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Black artists group -Something to play on (Shaw)
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PBS Rock Rhythm & Doo Wop: The greatest songs from early rock 'n' roll [VHS] $9.49 PBS videotape... |
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Civil War Battles [VHS] $13.94 ... |
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Stories From the Golden Age of Country Music: Featuring Stories of Hank Williams, Sr / Patsy Cline / Faron Young / Elvis and More! [VHS Video] $55.00 (1 VHS Video) Here's the idea. Take 30 country music legends from Bill Andersen to Jim Ed Brown to Jack Greene to Jeannie Seely to Kitty Wells to Johnny Wright. Put them in a studio for two days with six cameras, and NO SCRIPT, and watch what happens. This is live TV at its best. These seasoned performers need no script. There is no stopping to re-light the set, no re-takes to get the right l... |
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Mother's Day [Blu-ray/DVD Combo] $13.47 Saw II helmer Darren Lynn Bousman brings a grim touch to this remake of the 1980 shocker, as three criminal brothers return home after a botched robbery. Surprised to discover their mother (Rebecca De Mornay) missing from the house and a young couple living there instead, the reprobate trio takes the pair and their guests hostage, instigating a reign of abusive terror that only escalates when Mom ... |
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Painters Painting $12.00 Emile de Antonio's landmark documentary listens in on some of the classic artists of our time (Andy Warhol, Willem de Kooning, Barnett Newman, Jasper Johns, and others) frankly discussing their work, their lives, and the creative process. Along the way, priceless insights into the New York City art scene spanning from 1940 to 1970 are revealed. 116 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital ... |
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The Ladykillers (Widescreen Edition) $3.00 If you've never enjoyed Alec Guinness in the classic 1955 British comedy that inspired it, the Coen brothers' remake of The Ladykillers may well prove hilarious. For starters, it's got Tom Hanks in a variation of the Guinness role, eccentrically channeling Colonel Sanders, Tennessee Williams, and Edgar Allan Poe in his southern-fried performance as Prof. Goldthwait Higgins Dorr, Ph.D. (named after... |
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Qualatex 260Q Twister Balloons The best quality twisting balloons, approximately 2 inches in diameter and 60 inches long when fully inflated. These are the most common twisting balloons.... |
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Avon Outspoken By Fergie Perfumed Heart Pendant and Body Lotion $12.00 Uninhibited. Feminine. Floral. Exclusively for Avon! Outspoken is for the woman who needs no introduction. With her fearless confidence, she lets her true personality shine through. True to herself and her beliefs...she is Outspoken. Sexy. Fearless. Unexpected. An outrageously bold expression of iced berry shockingly contrasted with ultra-feminine tuberose absolute and racy black leather. Ferg... |
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Tea Card with a Black Tea $5.95 TEA CARD WITH A BLACK TEA Greeting card with a small gift in transparent envelope with adhesive closure. Cute design card Includes bag of tea in the back of each card. Illustrated by artist Silke Leffle. Herbs and tea comes from organic farm in Germany, certified by the inspection Abcert under number DE-006-ecological control in places * Size: 4 1/2" x 6 1/2" |
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DICE MBR-1500-BMW MediaBridge with Bluetooth for BMW (Black) $234.00 Connects Bluetooth enabled phones for hands-free operation and audio streaming from A2DP enabled devices. Microphone included. Text-to-speech announces incoming caller ID from paired Bluetooth cell phone, song information from iPod/iPhone and interface selections Charging for all iPod and iPhone models Can be controlled from the ipod, radio and steering wheel Amazon is an Authorized DICE Dealer. F... |
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4AD artists: Pixies, Bauhaus, The The, The Breeders, Black Francis, Lush, Cocteau Twins, 4AD, Lisa Gerrard, Scott Walker, TV on the Radio $19.99 Source: Wikipedia,Paperback, English-language edition,Pub by General Books LLC |
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Art Reproduction Oil Painting - Book Cover, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde with 2 3/8 wood frame with black finish. 36 X 48 (interior dimensions) - 40.75 X 52.75 - Hand Painted Framed Canvas Art $568 Ryan Shultz graduated with a BFA from The American Academy of Art, and, with a full scholarship, got his MFA from Northwestern University. He was a Shirly Smithson Scholarship winner several times, and a John F. and Anna Lee Stacey Scholarship winner. Ryan won the Illinois Governor's Medallion of Excellence in Collegiate Artists. He has been a part of group shows at The Flat Iron Building, Blake Palmer Gallery, and The Beverly Arts Center among others. Ryan is able to support himself by selling his work, winning prize money and giving private art lessons. Frame Description: 2 3/8 wood frame with black finish. 36 X 48 (interior dimensions) |
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Art Reproduction Oil Painting - My Proof with Black Satin Frame - Eco Friendly - 35 X 45 - Hand Painted Framed Canvas Art $448 Enjoy this heartfelt portrayal of the artist's physical and emotional scars. This painting depicts a pair of scarred legs and an arm sitting on a table with flowers growing out of them. This piece was created in the fifth episode of the second season of Work of Art: The Next Great Artist. The artist was tasked with creating a work of art based off of a headline in the New York Times, while incorporating the physical newspaper in some way. The artist drew on her personal hardship of being in a devastating car crash, in order to come to terms with the scars she still carries with her. This piece is highly personal, with a global appeal as it presents the beauty of growth from adversity. In 2005 Michelle Matson graduated with a BFA from the School of Visual Arts, and received the Silas Rhodes Merit Scholarship. She has worked for many galleries and artists, such as Marilyn Minter, Zach Feuer, and Josephine Meckseper. She has been in a multiple of group shows, including Postmasters, Kravets Wehby Gallery, Stux Gallery and Zach Feuer's Project Space. She has even produced her own magazine, Hands On . A talented artist, Michelle draws on tragedy in her own life, and experiments with a variety of materials in sculpture; this is most apparent in her unusual, quirky, grotesque paper sculptures. She has an upcoming solo exhibit at the project space Youth Group Gallery in Brooklyn. Frame Description: Black Satin Frame - Eco Friendly |
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Art Reproduction Oil Painting - My Proof with Black Satin Frame - Eco Friendly - 41 X 53 - Hand Painted Framed Canvas Art $578 Enjoy this heartfelt portrayal of the artist's physical and emotional scars. This painting depicts a pair of scarred legs and an arm sitting on a table with flowers growing out of them. This piece was created in the fifth episode of the second season of Work of Art: The Next Great Artist. The artist was tasked with creating a work of art based off of a headline in the New York Times, while incorporating the physical newspaper in some way. The artist drew on her personal hardship of being in a devastating car crash, in order to come to terms with the scars she still carries with her. This piece is highly personal, with a global appeal as it presents the beauty of growth from adversity. In 2005 Michelle Matson graduated with a BFA from the School of Visual Arts, and received the Silas Rhodes Merit Scholarship. She has worked for many galleries and artists, such as Marilyn Minter, Zach Feuer, and Josephine Meckseper. She has been in a multiple of group shows, including Postmasters, Kravets Wehby Gallery, Stux Gallery and Zach Feuer's Project Space. She has even produced her own magazine, Hands On . A talented artist, Michelle draws on tragedy in her own life, and experiments with a variety of materials in sculpture; this is most apparent in her unusual, quirky, grotesque paper sculptures. She has an upcoming solo exhibit at the project space Youth Group Gallery in Brooklyn. Frame Description: Black Satin Frame - Eco Friendly |
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BAG Point From Which Creation Begins: The Black Artists' Group in St. Louis $23.95 From 1968 to 1972, St. Louis was home to the Black Artists' Group (BAG), a seminal arts collective that nurtured African American experimentalists involved with theater, visual arts, dance, poetry, and jazz. Inspired by the reinvigorated black cultural nationalism of the 1960s, artistic collectives had sprung up around the country in a diffuse outgrowth known as the Black Arts Movement. These impulses resonated with BAG's founders, who sought to raise black consciousness and explore the far reaches of interdisciplinary performance-all while struggling to carve out a place within the context of St. Louis history and culture. By fusing social concern and artistic innovation, the group significantly reshaped the St. Louis and, by extension, the American arts landscape. |
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Ben Jones $24.95 Ben Jones (born 1977), one third of the artist collective Paper Rad and progeny of Providence''s Fort Thunder warehouse-based art scene, makes work that harks back to the Saturday morning cartoons and video games of the 1980s. Jones'' previous book, New Painting and Drawing, quickly sold out, making Men''s Group Black Math --his newest volume, beautifully bound in dark blue denim covers--the only currently available collection of his work. The book''s theme is maleness: in addition to Jones'' signature neon-infused images, paintings, digital pictures and built environments, Men''s Group Black Math includes a 24-page comic strip about contemporary male life, plus a series of texts about manhood commissioned from men the artist admires, including artists Peter Saul, Gary Panter and Joe Bradley, writers Keith McCulloch and Byron Coley and gallerist Phil Grauer. Topping it all off is a lengthy interview with Jones conducted by Dan Nadel. |
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Biedermann Sons C1123BK-10 Black Chime Candle- 10 Boxes of 20 $25.63 More than 800 years ago the village of Schwaebisch Gmuend was founded by the Kings of Staufen who were responsible for settling this region known for its artisans specializing in the production of gold silver and brass jewelry as well as decorative ornaments. These works of art were shipped to markets in Italy and Western Europe. The tradition in metal arts survives today in this medieval walled town located near Stuttgart Germany. For generations families have engaged in ornament cutting designing their own unique decorations to give friends and relatives as gifts during the holiday season. The Biedermanns originated the creation of a single Christmas ornament commemorating each year drawing on the talent from this region. In the fall of 1970 we contacted several artisan families who among them designed and cut the first ornament which depicted the town square of Schwaebisch Gmuend. Since that first edition each year a group of artists has selected a single design from those submitted by the townspeople and the ornament to be cut for the coming season is chosen. This is now a tradition that the people of Schwaebisch Gmuend and America cherish. Designs through the years have been selected from those created by school children and adults. Our Master Cutter Georg Neumaier directs the production of the Biedermann Commemorative Ornament and is also involved in selecting the years winning design. The now very valuable original brass ornament was supplemented in 1984 by our first edition silver-plated ornament. Beginning in 1987 alternate years depict the story of The Twelve Days of Christmas. Nineteen ninety-eight began the first edition of the Christmas Quotations Series of ornaments. We take pride in offering the Biedermann Commemorative Ornaments to you the collector and to all connoisseurs of tasteful high quality craftsmanship. Black Chime Candle Candle size: 5 x 4 200 Candles - 10 boxed of 20 Each Burns 1-2 hours |
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Biedermann Sons C1140BK Happy Birthday Candles $36.24 More than 800 years ago the village of Schwaebisch Gmuend was founded by the Kings of Staufen who were responsible for settling this region known for its artisans specializing in the production of gold silver and brass jewelry as well as decorative ornaments. These works of art were shipped to markets in Italy and Western Europe. The tradition in metal arts survives today in this medieval walled town located near Stuttgart Germany. For generations families have engaged in ornament cutting designing their own unique decorations to give friends and relatives as gifts during the holiday season. The Biedermanns originated the creation of a single Christmas ornament commemorating each year drawing on the talent from this region. In the fall of 1970 we contacted several artisan families who among them designed and cut the first ornament which depicted the town square of Schwaebisch Gmuend. Since that first edition each year a group of artists has selected a single design from those submitted by the townspeople and the ornament to be cut for the coming season is chosen. This is now a tradition that the people of Schwaebisch Gmuend and America cherish. Designs through the years have been selected from those created by school children and adults. Our Master Cutter Georg Neumaier directs the production of the Biedermann Commemorative Ornament and is also involved in selecting the years winning design. The now very valuable original brass ornament was supplemented in 1984 by our first edition silver-plated ornament. Beginning in 1987 alternate years depict the story of The Twelve Days of Christmas. Nineteen ninety-eight began the first edition of the Christmas Quotations Series of ornaments. We take pride in offering the Biedermann Commemorative Ornaments to you the collector and to all connoisseurs of tasteful high quality craftsmanship. Happy Birthday - Over the Hill Candles Size: .25 x 3.25 inches 16 Boxes of 24 black candles Burns 15-20 minutes |
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CRAYOLA LLC FORMERLY BINNEY & SMITH BIN527408 CRAYOLA TWISTABLES CRAYONS 8 CT. $8.99 Versatile crayons never need sharpening or label peeling. Break-resistant, clear plastic barrel shows crayon supply. Built-in eraser on each crayon makes for easy changes and corrections anytime. Eight vibrant colors attract young beginners and more advanced artists. Color(s): Assorted; Assortment: Black; Blue; Brown; Green; Orange; Red; Violet; Yellow; Crayon Size: 4 x 7/16 in; Size Group: Standard. Includes eight crayons. |
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Captain America $14.99 From the dark days of World War II to the Heroic Age, witness the brutal battle between Captain America and the immortal evil known as Hydra! How far back has the gruesome group been killing its way to capture the secrets of eternal life? What can Steve Rogers do to halt its sinister spread when the horrific hordes of the undead rise to stop him? Find out as award-winning horror novelist Jonathan Maberry (DOOMWAR) teams with five different artists to capture five different time periods - including Sergio Cariello (Lone Ranger), Tom Scioli (Godland), Phil Winslade (Wonder Woman), Kyle Hotz (ANNIHILATION: CONQUEST - WRAITH) and Graham Nolan (X-MEN FOREVER)! Guest-starring the Falcon, Black Panther, Nomad, Nick Fury and the Avengers! Collecting CAPTAIN AMERICA HAIL HYDRA #1-5. |
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Captain America: Hail Hydra $14.99 From the dark days of World War II to the Heroic Age, witness the brutal battle between Captain America and the immortal evil known as Hydra! How far back has the gruesome group been killing its way to capture the secrets of eternal life? What can Steve Rogers do to halt its sinister spread when the horrific hordes of the undead rise to stop him? Find out as award-winning horror novelist Jonathan Maberry (DOOMWAR) teams with five different artists to capture five different time periods - including Sergio Cariello (Lone Ranger), Tom Scioli (Godland), Phil Winslade (Wonder Woman), Kyle Hotz (ANNIHILATION: CONQUEST - WRAITH) and Graham Nolan (X-MEN FOREVER)! Guest-starring the Falcon, Black Panther, Nomad, Nick Fury and the Avengers! Collecting CAPTAIN AMERICA: HAIL HYDRA #1-5. |
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Colour Mania $39.95 Green with envy. Feeling blue. White lies. Grey areas. In every language spoken on earth human beings use colors to express themselves. World renowned author, Vladimir Nabokov, claimed he could hear color and actually assigned a color to each letter of the alphabet based on each letter's particular sound. The Eskimos of the polar regions have countless words that uniquely describe the color white. In the world of graphics some designers have devoted their entire body of work to one color, sometimes showing it off in all of its full-bodied glory, sometimes stripping it back to its barest essentials. Colour Mania brings together an eclectic group of talented designers who have one thing in common: they are artists who simply can't get enough of one particular color—be that red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, black or white. This book offers a depth of understanding of individual colors that is unprecedented. |
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Conte Crayons 2b white pack of 2 $3.52 Conte has been manufacturing the finest artists' materials available for more than 200 years. Many of the world's greatest artists, including Picasso, Delacroix, and Degas, have created world famous drawings with Conte crayons. You will be pleased with the unbounding beauty that can be achieved with the consistent quality of these fine drawing materials. Conte Crayons are specifically formulated and designed for drawing and sketching. They are made in a unique shape and can be broken for easier use. Conte Crayons can be sharpened to a chisel tip with a sanding pad for more detailed work, or can be used on its side to shade larger areas. The rich opacity of these crayons make them ideal for work on darker papers. The quality ensures the longevity of drawings. The white and black crayons are available in 3 hardness degrees including HB, B, and 2B. The other colors are equal to a B in hardness. The gray is a middle shade of gray. Bistre is the darkest, most earthy brown in this group. Sanguine medicis is the darkest of the sanguines, sanguine watteau is a shade lighter and a little more red oxide. Sanguine XVIII is a shade lighter than the watteau but with the same amount of red oxide and the natural sanguine is the lightest shade with the same red oxide as watteau and XVIII. |
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Conte Crayons b black pack of 2 $3.52 Conte has been manufacturing the finest artists' materials available for more than 200 years. Many of the world's greatest artists, including Picasso, Delacroix, and Degas, have created world famous drawings with Conte crayons. You will be pleased with the unbounding beauty that can be achieved with the consistent quality of these fine drawing materials. Conte Crayons are specifically formulated and designed for drawing and sketching. They are made in a unique shape and can be broken for easier use. Conte Crayons can be sharpened to a chisel tip with a sanding pad for more detailed work, or can be used on its side to shade larger areas. The rich opacity of these crayons make them ideal for work on darker papers. The quality ensures the longevity of drawings. The white and black crayons are available in 3 hardness degrees including HB, B, and 2B. The other colors are equal to a B in hardness. The gray is a middle shade of gray. Bistre is the darkest, most earthy brown in this group. Sanguine medicis is the darkest of the sanguines, sanguine watteau is a shade lighter and a little more red oxide. Sanguine XVIII is a shade lighter than the watteau but with the same amount of red oxide and the natural sanguine is the lightest shade with the same red oxide as watteau and XVIII. |
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Conte Crayons bistre pack of 2 $3.52 Conte has been manufacturing the finest artists' materials available for more than 200 years. Many of the world's greatest artists, including Picasso, Delacroix, and Degas, have created world famous drawings with Conte crayons. You will be pleased with the unbounding beauty that can be achieved with the consistent quality of these fine drawing materials. Conte Crayons are specifically formulated and designed for drawing and sketching. They are made in a unique shape and can be broken for easier use. Conte Crayons can be sharpened to a chisel tip with a sanding pad for more detailed work, or can be used on its side to shade larger areas. The rich opacity of these crayons make them ideal for work on darker papers. The quality ensures the longevity of drawings. The white and black crayons are available in 3 hardness degrees including HB, B, and 2B. The other colors are equal to a B in hardness. The gray is a middle shade of gray. Bistre is the darkest, most earthy brown in tis group. Sanguine medicis is the darkest of the sanguines, sanguine watteau is a shade lighter and a little more red oxide. Sanguine XVIII is a shade lighter than the watteau but with the same amount of red oxide and the natural sanguine is the lightest shade with the same red oxide as watteau and XVIII. |
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Conte Crayons gray pack of 2 $3.52 Conte has been manufacturing the finest artists' materials available for more than 200 years. Many of the world's greatest artists, including Picasso, Delacroix, and Degas, have created world famous drawings with Conte crayons. You will be pleased with the unbounding beauty that can be achieved with the consistent quality of these fine drawing materials. Conte Crayons are specifically formulated and designed for drawing and sketching. They are made in a unique shape and can be broken for easier use. Conte Crayons can be sharpened to a chisel tip with a sanding pad for more detailed work, or can be used on its side to shade larger areas. The rich opacity of these crayons make them ideal for work on darker papers. The quality ensures the longevity of drawings. The white and black crayons are available in 3 hardness degrees including HB, B, and 2B. The other colors are equal to a B in hardness. The gray is a middle shade of gray. Bistre is the darkest, most earthy brown in this group. Sanguine medicis is the darkest of the sanguines, sanguine watteau is a shade lighter and a little more red oxide. Sanguine XVIII is a shade lighter than the watteau but with the same amount of red oxide and the natural sanguine is the lightest shade with the same red oxide as watteau and XVIII. |
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Conte Crayons hb white pack of 2 $3.52 Conte has been manufacturing the finest artists' materials available for more than 200 years. Many of the world's greatest artists, including Picasso, Delacroix, and Degas, have created world famous drawings with Conte crayons. You will be pleased with the unbounding beauty that can be achieved with the consistent quality of these fine drawing materials. Conte Crayons are specifically formulated and designed for drawing and sketching. They are made in a unique shape and can be broken for easier use. Conte Crayons can be sharpened to a chisel tip with a sanding pad for more detailed work, or can be used on its side to shade larger areas. The rich opacity of these crayons make them ideal for work on darker papers. The quality ensures the longevity of drawings. The white and black crayons are available in 3 hardness degrees including HB, B, and 2B. The other colors are equal to a B in hardness. The gray is a middle shade of gray. Bistre is the darkest, most earthy brown in this group. Sanguine medicis is the darkest of the sanguines, sanguine watteau is a shade lighter and a little more red oxide. Sanguine XVIII is a shade lighter than the watteau but with the same amount of red oxide and the natural sanguine is the lightest shade with the same red oxide as watteau and XVIII. |
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Conte Crayons sanguine XVII century pack of 2 $3.52 Conte has been manufacturing the finest artists' materials available for more than 200 years. Many of the world's greatest artists, including Picasso, Delacroix, and Degas, have created world famous drawings with Conte crayons. You will be pleased with the unbounding beauty that can be achieved with the consistent quality of these fine drawing materials. Conte Crayons are specifically formulated and designed for drawing and sketching. They are made in a unique shape and can be broken for easier use. Conte Crayons can be sharpened to a chisel tip with a sanding pad for more detailed work, or can be used on its side to shade larger areas. The rich opacity of these crayons make them ideal for work on darker papers. The quality ensures the longevity of drawings. The white and black crayons are available in 3 hardness degrees including HB, B, and 2B. The other colors are equal to a B in hardness. The gray is a middle shade of gray. Bistre is the darkest, most earthy brown in this group. Sanguine medicis is the darkest of the sanguines, sanguine watteau is a shade lighter and a little more red oxide. Sanguine XVIII is a shade lighter than the watteau but with the same amount of red oxide and the natural sanguine is the lightest shade with the same red oxide as watteau and XVIII. |
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Conte Crayons sanguine medicis box of 12 $23.4 Conte has been manufacturing the finest artists' materials available for more than 200 years. Many of the world's greatest artists, including Picasso, Delacroix, and Degas, have created world famous drawings with Conte crayons. You will be pleased with the unbounding beauty that can be achieved with the consistent quality of these fine drawing materials. Conte Crayons are specifically formulated and designed for drawing and sketching. They are made in a unique shape and can be broken for easier use. Conte Crayons can be sharpened to a chisel tip with a sanding pad for more detailed work, or can be used on its side to shade larger areas. The rich opacity of these crayons make them ideal for work on darker papers. The quality ensures the longevity of drawings. The white and black crayons are available in 3 hardness degrees including HB, B, and 2B. The other colors are equal to a B in hardness. The gray is a middle shade of gray. Bistre is the darkest, most earthy brown in this group. Sanguine medicis is the darkest of the sanguines, sanguine watteau is a shade lighter and a little more red oxide. Sanguine XVIII is a shade lighter than the watteau but with the same amount of red oxide and the natural sanguine is the lightest shade with the same red oxide as watteau and XVIII. |
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Conte Crayons sanguine medicis pack of 2 $3.52 Conte has been manufacturing the finest artists' materials available for more than 200 years. Many of the world's greatest artists, including Picasso, Delacroix, and Degas, have created world famous drawings with Conte crayons. You will be pleased with the unbounding beauty that can be achieved with the consistent quality of these fine drawing materials. Conte Crayons are specifically formulated and designed for drawing and sketching. They are made in a unique shape and can be broken for easier use. Conte Crayons can be sharpened to a chisel tip with a sanding pad for more detailed work, or can be used on its side to shade larger areas. The rich opacity of these crayons make them ideal for work on darker papers. The quality ensures the longevity of drawings. The white and black crayons are available in 3 hardness degrees including HB, B, and 2B. The other colors are equal to a B in hardness. The gray is a middle shade of gray. Bistre is the darkest, most earthy brown in this group. Sanguine medicis is the darkest of the sanguines, sanguine watteau is a shade lighter and a little more red oxide. Sanguine XVIII is a shade lighter than the watteau but with the same amount of red oxide and the natural sanguine is the lightest shade with the same red oxide as watteau and XVIII. |
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Conte Crayons sanguine natural box of 12 $22.24 Conte has been manufacturing the finest artists' materials available for more than 200 years. Many of the world's greatest artists, including Picasso, Delacroix, and Degas, have created world famous drawings with Conte crayons. You will be pleased with the unbounding beauty that can be achieved with the consistent quality of these fine drawing materials. Conte Crayons are specifically formulated and designed for drawing and sketching. They are made in a unique shape and can be broken for easier use. Conte Crayons can be sharpened to a chisel tip with a sanding pad for more detailed work, or can be used on its side to shade larger areas. The rich opacity of these crayons make them ideal for work on darker papers. The quality ensures the longevity of drawings. The white and black crayons are available in 3 hardness degrees including HB, B, and 2B. The other colors are equal to a B in hardness. The gray is a middle shade of gray. Bistre is the darkest, most earthy brown in this group. Sanguine medicis is the darkest of the sanguines, sanguine watteau is a shade lighter and a little more red oxide. Sanguine XVIII is a shade lighter than the watteau but with the same amount of red oxide and the natural sanguine is the lightest shade with the same red oxide as watteau and XVIII. |
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Conte Crayons sanguine natural pack of 2 $3.52 Conte has been manufacturing the finest artists' materials available for more than 200 years. Many of the world's greatest artists, including Picasso, Delacroix, and Degas, have created world famous drawings with Conte crayons. You will be pleased with the unbounding beauty that can be achieved with the consistent quality of these fine drawing materials. Conte Crayons are specifically formulated and designed for drawing and sketching. They are made in a unique shape and can be broken for easier use. Conte Crayons can be sharpened to a chisel tip with a sanding pad for more detailed work, or can be used on its side to shade larger areas. The rich opacity of these crayons make them ideal for work on darker papers. The quality ensures the longevity of drawings. The white and black crayons are available in 3 hardness degrees including HB, B, and 2B. The other colors are equal to a B in hardness. The gray is a middle shade of gray. Bistre is the darkest, most earthy brown in this group. Sanguine medicis is the darkest of the sanguines, sanguine watteau is a shade lighter and a little more red oxide. Sanguine XVIII is a shade lighter than the watteau but with the same amount of red oxide and the natural sanguine is the lightest shade with the same red oxide as watteau and XVIII. |
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Conte Crayons sanguine watteau pack of 2 $3.52 Conte has been manufacturing the finest artists' materials available for more than 200 years. Many of the world's greatest artists, including Picasso, Delacroix, and Degas, have created world famous drawings with Conte crayons. You will be pleased with the unbounding beauty that can be achieved with the consistent quality of these fine drawing materials. Conte Crayons are specifically formulated and designed for drawing and sketching. They are made in a unique shape and can be broken for easier use. Conte Crayons can be sharpened to a chisel tip with a sanding pad for more detailed work, or can be used on its side to shade larger areas. The rich opacity of these crayons make them ideal for work on darker papers. The quality ensures the longevity of drawings. The white and black crayons are available in 3 hardness degrees including HB, B, and 2B. The other colors are equal to a B in hardness. The gray is a middle shade of gray. Bistre is the darkest, most earthy brown in this group. Sanguine medicis is the darkest of the sanguines, sanguine watteau is a shade lighter and a little more red oxide. Sanguine XVIII is a shade lighter than the watteau but with the same amount of red oxide and the natural sanguine is the lightest shade with the same red oxide as watteau and XVIII. |
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Conte Crayons white B pack of 2 $3.52 Conte has been manufacturing the finest artists' materials available for more than 200 years. Many of the world's greatest artists, including Picasso, Delacroix, and Degas, have created world famous drawings with Conte crayons. You will be pleased with the unbounding beauty that can be achieved with the consistent quality of these fine drawing materials. Conte Crayons are specifically formulated and designed for drawing and sketching. They are made in a unique shape and can be broken for easier use. Conte Crayons can be sharpened to a chisel tip with a sanding pad for more detailed work, or can be used on its side to shade larger areas. The rich opacity of these crayons make them ideal for work on darker papers. The quality ensures the longevity of drawings. The white and black crayons are available in 3 hardness degrees including HB, B, and 2B. The other colors are equal to a B in hardness. The gray is a middle shade of gray. Bistre is the darkest, most earthy brown in tis group. Sanguine medicis is the darkest of the sanguines, sanguine watteau is a shade lighter and a little more red oxide. Sanguine XVIII is a shade lighter than the watteau but with the same amount of red oxide and the natural sanguine is the lightest shade with the same red oxide as watteau and XVIII. |
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Creatures of Habit: The Art of Joe Ledbetter $12.78 For the first time, painter Joe Ledbetter best works have been compiled into one book. Influenced by classic animation, bold graphic design and the absurdity of daily life, Ledbetter's work is a visual feast. Creatures of Habit shows the evolution of Ledbetter's unique painting style over the past five years of his career, from 2003 - 2008. Ledbetter's paintings are populated with cute, cuddly cartoon characters placed in impossibly dire situations. In one painting, Mr. Bunny (a recurring character) tosses another rabbit off a cliff; in another, a brown fox hopelessly raises a tiny pink umbrella in a futile attempt to shield himself from the anvils, safes, and knives raining down on him from above.Ledbetter uses the juxtaposition of these images to cause the viewer to question whether they aren't taking life, and themselves, too seriously. Arranged chronologically, Creatures of Habit shows the development and evolution of the artist's ideas and craft.Ledbetter includes his favorite paintings from his many solo exhibitions; themed group shows such as I Am 8-Bit, and Crazy 4 Cult; and collaborations with fellow artists such as Nathan Jurevicius, Luke Chueh, and Greg "Craola" Simkins.Creatures of Habit contains many unseen pieces from private collections.With his emblematic black lines, vibrant colors, and endearing characters (such as Mr. Bunny), its easy to be lured in and fall in love with the world Ledbetter has created. |
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Dancing Revelations $22.82 In the early 1960s, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater was a small, multi-racial company of dancers that performed the works of its founding choreographer and other emerging artists. By the late 1960s, the company had become a well-known African American artistic group closely tied to the Civil Rights struggle. In Dancing Revelations, Thomas DeFrantz chronicles the troupe's journey from a small modern dance company to one of the premier institutions of African American culture. He not only charts this rise to national and international renown, but also contextualizes this progress within the civil rights, women's rights, and gay rights struggles of the late 20th century. DeFrantz examines the most celebrated Ailey dances, including Revelations, drawing on video recordings of Ailey's dances, published interviews, oral histories, and his own interviews with former Ailey company dancers. Through vivid descriptions and beautiful illustrations, DeFrantz reveals the relationship between Ailey's works and African American culture as a whole. He illuminates the dual achievement of Ailey as an artist and as an arts activist committed to developing an African American presence in dance. He also addresses concerns about how dance performance is documented, including issues around spectatorship and the display of sexuality, the relationship of Ailey's dances to civil rights activism, and the establishment and maintenance of a successful, large-scale Black Arts institution. Throughout Dancing Revelations, DeFrantz illustrates how Ailey combined elements of African dance with motifs adapted from blues, jazz, and Broadway to choreograph his dances. By re-interpreting these tropes of black culturein his original and well-received dances, DeFrantz argues that Ailey played a significant role in defining the African American cultural canon in the twentieth century. As the first book to examine the cultural sources and cultural impact of Ailey's work, Dancing Revelations is an impo |
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Dancing Revelations: Alvin Ailey's Embodiment of African American Culture $30 In the early 1960s, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater was a small, multi-racial company of dancers that performed the works of its founding choreographer and other emerging artists. By the late 1960s, the company had become a well-known African American artistic group closely tied to the Civil Rights struggle. In Dancing Revelations, Thomas DeFrantz chronicles the troupe's journey from a small modern dance company to one of the premier institutions of African American culture. He not only charts this rise to national and international renown, but also contextualizes this progress within the civil rights, women's rights, and gay rights struggles of the late 20th century.DeFrantz examines the most celebrated Ailey dances, including Revelations, drawing on video recordings of Ailey's dances, published interviews, oral histories, and his own interviews with former Ailey company dancers. Through vivid descriptions and beautiful illustrations, DeFrantz reveals the relationship between Ailey's works and African American culture as a whole. He illuminates the dual achievement of Ailey as an artist and as an arts activist committed to developing an African American presence in dance. He also addresses concerns about how dance performance is documented, including issues around spectatorship and the display of sexuality, the relationship of Ailey's dances to civil rights activism, and the establishment and maintenance of a successful, large-scale Black Arts institution.Throughout Dancing Revelations, DeFrantz illustrates how Ailey combined elements of African dance with motifs adapted from blues, jazz, and Broadway to choreograph his dances. By re-interpreting these tropes of black culture in his original and well-received dances, DeFrantz argues that Ailey played a significant role in defining the African American cultural canon in the twentieth century. As the first book to examine the cultural sources and cultural impact of Ailey's |
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Dancing Revelations: Alvin Ailey's Embodiment of African American Culture $30 In the early 1960s, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater was a small, multi-racial company of dancers that performed the works of its founding choreographer and other emerging artists. By the late 1960s, the company had become a well-known African American artistic group closely tied to the Civil Rights struggle. In Dancing Revelations, Thomas DeFrantz chronicles the troupe's journey from a small modern dance company to one of the premier institutions of African American culture. He not only charts this rise to national and international renown, but also contextualizes this progress within the civil rights, women's rights, and gay rights struggles of the late 20th century.DeFrantz examines the most celebrated Ailey dances, including Revelations, drawing on video recordings of Ailey's dances, published interviews, oral histories, and his own interviews with former Ailey company dancers. Through vivid descriptions and beautiful illustrations, DeFrantz reveals the relationship between Ailey's works and African American culture as a whole. He illuminates the dual achievement of Ailey as an artist and as an arts activist committed to developing an African American presence in dance. He also addresses concerns about how dance performance is documented, including issues around spectatorship and the display of sexuality, the relationship of Ailey's dances to civil rights activism, and the establishment and maintenance of a successful, large-scale Black Arts institution.Throughout Dancing Revelations, DeFrantz illustrates how Ailey combined elements of African dance with motifs adapted from blues, jazz, and Broadway to choreograph his dances. By re-interpreting these tropes of black culture in his original and well-received dances, DeFrantz argues that Ailey played a significant role in defining the African American cultural canon in the twentieth century. As the first book to examine the cultural sources and cultural impact of Ailey's work, |
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Deep Purple $20.86 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Deep Purple, Deep Purple Discography. Excerpt: Deep Purple are an English hard rock band formed in Hertford in 1968. Along with Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath , they are considered to be among the pioneers of heavy metal and modern hard rock , although some band members have avoided categorising themselves as any one genre. The band also incorporated classical music , blues-rock , pop and progressive rock elements. They were once listed by the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's loudest band , and have sold over 100 million albums worldwide. Deep Purple were ranked #22 on VH1 's Greatest Artists of Hard Rock programme. The band has gone through many line-up changes and an eight-year hiatus (197684). The 196876 line-ups are commonly labeled Mark I, II, III and IV. Their second and most commercially successful line-up featured Ian Gillan (vocals), Ritchie Blackmore (guitar), Jon Lord (keyboards), Roger Glover (bass) and Ian Paice (drums). This line-up was active from 1969 to 1973 and was revived from 1984 to 1989 and again in 1993, before the rift between Blackmore and other members became unbridgeable. The current line-up (including guitarist Steve Morse ) has been much more stable, although Lord's retirement in 2002 has left Paice as the only original member to have never left the band.History Pre-Deep Purple years (196768) In 1967, former Searchers drummer Chris Curtis contacted London businessman Tony Edwards in the hope that he would manage a new group he was putting together, to be called Roundabout : so-called because the members would get on and off the band, like a musical roundabout. Impressed with the plan, Edwards agreed to finance the venture with two business partners: John Coletta and Ron Hire (Hire-Edwards-Coletta HEC Enterprises).The |
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Distinction and Denial: Race, Nation, and the Critical Construction of the African American Artist, 1920-40 $29.46 Distinction and Denial challenges conventional theories of race and art by examining the role early twentieth-century art critics played in marginalizing African American artists. Mary Ann Calo dispels the myth of a unified African American artistic tradition through an engaging study of the germinal writing of Alain Locke and other significant critics of the era, who argued that African American artists were both a diverse group and a constituent element of America’s cultural center. By documenting the effects of the “Negro aesthetic” on African American artists working in the interwar years, Distinction and Denial shows that black artistic production existed between the claims of a distinctly African American tradition and full inclusion into American modernist culture—never fully inside or outside the mainstream. “A major contribution to the scholarship of African American artists in the inter-war period. With scrupulous research and probing analyses, Calo’s study enables scholars, students, and those interested in the Harlem Renaissance to grasp the intellectual debates, institutional support, and art world promotion that advanced an emerging cohort of African American artists.”  —Patricia Hills, Boston University “A careful, thorough, historically grounded study that builds a new and significant argument challenging conventional histories of African American art. Sure to become indispensable to any scholarly discussion of American art or African American cultural studies.”—Helen Langa, American University Mary Ann Calo is Professor of Art History and Director of the Institute for the Creative and Performing Arts at Colgate University. She is author of Bernard Berenson and the Twentieth Century and editor of Critical Issues in American Art: A Book of Readings. |
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Earth, Wind $57.99 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The band formed in Chicago, Illinois, in 1969 and led by founder Maurice White. Also known as EWF or the Elements of the Universe, the band has won six Grammy Awards and four American Music Awards. They have been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Vocal Group Hall of Fame. They have sold over 90 million albums worldwide earning them a place on the list of best-selling music artists where they are ranked as the seventh best selling American band of all time. Rolling Stone Magazine has described Earth, Wind & Fire as "innovative, precise yet sensual, calculated yet galvanizing" and has also declared that the band "changed the sound of black pop". Earth, Wind & Fire were also ranked at number 60 on VH1's list of the 100 Greatest Artists of Rock & Roll. The band's music contains elements of African music, Latin music, funk, soul, jazz, pop, rock, and other genres. The band is known for the dynamic sound of their horn section and the interplay between the contrasting vocals of Philip Bailey's falsetto and Maurice White's tenor. The kalimba (African thumb piano) is played on all of the band's albums. |
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Emilia Medkova $16.95 One of the most important Czech photographers of the second half of the 20th century, Emilia Medkova's work was linked directly with Surrealism: In her early years, she was close to the circle of young artists surrounding critic and collagist Karel Teige, and in the later ones she was involved with the Czech/Slovak Surrealist Group, which included artists Teige, Czestmir Kratky, Vitezslav Nezual, Jindrick Styrsky, and others. Her black-and-white work sought the hidden meaning in the familiar. "If there is no mystery in a photograph," she once said, "if its reality has no other design, then it is empty." Taking inspiration from her immediate surroundings in Prague, she captured the skinlike shedding in the peeling paint of a door and the stark frame of light through a hole that illuminated a drawing of a face. She also shot series in Paris and Italy, included in this catalogue to her major recent posthumous retrospective in Prague. |
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Encyclopedia of Native Music: More Than a Century of Recordings from Wax Cylinder to the Internet $42.4 Want the word on Buffy Sainte-Marie? Looking for the best powwow recordings? Wondering what else Jim Pepper cut besides "Witchi Tai To"? This book will answer those questions and more as it opens up the world of Native American music. In addition to the widely heard sounds of Carlos Nakai’s flute, Native music embraces a wide range of forms: country and folk, jazz and swing, reggae and rap. Brian Wright-McLeod, producer/host of Canada’s longest-running Native radio program, has gathered the musicians and their music into this comprehensive reference, an authoritative source for biographies and discographies of hundreds of Native artists. The Encyclopedia of Native Music recognizes the multifaceted contributions made by Native recording artists by tracing the history of their commercially released music. It provides an overview of the surprising abundance of recorded Native music while underlining its historical value. With almost 1,800 entries spanning more than 100 years, this book leads readers from early performers of traditional songs like William Horncloud to artists of the new millennium such as Zotigh. Along the way, it includes entries for jazz and blues artists never widely acknowledged for their Native roots—Oscar Pettiford, Mildred Bailey, and Keely Smith—and traces the recording histories of contemporary performers like Rita Coolidge and Jimmy Carl Black, "the Indian of the group" in the original Mothers of Invention. It also includes film soundtracks and compilation albums that have been instrumental in bringing many artists to popular attention. In addition to music, it lists spoken-word recordings, including audio books, comedy, interviews, poetry, and more. With this unprecedented breadth of coverage and extensively cross-referenced, The Encyclopedia of Native Music is an essential guide for enthusiasts and collectors. More than that, it is a gateway to the authentic music of North America—music |
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End of the Jews $11.99 The ruthlessly engrossing and beautifully rendered story of the Brodskys, a family of artists who realize, too late, one elemental truth: Creation’s necessary consequence is destruction.Each member of the mercurial clan in Adam Mansbach’s bold new novel faces the impossible choice between the people they love and the art that sustains them. Tristan Brodsky, sprung from the asphalt of the depression-era Bronx, goes on to become one of the swaggering Jewish geniuses who remakes American culture while slowly suffocating his poet wife, who harbors secrets of her own. Nina Hricek, a driven young Czech photographer escapes from behind the Iron Curtain with a group of black musicians only to find herself trapped yet again, this time in a doomed love affair. And finally, Tris Freedman, grandson of Tristan and lover of Nina, a graffiti artist and unanchored revolutionary, cannibalizes his family history to feed his muse. In the end, their stories converge and the survival of each requires the sacrifice of another. The End of the Jews offers all the rewards of the traditional family epic, but Mansbach’s irreverent wit and rich, kinetic prose shed new light on the genre. It runs on its own chronometer, somersaulting gracefully through time and space, interweaving the tales of these three protagonists who, separated by generation and geography, are leading parallel lives. |
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Esp-Disk Artists $19.99 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Steve Lacy, Albert Ayler, Esp-Disk, Karel Velebný, Perry Robinson, Marion Brown, Giuseppi Logan, Sunny Murray, Alan Silva, Ronnie Boykins, Frank Lowe, Cromagnon, Burton Greene, Milford Graves, the Godz, Karl Berger, Frank Wright, Revolutionary Ensemble, Noah Howard, Charles Tyler, New York Art Quartet, Lowell Davidson. Excerpt: Alan Silva in Belgium , 1969 Alan Silva (born Alan Treadwell da Silva , Bermuda , January 22, 1939) is an American free jazz double bassist and keyboard player. Biography Born a British subject to an Azorean Portuguese woman (Irene da Silva) and a black Bermudian man known only as "Ruby" at the very height of segregation, Silva emigrated to the United States at the age of five with his mother, eventually acquiring U.S. citizenship by the age of 18 or 19. He adopted the professional name Alan Silva in his twenties. He was quoted in a Bermuda newspaper in 1988 as saying that although he left the island at a young age, he always considered himself Bermudian. He grew up in Harlem , New York City , first taking up the trumpet. Silva is known as one of the most inventive bass players in jazz and has performed with many of the great names in the world of avant-garde jazz, including Cecil Taylor , Sun Ra , Albert Ayler , Sunny Murray , and Archie Shepp . Silva performed in 1964's October Revolution in Jazz and for Ayler's Live in Greenwich Village album. He has lived mainly in Paris since the early 1970s, where he formed the Celestial Communication Orchestra, a group dedicated to the performance of free jazz with various instrumental combinations. In the 1990s he picked up the electronic keyboard , declaring that his bass playing no longer surprised him. He has also used the electric violin and electric sarangi on his recordings. Since around 2000 he |
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Factory Made: Warhol and the Sixties $11.75 Factory Made: Warhol and the Sixties is a fascinating look at the avant-garde group that came together—from 1964 to 1968—as Andy Warhol's Silver Factory, a cast that included Lou Reed, Nico, Edie Sedgwick, Gerard Malanga, Paul Morrissey, Joe Dallesandro, Billy Name, Candy Darling, Baby Jane Holzer, Brigid Berlin, Ultra Violet, and Viva. Steven Watson follows their diverse lives from childhood through their Factory years. He shows how this ever-changing mix of artists and poets, musicians and filmmakers, drag queens, society figures, and fashion models, all interacted at the Factory to create more than 500 films, the Velvet Underground, paintings and sculpture, and thousands of photographs. Between 1961 and 1964 Warhol produced his most iconic art: the Flower paintings, the Marilyns, the Campbell's Soup Can paintings, and the Brillo Boxes. But it was his films—Sleep, Kiss, Empire, The Chelsea Girls, and Vinyl—that constituted his most prolific output in the mid-1960s, and with this book Watson points up the important and little-known interaction of the Factory with the New York avant-garde film world. Watson sets his story in the context of the revolutionary milieu of 1960s New York: the opening of Paul Young's Paraphernalia, Truman Capote's Black and White Ball, Max's Kansas City, and the Beautiful People Party at the Factory, among many other events. Interspersed throughout are Watson's trademark sociogram, more than 130 black-and-white photographs—some never before seen—and many sidebars of quotes and slang that help define the Warholian world. With Factory Made, Watson has focused on a moment that transformedthe art and style of a generation. |
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Finding Martha's Vineyard: African Americans at Home on an Island $56.13 In this elegant book of photographs, personal narrative, memories, and fascinating historical detail, bestselling author Jill Nelson conveys the special magic of Martha's Vineyard and the African Americans who have summered or lived there for generations. Jill Nelson has been a summer and occasional year-round resident of Oak Bluffs on Martha's Vineyard for nearly fifty years. It was where she learned to swim and ride a bike, first kissed a boy, became a writer, and, during twenty-eight summers, raised her own daughter. In Finding Martha's Vineyard, Nelson offers a lively, intimate portrait of a place that has provided respite and rejuvenation, community and contemplation for generations of African Americans. Part memoir, part history, Finding Martha's Vineyard describes the various groups that settled on the Vineyard and in Oak Bluffs; slaves and their descendants; devout Methodists and Baptists; African Americans in service who accompanied their white employers to the island and over the years established a haven and a community; the black middle-class families who came each summer to escape the heat, hostility, and racial tension of their hometowns; and generations of African American professionals--doctors, presidential advisors, writers, academics and artists--who visit or live on the Vineyard today. Nelson interviews the Cottagers, the proud owners of Oak Bluffs' famous Gingerbread cottages; members of the Polar Bear Club, a die-hard group that swims together every summer morning at 7:30 A.M.; and such famous residents as Vernon Jordan, Bebe Moore Campbell, and Stephen Carter. Finding Martha's Vineyard is about the power of place in our lives. A rich treasuryof reminiscences, excerpts from news articles and documents from the Martha's Vineyard Historical Society, recipes, and glorious photographs, it brings the sights, sounds, celebrations, and social importance of the island community brilliantly to life. |
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Framing the Black Panthers: The Spectacular Rise of a Black Power Icon $35 A fascinating look at how the Black Panthers became symbols of black militancy in America."They've been calling us niggers, thugs, and hoodlums for 400 years, that ain't gon' hurt me, I'm going to check out what these brothers is doing."—Bobby Seale in 1967The Sixties may be over, but the Black Panthers—the ultimate symbol of black power, radical inspiration, and the excesses of the decade—live on. Books on the Panthers continue to be written, hip-hop artists continue to draw inspiration from them, and so many films are made about the Panthers that there is now an annual Black Panther film festival.In Framing the Black Panthers, cultural historian Jane Rhodes examines the extraordinary staying power of the Panthers in the American imagination by probing their relationship to the media. Rhodes argues that once the media and pop culture latched onto the small, militant group, the Panthers became adept at exploiting and manipulating this coverage—through pamphlets, buttons, posters, ubiquitous press appearances, and photo ops—pioneering a sophisticated version of mass media activism. Paradoxically, the news media participated in the government campaign to eradicate the Panthers while simultaneously elevating them to a celebrity status that remains long after their demise.Lucidly written and featuring many never-before-published photographs, Framing the Black Panthers is a breakthrough reconsideration of a fascinating phenomenon that is sure to receive wide attention. |
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Game Theory(Explicit Version) $15.98 Despite what critics might have said about their two previous efforts, true hip-hop heads know that the Roots never fell off. On their seventh studio album, Philadelphia's favorite sons continue to elevate their signature sound that has for years appealed to rap purists and staggered the more critical listeners who love to lament the lack of musicianship in hip-hop. Fans who were worried about how the crew's style would mesh with the Def Jam formula will be relieved from the gate, as the intro (an eerily ambient reworking of the Jay Dee-produced Fantastic intro) gives way to the upbeat, drum-driven False Media. Equally relieving to longtime Roots fans is the return of Malik B whose aggressive delivery again provides balance to Black Thought's more measured cadence. On the whole, GAME THEORY contains heavier subject matter; the politics of the day pervade virtually every track, while the tone ranges from heated urgency ( Don't Feel Right and In The Music ) to the uplifting and soulful ( Baby and Long Time ) to sad introspection ( Atonement and the bonus track tribute to the late Jay Dee). GAME THEORY is hip-hop with a message and shows us an angrier, more impassioned group of artists eager to tackle the issues confronting their community, yet still doing it with true bounce. Track Listing 1. Dilltastic Vol Won(derful) 2. False Media 3. Game Theory - (with Malik B.) 4. Don't Feel Right - (with Maimouna Youssef) 5. In The Music - (featuring Malik B./Porn) 6. Take It There - (with Wadud Ahmad) 7. Baby - (with John John) 8. Here I Come - (with Dice Raw) 9. Long Time - (featuring Peedi Peedi/Bunny Sigler) 10. Livin' In A New World - (with John John) 11. Clock With No Hands - (with Mercedes Martinez) 12. Atonement - (with Jack Davey) 13. Can't Stop This |
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Geek Mafia: Black Hat Blues $10.77 A gripping story of con artists and activists, this story follows a crew of elite hackers, new recruits, anarchists, and impersonators as they attempt to take down their most challenging target to date—the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Gathered under the cover of HackerCon in Washington DC—a place for security experts, penetration testers, and technology geeks to meet and discuss the latest hacks and exploits—this group of renegades plot their attack on the federal government for its objectionable security practices. Thought provoking and entertaining, this fast-paced adventure is based on years of research in the hacker community, addresses many contemporary social issues, and provides an overview of how hacking really works. |
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Geek Mafia: Black Hat Blues $13.95 A gripping story of con artists and activists, this story follows a crew of elite hackers, new recruits, anarchists, and impersonators as they attempt to take down their most challenging target to date—the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Gathered under the cover of HackerCon in Washington DC—a place for security experts, penetration testers, and technology geeks to meet and discuss the latest hacks and exploits—this group of renegades plot their attack on the federal government for its objectionable security practices. Thought provoking and entertaining, this fast-paced adventure is based on years of research in the hacker community, addresses many contemporary social issues, and provides an overview of how hacking really works. |
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Gon Bops Alex Acuna Signature Cajon $179 This Alex Acuna Signature Cajon features Peruvian Mohena construction with dovetail corners and a lacquer finish. At Alex Acuna's request, a matte-finished face was added. The cajon has a partially adjustable face and rubber feet. The sound is warm with plenty of bass response. This cajon comes with a free bag.Born in Pativilca, Peru, Acuna played in local bands from the age of ten, and moved to Lima as a teenager. At the age of eighteen he joined the band of Perez Prado, and in 1967 he moved to Puerto Rico. In 1974 Acuna moved to Las Vegas, working with artists such as Elvis Presley and Diana Ross, and the following year he joined the jazz-fusion group Weather Report, appearing on the albums Black Market and Heavy Weather. Acuna left Weather Report in 1978, and became a session musician in California, recording and playing live with (amongst many others): Paul McCartney, Joni Mitchell, Ella Fitzgerald, Jim Walker, Chick Corea, Whitney Houston, Pl cido Domingo, Phil Keaggy, Sergeant Petter, Sam Phillips, former Weather Report bandmates Wayne Shorter and Joe Zawinul, Herbie Hancock, Carlos Santana, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Beck, Roberta Flack, U2, and Al Jarreau. Handcrafted in Peru from Peruvian MohenaBeautiful lacquer finish Matte-finish facePartially adjustable faceplateDovetail cornersRubber feetIncludes free carry bag |
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Gon Bops Alex Acuna Signature Special Edition Cajon $239 This Alex Acuna Signature Special Edition Cajon was beautifully handcrafted in Peru from Peruvian Mohena with artisan inlays. Alex's favorite Flamenco model, wires provide the perfect amount of buzz and resonance the cajon is excellent for traditional Flamenco or for modern applications. Cajon comes with a free carrying bag.Born in Pativilca, Peru, Acuna played in local bands from the age of ten, and moved to Lima as a teenager. At the age of eighteen he joined the band of Perez Prado, and in 1967 he moved to Puerto Rico. In 1974 Acuna moved to Las Vegas, working with artists such as Elvis Presley and Diana Ross, and the following year he joined the jazz-fusion group Weather Report, appearing on the albums Black Market and Heavy Weather. Acuna left Weather Report in 1978, and became a session musician in California, recording and playing live with (amongst many others): Paul McCartney, Joni Mitchell, Ella Fitzgerald, Jim Walker, Chick Corea, Whitney Houston, Pl cido Domingo, Phil Keaggy, Sergeant Petter, Sam Phillips, former Weather Report bandmates Wayne Shorter and Joe Zawinul, Herbie Hancock, Carlos Santana, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Beck, Roberta Flack, U2, and Al Jarreau. Handcrafted in Peru from Peruvian Mohena with artisan inlaysWires provide the perfect amount of buzz and resonancefor traditional FlamencoAdjustable faceplateDovetail cornersRubber feetIncludes free carry bag |
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Great Portrait Drawings and Prints $235.84 One hundred and one stunning portraits, 16 in color, by a select group of world-famous artists. Color portraits include Rubens'' Young Woman with Crossed Hands, Rossetti''s Aurea Catena (Portrait of Mrs. Morris), and Renoir''s Portrait of Cezanne. Black-and-white plates include works by Matisse, Bellini, Delacroix, van Gogh, Schiele, Degas, and others. |
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Handmade Soapstone African Map Keepsake Box (Kenya) $30.99 This handmade keepsake is perfect for jewelry or other personal treasures. Each stone is carved down into this beautiful smooth box and painted by hand. Product Features Story Behind the Art SMOLArt is a group of artists who live in the rural village of Tabaka, Kenya. Soapstone is mined from great pits in the area surrounding Kiisi, Kenya. The mined stone is then delivered to carvers who carve sculptures from the natural stone the color of which ranges from cream to pink to brown to yellow to black with a marbling in each of them. Once carved, the craftspeople smooth rough edges with sandpaper dipped in water and polish the piece to a high gloss or paint African motifs in brilliant colors with etched accents. All of the products are completely handmade. The tools consist of household items, such as screwdrivers, hand drills and switchblades. What is Worldstock? The handcrafted touch of artisan skill creates variations in color, size and design. If buying two of the same item, slight differences should be expected. Note: Color discrepancies may occur between this product and your computer screen. Imported Ships Carbon Neutral* |
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Industrial Metal $20.12 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Industrial metal is a heavy metal musical genre that draws from industrial music and many different types of heavy metal, using repeating metal guitar riffs, sampling, synthesizer or sequencer lines, and distorted vocals. Important industrial metal acts include Rammstein, Ministry, Godflesh, KMFDM, and Marilyn Manson. The "one-man-band" Nine Inch Nails helped it gain a mass audience. Industrial metal's popularity led to some criticism from other artists associated with the industrial scene. Subsequently, it is most well-known in various European permutations. Industrial metal groups have produced many acclaimed music videos. Sascha Konietzko in concert, 2005Though electric guitars had been used by industrial artists since the early days of the genre, archetypal industrial groups such as Throbbing Gristle displayed a strong anti-rock stance. British post-punk band Killing Joke pioneered the crossing over between styles, and was an influence on major industrial metal bands such as Ministry, Godflesh, Malhavoc, Skinny Puppy and Nine Inch Nails. Another pioneer industrial rock group, Big Black, also impacted some later groups. The early works of the No Wave band Swans, with their visceral, minimalist instrumentation and dark, often violent lyrics, would also prove influential in industrial metal. By the late 1980s industrial and heavy metal began to fuse into a common genre, with Godflesh's self-titled EP and Ministry's The Land of Rape and Honey at the forefront. Godflesh was founded by former Napalm Death guitarist Justin Broadrick. Drawing from a wide array of influences power electronics forefathers Whitehouse, noise rock band Swans, ambient music creator Brian Eno and fellow Birmingham hard rockers Black Sabbaththe Godflesh sound was once de... More: |
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Jazz in Black and White $78.44 Is jazz a universal idiom or is it an African-American art form? Although whites have been playing jazz almost since it first developed, the history of jazz has been forged by a series of African-American artists whose styles caught the interest of their musical generation--masters such as Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, John Coltrane, and Charlie Parker. Whether or not white musicians deserve their secondary status in jazz history, one thing is clear: developments in jazz have been a result of black people's search for a meaningful identity as Americans and members of the African diaspora. Blacks are not alone in being deeply affected by these shifts in African-American racial attitudes and cultural strategies. Historically in closer contact with blacks than nearly any other group of white Americans, white jazz musicians have also felt these shifts. More importantly, their careers and musical interests have been deeply affected by them. The author, an active participant in the jazz world as composer, performer, and author of several books on jazz and Latin music, hopes that this book will encourage jazz lovers to take a rhetoric-free look at the charged issue of race as has affected the world of jazz. A work about the formulation of identity in the face of racial difference, the book considers topics such as the promotion of black Southern culture and inner-city styles like rhythm and blues and rap as a means of achieving black racial solidarity. It discusses the body of music fostered by an identification to Africa, the conversion of black jazz musicians to Islam and other Eastern religions, and the impact of a jazz community united by heroin use. White jazz musicians who identifywith black culture in an unsettling form by speaking black dialect and calling themselves African-American is examined, as is the assimilation of jazz into the wider American culture. |
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Laish $23.95 A caravan of Jews wanders through Eastern Europe at the end of the nineteenth century on a heartbreaking quest. Spiritual seekers and the elderly, widows and orphans, the sick and the dying, con artists and adventurers, victims of pogroms who have no place else to go–they are all on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, but the journey is filled with unexpected detours and unanticipated disaster.Among them is Laish, a fifteen-year-old orphan, through whose eyes we observe the interactions within this ragtag group of dreamers, holy men, misfits, and thieves as they battle with one another, try to stay one step ahead of the gendarmes, and do what little they can to keep up their flagging spirits. With the death of the rabbi who brought the group together, they are now led by men whom Laish refers to as “the dealers”–black-market traders whose motives are questionable but who periodically infuse the group with the money they need to get to the next town.Years pass, tempers start to fray, and the caravan grows smaller as people die or abandon the venture. A brutal winter and typhoid epidemic further decimate the ranks, and the pilgrims have begun to reach the limits of their endurance. The dream of Jerusalem keeps the remnant going, and against all odds they finally arrive–emotionally and physically exhausted–at the port city of Galacz. They see their ship in the harbor, but whether they will actually make it onto that ship is suddenly and tragically thrown into doubt.This magnificent new novel from Aharon Appelfeld (“One of the greatest writers of the age” —The Guardian) resonates with a universality of experience: the will to survive, the struggle to hold on to hope. |
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Life and Art of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner $17.92 In The Life And Art Of Ernest Ludwig Kirchner, director Michael Trabitzsch boldly braids together the disparate strands of the Austrian Expressionist's life and work--combining color with black and white photography, third person narration with first person confessions from Kirchner's own notebooks, and an angular jazz score with the melodies of Kirchner's day. We claim as our own everyone who reproduces directly and without falsification whatever it is that drives him to create. These words, carved into wood and hung in 1904 at the butcher shop group studio of Die Brucke ( the bridge ) by their author, Kirchner, were a credo that drove the artist and his work well beyond the life of the famed Dresden art collective. Though the thousands of drawings, woodblock prints, lithographs and paintings Kirchner created between the turn of the century and his suicide in 1938, branded a degenerate artist by the Nazis, Kirchner's volcanic life and turbulent times were, in the words of critic Wolf-Dieter Dube, made visible in his pictures, where it survives to astonish and disturb posterity. From artistic adolescence with Die Brucke in provincial Dresden, through sojourns in the Austrian and Swiss countryside, to obsession and self-destruction in Berlin, Kirchner's life and art define the cultural give-and-take between romance, reform and revolution that transformed Europe at the beginning of the last century. Of a generation of artists like Paul Klee, Kandinsky, and even Matisse, who walked a tight-rope stretched between the traditions of the 19th century and the experimentation of the 20th, Kirchner became, as critic Dube says, the first to express the experience of a large modern city. In pictures that look like engravings painted in oils, he invented a coloring without precedent in the history of art. |
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Ludwig P4 Practice Pad $41.99 This Ludwig P4 Practice Pad was designed by world-renowned drummer Pat Petrillo and features three different playing levels and four different playing surfaces that provide a variety of feels, sounds, and responses. This unique and versatile design will improve a drummer's overall hand technique, accuracy, and coordination by providing multiple playing surfaces on the same side of the drum pad.The Ludwig P4 practice drum pad fits neatly on top of your snare drum, table top, or into any snare-stand basket. It also has an 8mm thread, so it can be attached to a cymbal stand. Each pad has a unique sound and feel, corresponding to the playing characteristics of different drums and cymbals. Pat Petrillo has been successfully using the P4 for practice and teaching at Drummers Collective in New York, and now everyone has the opportunity to experience the feel and dexterity development that the Ludwig P4 drum pad can offer. The large black pad that comprises the bottom level has the feel of a snare-style practice pad and the blue surface on the left side of the second level feels more like a hi-hat. The right side of the second level is soft like a floor tom and the upper tier resembles the feel of a ride. I wanted to replicate the feel of moving around the drum set when I practice on a pad, says drummer Pat Petrillo. The P4 allows me to really work on independence techniques. Pat is recognized as one of today's most accomplished and versatile drummers, having performed and recorded with a wide variety of artists from many genres of music including Gloria Gaynor, Patti LaBelle, Dee -Lite, Patti Smythe, and Glen Burtnik, as well jazz guitarist Ed Hamilton, and most recently the world music group Oko Jumu.Designed by Pat PetrilloThree-tier designFour distinctly different playing surfaces in terms of both sound and feelUse to improve overall hand technique, accuracy, and coordinationFits neatly on top of your snare drum, table top, or into any snare stand basketC |
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Mods, Rockers, and the Music of the British Invasion $49.95 Musical floodgates were opened after the Beatles' first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show on February 9, 1964. Suddenly, the U.S. record charts, radio, and television were overrun with British rock and pop musicians. Although this British Invasion was the first exposure many Americans had to popular music from the United Kingdom, British pop — and more specifically British rock and roll — had been developing since the middle of the 1950s. Author James Perone here chronicles the development of British rock, from the 1950s imitators of Elvis Presley and other American rockabilly artists, to the new blends of rockabilly, R&B, Motown, and electric blues that defined the British Invasion as we recognize it today. Die-hard fans of the Beatles, the Who, and the Kinks will all want a copy, as will anyone interested in the 1960s more generally.May 1964 saw major gang-style battles break out in British resort communities between the Mods and the Rockers. The tensions between the two groups had been developing for several years, with each group claiming their own sense of culture and style. The Mods wore designer clothing, rode Vespa motor scooters, and shared an affinity for black American soul music, while the Rockers favored powerful motorcycles, greased-back hair, and 1950s American rock and roll. It was within this context that the sounds of the British Invasion developed.Mods, Rockers, and the Music of the British Invasion chronicles the development of British rock through the iconic artists who inspired the movement, as well as through the bands who later found incredible success overseas. In addition to analyzing the music in the context of the British youth culture of the early 1960s, Perone analyzes the reasons that the British bands came to so thoroughly dominate the record charts and airwaves in the United States.The contributions of Cliff Richard, Billy Fury, Johnny Kidd and the Pirates, Tommy Steele, the Tornados, Tony |
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New Day in Babylon $29.02 With a gift for storytelling and an ear for street talk, William Van Deburg has written the most comprehensive account available of the rise and fall of the Black Power movement - and of its dramatic transformation of both African-American and the larger American culture. New Day in Babylon chronicles a decade of deep change, from the armed struggles of the Black Panther Party and the separatism of the Nation of Islam to the cultural nationalism of artists and writers creating a new black aesthetic. If its tactical gains were sometimes short-lived, the Black Power movement did succeed in making a revolution - one in culture and consciousness that has changed the context of race in America. Drawing on a remarkable range of cultural expressions, from the voice of Malcolm X to the music of James Brown, from urban folklore, the visual arts, and religion to the language of soul, Van Deburg extracts the enduring cultural and psychological themes that ran through the ideologies of Black Power politics. For Van Deburg, Black Power was, underneath it all, a revolt rooted in culture - both high and low - as artists, writers, performers, politicians, and ordinary people alike begin to assert a distinctive African-American worldview and way of being. His book is a finely textured rendering of the years when the rhetoric of the gun gave way to an explosion of cultural forms that, in celebrating the uniqueness of African-American life, carried forward the militant philosophy of resistance, pride, and self-esteem. Like activists in the sixties and seventies, African-Americans today mobilize a rich variety of cultural resources in the struggle for group identity and racial justice. Whether in the filmsof Spike Lee or other new black directors, in rap music, or in experiments in Afrocentric education, African-Americans continue to reshape the contours of American values, ideals, and attitudes. This is the real legacy of the Black Power movement. And it has never been demonstrated mo |
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New Day in Babylon: The Black Power Movement and American Culture, 1965-1975 $27.5 The most comprehensive account available of the rise and fall of the Black Power Movement and of its dramatic transformation of both African-American and larger American culture. With a gift for storytelling and an ear for street talk, William Van Deburg chronicles a decade of deep change, from the armed struggles of the Black Panther party to the cultural nationalism of artists and writers creating a new aesthetic. Van Deburg contends that although its tactical gains were sometimes short-lived, the Black Power movement did succeed in making a revolution—one in culture and consciousness—that has changed the context of race in America."New Day in Babylon is an extremely intelligent synthesis, a densely textured evocation of one of American history's most revolutionary transformations in ethnic group consciousness."—Bob Blauner, New York TimesWinner of the Gustavus Myers Center Outstanding Book Award, 1993 |
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New Essays on Their Eyes Were Watching God $27 "The American Novel" series provides students of American literature with introductory critical guides to the great works of American fiction. Each volume begins with a substantial introduction by a distinguished authority on the text, giving details of the novel's composition, publication history, and contemporary reception, as well as a survey of the major critical trends and readings from first publication to the present. This overview is followed by a group of new essays, each specially commissioned from a leading scholar in the field, which together constitute a forum of interpretive methods and prominent contemporary ideas on the text. There are also helpful guides to further reading. Specifically designed for undergraduates, the series will be a powerful resource for anyone engaged in the critical analysis of major American novels. After years of neglect, Zora Neale Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God" has now achieved a position of prominence in the American literary canon. In the introduction to this volume Michael Awkward provides an overview of the critical reception of Hurston's novel from the largely dismissive reviews that accompanied its publication in 1937, to factors that helped revive interest in Hurston in the late 1960s, to the recent recognition of "Their Eyes Were Watching God" as an important American novel. The other essays in the volume discuss Hurston's sophisticated use of black folklore, the autobiographical resonances in the novel, Hurston's definition of the relationship between black artists and the Afro-American masses, and the usefulness of feminist modes of inquiry. The collection offers suggestive means by which to approach Hurson's compelling exploration of a black woman's extended search for self and community. |
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Ninja Tune: 20 Years of Beats & Pieces $19.1 Ninja Tune have been dedicated to publishing inspiring electronic music for the past two decades. Celebrating their twentieth anniversary in 2010, the label was established by two friends who wanted a new label for their venture Coldcut. Matt Black and Jonathan More conceived a label that was unfettered by restraints upon its artists’ work, offering a vibrant and diverse array of inspired minds a broad canvas upon which to paint their masterpieces.The label’s discography encompasses a wide range of contemporary music; The Cinematic Orchestra; Roots Manuva; Mr Scruff; Steinski; Amon; Kid Koala; The Herbaliser- and these are just some of the classics. The label also hosts the likes of Daedelus, Thunderheist and Cougar amongst many other outfits who are currently touring the independent music scene. The book tells the story of the record label, the artists themselves, their art and the ways in which their influence was and is felt in the larger culture. It’s a tale that begins with Black & More touring Japan with Coldcut 20 years ago, and tiring of how the staid, uncomprehending music industry was manipulating the group. The book traces the development of Ninja Tune’s offshoot labels, Ntone (who gave us releases by Hexstatic, Cabbageboy and Neotropic); Hip-Hop imprint Big Dada (home to Roots Manuva, Spank Rock, Ty, Diplo and Infinite Livez); and Counter Records (Pop Levi, The Deathset, The Heavy). The book tells the story of the growth of the label, including setting up a satellite office in Canada, where Ninja Tune’s music developed such a loyal following that every Ninja artist’s show there is attended by one uber-fan who turns up in a foam costume, passing himself off as a Ninja Robot Sentinel. An important element to the label is the design of the covers and branding of the company. Ninja Tune’s logo is a woodcut originally designed by cult New York artist Michael Bartalos and label art honcho Mark Porter, |
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Now Dig This! $60 The pioneering work of a group of black artists is documented in this companion volume to a groundbreaking exhibition. |
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Organizations Established In 1968 $19.99 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Special Olympics, North American Soccer League, World Championship Tennis, American Indian Movement, American Speed Association, Frontlash, International of Anarchist Federations, Alliance for Labor Action, Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization, Thames Valley Police, White Panther Party, Club of Rome, All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling, National Deviancy Symposium, World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association, Computer Arts Society, National Institute of Statistics and Census of Argentina, Baseball Nt, Oregon Environmental Council, Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights, Institute of Food Research, Gamaliel Foundation, Assembly of First Nations, Association of Black Psychologists, Rhetoric Society of America, the British Museum Friends, Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement, International Financial Services London, Franciscan Center of Baltimore, the Feminists, Australian Foundation for the Peoples of Asia and the Pacific, Cell 16, Minicomic Co-Ops, Action for Children's Television, Guttmacher Institute, Women's International Terrorist Conspiracy From Hell, Eah Housing, National Center of Afro-American Artists, Faith and Light, Center for Community Change, Anesvad Foundation, Hegel Society of America, Nauru Broadcasting Service, Cybernetics Society, Cfbt Education Trust, Industrial Development Corporation of Norway, Animal Protection Institute, Outside In, Snocountry, Black Artists Group, Italian Centre for Aid to Children, Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life, John Von Neumann Computer Society, Black Cultural Association, Mu Sigma Rho, National Mexican-American Anti-Defamation Committee, Norsar, United States Canoe Association, United States Specialty Sports Association, International Council for Information Technology in Government |
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Organizations for Women Writers: Blue Stockings Society, Friends of Lulu, Women Writers Conference $9.16 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Blue Stockings Society, Friends of Lulu, Women Writers Conference, Philippine American Women Writers and Artists, Broad Universe, John Strange Winter, Women Writers Project, International Women's Writing Guild, Sisters in Crime, List of Organizations for Women Writers, Women Writers' Suffrage League. Excerpt: The Blue Stockings Society was an informal women's social and educational movement in England in the mid-18th century. The society emphasized education and mutual co-operation rather than the individualism which marked the French version. The Society was founded in the early 1750s by Elizabeth Montagu , Elizabeth Vesey and others as a women's literary discussion group, a revolutionary step away from traditional, non-intellectual, women's activities. They invited various people to attend, including botanist, translator and publisher Benjamin Stillingfleet. One story tells that Stillingfleet was not rich enough to have the proper formal dress, which included black silk stockings, so he attended in everyday blue worsted stockings. The term came to refer to the informal quality of the gatherings and the emphasis on conversation over fashion. The Blue Stockings Society of England emerged in the middle of the eighteenth century, around the year 1750, and waned in popularity at the end of the eighteenth century. It was a loose organization of privileged women with an interest in education to gather together to discuss literature while inviting educated men to participate. The Blue Stockings Society leaders and hostesses were Elizabeth Montagu and Elizabeth Vesey. The women involved in this group generally had more education and fewer children than most English women of the time. During this time period only men attended universities and wome... More: |
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Other People's Property: A Shadow History of Hip-Hop in White America $16 Over the last quarter-century hip-hop has grown from an esoteric form of African-American expression to become the dominant form of American popular culture. Today, Snoop Dogg shills for Chrysler and white kids wear Fubu, the black-owned label whose name stands for "For Us, By Us." This is not the first time that black music has been appreciated, adopted, and adapted by white audiences—think jazz, blues, and rock—but Jason Tanz, a white boy who grew up in the suburban Northwest, says that hip-hop's journey through white America provides a unique window to examine the racial dissonance that has become a fact of our national life. In such culture-sharing Tanz sees white Americans struggling with their identity, and wrestling (often unsuccessfully) with the legacy of race. To support his anecdotally driven history of hip-hop's cross-over to white America, Tanz conducts dozens of interviews with fans, artists, producers, and promoters, including some of hip-hop's most legendary figures—such as Public Enemy's Chuck D; white rapper MC Serch; and former Yo! MTV Raps host Fab 5 Freddy. He travels across the country, visiting "nerdcore" rappers in Seattle, who rhyme about Star Wars conventions; a group of would-be gangstas in a suburb so insulated it's called "the bubble"; a break-dancing class at the upper-crusty New Canaan Tap Academy; and many more. Drawing on the author's personal experience as a white fan as well as his in-depth knowledge of hip-hop's history, Other People's Property provides a hard-edged, thought-provoking, and humorous snapshot of the particularly American intersection of race, commerce, culture, and identity. |
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Patti Smith $63.44 Frank always shot your internal life. He let your external imperfections show. His photos had a purity and poetry; there was some humor... - Bruce Springsteen Patti Smith was a favorite photographic subject for Frank Stefanko during his college years. Patti had jet-black hair and pale blue eyes that could see right through you. When I visited New York, I started photographing Patti, I was captivated by her look...tall, thin, with porcelain skin, sharp features, and those piercing eyes. With me, in terms of portraits, it's always the eyes first, then the rest of the face comes into view. Patti Smith came to prominence during the punk rock movement in the 1970s, with her highly regarded 1975 debut album, Horses. She has been called punk rock's poet laureate because of her feminist sensibilities and intellectual approach to her music. As a result, she is one of rock and roll's most influential female musicians, and according to Rolling Stone, one of The 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. Among some of Patti Smith's early influences were Robert Mapplethorpe, Jim Carroll and Tom Verlaine. She spent the early 1970s painting, writing, and performing spoken-word poetry- frequently at the St. Marks Poetry Project. By 1974, she was performing as a musician, initially with guitarist and rock archivist Lenny Kaye. The Patti Smith Group produced four albums in the 1970s, reaching #13 on Billboard' s Top 100 in 1978 with the single Because The Night, co-written with her friend Bruce Springsteen. |
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