Entertainment Theory

Of all the musical developments of rock in the 1960s, one in particular fundamentally changed the music's structure and listening experience: the incorporation of extended improvisation into live performances. While many bands—including Cream, Pink Floyd, and the Velvet Underground—stretched out their songs with improvisations, no band was more identified with the practice than the Grateful Dead. In Get Shown the Light Michael Kaler examines how the Dead's dedication to improvisation stemmed from their belief that playing in this manner enabled them to touch upon transcendence.

With well over 200 episodes and a dozen seasons, The Big Bang Theory is one of America's favorite television series, bringing a new class of character to mainstream television: the science nerd. In spite of its evident popularity and influence in shaping public attitudes to science and scientists, there are relatively few books that explore the show's culture and social dimension. The Science of The Big Bang Theory looks behind the comedy scenes and scripts of this long-running and successful TV show.

Play in Perfect Harmony! Music Theory for Beginners is a thorough yet accessible guide. It’s recorded without confusing terms or jargon, and you can use the concepts to play any instrument in any style or genre. Rather than telling you what to do, it trains your ears and hands to express yourself. You can even use what you learn to produce your own original music on a laptop! Discover how to express yourself through rhythm and notes, because music theory doesn’t have to be intimidating or tedious.

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Colour unlocks the history of the colours of the rainbow, and reveals how paints came to be invented, discovered, traded and used. This remarkable and beautifully written book, part travelogue part narrative history, remembers a time when red paint was really the colour of blood, when orange was the poison pigment, blue as expensive as gold and yellow made from the urine of cows force-fed with mangoes. It looks at how green was carried by yaks along the silk road, and how an entire nation was founded on the colour purple.

Enter a new realm of audio enlightenment with the "Harmonious Careers" eBook. Breathing life into a captivating journey through the world of sound design, this book serves as your premier guide, emphasizing the essentials of sound theory, and brimming with engrossing career pathways in the entertainment industry. Our initial power play is with an in-depth introduction to sound design, painting a vivid picture of a sound designer's pivotal role, and tracing the outlines of its history. We further stimulate your interest by delving into the abundant opportunities this versatile industry has ...

In The Grouchy Historian, Ed Asner leads the charge for liberals to reclaim the Constitution from the right-wingers who use it as their justification for doing whatever terrible thing they want to do, which is usually to comfort the comfortable and afflict the afflicted. It's about time someone gave them hell and explained that Progressives can read, too.

Many people consider music theory to be intimadating, when in all actuality, it is the very language that connects us. This book is a step-by-step guide providing the basics and laying the foundation necessary to provide you with the skills to compose and orient your ideas when creating music.

Born in London, in 1889, Charlie Chaplin grew up in dire poverty. Both his parents were in show business, but severe alcoholism cut short his father's flourishing career, and his beloved mother first lost her voice, then lost her mind to syphilis. Charlie, at age seven, was committed to the Hanwell School for Orphans and Destitute Children. How then did this poor, lonely child become such an extraordinary comedian, known and celebrated worldwide? Chaplin cut his teeth in British music halls, but it was America that made him.

Scouted by a modeling agent when she was just sixteen years old, Cameron Russell first approached her job with some reservations: She was a serious student with her sights set on college, not the runway. But modeling was a job that seemed to offer young women like herself unprecedented access to wealth, fame, and influence. Besides, as she was often reminded, “there are a million girls in line” who would eagerly replace her.

Women’s identity has long been stifled by a limited set of archetypes, found everywhere in pictures from art history’s classics to advertising, while women artists have been overlooked and held back from shaping more empowering roles. In this impassioned book, art historian Catherine McCormack asks us to look again at what these images have told us to value, opening up our most loved images - from those of Titian and Botticelli to Picasso and the Pre-Raphaelites.

Five intense and emotionally charged short stories about the interconnected lives of everyday people and the impact of how drug abuse, alcoholism, spousal abuse, police brutality, discrimination, racism, economics, and foreign intervention affect the daily lives of regular people and how they handle and deal with the hardships of their circumstances and how their fight for survival affects their communities and society as a whole. Immerse yourself in these emotional and gut-wrenching stories of ordinary people as they struggle and survive the harsh realities of life.

Infected with the deadliest plague known to humanity. The world must unite to combat and defeat a parasitic mutation that has engulfed the world for thousands of years with its incurable disease of death, destruction, division, and chaos. Immerse yourself in this alternate history of how humanity fought, struggled, and survived an abomination created to infiltrate, deceive, and destroy the planet and humanity to bring the world into a purgatory hell of darkness and death.

The one pathogen there was no cure for that devoured the world and brought humanity to the brink of extinction. Humanity must bond together to survive this apocalyptic pathogen that is determined to end humanity as we know it.

When you are the prey, but you are oblivious to the fact that the predator that is hunting you is standing directly in front of you. Immerse yourself in this book of short stories that delve into the lives of innocent individuals who are hunted, groomed, and preyed on by wealthy powerful individuals who are more monster than human.

Music exists, first and foremost, in the soul, mind and body. It is something we feel before we understand it. Your introduction to the wonderful world of music theory, this audiobook will help you to decipher the language used to describe the intoxicating combination of art and science that is music.

A Second Opinion is a collection of philosophies, theories, and observations that will alter your sense of self and the world around you. Through simple observations and questions, it awakens readers to discover insights into their own consciousness and uncover personal truths that lead to their own enlightenment. Emily Maroutian uses the simple approach of awareness to guide the reader to be wakeful of false beliefs, negative thoughts, destructive feelings, hindering habits, and myths about happiness and security. Journey inside for a mind-expanding reexamination of the human condition.

South Beach is one of the hottest spots on the planet. Where the wealthy, the famous, and the beautiful come to party and enjoy the luxurious beaches and the thriving nightlife of Miami Beach. But when the glitz and glamor, the fortune and fame, hide a hideous and sinister secret about a notorious serial killer roaming freely on the streets of South Beach. The corruption and incompetence of the Miami Beach police department have allowed a notorious serial killer to get away with murder for decades. Immerse yourself in this tantalizing short story The South Beach Slayer available online at ...

There are countless books on music with much analysis given to musicians, bands, eras and/or genres. But rarely does a book delve into what's going on inside us when we listen. Michel Faber explores two big questions: how we listen to music and why we listen to music. To answer these he considers biology, age, illness, the notion of 'cool', commerce, the dichotomy between 'good' and 'bad' taste and, through extensive interviews with musicians, unlocks some surprising answers.

You will learn everything that you have to and would like to learn about the ukulele with the help of this book. We will start with the basic information about the ukulele - where it originated and what its parts are. We will progress into learning the different techniques and tips that will help you master the art of playing the ukulele and guarantee you the ability to play the ukulele effortlessly and beautifully.