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The Incredible Rise of The Kingston Trio
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
How big an act was the Kingston Trio? Big enough that the their first 19 albums not only reached Billboard's Top 100, but 14 of them entered the top 10, with five albums alone hitting the no. 1 spot! At the height of their popularity, the Kingston Trio was arguably the most popular vocal group in...
Adopted
The Ultimate Teen Guide
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
The challenging teen years can be even more difficult for adopted teenagers, many of whom have unanswered questions that may result in fear, anger, and low self-esteem. These feelings may be compounded by the isolation they feel because most friends and family members cannot fully relate to their...
Teens, Loss, and Grief
The Ultimate Teen Guide
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2006
Teens, Loss, and Grief is a self-help guide for teenagers who are struggling with bereavement and the emotional difficulties it presents. This book provides an overview of grief as a painful but normal process, offering insights from bereavement experts as well as practical suggestions for coping...
Death, Loss, and Grief in Literature for Youth
A Selective Annotated Bibliography for K-12
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2012
All human beings encounter loss and death, as well as the grief associated with these experiences. It is therefore important for children and adolescents to understand that such events are inevitable and to learn how to accept loss and cope with their emotions. In order to help children through their...
Religion and Spirituality in America
The Ultimate Teen Guide
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2006
The United States has more religious groups than any other country in the world. Religion and Spirituality in America: The Ultimate Teen Guide provides an introduction to some of the diverse religious practices, traditions, and expressions in the United States and focuses on how teenagers view their...
Reaching Your Goals
The Ultimate Teen Guide
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2009
Teens don't often realize that their daydreams can be transformed into real accomplishments. If they take those dreams seriously, and turn thoughts into action, even some of the wildest notions can become reality. Reaching Your Goals: The Ultimate Teen Guide show readers how important setting goals...
Black, Blanc, Beur
Rap Music and Hip-Hop Culture in the Francophone World
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2002
Rap music was born in America in the early 1980s. Over the last decade it has not only grown in popularity within the United States, with rap music soaring to the top of the music charts, but it has also influenced other cultures around the world. Black, Blanc, Beur is about the emergence and growing...
Off-Broadway Musicals since 1919
From Greenwich Village Follies to The Toxic Avenger
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2011
Although the venue Off Broadway has long been the birthplace of innovative and popular musicals, there have been few studies of these influential works. Long-running champs, such as The Fantasticks and Little Shop of Horrors, are discussed in many books about American musicals, but what of the hundreds...
At the Piano
Interviews with 21st-Century Pianists
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
In At the Piano: Interviews with 21st-Century Pianists, Caroline Benser explores the kaleidoscopic world of twenty-first-century pianism through a series of extended interviews with eight major pianists: Leif Ove Andsnes, Jonathan Biss, Simone Dinnerstein, Marc-André Hamelin, Stephen Hough, Steven...
Shura Cherkassky
The Piano's Last Czar
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2006
Shura Cherkassky's life story, like his piano playing, is provocative and captivating. At his death in 1995, Cherkassky was considered one of history's greatest pianists, as well as the last direct link to the Romantic piano tradition of Chopin, Liszt, and Anton Rubinstein.
Cherkassky's story...
Chopin's Prophet
The Life of Pianist Vladimir de Pachmann
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Vladimir de Pachmann was perhaps history’s most notorious pianist. Widely regarded as the greatest player of Chopin’s works, Pachmann embedded comedic elements—be it fiddling with his piano bench or flirting with the audience—within his classic piano recitals to alleviate his own anxiety over...
The Late Victorian Folksong Revival
The Persistence of English Melody, 1878-1903
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
In The Late Victorian Folksong Revival: The Persistence of English Melody, 1878-1903, E. David Gregory provides a reliable and comprehensive history of the birth and early development of the first English folksong revival. Continuing where Victorian Songhunters, his first book, left off, Gregory systematically...
by Lilian H. Zirpolo
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2009
The Renaissance era was launched in Italy and gradually spread to the Netherlands, Germany, Spain, France, and other parts of Europe and the New World, with figures like Robert Campin, Jan van Eyck, Rogier van der Weyden, Albrecht DYrer, and Albrecht Altdorfer. It was the era that produced some of...
The A to Z of American Theater
Modernism
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2009
The 50-year period from 1880 to 1929 is the richest era for theater in American history, certainly in the great number of plays produced and artists who contributed significantly, but also in the centrality of theater in the lives of Americans. As the impact of European modernism began to gradually...