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The Beatles - Super Easy Songbook

John Lennon · Hal Leonard
Pages: 125
Format: Paperback

(Super Easy Songbook) . It's super easy! This series features accessible arrangements for piano, with simple right-hand melody, letter names inside each note, basic left-hand chord diagrams, and no page turns. This edition includes 60 Beatles favorites: Across the Universe * All You Need...
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The Complete History Of The Greater Pittsburgh Entertainment Industry

Robert V Michelucci · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback

Did know that Pittsburgh was the site of the first movie theater? The first commercial broadcasting radio station? The first Public TV station? Can you name all of the more than 150 major motion pictures that have been filmed in the Pittsburgh area? Do you remember the Academy Award winner...
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Dust of the Zulu: Ngoma Aesthetics after Apartheid

Louise Meintjes · Duke University Press Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

In Dust of the Zulu Louise Meintjes traces the political and aesthetic significance of ngoma, a competitive form of dance and music that emerged out of the legacies of colonialism and apartheid in South Africa. Contextualizing ngoma within South Africa's history of violence, migrant...
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Color Design Workbook: New, Revised Edition: A Real World Guide to Using Color in Graphic Design

SEAN ADAMS · Rockport Publishers
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback

Since color is such an important part of graphic design, designers need the most up-to-date, as well as the most fundamental, information on the subject to have the tools needed to use color effectively. From the meanings behind colors to working with color in presentations, this book provides...
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The Library Book

Alberto Manguel · Aperture
Pages: 232
Format: Hardcover

In pre-Revolutionary War America, libraries were member-driven collections for the elite; it was not until 1790 that Benjamin Franklin helped to establish the first public lending library. Throughout the subsequent centuries the library has evolved, but always remained central to the cultural...
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Recording Vocals with Dave Pensado

DAVE PENSADO · Hal Leonard
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

The Strive curriculum is the brainchild of online-television sensation Pensado's Place and audio-publishing giant Hal Leonard. It will feature authors who are considered best in class, relevant, and enormously committed to education and giving back. We chose the name Strive because...
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Nationalist and Populist Composers: Voices of the American People

Steve Schwartz · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 438
Format: Hardcover

Populism and nationalism in classical music held a significant place between the world wars with composers such as George Gershwin, Aaron Copland, and Leonard Bernstein creating a soundtrack to the lives of everyday Americans. While biographies of these individual composers exist, no single...
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Very Best of Coldplay

Coldplay · Hal Leonard
Pages: 80
Format: Paperback

(Easy Guitar) . 18 of the most popular songs from frontman Chris Martin and the rest of this popular, award-winning band arranged for easy guitar with notes and tab. This second edition includes: Clocks * Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall * Fix You * Hymn for the Weekend * Lost! * Magic * Paradise...
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East of the Mississippi: Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Photography

Diane Waggoner · Yale University Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

An important reconsideration of landscape photography in 19th-century America, exploring crucial but neglected geographies, practitioners, and themes Although pictures of the West have dominated our perception of 19th-century American landscape photography, many photographers were working...
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Dolly Parton, Gender, and Country Music

Leigh H. Edwards · Indiana University Press
Pages: 270
Format: Hardcover

Dolly Parton is instantly recognizable for her iconic style and persona, but how did she create her enduring image? Dolly crafted her exaggerated appearance and stage personality by combining two opposing stereotypes -- the innocent mountain girl and the voluptuous sex symbol. Emerging...
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Adobe Lightroom Classic CC Classroom in a Book

John Evans · Adobe Press
Pages: 408
Format: Paperback

Digital photographers, amateur or pro, who seek the fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic CC choose Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic CC Classroom in a Book from Adobe Press. The 11 project-based step-by-step lessons in this book show users...
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When Genres Collide: Down Beat, Rolling Stone, and the Struggle between Jazz and Rock

Matt Brennan · Bloomsbury Academic
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback

When Genres Collide is a provocative history that rethinks the relationship between jazz and rock through the lens of the two oldest surviving and most influential American popular music periodicals: Down Beat and Rolling Stone. Writing in 1955, Duke Ellington argued that the new music...
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Modigliani

Nancy Ireson (Editor) · Skira Rizzoli
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

This definitive monograph on Modigliani incorporates new research into one of the most comprehensive surveys ever published on the seminal twentieth-century artist. Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920) is one of the most important artists of the early twentieth century. This ambitious volume...
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Independent Female Filmmakers: A Chronicle through Interviews, Profiles, and Manifestos

Michele Meek · Routledge
Pages: 316
Format: Hardcover

Independent Female Filmmakers collects original and previously published essays, interviews, and manifestos from some of the most defining and groundbreaking independent female filmmakers of the last 40 years. Featuring material from the seminal magazine The Independent Film and Video Monthly...
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Top Country Hits of 2016-2017

HAL LEONARD PUBLISHING CORPORATION. · Hal Leonard
Pages: 96
Format: Paperback

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook) . 13 of the year's most popular country songs in arrangements for piano, voice and guitar. Includes: Better Man (Little Big Town) * Blue Ain't Your Color (Keith Urban) * From the Ground Up (Dan & Shay) * Humble and Kind (Tim McGraw) * My Church...
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