The Big Book of Biker Flicks: 40 of the Best Motorcycle Movies of All Tiime

The Big Book of Biker Flicks: 40 of the Best Motorcycle Movies of All Tiime Review

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The Big Book of Biker Flicks celebrates the movies that saluted bikers and their legendary lifestyles. Packed with behind-the-scenes details, pressbook tidbits, and full-color photos, it has all the hot, steamy fun of an old-fashioned movie without the horn-honking and mosquitoes! Motorcycles and movies are the perfect combination of wild, wicked pleasures.

All Music Guide to the Blues: The Experts' Guide to the Best Blues Recordings (2nd Ed)

All Music Guide to the Blues: The Experts' Guide to the Best Blues Recordings (2nd Ed) Review

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A collection of biographies, discographies, reviews, ratings, essays and charts to help blues and gospel fans explore recordings. It identifies more than 3500 CDs, albums and tapes in key blues styles, and features personal profiles of more than 700 musicians and singers.

All Music Guide to Soul: The Definitive Guide to R&B and Soul

All Music Guide to Soul: The Definitive Guide to R&B and Soul Review

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This comprehensive guide is a must-have for the legions of fans of the perennially popular music known as rhythm and blues. The latest in the definitive All Music Guide series, All Music Guide to Soul offers entertaining and informative reviews that lead readers to the best recordings by their favorite artists and help them find new music to explore. Informative biographies, essays, and "music maps" trace soul's growth from its roots in blues and gospel and its flowering in Memphis and Motown to its many branches today. Complete discographies note bootlegs, important out-of-print albums, and import-only releases.

The Everything Rock Drums: From Basic Rock Beats and Syncopation to Fills and Drum Solos - All You Need to Perform Like a Pro (Book & CD-ROM)

The Everything Rock Drums: From Basic Rock Beats and Syncopation to Fills and Drum Solos - All You Need to Perform Like a Pro (Book & CD-ROM) Review

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This title is a straightforward, step-by-step interactive book and CD package. Drummers will find everything they need to know about rock drumming - including beats, licks, fills, solos, and the artists behind the music. Complete with an introduction to rock history spanning 1950 to the present, this book includes profiles of drum innovators, along with musical simulations of their individual styles. This easy-to-use guide also includes professional tips on, reading music, stick control, buying the right equipment, playing professional-sounding grooves, getting (and keeping) gigs, and more. With interactive exercises, professional audio examples, and practice charts, drummer Eric Starr provides a complete master drumming class that will have readers playing like rock stars in no time!

Big and Rich: All Access (Book & DVD)

Big and Rich: All Access (Book & DVD) Review

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The fully authorized, uninhibited, all-access, entirely true story of how Big & Rich are taking over country music. Big & Rich have taken country music by storm since their 2004 debut album A Horse of a
Different Color, and they've done it on their own terms. Their unique, eclectic music style,
a blend of popular country with rock and hip-hop, challenges country music tradition.
Co-founders of the MuzikMafi a, they have launched not only their own careers, but
those of groundbreaking artists such as "Redneck Woman" Gretchen Wilson and Cowboy
Troy, the first African-American country rap artist. In a style as creative and irreverent
as their music, this official book will give fans a backstage pass to Big & Rich, from
the duo's early days in a Nashville dive to their controversial movement for a new sound
in country music.

The Big Parade and American World War I Film Genre

The Big Parade and American World War I Film Genre Review

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A brief look at the historical evidence contained in commercial films, such as King Vidor’s The Big Parade, during the period 1917-1930. Commercial films are cultural artifacts that tell us much about the attitudes of people during the period in which they were made. This will give you a whole new way of looking at movies.

All Music Guide to Classical Music: The Definitive Guide to Classical Music (All Music Guide Required Listening)

All Music Guide to Classical Music: The Definitive Guide to Classical Music (All Music Guide Required Listening) Review

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This is the definitive source for composers, compositions, and genres. The book contains over 500 composer and 800 performer biographies. Each artist entry includes vital statistics and album recommendations. The book covers thousands of compositions, including operas, symphonies, concertos, and ballets, and it includes 23 essays devoted to classical music's major eras, forms, and genres. Choral works, songs, keyboard works, chamber music, and film scores receive dedicated sections. Includes 4,000 descriptions of composers' works and 12,000 recordings recommended by All Music Guide editors.

All about the Beat: Why Hip-Hop Can't Save Black America

All about the Beat: Why Hip-Hop Can't Save Black America Review

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The bestselling commentator, hailed for his frank and fearless arguments on race, imparts a scathing look at the hypocrisy of hip-hop—and why its popularity proves that black America must overhaul its politics.

One of the most outspoken voices in America’s cultural dialogues, John McWhorter can always be counted on to provide provocative viewpoints steeped in scholarly savvy. Now he turns his formidable intellect to the topic of hip-hop music and culture, smashing the claims that hip-hop is politically valuable because it delivers the only “real” portrayal of black society.

In this measured, impassioned work, McWhorter delves into the rhythms of hip-hop, analyzing its content and celebrating its artistry and craftsmanship. But at the same time he points out that hip-hop is, at its core, simply music, and takes issue with those who celebrate hip-hop as the beginning of a new civil rights program and inflate the lyrics with a kind of radical chic. In a power vacuum, this often offensive and destructive music has become a leading voice of black America, and McWhorter stridently calls for a renewed sense of purpose and pride in black communities.

Joining the ranks of Russell Simmons and others who have called for a deeper investigation of hip-hop’s role in black culture, McWhorter’s All About the Beat is a spectacular polemic that takes the debate in a seismically new direction.

The Readers' Advisory Guide to Genre Fiction (ALA Readers' Advisory)

The Readers' Advisory Guide to Genre Fiction (ALA Readers' Advisory) Review

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This revised edition provides a way of understanding the vast universe of genre fiction in an easy-to-use format. Expert readers' advisor Joyce Saricks offers groundbreaking reconsideration of the connections among genres, providing: key authors and themes within 15 genres; an explanation as to how the different genres overlap; and, the elements of fiction most likely to entice readers. Provocative and spirited, "The Readers' Advisory Guide to Genre Fiction, 2nd Edition" offers hands-on strategies for librarians who want to become experts at figuring out what their readers are seeking and how to match books with those interests.