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Shona wants to learn ballet and what all the cool French words mean. She asks for help, and Dreamy the Unicorn comes to her rescue, taking them on a magical and fabulous journey of learning! There is plenty of magic in Dreamy the Unicorn's horn. They meet Tammy, a French ballet teacher, and journey together to a ballet school, a ballet production, and go behind the scenes, while learning key French words used in the world of ballet. Everything you...
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The definitive history of the acid house explosion and its reverberations across popular culture, Adventures In Wonderland has been out of print for more than 20 years. This new edition has been updated slightly, with a new introduction and final chapter.
This is the acid house and rave explosion, as told by the people who lived it: door staff, dancers and drug dealers, gangsters, blaggers and promoters. From the real stories behind the huge illegal...
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Trap music.
With its heavy 808 kicks, stuttering hi-hats and crisp snares, the Trap sound revolutionized music production and took the world by storm.
This book will teach you how to write it.
The author, Angel Dimitrov, is a multi-instrumentalist and producer with a particular interest in electronic music, who plies his trade deep within the underground of Trap music. His belief that anyone can write great music with the correct guidance is his...
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Beginning early in the 1980s, dance-pop music artists in Europe and the UK ignited a high energy firestorm that burned across international borders. As exciting new beats flooded radio airwaves and filled the clubs, a generation of hitmakers got the world on its feet and brought people together as never before. In this book of original interviews, 33 celebrated singers, songwriters, producers and industry professionals who reached the top of the European,...
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Daft Punk's Discovery is a homage to a fascinating, troubled beast of an album that casts a huge shadow over the 21st Century. It's a global view of Discovery as a cultural phenomenon, placing the album at the centre of celebrity culture, fan clubs, video, the music business etc., while also examining its profound musical impact. You can draw lines from Discovery to Glass Swords, Kanye West, EDM, Autotune, iTunes, Beyoncé, Guilty Pleasures, social...
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During the second half of the 1990s, Paris experienced a dance music revolution thanks to groundbreaking artists like Daft Punk, Air, Super Discount, Motorbass, Cassius, Dimitri from Paris, Bob Sinclar and many, many more. It was a scene that became known as French Touch and was heralded throughout the world as the epitome of dance music cool, forever placing Paris on the dance culture map. Journalist and author Martin James was there right from the...
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Un libro de flamenco, pero peculiar. No es solo un poemario apasionado por esa música, 69 poemas como el amor bien compartido, sino un paseo relajado del autor sobre los últimos 50 años del flamenco. Encontramos en Flamenco 69 un poco de todo: arcaicos perfiles e imágenes de antiguos artistas, genuinos ancestros no escuchados en vivo, solo en viejas grabaciones de pizarra, o biografías llenas de tópicos y anécdotas. Pero también hay un hueco...
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Since the dawn of time, humans have had the urge to come together and move to music. It may have started in caves but these days it happens in clubs often found in the shady corners of our towns and cities. Or at least it did until these places began to march to the beat of property developers rather than DJs. In London in the five years to 2016, half of the clubs were lost while a further quarter have been removed in the devastation of Covid. So...
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Coming To Berlin reflects, through the lives and music of migrants, settlers and newcomers, how a constantly in flux city with a tumultuous history has evolved into the de facto cultural capital of Europe. And how at the heart of this, electronic music and club culture play a unique role. A plea for multiculturalism and a love letter to the borderless potential of music, the book breaks the tradition of Berlin's perception as techno ground zero and...
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"Dive into the vibrant world of TikTok with our comprehensive e-book, 'From Beginner to Pro: 30 Chapters on Creating Epic TikTok Dance Videos.' Whether you're a dance enthusiast or a complete novice, this guide is your roadmap to mastering the art of creating show-stopping dance content on the world's favorite short-form video platform. With these in-depth chapters, we take you on a journey from the basics of choreography to the intricacies of advanced...
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La música disco fue el vehículo expresivo que daba voz y solaz a minorías marginadas. Un estandarte de liberación para muchos de ellos. Un generador de subculturas urbanas y una factoría de canciones y álbumes inapelables. Y la proliferación de grandes discotecas en ciudades como Nueva York, su principal fermento y teatro de los sueños de toda una generación.
Esta completa guía no solo servirá al lector para abrirle posibles itinerarios...
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Swedish-born traditional dancer and researcher Mats Melin has worked and performed extensively in the Scottish Highlands, the Hebrides, Orkney and Shetland, in their schools and communities promoting Scottish traditional dance. He has also taught and performed in Sweden, Canada, USA, Russia and New Zealand. Mats has a vast knowledge of all aspects of the Scottish traditional dance scene, but specializes in Cape Breton step dancing. One With the Music...
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From early accounts of dance customs in medieval Ireland to the present, Helen Brennan offers an authoritative look at the evolution of Irish dance. Every type of dance from social to traditional to clergy is included. Brennan takes care to explain the different styles and traditions that evolved from different parts of Ireland, which results in some lively discussions as people reminisce over old favorites. She also discusses how dance evolved to...
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El presente texto es resultado de la primera investigación en danza, desarrollada desde la Facultad de Artes ASAB, procura al ser un proyecto precursor en el país, contribuir a dar soluciones de tipo metodológico y pedagógico en la enseñanza de la danza, reconociendo la pertinencia de cimentar conceptualmente un campo relativamente nuevo en la educación superior. El estudio está enfocado a una técnica de análisis de ejercicios específicos...
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First Floor started small. At first it was just a newsletter, an outlet where veteran electronic music journalist Shawn Reynaldo could write and share his ideas without having to contend with outside editors or cater to social media algorithms. It was a blank canvas, and Reynaldo began to fill it with his extended thoughts on not just electronic music, but the culture and industry that surrounded it. Just a few years later, First Floor now stands...
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De la misma forma que la fotografía captura un paisaje, un monumento o un traje regional, también la música puede recoger el sentir de un pueblo, un país, o una cultura la música nos habla a todos con su lenguaje universal y nos habla de todos con intensidad, transmitiéndonos la esencia de cada país: alemania, austria, españa, francia, holanda, irlanda, italia... leyendo este libro y escuchando su cd podrás revivir felizmente y con emoción...
18) Rocking Chair
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Con questo libro, voglio raccontarvi una storia altrettanto bizzarra e curiosa, una di quelle storie che non ha bisogno di grandi protagonisti, ma di tantissimi personaggi che nella quotidianità chiamiamo comunemente uomini e donne!
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Emerging from Nottingham in the summer of 1989, the DiY Collective were one of the first house sound systems in the UK. Merging the anarchic lineage of the free festival scene, the cultural and political anger of bands like Crass with the new, irresistible electronic pulse of acid house, they bridged the idealistic void left by the moral implosion of the commercial rave scene. Written by Harry Harrison, one of DiY's founding members, this book traces...
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Always steered by Alex Paterson, The Orb were the mischief-making pioneers of the late 80s acid house revolution. Inventing "ambient house", they took it to the top of the charts, before continuing its idiosyncratic flight path through subsequent decades, battling meteor storms en route.
Babble On An' Ting, the first full account of Paterson's life, written by long-time friend Kris Needs in close collaboration with Alex, reveals a frequently astonishing...
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