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What Every Singer Needs to Know About the Body, Fourth Edition

By: Melissa Malde,MaryJean Allen,Kurt-Alexander Zeller

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What Every Singer Needs to Know About the Body, Fourth Edition

By: Melissa Malde,MaryJean Allen,Kurt-Alexander Zeller

What Every Singer Needs to Know About the Body, Fourth Edition gives singers and teachers a Body Mapping resource—from anatomy and physiology to body awareness—that helps them discover and correct misconceptions about how their bodies are designed and how they function. This book provides detailed descriptions of the structures and movements necessary for healthy and efficient body awareness, balance, breathing, phonation, resonance, articulation, and gesture. Many voice books focus on the anatomical facts, but leave singers asking, "How can I apply this to my singing?" What Every Singer Needs to Know About the Body helps to answer that question, providing practical exercises and detailed illustrations. New to This Edition: * Updated and revised content throughout the text * Bulleted review sections for each chapter * New and updated links to recommended videos * Information on Biotensegrity and how it pertains to Body Mapping, along with helpful links to resources on the subject * An expanded glossary What Every Singer Needs to Know About the Body includes audio and video recordings of the exploratory exercises. This book provides the technical foundation for singers of all styles. The authors do not espouse a single method or attempt to teach singing techniques or styles. Rather, they describe the movements of singing with accuracy and detail so that singers may experiment on their own and communicate with each other in a common language.

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What Every Singer Needs to Know About the Body, Fourth Edition

By: Melissa Malde,MaryJean Allen,Kurt-Alexander Zeller

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How Kentucky Became Southern

A Tale of Outlaws, Horse Thieves, Gamblers, and Breeders

By: Maryjean Wall

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How Kentucky Became Southern

A Tale of Outlaws, Horse Thieves, Gamblers, and Breeders

By: Maryjean Wall

The conflicts of the Civil War continued long after the conclusion of the war: jockeys and Thoroughbreds took up the fight on the racetrack. A border state with a shifting identity, Kentucky was scorned for its violence and lawlessness and struggled to keep up with competition from horse breeders and businessmen from New York and New Jersey. As part of this struggle, from 1865 to 1910, the social and physical landscape of Kentucky underwent a remarkable metamorphosis, resulting in the gentile, beautiful, and quintessentially southern Bluegrass region of today. In her debut book, How Kentucky Became Southern: A Tale of Outlaws, Horse Thieves, Gamblers, and Breeders, former turf writer Maryjean Wall explores the post–Civil War world of Thoroughbred racing, before the Bluegrass region reigned supreme as the unofficial Horse Capital of the World. Wall uses her insider knowledge of horse racing as a foundation for an unprecedented examination of the efforts to establish a Thoroughbred industry in late-nineteenth-century Kentucky. Key events include a challenge between Asteroid, the best horse in Kentucky, and Kentucky, the best horse in New York; a mysterious and deadly horse disease that threatened to wipe out the foal crops for several years; and the disappearance of African American jockeys such as Isaac Murphy. Wall demonstrates how the Bluegrass could have slipped into irrelevance and how these events define the history of the state. How Kentucky Became Southern offers an accessible inside look at the Thoroughbred industry and its place in Kentucky history.

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University Press of Kentucky

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081312607X

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9780813126074

Madam Belle

Sex, Money, and Influence in a Southern Brothel

By: Maryjean Wall

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Madam Belle

Sex, Money, and Influence in a Southern Brothel

By: Maryjean Wall

The “captivating” true story of the notorious Gilded Age madam who inspired the Belle Watling character in Gone with the Wind (The Wall Street Journal). Belle Brezing made a major career move when she stepped off the streets of Lexington, Kentucky, and into Jennie Hill’s bawdy house—an upscale brothel run out of a former residence of Mary Todd Lincoln. At nineteen, Brezing was already infamous as a youth steeped in death, sex, drugs, and scandal. But it was in Miss Hill’s “respectable” establishment that she began to acquire the skills, manners, and business contacts that allowed her to ascend to power and influence as an internationally known madam. In this revealing book, Maryjean Wall offers a tantalizing true story of vice and power in the Gilded Age South, as told through the life and times of the notorious Miss Belle. After years on the streets and working for Hill, Belle Brezing borrowed enough money to set up her own establishment—her wealth and fame growing alongside the booming popularity of horse racing. Soon, her houses were known internationally, and powerful patrons from the industrial cities of the Northeast courted her in the lavish parlors of her gilt-and-mirror mansion. Secrecy was a moral code in the sequestered demimonde of prostitution in Victorian America, so little has been written about the Southern madam credited with inspiring the character Belle Watling in Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind. Following Brezing from her birth amid the ruins of the Civil War to the height of her scarlet fame and beyond, Wall uses her story to explore a wider world of sex, business, politics, and power. The result is a scintillating tale as enthralling as any fiction.

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813147077

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9780813147079

Cat Massage

A Whiskers to Tail Guide to Your Cat's Ultimate Petting Experience

By: Maryjean Ballner

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A Whiskers to Tail Guide to Your Cat's Ultimate Petting Experience

By: Maryjean Ballner

A Whiskers-to-Tail Guide to Your Cat's Ultimate Petting Experience

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Macmillan

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0312154925

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What Every Singer Needs to Know About the Body, Fourth Edition

What Every Singer Needs to Know About the Body, Fourth Edition

What Every Singer Needs to Know About the Body, Fourth Edition

What Every Singer Needs to Know About the Body, Fourth Edition

How Kentucky Became Southern

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