Vintage Ukulele Books, Ana’ole on eBay

Since I spend a fair proportion of my time writing about the ukulele, so it’s only natural that I’m fascinated by my uke teaching forebears ... Instrument with Keoki E. Awai from 1916. Also available is the Sam Fox Modern Method for the Ukulele ... has a collection of scans of vintage music instruction books including NB Bailey’s A Practical Method for [more...]

Date: 2008-09-05 17:00:43
Blog: Ukulele Hunt...

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Naughtiest thing you’ll ever see on the classical music channel.

I was working with my finance/money program last night and had the “light classical” channel on the digital cable going ... (Bach) at least 100 times on piano as it’s in one of my big classical collection sheet music books [more...]

Date: 2008-08-21 22:39:55
Blog: Rachel Lucas ...

New York e-mobile visit: Kudos to OverDrive for pushing E—but what those pesky tech and biz-model issues?

"…inside New York City’s Central Park, a crowd gathered outside an 18-wheel tractor-trailer tricked out with broadband Internet-connected ... ? Remember, OverDrive ultimately must meet be responsive to its customers or go out of business. I’ ... , not just music collections? Already in permanent checkout territory with audio books image [more...]

Date: 2008-08-12 15:16:07
Blog: TeleRead: Bring the E-B...

Book Notes - Janis Ian ("Society's Child: My Autobiography")

In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that is in some way relevant to their recently published books ... with either the artist or her music. As I listened to the two-disc greatest hits collection, Best ... is instead a juicily entertaining look at an unusual life in show business." In her own words, here [more...]

Date: 2008-07-24 17:22:21
Blog: largehearted boy: a mus...

Stephen King, Nick Hornby, Ken Follett other best-sellers headed toward public libraries—-via Penguin-OverDrive connection

OverDrive news release, slightly edited… Public libraries can now lend download audiobooks and eBooks by best-selling authors such as ... s e-warehouse, supplementing OverDrive’s collection of more than 150,000 eBook, audiobook, music ... English-Language trade book publishers in the world, and now public libraries can add digital books [more...]

Date: 2008-08-27 14:41:28
Blog: TeleRead: Bring the E-B...

long nights spent with books and music

It seems to be Poetry Weekend in Seattle. Elliott Bay Books is hosting Steven Nightingale on Saturday at 2:00 PM. Nightingale will read selections from Cinnamon Theologies, his third collection [more...]

Date: 2008-09-06 04:36:34
Blog: GotPoetry.com > >...

It’s Not Sexist to Talk About Hillary Clinton’s Mango Pantsuit

&#8226 Spring collections have a breezy feel and lots of bright colors as designers attempt to turn out unique pieces to lure customers to stores in ... ? One assumes it was to ensure an eye-catching photo for the history books and to underscore ... Chanel Iman and music producer Ryan Leslie are still going around town together. Are they dating [more...]

Date: 2008-09-06 14:15:51
Blog: Nashville Tennessee Lif...

TUAW Best of the Week

Filed under: Features, TUAW Business, Weekend Review TUAW Logo ... that might be -- some may people enjoy 10-15 minute music downloads). Delicious Library 2.0 is now shipping Delicious Library is the definitive way of storing your actual collections of books [more...]

Date: 2008-06-01 14:39:03
Blog: The Unofficial Apple We...

Absolutely

"The CDs" and "the hard drive" are about as close as I get to collectively referring to all the music that's knocking around the house ... -unwatched DVDs and yet-unread books. Oh, and the 1000 or so classical CDs evicted from their jewel [more...]

Date: 2008-07-17 09:44:45
Blog: Word Magazine...

The Write Direction

During my brief time in London this week, I stopped off with an old music journalist pal called Malu Halasa. She's a Jordanian-American who worked for Rolling Stone, was subsequently inspired by the 2 Tone era and wrote a book about The Beat that's now rather collectible. She was an... [more...]

Date: 2008-09-05 07:18:35
Blog: BBC Blog Network...

MC5 contract for the UK show that never was can be yours

Australian collectables store Vicious Sloth is touting a genuine MC5 contract for a cancelled 1972 UK show on eBay, under the letterhead of one of their former booking agencies Gemini. Notable for Australian rock ... . Aztec Music recently re-issued it and TJ Honeysuckle wrote a background interview piece for the I-94 [more...]

Date: 2008-09-02 13:16:17
Blog: The Barman's Rant...

HAYDN-SCHAUM BOOK 2 BASED ON EVENTS AND EPISODES OF HAYDNS LIFE

Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) made important contributions to the development of the symphony, string quartet, and other classical styles and forms. Included in this collection: Sonata in C Major* Minuet ... of Country Dance from Symphony No. 97* the Fifth London Symphony* and Music Box from the String Quartet [more...]

Date: 2008-09-05 02:51:01
Blog: Sheet Music And Songbo...

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