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Life histories of women negotiating their identities between two worlds
A década de ouro do Rock Brasileiro!
A vida até parece uma festa: a história completa dos Titãs comemora os 40 anos de uma das maiores bandas do rock brasileiro O que fez os Titãs se tornarem um dos maiores expoentes do rock brasileiro e a se manterem ativos por quatro décadas? Essa biografia, lançada originalmente quando os Titãs completaram 20 anos, ganha dos autores e jornalistas Hérica Marmo e Luiz André Alzer, uma atualização cheia de histórias inéditas. Além da reunião da formação clássica dos Titãs – Branco Mello, Sérgio Britto, Tony Bellotto, Nando Reis, Charles Gavin, Marcelo Fromer, Arnaldo Antunes e Paulo Miklos –, os leitores têm acesso aos bons e maus momentos do grupo, de forma bastante tr...
Everyone from Sir Paul McCartney and Jimmy Page to Queens of the Stone Age now relishes the chance to share a stage with Dave Grohl and his legendary Foo Fighters. The question is: why? Musical depth? Not really. Major success? Well, yes. Despite no longer shifting albums in the same quantity as they did twenty years ago, this band can still fill stadiums the world over (when Dave's not breaking his leg, of course). Long before Kurt Cobain died by suicide in 1994, Dave Grohl was planning for a life after Nirvana. The unflinching bright sunlight to Cobain's permanent midnight darkness, Grohl had come from a similar broken home to his erstwhile band leader, but came out of the experience diffe...
Paulo Coelho: A Warrior's Life is the first-ever biography of the man whose books have sold an astounding 100 million copies worldwide, making him one of the bestselling authors of all time. Paulo Coelho's life begins with a complicated birth in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in August 1947. He was known as the "boy who was born dead" and who ultimately survived against all odds. Before he became internationally known as a worldwide bestselling author, Paulo lived many different lives. He flirted with suicide, was committed by his parents to insane asylums, suffered the brutality of electric shock therapy, dove into drugs, tried several varieties of sex, met the devil, spent time in prison, helped ...
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The great flood of world musics into our immediate cultural environment is not a simple matter of expanding global musical exchange, but rather many complex processes such as the growth of intercontinental tourism and the development of technologies in communication. Elegantly tracing the dimensions of these new musical encounters, Laurent Aubert considers the impact of world musics on our values, our habits and our cultural practices. His discussions of key questions about our contemporary music culture widen conventional ethnomusicological perspectives to consider the nature of Western society as a 'global village' and the impact of current Western demands on the future of world musics and their practitioners.
Produzida a partir de profunda pesquisa jornalística, esta obra é uma completa biografia dos Titãs, que comemoram 20 anos de carreira. Os autores contam a história do grupo desde seu princípio, sem esquecer dos fatos polêmicos e emocionantes que marcaram a trajetória da banda e do rock brasileiro nas décadas de 1980-90.