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Honorable Mention, 2020 Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre History, given by the American Society for Theatre Research Argues that Ricanness operates as a continual performance of bodily endurance against US colonialism In 1954, Dolores "Lolita" Lebr and other members of the...

BRAND NEW EDITION The ultimate Golden Girls guide This book contains a full episode guide, including guest star appearances, titles and first air dates. Also includes a description of each episode. Book also contains character descriptions, actor and actress work biographies and general show...

This is a book of advice and stories by a professional film editor.Author: Troy Takaki AceISBN-10: 1365412474ISBN-13: 9781365412479Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/16/2017Pages: 96Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.33lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.23d

This book explains just what a person planning to use Hauptwerk in the creation of a virtual pipe organ needs to know. Hauptwerk is a unique piece of computer software which enables an organist to play pipe organs from all over the world, in...

There has never been a show business book quite like The Show Won't Go On, the first comprehensive study of a bizarre phenomenon: performers who died onstage. The Show Won't Go On covers almost every genre of entertainment, and is full of unearthed anecdotes,...

As a twenty-one-year-old concert pianist, Carol Rosenberger is stricken with paralytic polio-a "musical death sentence"-but instead of giving up she perseveres against all medical advice, and eventually finds her way back to piano playing.Author: Carol RosenbergerISBN-10: 1631523260ISBN-13: 9781631523267Publisher: She Writes PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/17/2018Pages: 344Format:...

Some of the most amazing secrets from Hollywood you never knew."Jimmy Stewart really was in love with me." - Kim Novak"The police accused me of killing Sharon Tate." - Cass Elliot"I want a vibrator for my birthday." - Debbie Reynolds"I'm going to throw up....

CLAWS & SAUCERS is the most complete guide to classic science fiction, horror, and fantasy films ever written. CLAWS & SAUCERS describes and critiques 1700+ films: virtually every sci-fi, horror, and fantasy film made from 1902-1982, including dozens of thrillers, exploitation films, psychedelic films,...

With time running out to renew their lease, the women of the beleaguered New Bunion Historical Society must find creative ways to snare new members and lure visitors to their sleepy New England town. When a set of George Washington's dentures turns up in...

This collection of seven short plays explores the many facets and platforms of social media. From Instagram to Facebook, and even a #throwback to the days when MySpace was cool, Anti-Social pokes fun at the "social" in social media.Author: Don ZolidisISBN-10: 0573707677ISBN-13: 9780573707674Publisher: Samuel...

Do you wish you were one of those people who openly sing and make it look so easy? Do you feel like you can't quite "let go" when singing? Do you suffer from feeling "not good enough" or struggle with fear of failure or...

Kamala attempts to boost Ms. Marvel's fledgling super hero profile by writing her own fan fiction. But when building a fandom becomes an obsession, Kamala's schoolwork and relationships begin to suffer. To become the Jersey City hero of her dreams, Kamala must learn to...

When it comes to bands that have been through hard times and refused to quit, they don't get any bigger or more durable than Aerosmith. Once one of hard rock's hottest acts, the group imploded in a mess of drugs and troubled records. Then,...

Are you serious You could have told me that before I fell for you. Ladies has a man ever disappeared without even giving you a notice, text, or call. There are many regrets that we feel and go through while in a relationship, dating,...

Utilizing remarkable images from the Manning Brothers Historical Collection, the Michigan Opera Theatre Archives, and several additional collections, Michael Hauser and Marianne Weldon have captured the excitement of the shared entertainment experience in Detroit Opera House.The theater known today as the Detroit Opera House...

If you think about it, all languages are made up - some are just more open about it than others.In The Universal Translator, Yens Wahlgren heads up an expedition through time, space and multiple universes to explore the words that have built worlds. From...

In the early eighteenth century, a delegation of Iroquois visited Britain, exciting the imagination of the London crowds with images of the "feathered people" and warlike "Mohocks." Today, performing in a popular Afrodiasporic tradition, "Mardi Gras Indians" or "Black Masking Indians" take to the...

A practical, accessible introduction to the study of disability art and culture around the world. What does it mean to approach disability-focused cultural production and consumption as generative sites of meaning-making? Disability Arts and Culture seeks the answer to this question and more in...

A modern sports writing classic by a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, In These Girls, Hope Is a Muscle tells the story of the 1992-1993 championship season of the Amherst Lady HurricanesAuthor: Madeleine BlaisISBN-10: 0802121454ISBN-13: 9780802121455Publisher: Grove PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/11/2017Pages: 272Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 8.10h x 5.40w...

Grayson Hall was a widely acclaimed New York Theatre actress, 1964 Academy Award nominee, and co-star of the 1960s-70s Gothic television serial, Dark Shadows. Here for the first time is a survey of her life and career which takes place in the world of...

The study of popular music composition is a new field in which the standard rules of traditional music theory do not apply. Learn how to write top 40 hits in every style from alternative rock to country pop. Discover the way chords are constructed...

A gallery of horror movie heroines, screaming for your attention Fascinating but disturbing, scary movies prove amazingly popular, year after year. This book features dolls of 16 actresses, each with one movie outfit, who have appeared in some of the most frightening but fun...

You are a very, very clever little girl. -- Queen Victoria to Annie OakleyHer life was the stuff of legend -- from humble Quaker origins in Darke County, Ohio, Annie Oakley (nee Phoebe Ann Moses) rose to the heights of renown as a world-famous...

Tony Kushner's complex and demanding play Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes has been the most talked about, analyzed, and celebrated play of the decade. The critic Harold Bloom has included Kushner's play in his "Western canon" alongside Shakespeare and the...

Now in an updated 2nd edition, Musicology: The Key Concepts is a handy A-Z reference guide to the terms and concepts associated with contemporary musicology. Drawing on critical theory with a focus on new musicology, this updated edition contains over 35 new entries including:...

Various aspects of each of these subjects are studied: the construction of phrases, their connection, extension, overlapping; the application of legato, staccato, and other types of articulation. In this discussion the author draws upon contemporary theoretical writings and methods, as well as upon his...

A Friend's Guide to Chamber Music: World Trends Since 1900, a companion to the earlier guide European Trends From Haydn to Shostakovich, explores international developments of this unique collaborative form. Organized chronologically and by geographical regions, World Trends offers a survey of significant works...

First published in 1986, Backcloth is volume four of Dirk Bogarde's best-selling memoirsFilling the gaps left between his previous memoirs, as well as highlighting new episodes, Backcloth explores the patterns of pleasure and pain that have made up Bogarde's extraordinary life. Based on personal...

First published in 1983, An Orderly Man is volume three of Dirk Bogarde's best-selling memoirsAfter completing work on Visconti's Death in Venice, the celebrated actor seeks a refuge from 20 years of 'continual motion'. This dream of a peaceful retreat materialises itself in the...

Ron Athey is one of the most important, prolific, and influential performance artists of the past four decades. A singular example of lived creativity, his radical performances are odds with the art worlds and art marketplaces that have increasingly dominated contemporary art and performance...

Formed in Boston in 2001, Arcade Fire quickly relocated to Montreal and started performing in art galleries and lofts while hoping for a record deal. The early line-up quickly changed following rifts, first between co-founder Win Butler and Myles Broscoe, then between Butler and...

Magicians use more than just mirrors, string, and sleight of hand to deceive their audience. Those who are masters at this trade have developed an arsenal of techniques to manipulate people. Every action and utterance on stage and off is precisely planned to achieve...

Approaching the avant-garde Japanese performance art form of butoh from a cross-cultural, gender studies, and scientific perspective, award-winning artist and teacher Vangeline brings a fresh look at this postmodern dance form. Butoh, a performance art form that grew out of the Japanese avant-garde scene...

Six humorous plays written between 1952 and 1968 by Beat poet Gregory Corso (1930-2001), two of which have never before been published. This collection includes the following: Untitled Play (1952), Standing on a Streetcorner (1953), Sarpedon (1954), In This Hung-Up Age (1954), JFK (1960),...

Richard and Rachel, a well-off California couple, have everything except a child. They locate Wanda and Al, a desperately poor couple in Louisiana, who agree to let them adopt their next baby. Both parties do their best to make the arrangement work, but their...

This is a reference book about the television series Longstreet, which ran from 1971-72 and starred James Franciscus as Mike Longstreet, a blind insurance investigator. The book includes all 23 episodes in release date order Including the pilot film), numerous photographs, complete cast listings,...

Delving into the rude, serious, anarchic and hilarious, Searby highlights Mayall's spectrum of work - not the rumours or an attempt to uncover the deeply private life he led but the more intricate moments that were twisted into creations to make people laugh and...

History of the Oregon Country Fair from 1980s to mid-1990s continuing the story started in "Fruit of the Sixties." Stories of wacky vaudevillians, talented crafters, marching musicians, and a wild assortment of volunteers who pull the fair together every year in consensus-driven community.Author: Suzi...

A selection of English-language writings by Enrique Lopetegui, former Los Angeles Times Latin Pop music critic (1993-1997, freelance) and San Antonio Current news writer and music/film editor (2008-2014). Foreword by Gloria Guerrero, legendary dean of female rock writers in Argentina. It includes interviews with...

Ladies and Gents by Chinny George is a guide to love and relationships for men and women. Chinny George describes herself as 'a promoter of love and a huge fan of wisdom as well'. Chinny George gives lots of advice regarding relationships and how...

Four short plays drawing on Shakespeare's works and our modern-day use of them. In 'Twenty-Minute Tragedy', minor cast members take over a production of Timon of Athens and lead it in a new direction. 'Sprite Fight' takes place backstage at a production of A...

Since coming to power, President Erdoğan's Justice and Development Party (AKP) have focused on narrating their vision of a 'New Turkey' - an ideal that has resulted in the politicisation of popular culture and people's everyday lives. Exposing the strategy of Turkey's ruling elite...

A Russian Jew who spent most of his life in England and America, Alexander Bakshy (1885-1949) was a theater critic and literary translator. He was also an innovative theorist who applied to theater the discourse of self-reflexive modernism, prizing anti-illusionist medium-awareness. Indeed, he was...

How have shows like Fiddler on the Roof, Falsettos, A Raisin in the Sun, and Hair fought for social justice through art? Who are the groundbreaking artists whose names have been forgotten but should be remembered? What are the funniest bloopers from Les Mis...

Finally there is a textbook that analyzes the other half of the music industry. With a valuation of nearly $17 billion dollars, the music products industry is often overlooked by music business students searching for a career.Author: Carl AndersonISBN-10: 1365073602ISBN-13: 9781365073601Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/29/2016Pages:...

Piano Chords by Encore Music Books is a 100 page book containing a total of 348 different piano chords for the pianist of any level. Every page in this book is specially designed to help you better understand each chord. For example, at the...

NCIS... One of history's most popular television shows. 'NCIS', 'NCIS: Los Angeles', & 'NCIS; New Orleans' have taken the world by storm for more than a decade. Unique storylines, interesting characters, and quick witted scripting make them a series to be remembered for years...

Do you use your voice for work?Do you want to become a better voiceover actor, singer, or public speaker?This book, written by well-known and respected voice talent Rodney Saulsberry, contains fun and challenging tongue twisters and vocal warm-ups that prepareyou to read commercial, promo,...

"A persuasive argument that Presley's "moonshot" to fame could not have happened without Florida. . . . Deftly captures a pre-Interstate Florida where an anonymous Presley would be traveling for grueling hours down every two-laner in the state in his signature automobile."-Palm Beach Post...

When Bach's cantatas, masses, passions, and chorales were originally performed under the composer's direction, which instruments played the basso continuo, the line that establishes the harmonic framework? Bach's Continuo Group answers this and other fundamental questions and probes the rationale behind Baroque performance conventions.Author:...