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Monsters of Folk

Contents: Dear God (sincerely M.O.F.) -- Sat please -- Whole lotta losin' -- Temazcal -- The right place -- Baby boomer -- Man named truth -- Goodway -- Ahead of the curve -- Slowdown -- Losin' yo head -- Magic maker -- Map of the world -- The sandman, the brakeman, and me -- His master's voice.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Shangri-La Music 2009

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MON

Summary: What makes the promise of Camelot still resonate in the 21st century? In this program, Barbara and Alan Lupack, authors of King Arthur in America and Arthurian Literature by Women; Debra Mancoff, author of The Arthurian Revival in Victorian Art; and Kevin J. Harty, author of King Arthur on Film, New Essays on Arthurian Cinema, discuss the enduring fascination with King Arthur in Britain and...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005

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Cunning Folk

Contents: This is how it starts -- The old straight track -- The modern antiquarian -- What has been and gone before -- Chalk horses -- Uncommon ground -- Brief history of agriculture and mining -- The chime child -- Lancashire, God's country -- The song of the nidge -- Walk through the juniper

Format: sound recording-musical

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK CUN

Summary: The history and social structures of Latin America's native peoples were neither simple nor peaceful before the arrival of Europeans. Wars were fought, empires were created and destroyed, and-as this program illustrates-narrative tapestries of fact and fiction were woven in the process. Underscoring the linguistic sophistication that flourished for thousands of years in the region, the program...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007

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Summary: The history and social structures of Latin America's native peoples were neither simple nor peaceful before the arrival of Europeans. Wars were fought, empires were created and destroyed, and-as this program illustrates-narrative tapestries of fact and fiction were woven in the process. Underscoring the linguistic sophistication that flourished for thousands of years in the region, the program...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007

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Summary: The 13th and 14th centuries saw a remarkable cultural flowering under Alfonso X and the appearance of Spain's first important literary achievements. In this program, leading scholars compare and contrast the writings of the masters of the late Middle Ages, whose works gave rise to some of Spain's most memorable heroes. Dramatic readings include excerpts from the anonymously written Cantar de...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005

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Contents: Disc one : Do you believe / Melanie -- Blessed are /Joan Baez -- Light flight / Pentangle -- Foolish season / Dana Gillespie - Someone to talk my troubles to -- Auntie aviator / John & Beverley Martyn -- Flying away / Serpent Power -- It could have been better / Joan Armatrading -- Morning Morgantown / Jude -- If not by fire / Mandy More -- Upstairs by a Chinese lamp / Laura Nyro -- I thought I...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Grapefruit Records 2017

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK MIL

Contents: Disc l. The Nyingmapa sect. Chant asking the blessing of the Guru Drakmar. -- Instruments of the monastery orchestra. Two shawms (rGyaling) ; Two long trumpets (dung) ; Two shell-trumpets made from conches (dung-dkar) ; Two short horns (rKang-ling) ; Hand-bell (drilbu) and hand-drum (damaru) ; Cymbals (rolmo) ; Cymbals (silnyen) ; Pole-drum (rGna) ; Ritual (for attaining the qualities of)...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Rounder Records 1999

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/ASIAN ANT

Summary: Characterized by expressions of individuality, popularismo, criticism, stoicism, humor, piety, and dignity, the literature of Spain spans ten centuries, includes some of history's most significant writers, and contains landmark works of every major literary genre. This program provides an overview of Iberian history as it relates to Spanish literature. The formation of regional tongues and...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005

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Summary: In this remarkable anthology, some of the world's greatest writers provide a master class on the transformative power of learning and literature. Culled from a course developed by Pulitzer Prize'winning author Robert Coles for the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Teaching Stories is an invaluable collection in which novelists, essayists, and poets "render school life in all its complexity...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 2004

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TEA

Summary: "A cemetery full of the restless dead. A town so wicked it has already burned twice, with the breath of the third fire looming. A rural, isolated bridge with a terrifying monster waiting for the completion of its summoning ritual. A lake that allows the drowned to return, though they have been changed by the claws of death. These are the shadowed, liminal spaces where the curses and monsters...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Page Street Publishing Co. 2022

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GAT

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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction Bovalino

Eaton, John.

Contents: Introduction, biography, and opening comments from the perspective of a New York cab driver -- Get happy -- Jay Leonhart's introduction and commentary on the influence of Gershwin, the Cotton Club, and jazz on Harold Arlen -- Cotton Club medley -- Commentary on Arlen's influence on jazz -- Let's fall in love -- Blues in the night -- Commentary on Arlen's incorporation of the blues in his work...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Wolf Trap 0000

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN EAT

Summary: Whether they were crafted to spread Mao's message of class struggle or spun from the fabric of everyday life, Chinese folk songs carry with them immense historical and cultural importance. This program examines a wide range of songs and melodies from the country's pre-Communist era to the Cultural Revolution, energized by a rich progression of archival footage, photographs, interviews, and...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008

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Contents: Disc One: Boots of Spanish leather (Bob Dylan) -- Long black veil (The Band) -- Love is just a four-letter word (Joan Baez) -- The times they are a-changin' (The Byrds) -- Colours (Donovan) -- Simple song of freedom (Tim Hardin) -- Early morning rain (Judy Collins) -- Greenback dollar (The Kingston Trio) -- La bamba (Trini Lopez) -- Light my fire (Jose Feliciano) -- Red rubber ball (The Cyrkle)...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Time Life Music 2002

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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK FOL

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2001

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 810.8086 HER

Garland, Judy.

Contents: Every Sunday. Waltz with a swing/Americana ; Opera vs. jazz -- Broadway melody of 1938. Everybody sing ; Yours and mine ; Your Broadway and my Broadway -- Thoroughbreds don't cry. Got a pair of new shoes ; Sun showers -- Everybody sing. Down on Melody Farm ; Why, because! ; Ever since the world began/Shall I sing a melody? -- Love finds Andy Hardy. In between ; It never rains, but what it pours...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Classic Movies Music/Rhino Movie Music 1996

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC GAR

Voth, Grant L.

Summary: In this course, you'll sample some of the greatest literary expressions the world has known and experience storytelling in its many forms, including poetry, drama, and narrative.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2007

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4 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 809 VOT PART 1
Call number: CD 809 VOT PART 2
Call number: CD 809 VOT PART 3
Call number: CD 809 VOT PART 4

Summary: With the death of Franco came a loosening of political restrictions and a restoration of many civil liberties. In this program, respected authorities look at the past 25 years of literature in post-Franco Spain and the literary inclinations of the next up-and-coming generation of poets, authors, and playwrights. Dramatic readings include excerpts from Manuel Vazquez Montalban's "Sin Memoria,"...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005

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Summary: In the first decades of the 20th century, Brazilian avant-garde literature came into its own. This program examines the awakening of Modernismo and subsequent movements in Brazilian letters, from Sao Paulo's Week of Modern Art in 1922 to the politically focused milieu of the 1970s. Outlining historical events that helped shape the country's multifaceted culture, the program explores the...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008

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Henneberg, Susan

Summary: Whether or not you believe in them, the scientific investigation of ghosts is big business. Reality television shows that follow ghost hunters at work and the popularity of ghost tours in many U.S. cities prove that we are fascinated by the possibility that the dead may still be with us. This book examines evidence of the existence of ghosts and takes a critical look at what the scientific...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Britannica Educational Publishing in association with Rosen Educational Services 2015

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 133.1 HEN

Summary: In the first decades of the 20th century, Brazilian avant-garde literature came into its own. This program examines the awakening of Modernismo and subsequent movements in Brazilian letters, from Sao Paulo's Week of Modern Art in 1922 to the politically focused milieu of the 1970s. Outlining historical events that helped shape the country's multifaceted culture, the program explores the...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008

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Leinbach, Michael D.

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: On February 1, 2003, Columbia disintegrated on reentry before the nation's eyes, and all seven astronauts aboard were lost. Author Mike Leinbach, Launch Director of the space shuttle program at NASA's John F. Kennedy Space Center was a key leader in the search and recovery effort as NASA, FEMA, the FBI, the US Forest Service, and dozens more federal, state, and local agencies combed rural east...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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Stanley Brothers

Contents: A vision of Mother (2:58) -- The white dove (3:12) -- Gathering flowers for the Master's bouquet (2:48) -- Angels are singing (in Heaven tonight) (3:02) -- It's never too late to start over (2:30) -- Have you someone (in Heaven waiting) (2:40) -- Little glass of wine (2:57) -- Let me be your friend (2:42) -- We'll be sweethearts in Heaven (2:37) -- I love no one but you (2:36) -- Too late to...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia/Legacy 1996

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY STA

Ruoff, A. LaVonne Brown.

Summary: Examines the history, evolution, and culture of the American Indians, discussing both oral and written literature.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House Publishers 1991

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.1 RUO

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