Popular Music - Popular Music, part 1

Popular Music, part 1

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Michael Bolton. The Soul of It All: My Music, My Life

Publisher:Sphere
Year:2013

After four decades in the music industry, Michael Bolton has become one the most successful musicians of our time. "The Soul of It All: My Music, My Life" is his backstage pass into his life lived thus far-into the venues, busses, limos, and hotel rooms of stardom, and finally into his home and heart. His story will go long and dive deep, not only into his self-proclaimed "vagabond vampire" life, but also into the belly of the beast that is the music industry, with its joys, follies, and torments. From a 14 year old kid performing in dive bars in his hometown of New Haven, CT, to struggling to provide for his wife and kids, to finally breaking through with the Soul Provider album, and going on to sell more than 53 million albums and singles worldwide, Bolton has fought for and earned a life most just dream of. "The Soul of It All: My Music, My Life" is his life, chock-full of all the incredible stories, and the star-studded cast you'd expect, including: Luciano Pavarotti, Paula...

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Michael Stasik. DISCOnnections: Popular Music Audiences in Freetown, Sierra Leone

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Year:2012

This book offers an intriguing account of the complex and often contradictory relations between music and society in Freetown's past and present. Blending anthropological thought with ethnographic and historical research, it explores the conjunctures of music practices and social affiliations and the diverse patterns of social dis/connections that music helps to shape, to (re)create, and to defy in Sierra Leone's capital Freetown. The first half of the book traces back the changing social relationships and the concurrent changes in the city's music life from the first days of the colony in the late 18th century up to the turbulent and thriving music scenes in the first decade of the 21st century. Grounded in this comprehensive historiography of Freetown's socio-musical palimpsest, the second half of the book puts forth a detailed ethnography of social dynamics in the realms of music, calibrating contemporary Freetown's social polyphony with its musical counterpart.

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Bill Gibson. The Ultimate Church Sound Operator's Handbook - 2nd Edition (Music Pro Guides)

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Year:2012

This important second edition of The Ultimate Church Sound Operator's Handbook is written to specifically address the concerns and needs of the sound person who serves ministries and churches. The modern church uses many of the same presentation tools that have become common in television, movies, and concerts, placing a unique set of technical expectations on its eager, willing, and primarily volunteer force. This updated handbook blends the relational and technical aspects of church sound in a straightforward and easy-to-understand manner, providing a leg-up to volunteer and staff church sound operators. The Ultimate Church Sound Operator's Handbook will help church sound operators gain the knowledge they need to faithfully serve their church membership, leaders, and musicians.

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Fett. Fett's Mixing Roadmap: A Step-by-Step Guide To Mixing Music In The Studio

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Year:2012

Are you a home or project studio owner who would like to dramatically improve your mixes? Whether youa??re a newbie or a seasoned pro, youa??ll find a goldmine of information in this book. Let an experienced pro take you by the hand and guide you step-by-step through a process that he has developed for mixing complex music in the modern studio a?? all the while keeping it fun, entertaining, and straightforward. Fetta??s style is no-nonsense, pragmatic, and supportive a?? and he speaks in plain English! He talks to you as a fellow music lover and music production enthusiast, not at you. Therea??s no a??fluffa?? here; Fett gets right down to business and provides real, practical, instantly usable techniques that you can apply to your mixes in your own studio today. Here are just some of the topics covered in this book: a?? Choosing a Mixing Platform a?? The 7 Phases of the Mixing Process a?? The 5 Primary Mixing Tools a?? Mixing on the Virtual Sound Stage a?? Thinking in Terms of...

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Paul Combs. Dameronia: The Life and Music of Tadd Dameron (Jazz Perspectives)

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Year:2012

Dameronia is the first authoritative biography of Tadd Dameron, an important and widely influential figure in jazz history as one of the most significant composers and arrangers of jazz, swing, bebop, and big band. He arranged for names like Count Basie, Artie Shaw, Jimmie Lunceford, and Dizzy Gillespie and played with Bull Moose Jackson and Benny Golson. This book sets out to clarify Dameron's place in the development of jazz in the posta??World War II era. It also attempts to shed light on the tragedy of his retreat from the center of jazz activity in the 1950s. By tracing Dameron's career, one finds that until 1958, when he was incarcerated for drug related offenses, he was at the forefront of developments in jazz, sometimes anticipating trends that would not develop fully for several years. Dameron was also an important influence on several high-profile musicians, including Miles Davis, Benny Golson, and Frank Foster. Dameron was a very private man, and while in some aspects of...

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Martin James. Popular Music Journalism

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Year:2012

Working in the highly charged field of popular music journalism requires an understanding of a broad range of practical and theoretical approaches to the subject. This book will explore a variety of arguments and perspectives on the role of the music journalist and the wider popular music press within the cultural and operational contexts of popular music and its associated industries. By exploring the roles of the journalist as freelance, member of an editorial team and a part of the editorial production process, readers will be introduced to the thinking skills required to recognise, source, research and write thoughtful, critical and well-crafted music features and reviews for print, online and broadcast outlets. Furthermore the role of the music journalist within the music industries are investigated, paying close attention to the increasingly central role music media has taken in the promotion and distribution of music. As with the rest of the music and media industries the...

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Emaeyak Peter Sylvanus. Film music practice in Nollywood: From Mimesis to the Opacity of the Extended Present

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Year:2012

Nollywood is Nigeria's creative and cultural industry equivalent of Hollywood. Until now, no academic literature on Film Music has been devoted to Nollywood. This book provides that foundational musicological perspective, which ranges from soundtrack contents, usage, and processes, to what the determinants of their preferences of creative choices of style and genre are. More significantly, this book offers an original taxonomy of epochs of the practice from inception to date by employing the Critical Orientation and Practice (COP) model, which has been developed by the author. It presents facts about symbolism and value derived from engaging industry experts and fans on the subject; as well as analytical reviews of select feature films. It argues, among other things, that music in Nollywood films attest to a steady rise in diversification, aesthetic and rhetorical application, representation and quality. This study is significant to the overall academic exploration of Nollywood, and...

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John Dougan. The Mistakes of Yesterday, the Hopes of Tomorrow: The Story of the Prisonaires (American Popular Music)

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Year:2012

Early in the morning on June 1, 1953, five African American men boarded a van to make the 200-mile trip from Nashville to Memphis for a daylong recording session at the legendary Sun Studios, to be overseen by Sun founder Sam Phillips. One of the two tracks cut that day, Just Walkin in the Rain, would go on to become a regional R&B hit, Sun Records biggest record of the pre-Elvis era. It would, however, be the group s only hit. They were the Prisonaires, a vocal quintet who had honed their skills while inmates at the Tennessee State Penitentiary in Nashville. In this book, John Dougan tells the story of the Prisonaires, their hit single, and the afterlife of this one remarkable song. The group and the song itself represent a compelling concept: imprisoned men using music as a means of cultural and personal survival. The song was re-recorded by white singer Johnnie Ray, who made it a huge hit in 1956. Over the years, other singers and groups would move the song further away from its...

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Christopher Kent. Edward Elgar: A Thematic Catalogue and Research Guide (Routledge Music Bibliographies)

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Year:2012

This updated second edition is an in-depth exploration of Elgar's compositions and of writings by and about the composer and his music. The past 16 years have seen a steady increase in scholarly publications and the emergence of The Elgar Society Journal, as well as further discoveries of the composer's MSS and letters, and the new edition incorporates this latest research. The compositions are examined in a work-by-work catalog, in chronological order, in which each entry gives a complete census and collation of manuscript, proof, text, biographical, printed edition and bibliographical sources for each item. The listing also includes unfinished sketches and details of much unpublished material. The bibliography section covers selected established literature as well as details of reviews and articles contained in the European periodicals at the climax of Elgar's career.

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David Baskerville, Tim Baskerville. Music Business Handbook and Career Guide

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Year:2012

The special Tenth Edition of this powerhouse best-selling text maintains its tradition as the most comprehensive, upto- date guide to the music industry. The breadth of coverage that this book offers is unlike that of any other resource available. Music business newcomers and professionals alike will find Baskervillea??s handbook a valuable resource, whatever their specialty is within the field music. It is ideal as the core textbook in courses such as Introduction to the Music Business, Music and Media, Music Business Foundations, and survey courses. This book can also be used for more specialized courses on the record industry, music merchandising, music careers, artist management, music and the law, arts administration, and music in popular culture. Key Features: Expanded and enhanced coverage of state-of-the-art technology and its implications for the music industry, including digital downloads, changing production technologies, marketing via social networking, and new...

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Christine Lee Gengaro. Listening to Stanley Kubrick: The Music in His Films

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Year:2012

The musical scores of Stanley Kubrick’s films are often praised as being innovative and forward-looking. Despite playing such an important part in his productions, however, the ways in which Kubrick used music to great effect is still somewhat mysterious to many viewers. Although some viewers may know a little about the music in 2001 or A Clockwork Orange, few are aware of the particulars behind the music in Kubrick's other films.In Listening to Stanley Kubrick: The Music in His Films, Christine Lee Gengaro provides an in-depth exploration of the music that was composed for Kubrick’s films and places the pre-existent music he utilized into historical context. Gengaro discusses the music in every single work, from Kubrick’s first films, including the documentary shorts The Flying Padre and Day of the Fight, through all of his feature films, from Fear and Desire to Eyes Wide Shut. No film is left out; no cue is ignored.Besides closely examining the scores composed by Gerald Fried for...

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Dr. Andrew Adams. Sergei Rachmaninoff School of Musicianship and Technique: A Guide for Keyboard Performers

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Year:2012

Based on an article written in 1923 by legendary Russian pianist and composer Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943), this volume presents the series of chords, arpeggios, and scales that Rachmaninoff himself studied as a young man. The Preface contains a short history explaining Rachmaninoff’s use of this exercise and demonstrates that similar studies were included in some of the earliest keyboard methods dating to the eighteenth century. More than finger exercises, these patterns encourage harmonic thinking and reflect the modern approach to piano technique with its emphasis on engaged practice. Having its roots in the earliest history of keyboard pedagogy, and practiced and promoted by Sergei Rachmaninoff, Josef Lhevinne, Franz Liszt, and other legendary pianists, the exercises in this volume are a true link to the Golden Age of piano performance. Without question, diligent study will greatly improve every dedicated student’s musicianship and technique.

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Dennis Taylor. Eric Ball: His Life and Music, 1903-1989

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Year:2012

This book is an addition to the British music culture as it traces the life and work of a renowned Brass band composer Eric Ball during the twentieth century. He takes his place among the great figures in the Brass band Movement. The book includes a survey of his music along with a catalogue of his composition output. Also, the book researches into his involvement with the Salvation Army.

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Contemplating Shostakovich: Life, Music and Film

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Year:2012

Contemplating Shostakovich marks an important new stage in the understanding of Shostakovich and his working environment. Each chapter covers aspects of the composer's output in the context of his life and cultural milieu. The contributions uncover 'outside' stimuli behind Shostakovich's works, allowing the reader to perceive the motivations behind his artistic choices; at the same time, the nature of those choices offers insights into the workings of the larger world - cultural, social, political - that he inhabited. Thus his often ostensibly quirky choices are revealed as responses - by turns sentimental, moving, sardonic and angry - to the particular conditions, with all their absurdities and contradictions, that he had to negotiate. Here we see the composer emerging from the role of tortured loner of older narratives into that of the gregarious and engaged member of his society that, for better and worse, characterized the everyday reality of his life. This invaluable collection...

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Roy Shuker. Understanding Popular Music Culture

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Year:2012

This extensively revised new edition of Understanding Popular Music Culture provides an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the production, distribution, consumption and meaning of popular music and the difficulties and debates that surround the analysis of popular culture and popular music. Reflecting the continued expansion of popular music studies, the changing music industry and the impact of new technologies, Roy Shuker explores key subjects that shape our experience of music, including music production, musicians and stars, musical texts, music video and MTV, audiences and fans, scenes and subcultures and music as political activism and ideology. This heavily revised and updated fourth edition includes: the role of social network sites, marketing and music retail the decline of the traditional model of the sound recording companies music genres, cover songs and the album canon case studies of artists such as Robert Johnson, the Sex Pistols, Shania Twain and...

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Vinyl: A History of the Analogue Record (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series)

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Year:2012

Vinyl: A History of the Analogue Record is the first in-depth scholarly study of the vinyl record. Richard Osborne traces of the evolution of the recording format from its roots in the first sound recording experiments, to its survival in the world of digital technologies. It addresses the record's relationship with music: the analogue record was shaped by, and helped to shape, the music of the twentieth century. It also looks at the cult of vinyl records. Why are users so passionate about this format? Why has it become the subject of artworks and advertisements? Why are vinyl records still being produced?Of all recording formats, it is the vinyl record that has had the most profound effect on the production and consumption of popular music; vinyl has also had the longest-lasting and deepest appeal. This book explores its subject using a distinctive approach: the author takes the vinyl record apart and historicizes its construction. Each chapter explores a different element: the...

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Doris Leibetseder. Queer Tracks: Subversive Strategies in Rock and Pop Music (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series)

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Year:2012

Queer Tracks describes motifs in popular music that deviate from heterosexual orientation, the binary gender system and fixed identities. This exciting cutting-edge work deals with the key concepts of current gender politics and queer theory in rock and pop music, including irony, parody, camp, mask/masquerade, mimesis/mimicry, cyborg, transsexuality, and dildo. Based on a constructivist concept of gender, Leibetseder asks: 'Which queer-feminist strategies are used in rock and pop music?' 'How do they function?' 'Where do they occur?' Leibetseder's methodological process is to discover subversive strategies in queer theory, which are also used in rock and pop music, without assuming that these tactics were first invented in theory. Furthermore this book explains where exactly the subversiveness is situated in those strategies and in popular music.With the help of a new kind of knowledge transfer the author combines sociological and cultural theories with practical examples of rock and...

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Don Davis. Nashville Steeler: My Life in Country Music

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Year:2012

This true account of the rise of country music is told by a 1940s' band musician, Don Davis, who became a music business executive and worked with all the Grand Ole Opry stars. Johnny Cash, the Carter family, Waylon Jennings, Minnie Pearl, Roy Acuff, and many others were his friends and appear throughout the book. They played from Mobile to Nashville and back again to his beloved Alabama. This masterful storyteller recalls colorful songwriters, record personalities, and fans with real incidents over his sixty-year career, that will move readers from laughter to tears. View 100 photographs showing real people, places, and instruments that have become country music legends. The stories will inform the fans and inspire current musicians to keep to their roots and enjoy the music.

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Adapting Idols: Authenticity, Identity and Performance in a Global Television Format (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series)

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Year:2012

Since the first series of Pop Idol aired in the UK just over a decade ago, Idols television shows have been broadcast in more than forty countries all over the world. In all those countries the global Idols format has been adapted to local cultures and production contexts, resulting in a plethora of different versions, ranging from the Dutch Idols to the Pan-Arab Super Star and from Nigerian Idol to the international blockbuster American Idol. Despite its worldwide success and widespread journalistic coverage, the Idols phenomenon has received only limited academic attention.Adapting Idols: Authenticity, Identity and Performance in a Global Television Format brings together original studies from scholars in different parts of the world to identify and evaluate the productive dimensions of Idols. As one of the world's most successful television formats, Idols offers a unique case for the study of cultural globalization. Chapters discuss how Idols shows address particular national or...

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The Complete Classical Music Guide

Publisher:Дорлинг Киндерсли
Year:2012

This is an essential guide to more than 1,000 years of classical music. Lose yourself in the fascinating story of classical music in "The Complete Classical Music Guide". Full of beautiful colour photographs, over 300 inspiring composer biographies, analyses of major classical works and information on every genre, style and form, instrument and ensemble, this is essential reading for every lover of classical music. Be inspired by the composers who have shaped the musical landscape over a millennia from the earliest music, through the Baroque and Romantic eras and right up to the modern classical music of today. Presented in a beautiful glossy slipcase in the shape of a grand piano, "The Complete Classical Music Guide" will hit the right note with any classical music fan.

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June Tipper. The Essential Writer's Guide: Spotlight on Greg Bear, Including his Education, Analysis of his Best Sellers such as Blood Music, Darwin's Radio, Moving Mars, and more

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Year:2012

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Get a glimpse at the life of the author, Greg Bear. Read about his education, analysis of his most popular books such as Blood Music, Darwin's Radio, Moving Mars, and much more. Whether you are a true fan or just want to know more about the author, you will find this book comprehensive and perfect for your needs. Project Webster represents a new publishing paradigm, allowing disparate content sources to be curated into cohesive, relevant, and informative books. To date, this content has been curated from Wikipedia articles and images under Creative Commons licensing, although as Project Webster continues to increase in scope and dimension, more licensed and public domain content is being added. We believe books such...

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Sandra Wilkins. The Celebrity 411: Spotlight on A. R. Rahman, Including his Best Selling Albums such as Vande Mataram, A. R. Rahman - A World of Music, Famous Hit Singles, Film Scores, and More

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Year:2012

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Get a glimpse at the life of composer, A. R. Rahman. Read about his most famous hit singles such as Bombay Dreams, Jai Ho, best selling albums, and much more. Whether you are a true fan or just want to know more about the star, you will find this book comprehensive and perfect for your needs. Project Webster represents a new publishing paradigm, allowing disparate content sources to be curated into cohesive, relevant, and informative books. To date, this content has been curated from Wikipedia articles and images under Creative Commons licensing, although as Project Webster continues to increase in scope and dimension, more licensed and public domain content is being added. We believe books such as this represent a...

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Laura Vermon. A Closer Look Into the Life and Famous Works of Robert Wise Including Analyses of his Notable Films such as West Side Story, The Sound of Music, Sand Pebbles, and more

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Year:2012

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Robert Wise was a multi-awarded American film director, producer and editor. This book highlights his famous works such as The Body Snatcher, Born to Kill, The Set-Up, The Day the Earth Stood Still, and more. Project Webster represents a new publishing paradigm, allowing disparate content sources to be curated into cohesive, relevant, and informative books. To date, this content has been curated from Wikipedia articles and images under Creative Commons licensing, although as Project Webster continues to increase in scope and dimension, more licensed and public domain content is being added. We believe books such as this represent a new and exciting lexicon in the sharing of human...

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Sam Night. The Celebrity 411: Spotlight on Sutton Foster, Including her Personal Life, Famous Musicals and Blockbusters such as The Drowsy Chaperone, Shrek the ... P.S., her Career Debut, and More

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Year:2012

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Get a glimpse at the life of stage actor, Sutton Foster. Read about her humble debut and the shows that propelled her to stardom such as Chess, Thoroughly Modern Millie, They're Playing Our Song, Anything Goes, and more. Whether you are a true fan or just want to know more about the star, you will find this book comprehensive and perfect for your needs. Project Webster represents a new publishing paradigm, allowing disparate content sources to be curated into cohesive, relevant, and informative books. To date, this content has been curated from Wikipedia articles and images under Creative Commons licensing, although as Project Webster continues to increase in scope and dimension, more licensed and public domain...

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Ken Surin. The Essential Writer's Guide: Spotlight on Amiri Baraka, Including his Personal Life, Analysis of his Best Sellers such as Blues People: Negro Music ... Slave, The System of Dante's Hell, and More

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Year:2012

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Get a glimpse at the life of author, Amiri Baraka. Read about his genres, analysis of his most popular books such as Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note, Home: Social Essays, A Black Mass, other interests, and much more. Whether you are a true fan or just want to know more about the author, you will find this book comprehensive and perfect for your needs. Project Webster represents a new publishing paradigm, allowing disparate content sources to be curated into cohesive, relevant, and informative books. To date, this content has been curated from Wikipedia articles and images under Creative Commons licensing, although as Project Webster continues to increase in scope and dimension, more licensed and public domain...

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Benjamin William Findon. Sir Arthur Sullivan, His Life And Music...

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Year:2012

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as...

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Violette Verne. The Celebrity 411: Spotlight on Rachel York, Including her Personal Life, Famous Musicals and Blockbusters such as City of Angels, The Scarlet ... Miserables, Lucy, her Career Debut, and More

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Year:2012

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Get a glimpse at the life of actress and singer, Rachel York. Read about her humble debut and the roles that propelled her to stardom such as Victor/Victoria, Kiss Me, Kate, Sly Fox, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, One Life to Live, One Fine Day, and more. Whether you are a true fan or just want to know more about the star, you will find this book comprehensive and perfect for your needs. Project Webster represents a new publishing paradigm, allowing disparate content sources to be curated into cohesive, relevant, and informative books. To date, this content has been curated from Wikipedia articles and images under Creative Commons licensing, although as Project Webster continues to increase in scope and dimension, more...

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Lawrence Gilman. Debussy's PellEas Et MElisande, A Guide To The Opera: With Musical Examples From The Score...

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Year:2012

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Edward Whitelock and David Janssen. Apocalypse Jukebox: The End of the World in American Popular Music

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Year:2012

From its indefinite beginnings through its broad commercialization and endless reinterpretation, American rock-and-roll music has been preoccupied with an end-of-the-world mentality that extends through the whole of American popular music. In Apocalypse J

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Steve Turnidge. Desktop Mastering (Music Pro Guides)

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Year:2012

Mastering your music is like mastering your life. It's amazing what happens when you clean up the noise, maximize your good work, and have your music sparkle and shine as you really want it to. Desktop Mastering is a conceptual guide, intertwining a broad

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