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Rebel Music: Race, Empire, and the New Muslim Youth Culture
Hisham Aidi · Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pages: 398
Format: Print book
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This fascinating, timely, and important book on the connection between music and political activism among Muslim youth around the world looks at how hip-hop, jazz, and reggae, along with Andalusian and Gnawa music, have become a means of building community and expressing protest in the face... |
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The Searchers: The Making of an American Legend
Glenn Frankel · Bloomsbury USA; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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In 1836 in East Texas, nine-year-old Cynthia Ann Parker was kidnapped by Comanches. She was raised by the tribe and eventually became the wife of a warrior. Twenty-four years after her capture, she was reclaimed by the U.S. cavalry and Texas Rangers and restored to her white family, to die in misery... |
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Underwater Puppies
Seth Casteel · Little, Brown
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times bestselling author and photographer Seth Casteel's follow-up to the phenomenal Underwater Dogs -- now with puppies.The world fell in love with swimming canines in Seth Casteel's first book, Underwater Dogs. Now, in more than 80 previously unpublished portraits of underwater... |
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THE CURE-GREATEST HITS
Cure (Musical group) · HAL LEONARD CORPORATION
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback
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(Guitar Recorded Versions) . Alternately melancholy and jangly, Brit pop band The Cure had huge hits on both sides of the Atlantic in the '80s and '90s. This songbook assembles 20 of their best, transcribed note-for-note with tab, chord symbols and complete lyrics. Includes: Boys... |
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Folk Art Fusion: A contemporary exploration of a traditional, time-treasured art form
Heather Galler · Walter Foster Publishing
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback
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Discover how to create colorful, contemporary folk art with a modern twist! Folk Art Fusion explores the colorful combination of art styles present in modern folk art paintings. Learn how traditional folk art continues to influence today's painters, and discover how to create contemporary... |
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The Parthenon Enigma
Joan Breton Connelly · Knopf
Format: Paperback
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Built in the fifth century b.c., the Parthenon has been venerated for more than two millennia as the West’s ultimate paragon of beauty and proportion. Since the Enlightenment, it has also come to represent our political ideals, the lavish temple to the goddess Athena serving as the model... |
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Illustration that Works: Professional Techniques for Artistic and Commercial Success
Greg Houston · Monacelli Studio
Pages: 208
Format: Print book
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A straight-to-the-point "everything-you-need-to-know" guide to the world of professional illustration for aspiring artists and recent art-school graduates - not only the technical essentials (the difference between narrative versus conceptual illustration, diagramming a composition,... |
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Girl in a Band: A Memoir
Kim Gordon · Dey Street Books
Format: Print book
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Kim Gordon, founding member of Sonic Youth, fashion icon, and role model for a generation of women, now tells her story—a memoir of life as an artist, of music, marriage, motherhood, independence, and as one of the first women of rock and roll, written with the lyricism and haunting beauty... |
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