Ozzi, Dan
Summary: "From celebrated music writer Dan Ozzi comes a comprehensive chronicle of the punk music scene's evolution from the early nineties to the mid-aughts, following eleven bands as they dissolved, "sold out," and rose to surprise stardom"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.66 OZZHartman, Kent.
Summary: From behind the walls of a handful of well-hidden, unlikely recording studios in the Los Angeles area, legends-in-waiting created masterpiece albums. It was a time of astonishing creativity and unprecedented fame and fortune. It was also a time of unfettered excess that threatened to unravel everything along the way. With access that only a longtime music business insider can provide, Kent...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.5 HARBeviglia, Jim.
Summary: For 40 years, Bruce Springsteen has held center stage as the quintessential American rock and roll artist, expressing the hopes and dreams of the American everyman and every woman through his vast array of insightful and inspirational songs. In Counting Down Bruce Springsteen: His 100 Finest Songs, rock writer Jim Beviglia dares to rank his finest songs in descending order from the 100th to his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782 BEVAltschuler, Glenn C.
Contents: All shook up : popular music and American culture, 1945-1955 -- Brown-eyed handsome man : rock 'n' roll and race -- Great balls of fire : rock 'n' roll and sexuality -- Yakety yak, don't talk back : rock 'n' roll and generational conflict -- Roll over Beethoven, tell Tchaikovsky the news : rock 'n' roll and the pop culture wars -- The day the music died : rock 'n' roll's lull and revival --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2003
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Summary: Carlos Santana loved to listen to his father play el violín. It was a sound that filled the world with magic and love and feeling and healing--a sound that made angels real. Carlos wanted to make angels real, too. So he started playing music. Carlos tried el clarinete and el violín, but there were no angels. Then he picked up la guitarra. He took the soul of the Blues, the brains of Jazz, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC MAHEdgers, Geoff.
Summary: Profiles the "King of Rock 'n Roll," focusing on how he got his start in singing and how his style influenced later musicians.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 2007
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB BASKET PRESLEYDoonan, Simon
Summary: Paying homage to Lou Reed's groundbreaking album Transformer on its fiftieth anniversary, this first-hand account of the album's impact on the LGBTQIA+ community captures a pivotal moment when those long silenced were finally given a voice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.42 DOOGould, Jonathan
Summary: A cultural and musical history of the 1960s in Britain and America captures the pulse of the era through the music of the Beatles, critically analyzing why the group became a trans-Atlantic phenomenon while discussing the evolution of the group's music.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harmony Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.4216 GOUDuchan, Joshua S.
Summary: Music historian Joshua Duchan looks at the career and music of this remarkable singer-songwriter, exploring the unique ways Joel transforms the cultural life of a changing America over four decades into bestselling song after song and album after album. Original interviews with Joel blend with Duchan's engaging analysis to provide readers of all backgrounds and ages a new look at Joel's most...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JOEL, BILLY DUCTudahl, Duane
Summary: "From Prince's superstardom to studio seclusion, this second book in the Prince Studio Sessions series chronicles the years immediately following the Purple Rain era. Interview accounts of over 260 recording sessions and two tours reveal the indistinguishable majesty of Prince's artistry"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.66 TUDSmith, R. J.
Summary: This definitive biography of the legendary performer and rock and roll pioneer examines his St. Louis childhood and his transformative effect on American culture, as well as the more troubling aspects of his public and private life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BERRY, CHUCK SMILauterbach, 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
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.66 LAUTroy, Sandy.
Summary: "Captain Trips depicts the life, work, and philosophy of this nonconformist rock legend, counterculture hero, and symbol of the Sixties. It contains exclusive interviews with Phil Lesh, David Nelson, Rock Scully, Jorma Kaukonen, Carolyn "Mountain Girl" Garcia (Jerry's second wife and perhaps closest friend), Jerry himself, and many others. As lead guitarist of the Dead, Garcia has played before...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thunder's Mouth Press 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GARCIA, JERRY TROBolden, Tonya
Summary: "Before there was Elvis, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, and Johnny Cash, there was Sister Rosetta Tharpe. The godmother of rock & roll started as a little girl from Arkansas with music in her air, in her hair, in her bones, wiggling her toes. With a big guitar in hand and a big voice in her soul, she grew into a rock & roll trailblazer in a time when women were rarely seen rocking out."--Front...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 THAAstor, Peter
Summary: "To wander the streets of a bankrupt, often lawless, New York City in the early 1970's wearing a tee shirt with PLEASE KILL ME written on it was an act of arch nihilism, and one often recounted in the first reports of Richard Hell filtering into pre-punk UK. Pete Astor, an archly nihilistic teenager himself at the time, was most impressed. The fact that it emerged (after many years) that Hell...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 780.33 ASTKaskowitz, Sheryl
Summary: "In 1934, the Great Depression had destroyed the US economy, leaving residents poverty-stricken. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt urged President Roosevelt to take radical action to help those hit hardest-Appalachian miners and mill workers stranded after factories closed, city dwellers with no hope of getting work, farmers whose land had failed. They set up government homesteads in rural areas...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2024