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Honorable Mention, 2019 Foreword INDIES Awards - Performing Arts
& Music Honorable Mention, Graphis 2021 Design Annual
Competition​ Popular music has long been a powerful force for
social change. Protest songs have served as anthems regarding war,
racism, sexism, ecological destruction, and so many other crucial
issues. Â Music Is Power takes us on a guided tour through
the past one hundred years of politically conscious music, from
Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie to Green Day and NWA. Covering a wide
variety of genres, including reggae, country, metal, psychedelia,
rap, punk, folk, and soul, Brad Schreiber demonstrates how
musicians can take a variety of approaches— angry rallying cries,
mournful elegies to the victims of injustice, or even humorous
mockeries of authority—to fight for a fairer world. While shining
a spotlight on Phil Ochs, Gil Scott-Heron, the Dead Kennedys and
other seminal, politicized artists, he also gives readers a new
appreciation of classic acts such as Lesley Gore, James Brown, and
Black Sabbath, who overcame limitations in their industry to create
politically potent music  Music Is Power tells fascinating
stories about the origins and the impact of dozens of
world-changing songs, while revealing political context and the
personal challenges of legendary artists from Bob Dylan to Bob
Marley. Supplemental material (Artist and Title
List):Â https://d3tto5i5w9ogdd.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/24001955/Music_Is_Power_Supplementary_Artist_Title_List.doc
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Jungle Shuffle (DVD)
Drake Bell, Jessica Dicicco, Brianne Brozey, Rob Schneider, Michael McConnohie, …
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R44
Discovery Miles 440
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Children's animated adventure. In the tropical jungles of Mexico,
Manu (voice of Drake Bell) is banished from his village for
breaking one of the King (Rob Schneider)'s prized statues. But when
his friend, and the King's daughter, Sacha (Jessica DiCicco) is
kidnapped by hunters Manu is forced to unite the animal kingdom to
save the princess.
"Becoming Jimi Hendrix" traces "Jimmy's" early musical roots, from
a harrowing, hand-to-mouth upbringing in a poverty-stricken, broken
Seattle home to his early discovery of the blues to his stint as a
reluctant recruit of the 101st Airborne who was magnetically drawn
to the rhythm and blues scene in Nashville. As a sideman, Hendrix
played with the likes of Little Richard, Ike and Tina Turner, the
Isley Brothers, and Sam & Dave--but none knew what to make of
his spotlight-stealing rock guitar experimentation, the likes of
which had never been heard before. From 1962 to 1966, on the rough
and tumble club circuit, Hendrix learned to please a crowd, deal
with racism, and navigate shady music industry characters, all
while evolving his own astonishing style. Finally, in New York's
Greenwich Village, two key women helped him survive, and his
discovery in a tiny basement club in 1966 led to Hendrix instantly
being heralded as a major act in Europe before he returned to
America, appeared at the Monterey Pop Festival, and entered the
pantheon of rock's greatest musicians. "Becoming Jimi Hendrix" is
based on over one hundred interviews with those who knew Hendrix
best during his lean years, more than half of whom have never
spoken about him on the record. Utilizing court transcripts, FBI
files, private letters, unpublished photos, and U.S. Army
documents, this is the story of a young musician who overcame
enormous odds, a past that drove him to outbursts of violence, and
terrible professional and personal decisions that complicated his
life before his untimely demise.
Stop the Show! is the first book to assemble humorous, frightening
and bizarre anecdotes about the history of all that went wrong
during live theatrical productions in the U.S. and the United
Kingdom. It is the publishing equivalent of TV bloopers for the
legitimate stage. This book includes stories from top directors,
actors, playwrights and technicians from New York, Los Angeles, and
points in between, to the United Kingdom, from the 19th century to
today. There are stories about missed entrances and exits, onstage
unscripted fights between performers, improvised lines, accidental
pratfalls, falling scenery, and costume, lighting and makeup
screwups. The backstage provides sordid tales of practical jokes,
treachery, misplaced props, wild arguments, and generally the kinds
of things Michael Frayn created for his farce about a theatrical
disaster, Noises Off. This book doesn't leave out the theatergoers
either, who snore, fight with each other, talk back to the
performers, search for their seats, become suddenly ill, eat,
drink, make merry, and are yelled at by the performers -- all of
which sometimes prompts the show to stop, even though we've always
been told it must go on.
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