Phinney, Kevin.
Summary: "... a comprehensive look at race relations in the United States as seen through the prism of music from slavery to the present"--Jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Billboard Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 780.89 PHIHorowitz, Joseph
Summary: "A provocative interpretation of why classical music in America "stayed white"-how it got to be that way and what can be done about it. In 1893 the composer Antonin Dvorák prophesied a "great and noble" school of American classical music based on the searing "negro melodies" he had excitedly discovered since arriving in the United States a year before. But while Black music would found popular...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 780.973 HORRohr, Richard.
Summary: Men in midlife approach a crisis of limitation. In midlife women begin to ascend and acknowledge their power, their inner strength. For both they meet the mystery of transformation through a dark night.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Anthony Messenger Press 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 248.8 ROHThomson, Virgil
Summary: "In this second volume in the Library of America's definitive Virgil Thomson edition, Pulitzer Prize-winning music critic Tim Page collects for the first time the great composer's four witty, incisive, and compulsively readable full-length works. Written with authority and élan, these classic books offer an engrossing tour of the tumultuous twentieth-century musical scene and Thomson's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 780 THOBlack Thought
Summary: Through vivid vignettes, the platinum-selling, Grammy-winning co-founder of The Roots tells dramatic stories of the four powerful relationships that shaped him, each a complex weave of love, discovery, trauma and loss, illuminating the redemptive power of the upcycle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2023
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Summary: "The moving story of a small group of veterans, scientists, and pacifists who forced the U.S. government to take responsibility for the horrors inflicted on the Vietnamese with unexploded munitions and the toxic defoliant Agent Orange"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.704 BLABlack, Dale.
Summary: "Dale Black tells how he survived a plane crash at age nineteen, his near-death experience of heaven, and how his life dramatically changed as a result of this event forty years ago"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Belief Christ BlackBlack, Monica
Summary: "In the aftermath of World War II, a succession of mass supernatural events swept through a war-torn Germany. As millions were afflicted by a host of seemingly incurable maladies (including blindness and paralysis), waves of apocalyptic rumors crashed over the land. A messianic faith healer rose to extraordinary fame, prayer groups performed exorcisms, and enormous crowds traveled to witness...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 133.4 BLAFoner, Nancy
Summary: "An in-depth look at the many ways immigration has redefined modern America. The impact of immigrants over the past half century has become so much a part of everyday life in the United States that we sometimes fail to see it. This deeply researched bookby one of America's leading immigration scholars tells the story of how immigrants are fundamentally changing this country.An astonishing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 FONFields-Black, Edda L.
Summary: "In the spring and summer of 1863, as the outcome of the Civil War, and with it the fate of the nation, hung in the balance, Union forces struggled to capture the offensive. One promising place was along the coastal waters of South Carolina. A year and a half earlier, the Union Navy had taken the port cities of Port Royal and Beaufort, where the Union then made plans to attack the expansive...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 FIESummary: An anthology culled from "Black Mask" magazine is a tribute to its mastery of the pulp noir genre that includes such stories as "Murder Is Bad Luck" and "Diamonds Mean Death" as well as two full-length novels including Paul Cain's "Fast One."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLABlack, Justin
Summary: In a stark and wholehearted true story that shares how two individuals on separate paths found each other, Alexis and Justin merge their course into one full of hope and purpose. And hand-inhand, with a desire to help others, they learned to reject the abusive patterns of their poast, thereby intentionally breaking the cycle of generational violence and unhealthy behaviors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Global Perspectives Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio BlackNutt, Amy Ellis.
Summary: "The Maines were a middle-class, hard-working, politically conservative New England couple whose lives felt complete when they adopted identical twin sons. As toddlers, Jonas was the son Kelly and Wayne Maines expected, but Wyatt was only interested in girls' clothes and toys. By age five, this conflict was tearing Wyatt--and the family--apart. Today, Wyatt is Nicole. She and Jonas are now...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 NUTBlack, Wayne
Summary: "Is your child safe at school? Who makes the decisions about your child's safety and security when you send them off to school each day? What does a truly safe school look like? Does your school have an adequate security plan? How can we prevent the unthinkable?... In this comprehensive guidebook for parents and professionals, Wayne Black utilizes over forty-five years of security experience in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viva Editions, an imprint of Start Midnight 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 371.7 BLAGeter, Hafizah
Summary: "Hafizah Augustus Geter disrupts the myths of America's origins and contemporary America through her experiences as the queer Nigerian-born daughter of a Muslim Nigerian woman and a Black American man from a Southern Baptist family in Jim Crow Alabama. A unique combination of gripping memoir and Afrofuturist thought, The Black Period follows Hafizah on a journey that tells her at every turn...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022
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Contents: The forethought -- Of our spiritual strivings -- Of the dawn of freedom -- Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and others -- Of the meaning of progress -- Of the wings of Atalanta -- Of the training of Black men -- Of the Black belt -- Of the quest of the Golden Fleece -- Of the sons of master and man -- Of the faith of the fathers -- Of the passing of the first-born -- Of Alexander Crummell -- Of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.0496 DU BRibowsky, Mark.
Summary: "A soul icon and the southern music he helped popularize come to life in this moving requiem,"--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 780 RIBMiller, Karl Hagstrom
Summary: Karl Hagstrom Miller argues that the categories that we have inherited to think and talk about southern music bear little relation to the ways that southerners long played and heard music. Focusing on the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth, Miller chronicles how southern music--a fluid complex of sounds and styles in practice--was reduced to a series of distinct genres linked to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Duke University Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.64 MILGreenberg, Robert
Summary: For anyone wanting to master music's language, being able to read musical notation is a necessity. But this course, as Professor Greenberg notes, is a basic course, designed to introduce you to music's language in a way that is similar to the way you learned your own native language, by "discovering and exploring musical syntax through our ears-- by learning what the parts of musical speech...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2007
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Sacks, Oliver W.
Summary: Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of our first date. It can lift us out of depression when nothing else can. It can get us dancing to its beat. But the power of music goes much, much further. Indeed, music occupies more areas of our brain than language does--humans are a musical species. Oliver Sacks's compassionate,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.11 SACCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 781.11 SacRenner, Rolf Günter.
Summary: "Hopper is simply a bad painter, but if he were a better one, he would probably not be such a great artist." Clement Greenberg.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Taschen 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 759.13 RENHowe, Daniel Walker.
Summary: As part of the Oxford History of the United States series, this volume is a portrait of an era that saw dramatic transformations in American life. The author illuminates the period from the battle of New Orleans to the end of the Mexican-American War, an era when the United States expanded to the Pacific and won control over the richest part of the North American continent. This narrative...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 973.5 Howe,Wood, Patrick M.
Summary: The dark horse of the New World Order is not Communism, Socialism or Fascism. It is Technocracy. With meticulous detail and an abundance of original research, Patrick M. Wood uses Technocracy Rising to connect the dots of modern globalization in a way that has never been seen before so that the reader can clearly understand the globalization plan, its perpetrators and its intended endgame. In...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Coherent Publishing 2015
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Summary: An astronomer answers questions on the cutting edge of astrophysics to explore the science of black holes and their role in theoretical physics, from Einstein's equations of general relativity to testing string theory.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2019