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Can't get enough of The Golden Girls? It's been 38 years since the show first aired and became an instant cult classic. Viewers quickly became enamored with the extraordinary cast of female characters.A Tribute to The Golden Girls: From Sharing Cheesecake to Relaxing on the Lanai is everything you need to know about Dorothy, Sophia, Blanche and Rose through trivia questions, fun facts, memorable quotes and a must-have list of collectibles for the...
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Eye of the Taika: New Zealand Comedy and the Films of Taika Waititi is the first book-length study of comic film director and media celebrity Taika Waititi. Author Matthew Bannister analyses Waititi's feature films and places his other works and performances-short films, TV series, advertisements, music videos, and media appearances-in the fabric of popular culture. The book's thesis is that Waititi's playful comic style draws on an ironic reading...
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Every fan of the Universal Horror films of the 1930s knows that James Whale directed four of the best of those films: Frankenstein (1931), The Old Dark House (1932), The Invisible Man (1933), and Bride of Frankenstein (1935). But do they know he served as a Second Lieutenant in the British Army on the Western Front in the First World War, going to France in July 1916 and serving in the trenches? Do they know the details of his service? Do they know...
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CAN YOU DIG IT
Walter Hill's The Warriors was not just a motion picture-it was a social phenomenon on every level.
The tale of a Coney Island street gang who, framed for murder, have to make the perilous journey back to home turf across the terrain of rival crews out for revenge, it caused a sensation when it hit the theaters in early 1979. Despite a low budget, an absence of marquee names, and minimal promotion, it proceeded to lead the box office,...
5) Crap Lyrics
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Even the greatest songwriters (and Spandau Ballet) have had the odd bad day at the office. Or more likely, a bad few minutes in the studio toilets scribbling the first words they can think of on the back of their tranquiliser prescription shortly before the vocal has to be recorded. Johnny Sharp has trawled half a century of lyrics to find the funniest examples of crippled couplets, outrageous innuendo, mixed metaphors, shameless self-delusion, nefarious...
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Get the Summary of Warren Zanes's Petty in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Petty" by Warren Zanes is a comprehensive biography of Tom Petty, detailing his life from his family's struggles with their Cherokee heritage to his rise as a rock and roll icon. The book explores Petty's early life in Gainesville, Florida, where he was influenced by the tensions in his household and the burgeoning local music scene. Petty's...
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This is a fantasy story of a magic piano that chooses individuals who excel in music but who may not have any talents in playing the piano. It is ideal for young adults who are fifteen years old and older. Older and elderly adults will also enjoy these stories. The piano chooses individuals who have the capacity to assist other people to excel in their lives. Adventure, love, action, and comedy are interpreted throughout the stories. The stories are...
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¿Qué genera que miles de jóvenes peruanos sean fieles consumidores de películas de la India y de telenovelas coreanas?
¿Qué tipo de discursos sociales son producidos por estos referentes y cómo se puede explicar su resonancia en los jóvenes del Perú?
Estas son algunas preguntas que guiaron las inquietudes de Felix Lossio Chávez y María del Carmen Vargas Negrete, autores de esta publicación, y conllevaron a la investigación de los espacios...
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With A Haven For Songs: Connecting The Dots About Americana Music, selected works of novelist, lyricist and music critic Martin Wimmer are available in the USA for the first time.
Martin Wimmer explains his personal relationship with the art of magicians such as Townes Van Zandt, Jerry Jeff Walker, Blaze Foley, Woody Guthrie, John Prine, Bob Dylan, and Johnny Mercer. These artists, among many others mentioned in the book, are the glue that holds...
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-Descubra la música que se atrevió a ser diferente, que puso reputaciones y carreras en peligro, que provocó fascinación e interés en unos, y rechazo y menosprecio en otros. Eso es lo que ocurre cuando se rompe con la tradición.
-Un repaso a las historias de 50 álbumes, canciones y actuaciones que hicieron tambalear el mundo de la música contemporánea, con fascinantes relatos sobre su creación, su recepción y su legado.
-De George Gershwin...
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"Este libro nace de las preguntas que me he hecho a lo largo de varias décadas de actividad profesional como improvisador musical. Nace, pues, de la praxis y de las ideas que genera un contacto diario con esta forma de hacer música. Son estas preguntas las que explican la presencia de todo lo demás ... A menudo, cuando nos interesa algo, lo más difícil no es encontrar respuestas sino aclarar qué es, exactamente, lo que estamos preguntando"....
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Funk: It's the only musical genre ever to have transformed the nation into a throbbing army of bell-bottomed, hoop-earringed, rainbow-Afro'd warriors on the dance floor. Its rhythms and lyrics turned bleak urban realties inside out with distinctive, danceable, downright irresistible music.
Funk hasn't received the critical attention that rock, jazz, and the blues have-until now. Colorful, intelligent, and in-you-face, Rickey Vincent's Funk celebrates...
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Las alianzas musicales entre Chile y México tienen una larga trayectoria. Fue esta valiosa correspondencia la que motivó la creación de Canciones de lejos. Complicidades musicales entre Chile y México. En este libro se describe el intercambio de música tradicional como las cuecas chilenas y las rancheras mexicanas, hasta los géneros contemporáneos interpretados por representantes de estos países del norte y el sur de América. Las historias...
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The official tie-in book for Downton Abbey, the full-length feature film.
Downton Abbey: The Official Film Companion is a stunning memento, bringing the world and the characters of our favorite fictional country house to life. Featuring spectacular photographs from the production, interviews with the cast and crew, and a look into the historical and geographical backdrop of the film, this official guide to the Downton Abbey film is made to be treasured...
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What's a Guyver? What's a Zoanoid? And what is a crew of young, relatively new filmmakers to do with a niche licensed property from Japan? For the first time, author Dom O'Brien delves deep into the Guyver film archives to get detailed insights from the talented cast and crew and explore what it took to make The Guyver and Guyver: Dark Hero.It is a tale about a ragtag group of friends and filmmakers who, through creative experimentation, ingenuity,...
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By the early nineties, singer-songwriter and former Blake Babies member Juliana Hatfield's solo career was taking off: She was on the cover of Spin and Sassy. Ben Stiller directed the video for her song "Spin the Bottle" from the Reality Bites film soundtrack. Then, after canceling a European tour to treat severe depression and failing to produce another "hit," she spent a decade releasing well reviewed albums on indie labels and performing in ever-smaller...
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THE SHARK IS ROARING:THE STORY OF JAWS: THE REVENGE
Jaws the Revenge is known as the film that killed off the Jaws franchise. But after 35 years, what is the legacy of this much-maligned aquatic horror?
The Shark Is Roaring: The Story of Jaws: The Revenge will tell you all you need to know about the genesis of the film, its 9-month journey from script to screen, interviews with cast and crew who were there plus the notorious novelisation and video...
18) Music Production
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What Makes A Song Great?
It's a big question, and one that has been written about endlessly in an attempt to reveal the "formula" for creating a worldwide, smash hit record.
First of all a good song speaks to you. You remember it, even if it's just one really good line... It fills you with emotions, whether those be sad or happy ones.
Then there is something else...it's the way the music was produced and its techniques which hook you in and enhance...
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Nuevas historias apasionantes sobre el mundo del rock y sus protagonistas
Leyendas, conspiraciones y falsos mitos
La historia del rock nos ha regalado momentos prodigiosos, canciones inolvidables y conciertos memorables. También a personajes singulares que gravitan sobre este circo y que son, en ocasiones, tristes protagonistas de historias que no han acabado bien. Sin esas leyendas, sin esas historias, sin los falsos mitos ni las medias verdades...
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