Cadence


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Jazz


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Notes


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European Music Catalogue


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Jazz Styles


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A Century of Artists Books


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Published to accompany the 1994 exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, this book constitutes the most extensive survey of modern illustrated books to be offered in many years. Work by artists from Pierre Bonnard to Barbara Kruger and writers from Guillaume Apollinarie to Susan Sontag. An importnt reference for collectors and connoisseurs. Includes notable works by Marc Chagall, Henri Matisse, and Pablo Picasso.




Inside Rock Music


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We are going to take you on stage - back stage - and into the lives of the rockers.We will examine their lyrics - and how the captivating tonal elements in the music are fitted together.We will discover why rock music affects people so powerfully - and how it changes those who play it and listen to it.We will learn what makes rock so captivating to the senses - and listen to men and women who tell how it changed their lives.We will also discover how it originated 3,000 years ago - and the purpose it has been used for every since.We will learn when and how it penetrated Christian churches - and what has happened to them since.We will read about how 280 rock stars died and what killed them.It is all here - the whole story of Rock Music and related musical forms - and the demonic forces behind the scenes, capturing and destroying human beings.




The Jazz Age


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F. Scott Fitzgerald named it, Louis Armstrong launched it, Paul Whiteman and Fletcher Henderson orchestrated it, and now Arnold Shaw chronicles this fabulous era in The Jazz Age. Spicing his account with lively anecdotes and inside stories, he describes the astonishing outpouring of significant musical innovations that emerged during the "Roaring Twenties"--including blues, jazz, band music, torch ballads, operettas and musicals--and sets them against the background of the Prohibition world of the Flapper.