Hal Leonard Performing Arts Publishing Group Spring 2017 Roger Waters The Man Behind the Wall Dave Thompson Summary (Book). To some, he is the face behind classic Pink Floyd. To others, he is the temperament behind some of the greatest albums of the rock era. And to others still, he is one of the most original songwriters of a generation that overflows with notable talent. To all, he is an enigma: a rock star who not only eschewed stardom but also spent much of his career railing against it. But to call Roger Waters a mass of contradictions is simply taking the easy way out. He is so much more. Roger Waters: The Man Behind the Wall is the first full biography of the author of Dark Side of the Moon , Wish You Were Here , and, of course, The Wall . It traces his life from his childhood in war-torn England to the multitude of wars he has fought since then with his bandmates, with his audience, and most of all with himself. Packed with insight and exclusive interviews with friends and associates, and featuring rare photos and a detailed discography, Roger Waters: The Man Behind the Wall dismantles the wall, brick by brick, revealing the man who built it in all his glory. Contributor Bio Backbeat Books DAVE THOMPSON (Newark, Delaware) is a British ex-pat writer, who has 9781617136689 penned over one hundred books, including the highly acclaimed Hearts of 1617136689 Darkness: James Taylor, Jackson Browne, Cat Stevens, and the Unlikely Rise of the Pub Date: 3/14/2017 Singer-Songwriter and the Kurt Cobain bio Never Fade Away, as well as books on $19.99 Paperback Cream, George Clinton, Judas Priest, Deep Purple, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and others. He is a frequent contributor to Rolling Stone, Alternative Press, MOJO, All 296 Pages Music Guide, and Melody Maker. Biography & Autobiography / Composers & Musicians BIO004000 9 in H | 6 in W Status:FORTHCOMING

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Backbeat Books Contributor Bio 9781617136504 DONALD GIBSON (St. Petersburg, FL) is a freelance music journalist and the 1617136506 editor in chief of Write On Music (www.writeonmusic.com). A former senior Pub Date: 7/25/2017 $19.99 music editor (2011-2012) and assistant music editor (2008-2011) for the Web Paperback magazine Blogcritics, Gibson's work has also appeared in No Depression, AOL Spinner, and the Seattle Post Intelligencer. Gibson holds a BA in English 400 Pages (concentrated in American and British literature) from the University of South Music / Genres & Styles MUS035000 Florida, where he graduated in 2007 with honors. 9 in H | 6 in W Status:FORTHCOMING

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No sales or inventory history loaded for this account. If you think there should be or would like to learn how to load this data, Click here. Hal Leonard Performing Arts Publishing Group Spring 2017 Film Noir Light and Shadow Alain Silver, James Ursini Summary (Limelight). Alain Silver and James Ursini, the editors of numerous studies of film noir, present a new anthology of essays that examine the visual style of the filmmakers of cinema's classic period. Some focus on individual films or directors; some discuss elements of style or sub-groups of movies within the movement. All are sharply focused on what makes the noir phenomenon unique in American motion-picture history. In addition to highlighting Silver's and Ursini's own innovative work and that of their late colleague Robert Porfirio, Film Noir: Light and Shadow features the work of many other contributors who have written and edited their own books on the subject including Sheri Chinen Biesen, Shannon Clute and Richard Edwards, Julie Grossman, Delphine Letort, Robert Miklitsch, R. Barton Palmer, Homer Pettey, Marlisa Santos, Imogen Sara Smith, and Tony Williams. As befits the topic, this anthology is lavishly illustrated with 500 images that capture the richness Applause Theatre & Cinema Books and breadth of the classic period's imagery. 9781495058974 1495058972 Contributor Bio Pub Date: 3/14/2017 $24.99 ALAIN SILVER (Los Angeles, CA) has written or edited almost 30 books, many Paperback of which focus on the noir movement, such as The Noir Style and The Film Noir Jigsaw. His articles have appeared in Film Comment, Movie (UK), Wide Angle, 352 Pages Literature/Film Quarterly, and Photon. His filmed screenplays include White Nights Performing Arts / Film & Video PER004000 (from Dostoyevsky), the Showtime feature Time at the Top, Nightcomer (which he also directed), and Sacred Blood. He has also produced more than two 9.3 in H | 7.5 in W Status:FORTHCOMING dozen independent features, ranging from Cyborg 2 to the recent Torch. He has commented about noir in numerous interviews and on classic period titles released on DVD.

JAMES URSINI (Los Angeles, CA) co-wrote and co-edited Film Noir the Encyclopedia, the Film Noir Reader series and many other books and anthologies. His film noir DVD commentaries (most often with Alain Silver) range from Out of the Past and The Dark Corner to the more recent Criterion releases of Kiss Me Deadly and Ride the Pink Horse. He has been a producer on features and documentaries, wrote and co-directed the independent neo-noir Nasty Piece of Work, and has lectured on filmmaking at UCLA and other colleges in the Los Angeles area. Comp Titles The Dark Side of Hirsch, Da Capo 9780306817724 $24.95 Performing 11/25/2008 Paperback the Screen Foster Press 0306817721 USD Arts FILM NOIR READER Silver, Limelight 9780879101978 $22.95 Performing 5/1/1996 #00 Alain Editions 0879101970 USD Arts The Film Noir Silver, The Overlook 9781590201442 $45.00 Performing 5/13/2010 Hardcover Encyclopedia Alain Press 1590201442 USD Arts

No sales or inventory history loaded for this account. If you think there should be or would like to learn how to load this data, Click here. Hal Leonard Performing Arts Publishing Group Spring 2017 Nothing Untoward Stories from "The Pumpkin Pie Show" Clay McLeod Chapman Summary (Applause Books). In Rest Area , Clay McLeod Chapman offered a view into the lives of Southern Gothic monstrosities. Now, the 40 tales of Nothing Untoward delve into the depraved minds of those madmen and women who drift along the periphery of humankind. Sometimes darkly humorous, sometimes strangely heartbreaking, these stories explore the domestic horrors of the everyday, finding terror within our own households. Haunting and hilarious, these sharply tuned diatribes are more than simple horror stories in the traditional sense. These offbeat psychological portraits are presented from the perspectives of the very monsters themselves. The heroes of these tales are murderers, loners, and drifters. Spanning over 20 years of the rigorous storytelling session "The Pumpkin Pie Show," the tales collected here are to be read out loud or to yourself, if you're brave enough. The oral tradition is alive and well with these stories, captured on the page for you to share around the campfire, or flip through in bed late at night. These are ghost stories for Applause Theatre & Cinema Books people who don't believe in ghosts, haunted by their own crumbling minds and 9781495061042 wounded hearts. A perfect mixture of tongue-and-cheek gallows humor, 1495061043 psychological terror, and character-based storytelling, Nothing Untoward: Pub Date: 3/7/2017 $19.99 Stories from "The Pumpkin Pie Show" focuses on the darker side of Paperback domesticity and won't let go. 208 Pages Contributor Bio Performing Arts / Theater CLAY MCLEOD CHAPMAN (Brooklyn, NY) is the creator of the rigorous PER011000 storytelling session "The Pumpkin Pie Show." His previous publications include 7.5 in H | 5.5 in W Rest Area, Miss Corpus, and The Tribe trilogy-Homeroom Headhunters, Camp Status:FORTHCOMING Cannibal, and Academic Assassins (Disney). His films include The Boy (SXSW 2015), Henley (Sundance 2012), and Late Bloomer (Sundance 2005). Theater: Commencement and Hostage Song (with Kyle Jarrow). Comics: Edge of Spider- Verse, The Avengers, The Amazing Spider-Man, Ultimate Spider-Man, Vertigo Quarterly: SFX, and Self Storage. Chapman is a writing instructor at the Actors Studio MFA Program at Pace University. Comp Titles Via Dolorosa and Hare, Farrar, Straus 9780571197521 $14.00 Trade 4/30/1999 Drama When Shall We Live? David and Giroux 0571197523 USD Paperback Wright, Farrar, Straus 9780571211746 $14.00 Trade I Am My Own Wife 2/9/2004 Drama Doug and Giroux 0571211747 USD Paperback Gray, 9780679751786 $12.00 Trade Gray's Anatomy Vintage 11/23/1993 Humor Spalding 0679751785 USD Paperback

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Applause Theatre & Cinema Books Contributor Bio 9781495075414 LIRA KELLERMAN (North Hollywood, CA) has over 14 years of professional 1495075419 Pub Date: 5/9/2017 experience in Los Angeles as an acting coach, casting director, and talent $10.99 manager, and over 20 years as a professional actress. She was a columnist for Paperback Backstage, LA's premier acting publication, and her blog, The Struggling Actress, offers advice and instruction for new actors wanting to get into the 88 Pages Performing Arts / Theater entertainment business. PER011000 7.8 in H | 5.3 in W Status:FORTHCOMING

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DR. BRIAN COGAN (Brooklyn, NY) is an associate professor in the Department of Communications at Molloy College in Long Island, New York. He is the author, co-author, and co-editor of numerous books, articles, and anthologies on popular culture, music, and the media. He is the co-author of Everything I Ever Needed to Know About ______* I Learned from Monty Python. He is not one to be trifled with.

JEFF MASSEY (Wantagh, NY) is professor of English language and literature at Molloy College, where he teaches courses on medieval literature, classical mythology, monstrosity, comedy, superheroes, and linguistics. He has published on Anglo-Saxon philology, Chaucerian desire, Victorian mimesis, and neo-medievalisms (not) found in Star Trek. Massey is also co-author of Everything I Ever Needed to Know About ______* I Learned from Monty Python. He likes coffee. Comp Titles Three So, Cleese, 9780385348263 $16.00 Trade Biography & Rivers 9/29/2015 Anyway... John 0385348266 USD Paperback Autobiography Press

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DAVID J. MARKS is recognized internationally as a master craftsman of fine furniture, turner, sculptor, and host of the television show WoodWorks. David started woodworking in 1972, making redwood burl tables. In the late 1980s, he shifted focus to wood turning and sculpture. His signature patina finish is a hybrid of multiple finishes, which combines painting, gilding (metal leafing), chemical patinas, and lacquering techniques. The complex layers result in a finish that may look ancient, metallic, or even of a petrified stone quality.

MICHIHIRO MATSUDA was raised in Tokyo, Japan. Pairing traditional woodworking skills with an innovative sense of design and construction, he builds around eight guitars each year at his shop in Redwood City, California. He is striving to make instruments that integrate fine materials with his dedicated sound study. Each of his guitars is unique, personal, and individual.

TOM RIBBECKE has been building and designing all types of guitars for over 40 years. He has developed an international reputation for building the arch top guitar, innovating in all areas of lutherie, and most recently for inventing/developing the Halfling™ line of carved top instruments, which hybridize the arch top and steel-string style guitars. Tom has taught guitar making for many years and recently has begun to develop the Ribbecke Center for Stringed Instruments to teach, create, and do research at his private shop in Healdsburg, California.

ERVIN SOMOGYI is one of the "grand old pioneers" of American (and increasingly world) lutherie. While he started as a young guitar maker almost 50 years ago, his influence as a teacher is emerging as his most significant long-term contribution. He has lectured extensively, trained a number of the up-and-coming members of the younger lutherie generation, and added to the bibliography of modern lutherie by authoring two textbooks and well over a hundred articles on every aspect of the craft. Comp Titles Guitarmaking: Tradition Solomon, Chronicle 9780811806404 $40.00 2/1/1994 Paperback Music and Technology Jonathan D. Books 0811806405 USD The Art of Inlay & Robinson, Backbeat 9780879308353 $29.99 5/1/2005 Paperback Music Expanded Larry Books 0879308354 USD Siminoff, 9780634014680 $24.99 The Luthier's Handbook Hal Leonard 2/1/2002 Paperback Music Roger H. 0634014684 USD

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Managing Your Band - Sixth Edition(6th Edition) Artist Management: The Ultimate Responsibility Stephen Marcone, David Philp Summary (Book). The business of being a musician has evolved into the entertainment business encompassing music creation, concerts, licensing, festival organizing, merchandising, fashion, and branding. Consequently, the management of musicians is complicated and important. There are as many artists trying to "make it" today as ever before. However, the industry has tightened up significantly, and many artists are either forced to make it on their own or realize that if their music isn't "radio friendly," they could possibly make (keep) more money if they establish themselves as a business entity. This edition of Managing Your Band is for two audiences: the personal manager, who has taken on the task of shepherding an artist from an unknown to stardom, and the DIY artist, who is aware of the need for having a team to succeed but is not in a financial position to hire the pros. The budding personal manager should find this edition useful as well. The subject of Hal Leonard marketing using social media is thoroughly discussed, including useful tools 9780965125079 for maximizing success. The examples of modern recording contracts include 0965125076 360-deal computation as well as "standard" clauses. Record companies are no Pub Date: 4/18/2017 longer just record companies. The Big Three have become modern $34.95 entertainment companies, with departments that cater to the needs of multi- Paperback rights deals. This guide takes a look at all of the functions that the many 344 Pages industry intermediaries perform, illustrating how today's artists can function as Music / Instruction & Study their own entertainment companies. MUS022000 9 in H | 6 in W Contributor Bio Status:FORTHCOMING DR. STEPHEN MARCONE was a member of an Epic Records recording group and toured extensively, taking an active role in the creative and managerial endeavors of the ensemble. He is currently director of the music and entertainment management programs at William Paterson University.

DAVID PHILP is an assistant professor in the music and entertainment management and popular music studies programs at William Paterson University. He has over 20 years of experience working for the Universal Music Group, PolyGram Video, and Greater Media Broadcasting.

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