New Releases by Tony Bennett

Legendary jazz musician Tony Bennett needs little introduction. Winner of both Grammy and ASCAP Lifetime Achievement Awards, and long-time inductee of the Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame, Tonys latest release features classic favorites covering three decades of recording. While fans flocked to purchase the CD, PBSs American Masters series celebrated the release with a special entitled Tony Bennett: The Music Never Ends. Alfred is pleased to release the album-matching folio to Tony Bennett: The Ultimate American Songbook, Volume 1. Music includes lyrics, melody line, and chord changes with professionally arranged piano accompaniment. Titles: Anything Goes * The Very Thought of You * The Way You Look Tonight * Evry Time We Say Goodbye * That Old Black Magic * A Foggy Day * Ill Be Seeing You * Aint Misbehavin * It Had to Be You * Moonglow (Duet w with K.D. Lang) * Shes Funny That Way * You Go to My Head * They Cant Take That Away from Me * Youll Never

This chart-topping and award-winning album featured Tony Bennett singing classic songs with some of the most famous vocalists in the world. This collection provides Easy Piano arrangements for all the songs on the recording. Titles: Are You Havin'' Any Fun? (with Elvis Costello) * Because of You (with k.d. lang) * The Best is Yet to Come (with Diana Krall) * The Boulevard of Broken Dreams (with Sting) * Cold, Cold Heart (with Tim McGraw) * For Once in My Life (with Stevie Wonder) * The Good Life (with Billy Joel) * How Do You Keep the Music Playing? (with George Michael) * I Left My Heart in San Francisco * I Wanna Be Around (with Bono) * If I Ruled The World (with Celine Dion) * Just in Time (with Michael BublA(c)) * Lullaby of Broadway (with the Dixie Chicks) * Put on a Happy Face (with James Taylor) * Rags to Riches (with Elton John) * The Shadow of Your Smile (with Juanes) * Sing, You Sinners (with John Legend) * Smile (with Barbra Streisand) * The Very Thought of You (with Paul McCartney). 72 pages.

The legendary singer reflects on his career, the recurring themes in his life, and the inspiration that shapes his music and his art, in a musical memoir enhanced by reproductions of his own artwork and a CD containing some of the author''s favorite songs.

Literature is often defined as a distinct category of writing in terms of particular formal or aesthetic attributes. Tony Bennett suggests that literature be re-defined as an institutionally defined field of textual uses and effects. Charting a course between literary aesthetics and their associated politics, Bennett engages critically with the central concerns of Marxist theoreticians such as Georg Lukacs, Fredric Jameson, Terry Eagleton and Frank Lentricchia. Outside Literature also includes a critique of post-structuralist and postmodernist methodologies which, Bennett suggests, are incapable of supporting anything more than a purely rhetorical politics. Drawing on the work of Foucault, Bennett asserts the need for a more definite enquiry into the institutional regulation of culture, in order that questions of literary and cultural politics be detached from the eviscerating generalities of literary and cultural criticism.

Russian Formalism and Marxist criticism had a seismic impact on twentieth-century literary theory and the shockwaves are still felt today. First published in 1979, Tony Bennett''s Formalism and Marxism created its own reverberations by offering a ground-breaking new interpretation of the Formalists'' achievements and demanding a new way forward in Marxist criticism. The author first introduces and reviews the work of the Russian Formalists, a group of theorists who made an extraordinarily vital contribution to literary criticism in the decade followig the October Revolution of 1917. Placing the work of key figures in context and addressing such issues as aesthetics, linguistics and the category of literature, literary form and function and literary evolution, Bennett argues that the Formalists'' concerns provided the basis for a radically historical approach to the study of literature. Bennett then turns to the situation of Marxist criticism ad sketches the risks it has run in becoming overly entangled with the concerns of traditional aesthetics. He forcefully argues that through a serious and sympathetic reassessment of the Formalists and their historical approach, Marxist critics might find their way back on to the terrain of politics, where they and theri work belong. Addressing such crucial questions as ''What is literature?'' or ''How should it be studied and to what end?'', Formalism and Marxism explores ideas which should be considered by any student or reader of literature and provides a particular challenge to those interested in Marxist criticism. Now with a new afterword, this classic text still offers the best available starting point for those new to the field, as well as representing a crucial intervention in twentieth-century literary theory.

Contributing to current debates on relationships between culture and the social, and the changing practices of modern museums, this important new work explores how evolutionary museums developed in the USA, UK, and Australia in the late 19th century.

Cultural diversity, in all its forms, poses a challenge to traditional cultural policy. This report discusses the issues of citizenship and the nature of democratic public policy in culturally diverse societies. It takes a comparative international perspective, and focuses on ethnic-based cultural differences. The report considers five policy contexts which have a significant bearing on the general direction of cultural policy, and identifies four principles of cultural entitlements based on heterogeneity. It recommends a number of steps that the Council of Europe and its member states should take in order to further promote cultural diversity.

Accounting for Tastes was the most systematic and substantial study of Australian cultural tastes, preferences and activities ever published. Taking its inspiration from Pierre Bourdieu''s work, this 1999 book examines the relationships between the patterns of participation in the different fields of cultural practice in Australia, and analyses trends of consumption and choice that Australians make in their everyday lives. The book contains detailed examinations of people''s cultural choices through a large-scale survey and interviews. It also examines the influence of American culture on Australian choices, and the way work cultures and cultures of friendship affect how Australians choose to spend their leisure time. Accounting for Tastes makes a substantial contribution to the empirical and policy-oriented social inquiry into questions of cultural practices and preferences.

This Can''t Be Love -- Blue Moon -- The Lady Is A Tramp -- Lover -- Manhattan -- Spring Is Here -- Have You Met Miss Jones? -- Isn''t It Romantic? -- Wait ''Til You See Her -- I Could Write A Book -- Thou Swell -- The Most Beautiful Girl In The World -- There''s A Small Hotel -- I''ve Got Five Dollars -- You Took Advantage Of Me -- I Wish I Were In Love Again -- This Funny World -- My Heart Stood Still -- My Romance -- Mountain Greenery.

A summary of a report comissioned by the Australia Council in 1990 on the demographic, cultural and attitudinal characteristics of art gallery visitors.