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...

The Excellent Instructor and the Teaching of Dance Technique

Author(s): Nora Ambrosio

Dance educators have the responsibility to provide students with excellent and positive dance experiences.The Excellent Instructor & the Teaching of Dance Technique provides practical, detailed information that covers multiple facets of dance pedagogy. Author Nora Ambrosio uses her experience as dan...

Survey of African American Dance and Its Contribution to the African Diaspora

Author(s): Vikki Baltimore-Dale

Survey of African American Dance is an informative panorama of the role of the African American in the development of dance in America. It identifies the influences and contributions of the African American movement aesthetic seen throughout the history of American Dance. Special focus is placed on ...

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...

African American Music for Everyone: Including Theater, Film, and Dance

Author(s): Stan L Breckenridge

African American Music for Everyone: Including Theater, Film, and Dance begins with an exploration of specific music and dance activities among Africans, in Africa, which is followed by a comparative analysis of their musical activities during the African Diaspora. Following this is a study of Colon...

African American Pioneers in Art, Film and Music

Author(s): Naurice Frank Woods

African American Pioneers in Art, Film and Music celebrates the lives and imaginative work of black pioneers who dared venture into fields where many whites staked a claim of almost complete exclusivity. This publication attests to the determination, resiliency, and that talent that many African Ame...

Understanding Screenwriting: A Step-by-Step Approach to Writing Screenplays

Author(s): John Vourlis

Understanding Screenwriting is a step-by-step approach to writing both short and feature film screenplays. The book is a process-oriented guide for teaching students (as well as aspiring screenwriters) how to create well-structured and well-crafted screenplays. The material was developed through yea...

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...