Authors:Debbie Harry, Chris Stein, Victor Bockris,
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Keywords: blondie, rise, tracks, making
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1998-08-21
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 0306808587
ISBN-13: 9780306808586

From the depths of the Bowery to international renown as the hottest rock group in the world, Blondie’s phenomenal success is chronicled by its lead singer, Debbie Harry.

Author: Hans Bernd Gisevius
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Keywords: bitter
Number of Pages: 668
Published: 1998-08-22
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 0306808692
ISBN-13: 9780306808692

"The most exhaustive and authentic-sounding account of the conspiracy to kill Hitler. . . . An intimate, unadorned history of the Third Reich and, entirely incidentally, a very exciting spy-and-counterspy story".--"The New Yorker".

Author: Brendan Gill
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Keywords: wright, lloyd, frank, life, masks
Number of Pages: 544
Published: 1998-08-22
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0306808722
ISBN-13: 9780306808722

A "sensitive yet revealingly iconoclastic" ("Kirkus") biography of Frank Lloyd Wright. "Informative, entertaining, gosspiy, contentious, affectionate, irreverent and, ultimately, reverential".--"Washington Post Book World". 300 illustrations.

Author: Aaron Frankel
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Keywords: musical, broadway, writing
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2000-08
List price: $19.00
ISBN-10: 0306809435
ISBN-13: 9780306809439

A classic updated to include the developments of the 1990s-the first book to explore in detail how to create a Broadway musical Brimming with advice and techniques, this essential reference for book and song writers clearly explains the fundamentals of the three crafts of a musical-book, music, and lyrics. Using copious examples from classic shows, Frankel has created the quintessential musical writers’ how-to. Among the topics: - Definitions of musical theater - Differences between musical books and straight plays and between poetry and lyrics - What a score is and how it develo

Author: Stanley Dance
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Keywords: ellington, duke, world
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 2000-12-28
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 0306810158
ISBN-13: 9780306810152

"The ultimate in art is self-expression, not escape."-Duke Ellington In this fascinating portrait of one of America’s greatest musical legends, longtime friend and jazz historian Stanley Dance recounts the life of the incomparable Duke Ellington in his own words and in the words of the artists who played along with him: longtime co-composer Billy Strayhorn, saxophonists Johnny Hodges and Ben Webster, trumpeters Cootie Williams and Clark Terry, drummer Sonny Greer, vocalist Alice Babs, and organist Wild Bill Davis, among many others. There are also first-hand accounts of Ellington’s

Author: Elizabeth Abbott
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Keywords: celibacy, history
Number of Pages: 496
Published: 2001-05
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0306810417
ISBN-13: 9780306810411

First time in paperback: "An ambitious and wide-ranging history" (The New Yorker) of 3000 years of celibacy, from the vestal virgins of Rome to contemporary athletes. Celibacy is a worldwide practice that is often adopted, rarely discussed. Now, in Elizabeth Abbott’s fascinating and wide-ranging history, it is examined in all its various forms: shaping religious lives, conditioning athletes and shamans, surfacing in classical poetry and camp literature, resonating in the voices of castrati, and perme-ating ancient mythology. Found in every society of the past, practiced by both the an

Author: Jaed Coffin
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Keywords: elephants, wild, soothe, chant
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2008-01-08
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0306815265
ISBN-13: 9780306815263

A simple story of a rain season in Thailand and a young man at the intersection of two cultures. Six years ago at the age of twenty-one, Jaed Muncharoen Coffin, a half-Thai American man, left New England’s privileged Middlebury College to be ordained as a Buddhist monk in his mother’s native village of Panomsarakram--thus fulfilling a familial obligation. While addressing the notions of displacement, ethnic identity, and cultural belonging, A Chant to Soothe Wild Elephants chronicles his time at the temple that rain season--receiving alms in the streets in saffron robes; bathing in