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Publisher
Grolier
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
10 vol.
Language
English
Description
Contents: v.1 Classical music from earliest times--v.2 Classical music: romantic to modern--v.3 Music from around the world--v.4 Folk, country, and cajun music--v.5 Gospel, blues, and jazz--v.6 From rock and pop to hip-hop--v.7 Music of stage and screen--v.8 The music profession--v.9 Musical instruments and technology--v.10 The voice and song.
Publisher
DK
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
142 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"Discover the power of music and be inspired by cultures from all over the world with this extensive children's guide. This book is the perfect introduction for young readers to the world of music and celebrates music from every continent!"--
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2024
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
451 p. ; illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
“How can we live differently?” a young woman urgently demands in Virginia Woolf’s novel The Years. It is the 1930s, war and death are in the air, but her question was asked again and again in the course of a century where things changed fast and changed all the time. The century brought world wars, revolutions, automobiles, movies, and the internet, votes for women, death camps. The century brought questions. Novelists in the twentieth century...
15) Danse macabre
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Gallery Books trade pbk. ed.
Physical Desc
xli, 459 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The author addresses the topic of what makes horror horrifying and what makes terror terrifying. King delivers one colorful observation after another about the great stories, books and films that comprise the horror genre.
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
201 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this short history, Marina Warner explores a multitude of tales through the ages and their manifestations on the page, the stage, and the screen. She persuasively demonstrates how fairy tales reflect and shape human understanding and culture.
18) Music is history
Author
Publisher
Abrams Image
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Focusing on the years 1971 to the present, Questlove finds the hidden connections in the American tapes- try, whether investigating how the blaxploitation era reshaped Black identity or considering the way disco took an assembly-line approach to Black genius. And these critical inquiries are complemented by his own memories as a music fan, and the way his appetite for pop culture taught him about America.
A history of the last half-century and an...
Author
Publisher
AUWA Books / MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2024
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When hip-hop first emerged in the 1970s, it wasn’t expected to become the cultural force it is today. But for a young Black kid growing up in a musical family in Philadelphia, it was everything. He stayed up late to hear the newest songs on the radio. He saved his money to buy vinyl as soon as it landed. He even started to try to make his own songs. That kid was Questlove, and decades later, he is a six-time Grammy Award–winning musician, an Academy...