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  Great Operas - A Guide to...

  Michael Steen

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  With four famous operas each from Mozart, Verdi and Puccini, and two each from Rossini and Donizetti, there is a feast of information. Here are short guides to The Marriage of Figaro and Don Giovanni; to the splendour of Aïda, the heart-breaking La Traviata; the drama of Tosca. The range is very broad. There is Wagner's great love story Tristan und Isolde; there is Johann Strauss's light comedy Die Fledermaus. On the way you can be briefed about such favourites as Handel's Giulio Cesare, Bizet's Carmen, Gounod's Faust, Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin and Britten's Peter Grimes.
  
  With plot summaries, composer biographies, observations on musical points of interest and background on the historical and cultural context of each opera, every one of these guides will enhance your appreciation and enjoyment and help you discuss the work and the performance with your fellow opera-goers. Steen shares his expert knowledge with a lightness of touch that makes each guide a pleasure to read.
  
  Witty, informative and beautifully presented, Great Operas is an indispensable reference guide for both seasoned opera-goers and those enjoying opera for the first time.

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  Claude Rains - An Actor's Voice

  David J. Skal, Jessica Rains

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  The first full-length biography of the actor known for his roles in The Invisible Man, Casablanca, and other classics, based on newly released interviews.   Given his childhood speech impediments and his origins in a destitute London neighborhood, the ascent of Claude Rains to the stage and screen was remarkable. Rains’s difficulties in his formative years provided reserves of gravitas and sensitivity, from which he drew inspiration for acclaimed performances in The Invisible Man, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Casablanca, Notorious, Lawrence of Arabia, and other classic films. In this book, noted Hollywood historian David J. Skal draws on more than thirty hours of newly released Rains interviews to create the first full-length biography of the man nominated multiple times for an Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor.   Skal’s portrait also benefits from the insights of Jessica Rains, who provides firsthand accounts of the enigmatic man behind her father’s refined screen presence and genteel public persona. As Skal shows, numerous contradictions informed the life and career of Claude Rains. He possessed an air of nobility and became an emblem of sophistication, but he never shed the insecurities that traced back to his upbringing in an abusive and poverty-stricken family. Though deeply self-conscious about his short stature, Rains drew notorious ardor from female fans and was married six times. His public displays of dry wit and good humor masked inner demons that drove Rains to alcoholism and its devastating consequences. Skal’s layered depiction of Claude Rains reveals a complex, almost inscrutable man whose nuanced characterizations were, in no small way, based on the more shadowy parts of his psyche. With unprecedented access to episodes from Rains’s private life, Skal tells the full story of the consummate character actor of his generation.   “This highly readable biography, written with the help of his daughter, Jessica Rains, reveals the witty, talented man behind this universally respected Hollywood legend.” —Tucson Citizen

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  One of the Good Ones

  Adam Mamawala

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  Adam Mamawala is one of the good ones. His debut album proves that as he looks inward on himself and realizes what makes someone a good one and how to become a good one, and tells us in the hopes of the audience doing the same.

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  Spotify Profits - How I Got...

  Chris Greenwood

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  This book shows artists and musicians how to get more streams on Spotify plus featured in Spotify Editorial playlists. 
  Billboard charting rock and hip hop artists Manafest shows you the new way artists everywhere are getting more fans without a record label. 
  Spotify Profits will help you get more streams and followers: 
  - How I hit 400,000 monthly listeners without a record label and no touring 
  - How to make a ruckus with every song you put out 
  - Secrets to getting on Spotify editorial playlists 
  - The right way to run Facebook ads to promote your music on Spotify 
  - How to profit from the new singles economy  
  The Spotify Book is A Shortcut: 
  Fans are the lifeblood of an artists career. If you don't get fans, you won't survive the new music economy. Up to this point, getting fans using old school publicists, radio and endless touring is a dying model. You've tried it all, probably got burnt by a marketing company or label in the process. 
  Well, that's about to change. This book shows you a new way to get more fans streaming and buying your music, and teaches you step-by-step how to use it.  
  Imagine being on the cutting-edge music marketing instead of behind. 
  Inside of this book, you'll find the exact strategies we use to get 10x more fans and streams for independent artists without a label or having to tour. 
  Here's What You Will Learn From This Amazing Book: 
  - Latest music marketing and business strategies to grow your Spotify 
  - Why you need to start collaborating and stop competing with other artists. pg. 6 
  - How to submit your songs to playlists and get accepted! 
  - Using Facebook Messenger Bots to your Spotify Streams! pg.36 
  - How to sell merchandise and tickets using Spotify Ads 
  - How To Win In The NEW singles economy

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  Indie Inc - Miramax and the...

  Alisa Perren

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  During the 1990s, films such as sex, lies, and videotape, The Crying Game, Pulp Fiction, Good Will Hunting, and Shakespeare in Love earned substantial sums at the box office along with extensive critical acclaim. A disproportionate number of these hits came from one company: Miramax. Indie, Inc. surveys Miramax’s evolution from independent producer-distributor to studio subsidiary, chronicling how one company transformed not just the independent film world but the film and media industries more broadly. As Alisa Perren illustrates, Miramax’s activities had an impact on everything from film festival practices to marketing strategies, talent development to awards campaigning.    Case studies of key films, including The Piano, Kids, Scream, The English Patient, and Life Is Beautiful, reveal how Miramax went beyond influencing Hollywood business practices and motion picture aesthetics to shaping popular and critical discourses about cinema during the 1990s. Indie, Inc. does what other books about contemporary low-budget cinema have not—it transcends discussions of “American indies” to look at the range of Miramax-released genre films, foreign-language films, and English-language imports released over the course of the decade. The book illustrates that what both the press and scholars have typically represented as the “rise of the American independent” was in fact part of a larger reconfiguration of the media industries toward niche-oriented products.

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  Cathy Come Home

  Jeremy Sandford

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  Sandford's 'Cathy Come Home' details the issue of homelessness and the life of a young woman in 1960s London as she moves from her own home, to council accomodation, and finally emergency accomodation for the homeless before being evicted and her children taken into care. It is a harrowing and emotive screenplay of the '60s television docu-drama which caused social upheaval upon its transmission and caused the homeless charity 'Shelter' to be formed. Although often distressing to read, I cannot recommend this book highly enough as it truly will change the way you look at the issue. Perhaps the most tragic thing of all is the preface to the re-printed edition which discusses how the issue of homelessness is now worse today than it was when Sandford decided to document it with this amazing play.

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