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Campbell, Glen: Through the years, Special Edition, 1 Audio-CD + 1 DVD, ALIVE; FULLFILL, November 2011 ISBN: A18590206
Er arbeitete für Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, die Beach Boys, die Monkees und viele weitere Größen dieser Zeit. Die Box enthält seine Greatest Hits auf CD, inkl. einer Bonus DVD sowie vielen raren Fotographien.Campbell lernte als jugendlicher Autodidakt Gitarre spielen, ohne Noten lesen zu können. Mit 18 trat er den Western Wranglers bei und ging mit ihnen auf Tournee. 1958 übersiedelte er nach Los Angeles und begann als Studiomusiker zu arbeiten. In wenigen Jahren wurde Campbell zu einem der meistgebuchten und bestbezahlten Studiomusiker von Los Angeles. Seine erste LP trug den Namen Big Bluegrass Special und erschien im Jahre 1962. 1964 und Anfang 1965 ging Campbell mit den Beach Boys auf Tournee und ersetzte Brian Wilson, der sich dem Auftrittsstress entziehen wollte. Campbell war hierfür besonders geeignet, da er die Stücke der Beach Boys bereits im Studio eingespielt hatte und auch Wilsons hohe Falsettstimme singen konnte. Das Angebot, in der Band einzusteigen, lehnte er allerdings ab, da er als Studiomusiker mehr Geld verdienen konnte und zudem von einer Karriere als Solist träumte. Zum Dank für den sehr kurzfristigen Ersatzdienst schrieb und produzierte Wilson einige Lieder für Campbell, darunter Guess I'm Dumb. Dem Song, in dessen Backing Vocals Wilson selbst und The Honeys zu hören waren, blieb der Sprung in die Charts verwehrt.

NEU 2011 127 mm x 144 mm x 15 mm

[SW: Folkmusik; Audio-CDs, Country Music; Audio-CDs, Campbell, Glen; Audio-CD]

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CAMPBELL, Colen (1676 - 1729) engraved by H. HULSBERGH: The North Prospect of Cliefden House in Buckinghamshire the Seat of the Right Hon:ble The Earl of Orkney...

London: Published by Colen Campbell, 1725. Engraved by Henry Hulsbergh. Watermarked laid paper. A few spots. Repaired split at bottom of centerfold. Browning at edges. 10 x 19 1/2 inches. 19 3/4 x 26 1/2 inches. A noble British Palladian facade from Colen Campbell's "Vitruvius Britannicus." Colen Campbell's Vitruvius Britannicus is considered one of the greatest eighteenth-century English architectural works. Campbell's seminal text helped establish Palladianism as the English national style and gave a unified facade to England's architectural landscape. Campbell published the first three volumes between 1715 and 1725, but the text was continued in two subsequent volumes by Woolfe and Gandon in 1767 and 1771. The work is comprised of large, finely engraved illustrations, plans, and cross sections of English country houses and parks. This rendition of the north facade of Cliefden was drawn by Campbell and engraved by Henry Hulsbergh (d.1729). Colen Campbell (1676-1729) was a descendant of the Campbells of Cawdor Castle in Scotland. As an architect, he favored the Palladian style and through his own designs and withVitruvius Britannicus successfully established it as the dominant style in great houses, public and private, in England. Cliefden House near Maidenhead was at one time a residence of Frederick, Prince of Wales, son of George II, but outlived by his father. The building burnt down in 1795.

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Campbell, Timothy: Wireless Writing in the Age of Marconi (Electronic Mediations) Univ of Minnesota Pr, ISBN: 9780816644414
leichte Lagerspuren Kurzbeschreibung\n<DIV>Wireless technology has become deeply embedded in everyday life, but its impact cannot be fully understood without probing the contributions of the Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937), who ushered in the beginning of wireless communication. Marconi produced and detected sound waves over long distances, using the curvature of the earth for direction, and laid the foundations for what we know as radio—the original mobile, voice-activated, and electronic media community. \n\nTimothy C. Campbell demonstrates that Marconi’s invention of the wireless telegraph was not simply a technological act but also had an impact on poetry and aesthetics and linked the written word to the rise of mass politics. Reading influential works such as F. T. Marinetti’s futurist manifestos, Rudolf Arnheim’s 1936 study Radio, writings by Gabriele D’Annunzio, and Ezra Pound’s Cantos, Campbell reveals how the newness of wireless technology was inscribed in the ways modernist authors engaged with typographical experimentation, apocalyptic tones, and newly minted models for registering voices. Wireless Writing in the Age of Marconi presents an alternative history of modernism that listens as well as looks and bears in mind the altered media environment brought about by the emergence of the wireless. \n\nTimothy C. Campbell is associate professor of Italian at Cornell University. \n\n\nSynopsis\nThis book correlates Italian and European modernism with early wireless technology. Wireless technology has become deeply embedded in everyday life, but its impact cannot be fully understood without probing the contributions of the Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937), who ushered in the beginning of wireless communication. Marconi produced and detected sound waves over long distances, using the curvature of the earth for direction, and laid the foundations for what we know as radio - the original mobile, voice-activated, and electronic media community. Timothy C. Campbell demonstrates that Marconi's invention of the wireless telegraph was not simply a technological act but also had an impact on poetry and aesthetics and linked the written word to the rise of mass politics. Reading influential works such as F. T. Marinetti's futurist manifestos, Rudolf Arnheim's 1936 study Radio, writings by Gabriele D'Annunzio, and Ezra Pound's Cantos, Campbell reveals how the newness of wireless technology was inscribed in the ways modernist authors engaged with typographical experimentation, apocalyptic tones, and newly minted models for registering voices.<p/>Wireless Writing in the Age of Marconi presents an alternative history of modernism that listens as well as looks and bears in mind the altered media environment brought about by the emergence of the wireless. , ISBN: 0816644411

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CAMPBELL, Archibald. A Voyage round the World from 1806 to 1812; in which Japan, Kamschatka, the Aleutian Islands, and the Sandwich Islands, were visited. Including a Narrative of the author's shipwreck on the Island of Sannack, and his subsequent wreck in the ship's long boat. With an account of the present state of the Sandwich Islands and a vocabulary of their language. Edinburgh, for A. Constable, etc., 1816.
First edition of this account of Archibald Campbell's journey to China and Japan, and along the cost of Alaska. His fascinating description of the Hawaiian Islands is of great value. Campbell (1787-1821) became king Kamehameha I's sailmaker, and built the first loom made in those islands. Campbell was an infortunate seaman, who, in one of his shipwrecks, had both his feet frozen, which rendered amputation necessary. This was done by a Russian surgeon whose report is added at the end. On Campbell's return to England, a charitable Mr. Smith drew up this book from his accounts and had it published for his benefit. The work contains also valuable information on the Sandwich Islands and Rio de Janeiro, where Campbell spent almost two years.
Good copy with the bookplate of W.W. Holland.- (Rebacked, preserving orig. spine, title-label dam.; quire Q misbound at the end; sl. foxed).
Sabin 10210; Hill p. 45; Borba de Moraes p. 148; Streeter 2418; Judd 30; <I>Paul Markham Kahn Collection</I>(State-Archives of Hawaii) 3, 61.

8vo. Original half calf, spine ribbed and gilt, with title-label. With folding engraved map. 288 pp.

[SW: Cartography; China; Hawaii; Japan; Pacific]

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