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  • Music and the Staged Veillée in Quebec

    Performing Tradition

    by Laura Risk ...
    Series series Music in American Life
    The story of a cultural touchstone and its impactFiddlers, step dancers, storytellers, traditional singers, and folklorists staged Montreal’s first veillée in 1919. All that was missing, announced one of the organizers, was a magic carpet to transport the audience into the countryside and a kiss of forgetfulness to erase the woes of modern life.Laura Risk tells the story of the veillées and ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The Possibility Machine

    Music and Myth in Las Vegas

    by Jake Johnson, Celine Ayala, Kirstin Bews, Laura Dallman, Joanna Dee Das, James Deaville, Robert Fink, Pheaross Graham, Jessica A Holmes, Maddie House-Tuck0, Kelly Kessler1, Michael Kinney2, Carlo Lanfossi3, Jason Leddington4, Janis McKay5, Sam Murray6, Louis Niebur7, Lynda Paul8, Arianne Johnson Quinn9, Michael M Reinhard0, Laura Risk1, Cassaundra Rodriguez2, Arreanna Rostosky3, Brian F Wright4 ...
    Series series Music in American Life
    Singular and star-studded writings on America’s neon-lit playgroundAt once a Technicolor wonderland and the embodiment of American mythology, Las Vegas exists at the Ground Zero of a reverence for risk-taking and the transformative power of a winning hand. Jake Johnson edits a collection of short essays and flash ideas that probes how music-making and soundscapes shape the City of Second Chances. ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The Glengarry Collection, Volume 1

    The Highland Fiddle Music of Aonghas Grant

    by Aonghas Grant, Barbara McOwen, Laura Risk, Peggy Duesenberry ...
    The Glengarry Collection contains 164 Slow Airs, Marches, Strathspeys, Reels, Jigs and Hornpipes with Stories, History and Photographs. It focuses on the core of Aonghas' music: Highland fiddling, with its links to pipe tunes and Gaelic songs. Some of these tunes have never been published before, while others are available only in out-of-print books or in pipe settings, and the collection also ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • The Glengarry Collection Volume 2

    The Highland Fiddle Music of Aonghas Grant

    by Aonghas Grant, Barbara McOwen, Laura Risk, Peggy Duesenberry ...
    This book, with accompanying video, is the second and final volume in the Glengarry Collection of Aonghas Grant's Highland fiddle repertoire. The book contains 188 additional slow airs, marches, strathspeys, reels, jigs and hornpipes. Accompanying stories, history and photographs provide additional background to the tunes. This collection focuses on the core of Grant's music - Highland fiddling, ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    by Tim Lawrence ...
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  • We See Each Other

    A Black, Trans Journey Through TV and Film

    by Tre'vell Anderson ...
    A groundbreaking look at the history of transgender representation in TV and film, by an of-the-moment and in-demand culture reporter.WE SEE EACH OTHER is a personal history of trans visibility since the beginning of moving images. A literary reckoning, it unearths a transcestry that's long existed in plain sight and in the shadows of history's annals, and further contextualizes our present moment ... Read more

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  • To Be An Artist

    by Camille Colatosti ...
    To Be An Artist is a conversation with today’s successful and prominent artists from a variety of disciplinesâ€"musicians, visual artists, digital artists, poets, writers, activists and scholars. All of them discuss what it means to be an artist today, how they perceive their craft and their world, and the role of art in society. They agree that artists’ creativity and success come not only ... Read more

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  • From Gay to Z: A Queer Compendium

    by Justin Elizabeth Sayre ...
    This illustrated compendium celebrates LGBTQIA+ history and culture, written by and according to culture icon Justin Elizabeth Sayre!Based on Sayre's five-part show in New York City, From Gay to Z is a humorous collection of the rich legacy of gay culture, told through the letters of the alphabet. From ABBA to addiction, hair and makeup to HIV, Fannie Flagg to fierce, Sayre offers their own ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Screwball Television

    Critical Perspectives on Gilmore Girls

    Edited by David Diffrient, David Lavery ...
    Series series Television and Popular Culture
    Bringing together seventeen original essays by scholars from around the world, Screwball Television offers a variety of international perspectives on Gilmore Girls. Adored by fans and celebrated by critics for its sophisticated wordplay and compelling portrayal of a mother-daughter relationship, this contemporary American TV program finally gets its due as a cultural production unlike any other, ... Read more

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  • Love for Sale

    Pop Music in America

    by David Hajdu ...
    Named a Must-Read by Vanity Fair and BBC. "One of our sharpest music critics . . . recounts a life immersed in pop music. An engaging history." — The Wall Street JournalIn Love for Sale, David Hajdu—one of the most respected critics and music historians of our time—draws on a lifetime of listening, playing, and writing about music to show how pop has done much more than peddle fantasies... ... Read more

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  • World Film Locations: Las Vegas

    Edited by Marcelline Block ...
    Sin and redemption. The ridiculous and the sublime. The carnivalesque excess of the Strip and the barrenness of the desert surrounding the city. Visited by millions of fortune seekers – and starry-eyed lovers – each year, Las Vegas is a city with as many apparent contradictions as Elvis impersonators and this complexity is reflected in the diversity of films that have been shot on location there.A ... Read more

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  • Dusty!

    Queen of the Postmods

    by Annie J. Randall ...
    Dubbed the "White Queen of Soul," singer Dusty Springfield became the first British soloist to break into the U.S. Top Ten music charts with her 1964 hit "I Only Want To Be With You"--a pop classic followed by many others, including "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" and "Son of a Preacher Man." Today she is usually placed within the history of the Beatles-led "British Invasion" or seen as a ... Read more

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