The Arts

Countless great songs are based on riffs-catchy guitar phrases that repeat until they're seared into your brain forever-or snappy chord sequences as memorable as any melody.

Originally performed by its creators, this 1987 Edinburgh Fringe hit remains the second longest-running West End comedy in history and has been translated into over thirty languages.

Acquired wisdom has always put Sgt.

Potent and empowering voice exercises by the master teachers who devised them!

Theological Discourses on Social Media will examine ten different social media platforms across three overarching parts.

Theological Discourses on Social Media will examine ten different social media platforms across three overarching parts.

Don't Sweat the Technique equips aspiring performers, musical artists, singers, and hobbyists with the tools and knowledge needed to become a better rapper.

We derive a great deal of cognitive pleasure from asking what artworks mean.

We derive a great deal of cognitive pleasure from asking what artworks mean.

NFTs, non-fungible tokens, as collectible, digital, blockchain-secured files became an international sensation in 2020, with the trend in trading them peaking in the fall of 2021.

This accessible, foundational volume explores how modern art developed around the world by comparing contexts and artistic production in Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Africa from the 1850s through the 1960s.

Golden Years of the National Symphony Orchestra: Stories and Photographs of Musicians and Maestros presents a rich and intimate perspective of the orchestra as it evolved in prominence and international expanse throughout the past nine decades.

Dieses Handbuch ist entstanden aus der langjährigen Zusammenarbeit mit der Kursleitung, Autoren und ehemaligen Entwicklungshelfern der Kurse "Medizin in Entwicklungsländern".

The 50 key modes, garments, and designers, each explained in half a minute!

30-Second Rock Music starts with 1950s rock'n'roll (and its roots) and exploresblues and folk, progressive and heavy metal, punk, indie and alt rock,profiling extraordinary bands and musicians along the way.

Das Buch ermöglicht Designern, Projektleitern und Informatikern die interaktiven Eigenschaften und das Interface analoger und digitaler Produkte besser zu analysieren und strategisch zu planen.

Are you an art-movie buff or a blockbuster enthusiast?

Do you know a capella from zarzuela, or your major from your minor?

The bestselling 30-Second series takes a revolutionary approach to learning about those subjects you feel you should really understand.

The 50 most significant principles and styles in architecture, each explained in half a minute.

For its initiates, jazz is instinctive and engaging the way that popular music should be.

The first half of the 1970s was an especially fertile period for British progressive rock, laying claim to classics such as Tarkus, Selling England by the Pound, Larks' Tongues in Aspic, The Dark Side of the Moon, and Thick as a Brick.

An entertaining and engrossing collection of British customs, superstitions and legends from past and present.

The great painting and sculpture of the past is the indispensable backbone ofmost people's visual library, but wrangling centuries of wonderful works bythousands of artists into a digestible form that allows you tofocus ontheir detail and direction can be tough.

This innovative and timely collection offers a wide-reaching critical evaluation of performance in television, mapping out key conventions, practices and concerns while introducing performance theory and criticism to the established field of television studies.

This exciting new title in the Theatre And series explores how theatre and the environment have informed and continue to inform each other, considering both what theatre can do for the environment and what the environment can do for theatre.

This book draws on the concepts of hegemonic and nonhegemonic masculinities as well as emphasized and oppositional femininities to chronicle and illuminate the construction of gender in Beverly Hills, 90210.

This book is aimed to explain the creation of artworks and their evaluation, and offers a new concept of aesthetics and beauty of artworks.

Internationally renowned actress Ingrid Bergman was of Swedish and German descent, though she was known by the majority as Swedish.

The (Well) Informed Piano addresses the technical, musical, artistic, ethical, and philosophical issues in piano methodology.

'Clem was not just a drummer; he was the heartbeat of Blondie.

'The best slashers are the ones where, for all your Randy Meeks-ing, you can t quite figure out who the killer is.

Just Add Watercolouris an innovative and accessible guide to this most dynamic of artforms, packed with bite-sized creative painting tips and advice, offering aspiring artists the freedom to dip in and out for practical information or flick through for fresh inspiration and ideas.

Northern Soul is a cultural phenomenon twice removed from its original source in Britain in the late 1960s.

The incredible true story of a blind musician, a brutal crime, and the making of an American folk legend In June 1936 James Lee Strother performed thirteen songs at the Virginia State Prison Farm for famed folklorist John Lomax and the Library of Congress.

The incredible true story of a blind musician, a brutal crime, and the making of an American folk legend In June 1936 James Lee Strother performed thirteen songs at the Virginia State Prison Farm for famed folklorist John Lomax and the Library of Congress.

Models of disaster preparedness Across the globe, few sites have faced as many environmental disasters as the islands of the Japanese archipelago.

An indispensable collection of Buddhist devotional poems and songsLonging to Awaken features twenty-five translations of Buddhist devotional poems and songs composed by revered Tibetan masters from diverse traditions and time periods.

An indispensable collection of Buddhist devotional poems and songsLonging to Awaken features twenty-five translations of Buddhist devotional poems and songs composed by revered Tibetan masters from diverse traditions and time periods.

Tracing the mutual influence of great architects of the eighteenth century on both sides of the Atlantic Although a good deal has been written about the voluminous intellectual exchange between Europe and the Americas in the eighteenth century across various humane disciplines, no study to date has focused on architectural culture, despite the fact that numerous Europeans made their way across the Atlantic to design some of America's most important buildings.