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Heavy Metal Islam
Crown Publishing Group 2008; US$ 15.00?We play heavy metal because our lives are heavy metal.? ?Reda Zine, one of the founders of the Moroccan heavy-metal scene ?Music is the weapon of the future.? ?Fela Kuti An eighteen-year-old Moroccan who loves Black Sabbath. A twenty-two-year-old rapper from the Gaza Strip. A young Lebanese singer who quotes Bob Marley?s ?Redemption Song.? They... more...
The Life and Death of Classical Music
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2008; US$ 16.00In this compulsively readable, fascinating, and provocative guide to classical music, Norman Lebrecht, one of the world?s most widely read cultural commentators tells the story of the rise of the classical recording industry from Caruso?s first notes to the heyday of Bernstein, Glenn Gould, Callas, and von Karajan. Lebrecht compellingly demonstrates... more...
Play Great Guitar
Infinite Ideas 2008; US$ 9.95Knowing how to play the guitar is just one of those things we?d all love to be able to do. Think back to your formative years - at parties it was always the kid with the guitar who got all the attention, and it's probably that same kid who is now raking it in with their uber-cool band while you slave away at your desk. Now your dreams of guitar-playing... more...
Image and Mind
Cambridge University Press 1995; US$ 35.00This book develops a theory of the nature of the cinematic medium, of the psychology of film viewing, and of film narrative. more...
The Cultural Context of Medieval Music
ABC-CLIO 2011; US$ 37.00An urgently needed guide to understanding medieval music to be used as a text for the university undergraduate, graduate students in music and interdisciplinary medieval studies, and for the professional musicologist and medievalist. This book will also be appreciated by everyone interested in early music. more...
Highlife Saturday Night
Indiana University Press 2012; US$ 23.99Highlife Saturday Night captures the vibrancy of Saturday nights in Ghana?when musicians took to the stage and dancers took to the floor?in this penetrating look at musical leisure during a time of social, political, and cultural change. Framing dance band "highlife" music as a central medium through which Ghanaians negotiated gendered and generational... more...
Teaching Music Musically (Classic Edition)
Taylor and Francis 2011; US$ 40.95'There are countless gems within these pages ... Swanwick seems to write from more experience as a musician and teacher than most others who write for this audience. There is a real sense of his having been there.? - Patricia Shehan Campbell, Professor of Music, University of Washington, USA '... contains the essential and highly valued hallmark... more...
Performing Brecht
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 45.95Performing Brecht is an unprecedented history of the productions of Brecht's plays in Britain over forty years. Margaret Eddershaw surveys all aspects of Brecht in performance, from his methodologies to his place in postmodernist theatre and beyond. She focuses on key productions by directors including George Devine, Sam Wanamaker, William Gaskill,... more...
The Visual Story
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 34.95If you can't make it to one of Bruce Block's legendary visual storytelling seminars, then you need his book! Now in full color for the first time, this best-seller offers a clear view of the relationship between the story/script structure and the visual structure of a film, video, animated piece, or video game. You'll learn how to structure your visuals... more...
The Screenwriter's Workbook (Revised Edition)
Random House Publishing Group 2008; US$ 16.00At last! The classic screenwriting workbook?now completely revised and updated?from the celebrated lecturer, teacher, and bestselling author, Syd Field: ?the most sought-after screenwriting teacher in the world?* No one knows more about screenwriting than Syd Field?and now the ultimate Hollywood insider shares his secrets and expertise, completely... more...









