Lafayette Carthon Musicians' Handbook 2nd Edition is a "feel good" book by acclaimed musician-to-the-stars, Lafayette Carthon, who urges music lovers everywhere to fulfill their music purpose in life. Having played keyboards and arranged music on recording projects with Michael Jackson, Donnie McClurkin, Celine Dion, Mary J. Bilge and many others, Lafayette shares three things that every person should know about music, and how all people should maximize their God-given music potential. Prepare to rekindle your music passion! Visit LafayetteCarthon.com.

Frank Zappa's music has a unique and easily recognisable quality, and is a brilliant synthesis of a wide range of cultural influences. This book focuses on just one of the influences on Zappa's music, namely Jazz.

Today's moviegoers and critics generally consider some Hollywood products--even some blockbusters--to be legitimate works of art. But during the first half century of motion pictures very few Americans would have thought to call an American movie "art." Up through the 1950s, American movies were regarded as a form of popular, even lower-class, entertainment. By the 1960s and 1970s, however, viewers were regularly judging Hollywood films by artistic criteria previously applied only to high art forms. In Hollywood Highbrow, Shyon Baumann for the first time tells how social and cultural forces radically changed the public's perceptions of American movies just as those forces were radically changing the movies themselves. The development in the United States of an appreciation of film as an art was, Baumann shows, the product of large changes in Hollywood and American society as a whole. With the postwar rise of television, American movie audiences shrank dramatically and Hollywood responded by appealing to richer and more educated viewers. Around the same time, European ideas about the director as artist, an easing of censorship, and the development of art-house cinemas, film festivals, and the academic field of film studies encouraged the idea that some American movies--and not just European ones--deserved to be considered art.

The singer shares her tale of triumph over drugs, depression, divorce, and all the worst celebrity can bring.