From tribal celebrations to Main Street parades, music has always been a central aspect of human culture. This series uses vivid photographs and clear, descriptive text to help young readers explore the history of some of our best-known instruments. Photographs also illustrate related, lesser-known instruments. These titles provide an excellent starting point for young readers beginning to learn the value of music.
Childhood is a great time for exploring the world's sights and sounds--and for developing a lifelong interest in music! Our Music Makers series features easy-to-read text and colorful, well-chosen photos that provide a kid-friendly introduction to some of their favorite instruments. Glossary terms and recommended sources for further information encourage readers to explore the subject in greater depth.
America tells its stories through song. Consolation to the lovelorn, courage to the oppressed, warning to the naive, or a ticket to the Promised Land, a great song can deliver the wisdom of ages directly to our souls. We Are the Music Makers! presents black-and-white portraits of artists who carry these songs from past to present: fathers and mothers, uncles and aunts, daughters and sons, grandparents and neighbors, who continue to lovingly stir the South's musical stew and feed American culture outside the realm of conventional fame and fortune. Newly available in paperback, this book features intimate photographs that will make you look more closely at the unrecognized greatness that surrounds us all.
From tribal celebrations to Main Street parades, music has always been a central aspect of human culture. This series uses vivid photographs and clear, descriptive text to help young readers explore the history of some of our best-known instruments. Photographs also illustrate related, lesser-known instruments. These titles provide an excellent starting point for young readers beginning to learn the value of music.
This is the perfect journal for artists, creative spirits, and anyone who approaches the world with a dash of daring. This distinctive journal makes a statement with bold sentiments, modern typography, and artwork by a contemporary designer. Pages feature periodic typeset quotations enhanced with striking designs, and theres lots of space for capturing the days thoughts, musings, and prose.
When he was in graduate school in the late 1980s, Timothy Duffy began documenting the "roots" music styles of largely forgotten southern musicians in a series of field recordings. Recognizing that too many artists working in these traditions--blues, R&B, hillbilly music, and other now increasingly popular forms--had been either ignored or taken advantage of by mainstream record labels and music media and were living in poverty as a result, Duffy established the Music Maker Relief Foundation to help these forgotten pioneers meet their basic needs and nourish their souls by committing their gifts to archival recordings and reviving performance careers. This book, available for the first time in paperback, features photographs, biographies, interviews, and lyrics from sixty-six real and rooted originals such as Beverly "Guitar" Watkins, Cootie Stark, Mudcat, Macavine Hayes, and Drink Small. The music of America exists in these largely forgotten artists who link us back to our earliest history.
Not many Australian artists can boast of designing clothes for Josephine Baker and Colette, in Paris in the 1920s, or of having served in the French Foreign Legian. Austraian born, with more than 50 years spent in Australia, Kahan has sketched and painted musicians for most of this time.
