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For many of us, classical music is something serious-something we study in school, something played by cultivated musicians at fancy gatherings. In Language of the Spirit, renowned music scholar Jan Swafford argues that we have it all wrong: classical music has something for everyone and is accessible to all. Ranging from Gregorian chant to Handel's Messiah, from Vivaldi's The Four Seasons to the postmodern work of Philip Glass, Swafford is an affable...
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xvii, 247 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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America's premier intellectual provocateur explores and celebrates a series of great poems of the Western tradition, including some surprising discoveries of her own. She brings new energy and insight to our understanding of poems we already know, such as masterpieces by Shakespeare, Donne, Shelley, Dickinson, Lowell, and Plath. She leads us to appreciate the artistry of writers with whom we may not be familiar, such as Chuck Wachtel and Wanda Coleman....
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xxviii, 377 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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A collection of poems by one hundred poets, including pieces from T. S. Eliot, Alexander Pope, W. B. Yeats, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, William Shakespeare, Conrad Aiken, George Meredith, and others. Features critical commentary from Harold Bloom on each poem.
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353 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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"Comedy is king. From multimillion-dollar TV specials to sold-out stand-up shows and TikTok stardom, comedy has never been more popular, democratized, or influential. Comedians have become organizing forces across culture -- as trusted as politicians and as fawned-over as celebrities -- yet comedy as an art form has gone under-considered throughout its history, even as it has ascended as a cultural force. In Comedy Book, Jesse David Fox -- the country's...
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xvi, 524 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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"Harold Bloom ... returns with a definitive yet personal book on twelve American writers upon whose work he believes the American canon is built. While his references to American writers are wide-ranging, he focuses on twelve: Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emily Dickinson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, Mark Twain, Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, T.S. Eliot, William Faulkner, and Hart Crane-- those writers whose works make...
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Paidós de música volume 9
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254 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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Español
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viii, 309 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
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English
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Challenging many accepted notions about the blues, a combination of cultural commentary, musical analysis, research, and visual images provides a new perspective on an enduring musical form and its place in American history.
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