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xiv, 528 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 25 cm
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English
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"The essential oral history of hip-hop, from its origins on the playgrounds of the Bronx to its reign as the most powerful force in pop culture-from the award-winning journalist behind All the Pieces Matter, the New York Times bestselling oral history of The Wire. The music that we would later know as hip-hop was born at a party in the Bronx in the summer of 1973. Now, fifty years later, it's the most popular genre in America and its electric impact...
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484 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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English
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"From the author of the definitive biography of Frank Sinatra, the story of how jazz arrived at the pinnacle of American culture in 1959, told through the journey of three towering artists -- Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and Bill Evans -- who came together to create the most famous and bestselling jazz album of all time, Kind of Blue. The myth of the 60s depends on the 1950s being the before times of conformity, segregation, straightness -- The Lonely...
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272 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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Describes the life of the Rothschild heiress and jazz enthusiast who moved to Manhattan and began hosting late-night jam sessions, socializing with Beat poets and made headlines when Charlie Parker died in her hotel suite.
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174 pages ; 20 cm
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English
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Taking readers on a tour of some of the best memoirs and essays of the past hundred years, Gornick traces the changing idea of self that has dominated the century, and demonstrates the enduring truth-speaker to be found in the work of writers as diverse as Edmund Gosse, Joan Didion, Oscar Wilde, James Baldwin, and Marguerite Duras.
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vi, 396 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
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"Loved by the free-spirited, hated by his orthodox peers; a stranger in both his homeland and the West: the complexities and contradictions surrounding the life of Omar Khayyam are reconstructed for the first time in this new book." "This comprehensive study draws on a host of sources, placing Khayyam within the context of his own time, and exploring, through his philosophy and poetry, his lifelong preoccupation with such timeless themes as life and...
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xvii, 346 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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English
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An award-winning author presents the history and impact of both the theatrical and cinematic versions of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and how it forced audiences to confront deeply-held concepts about relationships, sex and family.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 31 cm
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English
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Long before they became one of the most beloved and successful duos of all time, Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel were just two kids growing up in Queens, New York -- best friends who met in a sixth-grade production of Alice in Wonderland and bonded over girls, baseball, and rock'n'roll.
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xvii, 238 pages ; 23 cm
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English
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"Latinx Poetics: Essays on the Art of Poetry collects personal and academic writing from Latino, Latin American, Latinx, and Luso poets about the nature of poetry and its practice. At the heart of this anthology lies the intersection of history, language, and the human experience. The collection explores the ways in which a people's history and language are vital to the development of a poet's imagination and insists that the meaning and value of...
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xiv, 201 pages ; 24 cm.
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English
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Counting Down is a unique series of titles designed to select the best songs or musical works from major performance artists and composers in an age of design-your-own playlists. Contributors offer readers the reasons why some works stand out from others. It is the ideal companion for music lovers. For fifty years, Bob Dylan's music has been a source of wonder to his fans and endless fodder for analysis by music critics. In Counting Down Bob Dylan,...
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xxi, 200 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
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In this compelling book of beloved heroines and the remarkable writers who created them, Erin Blakemore explores how the pluck and dignity of literary characters such as Anne Shirley, Elizabeth Bennet, Jane Eyre, Scarlett O'Hara, Scout Finch and Jo March can inspire women today.
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xvii, 409 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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English
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"Focusing on a handful of performers - Harmonica Frank, Robert Johnson, the Band, Sly Stone, Randy Newman, and Elvis Presley - Greil Marcus opens up the American story of ambition and defeat, dreams and lies. This fifth edition includes an updated version of the ever-expanding Notes and Discographies section, exploring the evolution and continuing impact of the performers and recordings featured in this book."--BOOK JACKET.
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230 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"In this candid and bluntly humorous collection of essays on a wide range of topics, Lurie begins with a portrait of her life at Radcliffe during World War II when the smartest women in the country were treated like second-class citizens, the most scholarly among them expected to work in factories to support the war effort. She moves on to her unheralded, clumsy attempts and near failure to be a writer and, finally having reached a level of recognition,...
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175 pages ; 18 cm
Language
Español
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Los 21 rezos mas efectivas de la biblia hablan a los creyentes de todas las edades, fondos, y niveles de la madurez con un mensaje que eleva: que los rezos de la biblia son rezos para nosotros hoy. Un estudio no exhaustivo, de estudiante, este volumen muy legible investiga veintiuno rezos sentidos que produjeron resultados. Sea autor de los ejemplos personales de las partes de Dave Earley a partir de los aos del ministerio que ilustran como estas...
1018) The Who: the Moon years
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1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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"This was the classic Who line up of Daltrey, Townshend, Moon and Entwistle which produced a stunning array of alltime legendary music ranging from the first hit singles to the superb rock classics from the seventies. This is the ultimate review of the music of a band which are still seen by many as the best ever to come out of Britain."--Container
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vii, 295 pages ; 23 cm
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English
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"Literary studies of queer themes and characters in crime fiction have tended to focus on the more positive and explicit representations since the riots, while pre-Stonewall works are thought to reference queer only negatively or obliquely. This collection of new essays questions that view with an investigation of queer aspects in crime fiction published over eight decades"--
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