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Looking Back to See: A Country Music Memoir
ISBN: 9781557287908 / Angielski / Twarda / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A revealing and entertaining window into the music business of the 1950s and 60s, as told by one of its stars.
A revealing and entertaining window into the music business of the 1950s and 60s, as told by one of its stars.
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122,40 |
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Accidentally on Purpose: Reflections on Life, Acting and the Nine Natural Laws of Creativity
ISBN: 9781557831965 / Angielski / Twarda / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. (Applause Books). Based on his own experience and the teachings of his celebrated but distant father, Lee, John Strasberg defines the talent of becoming real in a role. He surveys the traditional partition between life and theatre, and urges actors to make it a dynamic living membrane through which vital elements may pass. John Strasberg has written his own intensely personal story about his father's work and the Strasberg dynasty. It is a painful odyssey during which he relives the often demanding role he played as son to a man who was the central father figure to a generation of American...
(Applause Books). Based on his own experience and the teachings of his celebrated but distant father, Lee, John Strasberg defines the talent of becomi...
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93,01 |
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The Smart Set: George Jean Nathan and H. L. Mencken
ISBN: 9781557833129 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. (Applause Books). Thomas Quinn Curtiss has reunited George Jean Nathan with his cohort, H.L. Mencken together with the rest of their set: Theodore Dreiser, Sherwood Anderson, Edmund Wilson, Sean O'Casey, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Alfred Knopf, Jack London and Somerset Maugham. The magnificent abandon of their enterprise and the hard drinking Bohemian wisdom of their writing propelled them and fueled generations of readers with their wit and philosophy. This is a biography of an era of men whose stories could only be written by an eyewitness.
(Applause Books). Thomas Quinn Curtiss has reunited George Jean Nathan with his cohort, H.L. Mencken together with the rest of their set: Theodore Dre...
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122,44 |
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The World of George Jean Nathan: Essays, Reviews and Commentary
ISBN: 9781557833136 / Angielski / Miękka / 500 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. (Applause Books). This anthology represents George Jean Nathan in all the various facets of his long writing career. He has written on marraige, politics, doctors, metropolitan life, the ballet, love, alcohol on virtually every major aspect of contemporary life and he has had something shrewd or amusing to say about every one of them.
(Applause Books). This anthology represents George Jean Nathan in all the various facets of his long writing career. He has written on marraige, polit...
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93,01 |
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Ferber: Edna Ferber and Her Circle
ISBN: 9781557833327 / Angielski / Miękka / 458 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This biography of Edna Ferber tells the story of the author's life and career. Edna Ferber was a best-selling author in America from the 1920s to the 1950s. Eleven of her novels were made into Hollywood films including Giant, starring James Dean, Rock Hudson and Elizabeth Taylor.
This biography of Edna Ferber tells the story of the author's life and career. Edna Ferber was a best-selling author in America from the 1920s to the ...
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73,42 |
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Paul Scofield: An Actor for All Seasons
ISBN: 9781557834997 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. (Applause Books). Garry O'Connor, highly respected for his theatrical biographies, presents a richly drawn, fully dimensional portrait of the great actor Paul Scofield. He interviewed the intensely private Scofield himself, as well as many of the actors and directors he has worked with, including Simon Callow, Trevor Nunn, Richard Eyre and Peter Hall. The result is a masterly biography that paints a revealing portrait of a man who, for the serious film and theatre-goer, is more of an icon than any other living actor.
(Applause Books). Garry O'Connor, highly respected for his theatrical biographies, presents a richly drawn, fully dimensional portrait of the great ac...
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146,94 |
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John Gielgud: The Authorized Biography
ISBN: 9781557835031 / Angielski / Miękka / 538 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sir John Gielgud's acting career was among the most distinguished of his generation. Now, in this insightful biography, Morley traces not only the actor's career, but also gives a refreshingly frank look into Gielgud the man, and how his professional success as an actor often came at the expense of his personal happiness. 48 photos.
Sir John Gielgud's acting career was among the most distinguished of his generation. Now, in this insightful biography, Morley traces not only the act...
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73,42 |
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Popular American Recording Pioneers: 1895-1925
ISBN: 9781560249931 / Angielski / Twarda / 452 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Encounter the trailblazers whose recordings expanded the boundaries of technology and brought popular music into America's living rooms Popular American Recording Pioneers: 1895--1925 (winner of the 2001 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Award of Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research) covers the lives and careers of over one hundred musical artists who were especially important to the recording industry in its early years. Here are the men and women who brought into American homes the hits of the day--Tin Pan Alley numbers, Broadway show tunes, ragtime, parlor ballads,...
Encounter the trailblazers whose recordings expanded the boundaries of technology and brought popular music into America's living rooms Popular Americ...
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710,17 |
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Jook Right on: Blues Stories and Blues Storytellers
ISBN: 9781572334311 / Angielski / Twarda / 233 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Pearson has collected a gold mine of compelling tales, organized them with convincing logic, and introduced them with the kind of penetrating insight and professional modesty that any blues scholar might do well to emulate. This is a terrific book one I know I ll use in my own teaching. Adam Gussow, author of Seems Like Murder Here: Southern Violence and the Blues TraditionJook Right On: Blues Stories and Blues Storytellers is what author and compiler Barry Lee Pearson calls a blues quilt. These blues stories, collected by Pearson for thirty years, are told in the blues musicians own words....
Pearson has collected a gold mine of compelling tales, organized them with convincing logic, and introduced them with the kind of penetrating insight ...
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186,11 |
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Jook Right on: Blues Stories and Blues Storytellers
ISBN: 9781572334328 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Jook Right On: Blues Stories and Blues Storytellers is what author and compiler Barry Lee Pearson calls a blues quilt. These blues stories, collected by Pearson for thirty years, are told in the blues musicians own words. The author interviewed over one hundred musicians, recording and transcribing their stories. These are stories from well-known musicians such as John Lee Hooker, Koko Taylor, David Honeyboy Edwards, and Little Milton, and from more obscure artists such as Big Luck Carter, Henry Dorsey, Joseph Savage, and J. T. Adams. Pearson provides an introduction to the world of the blues...
Jook Right On: Blues Stories and Blues Storytellers is what author and compiler Barry Lee Pearson calls a blues quilt. These blues stories, collected ...
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96,15 |
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Songbook
ISBN: 9781573223560 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. All I have to say about these songs is that I love them, and want to sing along to them, and force other people to listen to them, and get cross when these other people don t like them as much as I do. Nick Hornby, from Songbook Songs, songwriters, and why and how they get under our skin Songbook is Nick Hornby s labor of love. A shrewd, funny, and completely unique collection of musings on pop music, why it s... All I have to say about these songs is that I love them, and want to sing along to them, and force other people to listen to them, and get c... |
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92,48 |
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Conversations with Boulez: Thoughts on Conducting
ISBN: 9781574670073 / Angielski / Twarda / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Pierre Boulez has held conducting positions with the BBC Symphony Orchestra as well as the orchestra of Chicago, Cleveland and New York. These interviews give us his views, wit, wisdom and beliefs. Here the theoretician of serial music talks about his career.
Pierre Boulez has held conducting positions with the BBC Symphony Orchestra as well as the orchestra of Chicago, Cleveland and New York. These intervi...
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146,94 |
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Enrico Caruso: My Father and My Family
ISBN: 9781574670226 / Angielski / Miękka / 474 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This abridged edition includes the text covering Caruso's life and death, plus a current discography. Drawing on the personal recollections of the Caruso brothers, archival material preserved by the family and research, the book is a tribute to the man and his vocal legacy.
This abridged edition includes the text covering Caruso's life and death, plus a current discography. Drawing on the personal recollections of the Car...
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122,44 |
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The Chansons of Orlando Di Lasso and Their Protestant Listeners: Typhus and Tunisia
ISBN: 9781580460750 / Angielski / Twarda / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book aims to enrich our understanding of the French secular music of Orlando di Lasso, using those songs as a means of understanding a particular community of Renaissance readers and the music books they created. Lasso's secular songs figured quite prominently in a number of collections of devotional songs issued by Protestant printers in the late sixteenth century. Lasso's profane lyrics were changed to convey spiritual meanings. This study uses the example of such reworkings as a means of discovering how such a repertory was heard and understood by a particular community of listeners,...
This book aims to enrich our understanding of the French secular music of Orlando di Lasso, using those songs as a means of understanding a particular...
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465,29 |
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Like a Rolling Stone: Bob Dylan at the Crossroads
ISBN: 9781586483821 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Greil Marcus saw Bob Dylan for the first time in a New Jersey field in 1963. He didn't know the name of the scruffy singer who had a bit part in a Joan Baez concert, but he knew his performance was unique. So began a dedicated and enduring relationship between America's finest critic of popular music "simply peerless," in Nick Hornby's words, "not only as a rock writer but as a cultural historian" and Bob Dylan, who in 2016 won the Nobel Prize for Literature. In Like A Rolling Stone Marcus locates Dylan's six-minute masterwork in its richest, fullest context, capturing the heady...
Greil Marcus saw Bob Dylan for the first time in a New Jersey field in 1963. He didn't know the name of the scruffy singer who had a bit part in a Joa...
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65,47 |
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That's Amore: A Son Remembers Dean Martin
ISBN: 9781589791404 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As fascination with the Rat Pack thrives in films and on television, Dean Martin remains one of the group's most enigmatic members. The Hollywood image of Dean Martin with a martini in one hand and a woman in the other continues to dominate public perception. Now, Dean's son Ricci reveals the husband and father few people knew, a man who hated parties, adored his mother-in-law, and found utter contentment in a slice of buttered bread. In That's Amore: A Son Remembers Dean Martin, Ricci Martin takes readers on a tour through his childhood, from the star-studded parties to the exploration of...
As fascination with the Rat Pack thrives in films and on television, Dean Martin remains one of the group's most enigmatic members. The Hollywood imag...
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92,00 |
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Beyond the Notes: Journeys with Chamber Music
ISBN: 9781843831600 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. We knew from her recordings that Susan Tomes is a superb chamber player; now we know that she's a superb writer too. Michael Church, INDEPENDENT She is as sensitive an observer and as subtle a writer as she is one of our finest chamber musicians...This is a book that should be read by practising musicians and music-lovers alike: here's one performer who really can communicate in words as well as music. JAMES JOLLY, GRAMOPHONE Susan Tomes's book gives you an intensely illuminating picture of the life of a pianist...she is a brilliant writer...Just as she magnetises with her playing, so too...
We knew from her recordings that Susan Tomes is a superb chamber player; now we know that she's a superb writer too. Michael Church, INDEPENDENT She i...
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115,56 |
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Bax: A Composer and his Times
ISBN: 9781843832096 / Angielski / Twarda / 616 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lewis Foreman's classic biography of the composer Arnold Bax (1883-1953) was first published in 1983. Documenting the life and times of a remarkable figure whose life touched a wide circle in England and Ireland, it was notable for having many of Bax's friends and contemporaries as sources, most of whom have since died. It also informed the remarkable revival of Bax's music and reputation which has taken place over the last twenty years. Now completely revised in the light of much new material including the huge archive of the pianist Harriet Cohen, Bax's mistress, which has only just become...
Lewis Foreman's classic biography of the composer Arnold Bax (1883-1953) was first published in 1983. Documenting the life and times of a remarkable f...
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220,40 |
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The Go-Betweens
ISBN: 9781891241161 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Go-Betweens recorded six albums that are among the finest work of the 1980s, earning them a reputation as ""the ultimate cult band"" and the lasting esteem of their peers, from R.E.M. to Sleater-Kinney. In 2000 they returned to making records--and received the best reviews of their career. David Nichols relates their story with wit and verve, and since the Go-Betweens had personalities as well as talent, their biography is compelling reading, not just for committed fans but for anyone interested in the current music scene. ""I loved this book," raved Jonathan Lethem. "How elegant that the...
The Go-Betweens recorded six albums that are among the finest work of the 1980s, earning them a reputation as ""the ultimate cult band"" and the lasti...
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96,15 |
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Making of U2s the Joshua Tree - audiobook
ISBN: 9781896522302 / Angielski / Miękka / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A detailed track-by-track breakdown is the foundation of this in depth examination of U2's epochal fifth album.
A detailed track-by-track breakdown is the foundation of this in depth examination of U2's epochal fifth album.
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34,23 |
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