Spirituals and the Birth of a Black Entertainment Industry [1 ed.] 9780252050305, 9780252041631

American Showman: Samuel "Roxy" Rothafel and the Birth of the Entertainment Industry, 1908–1935 9780231504256

Samuel "Roxy" Rothafel (1882–1936) built an extraordinary career as film exhibitor, stage producer, radio broa

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State Propaganda in China's Entertainment Industry 9781317266969

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Plunkett's Entertainment and Media Industry Almanac 2017 9781628317527

The electronic age is bringing sweeping changes to the world of entertainment, media and publishing. This book covers th

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The Golden Age of Video Games: The Birth of a Multi-Billion Dollar Industry 9781439873243, 1439873240

This book focuses on the history of video games, consoles, and home computers from the very beginning until the mid-nine

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Inventing Entertainment : The Player Piano and the Origins of an American Musical Industry 9780742564619, 9780742561274

Brian Dolan's social and cultural history of the music business in relation to the history of the player piano is a

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I Remember: Eighty Years of Black Entertainment, Big Bands, and the Blues 9781512801781

I Remember is a first-hand account of the world of black American music told by a man who has been part of that world fo

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Birth of an Industry: Blackface Minstrelsy and the Rise of American Animation 9780822375784

Nicholas Sammond argues that early cartoons are a key components to blackface minstrelsy and that cartoon characters suc

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Cracking the Einstein Code: Relativity and the Birth of Black Hole Physics 9780226519548

Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity describes the effect of gravitation on the shape of space and the flow of

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From Hang Time to Prime Time: Business, Entertainment, and the Birth of the Modern-Day NBA 9781982103972

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Creating an Orange Utopia : Eliza Lovell Tibbetts and the Birth of California's Citrus Industry 9780877856177, 9780877853374

California's citrus industry owes a huge debt to the introduction of the navel orange tree--in fact, to two trees i

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