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Author : Peter Clayton
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Bluffer's Guide to Jazz written by Peter Clayton and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Barnes
Publisher : Haynes Publishing UK
ISBN 13 : 9781785212420
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)
Download or read book Bluffer's Guide To Jazz written by Paul Barnes and published by Haynes Publishing UK. This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Instantly acquire all the knowledge you need to pass as an expert in the world of jazz. Never again confuse your corn with your jam, your mouldy fig with your funky smelly, or your hep with your hip. Bask in the admiration of your fellow enthusiasts as you explain the difference between bebop and hard bop, and pronounce confidently about the provenance of the word ‘jazz’ (and, indeed, ‘boogie’).
Author : Keith Hann
Publisher : Bluffer's Guides
ISBN 13 : 9781909365926
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Bluffer's Music Collection written by Keith Hann and published by Bluffer's Guides. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The perfect gift for the music lover in your life. Instantly acquire all the knowledge needed to pass as an expert in the worlds of Jazz, Opera and Rock. Never again be found wanting when asked why all amps 'go to 11' or what the difference is between bebop and hard bop and castrato and contralto. But above all, learn how to hold your own against even the most sneering of music aficionados.
Author : Peter Clayton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781902825106
Total Pages : 63 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)
Download or read book Bluff Your Way in Jazz written by Peter Clayton and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Anon""It's a pretty safe bet, if an unfamiliar 1940s/50s name crops up in conversation, that you can easily get away with saying: 'Oh, yes. Parker roomed with him for a time.' Even if he didn't, nobody is going to be sure enough to say so. And it somehow makes the unknown musician seem a better player.""" "Louisiana""The decrepit state of their instruments and the decrepit state of the players who all drank heavily or smoked marijuana tended to give genuine New Orleans jazz the flavor of fried boots.""" "Jazz legends""Bolden's main claim to fame was the loudness of his playing; it being said, with the straightest of faces, that he could be heard "fourteen miles away on a clear night." As nobody who was fourteen miles away at the time has ever come forward to verify this, it is yet another jazz legend that has to be treated with a modicum of suspicion.""" "A state of mind""Anyone looking for a clear definition of the blues, even in the most scholarly books, will be told that blues are fundamentally a state of mind. The spirit of the blues inhabits all true jazz. It's what makes it "funky.""
Author : Keith Hann
Publisher : Bluffer's Guides
ISBN 13 : 9781909365681
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Bluffer's Guide to Opera written by Keith Hann and published by Bluffer's Guides. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Instantly acquire all the knowledge you need to pass as an expert in the world of opera. Never again confuse a castrato with a contralto, a prima donna with sopratitoli, or O Sole Mio with an ice cream advert. Bask in the admiration of your fellow opera lovers as you pronounce confidently on the merits of Donizetti’s bel canto over Wagner’s leitmotiv, and hold your own against the most sneering of opera buffs.
Author : Sally Whitehill
Publisher : Bluffer's Guides
ISBN 13 : 9781909365162
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Bluffer's Guide to Insider Hollywood written by Sally Whitehill and published by Bluffer's Guides. This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Instantly acquire all the inside information and shortcuts you need to survive in the most venal and treacherous town on Earth. Never again confuse leverage with loyalty, the honeywagon with a four-banger, or the Golden Globes with some absolutely essential cosmetic surgery. Bask in the admiration of your fellow Hollywood wannabes as you pronounce confidently on what to do, what to say and where to be seen, and hold your own against the most ruthless and double-dealing of backstabbers.
Author : Francis Coleman
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)
Download or read book Bluff Your Way in Opera written by Francis Coleman and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eamonn Forde
Publisher : Bluffer's Guides
ISBN 13 : 9781909365728
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Bluffer's Guide to Rock Music written by Eamonn Forde and published by Bluffer's Guides. This book was released on 2013-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Instantly acquire all the knowledge you need to pass as an expert in the world of rock music. Never again be found wanting when asked why all amps ‘go to 11’, why a surprising number of late rockers are members of the ‘27 Club’, why you should always insist that while Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era,1965-1968 is as holy a rock relic as they come, it doesn’t hold a candle to Pebbles, and why the ‘toilet circuit’ is no way to describe the glamorous world of touring.
Author : Peter Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780723401193
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)
Download or read book Bluff Your Way in Folk and Jazz written by Peter Williams and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eri Hotta
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0385350511
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)
Download or read book Japan 1941 written by Eri Hotta and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-10-29 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking history that considers the attack on Pearl Harbor from the Japanese perspective and is certain to revolutionize how we think of the war in the Pacific. When Japan launched hostilities against the United States in 1941, argues Eri Hotta, its leaders, in large part, understood they were entering a war they were almost certain to lose. Drawing on material little known to Western readers, and barely explored in depth in Japan itself, Hotta poses an essential question: Why did these men—military men, civilian politicians, diplomats, the emperor—put their country and its citizens so unnecessarily in harm’s way? Introducing us to the doubters, schemers, and would-be patriots who led their nation into this conflagration, Hotta brilliantly shows us a Japan rarely glimpsed—eager to avoid war but fraught with tensions with the West, blinded by reckless militarism couched in traditional notions of pride and honor, tempted by the gambler’s dream of scoring the biggest win against impossible odds and nearly escaping disaster before it finally proved inevitable. In an intimate account of the increasingly heated debates and doomed diplomatic overtures preceding Pearl Harbor, Hotta reveals just how divided Japan’s leaders were, right up to (and, in fact, beyond) their eleventh-hour decision to attack. We see a ruling cadre rich in regional ambition and hubris: many of the same leaders seeking to avoid war with the United States continued to adamantly advocate Asian expansionism, hoping to advance, or at least maintain, the occupation of China that began in 1931, unable to end the second Sino-Japanese War and unwilling to acknowledge Washington’s hardening disapproval of their continental incursions. Even as Japanese diplomats continued to negotiate with the Roosevelt administration, Matsuoka Yosuke, the egomaniacal foreign minister who relished paying court to both Stalin and Hitler, and his facile supporters cemented Japan’s place in the fascist alliance with Germany and Italy—unaware (or unconcerned) that in so doing they destroyed the nation’s bona fides with the West. We see a dysfunctional political system in which military leaders reported to both the civilian government and the emperor, creating a structure that facilitated intrigues and stoked a jingoistic rivalry between Japan’s army and navy. Roles are recast and blame reexamined as Hotta analyzes the actions and motivations of the hawks and skeptics among Japan’s elite. Emperor Hirohito and General Hideki Tojo are newly appraised as we discover how the two men fumbled for a way to avoid war before finally acceding to it. Hotta peels back seventy years of historical mythologizing—both Japanese and Western—to expose all-too-human Japanese leaders torn by doubt in the months preceding the attack, more concerned with saving face than saving lives, finally drawn into war as much by incompetence and lack of political will as by bellicosity. An essential book for any student of the Second World War, this compelling reassessment will forever change the way we remember those days of infamy.
