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Groove Essentials - The Play-Along : A Complete Groove Encyclopedia for the 21st Century Drummer (Groove Essentials)
 Tommy Igoe
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- November 20, 2005
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Book Description
Represents a new-generation play-along package and a quantum leap over anything else previously available in this vein with over 6 hours of music, including 47 grooves and feels from all over the world-most in two tempos-88 tracks in all, truly professional sketch charts and incisive text by Tommy. An interactive groove experience for all level drummers with rhythm tracks that feature some of New York City's top musicians. Works in conjunction with the best-selling Grove Essentials DVD. For beginning drummers: simple rock beats with a real band feel; for intermediate drummers: syncopated, 16th-note grooves as well as jazz/swing feels; for advanced drummers: challenging world grooves, as well as jazz shuffles, jazz waltzes and RandB feels. Additionally, you'll find 3 "Global Tour" tracks that are 15-minute journeys... |
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Uncloudy Days
Bil Carpenter
0879308419
Sept 2005
Paperback
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Billboard magazine, September 20, 2005
"An invaluable and long overdue gem."
Book Description
This comprehensive guide is a must-have for the multitude of fans of this best-selling genre of popular music. Uncloudy Days is a treasure chest of substantial profiles on the influential names in gospel music history such as Thomas Dorsey, Mahalia Jackson, the Hawkins family, Clara Ward, James Cleveland, and the Winans. It also uncovers the history of one-hit wonders and others who are not as familiar to gospel music fans. Everyone has a story to share and this book tells more than 500 of them, many based on personal interviews, including the trials and tribulations endured by so many gospel artists. The author offers entertaining and informative reviews that lead readers to the best recordings... |
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The Encyclopedia of Heavy Metal
Daniel Bukszpan
0760742189
October 2003
Paperback
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Book Description
Headbangers rejoice, because this fantastically illustrated encyclopedia includes all things Metal, from influential bands such as Led Zeppelin, Blue Cheer, Iron Butterfly, Kiss, and Queen, to Mötley Crue, Black Sabbath (before Ozzy became a family sitcom star), Deep Purple, Twisted Sister, and Aerosmith, right up to Jane's Addiction, Las Cruces, Limp Bizkit, and today's most extreme death metal bands. Not a single sub-genre or band goes uncovered. Well-researched and fact-filled, the witty text befits the raucous bands that push musical-and all other-boundaries. From obscure groups like Armored Saint and Norway's Mayhem to pioneers Grand Funk Railroad and Iron Maiden to megastars like Ozzy Osbourne, Alice Cooper, Lita Ford, Van Halen, Joan Jett, and Marilyn Manson, each entry contains vital statistics: a... |
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Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock and Roll: Revised and Updated for the 21st Century
Editors Rolling Stone
0743201205
October 2001
Paperback
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From Library Journal
This latest incarnation of an authoritative encyclopedia first published in 1983 boasts over 100 new entries and many revisions to the 1800 entries found in the 1995 edition. The coverage increase was made possible by the omission of three kinds of "nonartist" entries: the Grammy Award boxes, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame boxes, and the style and genre definitions. As with the previous editions, the scope is excellent: few works can compete in terms of blanket coverage of the major rock'n'roll players, which dates from the 1950s to the present and includes names as diverse as Elvis, Chad and Jeremy, Britney, and Eminem. The alphabetically arranged entries contain birth and, when applicable, death dates; a discography; and an essay that attempts (usually successfully) to put the performer's or group's... |
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The Encyclopedia of Double Bass Drumming
Bobby Rondinelli (Composer), Michael Lauren (Composer)
0634014676
March 1, 2000
Plastic Comb
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Book Description
Bobby Rondinelli of Rainbow, Black Sabbath and Blue Oyster Cult and master teacher Michael Lauren from the Drummers Collective have put together the most comprehensive text ever written on the subject of double bass drumming. It features hundreds of innovative warm up, beat and fill exercises, tips for getting started, a discography of important double bass recordings, plus a timeline of the most important double bass drummers in history, including photos of their setups. A must for all drummers interested in improving their double bass technique!
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Picture Chord Encyclopedia for Keyboard
Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
0634058282
Apr 2003
Paperback
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Book Description
Weighing in at nearly 400 pages, the Picture Chord Encyclopedia is the most comprehensive keyboard resource ever! It includes easy-to-see photos, easy-to-read chord diagrams and treble and bass clef notation for over 1,600 keyboard chords, plus basic chord theory, a chord symbol chart, and more! Also available in a 9 inch. x 12 inch. Edition (00290528, ISBN 0-634-03290-9).
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Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia : Fourth Edition (Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia)
Bruce Murphy
006270110X
October 9, 1996
Hardcover
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Book Review
What does it mean to have the voice of a stentor? Where is John o'Groat's House? Ever heard of a beast epic, or the Jindyworobak Movement? And what is the origin of the word "abracadabra"? The answers lie in this delicious reference that anyone interested in humility should have; just glimpsing it on the shelf reminds one of how very much there is that one does not know. The thousands of entries in Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia cover anything and nearly everything having to do with literature. The book includes biographies of authors, summaries of books and plays, depictions of characters and mythological figures, explications of literary terms and movements, and, well, a whole bunch of other irresistible stuff that is somewhat quirky and utterly engrossing. (For the curious: a stentor's... |
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Broadway Musicals: The 101 Greatest Shows of All Time
Ken Bloom
1579123902
October 2004
Hardcover
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Book Description
Finally, a book as glorious as its subject: this lush showcase for everyone who loves musicals covers the 101 most influential, popular, and enduring Broadway shows--all of which have toured the country and been performed in theatres large and small everywhere. Each listing includes expert commentary that sets the play in historical and cultural context, plus features on the creators and performers, plot synopses, cast and song lists, production details, backstage anecdotes, and more. Four or five beautifully reproduced photographs from each show--the majority never before published--accompany the text and make the shows leap off the page. Appendices and special features include cast albums, poster artists, revivals, guilty pleasures, Off-Broadway musicals, notable flops, and much more.
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The Book of Metal
Chris Ingham
156025419X
Oct 2002
Paperback
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Book Description
This authoritative, finely researched volume is the definitive encyclopedia of metal music. It draws on acts relevant throughout the genre’s history from Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin through to current innovators such as Papa Roach, Cradle of Filth, Marilyn Manson, and Limp Bizkit. Bands from the genres of goth, death metal, thrash metal, glam and punk, such as the Sex Pistols, Nirvana, and Rancid, are also included. The bands are listed from each of the major subgenres as well as side genres. Nu-metal, hardcore, grindcore, industrial, and power metal all have their own sections in the book, complete with "genre traits" section and the names of bands that typify that sound. Illustrated throughout with the best color photography from the last 30 years of metal music and featuring 200 photos from the Metal Hammer... |
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The Cambridge Mozart Encyclopedia
Cliff Eisen (Editor), Simon P. Keefe (Editor)
0521856590
January 4, 2006
Hardcover
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From Booklist
With the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth in 2006, there are a number of new books on the ever-popular composer, including this comprehensive encyclopedia. The editors are well-known British musicologists. Eisen has written many articles on the composer, and Keefe also edited the Cambridge Companion to Mozart (2003), a collection of essays on Mozart's music.The encyclopedia has about 500 alphabetically arranged entries on everything from five pages on Travel to a paragraph on ^ Traeg, Johann, a publisher of Mozart's music, and from four pages on Genius to one paragraph on Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. There are about 50 contributors, the majority from English or U.S. universities. The entries have a consistent style, scholarly but readable. Most entries end with a short bibliography.... |
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The Encyclopedia of Country Music
Paul Kingsbury
0195176081
Nov 2004
Paperback
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From Library Journal
A surprisingly frank product of the Nashville country music establishment (it was compiled by the Country Music Foundation), this title promises to be the definitive historical and biographical work of the past eight decades of country music. Some 150 authorities (e.g., Colin Escott and Ronnie Pugh) discuss the music in all its permutations, and the results are beyond impressive. Interspersed with the biographical entries are historical and sociological essays on the literature of country music, country songwriting, gospel, folk and popular music connections, and even touring and costuming. Thirteen appendixes cover the Country Music Hall of Fame, radio stations, and best-selling country albums. While all the major artists (e.g., Hank Williams, Ernest Tubb) are given their due, this work also gets at the second-... |
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Rock Snob's Dictionary: An Essential Lexicon of Rockological Knowledge
David Kamp
0767918738
April 2005
Paperback
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Book Description
At last! An A-to-Z reference guide for readers who want to learn the cryptic language of Rock Snobs, those arcana-obsessed people who speak of "Rickenbacker guitars" and "Gram Parsons."
We've all been there--trapped in a conversation with smarty-pants music fiends who natter on about "the MC5" or "Eno" or "the Hammond B3," not wanting to let on that we haven't the slightest idea what they're talking about. Well, fret no more! The Rock Snob's Dictionary is here to define every single sacred totem of rock fandom's know-it-all fraternity, from Alt.country to Zimmy. (That's what Rock Snobs call Bob Dylan, by the way.)
About the Author
DAVID KAMP has been a writer for Vanity Fair and GQ for over a decade, and began his career... |
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The Encyclopedia of Jazz & Blues
Keith Shadwick
078581762X
Nov 2003
Hardcover
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Keyboardists Picture Chord Encyclopedia (Piano Book)
Vogler
0825611326
June 1991
Paperback
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Book Description
Every chord you'll ever need to play-shown clearly in diagrams and notation. Special sections on inversions, substitutions, and progressions.
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Encyclopedia of Appalachia
Rudy Abramson
1572334568
March 2006
Hardcover
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The Encyclopedia of Pottery Techniques: A Comprehensive Visual Guide to Traditional and Contemporary Techniques
Peter Cosentino
0806989130
May 28, 2002
Paperback
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From Library Journal
This is a good practical reference book for the studio potter. It has two parts: Techniques, arranged alphabetically, and Themes, consisting of descriptions of forms and surface treatment. The book is illustrated throughout with excellent color photographs that do a good job of explaining the subject material and show work in progress as well as finished pieces. Unlike those pottery technique books that take the user step-by-step through a few processes at great length, this is designed as a quick reference for the beginner or experienced potter who wants to get started in an unfamiliar area. The museum quality examples in the illustrations make it an attractive browsing book as well. Highly recommended for crafts collections.- Constance Ashmore Fairchild, Univ. of Illinois Lib., Urbana-ChampaignCopyright 1990 Reed... |
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The Harvard Dictionary of Music
Don Randel
0674011635
October 2003
Hardcover
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From Booklist
Reverting to its original title, The Harvard Dictionary of Music continues under editor Randel as a revision of his 1986 The New Harvard Dictionary of Music, so named at that time to reflect its significantly expanded scope from previous editions. The focus remains "the tradition of Western art music," with greater attention to world and popular music. Dozens of contributing scholars are listed in the front matter and denoted by initials at the end of entries.Entries range from one or two words to multiple pages in length, defining or explicating terms for musical styles, instruments, performance marks, concepts, and works (e.g., Blues, Consonance and dissonance, Koto, Largo, Moonlight Sonata, Percussion instruments, Suzuki method). Black-and-white illustrations identify instruments, and staves and... |
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Baker's Student Encyclopedia of Music
Laura Diane Kuhn
0028653157
June 1999
Hardcover
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From School Library Journal
Gr 7 Up-Clear and concise articles on music, musicians, and musical styles from a cappella and Claudio Abbado to the Velvet Underground, Meredith Willson, and Zukunftmusik. While most of the articles are short (50 to 100 words), the essential figures, such as Mozart, Beethoven, and Bach, are each allotted several pages. These lengthier articles are complemented by time lines of the composers' lives and works, informative sidebars, and portraits. Each of the three volumes contains an eight-page insert of color pictures on a particular theme, such as "Music and Musicians as Portrayed in Art"; "Music Around the World"; and "Popular Performers," which range from Louis Armstrong to Salt `n' Pepa and Shania Twain. Each volume has a comprehensive index. However, there are occasional incongruities, such as not... |
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The Official Three Stooges Encyclopedia: The Ultimate Knucklehead's Guide to Stoogedom--from Amalgamated Association of Morons to Ziller...
Robert Kurson
0809225808
May 1, 1999
Paperback
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Book Description
The Three Stooges are undoubtedly the most famous comedy team in all history, and today Stoogemania is everywhere. Here is a treasure trove of the timeless humor and slapstick comedy that has made the Stooges such comic legends. Filled with more than 1,400 entries, jokes, and key gags, this deluxe collector's volume showcases the Stooges in all their zany, absurd glory.
About the Author
Robert Kurson is currently the entertainment reporter for the Chicago Sun-Times.
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Woodstock: An Encyclopedia of the Music and Art Fair
James E. Perone
0313330573
January 2005
Hardcover
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From Booklist
A symbol of the hippie movement and the 1960s counterculture, Woodstock was actually just one of several music festivals of the time. This volume describes and contextualizes the famous 1969 event and notes its legacy. The author teaches music and has written other historical music reference works.The book opens with a chapter containing two- to three-page descriptions of other music events, from the first rock music festival in the U.S., the Monterey International Pop Music Festival, to the 1971 Concert for Bangla Desh. The production, performers, and impact of each are noted. The next chapter is devoted to the classic Woodstock happening--its organizers, the days' events, the attendees and the cultures they represented (including the drug scene), and the fair's legacy. A separate chapter details people, places, and... |
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Country Music
Irwin Stambler
0312151217
Nov 1997
(Hardcover) - Revised Ed.
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Book Review
During the last 10 years, the country-music industry has exploded with new stars and new sounds. The creators of The Encyclopedia of Folk, Country and Western Music are back with an all-new, revised, and updated country-music reference. Ranging from Hank Williams Sr. to BR5-49, each biographical sketch traces the artist's career and lists notable recordings. Want to know which early country artists appeared on the National Barn Dance radio show? Curious about which banjo players use the Scruggs picking style? The general subject index makes for mighty good readin'. Entries are also indexed by artist and album and song titles, and an appendix lists award- winners and members of the Country Music Hall of Fame. Whether you prefer Bob Wills or Shania Twain, this is the ultimate reference for any country-music lover.
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The Encyclopedia of Surfing
Matt Warshaw
0151005796
October 2003
Hardcover
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Book Review
What's that sound coming from the beach? That's the rustle of pages turning, as would-be immortals look themselves up in The Encyclopedia of Surfing, surfing's first comprehensive reference book. The Encyclopedia of Surfing chronicles nearly every bit of wave-riding--its history, places, mythology, champions, tragedies, in-jokes, and minutiae. Author Matt Warshaw, former editor of Surfer magazine, and his fellow researchers took three years to put together this prodigious tome. The most surprising thing about the book is its terrific readability. Though the 1,500 entries are organized in typical encyclopedic style, one after the other alphabetically, none of them--not a single one--is completely boring. Not even the one on the technicalities of fin placement. In fact, the book is a trap, leading unsuspecting readers on a... |
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ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN GOSPEL MUSIC
W. K. McNeil
0415941792
September 29, 2005
Hardcover
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From Booklist
With more than 60 contributors from universities and libraries as well as from gospel- and folk-music organizations, the Encyclopediaof American Gospel Music provides historic and biographical information for hundreds of artists who have shaped gospel music for more than 100 years. Gospel music is a genre that is difficult to pin down to a single style. In his introduction, editor McNeil states that gospel is often designated as any song of a religious nature; for scholars, however, it encompasses "songs reflecting the personal religious experience of people." In discussing the origin of gospel music, McNeil makes a point to "lay to rest" the opinion that gospel music grew out of camp-meeting spirituals and affirms that gospel was more influenced by marches and secular songs.Artist entries, ranging from one or two... |
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Bibliography of Black Music, Volume 1
Dominique-Rene De Lerma
0313213402
Apr 1981
Hardcover
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Choice
"De Lerma has gathered a great deal of valuable material on Afro-American music in the second volume of his Bibliography of Black Music, which he has organized into types or "idioms." The eleven categories include general histories, minstrelsy, spirituals and earlier folk music, ragtime, musical theater, concert music, band and gospel music, blues, jazz, and rhythm and blues and other popular music. Much of the material is not duplicated in the bibliographies of major monographs on the various idioms....and could prove quite useful to researchers in compiling comprehensive lists of sources in their subject."
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“This bibliography will be enormously helpful to librarians and to researchers in the relatively untilled... |
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Steppin' Out
Lewis A. Erenberg
0313213429
Apr 1981
Hardcover
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“Steppin' Out is the first scholarly study of nightlife in the leading American metropolis or, for that matter, in any major American city. Previously explored only by popular writers and gossip columnists, this fascinating segment of modern urban culture has now finally received serious, sophisticated, and, not least important, sympathetic academic treatment. For Lewis Erenberg ... has presented nightlife-- its history, values, institutions and leading figures--as reflecting not the pathology of urban culture, as have so many others, but its positive expression, its unique identity. ... Steppin' Out is amply illustrated and clearly written. Based on entertainers' scrapbooks and memoirs, reformers' accounts, Variety, contemporary newspapers and other publications, it is ... a significant contribution to urban... |
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Guitar: Total Scales Techniques and Applications: Lessons for Beginner through Professional
Mark John Sternal
0976291703
January 2005
Paperback
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Barry Rudolph, Music Connection Magazine, 2005
For beginner to expert, this book teaches every major or minor scale in every position on the guitar and all
Shawn Eiferman, Artist Submission, February 2005,
has opened up things for me and given me options that I didn't know I had available... Those notes were
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The Encyclopedia of Guitar Picture Chords in Color (Guitar Chord Books in Color)
0825619319
August 2002
Plastic Comb
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Book Description
Here is a revolutionary resource for all guitarists with over 2000 chords. Each chord is displayed in an easy-to-read diagram, with photographs in full color. With special sections on moveable chord forms and other special chords.
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The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia
Michael Gray
0826469337
June 1, 2006
Hardcover
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Book Description
Bob Dylan’s outreach is too wide, too deep and too long for any book about him to cover it all. He’ll be 65 years old when this book is published. His career spans 45 years of American history, and that history has intersected with his prolific songwriting, recording, touring, acting, filmmaking, TV appearances and interviews. He has published a novel and a book of drawings, composed for movie soundtracks and written a best-selling autobiography. He has found a place in the world of literature and academic study as well as in popular music. He is important to the history of the times, having given voice to a generation at a time of huge social change and political struggle; his songs are enmeshed in the story of the civil rights movement as well as the folk revival movement. His busy life has embraced... |
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Broadway Musicals: Show by Show
Stanley Green
0793577500
January 1996
Textbook Paperback
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From Library Journal
Musical-comedy specialist Green has produced another winner in this survey of hit Broadway musicals from 1866's The Black Crook to 1985's Big River. Although not as complete as Gerald Bordman's American Musical Theatre ( LJ 10/1/78), the volume includes basic facts about more than 300 important shows, a brief synopsis of each, credits, and gossipy facts (such as tryout replacements) so dear to the hearts of Broadway fans. Accompanying photographs are excellent, as are the several indexes. Either for serious research or just browsing, Green's book should appeal to anyone interested in musical theater. Highly recommended for most libraries. Eric W. Johnson, Univ. of Bridgeport Lib., Ct.Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Separated and Divorced Women
Lynne Carol Halem
0313231605
Mar 1982
Hardcover
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Review
“Examines the legal, emotional, and economic effects of separation and divorce on middle-class American women. The methodology is as interesting as the content. Halem role-plays a fictitious, separated woman, `Sheila Ash,' whose identity has been statistically constructed from divorce figures. ...When a competent scholar researches an important and timely issue with an imaginative and thought-provoking methodology, and organizes and writes the results clearly and well, then the academic community should take note, take sides, take issue, and take heart. This is an important book.”–Choice
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