|
|
|
Beneath the Underdog: His World as Composed by Mingus
A wild, lyrical, and anguished autobiography, in which Charles Mingus pays short shrift to the facts but plunges to the very bottom of his psyche, coming up for air only when it pleases him. He takes the reader through his childhood in Watts, his musical education by the likes of Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Charlie Parker, and his prodigious appetites--intellectual, culinary, and sexual. The book is a jumble, but a glorious one, by a certified American genius..
Price: $8.95
[ Notify me when price goes down.]
|
|
The French Menu Cookbook: The Food and Wine of France--Season by Delicious Season--In Beautifully Composed Menus for American Dining and Entertaining by an American Living in
Richard Olney was one of a kind - a scholarly cook who had a tremendous influence on American cooking via his cottage on a hillside in Provence Born in the Midwest in 1927 and drawn to France as a young man, Olney was attracted to the style, flavours, and tastes of French cooking. Brimming with compelling explanations of how the French really cook and with over 150 authentic recipes, this book is a masterful resource..
Price: $9.94
[ Notify me when price goes down.]
|
|
John Cage: Composed in America
When the great avant-gardist John Cage died, just short of his eightieth birthday in 1992, he was already the subject of dozens of interviews, memoirs, and discussions of his contribution to music, music theory, and performance practice. But Cage never thought of himself as only (or even primarily) a composer; he was a poet, a visual artist, a philosophical thinker, and an important cultural critic. John Cage: Composed in America is the first book-length work to address the "other" John Cage, a revisionist treatment of the way Cage himself has composed and been "composed" in America. Cage, as these original essays testify, is a contradictory figure. A disciple of Duchamp and Schoenberg, Satie and Joyce, he created compositions that undercut some of these artists' central principles and then attributed his own compositional theories to their "tradition." An American in the Emerson-Thoreau mold, he paradoxically won his biggest audience in Europe. A freewheeling, Californian artist, Cage was committed to a severe work ethic and a firm discipline, especially the discipline of Zen Buddhism. Following the text of Cage's lecture-poem "Overpopulation and Art," delivered at Stanford shortly before his death and published here for the first time, ten critics respond to the challenge of the complexity and contradiction exhibited in his varied work. In keeping with Cage's own interdisciplinarity, the critics approach that work from a variety of disciplines: philosophy (Daniel Herwitz, Gerald L. Bruns), biography and cultural history (Thomas S. Hines), game and chaos theory (N. Katherine Hayles), music culture (Jann Pasler), opera history (Herbert Lindenberger), literary and art criticism (Marjorie Perloff), cultural poetics (Gordana P. Crnkovic, Charles Junkerman), and poetic practice (Joan Retallack). But such labels are themselves confining: each of the essays sets up boundaries only to cross them at key points. The book thus represents, to use Cage's own phrase, a much needed "beginning with ideas.".
Price: $14.05
[Notify me when price goes down.]
|
|
History of Bokhara from the Earliest Period down to the Present: Composed for the First Time after Oriental Known and Unknown Historical Manuscripts
|
|
Fingal: An Ancient Epic Poem in Six Books Together with Several Other Poems Composed by Ossian, the Son of Fingal
1762. Contents: Fingal, an Epic Poem; Comala, a Dramatic poem; War of Caros, a poem; War of Inis-Thona, a poem; Battle of Lora, a poem; Conlath and Cuthlona, a poem; Carthon, a poem; Death of Cuchullin, a poem; Darthula, a poem; Temora, an epic poem; Carric-Thura, a poem; Songs of Selma; Calthon and Colmal, a poem; Lathmon, a poem; Oithona, a poem; Croma, a poem; and Berrathon, a poem. Written in Old English text. Due to the age and scarcity of the original we reproduced, some pages may be spotty, faded or difficult to read..
Price: $19.89
[ Notify me when price goes down.]
|
|
An American Pediatrician's Odyssey: My Life And Memoirs Composed At Nine Decades
Howard Thomas Knobloch, M.D.describes his life experiences from birth to the venerable age of nine and one half decades Fortunately, nature endowed him with a powerful memory which he has used to recount the events, battles, and incidents of his childhood, education, army service, and sixty odd years of private practice as a pediatrician in Bay City, Michigan. The author shares with us his positive spirit and his staunch, 100% advocacy and service to babies and children throughout his life..
Price: $17.93
[ Notify me when price goes down.]
|
|
Handwritten Theatre: A series of brief dramatic pieces originally composed in a small black notebook with a fountain pen.
"These spare and elegant snapshots are both dramatic and poignant " -Public Radio Exchange Created by Emmy winning writer Joseph Dougherty, the plays of "Handwritten Theatre" have been heard on National Public Radio and performed live from Nebraska to Shanghai. Collected here for the first time they are as playful and provocative in print as they are in performance..
Price: $9.95
[ Notify me when price goes down.]
|
|
|
|
|
