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From the legendary producer of Nick Drake, R.E.M., Toots and the Maytals, and Pink Floyd and author of White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s comes a riveting, world-spanning tour de force illuminating the artists, histories, controversies, and collaborations that shaped global music.

Flyting 101: Poetic Justice is a lively and engaging guide to the ancient art of flyting—verbal duels of wit, rhyme, and humor. Blending history, technique, and modern applications, this book takes listeners on a journey from the mead halls of the Norse gods to today’s rap battles and comedy roasts.

Amid the ongoing reckoning over America’s history of anti-Black racism, scores of monuments to slaveowners and Confederate soldiers still proudly dot the country’s landscape, while schools and street signs continue to bear the names of segregationists. With poignant, lyrical prose, cultural commentator Irvin Weathersby confronts the inescapable specter of white supremacy in our open spaces and contemplates what it means to bear witness to sites of lasting racial trauma.

After Baz Luhrmann’s movie, Elvis, hit theaters, audiences and critics alike couldn't help but question the Black origins of Elvis Presley’s music and style, reigniting a debate that has been circling for decades. In Before Elvis: The African American Musicians Who Made the King​, author Preston Lauterbach answers these questions definitively, based on new research and extensive, previously unpublished interviews with the artists who blazed the way and the people who knew them.

Drawing on over a hundred interviews with industry insiders, former Spotify employees, and musicians, Mood Machine takes us to the inner workings of today’s highly consolidated record business, showing what has changed as music has become increasingly playlisted, personalized, and autoplayed.

Prepare for a guided journey to play your way to style! Kibbe’s ingenious method of games will take you by the hand to uncover all the things that are unique to you. His aspirational vision of beauty will help you completely redefine what style is, what it can do for you, and how it can help you uplift the world around you.

Pia Soto is the sexy and glamorous prima ballerina, the Brazilian bombshell who's shaking up the ballet world with her outrageous behaviour. She's wild and precocious, and she's a survivor. But ruthless financier Will Silk has Pia in his sights, and has other ideas...Sophie O'Farrell is Pia's hapless, gawky assistant, the girl-next-door to Pia's Prima Donna. When a devastating accident threatens to cut short Pia's illustrious career, Sophie has to step out of the shadows and face up to the demons in her own life.

볼프강 아마데우스 모차르트는 세상에서 제일 유명한 작곡가 중 하나죠. 세 살 때 벌써 하프시코드와 바이올린 연주를 할 수 있었답니다. 네 살 때는 이미 자기자신의 음악을 작곡할 수 있었고요. 너무 어려서 아버지가 대신 악보를 적어주어야 하긴 했지만요.

From renowned YouTube photography educator David Hancock, this short and comprehensive guide details the Pentax MX 35mm film SLR's operation. This 10,000-word tutorial will help you understand why the camera works as it does and teach you to use it to obtain the best photos from it. This book describes how to use the camera and, more importantly, explains why the different functions benefit and improve your photography. This book also describes known problems with the Pentax MX, how to identify them, and options to correct issues. In this 60-minute read, Mr. Hancock covers the basic ...

¿Eres un verdadero amante de la música? ¿Te consideras un experto en ritmos, géneros y compositores? Este libro pone a prueba tu pasión y conocimiento con una serie de preguntas, curiosidades y desafíos diseñados para evaluar cuánto sabes realmente sobre el fascinante mundo de la música. Perfecto para aficionados, músicos y cualquiera que disfrute de la música en todas sus formas, este libro es tanto un test como una herramienta de aprendizaje. ¡Descubre hasta dónde llegan tus conocimientos y conviértete en un verdadero conocedor del arte musical!

In 180 easily cross-referenced selections, Master Acting Teacher Peter Frisch embraces the notion that the joy of acting is in the specific work of transformation through imagination and belief. His innovative techniques are complemented by pragmatic answers about auditioning, camera work, casting, training, comedy, etc.

Like millions of others, Louis’ plans were mothballed by the onset of COVID. Unable to escape to the porn sets, prisons and maximum-security psychiatric units that are his usual journalistic beat, he began reporting on a location even more full of pitfalls and hostile objects of inquiry: his own home during a pandemic. Theroux the Keyhole is an honest, hilarious and ultimately heartwarming diary of the weirdness of family life in COVID World.

Twin Peaks is one of the most anticipated events in the history of television. The subject of endless speculation, shrouded in mystery, fans will come flocking to see Mark Frost and David Lynch's inimitable vision once again grace the screen. Featuring all the characters we know and love from the first series, as well as a list of high-powered actors in new roles, the show will be endlessly debated, discussed, and dissected.

Discover the raucous, sensual, and incredibly funny world of "Dirty Jokes for Adults Only, " the most recent compilation from the well-known comic Samuel Cohen. Any gathering is sure to benefit from the carefully chosen collection of adult-only jokes, which will offer a dash of humour and a sprinkling of mischief. Listeners will find themselves laughing and blushing, guided by Cohen's sharp and sometimes hilarious writing.

In Battle of the Skyscrapers, we take you through the evolution of humanity's tallest architectural wonders. Crossing oceans and spanning the years since the first skyscraper, this book clues you in on how different eras and cities have aimed for the sky over the decades, observing the shifts in culture, economy, wealth, power, and technology that have driven humanity's race to go even higher.

Poetry with attitude. Some might find it rude. Insights of a life well lived. Poems that speak about contemporary culture. Poems that challenge conventional views on protests, social justice and social change.

Between 1936 and 1963, Judy Garland performed in thirty-three major motion pictures. That period marked a sea change in American history in which the United States was transformed from a sovereign nation in relative isolation in the Western hemisphere to a superpower on the world stage. As the cinema was changing dramatically during that quarter of a century, Garland was successfully adapting her performing style to new conventions.

It's the late 1970s and 20-something Christopher Fowler is a film freak, obsessively watching lousy films in run-down fleapit cinemas. He longs to be a famous screenwriter and put his dreams on the big screen. And so he heads for Wardour Street, Britain's equivalent of Hollywood. But he's made a spectacular mistake, arriving just as the nation's filmmakers are falling to their knees, brought low by the arrival of video and the destruction of the old movie palaces.

Sigmar Solbach lässt Sie teilhaben an seinem aufregenden Leben. An einer schweren Kindheit und Jugend mit lebensbedrohlicher Krankheit, an beruflichen Erfolgen, aber auch an bitteren Niederlagen bis hin zu gescheiterten Beziehungen. Er erzählt von außergewöhnlichen Abenteuern zu Wasser und zu Land, von seiner spirituellen Suche und schließlich von dem großen Glück, der Frau begegnet zu sein, mit der er bis heute sein Leben teilt. Gewidmet hat der Schauspieler sein Buch den vielen Menschen, die ihm über mehr als fünf Jahrzehnte die Treue gehalten haben.