wyszukanych pozycji: 15
American Popular Music: New Approaches to the Twentieth Century
ISBN: 9781558492684 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Designed as a broad introductory survey, and written by experts in the field, this book examines the rise of American music over the past hundred years -- the period in which that music came into its own and achieved unprecedented popularity. Beginning with a look at music as a business, eleven essays explore a variety of popular musical genres, including Tin Pan Alley, blues, jazz, country, gospel, rhythm and blues, rock and roll, folk, rap, and Mexican American corridos. Reading these essays, we come to see that the forms created by one group often appeal to, and are in turn influenced... Designed as a broad introductory survey, and written by experts in the field, this book examines the rise of American music over the past hundred y... |
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177,22 zł |
Creative Activism: Conversations on Music, Film, Literature, and Other Radical Arts
ISBN: 9781501337215 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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678,21 zł |
Well Met: Renaissance Faires and the American Counterculture
ISBN: 9781479859726 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The Renaissance Faire--a 50 year-long party, communal ritual, political challenge and cultural wellspring--receives its first sustained historical attention with Well Met. Beginning with the chaotic communal moment of its founding and early development in the 1960s through its incorporation as a major -family friendly- leisure site in the 2000s, Well Met tells the story of the thinkers, artists, clowns, mimes, and others performers who make the Faire. Well Met approaches the Faire from the perspective of labor, education, aesthetics, business, the opposition it...
The Renaissance Faire--a 50 year-long party, communal ritual, political challenge and cultural wellspring--receives its first sustained historical att...
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130,37 zł |
Immigration and American Popular Culture: An Introduction
ISBN: 9780814775530 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. How does a 'national' popular culture form and grow over time in a nation comprised of immigrants? How have immigrants used popular culture in America, and how has it used them? Immigration and American Popular Culture looks at the relationship between American immigrants and the popular culture industry in the twentieth century. Through a series of case studies, Rachel Rubin and Jeffrey Melnick uncover how specific trends in popular culture--such as portrayals of European immigrants as gangsters in 1930s cinema, the zoot suits of the 1940s, the influence of Jamaican... How does a 'national' popular culture form and grow over time in a nation comprised of immigrants? How have immigrants used popular culture in Amer... |
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130,37 zł |
Merle Haggard's Okie from Muskogee
ISBN: 9781501321436 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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65,30 zł |
Well Met: Renaissance Faires and the American Counterculture
ISBN: 9780814771389 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 359 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The Renaissance Faire--a 50 year-long party, communal ritual, political challenge and cultural wellspring--receives its first sustained historical attention with Well Met. Beginning with the chaotic communal moment of its founding and early development in the 1960s through its incorporation as a major -family friendly- leisure site in the 2000s, Well Met tells the story of the thinkers, artists, clowns, mimes, and others performers who make the Faire. Well Met approaches the Faire from the perspective of labor, education, aesthetics, business, the opposition it...
The Renaissance Faire--a 50 year-long party, communal ritual, political challenge and cultural wellspring--receives its first sustained historical att...
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302,58 zł |
Creative Activism: Conversations on Music, Film, Literature, and Other Radical Arts
ISBN: 9781501352522 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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177,32 zł |
Strokes of Genius 9: Creative Discoveries
ISBN: 9781440347061 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Celebrating the best drawings by contemporary artists
The celebrated Strokes of Genius series follows the beautiful, ongoing story of contemporary drawing through the work and words of some of today's top artists. Focusing on the theme "Creative Discoveries," this thoughtfully curated 9th edition features the artists' most compelling aha moments. Triggers for these artistic epiphanies are wide ranging--from experiments with new materials, to private meanderings in a little notebook, to fleeting moments of magical light, and one particularly charismatic pelican.... Celebrating the best drawings by contemporary artists
The celebrated Strokes of Genius series follows the beautiful, ongoi... |
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175,68 zł |
Splash 17: Inspiring Subjects
ISBN: 9781440341298 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. A revealing gesture, a brilliant quality of light, a particularly perfect bloom... This volume of Splash is dedicated to those glorious sparks of inspiration, and the stories of how 129 artists fanned them into some of today's greatest watercolor paintings. The emotional connection between subject and artist resonates in these pages, delivering the caliber of art and insight that has made Splash a perennial favorite.
A revealing gesture, a brilliant quality of light, a particularly perfect bloom... This volume of Splash is dedicated to those glorious sparks ...
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175,68 zł |
Strokes of Genius 7: Depth, Dimension and Space
ISBN: 9781440336713 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. There is something almost magical about looking at a two-dimensional surface and experiencing a visceral sense of depth and dimension. In this 7th edition of the celebrated Strokes of Genius series, 120 of today's best artists share successful approaches to creating that wondrous illusion of space--from a tight, shallow place that reflects the emotional state of the model, to wide open vistas that seem to go on forever. Inside you'll find:
There is something almost magical about looking at a two-dimensional surface and experiencing a visceral sense of depth and dimension. In this 7th ... |
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175,68 zł |
Foundations of Library and Information Science
ISBN: 9781783304776 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 648 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Foreword by Camila A. Alire In the fifth edition of this classic textbook, Richard E. Rubin and new co-author Rachel G. Rubin provide a foundational text for LIS students and professionals while taking into account the numerous societal, technological, political, and economic changes affecting library and information institutions, their users and the discipline as a whole. Foundations of Library and Information Science effectively prepares LIS students and professionals for an increasingly nuanced set of responsibilities. The new edition explores: the...
Foreword by Camila A. Alire In the fifth edition of this classic textbook, Richard E. Rubin and new co-author Rachel G. Rubin provide a foun...
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339,10 zł |
Jewish Gangsters of Modern Literature
ISBN: 9780252025396 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In this vividly written study, Rachel Rubin posits the Jewish literary gangster - a figure whose violence, transgressiveness, and ongoing internal conflict render him an important symbol of modernity - as a locus for exploring questions of artistic power in the interwar years. Focusing specifically on the Russian writer Isaac Babel and Americans Mike Gold, Samuel Ornitz, and Daniel Fuchs, but also taking in cartoons, movies, and modernist paintings, Rubin casts the Jewish gangster as a favorite figure used by left-wing Jewish writers to examine their own place in world history. Rubin contends...
In this vividly written study, Rachel Rubin posits the Jewish literary gangster - a figure whose violence, transgressiveness, and ongoing internal con...
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135,59 zł |
Mommies Are Never Gone
ISBN: 9798761640498 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 24 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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44,26 zł |
Immigration and American Popular Culture: An Introduction
ISBN: 9780814775523 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. How does a 'national' popular culture form and grow over time in a nation comprised of immigrants? How have immigrants used popular culture in America, and how has it used them? Immigration and American Popular Culture looks at the relationship between American immigrants and the popular culture industry in the twentieth century. Through a series of case studies, Rachel Rubin and Jeffrey Melnick uncover how specific trends in popular culture--such as portrayals of European immigrants as gangsters in 1930s cinema, the zoot suits of the 1940s, the influence of Jamaican Americans... How does a 'national' popular culture form and grow over time in a nation comprised of immigrants? How have immigrants used popular culture in Amer... |
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386,05 zł |
Wysokie-Mazowieckie: Memorial Book
ISBN: 9781954176140 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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209,44 zł |