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Shanghai Expo: An International Forum on the Future of Cities by Tim Winter 9781138822726
RRP: $123.88Booksplease Price: $110.12In 2010 Shanghai hosted the largest, most spectacular and most expensive expo ever. Attracting a staggering 73 million visitors, and costing around US$45 billion dollars, Shanghai Expo broke the... -
World War II Veterans in Hollywood by Art Evans 9781476677774
RRP: $60.88Booksplease Price: $52.90This book profiles a number of Hollywood's famous personalities who were also decorated World War II veterans. Stars covered include Audie Murphy, who won the Medal of Honor, Jimmy Stewart, Gene... -
Contemporary Marxist Literary Criticism by Francis Mulhern 9780582059764
RRP: $117.58Booksplease Price: $116.78Marxism has had an enormous impact on literary and cultural studies, and all those interested in the field need to be aware of its achievements. This collection presents the very best of recent... -
Modern American Reading Practices: Between Aesthetics and History by P. Goldstein 9781349377022
Booksplease Price: $97.19Philip Goldstein explains the socio-historical context of the diverse interpretive practices which make up the humanities in the USA in the 21st century. He considers the rise of college-educated... -
Modern American Reading Practices: Between Aesthetics and History by P. Goldstein 9780230612259
Booksplease Price: $98.15Philip Goldstein explains the socio-historical context of the diverse interpretive practices which make up the humanities in the USA in the 21st century. He considers the rise of college-educated... -
They Left Their Hearts in San Francisco: The Lives of Songwriters George Cory and Douglass Cross by Bill Christine 9781476669007
RRP: $46.18Booksplease Price: $41.14George Cory and Douglass Cross wrote just one hit song, "I Left My Heart in San Francisco." They were unknown before they wrote it--and were unknown after it became a standard. Their lives were... -
The Routledge Handbook of Global Cultural Policy by Victoria Durrer
RRP: $107.08Booksplease Price: $96.77Cultural policy intersects with political, economic, and socio-cultural dynamics at all levels of society, placing high and often contradictory expectations on the capabilities and capacities of the... -
Cultural Studies Lawrence Grossberg 9780415903455
RRP: $142.78Booksplease Price: $134.88Featuring new essays by such prominent cultural theorists as Tony Bennett, Homi Bhabha, Donna Haraway, bell hooks, Constance Penley, Janice Radway, Andrew Ross, and Cornel West, Cultural Studies... -
Reading Into Cultural Studies Martin Barker 9780415063777
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $77.72"Reading Into Cultural Studies" revisits a selection of key texts central to the formation of cultural studies as a discipline and as a project. These texts address questions of power, ideology and... -
High-Pop: Making Culture into Popular Entertainment Jim Collins (University of Notre Dame) 9780631222118
RRP: $86.00Booksplease Price: $81.50An exploration by nine key thinkers of the popularization of elite tastes for mass audiences, High-Pop challenges the project of cultural studies to focus on all-but-ignored forms of mainstream... -
Character and Person by John Frow 9780198778554
RRP: $92.38Booksplease Price: $86.60Fictional character is an ontologically ambivalent category -- at once a formal construct and a quasi-person -- which lies at the heart of the life of textual fictions of all kinds. Character and... -
Elvis Costello: A Bio-Bibliography by James E. Perone 9780313303999
Booksplease Price: $119.01The influential rock musician Elvis Costello is recognized for the impressive breadth and scope of his music. His collaborations with such musicians as Tony Bennett and the Count Basie orchestra,... -
The American Songbook: Music for the Masses by Ann van der Merwe 9781442242449
Booksplease Price: $108.59With their unforgettable melodies, timeless messages, and stylistic indebtedness to both jazz and Broadway, American popular standards have proven to be among the most widely performed and enjoyed... -
Three American Pieces by Aaron Minsky 9780193858459
Booksplease Price: $46.28for unaccompanied viola Transcribed for viola by David Dalton from Ten American Cello Etudes, these pieces are designed to encourage violists to improvise, play chords, use syncopation, and... -
Post-Marxist Theory: An Introduction by Philip Goldstein 9780791463024
Booksplease Price: $53.87An introduction to the philosophical, economic, historical, feminist, and cultural versions of post-Marxist theory.Poststructuralist Marxism, or post-Marxism, is a theoretical viewpoint that... -
Ten American Cello Etudes by Aaron Minsky 9780193858176
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $29.02Each of these etudes is a miniature evocation of an American place and mood, written to help cellists learn in contemporary styles of jazz, blues, folk, and more. Technique certainly won't be dull... -
Ten American Violin Etudes by Aaron Minsky 9780193372887
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $29.02This is an exceptional collection of ten original etudes by Aaron Minsky. First published to international acclaim as Ten American Cello Etudes, these captivating pieces are now available to... -
Confessions of a New York Taxi Driver (The Confessions Series) by Eugene Salomon 9780007500956
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $20.33Driving a cab for more than 30 years Gene Salomon has collected a remarkable selection of stories. He shares the very best in this unforgettable memoir. Gene has had everyone in the back... -
Pop Goes the Cello by Aaron Minsky 9780193399389
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $29.02This fun and innovative collection introduces cellists to a range of pop and rock styles. Building on the trail-blazing approach to cello playing that he developed in Ten American Cello Etudes and... -
Jazz and Blues Musicians of South Carolina: Interviews with Jabbo, Dizzy, Drink, and Others by Benjamin Franklin 9781570037436
RRP: $71.40Booksplease Price: $57.54This book offers an oral history of musical genres from the Palmetto state musicians who helped define the sounds.From Jabbo Smith, Dizzy Gillespie, and Drink Small to Johnny Helms, Dick Goodwin, and... -
The Singers Talk: The Greatest Singers of Our Time Discuss the One Thing They're Never Asked About: Their Voices by Jason Thomas Gordon 9781637586990
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $29.53A groundbreaking collection of inspiring and instructive conversations about the beauty, brutality, discipline, and technique of being a successful singer."This is a captivating look at both the... -
Revolutions in American Music: Three Decades That Changed a Country and Its Sounds by Michael Broyles 9780393634204
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $51.49Michael Broyles shows how three key decades-the 1840s, the 1920s and the 1950s-shaped America's musical future. In each, new styles of music combined with emerging technologies, from the locomotive... -
San Francisco. Portrait of a City by Richie Unterberger 9783836574853
RRP: $126.00Booksplease Price: $97.10Starting with an early picture of a gang of badass gold prospectors who put this beautiful Northern California city on the map, this ambitious and immersive photographic history of San Francisco... -
Ten International Violin Encores by Aaron Minsky 9780193379503
RRP: $41.90Booksplease Price: $35.53This exciting collection of original encores by Aaron Minsky explores musical traditions from across the globe. First published to worldwide acclaim as Ten International Cello Encores, these... -
The Girl with Stars in Her Eyes: A story of love, loss, and rock-and-roll by Xio Axelrod 9781464219597
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.81* MOST ANTICIPATED: Buzzfeed, Goodreads, Country Living, Bookish, Frolic, and more! *A Star is Born meets Daisy Jones and the Six by way of Colleen Hoover in this unique story following an all-female... -
Secret Agents: Popular Icons Beyond James Bond Jeremy Packer 9780820486697
RRP: $61.32Booksplease Price: $59.45Why does the secret agent never seem to die? Why, in fact, has the secret agent not only survived the Cold War - which critics and pundits surmised would be the death of James Bond and of the genre... -
Weather Bird: Jazz at the Dawn of Its Second Century by Gary Giddins 9780195304497
RRP: $38.83Booksplease Price: $28.50Gary Giddins's magnificent book Visions of Jazz has been hailed as a landmark in music criticism. Jonathan Yardley in The Washington Post called it "the definitive compendium by the most... -
Lady Gaga: Applause Annie Zaleski 9781786750525
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $42.06As one of the world's best-selling musicians, Lady Gaga has set the musical bar high. Since her debut album, The Fame (2008), she has sold more than 124 million records and scooped numerous awards,... -
Joe Longthorne: The Autobiography by Joe Longthorne 9781784187187
Booksplease Price: $27.28Joe Longthorne is one of the UK's leading live entertainers, and an icon of his era. In the golden days of Joe's career, he was one of television's highest paid performers, attracting audiences of... -
New Directions in American Reception Study by Philip Goldstein 9780195320879
Booksplease Price: $238.85Contemporary reception study has developed a diversity of approaches and methods, including the institutional, textual, historical, authorial, and reader-response, which, to a greater or lesser... -
High-Pop: Making Culture into Popular Entertainment by Jim Collins 9780631222101
RRP: $216.30Booksplease Price: $188.69One of the most significant developments in the popular culture of the past decade has been the popularization of elite tastes for mass audiences. Blockbuster museum shows, high-concept literary... -
New Directions in American Reception Study by Philip Goldstein 9780195320886
Booksplease Price: $74.80Contemporary reception study has developed a diversity of approaches and methods, including the institutional, textual, historical, authorial, and reader-response, which, to a greater or lesser... -
Ten International Cello Encores by Aaron Minsky 9780193804661
RRP: $41.90Booksplease Price: $35.53Minsky has composed this set of ten cello pieces based on musical styles from places around the world, such as Mexico, Ireland, Asia, Israel, Africa, the Caribbean, and America. Ten International... -
American Singers: Twenty-seven Portraits in Song by Whitney Balliett 9781578068357
Booksplease Price: $60.00When Whitney Balliett's American Musicians appeared in the Fall of 1986, the acclaim it received was universal. Leonard Feather, writing in the Los Angeles Times, said ""no other writer now living... -
The Audience And Its Landscape John Hay 9780813322858
RRP: $125.98Booksplease Price: $113.61This book offers a major reconceptualization of the term ?audience,? including the landscape of a given audience?the situated and territorializing features of any way of seeing and defining the world... -
Late Life Jazz: The Life and Career of Rosemary Clooney by Ken Crossland 9780199798575
Booksplease Price: $60.63Heralded by Tony Bennett as "the Madonna of the 1950s," Rosemary Clooney first came to national prominence when, guided by record producer Mitch Miller, she topped the Hit Parade with songs such as... -
Whisper Not: The Autobiography of Benny Golson by Benny Golson
RRP: $67.20Booksplease Price: $58.17"One of the greatest artists our country has is Benny Golson. He is not only a great musician, but an original and fabulous composer. He is inventive and creative and his work is loved the world over... -
Forging Pathways to Improvise Music: For Classical, Jazz, Comedic, and Church Musicians by Joseph Montelione 9781032377735
RRP: $111.28Booksplease Price: $99.41A step-by-step resource on forging one's own pathway to improvise music, this book guides the musician through a clear and simple method that will easily translate to the reader's genre of choice... -
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Bringing It All Back Home: Essays on Cultural Studies by Lawrence Grossberg 9780822319115 [USED COPY]
RRP: $218.40Booksplease Price: $21.84As one of the founding figures of cultural studies, Lawrence Grossberg was an early participant in the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies' project, one which sought to develop a... -
From Here to Reality by Steven Schindler 9781416500469
Booksplease Price: $26.92Sometimes life is stranger than reality TV. When Johnny Koester is laid off from his TV production job in New York, he moves west, landing in Los Angeles just as the ashes from the riots are...