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Terminated for Reasons of Taste: Other Ways to Hear Essential and Inessential Music

Chuck Eddy · Duke University Press
Pages: 344
Format: Hardcover

In Terminated for Reasons of Taste, veteran rock critic Chuck Eddy writes that "rock'n'roll history is written by the winners. Which stinks, because the losers have always played a big role in keeping rock interesting." Rock's losers share top billing with its winners...
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21st Century Musical Theatre - Women's Edition: 50 Songs from Shows Since 2000

Hal Leonard Corp. · Hal Leonard
Format: Paperback

(Vocal Collection). This series features some songs that have never before appeared in any vocal collections. 50 songs from The Addams Family * Avenue Q * Beautiful * Big Fish * Bring It On * Catch Me If You Can * The Color Purple * Dirty Rotten Scoundrels * The Drowsy Chaperone * First...
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Jeff Koons: A Retrospective

Scott Rothkopf · The Whitney Museum of American Art
Format: Book

Examining the breadth and depth of thirty-five years of work by Jeff Koons (b. 1955), one of the most influential and controversial artists of the 20th century, this highly anticipated volume features all of his most famous pieces. In an engaging overview essay, Scott Rothkopf carefully...
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The Rite of Spring at 100

Severine Neff · Indiana University Press
Pages: 552
Format: Hardcover

When Igor Stravinsky's ballet Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring) premiered during the 1913 Paris season of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, its avant-garde music and jarring choreography scandalized audiences. Today it is considered one of the most influential musical...
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The General in the Garden: George Washington's Landscape at Mount Vernon

Adam T Erby · Mount Vernon Ladies' Association
Pages: 190
Format: Print book

The General in the Garden provides an engaging, informative, and richly illustrated introduction to George Washington's landscape at Mount Vernon -- arguably the best-documented, best-preserved complex of gardens and grounds to survive from eighteenth-century America. The book's three...
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Airline Visual Identity 1945-1975

M C M C HuÌ?hne · Callisto Publishers Gmbh
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

The Standard Edition of the successful and elaborate Premium Edition of Airline Visual Identity 1945-1975 (2014) contains all of the information and almost all of the images, but in a leaner format and at a more affordable price. The book carefully curates the work of prestigious designers...
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The Green Screen Handbook : Real-World Production Techniques.

Jeff Foster · Focal Press
Format:  eBook : Document : English : 2nd edView all editions and formats

The Green Screen Handbook, Second Edition is a comprehensive how-to manual that walks you through the many integral techniques required in preproduction, production, and postproduction to use green screen effectively. Step-by-step instruction and time-saving tips cover matting and keying...
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5-Minute Sketching -- Architecture: Super-quick Techniques for Amazing Drawings

Liz Steel · Firefly Books
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback

Sketching has become very popular. In more than 60 cities around the world, from New Jersey, San Diego, and Montreal to as far as Moscow and Australia, "sketch crawls" find artists drawing what they see. A new social network has emerged where these sketch artists meet for group...
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Steve McCurry: On Reading

Steve Mccurry · Phaidon
Pages: 144
Format: Print book

A celebration of the timeless act of reading - as seen through the lens of one of the world's most beloved photographersYoung or old, rich or poor, engaged in the sacred or the secular, people everywhere read. This homage to the beauty and seductiveness of reading brings together a collection...
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The Art of Star Wars: The Last Jedi

PHIL SZOSTAK · Abrams
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Star Wars: The Force Awakens shattered box-office records as one of the highest-grossing films of all time, and its eagerly awaited sequel, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, is sure to do the same. Written and directed by Rian Johnson (Looper, The Brothers Bloom, Brick) and production designed...
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Avid Pro Tools Basics: Expert Advice, Made Easy

Rusty Cutchin · Flame Tree Publishing; New edition edition
Format: Print book

Do what the pros do and use Pro Tools to create professional recordings, mixed and mastered to perfection. This invaluable new guide will open the doors to this complex and feature rich software. With clear and accessible text and illustrations Avid Pro Tools Basics will guide you through...
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Singing in Czech: A Guide to Czech Lyric Diction and Vocal Repertoire

Timothy Cheek · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers; Revised Edition edition
Format: Print book

Timothy Cheeks revised edition of Singing in Czech A Guide to Czech Lyric Diction and Vocal Repertoire, with its accompanying audio accessible online, builds on the original pioneering work of 2001 that set a new and very welcome high standard for teaching lyric diction, according to Notes...
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One and One Is Four: The Bauhaus Photocollages of Josef Albers

Sarah Hermanson Meister · Museum of Modern Art 2016.
Pages: 128
Format: Print book

Josef Albers is widely recognized as a crucial figure in 20th-century art, both as an independent practitioner and as a teacher at the Bauhaus, Black Mountain College and Yale University. Albers made paintings, drawings and prints and designed furniture and typography. Arguably the least...
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