Horowitz, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 780.973 HOR

Contents: Dan Tucker -- Old cow died -- Bile them cabbage down -- Po black sheep -- Eighth of January -- Corrinne -- Texas traveler -- Rolling river -- Old sage friend -- Apple blossom -- Pateroller'll catch you -- Across the sea -- Cincinnati -- Altamont.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Rounder 1989

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES ALT

Contents: Dance dance dance (Chic) -- The closer I get to you (Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway) -- Le freak (Chic) -- We are family (Sister Sledge) -- Good times (Chic) -- You are in my system (The System) -- (Pop, pop, pop, pop) goes my mind (LeVert) -- Don't disturb this groove (The System) -- Come share my love (Miki Howard) -- Casanova (LeVert) -- So amazing (Gerald Albright).

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Records 1988

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES GOL

Contents: Beale St. blues ("Fats" Waller and Alberta Hunter) -- Statesboro blues (Blind Willie McTell) -- Canned Heat blues (Tommy Johnson) -- Old dog blue (Jim Jackson) -- Death's black train is coming (Rev. J.M. Gates) -- Sometimes I feel like a motherless child (Paul Robeson) -- Walk right in (Cannon's Jug Stompers) -- Bumble bee blues (the Memphis Jug Band with Memphis Minnie) -- Milk cow blues...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: RCA 1992

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES RCA

Contents: Disc one, The stringband era. Pan American blues -- Muscle Shoals blues (DeFord Bailey) -- Gray Eagle (Taylor's Kentucky Boys) -- G rag (Georgia Yellow Hammers, with Andrew Baxter) -- K.C. railroad blues (Andrew and Jim Baxter) -- Dallas rag (Dallas String Band) -- Bill Cheatem (James Cole String Band) -- Turkey buzzard blues (Peg Leg Howell and Eddie Anthony) -- Corinne Corinna (Charlie McCoy...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Records 1998

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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY FRO

Contents: disc 4. You've really got a hold on me (Miracles) ; Take my hand precious Lord (Mahalia Jackson) ; Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I have a dream" speech ; Cotton fields (Odetta) ; How blue can you get (B.B. King) ; No pity (in the naked city) (Jackie Wilson) ; President John F. Kennedy's address to the nation ; Change gonna come (Otis Redding) ; Walk on by (Dionne Warwick) ; Reach out I'll be there...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino 2009

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES SAY

Contents: disc 5. I want you back (Jackson 5) ; I want to take you higher (Ike & Tina Turner & the Ikettes) ; Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall on Segregation ; Ball of confusion (That's what the world is today) (Temptations) ; What's going on (Marvin Gaye) ; Revolution will not be televised (Gil Scott-Heron) ; My tribute (AndraGe Crouch ; Respect yourself (Staple Singers) ; Tired of being alone...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino 2009

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES SAY

Contents: disc 1. Maple leaf rag (Scott Joplin) ; Booker T. Washington on the Negro population in the South ; St. Louis blues (Bessie Smith) ; Black bottom stomp (Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers) ; Heebie jeebies (Louis Armstrong & his Hot Five) ; Ol' man river (Paul Robeson) ; Ain't misbehavin' (Fats Waller) ; Pony blues (Charlie Patton) ; My black mama (Part 1) (Son House) ; Tiger rag (Mills...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino 2000

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES SAY

Contents: disc 1. Maple leaf rag (Scott Joplin) ; Booker T. Washington on the Negro population in the South ; St. Louis blues (Bessie Smith) ; Black bottom stomp (Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers) ; Heebie jeebies (Louis Armstrong & his Hot Five) ; Ol' man river (Paul Robeson) ; Ain't misbehavin' (Fats Waller) ; Pony blues (Charlie Patton) ; My black mama (Part 1) (Son House) ; Tiger rag (Mills...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino 2000

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES SAY

Contents: Death, have mercy / adapted & arranged by Vera Hall (Vera Hall, vocal) -- I want Jesus to walk with me / adapted & arranged by James Shorty (James Shorty, vocal; Mississippi Fred McDowell, guitar) -- Jesus is real to me / adapted & arranged by Mary Lee (Mrs. Mary Lee & congregation, vocals) -- I love the Lord / traditional (Reverend R.C. Crenshaw & congregation, vocals) -- A sermon fragment /...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic 1993

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RELIGIOUS SOU

Contents: disc 6. We are family (Sister Sledge) ; I will survive (Gloria Gaynor) ; Fight the power (part 1) (Isley Brothers) ; Rapper's delight (Sugarhill Gang) ; Breaks (part 1) (Kurtis Blow) ; Message (Grand Master Flas

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino 2009

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES SAY

Contents: The revolution will not be televised (Gil Scott-Heron) -- Sounds from the bush (Mandingo Griot Society with Don Cherry) -- Red, black, and green (Roy Ayers Ubiquity) -- Malcolm X (Philip Cohran & the Artistic Heritage Ensemble) -- Sweet songs (Sarah Webster Fabio) -- Vibes from the Tribe (Phil Ranelin) -- Desert fairy princess (Horace Tapscott with the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra) -- Strong...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES SOU

Fela

Contents: 2,000 Blacks got to be free -- Africa, centre of the world.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Celluloid 1997

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN FEL

Contents: People don't sing like they used to sing (the Original Blind Boys) -- Jesus gave me water (the Soul Stirrers) -- Uncloudy day (the Staple Singers) -- Where shall I go (the Swan Silvertones) -- I am so glad (the Patterson Singers) -- I dreamed heaven was like this (the Highway QC's) -- Oh sinner (the Harmonizing Four) -- God has not promised (the Highway QC's) -- Let Jesus lead you (the...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Craft Recordings 2017

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RELIGIOUS JES

Questlove

Summary: Music Is History combines Questlove's deep musical expertise with his curiosity about history, examining America over the past fifty years.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Image 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.42 QUE

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B QUESTLOVE QUE

Contents: Disc 1. Salvation symphony (Dale Warren & the Wattstax '72 Orchestra) -- Introduction (Jesse Jackson) -- Lift every voice and sing (Kim Weston) -- Heavy makes you happy (Sha-na-boom-boom) ; Are you sure ; I like the things about me ; Respect yourself ; I'll take you there (the Staple Singers) -- Precious Lord, take my hand (Deborah Manning) -- Better get a move on (Louise McCord) -- Them hot...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Stax 2007

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

Parliament (Musical group)

Contents: P-funk (wants to get funked up) (7:39) -- Give up the funk (Tear the roof off the sucker) (5:44) -- Flash light (5:46) -- Dr. Funkenstein (5:42) -- Up for the down stroke (5:07) -- Chocolate city (5:35) -- Bop gun (Endangered species) (8:28) -- Testify ('74 version) (4:03) -- Aqua boogie (A psychoalphadiscobetabioaquadoloop) (6:41) -- Mothership connection (Star child) (6:12) -- Agony of DeFeet...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Mercury 2000

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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES PAR