Dexter Hall's Books

Triple Exposure

Black, Jewish and Red in the 1950s

By: Dexter Jeffries

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Triple Exposure

Black, Jewish and Red in the 1950s

By: Dexter Jeffries

With a writing style alive with the rhythms and riffs of jazz, Jeffries deftly examines the questions of identity, race and family in a provocative, moving and often hilarious memoir. Too light to be black, too dark to be white, finding a place in race-conscious American society as the son of a black father and Jewish mother was a challenging journey for the author. Following a different path to his more wayward siblings, he discovers conflicts within himself that have as much to do with Kafka as with Ellison. The truth he learns - you must create yourself.

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Dafina Books

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0758201141

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9780758201140

Concert Lighting

Techniques, Art and Business

By: James Moody,Paul Dexter

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Concert Lighting

Techniques, Art and Business

By: James Moody,Paul Dexter

Get ready to pack your bags and go on tour with the most trusted and comprehensive text for concert lighting. With a special focus on rock and roll, learn how to use computer aided drafting, moving luminaires, learn about the people and the history that shaped the field and more. Expand your design possibilities by learning about cross-media use of concert lighting techniques and their application in film, video, theatre and the corporate world. From snagging those precious contracts to knowing the best equipment to use to designing a show, Concert Lighting: Techniques, Art and Business covers everything you need to know. * New Information on computer aided drafting and visualization programs, moving luminaires, digital luminaires and media servers, LED luminaires, new Protocol devices and more to keep you up to date with the most cutting edge trends * Everything a professional needs to know from fighting for contracts to the ins and outs of designing a show by current leading designers: Jeff Ravitz, Andi Watson, Paul Dexter, and legendary Broadway designer Richard Pilbrow * Learn how to light rock-and-roll concerts and use the same techniques in film, video, theatre other medias * Interviews with three established, multi-platinum touring recording artists.

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329

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Taylor & Francis

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1136082700

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9781136082702

Black Skinhead

Reflections on Blackness and Our Political Future

By: Brandi Collins-Dexter

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Black Skinhead

Reflections on Blackness and Our Political Future

By: Brandi Collins-Dexter

**A New York Times Editors' Choice Pick** **One of Kirkus Reviews' Best Nonfiction Books of 2022** "Political activist Collins-Dexter’s essay collection is timely as well as pointed. In it, she argues that Democrats have taken Black voters for granted, and that the consequences of this mistake have already begun — and will accelerate." —The New York Times,"15 Works of Nonfiction to Read This Fall" For fans of Bad Feminist and The Sum of Us, Black Skinhead sparks a radical conversation about Black America and political identity. In Black Skinhead, Brandi Collins-Dexter, former Senior Campaign Director for Color Of Change, explores the fragile alliance between Black voters and the Democratic party. Through sharp, timely essays that span the political, cultural, and personal, Collins-Dexter reveals decades of simmering disaffection in Black America, told as much through voter statistics as it is through music, film, sports, and the baffling mind of Kanye West. While Black Skinhead is an outward look at Black votership and electoral politics, it is also a funny, deeply personal, and introspective look at Black culture and identity, ultimately revealing a Black America that has become deeply disillusioned with the failed promises of its country. ---------------------------------------------------- We had been told that everything was fine, that America was working for everyone and that the American Dream was attainable for all. But for those who had been paying attention, there had been warning signs that the Obamas’ version of the American Dream wasn’t working for everyone. That it hadn’t been working for many white Americans was immediately and loudly discussed, but the truth—and what I set out to write this book about—was that it hadn’t been working for many Black Americans either. For many, Obama’s vision had been more illusion than reality all along. When someone tells you everything is fine, but around you, you see evidence that it’s not, where will the quest to find answers lead you? As I went on the journey of writing this book, I found a very different tale about Black politics and Black America, one that countered white America’s long-held assumption that Black voters will always vote Democrat—and even that the Democratic party is the best bet for Black Americans. My ultimate question was this: how are Black people being led away—not towards—each other, and what do we lose when we lose each other? What do we lose when, to quote Kanye West, we feel lost in the world.

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Celadon Books

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1250824117

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9781250824110

Jubilee's Experiment

The British West Indies and American Abolitionism

By: Dexter J. Gabriel

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Jubilee's Experiment

The British West Indies and American Abolitionism

By: Dexter J. Gabriel

Dexter J. Gabriel's Jubilee's Experiment is a thorough examination of how the emancipated British Caribbean colonies entered into the debates over abolition and African American citizenship in the US from the 1830s through the 1860s. It analyzes this public discourse, created by black and white abolitionists, and African Americans more generally in antebellum America, as both propaganda and rhetoric. Simultaneously, Gabriel interweaves the lived experiences of former slaves in the West Indies – their daily acts of resistance and struggles for greater freedoms – to further augment but complicate this debate. An important and timely intervention, Jubilee's Experiment argues that the measured success of former slaves in the West Indies became a crucial focal point in the struggle against slavery in antebellum North America.

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622

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Cambridge University Press

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1108982220

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9781108982221

Paris Trout

A Novel

By: Pete Dexter

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Paris Trout

A Novel

By: Pete Dexter

Pete Dexter’s National Book Award–winning tour de force tells the mesmerizing story of a shocking crime that shatters lives and exposes the hypocrisies of a small Southern town. The time and place: Cotton Point, Georgia, just after World War II. The event: the murder of a fourteen-year-old black girl by a respected white citizen named Paris Trout, who feels he’s done absolutely nothing wrong. As a trial looms, the crime eats away at the social fabric of Cotton Point, through its facade of manners and civility. Trout’s indifference haunts his defense lawyer; his festering paranoia warps his timid, quiet wife; and Trout himself moves closer to madness as he becomes obsessed with his cause—and his vendettas. Praise for Paris Trout “A masterpiece, complex and breathtaking . . . [Pete] Dexter portrays his characters with marvelous sharpness.”—Los Angeles Times “A psychological spellbinder that will take your breath away and probably interfere with your sleep.”—The Washington Post Book World “Dexter’s brilliant understanding of the Deep South has allowed him to capture much of its essence—its bitter class distinctions, its violence, its strangeness—with a fidelity of detail and an ear for speech that I have rarely encountered since Flannery O’Connor.”—William Styron “Dexter’s powerfully emotional novel doesn’t have any brakes. Hang on, because you won’t be able to stop until the finish.”—Chicago Tribune

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321

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Random House

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081298739X

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9780812987393

The Dream of Perpetual Motion

By: Dexter Palmer

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The Dream of Perpetual Motion

By: Dexter Palmer

Imprisoned for life aboard a zeppelin that floats high above a fantastic metropolis, greeting-card writer Harold Winslow pens his memoirs. His only companions are the disembodied voice of Miranda Taligent, the only woman he has ever loved, and the cryogenically frozen body of her father, Prospero, the genius and industrial magnate who drove her insane. As Harold heads toward a last desperate confrontation with Prospero to save Miranda's life, he finds himself an unwitting participant in the creation of the greatest invention of them all: the perpetual motion machine. Beautifully written, stunningly imagined, and wickedly funny, Dexter Palmer's The Dream of Perpetual Motion is a heartfelt meditation on the place of love in a world dominated by technology.

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Macmillan

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1429959177

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9781429959179

Knight of Chaos

By: Dexter C. Herron

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Knight of Chaos

By: Dexter C. Herron

The Knights of the gods, revered and dutiful mortals imbued with awesome power and authority to protect and defend, discover a terrifying murder that leaves a young girl orphaned and traumatized. The deranged killer is one of their own, but his horrible motive springs from their own, sin riddled pasts and is only a harbinger of an iniquitous beguiler’s apocalyptic vengeance to throw open the gates of hell to destroy both heaven and earth! Knight of Chaos is rich with intrigue, action, and suspense with chunks of humor tossed in that will transport the reader beyond the Re-awakening of time to the land of Mortalroam, a wondrous, visually stunning, enveloping world filled with characters that are distinct and detailed, each with their own “voice”, charm, and appeal, enticing, from first chapter to last.

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666

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Author House

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1410747778

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9781410747778

A Good Quire of Voices: The Provision of Choral Music at St.George's Chapel, Windsor Castle and Eton College, c.1640-1733

The Provision of Choral Music at St.George's Chapel, Windsor Castle and Eton College, c.1640-1733

By: Keri Dexter

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A Good Quire of Voices: The Provision of Choral Music at St.George's Chapel, Windsor Castle and Eton College, c.1640-1733

The Provision of Choral Music at St.George's Chapel, Windsor Castle and Eton College, c.1640-1733

By: Keri Dexter

This title was first published in 2002: Until relatively recently, musicologists' account of church music in post-Restoration and early Georgian England has been substantially incomplete due to an almost exclusive preoccupation with the music and musicians of the Chapel Royal. The balance is now being redressed and this book begins the task of filling one of the remaining gaps in our understanding of the field. The volume represents a detailed examination of the practical workings of a choral foundation during the later 17th and early 18th centuries, placing the musicians within their wider historical and social contexts, and based on a comprehensive survey of extant archival material.

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Routledge

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1351735497

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9781351735490

American Book-Plates

By: Charles Dexter Allen

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American Book-Plates

By: Charles Dexter Allen

Reproduction of the original: American Book-Plates by Charles Dexter Allen

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3734080290

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9783734080296

The Pious Insurrection: The Reaping

By: Dexter Morgenstern

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The Pious Insurrection: The Reaping

By: Dexter Morgenstern

This is how the world ends: The innocent kill. Those killers lead. That is the nature of war, which ravages the province of Evigönda. For a breath, there is peace, but the gods' demands pull at the strings. Amos is a mystic who guards Bo, a seer who sacrificed her physical sight to see spirits. Together, they must use her judgment to harvest souls for the Reaping, a sacred mission and necessary evil to maintain the safety of their homeland. Every move they make throws the world into further chaos, and when a scarred veteran makes it his mission to stop the Reaping so he can save his own struggling nation, the body count rises. Shady allies and passionate enemies challenge the morals of piety and righteousness in this gripping fantasy tale.

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Lulu.com

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1483484416

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9781483484419

Book's by Dexter Hall

Triple Exposure

Triple Exposure

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Black Skinhead

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Jubilee's Experiment

Paris Trout

Paris Trout

The Dream of Perpetual Motion

The Dream of Perpetual Motion

Knight of Chaos

Knight of Chaos

A Good Quire of Voices: The Provision of Choral Music at St.George's Chapel, Windsor Castle and Eton College, c.1640-1733

A Good Quire of Voices: The Provision of Choral Music at St.George's Chapel, Windsor Castle and Eton College, c.1640-1733

American Book-Plates

American Book-Plates

The Pious Insurrection: The Reaping

The Pious Insurrection: The Reaping

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