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Graduates in Wonderland
By Rachel Kapelke-Dale, Jessica Pan. 2014
Two best friends document their post-college lives in a hilarious, relatable, and powerfully honest epistolary memoir. Fast friends since they…
met at Brown University during their freshman year, Jessica Pan and Rachel Kapelke-Dale vowed to keep in touch after their senior year through in-depth--and brutally honest--weekly e-mails. After graduation, Jess packs up everything she owns and moves to Beijing on a whim, while Rachel heads to New York to work for an art gallery and to figure out her love life. Each spends the next few years tumbling through adulthood and reinventing themselves in various countries, including France, China, and Australia. Through their messages from around the world, they swap tales of teaching classes of military men, running a magazine, and flirting in foreign languages, along with the hard stuff: from harrowing accidents to breakups and breakdowns. Reminiscent of Sloan Crosley's essays and Lena Dunham's Girls, Graduates in Wonderland is an intimate, no-holds-barred portrait of two young women as they embark upon adulthood.The Hero In You
By Angela Padron, Ellis Paul. 2014
Acclaimed songwriter Ellis Paul brings the inspirational words from his songs to the pages of a new picture book! Based…
on his award-winning family album of the same name, The Hero in You introduces kids to thirteen real-life American heroes. From Chief Joseph to Rosa Parks, their remarkable, heroic lives motivate and encourage us to aim high and try our best. Also included is a special edition CD of The Hero in You with 14 songs and exclusive introductory tracks from Ellis Paul. Readers can listen along to the lyrical book text, then read additional facts about the heroes on each spread.Twee
By Marc Spitz. 2014
What is the most polarizing and important youth movement since Hip-Hop?TweeWhat?!Artisanal chocolate. Mustaches. Locally sourced vegetables. Etsy. Birds.Flea markets. Cult…
films. Horn-rimmed glasses.What do all of these icons have in common? They are signifiers that author Marc Spitz groups as falling under the umbrella of Twee, a powerful, expansive youth movement that has colored popular culture in surprising ways.In the same way that Douglas Coupland branded Generation X with his groundbreaking novel, Spitz gives name to a sensibility that prizes kindness over irony, encourages obsessive fandom and collection culture, supports a hunger for purity of craft, and, most important, strives for the preservation of the innocence of childhood. As a result, Twee is divisive, and Spitz shows that there is a tribe of people who fiercely self-identify while others simply cringe.Twee features exclusive interviews plus in-depth research on Twee touchstones past and present, including Walt Disney, James Dean, J. D. Salinger, Sylvia Plath, Dr. Seuss, Truman Capote, Maurice Sendak, Edward Gorey, Jean Seberg, the Kinks, Judy Blume, Nick Drake, Jonathan Richman, Beat Happening, the Smiths, They Might Be Giants, Nirvana, Belle and Sebastian, Wes Anderson, Pitchfork, This American Life, McSweeney's, mumblecore, Vampire Weekend, Sufjan Stevens, Miranda July, Tavi Gevinson, Lena Dunham, Portlandia, and Zooey Deschanel.Expansive, engaging, and festooned with more than enough kittens, this is the first definitive history of Twee. world, can it go from here?Chopin: pianist and teacher
By Jean-Jacques Eigeldinger. 1986
The accounts of Chopin's pupils, acquaintances and contemporaries, together with his own writing, provide valuable insights into the musician's pianistic…
and stylistic practice, his teaching methods and his aesthetic beliefs. This unique collection of documents, edited and annotated by Jean-Jacques Eigeldinger, reveals Chopin as teacher and interpreter of his own music. Included in this study is extensive appendix material that presents annotated scores, and personal accounts of Chopin's playing by pupils, writers, and critics.Apunta a las estrellas
By Leila Cobo. 2014
Apunta a las estrellas es la guía esencial e imprescindible para todo el que quiera transformar sus sueños musicales en…
realidad ¿Tienes potencial y talento? ¡Buenísimo! ¿Pero sabías que el talento solo no te llevará al estrellato? Para alcanzar a las estrellas, primero tienes que saber dónde apuntar y cuáles son las herramientas que te ayudarán a transformar tu pasión en una gran carrera. Leila Cobo, una experta clave de la industria, es la persona ideal para ayudarte a descubrir el camino al éxito. Sus consejos, basados en su experiencia y conocimiento, se encuentran intercalados con anécdotas fascinantes que ha recopilado a través de los años entrevistando a las estrellas más importantes de la música latina. Con esta combinación única aprenderás que necesitas una dosis de suerte, mucha perseverancia y carisma, así como un buen mánager, canciones contagiosas, excelente promoción y mucho más para cumplir este gran sueño de la música. Apunta a las estrellas no sólo es una guía práctica y útil para comprender cómo funciona la industria musical, sino también es una fuente de inspiración con un sinfín de ejemplos de cómo lograr que tus sueños y metas se conviertan en realidad.Songwriting: Methods, Techniques and Clinical Applications for Music Therapy Clinicians, Educators and Students
By Felicity Baker, Tony Wigram, Amelia Oldfield, Jeanette Tamplin, Jeanette Kennelly, Lucanne Magill, Emma Davies. 2005
This comprehensive and groundbreaking book describes the effective use of songwriting in music therapy with a variety of client populations,…
from children with cancer and adolescents in secondary school to people with traumatic brain injury and mental health problems. The authors explain the specific considerations to bear in mind when working with particular client groups to achieve the best clinical outcomes. All the contributors are experienced music therapy clinicians and researchers. They provide many case examples from clinical practice to illustrate the therapeutic methods being used, together with notated examples of songs produced in therapy. Particular emphasis is placed on how lyrics and music are created, including the theoretical approaches underpinning this process. This practical book will prove indispensable to students, clinical therapists, music therapists, educators, teachers and musicians.The Lure and Legacy of Music at Versailles
By John Hajdu Heyer. 2014
Louis XIV and his court at Versailles had a profound influence on music in France and throughout Europe. In 1660…
Louis visited Aix-en-Provence, a trip that resulted in political and cultural transformations throughout the region. Soon thereafter Aix became an important center of sacred music composition, eventually rivaling Paris for the quality of the composers it produced. John Hajdu Heyer documents the young king's visit and examines how he and his court deployed sacred music to enhance the royal image and secure the loyalty of the populace. Exploring the circle of composers at Aix, Heyer provides the most up-to-date and complete biographies in English of nine key figures, including Guillaume Poitevin, André Campra, Jean Gilles, François Estienne, and Antoine Blanchard. The book goes on to reveal how the history of political power in the region was reflected through church music, and how musicians were affected by contemporary events.Thirty Years' Musical Recollections
By E Newman. 1926
Bach
By Peter Williams. 2016
Bach, like Shakespeare, is known largely by his works, exceptional in quantity as well as quality, and only a few…
original documents convey any idea of his life and character. Peter Williams's 2003 look at Bach's biography asks many questions about the so-called evidence. What was he like as a young man, as a father, as an ageing church servant? What were his preoccupations? What music did he know and how did he compose and perform such an amazing amount of music? Was he a disappointed man? Reading the available documentation critically, especially from the viewpoint of a performer, and going back to the first substantial 'biography' of Bach, namely his Obituary, Williams suggests new interpretations of the composer's life and his work. In addition, he asks if our understanding of Bach has been hindered by the unremitting deference displayed towards him since his death.Situating Opera: Period, Genre, Reception
By Herbert Lindenberger. 2010
Setting opera within a variety of contexts - social, aesthetic, historical - Lindenberger illuminates a form that has persisted in…
recognizable shape for over four centuries. The study examines the social entanglements of opera, for example the relation of Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio and Verdi's Il trovatore to its initial and later audiences. It shows how modernist opera rethought the nature of theatricality and often challenged its viewers by means of both musical and theatrical shock effects. Using recent experiments in neuroscience, the book demonstrates how different operatic forms developed at different periods to create new ways of exciting a public. Lindenberger considers selected moments of operatic history from Monteverdi's Orfeo to the present to study how the form has communicated with its diverse audiences. Of interest to scholars and operagoers alike, this book advocates and exemplifies opera studies as an active, emerging area of interdisciplinary study.Pagan Holiday: On The Trail of Ancient Roman Tourists
By Tony Perrottet. 2002
The ancient Romans were responsible for many remarkable achievements--Roman numerals, straight roads--but one of their lesser-known contributions was the creation…
of the tourist industry. The first people in history to enjoy safe and easy travel, Romans embarked on the original Grand Tour, journeying from the lost city of Troy to the Acropolis, from the Colossus at Rhodes to Egypt, for the obligatory Nile cruise to the very edge of the empire. And, as Tony Perrottet discovers, the popularity of this route has only increased with time.Intrigued by the possibility of re-creating the tour, Perrottet, accompanied by his pregnant girlfriend, sets off to discover life as an ancient Roman. The result is this lively blend of fascinating historical anecdotes and hilarious personal encounters, interspersed with irreverent and often eerily prescient quotes from the ancients--a vivid portrait of the Roman Empire in all its complexity and wonder.From the Trade Paperback edition.The Gospel at Colonus
By Lee Breuer. 1989
The (Post) Mistress
By Tomson Highway. 2013
Marie-Louise Painchaud has worked for thirty-five years as post mistress at the post office in Lovely, a francophone Canadian village…
where she has come to know every client whose mail she handles. The (Post) Mistress is a rollicking, emotional rollercoaster-ride in the form of a one-woman musical, with elements of jazz, Berlin cabaret, French café music, and Brazilian samba.Ten Million Steps
By M. J. Eberhart. 2007
M. J. Eberhart, aka the Nimblewill Nomad, was a 60-year-old retired doctor in January 1998 when he set off on…
a foot journey that carried him 4,400 miles (twice the length of the Appalachian Trail) from the Florida Keys to the far north of Quebec. Written in a vivid journal style, the author unabashedly recounts the good (friendships with other hikers he met), the bad (sore legs, cutting winds and rain), and the godawful (those dispiriting doubts) aspects of his days of walking along what has since become known as the Eastern Continental Trail (ECT). An amazing tale of self-discovery and insight into the magic that reverberates from intense physical exertion and a high goal, Eberhart's is the only written account of a thru-hike along the ECT. Covering 16 states and 2 Canadian provinces, Ten Million Steps deftly mixes practical considerations of an almost unimaginable undertaking with the author's trademark humor and philosophical musings.Vanished!
By Evan L. Balkan. 2008
In the best adventures, the intrepid explorer returns home to banner headlines and a hero's welcome...but what of the men…
and women who don't return home? This collection proves their stories are just as compelling. From the disappearance in Utah of cowboy roamer Everett Ruess to the loss of billionaire explorer Michael Rockefeller in the wilds of New Guinea, the tales ring with mystery, intrigue, and excitement. Whether murdered, drowned, or eaten alive, their disappearances are likely to remain unsolved, but never forgotten.The Story of So So Def Recordings (Hip-Hop Hitmakers)
By Rich Mintzer. 2013
During the early 1990s, successful music producer Jermaine Dupri started So So Def Records. The Atlanta-based label began at a…
time when Southern hip-hop music was just beginning to get a lot of attention. Dupri signed distribution deals with much-larger record companies like Columbia and Arista. This allowed him to focus on what he did best: finding talented unknown artists and producing hit music. Some of So So Def's biggest stars included Da Brat, Lil Bow Wow, and Jagged Edge. Today So So Def Records is completely independent, and Jermaine Dupri is working hard to introduce a new generation of hip-hop stars.Wagner's Ring Cycle and the Greeks
By Daniel H. Foster. 2010
Volumes for Cambridge Studies in Opera explore the cultural, political, and social influences of the genre. As a cultural art…
form, opera is not produced in a vacuum. Rather, it is influenced, whether directly or in more subtle ways, by its social and political environment. In turn, opera leaves its mark on society and contributes to shaping the cultural climate.When Opera Meets Film
By Marcia J. Citron. 2010
Opera can reveal something fundamental about a film, and film can do the same for an opera, argues Marcia J.…
Citron. Structured by the categories of Style, Subjectivity, and Desire, this volume advances our understanding of the aesthetics of the opera/film encounter. Case studies of a diverse array of important repertoire including mainstream film, opera-film, and postmodernist pastiche are presented. Citron uses Werner Wolf's theory of intermediality to probe the roles of opera and film when they combine. The book also refines and expands film-music functions, and details the impact of an opera's musical style on the meaning of a film. Drawing on cinematic traditions of Hollywood, France, and Britain, the study explores Coppola's Godfather trilogy, Jewison's Moonstruck, Nichols's Closer, Chabrol's La C_r_monie, Schlesinger's Sunday, Bloody Sunday, Boyd's Aria, and Ponnelle's opera-films.Bring the Noise: 20 Years of Writing About Hip Rock and Hip Hop
By Simon Reynolds. 2009
Bring the Noise weaves together interviews, reviews, essays, and features to create a critical history of the last twenty years…
of pop culture, juxtaposing the voices of many of rock and hip hop's most provocative artists-Morrissey, Public Enemy, The Beastie Boys, The Stone Roses, P.J. Harvey, Radiohead-with Reynolds's own passionate analysis. With all the energy and insight you would expect from the author of Rip It Up and Start Again, Bring the Noise tracks the alternately fraught and fertile relationship between white bohemia and black street music. The selections transmit the immediacy of their moment while offering a running commentary on the broader enduring questions of race and resistance, multiculturalism, and division. From grunge to grime, from Madchester to the Dirty South, Bring the Noise chronicles hip hop and alternative rock's competing claims to be the cutting edge of innovation and the voice of opposition in an era of conservative backlash. Alert to both the vivid detail and the big picture, Simon Reynolds has shaped a compelling narrative that cuts across a thrillingly turbulent two-decade period of pop music.Der Anti-Stress-Trainer für Musiker
By Peter Buchenau, Joe Orszulik. 2017
Dieses Buch aus der Anti-Stress-Trainer-Reihe thematisiert das Leben und die Stressfaktoren von Musikerinnen und Musikerin Zahllose Musiker Instrumentallehrer…
Musikp dagogen Komponisten und auch Textschreiber die allermeist sehr euphorisch in ihre Karriere starten sind schon bald desillusioniert ersch pft oder leiden sogar unter Burnout Gr nde daf r sind unter anderem eine unsichere finanzielle Position unregelm ige Arbeitszeiten und auch eine starke k rperliche Belastung Dieses Buch informiert die Leser nicht nur ber das Thema Stress bei Musikern sondern gibt gleichzeitig viele hilfreiche Praxistipps f r einen gesunden und erfolgreichen Umgang mit Stress Der Autor der selbst jahrelang aktiver Musiker war gibt seine Erfahrungen und sein Wissen in diesem Buch weiter