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by Wise Publications
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
Really Easy Ukulele: Chart Hits #5 (Autumn/Winter 2017) contains easy Piano arrangements for 22 recent releases from some of popular music's greatest artists including Bruno Mars, Imagine Dragons, George Ezra and more.
Each song features informative background notes alongside handy performance...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
The popularization and cult-like following of electronic music has provoked new relations between men and machines, art and technology, and modern shamans and disc jockeys. New technologies and multimedia tools have awakened neo-ritual practices through the emergence of Psychedelic Trance parties,...
The Latin Tinge
The Impact of Latin American Music on the United States
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 1999
The Tejano superstar Selena and the tango revival both in the dance clubs and on Broadway are only the most obvious symptoms of how central Latin music is to American musical life. Latino rap has brought a musical revolution, while Latin and Brazilian jazz are ever more significant on the jazz scene....
by Andrew Hammond
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
Ideal for students and general readers, this single-volume work serves as a ready-reference guide to pop culture in countries in North Africa and the Middle East, covering subjects ranging from the latest young adult book craze in Egypt to the hottest movies in Saudi Arabia.
• Allows readers...
by Wise Publications
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
All About That Bass ...Plus 11 More Top Hits (PVG) presents twelve hit songs from today's top artists, arranged for Piano, Vocal and Guitar.
Featuring all of the most popular tunes from some of the brightest and best young stars, this sheet music is ideal for a pop lover who wants to play the...
The Black Cultural Front
Black Writers and Artists of the Depression Generation
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2012
The Black Cultural Front describes how the social and political movements that grew out of the Depression facilitated the left turn of several African American artists and writers. The Communist-led John Reed Clubs brought together black and white writers in writing collectives. The Congress of Industrial...
Openness of Comics
Generating Meaning within Flexible Structures
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2016
Never before have comics seemed so popular or diversified, proliferating across a broad spectrum of genres, experimenting with a variety of techniques, and gaining recognition as a legitimate, rich form of art. Maaheen Ahmed examines this trend by taking up philosopher Umberto Eco's notion of the...
Netflix Nostalgia
Streaming the Past on Demand
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
Whether it’s “Flashback Friday” or “Throwback Thursday,” audiences are hungry for nostalgic film and television, and the streaming giant Netflix serves up shows from the past that satisfy this craving, in addition to producing original contemporary content with nostalgic flavor. As a part...
The Spectacle of Isolation in Horror Films
Dark Parades
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Go behind the scenes with an insightful look at horror films-and the directors who create them
The Spectacle of Isolation in Horror Films: Dark Parades examines the work of several of the genre’s most influential directors and investigates how traditional themes of isolation, alienation,...
Finding Purple America
The South and the Future of American Cultural Studies
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
The new southern studies has had an uneasy relationship with both American studies and the old southern studies. In Finding Purple America, Jon Smith, one of the founders of the new movement, locates the source of that unease in the fundamentally antimodern fantasies of both older fields.
The...
Music Video After MTV
Audiovisual Studies, New Media, and Popular Music
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Since the 1980s, music videos have been everywhere, and today almost all of the most-viewed clips on YouTube are music videos. However, in academia, music videos do not currently share this popularity. Music Video After MTV gives music video its due academic credit by exploring the changing landscapes...
by Wise Publications
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2009
The Dip In series returns, here presenting a great collection of popular music arranged for Piano. Each piece is specially graded from easy-to-play tunes to more challenging pieces, so that you can learn at your own pace with songs tailored to your ability.
The song list includes:
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Hardboiled and High Heeled
The Woman Detective in Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
Can a gumshoe wear high heels? In a genre long dominated by men, women are now taking their place-as authors and as characters-alongside hard-boiled legends like Sam Spade and Mike Hammer. Hardboiled and High Heeled examines the meteoric rise of the female detective in contemporary film, television,...
The Singer-Songwriter in Europe
Paradigms, Politics and Place
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
The Singer-Songwriter in Europe is the first book to explore and compare the multifaceted discourses and practices of this figure within and across linguistic spaces in Europe and in dialogue with spaces beyond continental borders. The concept of the singer-songwriter is significant and much-debated...