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  Pop Song Piracy - Disobedient...

  Barry Kernfeld

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  The music industry’s ongoing battle against digital piracy is just the latest skirmish in a long conflict over who has the right to distribute music. Starting with music publishers’ efforts to stamp out bootleg compilations of lyric sheets in 1929, Barry Kernfeld’s Pop Song Piracy details nearly a century of disobedient music distribution from song sheets to MP3s. 
    
  In the 1940s and ’50s, Kernfeld reveals, song sheets were succeeded by fake books, unofficial volumes of melodies and lyrics for popular songs that were a key tool for musicians. Music publishers attempted to wipe out fake books, but after their efforts proved unsuccessful they published their own. Pop Song Piracy shows that this pattern of disobedience, prohibition, and assimilation recurred in each conflict over unauthorized music distribution, from European pirate radio stations to bootlegged live shows. Beneath this pattern, Kernfeld argues, there exists a complex give and take between distribution methods that merely copy existing songs (such as counterfeit CDs) and ones that transform songs into new products (such as file sharing). Ultimately, he contends, it was the music industry’s persistent lagging behind in creating innovative products that led to the very piracy it sought to eliminate.

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  Bohemians - A Very Short...

  David Weir

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  The Romantic myth of Bohemia originated in the early nineteenth century as a way of describing the new conditions faced by artists and writers when the previous system of aristocratic patronage collapsed in the wake of the Age of Revolution. Without the patron system, the artist was free to move around, to seek an audience wherever fortune beckoned. This marketing model likening the artist's vagabond career to the "gypsy" life helps to explain part of the bohemian myth, but not all of it. Most bohemians have scant interest in commercial gain and are not so itinerant after all, confining their movements to down-market urban neighborhoods where the rent is cheap and the morals are loose. 
   
   
   
  This Very Short Introduction traces the myth of Bohemia through its various fictional manifestations, from Henry Murger's novel Scenes of Bohemian Life and Giacomo Puccini's opera La Bohème to Aki Kaurismäki's film La vie de Bohème and Jonathan Larson's musical Rent. It goes on to examine the history of different bohemian communities, including those in the Latin Quarter of Paris and the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York. David Weir also considers the politics of Bohemia and traces the careers of the artists Gustave Courbet and Pablo Picasso and the great chanteuses Yvette Guilbert, Fréhel, and Edith Piaf in the Montmartre neighborhood of Paris.

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  Learn Portuguese while you sleep...

  1000-words.com

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.  
  Learn Portuguese anytime, anywhere — while you sleep, drive, walk, study, or work out. 1000 Words is your calm and immersive way to master Portuguese through audio. 
  Each episode helps you expand your vocabulary, improve pronunciation, and understand real Portuguese — without stress, screens, or interruptions. 
  In this audiobook, you’ll hear 1000 essential Portuguese nouns, clearly spoken with English translations. 
  Perfect for beginners, travelers, and language lovers who want to absorb Portuguese naturally through repeated listening. 
  Listen in bed, at the gym, in the car, or during your daily routine — every minute helps you grow your Portuguese effortlessly. 
   Relax. Focus. Learn Portuguese anywhere. 
  For more content, games and exclusive video lessons, visit  ⁠1000-words.com⁠. 
  Also available as an iPhone and Android app.

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  21st-Century Yokel

  Tom Cox

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  Thick with owls and badgers, oak trees and wood piles, scarecrows and ghosts, and Tom Cox's loud and excitable dad, this book is full of the folklore of several counties the ancient kind and the everyday variety as well as wild places, mystical spots and curious objects. Emerging from this focus on the detail are themes that are broader and bigger and more important than ever.
  Tom's writing treads a new path, one that has a lot in common with a rambling country walk; it's bewitched by fresh air and big skies, intrepid in minor ways, haunted by weather and old stories and the spooky edges of the outdoors, restless and prone to a few detours, but it always reaches its destination in the end.

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  Aphrodite: Captivating Greek...

  Matt Clayton

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  Did you know that Aphrodite, the goddess of love and beauty, was also associated with the sea? 
  Born from a strange mixture of divine blood, severed genitals, and seafoam, Aphrodite washed up on the shores of Cyprus long before the emergence of her fellow Olympians. A figure who is as petty as she is relatable, she is not only a key deity of the Greek pantheon, but she is also a central figure in many of the myths we know and love today. 
  With influences possibly rooted in the goddesses Ishtar and Astarte, there are scholars who believe that the concept of Aphrodite was imported to Greece from the Middle East or West Asia. Contact between cultures might have led to her incorporation into the main Greek pantheon, with her foreign origins explaining some of the regional differences regarding her birth and personality. While her connections to beauty and love are her most well-known attributes, places like Sparta and Cyprus also viewed her as a war goddess. 
  This audiobook focuses on myths that are either centered around Aphrodite or feature her as an important character. Because of her volatile nature and quick temper, Aphrodite could just as often be a force for good as she could be a force for evil. While it would be impossible to gather all the different stories related to Aphrodite in their entirety in one collection, this audiobook provides a nice, if somewhat modest, the assortment of narratives that display different facets of this fascinatingly complex goddess. 
  Some of the myths you’ll discover in this audiobook are:Aphrodite’s birth and unexpected marriageThe life and death of AdonisHow Psyche and Eros’ love defied divine wrathPygmalion’s arrogance and his unusual mistressThe beginnings of the greatest war ever fought 
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  Emotional Intelligence Mastery &...

  John Heffner

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  Are you dreaming of constructing more meaningful bridges for relationships, whether in your personal life or work environment? Wouldn’t you like to figure out how to effectively master your ability to communicate with the people around you to smoothly achieve your goals while avoiding conflicts?Then the combination of Emotional Intelligence & Cognitive Behavioral Therapytechniques, will be just the solution you need to make a drastically positive change in your everyday life. According to scientific research, Emotional Intelligence is far more important than ones intelligence quotient or technical abilities when it comes to determining a person’s overall success in life. But it become twice as powerful when implemented with Cognitive Behavioral therapy techniques. This Bundle includes the most powerful collection of strategies that will help you improve in every area of your emotional life, personal life, and with your relationships. It will quickly lead you to more rewarding and fulfilling relationships, as well as a more successful and enriching professional life. You will learn: •	How to identify your emotions, express healthy ones and get rid of harmful ones•	Creating a positive, uplifting environment around you•	Practicing empathy with others and making them open up to you•	Nine ways to improve your relationships using emotional intelligence•	How to take responsibility for your emotions and behavior•	And much more! This audiobook was created using actionable tips to help you building  the right mindset in which you can model success to achieve your desired outcome. Finally break away from the pack and become the leader of your life that you often dream about!So what are you waiting for? Buy this Audiobook Todady, and dive into the world of human psychology and behavior!

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