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Designed for the Christian student, this course incorporates the
appealing music and activities from Alfred's All-in-One Course with
lyrics and illustrations that reflect spiritual and inspirational
themes. Students will be exposed to Christian values and principles
as well as Biblical lessons while learning basic musicianship
skills.
The musical and cultural impact of the Fab Four in FloridaIn 1964,
Beatlemania flooded the United States. The Beatles appeared live on
the Ed Sullivan Show and embarked on their first tour of North
America-and they spent more time in Florida than anywhere else.
Good Day Sunshine State dives into this momentous time and place,
exploring the band's seismic influence on the people and culture of
the state. Bob Kealing sets the historical stage for the band's
arrival-a nation dazed after the assassination of John F. Kennedy
and on the precipice of the Vietnam War; a heavily segregated,
conservative South; and in Florida, recent events that included the
Cuban Missile Crisis and the arrest and imprisonment of Martin
Luther King Jr. in St. Augustine. Kealing documents the culture
clashes and unexpected affinities that emerged as the British
rockers drew crowds, grew from fluff story to the subject of
continual news coverage, and basked in the devotion of a young and
idealistic generation. Through an abundance of letters,
memorabilia, and interviews with journalists, fellow musicians, and
fans, Kealing takes readers behind the scenes into the Beatles'
time in locations such as Miami Beach, where they wrote new songs
and met Muhammad Ali. In the tropical environs of Key West, John
Lennon and Paul McCartney experienced milestone moments in their
friendship. And the band dodged the path of Hurricane Dora to play
at the Gator Bowl in Jacksonville, where they famously refused to
perform until the city agreed to integrate the audience. Kealing
highlights the hopeful futures that the Beatles helped inspire,
including stories of iconic rock-and-rollers such as Tom Petty who
followed the band's lead in their own paths to stardom. This book
offers a close look at an important part of the musical and
cultural revolution that helped make the Fab Four a worldwide
phenomenon.
Let the spooky citizens of Halloween Town guide your tarot practice
with this sumptuously illustrated tarot deck inspired by Tim
Burton's classic animated film, The Nightmare Before Christmas.
Disney's iconic holiday film The Nightmare Before Christmas is now
an enchanting tarot set, offering a frightful-but-friendly take on
the traditional 78-card deck. This set features all your favorite
characters from Jack Skellington to Mr. Oogie Boogie to Sandy Claws
himself in gorgeous original illustrations based on classic tarot
iconography. Featuring both major and minor arcana, the set also
comes with a helpful guidebook explaining each card's meaning, as
well as simple spreads for easy readings. Packaged in a sturdy,
decorative gift box, this hauntingly charming tarot deck is the
perfect gift for the The Nightmare Before Christmas fan or tarot
enthusiast in your life.
Winner of the 2010 Non-Fiction National Book Award Patti Smith's
definitive memoir: an evocative, honest and moving coming-of-age
story of her extraordinary relationship with the artist Robert
Mapplethorpe 'Sharp, elegiac and finely crafted' Sunday Times
'Terrifically evocative ... The most spellbinding and diverting
portrait of funky-but-chic New York in the late '60s and '70s that
any alumnus has committed to print' New York Times 'Render,
harrowing, often hilarious' Vogue In 1967, a chance meeting between
two young people led to a romance and a lifelong friendship that
would carry each to international success never dreamed of. The
backdrop is Brooklyn, Chelsea Hotel, Max's Kansas City, Scribner's
Bookstore, Coney Island, Warhol's Factory and the whole city
resplendent. Among their friends, literary lights, musicians and
artists such as Harry Smith, Bobby Neuwirth, Allen Ginsberg, Sandy
Daley, Sam Shepherd, William Burroughs, etc. It was a heightened
time politically and culturally; the art and music worlds exploding
and colliding. In the midst of all this two kids made a pact to
always care for one another. Scrappy, romantic, committed to making
art, they prodded and provided each other with faith and confidence
during the hungry years--the days of cous-cous and lettuce soup.
Just Kids begins as a love story and ends as an elegy. Beautifully
written, this is a profound portrait of two young artists, often
hungry, sated only by art and experience. And an unforgettable
portrait of New York, her rich and poor, hustlers and hellions,
those who made it and those whose memory lingers near.
Guerrilla Radios in Southern Africa is a collection of essays on the histories of the different radios of the liberation movements in the region during the era of the armed struggle.
From Angola and Mozambique, to Namibia, Zimbabwe and South Africa, the new
technology of radio provided the liberation movements in exile with a platform to
address their followers at home, to propagate their ideologies and to counter the
propaganda of the oppressive white minority regimes. As the cheapest and most direct
medium, guerrilla radios transcended the boundaries imposed by the settler regimes and
were widely listened to, albeit within the realm of illegality.
Transnational in its approach, the book explores the workings of these radios from
their areas of broadcast in exile, international solidarity, to reception at home where
listeners often huddled around their receivers to listen to the messages from the
liberation movements, often beyond the gaze of the state. These radios shaped the
nature of resistance campaigns that the liberation movements embarked upon in the
various countries in the region.
Discover your inner artist with this boxed set of 18 watercolors.
The hues were hand-chosen to complement the line drawings of
flowers, woodland, and patterns in the trio of Painterly Days
coloring books by artist Kristy Rice.
Beginnersoefeninge wys jou die basiese knoopryg-teknieke,
een-voudige steke, hoe om vasstrykstof vir lae te gebruik en selfs
hoe om te hekel. Wanneer jy hierdie tegnieke baasgeraak het, kan
jou ontwerpe so eenvoudig of ingewikkeld wees as wat jy hulle wil
maak - en jy het geen spesiale vaardighede of toerusting nodig nie.
Die basiese tegnieke word gevolg deur 'n groot versameling pragtige
projekte wat by die meeste handwerkers groot byval sal vind. Die
projekte wissel van funky, bonkige krale en bykomstighede vir
kinders tot lieflike, delikate bykomstighede en prettige dekoritems
vir jouself en jou huis. Daar is maklike aanwysings vir beginners,
terwyl daar vir meer gevorderde handwerkers hope inspirasie is om
hulle persoonlike stempel op die projekte af te druk. Uitmuntende
kleurfoto's van al die voltooide projekte hou hulle eie bekoring en
inspirasie in, en patrone van al die ontwerpe wat in die boek
gebruik is, maak dit maklik om die inspirasie in pragtige geskenke
of unieke items vir eie gebruik vas te vang.
Capturing the Spoor describes and discusses the virtually unknown rock art of the northernmost reaches of South Africa, in the area of the Central Limpopo Basin. The title of the book comes from the belief held by some traditional Bantu-speakers that the San can ‘capture’ animal spoor and bewitch it in order to ensure hunting success. The authors use this as an analogy for understanding the behavior of people in the past through the traces they leave behind.
This book describes the work of four distinct cultural groups: the San; Khoekhoen (Khoikhoin or ‘Hottentots’), Venda and Northern Sotho, and, most recently, people of European descent. Further, it discusses the interaction and connection between the four groups. It is the first substantial body of work from South Africa to focus on an area outside the Drakensberg, which has become synonymous with ‘southern African rock art’. Although the book focuses on a specific region, it introduces anthropological information from the Cape to the greater Kalahari region. The text is interspersed with first-hand accounts of Kalahari and Okavango San beliefs and rites and discussions with traditional Bantu-speaking peoples. A distillation of 14 years of field surveying and research in the Central Limpopo Basin, it targets the general reader who would like to know more about southern Africa’s rock art traditions, but at the same time addresses many academic concerns.
A simple narrative line and copious endnotes, respectively, ensure that both ‘lay’ and academic readers will find the subject interesting. The text is abundantly illustrated with line drawings and expressed through photographs. A list of rock art sites in Limpopo that are open to the public will be included.
This is a rare publication where information that is collected is analyzed with the help of knowledge and experience accumulated by the local indigenous communities, whose have been seldom heard in this context before.
The origin story of a groundbreaking album The 1971 Allman Brothers
Band album At Fillmore East was a musical manifesto years in the
making. In Play All Night!, Bob Beatty dives deep into the
motivations and musical background of band founder Duane Allman to
tell the story of what made this album not just a smash hit, but
one of the most important live rock albums in history. Featuring
insights from bootleg tapes, radio ads, early reviews,
never-before-published photos, and the memories of band members,
fans, and friends, Beatty chronicles how Allman rejected the
traditional route of music business success-hit singles and record
sales-and built a band that was at its best jamming live on stage,
feeding off the crowd's energy, and pushing each other to new
heights of virtuosic improvisation. Every challenge, from
recruiting a group of relatively unknown but established musicians
like Jaimoe and Dickey Betts, touring the American South as an
interracial band, and the failure of their first two studio albums,
sharpened Allman's determination to pursue the band's truly unique
sound. He made a bold choice-to record their next album live at
Bill Graham's famous concert hall in New York's Lower East Side, a
gamble that launched a new strand of American music to the top of
the charts. Four days after the album went gold, Duane Allman was
killed in a motorcycle accident. He was 24. This book explores how
At Fillmore East cemented Allman's legacy as a strong-willed,
self-taught visionary, giving fans of Southern rock and all readers
interested in the role of rock music in American popular culture a
new appreciation for this pathbreaking album.
Crafted to engage the culturally curious, 'Page 1' collects the
responses of 70 international graphic designers when posed with the
same brief - to design and lay out the first page of 'Great
Expectations' by Charles Dickens.
Learn how to paint on your iPad like the professionals in
Beginner's Guide to Procreate, a comprehensive introduction to this
industry-standard software. Accessible and versatile, Procreate is
an ideal tool for anyone wanting to give digital painting a go.
Step-by-step tutorials, quick tips, and inspiring artwork ensure
you'll have all you need to create stunning concept art quickly and
easily.
At the northern entrance to Prince Albert in the Great Karoo lies Northend, a neighbourhood home to a special group of people. They have a very special way of communicating with others through their stories, which indicate an inherent joy of life. However, judging by their environment and circumstances, it is clear that they have experienced many hardship, and for an outsider it is an enriching experience to meet them.
Every picture in Slow Down Look Again tells a story and is supported by explanatory text. These enable the reader to gain insight into the past and the present of this unique neighbourhood and its residents.
The joy and sorrows of the residents of Northend - as well as their scant earthly possessions - are illustrated through Louis Botha?s excellent choice of photographic backgrounds. And yet the absolute neatness of their homes illustrates a certain pride - poverty without dilapidation. The intimacy of the photographs ultimately leaves the reader enriched. We become witnesses not only to the extraordinary character of a close-knit community, but also of its trusting relationship with the person whom they have allowed to tell their story.
Louis Botha was born in Bloemfontein in 1955 and grew up on a small-holding north-east of Pretoria. After school he studied finance and followed a career in the Financial Services Industry. At the age of 40, and encouraged by his wife he pursued his hobby more seriously. He?s held several exhibitions and lives in Prince Albert.
Tracing the steps of Jesus and his followers through the season of
Lent to Easter Day and then beyond, these songs are suitable for
music groups or choirs as well as being accessible to
congregations.
Christian Dior's era-defining designs and enduring legacy are captured
here in more than 50 of the fashion house's most iconic pieces.
Dior redefined what fashion looked like in the post-war age and
demanded glamour, femininity and excess to be the order of the day. His
vision for seriously structured corsets tapering to dramatically full
skirts with pleats for days earned the title 'The New Look', and it
really was. His garments spoke of hope and beauty and were crafted with
the utmost attention to detail. This beautifully illustrated book
charts not only the work of the great man himself, but also those who
stood at the helm after him, including the inimitable Yves Saint
Laurent and John Galliano.
The House of Dior has dressed everyone from Old Hollywood icons like
Grace Kelly and Marlene Dietrich through to fictional fashion icon
Carrie Bradshaw and music royalty Rihanna. Style Icon: Dior is a
wonderful tribute to the romantic, lavish and elaborate designs of a
beloved brand.
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