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Story Songs: 52 Narrative Classics

Hal Leonard Corp. - Hal Leonard Corporation
Format: Musical score

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook) . 52 of the best-loved stories that used music to come to life, including: Alice's Restaurant * American Pie * Billy, Don't Be a Hero * A Boy Named Sue * Cat's in the Cradle * Copacabana (At the Copa) * Coward of the County * The Devil Went down...
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An Introduction to Japanese Calligraphy

Yuuko Suzuki - Schiffer
Format: Hardcover

Clear instructions and 148 photos welcome you to the subtle, fascinating world of Japanese calligraphy. Beginning with a summary of the art's history, this guide then helps you understand the two systems of script that Japanese uses together: kanji, the ideogram-like characters borrowed...
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Know It All Fashion: The 50 Key Modes, Garments, and Designers, Each Explained in Under a Minute

Rebecca Arnold - Wellfleet Press
Format: Paperback

Most of us have some feeling for fashion and have a vague idea of what's in and what's out. Less familiar to most, however, is the way fashion works as a global business. Know-It-All Fashion looks beyond the surface of this billion-dollar industry. Each entry is summarized...
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Beyonc in Formation: Remixing Black Feminism

Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley - University of Texas Press
Format: eBook

Making headlines when it was launched in 2015, Omise'eke Tinsley's undergraduate course "Beyonc Feminism, Rihanna Womanism" has inspired students from all walks of life. In Beyonc in Formation, Tinsley now takes her rich observations beyond the classroom, using the blockbuster...
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Young Frankenstein: A Mel Brooks Book: The Story of the Making of the Film

Mel Brooks - Black Dog & Leventhal
Format: Hardcover

Mel Brooks' own words telling all about the players, the filming, and studio antics during the production of this great comedy classic. The book is alive and teeming with hundreds of photos, original interviews, and hilarious commentary. Young Frankenstein was made with deep...
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Songs of the 1990s - The New Decade Series: E-Z Play Today Volume 369

Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation - Hal Leonard
Format: Paperback

(E-Z Play Today) . Simplified E-Z Play Today versions of this collection of 100 of the biggest hits of the '90s. Songs include: Always Be My Baby * Barely Breathing * Beautiful in My Eyes * Can You Feel the Love Tonight * (Everything I Do) I Do It for You * The Freshmen * Genie in a Bottle...
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North and West Chelmsford

Fred Merriam - Arcadia Publishing
Format: Paperback

The Massachusetts town of Chelmsford, chartered in 1655, consisted of five villages. In the 1820s, industries related to the production of cast iron, textiles, and textile mill machinery made their first appearance in the North village along Stony Brook. Its social and economic life became...
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Van Gogh and Music: A Symphony in Blue and Yellow

NATASCHA VELDHORST - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover

"Ah! . . . to make of painting what the music of Berlioz and Wagner has been before us . . . a consolatory art for distressed hearts!" - Vincent van Gogh This engaging book is the first in-depth investigation of the influential role that music and sound played throughout Vincent...
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Florida Soul: From Ray Charles to KC and the Sunshine Band

John Capouya - University Press of Florida
Format: Hardcover

When recalling the roots of soul music, most people are likely to name Memphis, Detroit, New Orleans, Muscle Shoals, or Macon. But Florida also has a rich soul music history--an important cultural legacy that has often gone unrecognized. Florida Soul celebrates great artists of the Sunshine...
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Twilight of the Gods: A Journey to the End of Classic Rock

Steven Hyden - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover

The author of the critically acclaimed Your Favorite Band is Killing Me offers an eye-opening and frank assessment of the state of classic rock, assessing its past and future, the impact it has had, and what it's loss would mean to an industry, a culture, and a way of life.Since the late...
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