Summary: Featuring an incredible array of the greatest musicians of the '70s and early '80s. It stands alone in the history of rock n roll as the first ever late-night live concert show on TV, capturing the spirit of a time when rock was exploding in so many new, exciting directions. For nine thrilling years, The Special brought audience the very best live music from every genre, rare performances right...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC MIDContents: Start -- Can -- Damo Suzuki's network -- Floh de Cologne -- Kraftwerk -- Krautwerk -- Floh de Cologne -- Neu! -- La Düsseldorf -- Japandorf -- faUSt -- Wume.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC KRASummary: "Indie folk heroes Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, Tennesee's Old Crow Medicine Show, and Britain's acclaimed Mumford & Sons hopped on a beautiful vintage train and set out across America on a 'tour of dreams.' With poignancy and beauty, Malloy documents these incredible musicians as they ride the rails and wow the crowds from Oakland to New Orleans"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: S2BN Films 2012
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF BIGContents: Tema de Batman (Celio Balona) -- Era uma nota de (Loyce e os Gnomes) -- I wanna be your man (The Youngsters) -- Ourico (Serguei) -- Lindo sonho Delirante (Fabio) -- O carona (Tony e Som Colorido) -- God save the queen (14 Bis) -- Dia de chuva (Banda de 7 leguas) -- Vou sair do cativeiro (Ton & Sergio) -- As turbinas estao ligadas (Ely) -- Ele seculo xx (Com os Falcoes Reais) -- Cinturao de fogo...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tropicalia in Furs Records 2010
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN BRASummary: In 1970, such names as Janis Joplin, The Band, and The Grateful Dead traveled by a customized train for five days to Toronto, Calgary, and Winnipeg for a mega-concert at each stop. This experience was filmed and some footage was locked away, until now.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC FESSummary: "Based on the book by New York Times best-selling author Lee Strobel, The Case for Heaven answers the questions of what awaits us after death, the evidence for Heaven and Hell, and what really happens in Near-Death Experiences. In The Case For Heaven, audiences will be taken on a fascinating journey to find out what happens after we die. Lee Strobel explores the evidence for an afterlife as he...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: [Sandoval Studios] 2022
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DOC CASSummary: "This collective of progressive bands started [the RIO] movement that remains one of the reference points that many listeners, musicians, and distributors use to describe a cooperative approach of making and distributing non-mainstream music"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Media 2012
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC ROMSummary: These legendary documentaries have only been released on VHS until now. Penelope Spheeris' Decline of Western Civilization was perceived as shocking and outrageous at the time of its original release in 1981. Parts II and III were no less extraordinary and unprecedented. Today, museums and educational institutions around the world present them as historically significant works of art....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Shout Factory 2015
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC DEC1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD MUSIC DEC
Summary: "More than just one of the greatest concert films ever made, The Last Waltz is an at once ecstatic and elegaic summation of a vital era in American rock music. Invited to capture the farewell performance of the legendary group The Band at San Francisco's Winterland Ballroom on Thanksgiving, 1976, Martin Scorsese conceived a new kind of music documentary. Enlisting seven camera operators (led by...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY MUSIC LASShenk, David
Summary: Skeleton Key puts the reader on the Merry Pranksters' bus behind the real Cowboy Neal, uncovers the origins of Cherry Garcia, follows the dancing bear on its trip from psychedelic artifact to trademarked icon, and unlocks the Dead's own tape vault.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.42 SHESummary: In his acclaimed debut as a filmmaker, Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson presents a powerful and transporting documentary, part music film, part historical record, created around an epic event that celebrated Black history, culture, and fashion. Over the course of six weeks in the summer of 1969, just one hundred miles south of Woodstock, The Harlem Cultural Festival was filmed in Mount Morris Park...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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3 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC SUMClash (Musical group)
Summary: "The unique story of the Clash, by the Clash. The Clash were a band like no other. Pioneers of British punk rock, their incendiary gigs, intelligent songwriting, definitive style and passionate idealism caught the spirit of the times and made them a worldwide phenomenon ..."--from inside jacket cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub. 2008
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 782.42 CLASummary: Fearless documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras's career-long pursuit of truth and justice finds powerful expression in an epic story of art, activism, and survival. Made in collaboration with renowned artist Nan Goldin, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed entwines the mission of PAIN an advocacy group she founded to raise awareness about the billionaire Sackler family's integral role in the ongoing...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A battle of naked ambition played out on the national and, ultimately, world stage, this film chronicles the birth of the US Air Guitar Championships as legions of aspiring rock stars compete to become the greatest air guitarist in the world. Samurai warrior C. Diddy emerges as an early favorite, but Björn Türoque is not far behind. Will Björn's technical prowess, attitude, and "airness" be...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by New Video 2007
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GUI1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF AIR
Bagieu, Pénélope
Summary: With her characteristic wit and dazzling drawings, celebrated graphic novelist Penelope Bagieu profiles the lives of these feisty female role models, some world famous, some little known. From Nellie Bly to Mae Jemison or Josephine Baker to Naziq al-Abid, the stories in this comic biography are sure to inspire the next generation of rebel ladies.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: First Second, an imprint of Roaring Book Press 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 920 BAGVarious Artists
Contents: Cigarette lighter / Japanese Telecom. -- Breakout / Ectomorph. -- Minors at night / Adult. -- Fogdust vs. Detroit / Paris the Black Fu. -- It's time / Keith Tucker. -- Whatchulookinat / DJ Godfather. -- Hoes / DJ Assault. -- No no / Aaron-Carl. -- If snow was black / Detroit Grand Pubahs. -- Murder scene / Andy Toth. -- A.M. / Maersk. -- Capture / Tony Ollivierra. -- Character maps remix /...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Intuit-Solar 1969
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC COMGrue, Jan
Summary: "In this essayistic autobiography, Jan Grue reflects on social structures, disability, loss, relationships, and the body: in short, on what it means to be human"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: FSG Originals/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GRUE, JAN GRUSummary: An astonishingly intimate portrait of a deeply haunted but truly unstoppable virtuoso and the music that has enthralled legions of the world's most devoted fans.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WELABRADFORD (MUSICAL GROUP_
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK LABRASummary: "Take a trip with Sonic Youth and Nirvana as they stumble through their 1991 European club & festival tour! Let filmmaker Dave Markey put you on stage, off stage and backstage! Witness the boredom! The cynicism! And rock harder than you may ever have rocked before!"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Geffen Records 2011
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC NINSummary: The impact of Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead on fellow musicians, producers, writers, photographers, young people, artists, road crew, and the band itself date back as far as 1965.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Carol Pub. Group 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.42 KELSummary: The story of the extraordinary final chapter of Freddie Mercury's life and how, after his death, Queen staged one of the biggest concerts in history, to celebrate his life and challenge the prejudices around HIV/AIDS.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC FRETimberlake, Justin
Summary: "In his first book, Justin Timberlake creates a characteristically dynamic experience, one that combines an intimate, remarkable collection of anecdotes, reflections, and observations on his life and work with hundreds of candid photographs from his personal archives that range from his early years to the present day, in locations around the world, both on and off the stage. Justin discusses...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Design, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018