Alfreds Basic Prep Course; Levels A through F; was written to answer a demand for a course of piano study designed specifically for students who are five years old and up. This course offers a careful introduction of fundamentals; music that fits comfortably under the young students normal hand span; plus constant reinforcement--all leading to results beyond those generated by other piano methods. After Lesson Book D; the student may progress to Prep Course; Lesson Book E or choose to go directly into the faster paced Level 2 of Alfreds Basic Piano Library. The complete Prep Course consists of six books (Levels A through F).
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Chengs revision of Modernism is a delight. She gives full credence to those scholars who ...By Seaboard Lit ProfChengs revision of Modernism is a delight. She gives full credence to those scholars who have criticized the way Modernist architecture and art invented a self-serving ideology of "primitivism" that was the foil for their own claim to be the avant-garde of humanity. But she wants to rethink the relationship between Modernism and the racialized fetishism that it created.Modernists like Picasso. Corbusier. and Adolph Loos clearly had a fascination with Josephine Bakers sensual performances and her play with primitivist signifiers (animal skins. choreographic excess. stylized nudity). Much of their reaction to her fell in line with the mixture of aversion and desire that defines fetishism. But Cheng asks whether Modernist artistsndash;ndash;and. indeed. Baker herselfndash;ndash;were really concerned with expressing an essence ("civilization." "modernity." or "black femininity"). and instead may have been experimenting with formal ways to design a "second skin." a surface on which to create a palimpsest of contradictory identifications.To put it more schematically. Cheng wants to move away from a simple opposition between Modernist abstraction and Primitive ornamentation. She wants to think instead about how the idea of "skin"ndash;ndash;both the unadorned architectural surfaces of Modernism and Bakers performance of nudityndash;ndash;can be a site of where different kinds of persons (white European men. women and people of color) tried to enact ways of being other than the "essence" assigned to them by colonial ideologies.This is a complicated but exhilarating thought experiment that combines history. psychoanalytic theory. and cultural histories of modern art and architecture. Chengs clear and lively prose makes it a pleasure to follow her in this revisionary approach to race and primitivism within Modernist culture.1 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Five StarsBy Simon WorrallIntelligent. perceptive new look at the Josephine Baker story. with none of the old cliches.1 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Five StarsBy Richard BraithwaiteBeautifully written. Even better than her first. The Melancholy of Race.
