Dignity isn t for sale. It comes from within. Hilary Duff has always carried herself with dignity, from her 2001 TV debut starring in Lizzy McGuire, through big screen hits like Cinderella Story and Cheaper by the Dozen, to her career as a multi-platinum recording artist, with more than 13 million albums sold to date. Now Hilary brings her customary class and splash to her new Hollywood Records CD Dignity.At 19, Hilary has matured into a sophisticated singer and songwriter. Hilary has co-written all the songs on Dignity, always aiming high and ultimately creating an album of depth and consequence. To realize her vision for the new CD, she teamed with Grammy-Award winning Kara Dioguardi (Gwen Stefani, Pussy Cat Dolls, Enrique Iglesias, Kelly Clarkson), as well as top producer/songwrit ers... Less

Recorded in Ireland, Amarantine is classic Enya and once again, the record is a product of the extraordinary and long-standing creative partnership Enya has enjoyed throughout her career with producer/arranger Nicky Ryan and lyricist Roma Ryan. From the soaring choruses of the title track to the exquisite nuances of Wild Violet based on a haiku by the Japanese poet Basho, everything you could want from an Enya record is here in abundance. Lyrically, however, you will find one or two innovations. In the past, Enya has sung lyrics written for her by Roma in Gaelic, Welsh, Latin and Spanish, as well as English. This time there is no Gaelic. But in addition to the song in Japanese, Enya sings three songs written in a customised language invented by Roma. The idea arose after she d written... Less

Though James Taylor s self-titled debut introduced his mellow melodicism and affecting songcraft, Sweet Baby James was the album that rocketed him to national recognition. With Sweet Baby James, Taylor abandoned the slightly psychedelic structural ambition of his first record (the first side was composed as a suite), and settled fully into the folk and country styles to which he is best suited. The top ten hit Fire and Rain, for instance, a deeply personal story-song based on the artist s experiences in mental hospitals and the suicide of a friend, is built around Taylor s gentle, understated voice, acoustic guitar, cello, piano, and drums. The plaintive, melancholic air of Fire and Rain resonated with millions of listeners, as did the rest of the album. Taylor s lyrics, which address... Less

Based on the 1980s Broadway musical, Bill Condon s 2006 feature film, DREAMGIRLS, follows the ups and downs of a fictional 60s female R&B vocal group patterned after the Supremes. Featuring an impressive cast that includes Beyonce Knowles, Jamie Foxx, Eddie Murphy, and AMERICAN IDOL favorite Jennifer Hudson, the movie and its soundtrack present stirring performances by these and other actors. While many of the numbers are sung by the Dreamettes (Knowles, Hudson, and Anika Noni Rose, who later become the Dreams and then Deena Jones & the Dreams), most notably the energetic, horn-laden Move and the pop-tinged title track, the album also offers up outstanding numbers by Eddie Murphy (as James Thunder Early), such as the lively, James Brown-like I Meant You No Harm/Jimmy s Rap. Though most of... Less

LeToya Luckett, professionally known as LeToya, is an R&B singer- songwriter and actress, and a founding member of the multi-platinum-sel ling female R&B group, Destiny s Child, with whom she won two Grammy Awards and released many successful commercial recordings. LeToya s 2006 debut self-titled solo album for Capitol Records reached #1 on the Billboard Top 200 albums in July 2006 and was RIAA-certified Platinum (Dec 2006). The first single, Torn , heated up BET s 106 & Park Top 10 video countdown, eventually closing out at #2, and that year LeToya was named one of the best new artists of 2006 (AOL) and Top Songwriter of 2006 (ASCAP). In 2009, LeToya returns with her sophomore album, Lady Love. An intricate web of lyrical & melodic fiber that weaves in and out of the good, the bad and... Less

A genial live set, Kenny Chesney s live set is a 14-track summation of the Nashville country star s laid-back charms. Recorded at various shows going all the way back to 1998 in front of uniformly enthusiastic crowds (on Anything But Mine, the large audience sings the chorus almost unaccompanied), these tracks show more of Chesney s pop and rock influences, with a looser and more swaggering edge than his comparatively restrained studio albums. This is best shown on a thumping, rocked-out version of the barroom standard Beer In Mexico.

A drama centered on a rebellious girl who is sent to a southern beach town for the summer to stay with her father. Through their mutual love of music, the estranged duo learns to reconnect.

This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world s literature.

What happens when social and political processes such as globalizationshap e cultural production? Drawing on a range of writers and filmmakers from Africaand elsewhere, Akin Adesokan explores the forces at work in the production andcirculation of culture in a globalized world. He tackles problems such as artisticrepresent ation in the era of decolonization, the uneven development of aestheticsacross the world, and the impact of location and commodity culture on genres, with adistinctive approach that exposes the global processes transforming culturalforms.

The Devi Gita, literally the Song of the Goddess, is an Eastern spiritual classic that appeared around the fifteenth century C.E.C. Mackenzie Brown provides a reader-friendly English translation of this sacred text taken from his well-regarded previous book The Devi Gita: The Song of the Goddess, A Translation, Annotation, and Commentary. Here the translation is presented uninterrupted without the scholarly annotations of the original version and in its entirety for the pleasure of all readers who wish to encounter this treasure from the world s sacred literature.Often neglected, the Devi Gita deserves to be better known for its presentations of one of the great Hindu visions of the divine conceived in feminine terms. The work depicts the universe as created, pervaded, and protected by a... Less