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Songs for Modern Japan: Popular Music and Graphic Design, 1900 to 1950A delightful primer on early-to-mid-20th-century Japan's fruitful fusion of music and design, as materialized in sheet musicJapanese society underwent a whirlwind of change during the first half of the 20th century, a time period marked by rapid modernization. While Western influences catalyzed an increasingly...
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Songfish a fable of dreamsSongfish a Fable of Dreams is an enchanting short story teaching us some important life lessons regarding the pursuit and fulfillment of dreams. With music very much the vehicle, the protagonist, the Dreamfisher, is propelled through life by a series of dreams. His story...
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Snapshots of Forgotten Adventures: Rediscovering the Piano Music of Philippa SchuylerShe performed her compositions for royalty and mingled with dignitaries and revolutionaries across Africa...yet today's audiences have rarely even heard her name. Famous from a young age, Harlem's Philippa Schuyler (1931-1967) fearlessly traveled the globe, performing in nearly eighty countries and developing a second...
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Seeing Through: A Chronicle of Sex, Drugs, and OperaThe true confessions of a working opera composer: an exhilarating story of "a life that comes out of chaos." At eight years old, Ricky Ian Gordon pulled The Victor Book of Opera off his piano teacher's bookshelf, and his world shifted on its axis....
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Scholastic Book of World Records 2025It's another incredible year for world records, social media sensations, and pop-culture trends! This must-have guide to 2025 covers everything from science, tech, sports, music, movies, animals, and more.What is the most popular dog breed?What is the most successful movie of all time?Which NBA...
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Say It with a Beautiful Song: The Art and Craft of the Great American SongbookWorking within the limits of a popular song, the songwriters of the Great American Songbook wrote with a combination of familiarity and freshness--sentiment and wit. The songwriters were masters of craft who created a distinctively American popular music that still resonates strongly today.This book...
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Purple Stew! (Gonoodle)Dance, laugh, and learn to read with this GoNoodle Step 2 Comic Reader which embraces silly ideas and ingredients! Moose Fabio and his friends love to use their imagination when they cook up a bowl of purple stew--what will you add to the pot?...
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Purple Stew! (Gonoodle)Dance, laugh, and learn to read with this GoNoodle Step 2 Comic Reader which embraces silly ideas and ingredients! Moose Fabio and his friends love to use their imagination when they cook up a bowl of purple stew--what will you add to the pot?...
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Please Bee Nice: My Life Up 'Til Now: A Gary Floyd MemoirGary Floyd is an iconic underground rock'n'roll figure who has resided in San Francisco for three decades. He epitomizes the links between the outsider ethos of the Beats (both their queerness and spirituality) and the vexing and volatile punk era. If one band other...
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Playing for Freedom: The Journey of a Young Afghan GirlA passionate musician growing up in the war-torn streets of Kabul takes her forbidden talents abroad in this triumphant memoir from debut author Zarifa Adiba.As an Afghan girl, Zarifa Adiba has big, unfathomable dreams. Her family is poor, her country mired in conflict. Walking...
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Orpheus in the Underworld: Essays on Music and Its MediationDelves into Theodor W. Adorno's lesser-known musical career and successful music criticism. Theodor W. Adorno is recognized as one of the twentieth century's most prominent social theorists. Though best known for his association with the Frankfurt School of critical theory, Adorno began his career...
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One Hundred Lyrics and a PoemEverything I've ever doneEverything I ever doEvery place I've ever beenEverywhere I'm going to Over a career that spans four decades and thirteen studio albums with Pet Shop Boys, Neil Tennant has consistently proved himself to be one of the most elegant and stylish...
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Neu Klang: The Definitive History of Krautrock"A book which all Krautrock fans should read." - Jean-Hervé Péron, Faust The first ever oral-history of Krautrock, the sound that changed modern music. West Germany, 1968. Like everywhere else in the Western world, the young generation is pushing for radical change, still suffering...
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Neue Deutsche WelleNeue Deutsche Welle (NDW), or "German New Wave," was made extraordinarily popular in the 1970s and 1980s by the likes of Nena's "99 Luftballoons" and Trio's "Da Da Da"-and then left as quickly as it came. Conventional wisdom among artists dictates that it's better...
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Neil Young: Album by AlbumWith an illustrious career stretching back almost six decades and encompassing nearly 50 solo studio albums alone, Neil Young is one of the most prolific, compelling figures in the history of popular music, equally revered as both an acoustic singer-songwriter and as the force...
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Music Marketing for the DIY Musician: Creating and Executing a Plan of Attack on a Low BudgetUnleash your music's potential by taking charge of your career! In Music Marketing for the DIY Musician, industry veteran Bobby Borg provides a step-by-step guide to producing a fully customized, low-budget plan of attack for marketing one's music, helping to propel independent artists and...
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Mozart in Motion: His Work and His World in PiecesIn exhilarating, transformative prose, the poet Patrick Mackie reveals a musician in dialogue with culture at its most sweepingly progressive. Mozart is one of the most familiar and beloved icons of our culture, but how much do we really understand about his music, and...
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Mixing Pop and Politics: A Marxist History of Popular MusicFrom rock'n'roll to contemporary pop, Mixing Pop and Politics is a provocative and entertaining mash-up of music and Marxist theory. A radical history of the political and social upheavals of the last 70 years, told through the period's most popular music. Mixing Pop and...
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Melanie Safka Remembered: Tge Woodstock Artist and Brand New Key Singer, A Legacy of Timeless MusicDive into the captivating world of Melanie Safka, the famous singer-songwriter who left an indelible mark on the folk and pop music scene of the 1960s and 1970s. "Melanie Safka Remembered" takes you on a journey through her extraordinary life and career, from her...
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Love SongsLove Songs is a collection of poems by American poet Sara Teasdale, first published in 1917. The book is regarded as one of Teasdale's most popular works, as it focuses on the theme of love, which was a central theme in much of her...
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