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  Thomas Dale: Love Me

  Thomas Dale

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  It is from his world of colorful characters that Thomas Dale draws the true stories he brings to comedy stages across the country. His ability to marry warmth and acceptance with brutal honesty and acute awareness of his surroundings has won over fans and comedy insiders alike. He is a heartwarming, hilarious storyteller who breaks down stereotypes with his fresh, unique voice.

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  Motorcycles Minotaurs & Banjos -...

  Steven Sherrill

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  This book is about twenty-one days, and sixty years. A motorcycle ride down the spine of Appalachia, with a little banjo  and big myth for company, to play and sing at the graves of dead banjo heroes. About making a life about making work. This book is about outsiders. Interlopers. Class migrants. Death. Awakening. Creative Process. Growth through risk-taking. It’s a book about ghosts. Music. Writing. Not writing. What’s this book not about? “Finding myself.” I know who I am.  
  Steven Sherrill is a high school dropout, a nearly retired professor, a family man, a ne'er-do-well banjo player, a motorcyclist, an aquarist, a sonic/video muckraker, and a novelist with five books in the world, one of which (The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break) is a cult classic. 

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  Sonic Boom - The Impossible Rise...

  Peter Ames Carlin

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  The most compelling figures in the Warner Bros. story are the sagacious Mo Ostin and the unlikely crew of hippies, eccentrics, and enlightened execs who were the first in the music business to read the generational writing on the wall in the mid-1960s. By recruiting outsider artists and allowing them to make the music they wanted, Ostin and his staff transformed an out-of-touch company into the voice of a generation. Along the way, they revolutionized the music industry and, within just a few years, created the most successful record label in the history of the American music industry.Ostin ushered in a counterintuitive model that matched the counterculture. His offbeat crew reinvented the way business was done, giving their artists free rein while rejecting out-of-date methods of advertising, promotion, and distribution. And even as they set new standards for in-house weirdness, the upstarts' experiments and innovations paid off, to the tune of hundreds of legendary hit albums.It may sound like a fairy tale, but once upon a time Warner Bros Records conquered the music business by focusing on the music rather than the business. Their story is as raucous as it is inspiring, pure entertainment that also maps a route to that holy grail: love and money.

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  Abbott and Costello: Lou Goes to...

  Bud Abbott, Lou Costello

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  Costello has to get rid of $38,000 before the income tax is due, so the boys visit the race track.

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  Keeping It Active: A Practical...

  Jeannette Nelson

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  Every time you open your mouth on stage you are trying to persuade somebody of something.
  Sometimes referred to as 'the art of persuasion', rhetoric means using language to communicate your ideas and intentions to other people – and to make sure you are heard, understood and believed. This clear and concise guide explains how it works in plays, and how actors can use it to bring their performances to life on stage.
  Drawing on her decades of experience working with actors on major productions, including as Head of Voice at the National Theatre, Jeannette Nelson introduces all the major rhetorical techniques and devices that playwrights use. She offers fascinating breakdowns of dialogue and speeches from across the theatrical canon – from Shakespeare and Ibsen, to Tennessee Williams, Lorraine Hansberry and Arthur Miller, right up to contemporary playwrights such as Helen Edmundson and Tanika Gupta. Each chapter also includes a series of practical exercises which combine spoken word with physical action to help you explore and understand these techniques, and harness their power in performance.
  Whether you're an actor, a director or a drama teacher, Keeping It Active will empower you with a greater understanding of the ways that language underpins all dramatic works, and will give you the tools you need to unlock the text, understand characters, connect with the audience, and perform with greater confidence, focus and authenticity.
  'As this excellent book outlines, rhetoric is everywhere. It's not simply in the parliament, the press conference and the court; it's in the workplace, the home and the family. There's no argument, classical or modern, in a play that isn't informed and helped by Jeannette's work' Josie Rourke, from her Foreword
  'A great resource for actors and directors' Ralph Fiennes
  'Jeannette Nelson's revelatory relationship to language is, quite simply, life-changing' Simon Godwin
  'Jeannette taught me so much... I felt like I could persuade anybody to do anything' Sophie Okonedo

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  If You Can Speak You Can Sing -...

  CeCe Sammy

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  CeCe Sammy is a world-renowned vocal coach who has devised a fun, interactive book and music programme for secondary school students, teachers and parents. This unique how-to guide to singing includes some of CeCe's personal experiences from a career spanning over 20 years and features songs and inspiration. It is designed to encourage open and honest conversation and help young people tackle the modern-day pressures of life - through the power of music!A B7 Media production in association with Eyewear Publishing.

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