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“john h baker”

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  • The Art of Nick Cave

    New Critical Essays

    Edited by John H. Baker ...
    Known for his work as a performer and songwriter with the Birthday Party, the Bad Seeds and Grinderman, Australian artist Nick Cave has also pursued a variety of other projects, including writing and acting. Covering the full range of Cave's creative endeavours, this collection of critical essays provides a comprehensive overview of his multifaceted career. The contributors, who hail from an array ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

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  • Read Write [Hand]: A multi-disciplinary Nick Cave reader

    by Silkworms Ink Anthologies ...
    "This is an exceptional anthology, a beautiful piece of art, a serious account of one man's life work and a great example of the possibilities of new media in the 21st Century."– Dr Nathan Wiseman-Trowse, The University of NorthamptonRead Write [Hand]: A multi-disciplinary Nick Cave reader is a provocative new e-collection of illustrated essays, accompanied by illustrative online mixtapes, which ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Your Favorite Band Is Killing Me

    What Pop Music Rivalries Reveal About the Meaning of Life

    by Steven Hyden ...
    Steven Hyden explores nineteen music rivalries and what they say about life in this "highly entertaining" book (Rolling Stone) perfect for every passionate music fan.Beatles vs. Stones. Biggie vs. Tupac. Kanye vs. Taylor. Who do you choose? And what does that say about you? Actually -- what do these endlessly argued-about pop music rivalries say about us?Music opinions bring out passionate debate ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • Preservation: The Kinks' Music 1964-74

    Guides to Music

    by Andrew Hickey ...
    Series series Guides to Music
    In the first ten years of their career, the Kinks underwent a creative explosion that was almost unparalleled in popular music.Starting with simple but potent garage rock tracks like You Really Got Me, the band, and lead singer/songwriter Ray Davies, quickly became one of the most idiosyncratic bands of the 60s, recording classic singles like "Days" and "Waterloo Sunset", and albums like The Kinks ... Read more

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  • Steely Dan's Aja

    by Don Breithaupt ...
    Series series 33 1/3
    Aja was the album that made Steely Dan a commercial force on the order of contemporaries like Fleetwood Mac, the Eagles and Chicago. A double-platinum, Grammy-winning bestseller, it lingered on the Billboard charts for more than a year and spawned three hit singles. Odd, then, that its creators saw it as an "ambitious, extended" work, the apotheosis of their anti-rock, anti-band, anti-glamour ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • Stanley Kubrick at Look Magazine

    Authorship and Genre in Photojournalism and Film

    by Philippe D. Mather ...
    From 1945 to 1950, during the formative years of his career, Stanley Kubrick worked as a photojournalist for Look magazine. Offering a comprehensive examination of the work he produced during this period – before going on to become one of America’s most celebrated filmmakers – Stanley Kubrick at Look Magazine sheds new light on the aesthetic and ideological factors that shaped his artistic voice. ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • Mediation and Protest Movements

    Edited by Bart Cammaerts, Alice Mattoni, Patrick McCurdy ...
    Over the past year, international and national media have been full of stories about protest movements and tumultuous social upheaval from Tunisia to California. But scholars have not yet fully addressed the connection between these movements and the media and communication channels through which their messages spread. Correcting that imbalance, Mediation and Protest Movements explores the nature ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Creativity in the Classroom

    Case Studies in Using the Arts in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

    Edited by Paul McIntosh, Digby Warren ...
    This volume contests the current higher educational paradigm of using objectives and outcomes as ways to measure learning. Instead, the contributors propose approaches to learning that draw upon the creative arts and humanities, including cinema, literature, dance, drama and visual art. ... Read more

    $51.29 USD

  • Stephen King on the Small Screen

    by Mark Browning ...
    This book is the first written by a film specialist to consider Stephen King’s television work in its own right, and rejects previous attempts to make the films and books fit rigid thematic categories. Browning examines what makes a written or visual text successful at evoking fear on a case-by-case basis, in a highly readable and engaging way. He also considers the relationship between the big ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Polanski and Perception

    The Psychology of Seeing and the Cinema of Roman Polanski

    by Davide Caputo ...
    A new approach to a director whose contribution to cinema is often overshadowed his personal life, Polanski and Perception focuses on Roman Polanski's interest in the nature of perception and how this is manifested in his films. The incorporation of cognitive research into film theory is becoming increasingly widespread, with novel cinematic technologies and recent developments in digital ... Read more

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  • Music In The Seventeenth And Eighteenth Centuries

    The Oxford History of Western Music

    by Richard Taruskin ...
    The universally acclaimed and award-winning Oxford History of Western Music is the eminent musicologist Richard Taruskin's provocative erudite telling of the story of Western music from its earliest days to the present. Each book in this superlative five-volume set illuminates-through a representative sampling of masterworks-the themes styles and currents that give shape and direction to a ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Trans(per)Forming Nina Arsenault

    An unreasonable body of work

    Edited by Judith Rudakoff ...
    After sixty surgeries at a cost of almost $200,000 to feminize and beautify her originally male body, transgendered Canadian artist Nina Arsenault has created a body of work emanating from her experiences that includes photographs, videos disseminated online, a website, a blog, several social networking presentation sites, stage plays, print media writing and performance of the body in both ... Read more

    $23.79 USD