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Beginning Djembe: Essential Tones, Rhythms & Grooves
Michael Markus · Berklee Press
Pages: 43
Format: Paperback
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(Berklee Guide) . Learn to play djembe! This hands-on workshop will help you produce a good sound, play with healthy technique, and learn the essential concepts, sounds, and rhythms of West African djembe drumming. Extensive play-along online videos will help you practice every technique... |
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Artists Unframed: Snapshots from the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art
Merry A. Foresta · Princeton Architectural Press
Format: Hardcover
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Tucked away among the letters, diaries, and other ephemera in the Smithsonian's archives lies a trove of rarely seen snapshots of some of the twentieth century's most celebrated artists. Unlike the familiar official portraits and genius-at-work shots, these humble snaps capture... |
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Stand Up Straight and Sing!
Jessye Norman · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.
Pages: 336
Format: Print book
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One of America's most admired and decorated artists tells her amazing story, from her childhood in the South to the world's greatest stages.Jessye Norman is not only one of the world's most admired and beloved singers, she is an American icon whose life story is as moving and dramatic... |
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In Montmartre: Picasso, Matisse and the Birth of Modernist Art
Sue Roe · Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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A lively and deeply researched group biography of the figures who transformed the world of art in bohemian Paris in the first decade of the twentieth century In Montmartre is a colorful history of the birth of Modernist art as it arose from one of the most astonishing collections of artistic... |
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Dame Maggie Scott: A Life in Dance
Michelle Potter · Text Publishing Company ; Scoresby
Pages: 360
Format: Print book
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Scott was the first director of the Australian Ballet School, a dancer and teacher of immense vision. Born in Johannesburg in 1922, she traveled to Australia with Ballet Rambert in 1947. She became a major figure in Australian dance, founding the National Theatre Ballet and helping establish... |
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The Art of Looking: The Life and Treasures of Collector Charles Leslie
Kevin Clarke · Bruno Gmünder
Pages: 200
Format: Print book
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Have you heard of Charles Leslie? Thomas Mann pinched his butt. He has the biggest penis collection in the world. He is one of the fathers of modern New York SoHo. And he's the co-founder of the first museum for gay and lesbian art. The story of his life is as incredible as it is unknown.... |
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Play On: Now, Then, and Fleetwood Mac: The Autobiography
Mick Fleetwood · Little Brown & Co
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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"After forty-six years of being on the road, this is the right time to look back in a way I've never done before: now and then. This is the story of my life in rock and roll -- and how the band that has meant everything to me came to define me. I'm looking forward to sharing... |
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Rustic Chic Wedding: 55 Projects for Crafting Your Own Wedding Style
Morgann Hill · Running Press Book Publishers
Pages: 271
Format: Paperback
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Rustic Chic Wedding is a bride and groom's peek into the vintage-inspired, timeless wedding of their dreams. A little DIY with a whiff of romance and whimsy goes a long way toward wedding-day magic.Choose from any of the three beautiful wedding "themes." Maybe your wedding... |
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Loitering with Intent
Peter O'Toole · Hyperion; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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The popular actor describes his youth in northern England, his father, his mother, the difficulty of a wartime childhood, the impression of the war, his education, and his introduction to drama. |
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Stevie Nicks: Visions, Dreams & Rumors
Zoî Howe · The Overlook Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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The New biography of "the Reigning Queen of Rock and Roll" (Rolling Stone) Lyrical visionary, enduring style icon, and one indispensable fifth of post-Peter Green megaband Fleetwood Mac, Stevie Nicks is one of the most recognizable figures in rock 'n' roll history -- very... |
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The Language of Houses
Alison Lurie · Delphinium
Format: Hardcover
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In 1981 Alison Lurie published The Language of Clothes, a meditation on costume and fashion as an expression of history, social status and individual psychology. Amusing, enlightening and full of literary allusion, the book was highly praised and widely anthologized.Now Lurie has returned... |
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