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Learning About Dance: Dance as an Art Form and Entertainment

Author(s): Nora Ambrosio

New Ninth Edition Now Available!Learning about Dance: Dance as an Art Form and Entertainment introduces students to the exciting, daring, ever-changing, and dynamic world of dance.Learning about Dance invites readers to experience the artistry and excitement of the dance world. The publication prese...

History and Tradition of Jazz

Author(s): Thomas E Larson

History and Tradition of Jazz is not just a story of jazz music and musicians, but the struggle to achieve, create, and invent for the sake of this musical art form.  The publication features stories and legends of important events and people who shaped jazz history, while addressing how the music h...

History of Rock and Roll

Author(s): Thomas E Larson

Here’s your backstage pass to the history of rock and roll.Thomas Larson’s History of Rock & Roll connects music and the culture in which it interacted. Designed for the college non-music major, History of Rock & Roll fuses a text, website, and online music library to cover the music’s story of cont...

Our World, Our Music

Author(s): Robert Elliott

Our World, Our Music relates historical and discipline-specific concepts to students’ existing knowledge gained through cultural participation. It addresses past and present, Western and non-Western societies and cultures, examining music in particular, the arts in general, and the societies that su...

Visual Literacy: A Practical Text on the History, Analysis, and Creation of Visual Media

Author(s): PATRICK FLYNN, Kyle Brannon

Since its creation in 1987, Adobe Photoshop has become the industry standard for digital photo editing, offering a variety of techniques in image creation.Visual Literacy: A Practical Text on the History, Analysis, and Creation of Visual Media by Patrick Flynn and Kyle Brannon includes exercises uti...

Arts Integration: Ideas for the Dynamic Classroom Teacher

Author(s): Paula Hunter Schenck, Daryl Worley

An essential guide that explores the building blocks for creating a productive and creative learning environment. Incorporating the arts into everyday classroom lessons increases the ability of a student to not only connect but master the content of the lesson. Student expression through the arts is...

Communicating Literature: An Introduction to Oral Interpretation

Author(s): Todd V Lewis

­The performance of literature discipline seems as vibrant and innovative as ever. The new seventh edition of Communicating Literature: An Introduction to Oral Interpretation reflects changes in the performance of literature since the first edition was published in 1991. The publication offers a ...

Lifting the Fog: New Ways of Seeing Contemporary Cinema

Author(s): James Price

Lifting the Fog: New Ways of Seeing Contemporary Cinema is about how to see film or any piece fo visual art. The 'lifting the fog' metaphor comes form an article by Edward Bullough i nwhich he suggests the fog surrounding a beach is much like the aesthetic experience that all of us experience in und...

Beyond Harmony: An Introduction to Analysis of Form & Structure in Music

Author(s): Gabriel Fankhauser, William Harbinson

Aspiring professional musicians acquire knowledge of a number of diverse topics that fall under the broad heading of music theory. Following the study of harmony, music students typically apply and extend that knowledge to topics as diverse as form, counterpoint, instrumentation, composition, and tw...