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Hollywood Musicals: The 101 Greatest Song-and-Dance Movies of All Time
Ken Bloom. Jane Powell, foreword.
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781579128487.  Daedalus Item Code: 23641
 
This oversized album is a visual feast celebrating America's most beloved musical films, from My Fair Lady and Singing in the Rain to Moulin Rouge and High School Musical. ... (Read More)
 
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The Hornes: An American Family
Gail Lumet Buckley.
Publisher: Applause.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9781557835642.  Daedalus Item Code: 21791
 
More than a compassionate biography of musical legend Lena Horne, this is a history of a leading African-American family, written by Horne's daughter. Gail Lumet Buckley traces her own as well as her ... (Read More)
 
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The House That Trane Built: The Story of Impulse Records
Ashley Kahn.
Publisher: Norton.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780393330717.  Daedalus Item Code: 21064
 
Following the path of its star musician John Coltrane, Impulse Records cut a creative swath through the 1960s and 70s, producing politically charged avant-garde jazz. Here three-time ASCAP/Deems ... (Read More)
 
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How to Be a Movie Star: Elizabeth Taylor in Hollywood
William J. Mann.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780547134642.  Daedalus Item Code: 11183
 
The biographer of Katharine Hepburn here turns to another Hollywood icon and the last great star of the old studio system; indeed, as William Mann portrays her, Elizabeth Taylor married her first ... (Read More)
 
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I Met the Walrus (with DVD): How One Day with John Lennon Changed My Life Forever
Jerry Levitan. James Braithwaite, illus.
Publisher: Collins Design.   Format: hardcover & DVD.
ISBN: 9780061713262.  Daedalus Item Code: 13796
 
Imagine you've just talked your way into John Lennon's hotel room in Toronto, but instead of being thrown out, you're invited to spend the day with your idol. That's what happened to 14-year-old ... (Read More)
 
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John Lennon: The Illustrated Biography
Gareth Thomas.
Publisher: Transatlantic Press.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781907176661.  Daedalus Item Code: 23630
 
In 200 page-filling black and white photos from the archives of London's Daily Mail, this album chronicles the singular musical career of John Lennon, from his days with the Quarry Men in ... (Read More)
 
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Just Kids
Patti Smith.
Publisher: Ecco.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780060936228.  Daedalus Item Code: 29183
 
(National Book Award winner) This incandescent memoir by Rock and Roll Hall of Fame poet Patti Smith well earned the 2010 National Book Award for nonfiction. It is a swift, moving portrait of ... (Read More)
 
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Leonard Bernstein: American Original: How a Modern Renaissance Man Transformed Music and the World During His New York Philharmonic Years, 1943–1976
Burton Bernstein & Barbara B. Haws.
Publisher: Collins.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780061537868.  Daedalus Item Code: 13797
 
The essays within this career portrait do not simply retell the Leonard Bernstein story; instead, Bernstein's brother Burton, together with New York Philharmonic archivist and historian Barbara Haws, ... (Read More)
 
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Life in Opera: Truth, Tempo, and Soul: Encounters with Stars, Innovators, and Leaders of Today's Opera World
Maria-Cristina Necula.
Publisher: Amadeus Press.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781574671797.  Daedalus Item Code: 21788
 
Romanian-born writer, poet, and singer Maria-Cristina Necula takes readers behind the glamour of grand opera with this candid look at life in the opera world, interviewing such performers and ... (Read More)
 
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Living Opera
Joshua Jampol.
Publisher: Oxford.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780195381382.  Daedalus Item Code: 30711
 
Named one of the Best Music Books of 2010 by London's Independent, this is a fascinating collection of 20 wide-ranging interviews with the preeminent opera professionals working on and behind ... (Read More)
 
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Madame Butterfly: The Story of the Opera by Giacomo Puccini
Giacomo Puccini. Retold by J. Alison James. Renata Fucikova, illus.
Publisher: Purple Bear.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781933327044.  Daedalus Item Code: 10862
 
The delicate young geisha Cho-Cho-san—Madame Butterfly—weds the callow Lieutenant Pinkerton, not knowing that the marriage is merely a convenience for him while he stays in Japan. When his ship ... (Read More)
 
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Mae West: Movie Icons
Dominique Mainon & James Ursini. Paul Duncan, ed.
Publisher: Taschen.   Format: flexi-binding.
ISBN: 9783822823217.  Daedalus Item Code: 20106
 
An actress, playwright, novelist, and provocateur, Mae West is quite literally the reason why Hollywood created its Production Codes to censor movies. From her vaudeville beginnings through She ... (Read More)
 
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