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Britney Spears Music Box: Biographical Collection

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The Music Box Collection presents a story of Britney Spears, from her beginnings in small town Louisiana; we follow her phenomenal rise to stardom. From early talent contests and the Mickey Mouse Club, to her arrival in New York where she landed a recording contract at the age of 16. Featuring race and archive footage courtest of private collectors from around the world, this documentary provides a fascinating insight into Britney’s remarkable career…. More >>

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The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music

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An illustrated companion volume to The New Harvard Dictionary of Music offers authoritative articles covering nearly 5,500 figures in the history of music, from classical to jazz to hymns to blues. UP. Amazon.com Review
From Pietro Aaron to Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, Don Randel compiles 1,013 pages of thumbnail sketches describing the life and music of 5,500 individuals who figure significantly in the world of music. Intended for “the musically incline… More >>

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Auto/Biographical Discourses: Criticism, Theory, Practice

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In this new critical study, Laura Marcus explores autobiography as a genre and as an organizing concept in nineteenth and twentieth century thought. Drawing on a wide range of writings, both literary and theoretical, she shows how autobiography and biography have been crucial in debates over subject and object, public and private, fact and fiction–debates now refigured in feminist theory. Autobiography has itself been perceived as an unstable and hybrid genre: it a… More >>

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