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Lewis MacAdams says it bluntly in his book's preface: "Anybody trying to define 'cool' quickly comes up against cool's quicksilver nature. As soon as anything is cool, its cool starts to vaporize." With that, he still manages to weave a complex ode to all forms of cool in The Birth of Cool, a book that swings through the highs and lows of bebop and beat without ever losing its intrinsic coolness. MacAdams's background as a poet and film historian enables him to smoothly blend personal histories, public awareness, and political context into a fascinating exploration of the many facets of cool. He begins with the individuals who created bebop: Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Bill Evans, Billy Eckstine, and Thelonious Monk. Relatively minor incidents, like Gillespie stabbing Cab Calloway in the butt with a carpet cutter, are played against a larger framework of astonishing new works that Parker and Gillespie created and the enormous cultural changes brought about by these few folks. As the story moves forward into the 1950s, Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, and Arshile Gorky and the beginnings of modern art are examined. Pollock's comment that "technique is just a means of arriving at a statement" seems like something that could have come from any of the artists, musicians, or writers covered in this book. The early years of the Beats get surprisingly little coverage, beginning with William S. Burroughs being "born weird" and ending with the accidental death of Joan Vollmer. The lives of Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and Neal Cassady are returned to in later chapters that cover the introduction and adoption of Zen and the final blending of bebop and Beat into one inseparable cultural unit.

With numerous photos and pleasantly glossy paper, The Birth of Cool is a dense book that is both entertaining and depressing. MacAdams has managed an homage to cool that temporarily conquers that "quicksilver nature" and gives us a lasting look at a nearly indefinable era. --Jill Lightner.
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For beginning and advanced harpists. Each is arranged in an easy version and a more difficult version. Each carol also contains lyrics and chord indications for harpists or other instrumentalists. The two arrangements can also be played as a duet..
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The Vienna in which Franz Schubert lived for the thirty-one years of his life was a city of music, dance, and coffeehouses-a center of important achievements in the arts. But it was also the capital of an empire that was constantly at war in the composer`s youth and that became a police state during his maturity Now, in the bicentennial of Schubert`s birth, this elegantly written and richly illustrated book paints a vivid picture of the culture, society, and politics of Schubert`s Vienna..
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Bill Purse is the chair of the music technology and guitar departments at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh His new book, fully updated for the latest version of Finale, remains the authoritative guide for understanding and using the most powerful, state-of-the-art software that generates publisher-quality notation. Finale's wide range of capabilities yields a steep learning curve, but this book guides users through the program's powerful intricacies one step at a time. It assists with all facets of music preparation - from transcribing an existing piece of music to creating an original work - and helps maximize the benefits of Finale's invaluable capabilities in editing, reformatting, and reorganizing musical material. For Finale 2002 and above..
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In all its forms from hardcore to trance, Techno has moved from its small underground club beginnings to connect with the pulse of today's youth. Moreover techno has moved beyond the music to create its own distinct cultural identity.

This book charts the development of the Techno movement and celebrates the graphics and fashion that it has given rise to. Works of Peter Saville, The Designers Republic, KM7 and Jaffa, The Unknown are recorded. Accordingly an overall synthesis is presented of a music form, which like Punk in the 70's and Rock in the 60's, has come to mark the age..
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Provides an introduction to the nature, synthesis and transformation of sound which forms the basis of digital sound processing for music and multimedia Background information in computer techniques is included so that you can write computer algorithms to realise new processes central to your own musical and sound processing ideas. Finally, material is inlcuded to explain the way in which people contribute to the development of new kinds of performance and composition systems.

Key features of the book include:
· Contents structured into free-standing parts for easy navigation
· `Flow lines' to suggest alternative paths through the book, depending on the primary interest of the reader.
· Practical examples are contained on a supporting website.

Digital Sound Processing can be used by anyone, whether from an audio engineering, musical or music technology perspective.

Digital sound processing in its various spheres - music technology, studio systems and multimedia - are witnessing the dawning of a new age. The opportunities for involvement in the expansion and development of sound transformation, musical performance and composition are unprecedented.

The supporting website (www.york.ac.uk/inst/mustech/dspmm.htm) contains working examples of computer techniques, music synthesis and sound processing.

Written in easy to understand manner, with a minimum of maths
Suit readers from a number of disciplines: audio engineering, music technology or computing
Supporting website contains practical examples in computer techniques, music synthesis and sound processing.
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An Author Index to Little Magazines of the Mimeograph Revolution provides a retrospective index of little magazines published under the broad banner of the Mimeograph Revolution. For students and scholars of contemporary writing, the index will serve as an excellent resource in locating and tracing the publication of individual works by authors and poets..
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Includes an interview by Jaime Manrique A gathering of carefully selected essays, reviews and critical analyses on the works of Laura Restrepo one of Colombia s most renowned female authors up to her latest novel, Delirio, winner of the Premio Alfaguara. The anthology is divided in chronologically, and arranged in sections, corresponding to the author s most famous novels. Followed are two interviews with Restrepo and a final one, tinged with humor, with Restrepo s mother.

Description in Spanish: No es fácil reunir en un solo volumen la totalidad de la obra crítica sobre Laura Restrepo. Cuando se abrió la convocatoria para recibir textos sobre Restrepo, llegaron un número significativo de ensayos, reseñas y trabajos críticos desde diversos puntos del planeta. Por tanto, no fue sencilla la labor de seleccionar y organizar los trabajos en esta antología, pero ha sido todo un placer observar la suma de perspectivas, lecturas y análisis que suscita cada una de sus obras. Se podría afirmar que como escritora, Laura Restrepo cumple con el sueño de todos los autores: el de generar una amalgama de inquietudes y réplicas a partir de su literatura. Esta compilación partió de una necesidad. Con más de siete novelas publicadas, que han sido traducidas a doce idiomas, Laura Restrepo es actualmente una de las escritoras colombianas más reconocidas y quizá la que ha trascendido con mayor éxito las fronteras nacionales. Su obra combina el reportaje con la ficción desde una perspectiva objetiva de los conflictos que vive Colombia. Pero es también, desde una perspectiva humana, el retrato de las pasiones que viven las personas en cualquier parte del mundo..
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