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 MID

Grau, Andrée.

Summary: Surveys all forms of dance throughout the world, discussing its cultural and social significance, its costume, its history, and noted dancers and choreographers.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dorling Kindersley Publishing Inc. 2000

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 792.8 GRA

Summary: "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 ROM

Summary: 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 DEC
1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD MUSIC DEC

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 SHE

Contents: 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 KRA

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC ROM

Various 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 COM

Summary: "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 NIN

LABRADFORD (MUSICAL GROUP_

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 1999

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK LABRA

Summary: Andrew Dominik's One More Time with Feeling is a black-and-white documentary which chronicles the creation of Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds' album 'Skeleton Tree'. Originally a perfomance based concept, the film evolved into something much more significant as Dominik delved into the tragic backdrop of the writing and recording of the album. Also features live performances by the band in the studio.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC NIC

Summary: For three days in the summer of 1969, a rock concert was held on an upstate New York farm, and 400,000 people attended -- far more than were anticipated, far more than paid, far more than could be fed or sheltered or cared for after injuries or drug overdoses. It rained, there was mud, all traffic in and out was gridlocked, and the music continued, night and day. "Woodstock Nation" existed for...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Pictures 2009

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF WOO

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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD WOO

Summary: The impact of Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead on fellow musicians, producers, writers, photographers, young people, artists, road crew, and the band itself date back as far as 1965.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Carol Pub. Group 1995

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

Summary: 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 ROM

Lydon, John

Summary: John Lydon has secured prime position as one of the most recognizable icons in the annals of music history. As Johnny Rotten, he was the lead singer of the Sex Pistols - the world's most notorious band, who shot to fame in the mid-1970s with singles such as 'Anarchy in the UK' and 'God Save the Queen'. So revolutionary was his influence, he was even discussed in the Houses of Parliament, under...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dey Street Books 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LYDON, JOHN LYD

Summary: "Drawn from a cache of personal video recordings from the past 22 years, director Steve Loveridge's Sundance award winning MATANGI / MAYA / M.I.A. is a startlingly personal profile of the critically acclaimed artist, chronicling her remarkable journey from refugee immigrant to pop star. She began as Matangi. Daughter of the founder of Sri Lanka's armed Tamil resistance, she hid from the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC MAT

Summary: A look into the Source Family cult, its spiritual leader, Father Yod, and 1970s California, told through home movies and photographs from Source Family archivist Isis Aquarian and accompanied by original Source Family music.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Drag City, Inc. 2013

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SOU

Contents: Tema de Batman (Celio Balona) -- Era uma nota de (Loyce e os Gnomes) -- I wanna be your man (The Youngsters) -- Ourico (Serguei) -- Lindo sonho Delirante (Fabio) -- O carona (Tony e Som Colorido) -- God save the queen (14 Bis) -- Dia de chuva (Banda de 7 leguas) -- Vou sair do cativeiro (Ton & Sergio) -- As turbinas estao ligadas (Ely) -- Ele seculo xx (Com os Falcoes Reais) -- Cinturao de fogo...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Tropicalia in Furs Records 2010

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN BRA

Contents: Side A, music videos and commentaries -- Side B, rarities and other films.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by WEA 2003

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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC WOR

Timberlake, Justin

Summary: "In his first book, Justin Timberlake creates a characteristically dynamic experience, one that combines an intimate, remarkable collection of anecdotes, reflections, and observations on his life and work with hundreds of candid photographs from his personal archives that range from his early years to the present day, in locations around the world, both on and off the stage. Justin discusses...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Design, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TIMBERLAKE, JUSTIN TIM

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B TIMBERLAKE TIM

Roxy Music (Musical group)

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 1990

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK ROX

Summary: "FAR FROM THE TREE follows families meeting extraordinary challenges through love, empathy, and understanding. This life-affirming documentary encourages us to cherish loved ones for all they are, not who they might have been. Based on Andrew Solomon's award-winning, critically acclaimed, New York Times bestselling non-fiction book "Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sundance Selects 2019

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FAR