Summary: The story of the New Orleans-born singer who began singing at a young age and went on to become one of the most esteemed gospel figures in U.S. history, fusing her music with the civil rights movement.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MAHCall number: DVD DRAMA ROB
Summary: In his acclaimed debut as a filmmaker, Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson presents a powerful and transporting documentary, part music film, part historical record, created around an epic event that celebrated Black history, culture, and fashion. Over the course of six weeks in the summer of 1969, just one hundred miles south of Woodstock, The Harlem Cultural Festival was filmed in Mount Morris Park...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
3 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC SUMSummary: On the occasion of his 70th birthday, the organizers of the Newport Jazz Festival presented a special tribute to one of the great figures of jazz, Louis Armstrong. Features commentary by Armstrong.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2008