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In 1989, Malcolm McLaren had his only number one hit with a single
called "Deep in Vogue." Early the next year, Madonna had one of the
biggest hits of her career, with the single "Vogue," and when
Jennie Livingston's film "Paris Is Burning" arrived in cinemas the
same year, winning the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film
Festival, the mainstream got hip to New York City's extraordinary
ball culture, from which the film and McLaren and Madonna's songs
had arisen. "Paris Is Burning" documented a gay ballroom scene that
emerged in Harlem in the mid-1980s, which drew African American and
Latino gay and transgender communities to compete against one
another for their dancing skills, the verisimilitude of their drag
and their ability to walk on the runway. Photographer Chantal
Regnault spent many years recording this scene, from which the
dance style known as voguing arose. A visual riot of fashion,
polysexuality and subversive style, "Voguing and the Gay Balls of
New York City" is also an extraordinary document on sexuality and
race. The wild years of voguing are vividly captured in Regnault's
hundreds of amazing, previously unpublished photographs. The book
also features interviews with key figures from the movement,
essays, flyers and ephemera.
Photographer and documentarist Chantal Regnault was born in France.
She left Paris after the 1968 uprisings to live in New York, where
she lived for the next 15 years. At the end of the 1980s she became
immersed in Harlem's voguing scene. Also around this time, Regnault
developed an interest in Haitian voodoo culture and began to divide
her time between Haiti and New York. Her widely published
photographs have appeared in major magazines and newspapers,
including "Vanity Fair" and "The New York Times."
Spanning Cuban music from rumba to salsa, and graphic styles from socialist realist to geometric abstraction, this volume of Cuban record cover art traces a musical form in constant revolution.
The first ever book about Cuban record sleeve design, compiled by Gilles Peterson and Stuart Baker, Cuba: Music and Revolution features hundreds of rarely seen vinyl records from the start of the Cuban Revolution at the beginning of the 1960s up until 1985, when Cuba’s Special Period, brought about by the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the withdrawal of Russia’s financial support for the Cuban government, led to the demise of vinyl-record manufacturing in Cuba. The artwork here reflects both the cultural and musical depth of Cuba as well as the political influence of revolutionary communism.
Over the past century, Cuban music has produced a seemingly endless variety of styles―rumba, mambo, son, salsa―at a dizzyingly fast rate. Since the 1940s a steady stream of Cuban musicians has also made the migration to the US, sparking changes in North American musical forms: bandleader Machito set New York’s jazz and Latin scene on fire, and master drummer Chano Pozo’s entry into Dizzy Gillespie's group led to the birth of Latin jazz, to name just two.
After the Cuban Revolution in 1959, the new government closed American-owned nightclubs and consolidated the island’s recording industry under a state-run monopoly. Out of this new socialist agenda came new musical styles, including the Nueva Trova movement of left-wing songwriters. The 1980s saw more experimentation in modernist jazz, salsa and Afro-Cuban folkloric music.
Generously illustrated with hundreds of color images, Cuba: Music and Revolution presents the history of Cuban record cover art, including many examples previously unseen outside the island itself.
Research proves that belonging to a Twelve Step Fellowship group
increases the chances of long-term recovery from addictions and is
also helpful with treating compulsive behaviors and mental health
disorders. Twelve Step Facilitation (TSF) is an evidence-based
approach that together with active involvement in a Twelve Step
group helps individuals succeed as they move from treatment into
recovery. Listed on SAMHSA's National Registry of Evidence-based
Programs and Practices (NREPP), the Twelve Step Facilitation
program, which includes Twelve Step Facilitation Handbook, is an
invaluable resource for understanding the effectiveness of the
Twelve Steps and showing the importance of outcome-based treatment
in modern health care. Beginning with a history of Project MATCH,
this handbook introduces the scientific basis for TSF and goes on
to highlight new research, describe the program's theoretical
applications, and explain new features included in this second
edition. Includes: Explanation of revised session topics Advice for
common misconceptions about TSF Guidance on volunteer- and peer-led
facilitation Recommendations for individual and group
administration Applications for all substance use disorders and
compulsive behavior
This book is a guide on how to begin, nurture and finish
successful construction projects. Written for contractors, property
owners and anyone involved in the construction process, the book is
rich in illustrative stories and point-by-point advice. It also
contains powerful interviews with noted mediators, customers and
construction professionals.
It evolved out of years of working in the construction industry
and learning to do just what is described. Contrary to widely held
belief, it IS possible for construction projects to be successful
for all concerned, and even fun
Building on basic principles of clarity, mutual respect and
intentional collaboration, this book takes the reader on a
surprising journey into the dynamics involved in any successful
working relationship, told here through the field of construction.
It delves into the power of intention, assumption and expectation,
and the importance of a positive attitude for any project.
This book is hands-on, and it is not theory. It is proven
practices and real-life stories.
Calypso, Voodoo, Sunshine, Communism, Reggae, Colonialism, The
Slave Trade, Rum, Revolution, Industry and Tourism 100 years of the
Caribbean image and identity is captured in this deluxe new
hardback photography book. The image of the Caribbean is as much a
creation of the outsider as it is the complex identity of its
people a melting pot of races created out of the participants in
the 400 year slave trade enforced Africans, indigenous Americans
and their colonisers French, Spanish, German, Dutch, English. The
identity of the Caribbean stands at this intersection of tourism,
the detritus of the slave trade, colonialism and tropicality. The
regions politics span a hot bed of ideas and radicalism from
Castros Cuba, communist thorn in the side of North America, to the
violent right-wing dictatorship of Haitis Papa Doc in the 1960s;
from Manleys Jamaica in the 1970s to Eric Williams Trinidad in the
1960s. This book is a deluxe large format hardback book featuring
100s of fascinating and unique photographs that span one hundred
years of Caribbean history, culture, industry and more as well as
the subsequent diaspora of its people to America, England and
elsewhere. The photographs show the many ways in which the region
is portrayed from luscious and tropical backdrop of tourism and
hedonism, to colonial outpost and revolutionary threat within North
Americas own backyard.
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