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Dancing in your head jazz, blues, rock, and beyond / by Santoro, Gene

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Across the water teaching Irish music and dance at home and abroad / by Farrell, Rebecca E., 1980-

Subjects: “…Folk music Instruction and study Ireland.…”
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Ring shout, wheel about : the racial politics of music and dance in North American slavery / by Thompson, Katrina Dyonne

Subjects: “…Slaves Southern States Songs and music.…”
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Music of the first nations tradition and innovation in native North America /

Subjects: “…Indians of North America Music History and criticism.…”
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A profile of the performing arts industry : culture and commerce / by Gaylin, David H.

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Vernon and Irene Castle's ragtime revolution by Golden, Eve

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The cultivation of body and mind in nineteenth-century American Delsartism by Ruyter, Nancy Lee Chalfa

“…Contributions to the study of music and dance ;…”
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Song Is Not the Same : Jews and American Popular Music /

Table of Contents: “…"Cohen owes me ninety-seven dollars" : images of Jews from the Jewish sheet-music trade /…”
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Music makes me Fred Astaire and jazz / by Decker, Todd R.

Table of Contents: “…Astaire in jazz and popular music: "Keep time with the time and with the times" ; "Jazz means the blues" ; "Anything that will send me" ; "You play and I'll dance."…”
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Perspectives on the Grateful Dead critical writings /

“…Contributions to the study of music and dance ;…”
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Balkan fascination creating an alternative music culture in America / by Laušević, Mirjana

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Part I: Ethnography of the Balkan Music and Dance Scene ; The "Balkanites" ; Why Balkan? …”
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The creolization of American culture : William Sidney Mount and the roots of blackface minstrelsy / by Smith, Christopher J. (Christopher John), 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Recovering the creole synthesis : the roots of blackface minstrelsy -- The creole synthesis in the new world : cultures in contact -- Long Island and the Lower East Side : Mount's background, youth, and apprenticeships -- Minstrelsy's material culture : the evidence of Mount's portraiture -- Melody's polyrhythmic polysemic possibilities : the bodily evidence of Mount's music -- Akimbo culture : dance and the participatory pleasures of the body.…”
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The games black girls play learning the ropes from Double-dutch to Hip-hop / by Gaunt, Kyra Danielle

Table of Contents: “…Slide : games as lessons in black musical style -- Education, liberation : learning the ropes of a musical blackness -- Mary Mack dressed in black : the earliest formation of a popular music -- Saw you with your boyfriend : music between the sexes -- Whose got next game? …”
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Opera at the bandstand : then and now / by Martin, George Whitney

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The technology of policing crime mapping, information technology, and the rationality of crime control / by Manning, Peter K.

Table of Contents: “…Rationalities -- The dance of change -- The music and its features -- Technology's ways : imaginative variations -- Western City and police -- Metropolitan Washington and police -- Boston and police -- Contributions of structure, content and focus to ordering -- Seeing and saying in the Boston CAM -- Generalization.…”
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Tough calls AT&T and the hard lessons learned from the telecom wars / by Martin, Dick, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Don't dance to the music of your own buzz -- Understand the power of symbols -- Take control -- Complete the CEO -- Expect the dumbing down of reality -- Work inside out toward your customers -- Don't let plugging leaks become an obsession -- Casting is everything -- Pay attention to the power of the few -- Don't confuse politics and public relations -- Say good-bye to the rah-rah brother- and sisterhood -- Stay off the treadmill of expectations -- It's okay to change your mind -- Credibility breaks all ties -- Reimagine your company's mission -- Practice ambidextrous leadership.…”
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Building background knowledge for academic achievement research on what works in schools / by Marzano, Robert J.

Table of Contents: “…The importance of background knowledge -- Six principles for building an indirect approach -- Tapping the power of wide reading and language experience -- Building academic background knowledge through direct vocabulary instruction -- Six steps to effective vocabulary instruction -- Defining an academic vocabulary -- Setting up a schoolwide or districtwide program -- Technical notes -- Vocabulary -- Mathematics terms -- Science terms -- English language arts terms -- History -- General history terms -- U.s. history terms -- World history terms -- Geography terms -- Civics terms -- Economics terms -- Health terms -- Physical education terms -- The arts -- Arts general terms -- Dance terms -- Music terms -- Theater terms -- Visual arts terms -- Technology terms.…”
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America's Japan and Japan's performing arts cultural mobility and exchange in New York, 1952-2011 / by Thornbury, Barbara E.

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We know how this ends : living while dying / by Kramer, Bruce H., 1956-

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Racing the Great White Way : Black Performance, Eugene O’Neill, and the Transformation of Broadway / by Johnson, Katie N.

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