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      • Claret Press

        Claret Press is an independent press based in London. Our books are now read and enjoyed all over the world. We specialise in mysteries and thrills and chronicles and memoirs.

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      • Clare Painter Associates Ltd

        Licensing digital rights can be complicated and time-consuming. For 15 years our digital licensing agency, founded by pioneering digital publisher David Attwooll (as Attwooll Associates), has guided publishers through rapid and complex digital change. Clare and her small team of digital rights experts take a personal approach to each publisher, recommending specific licences and digital business models. We attend the book fairs in London and Frankfurt each year, and deal regularly with over 50 e-vendors across all sectors of the market: professional, academic, educational, and consumer.

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      • The Arts
        October 2020

        The Art of Jazz

        A Visual History

        by Alyn Shipton; foreword by John Edward Hasse

        The Art of Jazz celebrates the ways in which the expressionism and spontaneity of jazz – the twentieth century’s most influential of musical art forms – spilled onto its album art, posters, and promotional photography, and even inspired standalone works of art. As John Edward Hasse, curator at the Smithsonian Institution Museum of American History, writes in the introduction: “Jazz appears most directly to the ear but also engages the eye. Yet the visual dimension of jazz is often overlooked.” Internationally renowned broadcaster and writer Alyn Shipton explores how graphic designers, photographers, artists, and illustrators crafted a fresh visual language for the new music. Arranged chronologically, each chapter covers a key period in jazz history, from the earliest days of the twentieth century right up to postmodern jazz and the twenty-first century. Lavishly produced and with over 350 photos and illustrations, The Art of Jazz is both a timely and significant contribution to the literature of this intrepid art form.

      • The Arts
        July 2020

        The Blues: A visual History

        100 Years of Music that Changed the World

        by Mike Evans with Consulting Editors Robert Gordon & Scott Barretta; foreword by Marshall Chess

        Charting the history of the blues from its rural roots in the American South, and focusing on the key musicians and singers who brought it recognition worldwide, The Blues: A Visual History is a unique and fully illustrated account of the development of the blues. This deceptively simple, 12-bar musical form has become the common denominator that has driven the popular music of the last hundred years. As John Lee Hooker put it: “The music we play . . . that music is the roots. Rock music, everything else, is like a branch on the same tree. It all comes from the Blues.”   In this updated and expanded edition of the highly acclaimed original volume (see selected reviews), there is a brand-new final chapter (and extensively revised penultimate chapter) by highly regarded blues specialist writer, broadcaster, and lecturer, Scott Barretta.

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