a nameless, faceless writer hired by an Orwellian entity called the Corporation to capture the essence of Ray Davies, lead singer and songwriter of The Kinks and one of the...
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If I Were a FishWhy is everybody on the internet so mean?Why is everybody so afraid of what they've never seen? When Corook is hit with hate on the internet, they and Olivia grab a guitar and dive into the comforting world of what it would be like...
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Audition & SubtractionFor as long as Tatum can remember it's been: Tatum + Lori = Best friends They do everything together, including a yearly clarinet/flute duet for District Honor Band auditions. But when a new boy transfers to their middle school and their band, the equation...
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The Beach Boys Official Coloring BookGrab some paint, pencils and crayons and surf across the USA with the only officially licensed Beach Boys Coloring Book, a tidal wave of one-of-a-kind gorgeous illustrations celebrating one of the most renowned bands ever, reigning kings of Surf Rock and true musical innovators...The...
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How To Regulate Your Lever Harp: Book One: The Loveland LeverIn the How to Regulate Your Lever Harp series, master harp technician Steve Moss provides step by step instructions on how to service and maintain your lever harp to keep it sounding its best. This first volume of the series focuses on the Loveland...
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