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Jun. 13.

Al Agua Pato Latin American Music for Children

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Al Agua Pato Latin American Music for Children

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…based on authentic Latin American songs… splendid job of bringing Latin American culture to life for children… –Nancy C. Rhodes , Director, Foreign Language Education, Center for Applied Linguistics, September 2005

Brand new arrangements of Latin American favorites and original compositions inspired on styles such as son, merengue and swing. Contains sing-along songs, tongue-twisters and activity songs. Great for kids who are learning Spanish as a second language. In this playful musical journey to Latin America, they bring us the music that Latin parents, grandparents and teachers sing with their children. You will hear new renditions of traditional songs to sing along and dance, and a few tongue twisters with a twist.

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Jun. 13.

Ken Burns Jazz: The Story of American Music [Box set, Original recording remastered]

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Ken Burns Jazz: The Story of American Music

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This five-CD box set soundtrack to filmmaker Ken Burns’s 10-part, 19-hour documentary Jazz spans nearly a century of jazz styles, from the martial rhythms of James Reese Europe to the soul-jazz of Grover Washington Jr. It includes time-tested classics like Benny Goodman’s 1938 classic, “Sing, Sing, Sing”; John Coltrane’s chanting 1965 immortal track, “A Love Supreme”; Billie Holiday’s blue-ember ballad, “God Bless the Child”; and Ella Fitzgerald peeling off “A-Tisket A-Tasket.” Bebop is represented by Charlie Parker’s orchestral bop version of “Just Friends”; Thelonious Monk’s nocturnal calling card, “‘Round Midnight”; and Dizzy Gillespie’s “Salt Peanuts” and “Groovin’ High.” The jazz-instrumentalist-as-singer comes to life on Coleman Hawkins’s “Body and Soul” and Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers’ “Doodlin’.” Clifford Brown and Max Roach’s “I Get a Kick out of You” epitomizes the hard-bop era, while Miles Davis’s “So What” stands as the modal masterpiec (more…)

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Jun. 13.

Desperate Man Blues: Discovering the Roots of American Music (2006)

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Jun. 13.

Delta Blues: The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music [Paperback]

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Delta Blues: The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music

From Publishers Weekly

Starred Review. Gioia (The History of Jazz) succeeds admirably in the daunting task of crafting a comprehensive history of the art form known as the blues, depicting the life story of the music from its cradle in the Mississippi Delta all the way to its worldwide influence on contemporary sounds. His sweeping examination focuses on the legends in detail, including Charley Patton, Son House, Tommy Johnson, Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Howlin’ Wolf, B.B. King and many more. He often deconstructs myths, such as the story that both Tommy Johnson and Robert Johnson made midnight deals with the devil at the crossroads, and digs deep to clarify many murky stories, including untruths and wild speculations about the life and early death of Robert Johnson. His narrative follows the northern migration of the blues to Chicago, where Muddy Waters recorded for Chess Records, and along the way he analyzes the influence of Delta blues on Elvis, (more…)

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Jun. 13.

How the Beatles Destroyed Rock n Roll : An Alternative History of American Popular Music (Kindle Edition)

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How the Beatles Destroyed Rock n Roll : An Alternative History of American Popular Music

From Bookmarks Magazine

Revisiting original sources to understand how music has been received over the past century, Wald neatly traces the evolution of popular music. As with many books that set out to prove sensational claims in the title (the Christian Science Monitor calls the book’s tag “blatantly disingenuous”), Wald’s work doesn’t really deliver on its claim (or, in fact, pay it a great deal of attention). But look past the title, and readers will discover that even when he’s not being provocative, Wald can be thought-provoking, as in his profiles of lesser-known musicians and their influence on subsequent generations of musicians. Those pieces complement more mainstream — and, in Wald’s hands, refreshingly honest — discussions of superstars and issues of race and gender. The result, despite the Los Angeles Times’s sharp criticism of the thesis, is both passionate and informative.

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Jun. 13.

How the Beatles Destroyed Rock n Roll: An Alternative History of American Popular Music [Hardcover]

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How the Beatles Destroyed Rock n Roll: An Alternative History of American Popular Music

From Bookmarks Magazine

Revisiting original sources to understand how music has been received over the past century, Wald neatly traces the evolution of popular music. As with many books that set out to prove sensational claims in the title (the Christian Science Monitor calls the book’s tag “blatantly disingenuous”), Wald’s work doesn’t really deliver on its claim (or, in fact, pay it a great deal of attention). But look past the title, and readers will discover that even when he’s not being provocative, Wald can be thought-provoking, as in his profiles of lesser-known musicians and their influence on subsequent generations of musicians. Those pieces complement more mainstream — and, in Wald’s hands, refreshingly honest — discussions of superstars and issues of race and gender. The result, despite the Los Angeles Times’s sharp criticism of the thesis, is both passionate and informative.

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Jun. 13.

Mexican American Mojo: Popular Music, Dance, and Urban Culture in Los Angeles, 1935–1968 (Refiguring American Music) [Paperback]

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Mexican American Mojo: Popular Music, Dance, and Urban Culture in Los Angeles, 1935–1968 (Refiguring American Music)

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“Mexican American Mojo is a timely and engaging work that thoroughly demonstrates the development of popular Mexican American culture in mid-twentieth-century Los Angeles. Anthony Macias has written an illuminating and remarkable study that belongs in the library of anyone interested in Mexican American culture.”–Raul A. Fernandez, author of From Afro-Cuban Rhythms to Latin Jazz “I am especially excited by the interviews Anthony Macias conducted, which foreground perspectives long missing from scholarship on jazz, swing, and R & B. Macias’s method of looking at Los Angeles’s social geography of race and ethnicity ‘through a prism of popular music’ will be of great interest to those interested in the histories of popular music, Mexican America, and Los Angeles.”–Sherrie Tucker, author of Swing Shift: “All-Girl” Bands of the 1940s “Macias’ Mexican American Mojo is a fascinating account of Mexican American urban culture – in particular popular music, dance styles (more…)

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Jun. 13.

Beach Boys – An American Band / Brian Wilson – I Just Wasn’t Made for These Times (1995)

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Beach Boys - An American Band / Brian Wilson - I Just Wasn't Made for These Times

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A magnificent DVD pairing for Beach Boys fans, these two stylistically different films here pretty much represent the two sides of “America’s Band.” First up is The Beach Boys: An American Band, made at the height of their Reagan-era resurgence after then Interior Secretary James Watt banned them from performing at the nation’s capitol on the 4th of July. A colorful, upbeat film, it doesn’t entirely gloss over the more downbeat aspects of the Beach Boys saga (parental abuse, mental illness, uncomfortably tight pants, loads of drugs, and Charles Manson), though it does go out of its way to give the story a happy ending, despite the recent death of drummer Dennis Wilson and the group’s complete creative standstill. However, what it lacks in perspective, it more than makes up for in priceless footage, including Smile-era studio outtakes, the unreleased 1967 concert in Hawaii, numerous TV appearances, and extensive interview footage from the mid-’70s. I Just Was (more…)

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Jun. 13.

American Apparel Sheer Jersey Cotton Scarf – Raw Edge and Many Colors!

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American Apparel Sheer Jersey Cotton Scarf - Raw Edge and Many Colors!

Sheer Jersey Scarf – Features: An all-purpose, comfortable Sheer Jersey cotton scarf. 100% Sheer Jersey cotton, combed for softness and comfort; 93″ X 16″ (2m X 41cm). Made in USA. Makes a Great Gift.

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