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  Jeff Buckley's Grace

  Daphne Brooks

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  The power and influence of Grace increases with each passing year. Here, Daphne Brooks traces Jeff Buckley's fascinating musical development through the earliest stages of his career, up to the release of the album. With access to rare archival material, Brooks illustrates Buckley's passion for life and hunger for musical knowledge, and shows just why he was such a crucial figure in the American music scene of the 1990s.EXCERPT:Jeff Buckley was piecing together a contemporary popular music history for himself that was steeped in the magic of singing.  He was busy hearing how Dylan channeled Billie Holiday in Blonde On Blonde and how Robert Plant was doing his best to sound like Janis Joplin on early Led Zeppelin recordings.  He was thinking about doo-wop and opera and Elton John and working at developing a way to harness the power of the voice...In the process, he was re-defining punk and grunge ""attitude"" itself by rejecting the ambivalent sexual undercurrents of those movements, as well as Led Zeppelin's canonical ""cock rock"" kingdom that he'd grown up adoring.  He was forging a one-man revolution set to the rhythms of New York City and beyond.  And he was on the brink of recording his elegant battle in song for the world to hear.

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  Bob Dylan - American Troubadour

  Donald Brown

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  “The book’s strength is a thorough assessment of Dylan’s career, album by album, song by song. Both longtime fans and newcomers . . . will appreciate.” —Library Journal With Bob Dylan’s receipt of the Nobel Prize in Literature, his iconic status as an American musical, cultural, and poetic giant has never been more apparent. Bob Dylan: American Troubadour is the first book to look at Dylan’s career, from his first album to his masterpiece Tempest. Donald Brown provides insightful critical commentary on Dylan’s prolific body of work, placing Dylan’s career in the context of its time in order to assess the relationship of Dylan’s music to contemporary American culture. Each chapter follows the shifting versions of Dylan, from his songs of conscientious social involvement to more personal exploratory songs; from his influential rock albums of the mid-1960s to his adaptations of country music; from his three very different tours in the 1970s to his “born again” period as a proselytizer for Christ and his frustrations as a recording and performing artist in the 1980s; from his retrospective importance in the 1990s to the refreshingly vital albums he has been producing in the 21st century. “This concise examination of the Dylan corpus is especially good for younger generations who may want to better understand how a musician in his early seventies can still be so compelling and relevant in twenty-first-century America.”. —Booklist    “Fascinating . . . Highly recommended. All readers.  —Choice Reviews “A nearly album by album retrospective of one of the most culturally significant and musically influential musicians in modern history.” —Examiner “A must read for Dylan enthusiasts.”  —Journal of American Culture  

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  I'll Be in My Trailer - The...

  John Badham, Craig Modderno

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  What do you do when actors won't do what you tell them to? Remembering his own awkwardness and terror as a beginning director working with actors who always had their own ideas, director John Badham has a bookload of knowledge to pass along in this inspired and insightful must-listen for cinema fans as well as actors and directors at all levels of their craft. You'll learn how to use proven techniques to get actors to give their best performances—including the ten best and ten worst things to say—and what you can do when an actor won't or can't do what the director wants. Also included are no-holds-barred out-of-school tales culled from celebrated top directors and actors, including Sydney Pollack, Michael Mann, John Frankenheimer, Mel Gibson, James Woods, Anne Bancroft, Jenna Elfman, and Roger Corman.

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  How to String a Guitar - For...

  Gareth Evans

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  This guide will show you how to string an electric guitar with the most common types of bridge (tune-o-matic bridge for front string insertion, floating and telecaster bridges for rear string insertion), or a  steel string acoustic guitar. This guide will also apply to replacing a broken string. 27 Photographic examples and diagrams are used throughout.
  Every stage of the process is covered including the basics of string gauges, what to do at the bridge, how to hold the guitar as you string it, what to do at the headstock and how to attach then wind the strings onto their pegs, and what to do with sharp hazardous string ends once you've finished.

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  Casanovas Homecoming

  Arthur Schnitzler

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  One morning he went out for a walk beyond the town limits to excogitate the final touches for some sentences that were to annihilate the infidel Frenchman. Suddenly he fell prey to a disquiet that almost amounted to physical distress. He turned over in his mind the life he had been leading for the last three months. It had grown wearisomely familiar—the morning walks into the country, the evenings spent in gambling for petty stakes with the reputed Baron Perotti and the latter's pock-marked mistress. He thought of the affection lavished upon himself by his hostess, a woman ardent but no longer young. He thought of how he had passed his time over the writings of Voltaire and over the composition of an audacious rejoinder which until that moment had seemed to him by no means inadequate. Yet now, in the dulcet atmosphere of a morning in late summer, all these things appeared stupid and repulsive.

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  Drama Queen: The Audio Drama -...

  Suchitra Krishnamoorthi

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  Based on the bestselling novel Drama Queen by Suchitra Krishnamoorthi, Drama Queen: The Audio Drama is an audio adaptation of the stage play inspired by the novel, first performed in September 2016. 
   
  Featuring a stellar cast of some of India’s finest actors, including Sujata Kumar, Arif Zakaria, Suchitra Pillai and Suchitra Krishnamoorthi, with guest appearances by Karan Johar, Ram Gopal Varma and some other delicious Bollywood folk. 
   
  With original music written and composed by Suchitra Krishnamoorthi, Drama Queen follows one woman’s bizarre roller-coaster journey in search of true love, while dealing with pushy girlfriends, an Amma who won’t take no for an answer, horny canines, and suitors who are just terribly unsuitable. 
   
  Funny, candid and irreverent, this full-cast audio drama brings the madness, music and mayhem of Drama Queen straight to your ears. 
   
  So bizarre, it’s gotta be true.

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