Essential Jazz: The First 100 Years (Instructor's Editon)

Henry., Martin

Centage Learning

A complete jazz chronology, ESSENTIAL JAZZ: THE FIRST 100 YEARS, 2e, delivers a thorough and engaging introduction to jazz and American culture. Designed for nonmajors, this brief text explores the development of jazz from its nineteenth-century roots in ragtime and blues through swing and bebop to fusion and contemporary jazz styles. Unique in its up-to-date coverage, one-third of ESSENTIAL JAZZ is devoted to performers of the 1960s through present-day performers. The text's flexible organization and clear, interesting presentation are designed to appeal to learners with little or no music background. Accessible, informative Listening Guides provide a rich sociocultural context for each selection, giving both newcomers and aficionados a true feel for the vibrant, ever-changing sound of jazz.

Essential Jazz: The First 100 Years

Arts & Photography

Music

Schirmer G Books

How to Imagine is an unusual meditation about the intersection of personal space - the imagination - with the natural spaces and forces that surround and nurture it. An artist and a writer collaborate here to examine the meanings, the images, and the fantasies implicit to digging into the earth. For a number of years Gianfranco Baruchello has operated a farm outside Rome, a farm which may be said to have produced paintings, films, photographs, and books, as well as the more common agricultural products. With his friend Henry Martin, Baruchello undertakes an investigation of that farm marked by the engaging wit and attention to detail of a natural raconteur. The narrative proceeds along its way to unravel many of the philosophical and formal assumptions that underlie contemporary art, and becomes a "testing [of] the power of art against the power if the much more potent social structures that stand adjacent to it." --- from book's cover

How to Imagine: A Narrative on Art and Agriculture

Gianfranco Baruchello

McPherson & Co

Why Duchamp: An Essay on Aesthetic Impact

In this natural sequel to How to Imagine the authors direct their attention to the mythology and critical scaffolding that surrounds the enigmatic figure of Marcel Duchamp. What exactly is the value of his work today? How can we thread our way through the intricacies of his thought and achieve some greater understanding of its implications? Baruchello and Martin recapture the essence of Duchamp's singularly revolutionary art and discover as well the man behind the Artist. One again, the story is told in Baruchello's absorbing voice, at once and the same time a voice of authority and disarming modesty. This edition features ten photographs of Duchamp and his work (many taken by Baruchello). A selected bibliography on Duchamp is included.

In this magical novel a Milanese count stumbles upon a desolate community of lost noblemen on an uncharted island off the coast of Portugal. When he discovers, to his utter amazement, that their ill-treated servant is in fact a maiden iguana, and then proceeds to fall in love with her, the story of Aleardo, Estralitta and don Ilario becomes universal -- the fantastic merges with the commonplace until a resonant reality emerges with subtle distillation. From first page to last, the reader is given a tale of tragic love and delusion that ranks among the most affecting in contemporary literature. The Iguana has the force of "The Tempest," and is written with a grace comparable in every way to the works of Izak Dinesen and Djuna Barnes. Little wonder, then, that this novel was called by the noted critic Pietro Citati, "one of the very few books destined to redeem the honor of Italian literature since the Second World War." First published in Italian in 1965, where it was awarded the Fiuggi Prize, this masterpiece is by one of the original Italian "magic realists."

The Iguana (English Edition) (English and Italian Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Anna Maria Ortese

Translator

Contemporary

McPherson

The ten stories in this first of two volumes in English translation touch nearly all of the modes Anna Maria Ortese developed during her long and productive creative life, from the early "magical realism" to the late work which lies, as the translator notes, "at the edge of fable . . .[where] one listens to an otherworldly tale while casting a vigilant, questioning eye about the room in which it is being told." Ortese plumbs the strangeness of the world, its mysterious reality, and the dramatic emotion containing within the solitary imagination. She is truly a unique writer, and is rightly considered one of the great figures of 20th century Italian literature.

A Music Behind the Wall: Selected Stories, Vol. 1

Short Stories & Anthologies

Gathers short stories by the noted Italian writer that combine satire, the fantastic, and autobiographical material

A Music Behind the Wall: Selected Stories, Vol. 2

With the Persian Expedition

History

BiblioBazaar

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The past and future of Buffalo. A paper read before the American bankers' association, at Niagara Fa

Americas

BiblioLife

Luther in England: Or, an Answer by Anticipation to a Certain Member of Parliament, and Student of Christ Church, Oxford, Originally Written in Reply ... Ed. by a Late Fellow of Oriel College

Luther. Martin

Europe

Nabu Press

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