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The Secret Life of the American Musical

How Broadway Shows Are Built

By: Jack Viertel

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The Secret Life of the American Musical

How Broadway Shows Are Built

By: Jack Viertel

New York Times Bestseller: “Both revelatory and entertaining . . . Along the way, Viertel provides some fascinating Broadway history.” —The New York Times Book Review Americans invented musicals—and have a longstanding love affair with them. But what, exactly, is a musical? In this book, longtime theatrical producer and writer Jack Viertel takes them apart, puts them back together, sings their praises, and occasionally despairs over their more embarrassing shortcomings. In the process, he shows us how musicals happen, what makes them work, how they captivate audiences, and how one landmark show leads to the next—by design or by accident, by emulation or by rebellion—from Oklahoma! to Hamilton and onward. Beginning with an overture and concluding with a curtain call, with stops in between for “I Want” songs, “conditional” love songs, production numbers, star turns, and finales, Viertel shows us patterns in the architecture of classic shows and charts the inevitable evolution that has taken place in musical theater as America itself has evolved socially and politically. The Secret Life of the American Musical makes you feel like you’re there in the rehearsal room, the front row, and the offices of theater owners and producers as they pursue their own love affair with that rare and elusive beast—the Broadway hit. “A valuable addition to the theater lover’s bookshelf. . . . fans will appreciate the dips into memoir and Viertel’s takes on original cast albums.” —Publishers Weekly “Even seasoned hands will come away with a clearer understanding of why some shows work while others flop.” —Commentary “A showstopper . . . infectiously entertaining.” —John Lahr, author of Notes on a Cowardly Lion “Thoroughly interesting.” —The A.V. Club “The best general-audience analysis of musical theater I have read in many years.” —The Charlotte Observer “Delightful . . . a little bit history, a little bit memoir, a little bit criticism and, for any theater fan, a whole lot of fun.” —The Dallas Morning News

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0374711259

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The Secret Life of the American Musical

How Broadway Shows Are Built

By: Jack Viertel

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The Secret Life of the American Musical

How Broadway Shows Are Built

By: Jack Viertel

Putting it together, bit by bit: an insider’s look at the anatomy of the Broadway musical

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0374256926

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Stealing Through Time

On the Writings of Jack Finney

By: Jack Seabrook

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Stealing Through Time

On the Writings of Jack Finney

By: Jack Seabrook

The writings of twentieth-century author Jack Finney are classic contributions to the genres of science fiction and suspense thrillers in American literature. Two of Finney's novels, The Body Snatchers and Good Neighbor Sam, became the basis of popular films, but it was his time-travel story Time and Again (1970) that won him a devoted following. The novel about an advertising artist who travels back to the New York of the 1880s quickly became a cult favorite, celebrated especially by New Yorkers for its rich descriptions of life in the city at that time. The year of his death, Finney finished the sequel, From Time to Time (1995). In 1955 he published The Body Snatchers, a chilling tale of aliens who emerge from pods in the guise of humans. Many critics interpreted the insidious infiltration by aliens as a cold war allegory that dramatized America's looming fear of a communist invasion, and the 1956 film Invasion of the Body Snatchers was remade twice. Over the course of his career, Finney wrote ten novels, more than 50 short stories, two plays, and a work of nonfiction, all of which are presented and discussed in this book. Also, reproduced in full and analyzed is a series of letters exchanged between Finney and various persons associated with his alma mater, Knox College. These letters give rare insight into Finney's character and demonstrate his personal interest in some of the themes that recur in his fiction. This work begins with an overview of Finney's life and career, presents a complete assessment of the author's works, and concludes with a look at the various ways that Finney's works have been adapted for the stage, television, and film. Also included is the first comprehensive list of Jack Finney's writings ever published.

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McFarland

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0786424370

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9780786424375

Intersecting Film, Music, and Queerness

By: Jack Curtis Dubowsky

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Intersecting Film, Music, and Queerness

By: Jack Curtis Dubowsky

Intersecting Film, Music, and Queerness uses musicology and queer theory to uncover meaning and message in canonical American cinema. This study considers how queer readings are reinforced or nuanced through analysis of musical score. Taking a broad approach to queerness that questions heteronormative and homonormative patriarchal structures, binary relationships, gender assumptions and anxieties, this book challenges existing interpretations of what is progressive and what is retrogressive in cinema. Examined films include Bride of Frankenstein, Louisiana Story, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Blazing Saddles, Edward Scissorhands, Brokeback Mountain, Boys Don't Cry, Transamerica, Thelma & Louise, Go Fish and The Living End, with special attention given to films that subvert or complicate genre. Music is analyzed with concern for composition, intertextual references, absolute musical structures, song lyrics, recording, arrangement, and performance issues. This multidisciplinary work, featuring groundbreaking research, analysis, and theory, offers new close readings and a model for future scholarship.

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Springer

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1137454210

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9781137454218

All You Need to Know About Action Research

By: Jean McNiff,Jack Whitehead

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All You Need to Know About Action Research

By: Jean McNiff,Jack Whitehead

What is action research? Why do action research? When should you use action research? In the second edition of All You Need to Know about Action Research, expert practitioners Jean McNiff and Jack Whitehead guide you through everything you need to know to plan and carry out a successful action research project. The book provides: - A guide to the history and philosophy underpinning action research - Comprehensive coverage of the main theoretical debates in action research - A unique understanding of how action research can help your learning and your professional practice - Practical help in planning your project - Help with writing about your research and disseminating your findings. The second edition has been thoroughly updated throughout, and now includes new real-life case studies from Education, Health and Business. A new chapter on reviewing the literature has been added and the sections on data gathering and analysis have been updated to take into account the latest technological advances. This easy-to-follow overview of action research is essential reading for students, practitioners and seasoned researchers alike. Available with Perusall—an eBook that makes it easier to prepare for class Perusall is an award-winning eBook platform featuring social annotation tools that allow students and instructors to collaboratively mark up and discuss their SAGE textbook. Backed by research and supported by technological innovations developed at Harvard University, this process of learning through collaborative annotation keeps your students engaged and makes teaching easier and more effective. Learn more.

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1446249883

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9781446249888

This Way Berlin

By: Jack Altman

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This Way Berlin

By: Jack Altman

Berlin is well and truly back. Unique among German cities, this mercurial and often eccentric metropolis stands at the crossroads between western and eastern Europe. It Vibrates with life, wit, drama and great music. Mushrooming everywhere are new cafes, nightclubs, luxury boutiques and art galleries. From the skyscrapers of Potsdamer Platz to the palaces of Potsdam, from Unter den Linden to refurbished Friedrichstrasse, This Way Berlin explores the avenues and neighbourhoods of Germany's cosmopolitan new captial.

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Hunter Publishing, Inc

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288452200X

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A Wicked Device

By: Jack Thompson

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A Wicked Device

By: Jack Thompson

This is a tale of loyalty and betrayal. Charlie Barrow, a British journalist with a colourful past now working in Germany, is obsessed by The Movement, a neo-Nazi organisation with growing influence among the young in the former German Democratic Republic. When he witnesses the murder of a member of The Movement in the back streets of Berlin, hes even more determined to delve into a dangerous world where the Far Right maim and kill and plan the assassination of a German chancellor at an anti-Nazi rally close to the Brandenburg Gate the symbol of the division, conflict and violence that overtook Germany in the 20th century. Charlie Barrow is never sure whether his contacts in the police and the security forces, notably with a woman officer with whom he falls in love, are there to help or hinder him or even destroy him altogether. The story takes us into the very core of neo-Nazism, its brutality, its mindless longing for the return of a Fuehrer, and its links to other latter day terrorist organisations, including Al Qaeda.

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AuthorHouse

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142594583X

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9781425945831

Der Seewolf

englisch / deutsch

By: Jack London

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Der Seewolf

englisch / deutsch

By: Jack London

Diese Ausgabe setzt die deutsche Übersetzung neben den englischen Originaltext. Der Ich-Erzähler, Humphrey van Weyden, ein wohlhabender Literaturkritiker und Büchernarr, erleidet in der Bucht von San Francisco Schiffbruch und wird von dem Robbenfänger "Ghost" aufgenommen. Dessen Kapitän Wolf Larsen, der von Moral nichts hält und ein brutales Gewaltregime auf seinem Schoner führt, denkt überhaupt nicht daran, den Schiffbrüchigen an Land zu setzen. So muss van Weyden, zunächst als Küchenjunge, die Fahrt zu den Fanggründen mitmachen und ist dabei nicht nur den Widrigkeiten der harten Arbeit und des Meeres ausgesetzt, sondern muss sich in einem fortwährenden Kampf ums Überleben gegenüber Wolf Larsen behaupten. Eine weitere Wendung nimmt der Roman, als eine Frau an Bord kommt ...

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3758385024

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9783758385025

Buried Treasures

The Power of Political Fairy Tales

By: Jack Zipes

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Buried Treasures

The Power of Political Fairy Tales

By: Jack Zipes

Fascinating profiles of modern writers and artists who tapped the political potential of fairy tales Jack Zipes has spent decades as a “scholarly scavenger,” discovering forgotten fairy tales in libraries, flea markets, used bookstores, and internet searches, and he has introduced countless readers to these remarkable works and their authors. In Buried Treasures, Zipes describes his special passion for uncovering political fairy tales of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, offers fascinating profiles of more than a dozen of their writers and illustrators, and shows why they deserve greater attention and appreciation. These writers and artists used their remarkable talents to confront political oppression and economic exploitation by creating alternative, imaginative worlds that test the ethics and morals of the real world and expose hidden truths. Among the figures we meet here are Édouard Laboulaye, a jurist who wrote acute fairy tales about justice; Charles Godfrey Leland, a folklorist who found other worlds in tales of Native Americans, witches, and Roma; Kurt Schwitters, an artist who wrote satirical, antiauthoritarian stories; Mariette Lydis, a painter who depicted lost-and-found souls; Lisa Tetzner, who dramatized exploitation by elites; Felix Salten, who unveiled the real meaning of Bambi’s dangerous life in the forest; and Gianni Rodari, whose work showed just how political and insightful fantasy stories can be. Demonstrating the uncanny power of political fairy tales, Buried Treasures also shows how their fictional realities not only enrich our understanding of the world but even give us tools to help us survive.

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Princeton University Press

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0691244758

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9780691244754

Schoenberg's Twelve-Tone Music

Symmetry and the Musical Idea

By: Jack Boss

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Schoenberg's Twelve-Tone Music

Symmetry and the Musical Idea

By: Jack Boss

Jack Boss presents detailed analyses of Arnold Schoenberg's twelve-tone pieces, bringing the composer's 'musical idea' - problem, elaboration, solution - to life.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107046866

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9781107046863

Action Research in Organisations

By: Jean McNiff,Jack Whitehead

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Action Research in Organisations

By: Jean McNiff,Jack Whitehead

The current orthodoxy is that 'knowledge' is the most powerful resource for organisational success. So how can managers develop the appropriate knowledge base to make their organisations grow? The answer lies in action research. Action research is increasingly perceived and used as a powerful methodology to promote professional awareness and development. However, there are very few texts that demonstrate how this can be utilised to promote management and organisational improvement or that emphasise the reflective nature of improving professionalism. Action Research in Organisations fills this gap. Aimed at both practising managers and university students alike, key features of this title include: * the location of management and organisational theory within a framework * examination of the principles and practice of action research * real-world examples and case studies of people attempting to improve their own situations through action research.

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Routledge

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1134600577

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9781134600571

Ernst Bloch

The Pugnacious Philosopher of Hope

By: Jack Zipes

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Ernst Bloch

The Pugnacious Philosopher of Hope

By: Jack Zipes

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to and overview of the life and philosophy of Ernst Bloch. Bloch has had a strange fate in the English-speaking world. He wrote his famous three-volume opus, The Principle of Hope, while living in exile in the United States from 1938 to 1940. It was first published, however, in East Germany in the 1950s after he had returned to Europe and became a professor of philosophy at the University of Leipzig. Gradually, his other numerous works became better known and widespread in Europe and scholars in the US and UK started to take note of his works. Yet, he has still remained a somewhat neglected figure in the humanities. While this book does not set out to entirely rectify this neglect, it does offer readers an introduction to Bloch’s works and the opportunity to understand more about the importance of utopian thought. Through an exploration of some of Bloch’s more controversial communist leanings and relationship to the Soviet Union, a study of Bloch’s utopian quest, and even a comparison with J. R. R. Tolkien, this comprehensive study demonstrates just how interesting a figure Ernst Bloch really was, and how his philosophy of hope has laid the basis for secular humanism.

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Springer

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3030211746

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9783030211745

Moeller Kaleidoskop Wkbk/Labman 2ed

By: Jack R. Moeller,Barbara Beckman Sharon

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Moeller Kaleidoskop Wkbk/Labman 2ed

By: Jack R. Moeller,Barbara Beckman Sharon

This intermediate text uses a flexible, four-skills approach to promote communication with a primary emphasis on reading.Kaleidoskop is organized into two main sections, Lektüre and Grammatik. Lektüre features 10 Themen, which present excerpts and complete texts that reflect contemporary Germany, followed by reading comprehension activities, and speaking and writing practice. Grammatik offers a comprehensive grammar review in 10 Kapitel, which recycle and integrate vocabulary used in the Themen and provide proficiency-oriented practice.

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Houghton Mifflin

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0395424186

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9780395424186

The Berlin Pocket Guide

By: Brigitte Lee,Jack Messenger,Jack Altman

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The Berlin Pocket Guide

By: Brigitte Lee,Jack Messenger,Jack Altman

The acclaimed Berlitz Pocket Guides are packed with a world of information. Each guide is carefully researched, fun to read, and easy to use. Whether planning a trip to Berlin for business or pleasure, this guide will help you get the most from your trip. Includes detailed maps and stunning photographs.

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Berlitz Publishing

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2831564131

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9782831564135

The Techniques of Tuba Playing / Die Spieltechnik der Tuba

By: Jack Adler-McKean

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The Techniques of Tuba Playing / Die Spieltechnik der Tuba

By: Jack Adler-McKean

Dieses Buch für die Tuba ist ein Wegbegleiter für Komponisten und Instrumentalisten. Es vertieft das Verständnis für diese eher wenig beachtete Instrumentenfamilie. Für Tubisten bietet das Handbuch die Möglichkeit, neue Klangtechniken ihres Instrumentes näher kennenzulernen und diese besonders im Bereich der Neuen Musik spezifisch einzusetzen. Jack Adler-McKean gibt hilfreiche Anleitungen zu verschiedenen Stimmmechanismen, zu Resonanzeigenschaften, neuen Notationsprinzipien und zeitgenössischen Praktiken. Mit Hilfe neuer Forschungstechniken werden Klangerzeugungs- und -modifikationsprozesse segmentiert und neu aufgebaut, um die breite Palette der klanglichen Besonderheiten der Tubafamilie darzustellen. Viele davon sind auch für andere Blechblasinstrumente anwendbar. Zahlreiche Notenbeispiele und Grafiken erläutern den Text, der zudem durch instruktive Klangbeispiele, herunterladbar von der Bärenreiter-Website, ausgestattet ist.

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Bärenreiter-Verlag

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3761870949

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9783761870945

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The Secret Life of the American Musical

The Secret Life of the American Musical

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Stealing Through Time

Stealing Through Time

Intersecting Film, Music, and Queerness

Intersecting Film, Music, and Queerness

All You Need to Know About Action Research

All You Need to Know About Action Research

This Way Berlin

This Way Berlin

A Wicked Device

A Wicked Device

Der Seewolf

Der Seewolf

Buried Treasures

Buried Treasures

Schoenberg's Twelve-Tone Music

Schoenberg's Twelve-Tone Music

Action Research in Organisations

Action Research in Organisations

Ernst Bloch

Ernst Bloch

Moeller Kaleidoskop Wkbk/Labman 2ed

Moeller Kaleidoskop Wkbk/Labman 2ed

The Berlin Pocket Guide

The Berlin Pocket Guide

The Techniques of Tuba Playing / Die Spieltechnik der Tuba

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