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Summary: Aretha Franklin was a legendary singer and activist. Her music helped shape the civil rights movement and inspired many people. Aretha Franklin: Legendary Singer explores her life and legacy. Includes infographics and glossary. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2020
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB FRANKLIN HARSummary: The Dick Cavett Show was the late-night TV home of the biggest names in music. Cavett so enjoyed talking with Ray Charles that he had him on the show three times, including one where he was Cavett's only guest.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Shout! Factory 2005
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DICSummary: Back to Black tells the real story of how Amy's best known and most celebrated body of work came into being. Featuring previously unseen footage of Amy in the studio, new interviews with producers Mark Ronson and Salaam Remi, and the musicians who worked with Amy on the album, it offers fresh insights into Amy's remarkable gifts as a singer, songwriter, musician and performer. Also includes An...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC AMYLauterbach, Preston.
Summary: A definitive account of the birth of rock 'n' roll in black America...The Chitlin' Circuit brings us into the sweaty back rooms where such stars as James Brown, B. B. King, and Little Richard got their start.--Amazon.com
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.66 LAUSummary: 35 hits from the legendary record company in easy piano arrangements, including: ABC * Ain't No Mountain High Enough * Ain't Too Proud to Beg * Baby Love * Dancing in the Street * Endless Love * How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You) * I Heard It Through the Grapevine * I'll Be There * Isn't She Lovely * Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me) * Let's Get It On * My Girl * Please Mr. Postman *...
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Hal Leonard Corp. 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 786 MOTTower of Power (Musical group)
Contents: CD 1. Stroke '75 (2:40) -- Ain't nothing stopping us now (2:36) -- You ought to be having fun (3:21) -- Soul with a capital S (6:07) -- Stop (4:34) -- You're so wonderful, so marvelous (3:06) -- On the serious side (4:17) -- Just when we start makin' it (7:24) -- Soul vaccination (5:04) -- What is hip?/Soul power (9:25) -- Do you like that? (3:36) -- Drop it in the slot (3:12) --
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES TOWWyman, Bill.
Summary: A history of the Blues genre and its celebrated musicians discusses how African-Americans expressed poverty, injustice, faith, and love in their music as they journeyed from southern plantations to northern cities.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DK Pub. 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.643 WYMSummary: Beyoncé. Her name conjures more than music, it has come to be synonymous with beauty, glamour, power, creativity, love, and romance. Her performances are legendary, her album releases events. She is not even forty but she has already rewritten the Beyoncé playbook more than half a dozen times. She is consistently provocative, political and surprising. As a solo artist, she has sold more than...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.42 QUEKeys, Alicia
Summary: "An intimate, revealing look at one artist's journey from self-censorship to full expression As one of the most celebrated musicians of our time, Alicia Keys has enraptured the nation with her heartfelt lyrics, extraordinary vocal range, and soul-stirringpiano compositions. Yet away from the spotlight, Alicia has grappled with private heartache-over the challenging and complex relationship with...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KEYS, ALICIA KEYNeville, Aaron.
Summary: 2013 release from the Soul legend, a concert filmed in November at New York's Brooklyn Bowl that features Aaron Neville performing songs from his album My True Story. An incredible array of musicians and guests join Neville, including: Greg Leisz on guitar (Beck, Sheryl Crow, Bob Dylan, Ryan Adams), George G. Receli on drums (Bob Dylan, James Brown), Tony Scherr on bass (Bill Frisell, Norah...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Note Records 2013
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC MYGordon, Robert
Summary: Offers an authoritative biography of the father of modern blues, detailing his turbulent life, from the cotton fields of rural Mississippi to his extraordinary rise to success, forever changing the music industry.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WATERS, MUDDY GORRush, Bobby
Summary: "Experience music history with this memoir by one of the last of the genuine old school Blues and R&B legends, the Grammy-winning dynamic showman Bobby Rush"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RUSH, BOBBY RUSGuralnick, Peter.
Summary: The Birth of Rock 'n' Roll: 70 Years of Sun Records is the official history of this legendary label, and looks at its story in a unique way: through the lens of 70 of its most iconic recordings. From the early days with primal blues artists like Howlin' Wolf and B.B. King to long nights in the studio with Elvis and Jerry Lee Lewis, you will see how the label was shaped and how it redefined...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Weldon Owen 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 781.66 GURCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 781.66 GURIandoli, Kathy
Summary: "By twenty-two years old, Aaliyah had already accomplished a staggering amount: hit records, acclaimed acting roles, and fame that was just about to cross over into superstardom. Like her song, she was already "more than a woman" but her shocking death ina plane crash prevented her from fully growing into one. Now, two decades later, the full story of Aaliyah's life and cultural impact is...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 AALIYAH IANKelly, R.
Summary: The R&B performer and producer traces the story of his life and career, describing his battle with a learning disorder, his collaborations with such icons as Michael Jackson and Aretha Franklin, and his difficulties with personal and legal challenges.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hay House 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KELLY, R. KELScott-Heron, Gil
Summary: A personal account by the late musician and poet traces the story of his life, career, and history-making 1981 tour at the side of Stevie Wonder to raise support for the establishment of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SCOTT-HERON, GIL SCODukes of September (Musical group)
Contents: People get up and drive your funky soul -- Who's that lady -- Sweet soul music -- I keep forgettin' -- Kid Charlemagne -- The same thing -- Miss Sun -- You never can tell -- What a fool believes -- Hey nineteen -- Love T.K.O. -- Peg -- Lowdown -- Takin' it to the streets -- Reelin' in the years -- Lido shuffle -- Pretzel logic -- Them changes.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 429 Records 2014
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC DUKJackson, Janet
Contents: CD. I.D. (interlude) -- Feedback -- Luv -- Spinnin (interlude) -- Rollercoaster -- Bathroom break (interlude) -- Rock with u -- 2nite -- Can't b good -- 4 words (interlude) -- Never letchu go -- Truth or dare (interlude) -- Greatest X -- Good morning Janet (interlude) -- So much betta -- Play selection (interlude) -- The 1 (with Missy Elliott) -- What's ur name -- The meaning (interlude) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Island Def Jam 2008
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES JACWhitall, Susan.
Summary: Little Willie John was an American R&B singer who performed in the 1950s and early 1960s and is best known for his popular music chart successes with songs such as, "All Around the World" (1955), "Need Your Love So Bad" (1956) and "Fever" the same year, the latter covered in 1958 by Peggy Lee.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Titan Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JOHN, LITTLE WILLIE WHIBeyoncé
Contents: [CD], Album. Pray you catch me -- Hold up -- Don't hurt yourself (featuring Jack White) -- Sorry -- 6 inch (featuring the Weeknd) -- Daddy lessons -- Love drought -- Sandcastles -- Forward (featuring James Blake) -- Freedom (featuring Kendrick Lamar) -- All night -- Formation --
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BEY POP/ROCKCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES BEYBooker T.
Summary: "The long-awaited memoir of Booker T. Jones, leader of the famed Stax Records house band, architect of the Memphis soul sound, and one of the most legendary figures in music. From Booker T. Jones's earliest years in segregated Memphis, music was the driving force in his life. While he worked paper routes and played gigs in local nightclubs to pay for lessons and support his family, Jones, on...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BOOKER T. BOOEder, Mari K.
Summary: "From corsets to crime fighting , Mae Foley challenged the patriarchal status quo by not only juggling family life, but also by forming the first female auxiliary police force in the City That Never Sleeps. After the 19th Amendment passed in 1920, Foley galvanized 2,000 women to join her "Masher Squad" and eventually became one of the first sworn officers with the NYPD. The "Masher Squad"...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.25 EDEWard, Ed
Summary: "Ward covers the first half of the history of rock & roll in this ... narrative--from the 1920s, when the music of rambling medicine shows mingled with the songs of vaudeville and minstrel acts to create the very early sounds of country and rhythm and blues, to the rise of the first independent record labels post-World War II, and concluding in December 1963, just as an immense change in the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.5 WARHodge, David
Summary: "Whether readers have just picked up the bass or are learning to improve their technique, this book provides a strong foundation in reading music, purchasing the right equipment, and care and maintenance of the bass guitar. A CD of original music helps budding bass players practice their skills. a Includes an original CD featuring examples and practice music for a wide range of stylesa blues,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alpha Books 2006