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Homeward Bound: The Life of Paul Simon
Peter Ames Carlin · Thorndike Press Large Print
Pages: 617
Format: Hardcover
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A revelatory account of the life of beloved American music icon, Paul Simon, by the bestselling rock biographer Peter Ames CarlinTo have been alive during the last sixty years is to have lived with the music of Paul Simon. The boy from Queens scored his first hit record in 1957, just months... |
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1966: The Year the Decade Exploded
Jon Savage · Faber & Faber
Pages: 653
Format: Print book
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The pop world accelerated and broke through the sound barrier in 1966. In America, in London, in Amsterdam, in Paris, revolutionary ideas slow-cooking since the late '50s reached boiling point. In the worlds of pop, pop art, fashion and radical politics - often fueled by perception-enhancing... |
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Steven Universe: Art & Origins
Chris Mcdonnell · Abrams
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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Steven Universe: Art & Origins is the first book to take fans behind the scenes of the groundbreaking and boundlessly creative Cartoon Network animated series Steven Universe. The eponymous Steven is a boy who - alongside his mentors, the Crystal Gems (Garnet, Amethyst, and Pearl) - must... |
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Knives & Ink: Chefs and the Stories Behind Their Tattoos
Isaac Fitzgerald · Bloomsbury
Pages: 208
Format: Print book
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Chefs take their tattoos almost as seriously as their knives. From gritty grill cooks in backwoods diners to the executive chefs at the world's most popular restaurants, it's hard to find a cook who doesn't sport some ink. Knives & Ink features the tattoos of more than sixty-five chefs... |
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How to Draw Dogs, Cats and Horses
Arthur Zaidenberg · Dover Publications
Pages: 63
Format: Book
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Discover how to create realistic drawings of dogs, cats, and horses with this easy-to-follow guide. Written and illustrated by a noted creator of art instruction books, the manual emphasizes the importance of capturing your own distinctive vision to reveal the subject's special characteristics.... |
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Television: A Biography
David Thomson · Thames & Hudson
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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In just a few years, what used to be an immobile piece of living room furniture, which one had to sit in front of at appointed times in order to watch sponsored programming on a finite number of channels, morphed into a glowing cloud of screens with access to a near-endless supply of content... |
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Experiencing David Bowie: A Listener's Companion
Ian Chapman · Rowman & Littlefield
Pages: 221
Format: Print book
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In Experiencing David Bowie: A Listener's Companion, musicologist, writer, and musician Ian Chapman unravels the extraordinary marriage of sound and visual effect that lies at the heart of the work of one of the most complex and enduring performers in popular music. Still active in a career... |
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The History of Rock & Roll, Volume 1: 1920-1963
Ed Ward · Flatiron Books
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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Ed Ward covers the first half of the history of rock & roll in this sweeping and definitive narrative -- from the 1920s, when the music of rambling medicine shows mingled with the songs of vaudeville and minstrel acts to create the very early sounds of country and rhythm and blues,... |
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The Soul of It All: My Music, My Life
Michael Bolton · Center Street
Format: Hardcover
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After four decades in the music industry, Michael Bolton has become one the most successful musicians of our time. THE SOUL OF IT ALL is his backstage pass into his life lived thus far-into the venues, busses, limos, and hotel rooms of stardom, and finally into his home and heart. His story... |
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Rocks: My Life in and out of Aerosmith
Joe Perry · Simon & Schuster; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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An insightful and harrowing roller coaster ride through the career of one of rock and rolls greatest guitarists. Strap yourself in. —Slash Rocking Joe Perry rocks again! —Jimmy Page Before the platinum records or the Super Bowl half-time show or the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Joe Perry... |
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America Dancing: From the Cakewalk to the Moonwalk
Megan Pugh · Yale University Press
Pages: 398
Format: Print book
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The history of American dance reflects the nation's tangled culture. Dancers from wildly different backgrounds learned, imitated, and stole from one another. Audiences everywhere embraced the result as deeply American. Using the stories of tapper Bill "Bojangles" Robinson,... |
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Mad Men Unzipped: Fans on Sex, Love, and the Sixties on TV
Karen E. Dill-Shackleford · University of Iowa Press
Pages: 182
Format: Paperback
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This is the story of the Mad Men fan phenomenon: how the show and its fans distinguished themselves in a market where it's hard to make an impression, not unlike the driven ad execs at the center of the show. In this book, four media psychologists who also just happen to be dedicated... |
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Bob Dylan: American Troubadour
Donald Brown · Scarecrow Press
Pages: 267
Format: Print book
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Tempo: A Scarecrow Press Music Series of Rock, Pop, and Culture offers titles that explore rock and popular music through the lens of social and cultural history, revealing the dynamic relationship between musicians, music, and their milieu. Like other major art forms, rock and pop music... |
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Frank Sinatra - Centennial Songbook
Frank Sinatra · Hal Leonard
Format: Musical score
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(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). 2015 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Frank Sinatra and celebrations and concerts are planned for the whole year. This songbook gathers 100 of Ol' Blue Eyes' finest in a fitting tribute to one of the greatest entertainers of all time!... |
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Timeless Journeys: Travels to the World's Legendary Places
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC. · National Geographic
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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From Machu Picchu to the Pyramids of Giza and beyond, this travel-lover's delight takes readers on a breathtaking visual journey to the world's most historic wonderlands. Pack your bags for an extraordinary adventure with National Geographic to the places that have captivated our imaginations... |
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