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Lennon Remembers
Jann S. Wenner.
 
Publisher: Verso
Format: paperback
ISBN: 9781859846001
Daedalus Item Code: 32051
 
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All Available Light: A Marilyn Monroe Reader
Yona Zeldis McDonough, ed.
 
Publisher: Touchstone
Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780684873923
Daedalus Item Code: 32266
 
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Audrey Hepburn: A Charmed Life
Robyn Karney.
Publisher: Skyhorse.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781611455151.  Daedalus Item Code: 31805
 
First published in 1993, and begun when the beloved actress, fashion icon, and humanitarian was still living, Robyn Karney's biography of Audrey Hepburn is filled with large black and white and color ... (Read More)
 
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The Saddest Music Ever Written: The Story of Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings
Thomas Larson.
Publisher: Pegasus.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781605981154.  Daedalus Item Code: 32171
 
In this exploration of the cultural impact of Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings, a work now synonymous with mourning on a national scale, music and literary critic Thomas Larson tells the ... (Read More)
 
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Secular Devotion: Afro-Latin Music and Imperial Jazz
Timothy Brennan.
Publisher: Verso.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781844672912.  Daedalus Item Code: 32057
 
Popular music in the Americas—the secular music of entertainment, nightlife, and leisure, including jazz, Cuban, Latin salsa, club music, and rap—is overwhelmingly African and religious at its roots, ... (Read More)
 
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Making Music: Neville Marriner and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Christian Tyler.
Publisher: Unicorn Press.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781906509040.  Daedalus Item Code: 31793
 
In the history of modern music, the Academy of St Martin in the Fields and its founding director Sir Neville Marriner have had arguably the longest and most productive relationship on record, going ... (Read More)
 
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Hotter Than That: The Trumpet, Jazz, and American Culture
Krin Gabbard.
Publisher: Faber & Faber.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780571211999.  Daedalus Item Code: 31975
 
From ancient Egypt to the royal courts of Europe, from the battlefield to the concert hall, the trumpet has come a long way, suggests Krin Gabbard, but in jazz it is most in its element. Such jazz ... (Read More)
 
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An Orchestra Beyond Borders: Voices of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra
Elena Cheah. Daniel Barenboim, foreword.
Publisher: Verso.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9781844674084.  Daedalus Item Code: 32056
 
Bringing together young musicians from Palestine, Israel, and other countries of the Middle East, the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra was founded by Daniel Barenboim and Edward Said in 1999 to promote ... (Read More)
 
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Coffee with Marilyn
Yona Zeldis McDonough. Gloria Steinem, foreword.
Publisher: Duncan Baird.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781844835102.  Daedalus Item Code: 30875
 
Interviewer: "How did you feel when you heard about your first major movie deal?"

Marilyn Monroe: "When Gentlemen Prefer Blondes came out, I was happy—incredibly happy. I remember driving ... (Read More)

 
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New Historical Anthology of Music by Women
James R. Briscoe, ed.
Publisher: Indiana.   Format: spiral.
ISBN: 9780253216830.  Daedalus Item Code: 31949
 
This substantial, spiral-bound anthology features 55 compositions by 46 women composers from the ancient Greeks to the present, including Clara Schumann, Amy Beach, Hildegard of Bingen, Cécile ... (Read More)
 
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Rene Blum & the Ballets Russes: In Search of a Lost Life
Judith Chazin-Bennahum.
Publisher: Oxford.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780195399332.  Daedalus Item Code: 30727
 
(A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2011) This biography of a fascinating cultural hero by a former ballet dancer uncovers the life of a brilliant writer and producer who perished ... (Read More)
 
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Empire of Dreams: The Epic Life of Cecil B. DeMille
Scott Eyman.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780743289559.  Daedalus Item Code: 32258
 
"[Cecil B.] DeMille wasn't the sole originator of the huger-than-huge Hollywood movie, but he was one of its most successful purveyors. And unlike some silent-film auteurs, DeMille made the change to ... (Read More)
 
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