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How to Write for Percussion: A Comprehensive Guide to Percussion Composition
Samuel Z Solomon · Oxford University Press
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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While composers and percussionists are working more closely than ever with one another, there are few resources that address this collaborative relationship in depth. However, Samuel Z. Solomon, himself a percussionist and teacher, offers a comprehensive examination of the issues that percussionists... |
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Chocolate Surrealism: Music, Movement, Memory, and History in the Circum-Caribbean
Njoroge Njoroge · University Press of Mississippi
Pages: 194
Format: Print book
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In Chocolate Surrealism, Njoroge Njoroge highlights connections among the production, performance, and reception of popular music at critical historical junctures in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The author sifts different origins and styles to place socio-musical movements... |
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Harry Potter: The Artifact Vault
Jody Revenson · Harper Design
Pages: 207
Format: Print book
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Throughout the making of the eight Harry Potter movies, designers and craftspeople were tasked with creating fabulous chocolate-fantasy feasts, flying brooms, enchanted maps, and much more, in addition to numerous magical items necessary in a wizard's everyday life - for example, newspapers... |
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Old Fields: Photography, Glamour, and Fantasy Landscape
John R Stilgoe · University of Virginia Press
Pages: 517
Format: Print book
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Glamour subverts convention. Models, images, and even landscapes can skew ordinary ways of seeing when viewed through the lens of photography, suggesting new worlds imbued with fantasy, mystery, sexuality, and tension.In Old Fields, John Stilgoe -- one of the most original observers of his time... |
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Paleoart: Visions of the Prehistoric Past
Zoe? Lescaze · TASCHEN
Pages: 286
Format: Hardcover
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Dinosaurs Are Forever A pictorial history of paleoart It was 1830 when an English scientist named Henry De la Beche painted the first piece of paleoart, a dazzling, deliciously macabre vision of prehistoric reptiles battling underwater. Since then, artists the world over have conjured up visions... |
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Banjo: An Illustrated History
Bob Carlin · Backbeat Books
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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(Book) . The banjo is emblematic of American country music, and it is at the core of other important musical movements, including jazz and ragtime. The instrument has been adopted by many cultures and has been ingrained into many musical traditions, from Mento music in the Caribbean and dance... |
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The World Atlas of Street Fashion
Caroline Cox · Yale University Press
Pages: 399
Format: Hardcover
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An extensively researched and generously illustrated volume offering a striking and diverse portrait of street style in cities and cultures around the world Since the early 20th century, city sidewalks have become runways where idiosyncratic modes of dressing are presented, consumed, and exported.... |
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The Encyclopedia of Drawing Techniques
Hazel Harrison · Search Press(UK)
Pages: 160
Format: Print book
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Detailed photographic sequences explore pencil, charcoal, pen and technical pen techniques, including shading, building up, blending, hatching, highlighting, stippling and more. Colored pencils, chalks, pastels, and pen and ink are also covered with inspirational pictures across a full... |
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Klezmer: Music, History, and Memory
Walter Zev Feldman · Oxford University Press US 2016.
Pages: 440
Format: Print book
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Klezmer: Music, History, and Memory is the first comprehensive study of the musical structure and social history of klezmer music, the music of the Jewish musicians' guild of Eastern Europe. Emerging in 16th century Prague, the klezmer became a central cultural feature of the largest... |
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Pinocchio: The Making of the Disney Epic
J.B. Kaufman · Walt Disney Family Foundation Press
Format: Hardcover
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In 1940, Walt Disney released his second feature film: Pinocchio, based on Carlo Collodi’s 1883 Italian children’s novel. The film was groundbreaking: it pioneered the latest animation and sound technology of the era, and established a blueprint for Disney filmmaking that remains... |
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A Man Apart: Bill Coperthwaite's Radical Experiment in Living
Peter Forbes · Chelsea Green Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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A story of friendship, encouragement, and the quest to design a better world A Man Apart is the storypart family memoir and part biographyof Peter Forbes and Helen Whybrows longtime friendship with Bill Coperthwaite A Handmade Life, whose unusual life and fierce ideals helped them examine... |
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And Now, Back to Mannix
Joann M. Paul · BearManor Media
Format: Hardcover
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This is the HARDBACK version. Fistfights. Cars careening off cliffs and exploding. Running on a bridge. Dodging a helicopter. The dune buggy roll. Iconic convertibles. Signature sports jackets. 17 Paseo Verde. L.A. at its coolest-and then there was Peggy. For generations, throughout... |
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Peanut Butter Dogs
Greg Murray · Gibbs Smith
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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The perfect gift for any dog-lover, and a must-have for any dog owner; no bones about it, these Peanut Butter Dogs will make your day. Yorkies, Retrievers, Pit Bulls, Great Danes, French Bulldogs, and more! This winsome collection of photographs covers more than 140 lovable pups, most... |
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Tom of Finland
John Waters · Taschen
Pages: 666
Format: Print book
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Bigger is better: Tom of Finland, oversized for maximum pleasureIn 1998, TASCHEN introduced the world to the masterful art of Touko Laaksonen with The Art of Pleasure. Prior to that, Laaksonen, better known as Tom of Finland, enjoyed an intense cult following in the international gay community... |
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