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Art of series Call of Africa Charlie Saunders Collection Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 396 How art made the world Jazz music library Master class (Musicians Institute) Masterworks of western art Sexual and racial stereotypes in the media Vital records of the towns of MassachusettsSummary: The world is quickly becoming saturated with information, entertainment, and advertisements. In this program, academic and industry experts examine the globalization of information exchange, the way in which it has altered the social distance between nations and individuals, and the future of mass media. In the U.S., viewers watch an average of 4.5 hours per day of television, willingly lending...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Portico Quartet
Contents: Endless -- Objects to place in a tomb -- Rushing -- Art in the age of automation -- S/2000S5 -- A luminous beam -- Beyond dialogue -- RGB -- Current history -- Mercury eyes -- Lines glow.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Gondwana Records 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ PORSummary: As Africa continues to modernize, the influence of the media in daily life is growing ever larger. This program examines the importance of the press, radio, the Internet, and TV via segments involving the Sowetan, a widely circulated South African newspaper that has its roots in the anti-apartheid struggle; KKC Kagadi, a rural community radio station in Uganda; Kenya-based Africa Online, an...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Queens of the Stone Age
Contents: Regular John -- Avon -- If only -- Walkin on the sidewalks -- You would know -- The bronze -- How to handle a rope (a lesson in the lariat) -- Mexicola -- Hispanic impressions -- You can't quit me baby -- These aren't the droids you're looking for -- Give the mule what he wants -- Spiders and vinegaroons -- I was a teenage hand model.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Ipecac Recordings/Rekords Rekords 2010
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1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL POP/ROCK QUEBirkerts, Sven.
Summary: "In The Art of Time in Memoir, critic, editor, and memoirist Sven Birkerts examines the human impulse to write about the self. "Memoir is, for better and often for worse, the genre of our times," Birkerts writes. But what makes one memoir memorable and another self-serving? What determines the difference between graceful disclosure and sensational self-exposure? Birkerts argues that the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 809.93592 BIRSummary: Categorizing others is a part of human nature, and even as infants we divide the world into two groups-male and female-to help organize our reality. But when these stereotypes are used to make assumptions about a person's character and value, they become gender bias or outright sexism. This program illustrates some of the commercial, cultural, psychological, and sociological forces that have...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Standage, Tom
Summary: Chronicles social media over two millennia, from papyrus letters that Cicero used to exchange news across the Empire to today, reminding us how modern behavior echoes that of prior centuries and encouraging debate and discussion about how we'll communicate in the future.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2014
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302.2 STASummary: Although demeaning and offensive racial stereotypes were pervasive in popular media of every kind during the 20th century, most observers would agree that the media is much more sensitive to representations of race today. But the pernicious effects of that stereotyping live on in the new racism arising from disparities in the treatment of stories involving whites and people of color in a...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Blakey, Art
Contents: In The Basement --Try A Little Tenderness --Little Girl Blue --On The Roof --Minority --Salute to Birdland --Eleanor --Futurity --Simplicity --Strictly Romantic --Hello --Mayreh.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Verve Records 2006
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ BLAArt School Girlfriend (Musical group)
Contents: In the middle -- Is it light where you are -- Softer side -- Give -- Low light -- Colour me -- Helm -- Good as I wanted -- Bored of myself -- Eyes on you
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK ARTArt of Noise (Musical group)
Contents: A time for fear (Who's afraid) -- Beat box (Diversion one) -- Snapshot -- Close (to the edit) -- Who's afraid (of the Art of Noise) -- Moments in love -- Momento -- How to kill -- Realization.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Island Records 1984
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK ARTTaunton (Mass.)
Contents: v. 1. Births.--v. 2. Marriages and deaths.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New England Historic Genealogical Society 1978
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.3744Shaw, Art
Summary: On Easter Sunday, April 1, 1945, 1.5 million men gathered aboard 1,500 Allied ships off the coast of the Japanese island of Okinawa, to launch the largest amphibious assault on the Pacific Theater. then-Major Shaw was the first American officer ashore, a unit commander in the U.S. Army's 361st Field Artillery Battalion of the 96th Infantry Division, nicknamed the Deadeyes. For the next three...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SHAW, ART SHAMagnusson, Bob.
Contents: The blues--triads -- The blues--diatonic passing tones -- The blues--chromatic tones -- Minor scales and minor blues -- Rhythm changes -- Other common harmonic progressions.
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: H. Leonard Corp. 1999
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Place a hold to request this item.Art Ensemble of Chicago
Contents: Tutankhamun / M. Favors (18:32) -- Illinstrun / F. Don Moye, M. Favors (7:51) -- A Jackson in your house / R. Mitchell (10:24).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Golden Years 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ ARTAlexander, Michelle.
Summary: "As the United States celebrates the nation's "triumph over race" with the election of Barack Obama, the majority of young black men in major American cities are locked behind bars or have been labeled felons for life. Although Jim Crow laws have been wiped off the books, an astounding percentage of the African American community remains trapped in a subordinate status - much like their...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New Press 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 364.973 ALESummary: As globalization of trade rapidly expands, the mainstream media is being accused of inadequately reporting the issues. This program canvasses some of the dissent by exploring conflicts of interest within the media and showing how technology, such as the camcorder and the Internet, is challenging the monopoly of big news broadcasters. Differences between mainstream and "indie" media are...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: The Ace in the Hole, in this case, is Leo Minosa, trapped in a cliff dwelling near Albuquerque, N.M. The publicity from his situation could build a winning hand for several people: Chuck Tatum, manipulative veteran newsman; Lorraine, his bored wife who dreams of city lights; Sheriff Gus Kretzer, boosting his re-election campaign; and young Herbie, a reporter who wants to make the big leagues....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ACEArt Ensemble Of Chicago
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ ARTSummary: Throughout history, one type of individual has instinctively grasped art's power to persuade and manipulate-and indeed, images have become at least as deadly as swords or guns in the hands of political and military leaders. This program revolves around a basic question: when did art mutate from a vehicle of the imagination into a tool of the ruler? Beginning in Britain, the program looks at the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Spiegelman, Art.
Summary: The Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus tells the story of Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and his son, a cartoonist coming to terms with his father's story. Maus approaches the unspeakable through the diminutive. Its form, the cartoon (the Nazis are cats, the Jews mice), shocks us out of any lingering sense of familiarity and succeeds in "drawing us closer to the bleak heart...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 920 SPISummary: Do TV viewers find any real differences when they switch between the major news networks? How rigorous is the reporting? Has subservience to corporate interests replaced true journalism? This program explores the emergence of alternative media in the form of blogs, satellite broadcasts, and documentaries that examine rarely visited yet vital issues. Focusing on the political arena and the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Horn, Art
Contents: The people in your (work) neighborhood: The worrier; The controller; The fake; The attention-seeker; The victim; The prisoner -- Hell is not just other people: The transcendence model; Here comes the judge; Our shaky foundations; How we judge -- Moving from fear to freedom: What's your operating strategy?; A case of disidentification; There goes the judge; A way of being; A better way.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: American Management Association 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 650.13 HORSummary: Abstract Expressionism was born from a joining of attitudes in American art and European avant-garde art, but was later rejected for its nonfigurative and seemingly egocentric character in favor of the ultra-objective phenomenon known as Pop Art. This program examines: Franz Kline's C & O
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005