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What is poetry? If music is sound organized in a particular way, poetry is a way of organizing language. It is language made special so that it will be remembered and valued. It does not always work--over the centuries countless thousands of poems have been forgotten. This little history is about some that have not. John Carey tells the stories behind the world's greatest poems, from the oldest surviving one written nearly four thousand years ago...
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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
Traces the development of jazz music from its origins in New Orleans through the late twentieth century, examining the different forms the music has taken throughout the years, telling of great moments in jazz history, and discussing some of the genre's most significant performers.
Author
Publisher
Continuum
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Challenges assumptions about the history of jazz and chronicles the genre's evolution over the course of the twentieth century, discussing its origins, its international scope from the 1920s on, and late-twentieth-century jazz developments including free jazz, jazz rock, and the influence of world music.
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Comedy is king. From multimillion-dollar TV specials to sold-out stand-up shows and TikTok stardom, comedy has never been more popular, democratized, or influential. Comedians have become organizing forces across culture--as trusted as politicians and as fawned-over as celebrities--yet comedy as an art form has gone under-considered throughout its history, even as it has ascended as a cultural force. In Comedy Book, Jesse David Fox--the country's...
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A brilliant examination of literary invention through the ages, from ancient Mesopotamia to Elena Ferrante, showing how writers created technical breakthroughs as sophisticated and significant as any in science, and in the process, engineered enhancements to the human heart and mind"--
8) Ah, music!
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2003
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IL: LG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Surveys the history and components of music, concentrating on Western musical traditions.
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