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 MIDSummary: "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: Examines the contemporary tactics used to control our democratic process and silence political dissent. Chronicles the patterns of voter disenfranchisement from Florida 2000 to Ohio 2004 while following the story of Georgia Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Disinformation Company 2006
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC AMESummary: The story of the American civil rights movement through its music, the freedom songs protesters sang on picket lines, in mass meetings, and more, as they fought for justice and equality. Includes new performances of the freedom songs by top artists, archival footage, and interviews with civil rights foot soldiers and leaders. Freedom songs evolved from slave chants, from the labor movement, and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Docurama Films 2010
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC SOU1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF SOU
Shenk, 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 SHEContents: 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 KRAFakir, Abdul
Summary: Spanning over decades, this is the remarkable, heartfelt memoir from Abdul 'Duke' Fakir, the last surviving member of The Four Tops. Amidst a backdrop of Detroit, I'll Be There features revealing anecdotes from the group's formation, their early days as backup singers for the likes of Jackie Wilson, and their years working with Berry Gordy at the legendary Motown Records. With era-defining...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI 921 FakirGross, Terry.
Summary: The award-winning host of National Public Radio's Fresh Air presents a selection of her interviews with some of the most celebrated actors, musicians, writers, artists, and comics of the day.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Entertain GrossVarious 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 COMSummary: "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 NINLABRADFORD (MUSICAL GROUP_
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK LABRAGross, Steve.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clarkson Potter 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: OVS 747.9 ENDLasko-Gross
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics 2009
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 LASSummary: Inspired by classical progressive rock bands of 40 years ago such as King Crimson, Emerson Lake, and Palmer and Pink Floyd, young bands of today have transformed progressive music into something new. Ignored by today's music industry but empowered by the tools of the Internet, these young bands are trying to find their audience while crafting a personal sound as an alternative to mainstream music.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Media 2010
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC ROMGross, Andrew
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M GROGross, Dennis.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 646.72 GROGross, Terry.
Summary: HighBridge Audio presents over three hours of National Public Radio's distinguished talk show Fresh Air, fronted by Peabody Award-winning host Terry Gross. Presented here are intimate interviews with eighteen comedians, including Stephen Colbert, Sacha Baron Cohen, and Steve Martin.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge Co. 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 792.702 GROGross, Andrew.
Summary: Kate Raab's life seems almost perfect: her boyfriend, her job, her family ... until her father runs into trouble with the law. His only recourse is to testify against his former accomplices in exchange for his family's placement in the Witness Protection Program. But one of them gets cold feet. In a flash, everything Kate can count on is gone. Now, a year later, her worst fears have happened:...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wm. Morrow 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GROGross, Benedikt
Summary: Discover the alphabet from a bird's-eye view! Geographer and designer duo Benedikt Gross and Joey Lee have taken the alphabet to new heights-literally! Using satellite imagery and computer technology, the pair has discovered "accidental letters" all over the world: in roads, rivers, buildings, lakes, and more. Take a journey around the Earth in 26 letters with this special book.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Price Stern Sloan, An Imprint of Penguin Random House 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 428 GROCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in JE Concept Crates, Call number: JE GROGross, Ernie.
Summary: ""Recommended"--Choice. This edition is updated with over 950 additional entries for 2000-2006, with a special emphasis on areas of growing interest, including African-American and women's accomplishments and controversies over homosexual rights and church-state matters"--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: McFarland & Co. 2008
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1 available in Reference, Call number: R 973.02 GROGross, Gwendolen
Summary: In this mesmerizing first novel a young American graduate student abandons her research deep in the Australian rain forest to investigate her professor's mysterious disappearance. Annabel Mendelssohn has an unusual but oddly satisfying life -- studying spectacled fruit bats in the rain forest of Australia. She spends her free time discovering waterfalls and e-mailing her sister, Alice, who has...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2001