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  Black Country Music - Listening...

  Francesca Royster

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  Black Country Music tells the story of how Black musicians have changed the country music landscape and brought light to Black creativity and innovation. 
  After a century of racist whitewashing, country music is finally reckoning with its relationship to Black people. In this timely work—the first book on Black country music by a Black writer—Francesca Royster uncovers the Black performers and fans, including herself, who are exploring the pleasures and possibilities of the genre. 
   
  Informed by queer theory and Black feminist scholarship, Royster’s book elucidates the roots of the current moment found in records like Tina Turner’s first solo album, Tina Turns the Country On! She reckons with Black “bros” Charley Pride and Darius Rucker, then chases ghosts into the future with Valerie June. Indeed, it is the imagination of Royster and her artists that make this music so exciting for a genre that has long been obsessed with the past. The futures conjured by June and others can be melancholy, and are not free of racism, but by centering Black folk Royster begins to understand what her daughter hears in the banjo music of Our Native Daughters and the trap beat of Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road.” A Black person claiming country music may still feel a bit like a queer person coming out, but, collectively, Black artists and fans are changing what country music looks and sounds like—and who gets to love it.

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  The Art of Setting Stones - &...

  Marc Peter Keane

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  Philosophical essays on the beauty and meaning of traditional Japanese gardens.
   
  In Japanese gardens, composition follows from placement of the first stone; all elements and plantings become interconnected. These eight essays on Kyoto gardens similarly begin with keen description and build into richly meditative excursions into art, Buddhism, nature, and science. 
   
  Landscape architect Marc Keane shows how Japanese gardens are both a microcosm of the natural universe and a clear expression of our humanity, mirroring how we think, worship, and organize our lives and communities. Filled with passages of alluring beauty, this is a truly transcendent book about "experiencing" Japanese design.

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  Little Republics: The Story of...

  Adrian Duncan

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  Bungalow Bliss, first published in 1971, was a book of house designs that buyers could use to build a home for themselves affordably. It first appeared two years before Ireland was to join the EEC as a self-published catalogue by Jack Fitzsimons from his Kells Art Studios in County Meath. He and his wife designed and collated it and printed it locally.
  Fitzsimons sold these books out of his car to newsagents, petrol garages and bookshops.
  Over the course of thirty years, Fitzsimons sold over a quarter of a million copies of his catalogue. The first edition contained twenty designs – the final edition contained two hundred and sixty.
  This guidebook of how to build your own home radically transformed housing in Ireland. Now, for the first time, author and structural engineer Adrian Duncan looks at the cultural impact that Bungalow Bliss and the accessible bungalow design had on the housing market, the Irish landscape, and on the individual families who made these bungalows their homes.

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  Adorning the Dark - Thoughts on...

  Andrew Peterson

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  Making something beautiful in a broken world can be harrowing work, and it can’t be done alone.    Over the last twenty years, Andrew Peterson has performed thousands of concerts, published four novels, released ten albums, taught college and seminary classes on writing, founded a nonprofit ministry for Christians in the arts, and executive-produced a film—all in a belief that God calls us to proclaim the gospel and the coming kingdom using whatever gifts are at our disposal. He’s stumbled along the way, made mistake after mistake, and yet has continually encountered the grace of God through an encouraging family, a Christ-centered community of artists in the church, and the power of truth, beauty, and goodness in Scripture and the arts.    While there are many books about writing, none deal first-hand with the intersection of songwriting, storytelling, and vocation, along with nuts-and-bolts exploration of the great mystery of creativity. In Adorning the Dark, Andrew describes six principles for the writing life:      serving the work  serving the audience  selectivity  discernment  discipline  community   Through stories from his own journey, Andrew shows how these principles are not merely helpful for writers and artists, but for anyone interested in imitating the way the Creator interacts with his creation.  This book is both a memoir of Andrew’s journey and a handbook for artists, written in the hope that his story will provide encouragement to others stumbling along in pursuit of a calling to adorn the dark with the light of Christ.  

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  A Streetcar Named Desire

  Tennessee Williams

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  Tennessee Williams’s Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece is one of the most enduring, explosive works in theater. Blanche DuBois, once a well-heeled Southern belle but now alcoholic and destitute, arrives in New Orleans to stay with her sister Stella and her brutish brother-in-law Stanley. And as Stanley terrorizes the fragile Blanche, reality slips slowly away from her. 
   
  
   
  Recorded at KCRW, Santa Monica in May 1998.
   
  
   
  Directed by Martin Jenkins
   
  Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg
   
  
   
  An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast recording, starring:
   
  
   
  Amy Brenneman as Stella
   
  Fred Coffin as Steve and The Man
   
  Vincent D'Onofrio as Stanley
   
  Jamie Hanes as the Doctor
   
  Glenne Headly as Blanche
   
  Lyvingston Holmes as the Matron and others 
   
  Armando Molina as Pablo and the Sailor
   
  Rondi Reed as Eunice and others
   
  David Selby as Mitch
   
  Danny Strauss as the Young Man
   
  
   
  Stage Manager and Live Sound Effects: Tilo Ponder
   
  Recording Engineer: John McCarthy
   
  
   
  Music composed by John Robey, and performed by John Robey, Steve McDade and Jack Zaza.
   
  
   
  A co-production with the BBC and the CBC.

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  Pipeline

  Dominique Morisseau

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  Nya, a dedicated teacher at an inner-city school, is desperate to give her only son opportunities that her own public high school students will never have. When a controversial incident at his private school threatens to get Omari expelled, Nya must confront her own deepest fears to give her son a future. 
   
  Copyright © 2017 Dominique Morisseau All rights reserved. Used by permission. Originally Produced by Lincoln Center Theater in 2017, New York City. Pipeline was commissioned by Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Chicago; Martha Lavey, Artistic Director, David Hawkanson, Executive Director. 
   
  Recorded at The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood in February 2022. 
   
  Directed by Larry Powell 
  Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg 
   
  An L.A. Theatre Works Full-Cast Performance Featuring: 
  Sophina Brown as Nya 
  Eugene Byrd as Dun 
  Demetrius Grosse as Xavier 
  Sharon Lawrence as Laurie 
  X Mayo as Jasmine 
  Uyoata Udi as Omari 
  Karen Malina White as P.A. Announcer 
  Student Voices (Olathe East High School, Olathe, Kansas): Rabiatu Amadu, Calista Wanjiku, Damarion Green-Burk, William Kalihamwe, and Coach Jason Peete 
   
  Senior Producer: Anna Lyse Erikson 
  Prepared for Audio by Mark Holden for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood 
  Recording Engineer, Sound Designer, Editor and Mixer: Charles Carroll 
  Senior Radio Producer: Ronn Lipkin 
  Foley Artist: Jeff Gardner 
  Music by Jimmy Keys, AKA "J. Keys"

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