The Look Of Music

Author : Liz Phair
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780525512004

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Horror Stories by Liz Phair Pdf

The two-time Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter behind the groundbreaking album Exile in Guyville traces her life and career in a genre-bending memoir in stories about the pivotal moments that haunt her. “Honest, original and absolutely remarkable.”—NPR (Best Books of the Year) When Liz Phair shook things up with her musical debut, Exile in Guyville—making her as much a cultural figure as a feminist pioneer and rock star—her raw candor, uncompromising authenticity, and deft storytelling inspired a legion of critics, songwriters, musicians, and fans alike. Now, like a Gen X Patti Smith, Liz Phair reflects on the path she has taken in these piercing essays that reveal the indelible memories that have stayed with her. For Phair, horror is in the eye of the beholder—in the often unrecognized universal experiences of daily pain, guilt, and fear that make up our humanity. Illuminating despair with hope and consolation, tempering it all with her signature wit, Horror Stories is immersive, taking readers inside the most intimate junctures of Phair’s life, from facing her own bad behavior and the repercussions of betraying her fundamental values, to watching her beloved grandmother inevitably fade, to undergoing the beauty of childbirth while being hit up for an autograph by the anesthesiologist. Horror Stories is a literary accomplishment that reads like the confessions of a friend. It gathers up all of our isolated shames and draws them out into the light, uniting us in our shared imperfection, our uncertainty and our cowardice, smashing the stigma of not being in control. But most importantly, the uncompromising precision and candor of Horror Stories transforms these deeply personal experiences into tales about each and every one of us.

Author : Indre Viskontas
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781452172279

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How Music Can Make You Better by Indre Viskontas Pdf

How can certain songs carry us through a tough workout, comfort us after a breakup, or unite 50,000 diverse fans? In this fascinating field guide, neuroscientist and opera singer Indre Viskontas investigates what music is and how it can change us for the better—from deep in our neurons to across our entire society. Whether hip-hop fans, classically trained pianists, or vinyl collectors, readers will think about their favorite songs in a whole new way by the end of this book. This is a vibrant and smart gift for any audiophile.

Author : Barbara Freedman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780199840625

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Teaching Music Through Composition by Barbara Freedman Pdf

This book is a full multimedia curriculum that contains over 60 Lesson Plans in 29 Units of Study, Student Assignments Sheets, Worksheets, Handouts, Audio and MIDI files to teach a wide array of musical topics, including: general/basic music theory, music appreciation and analysis, keyboarding, composing/arranging, even ear-training (aural theory) using technology.

Author : National Geographic Kids
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781426329913

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Let's Make Music by National Geographic Kids Pdf

From shaking a tambourine to strumming a ukulele to beating a drum, early readers are introduced to common musical instruments, the way they are played, and the sounds they make.

Author : Peter Linenthal
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1998-09-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780399538803

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Look, Look! by Peter Linenthal Pdf

Striking and stylish, Look Look! is the ideal first board book for babies just beginning to look and learn and a perfect gift for little hands. Look, look! Children run, fish swim, stars shine . . . all for baby's eyes to see. This sturdy board book, full of high-contrast black-and-white cut-paper art perfect for staring at, is just the thing for the eyes of the youngest babies. A few words in curving red type on each spread describe the scenes—a car races, a cat stretches, flowers bloom—and extend the book's age appeal so that it will be fascinating to older babies, too.

Author : Bruce and Ryan Nowlin Pearson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1241685047

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Tradition of Excellence - Comprehensive Band Method by Bruce and Ryan Nowlin Pearson Pdf

Author : John Makujina
Publisher : Religious Affections Ministries
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0982458266

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Measuring the Music: Another Look at the Contemporary Christian Music Debate by John Makujina Pdf

Though the acceptance of popular culture (and in the case of music, pop music) within the Christian church is now an established fact, its very normality across the face of virtually every variety of Christian theological persuasion is telling. In a climate of extreme multi-culturalism, pluralism, and relativism satiated with the notion that music is value-neutral and worldview-free, church music has been cut off from history, tradition, theology, aesthetic norms, and ultimately the Word. The result has been a breakdown of church music standards along with a collateral weakening in other areas of life as well.

Author : Julie Andrews
Publisher : Hachette Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780316349239

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Home Work by Julie Andrews Pdf

In this New York Times bestselling follow-up to her critically acclaimed memoir, Home, Julie Andrews reflects on her astonishing career, including such classics as Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music, and Victor/Victoria. In Home, the number one New York Times international bestseller, Julie Andrews recounted her difficult childhood and her emergence as an acclaimed singer and performer on the stage. With this second memoir, Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years, Andrews picks up the story with her arrival in Hollywood and her phenomenal rise to fame in her earliest films -- Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music. Andrews describes her years in the film industry -- from the incredible highs to the challenging lows. Not only does she discuss her work in now-classic films and her collaborations with giants of cinema and television, she also unveils her personal story of adjusting to a new and often daunting world, dealing with the demands of unimaginable success, being a new mother, the end of her first marriage, embracing two stepchildren, adopting two more children, and falling in love with the brilliant and mercurial Blake Edwards. The pair worked together in numerous films, including Victor/Victoria, the gender-bending comedy that garnered multiple Oscar nominations. Cowritten with her daughter, Emma Walton Hamilton, and told with Andrews's trademark charm and candor, Home Work takes us on a rare and intimate journey into an extraordinary life that is funny, heartrending, and inspiring.

Author : Salma Hussain
Publisher : Tundra Books
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780735271494

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The Secret Diary of Mona Hasan by Salma Hussain Pdf

Mona learns to find her voice over the course of a year that sees her immigrating from Dubai to Canada in this novel for fans of Front Desk by Kelly Yang. Mona Hasan is a young Muslim girl growing up in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, when the first Gulf War breaks out in 1991. The war isn’t what she expects — “We didn’t even get any days off school! Just my luck” — especially when the ground offensive is over so quickly and her family peels the masking tape off their windows. Her parents, however, fear there is no peace in the region, and it sparks a major change in their lives. Over the course of one year, Mona falls in love, speaks up to protect her younger sister, loses her best friend to the new girl at school, has summer adventures with her cousins in Pakistan, immigrates to Canada, and pursues her ambition to be a feminist and a poet.

Author : Spencer Drate,Judith Salavetz
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780061782411

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Five Hundred 45s by Spencer Drate,Judith Salavetz Pdf

The 45 record sleeve has long been viewed as a medium for design experimentation, a blank slate onto which designers could unleash their creativity and ingenuity. From the 1950s to the 1980s, before the 45 was replaced by the CD, and then in the 1990s, when grunge became the rage and 45s enjoyed a resurgence in popularity, 45 record–sleeve design combined photography, illustration, color, and typography with innovative bravado. For this reason, vintage 45 record sleeves today are sought-after collectibles by music buffs and designers alike. Compiled by well-known designers and authors Spencer Drate and Judith Salavetz, Five Hundred 45s contains more than 500 examples of striking seven-inch record sleeve design across every genre of music and its great musicians—all reproduced at full size. This gorgeous book includes a foreword by Lenny Kaye, music critic and guitarist for the Patti Smith Group, as well as essays offering diverse perspectives on the subject by avid collectors, industry insiders, and designers. The book is organized into thematic chapters, with a mix of dynamic, visually inspiring pairings on every spread. A discography at the back provides complete information for each sleeve, rounding out this highly collectible volume.

Author : Phillip T. Young
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Musical instruments
ISBN : PSU:000006129422

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The Look of Music by Phillip T. Young Pdf

This book contains photographs of the many rare musical instruments that were part of an exhibition titled 'The Look of Music' on display at the Vancouver Centennial Museum from November 2, 1980, to April 5, 1981.

Author : Dayton Duncan,Ken Burns
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780525520542

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Country Music by Dayton Duncan,Ken Burns Pdf

The rich and colorful story of America's most popular music and the singers and songwriters who captivated, entertained, and consoled listeners throughout the twentieth century--based on the upcoming eight-part film series to air on PBS in September 2019 This gorgeously illustrated and hugely entertaining history begins where country music itself emerged: the American South, where people sang to themselves and to their families at home and in church, and where they danced to fiddle tunes on Saturday nights. With the birth of radio in the 1920s, the songs moved from small towns, mountain hollers, and the wide-open West to become the music of an entire nation--a diverse range of sounds and styles from honky tonk to gospel to bluegrass to rockabilly, leading up through the decades to the music's massive commercial success today. But above all, Country Music is the story of the musicians. Here is Hank Williams's tragic honky tonk life, Dolly Parton rising to fame from a dirt-poor childhood, and Loretta Lynn turning her experiences into songs that spoke to women everywhere. Here too are interviews with the genre's biggest stars, including the likes of Merle Haggard to Garth Brooks to Rosanne Cash. Rife with rare photographs and endlessly fascinating anecdotes, the stories in this sweeping yet intimate history will captivate longtime country fans and introduce new listeners to an extraordinary body of music that lies at the very center of the American experience.

Author : Joshua McGuire
Publisher : Shanti Arts Publishing
Page : 75 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-12
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781947067783

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The Secret of Music by Joshua McGuire Pdf

What is this fleeting experience that sometimes hits us when we listen to music? Through several short essays adapted from lectures given at Vanderbilt University between 2008 and 2012, author Joshua McGuire answers this question while exploring what it takes to become better listeners of music. McGuire's premise is that listening to music in a fuller way shows us a fuller way to live, clarifying the way we listen to everything. Ironically, better listening involves a recognition of the absence of time experienced amidst profound silence. After all, the purpose of music is to bring us to silence. “As we listen, we become the silence in which music happens. We disappear.”

Author : Jim Washburn
Publisher : Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Design
ISBN : 1495088138

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Rhinestones and Twanging Tones by Jim Washburn Pdf

Rhinestones and Twanging Tones: The Look and Sound of Country Music shows in glittering detail how most classic country stars traded in their overalls for sequined and spangled outfits that shone from a mile away, and strummed guitars that were often just as ornately bedecked, or customized by decades of road wear.

Author : Pannonica de Koenigswarter
Publisher : Abrams Image
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2008-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131743291

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Three Wishes by Pannonica de Koenigswarter Pdf

Baroness Pannonica de Koenigswarter befriended many of jazz greats of the thriving New York jazz scene in the 1950s, 60s and 70s. In the 1960s, she began a project: She asked 300 jazz musicians what their three wishes in life were. Their responses are collected in this volume, available in English for the first time, and are accompanied by hundreds of candid photographs.--From cover, p. [4].