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
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3 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC SUMOwens, R. J.
Summary: "The song "Say It Loud (I'm Black and I'm Proud)" is personified, describing the Black history and culture that inspired its creation. Written in 1968 by singer James Brown after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, the song became an anthem for the civil rights movement"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE OWEHorowitz, Joseph
Summary: "A provocative interpretation of why classical music in America "stayed white"-how it got to be that way and what can be done about it. In 1893 the composer Antonin Dvorák prophesied a "great and noble" school of American classical music based on the searing "negro melodies" he had excitedly discovered since arriving in the United States a year before. But while Black music would found popular...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 780.973 HORRandall, Alice
Summary: "Alice Randall, award-winning professor, songwriter, and author with a "lively, engaging, and often wise" (The New York Times Book Review) voice, offers a lyrical, introspective, and unforgettable account of her past and her search for the first family of Black country music. Country music had brought Randall and her activist mother together and even gave Randall a singular distinction in...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Black Privilege Publishing/Atria 2024
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Summary: Bestselling author and Sundance award-winning director Questlove harnesses his encyclopedic knowledge of popular music and his deep curiosity about history to examine America over the past fifty years. Choosing one essential track from each year, Questlove unpacks each song's significance, revealing the pivotal role that American music plays around issues of race, gender, politics, and...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 782.42 QUEQuestlove
Summary: Music Is History combines Questlove's deep musical expertise with his curiosity about history, examining America over the past fifty years.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Image 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.42 QUECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B QUESTLOVE QUEContents: Violin blues (Johnson Boys) (3:17) -- K.C. Railroad blues (Andrew & Jim Baxter) (3:28) -- Beaver slide rag ("Peg Leg" Howell & His Gang) (3:18) -- Alma waltz (Mississippi Mud Steppers) (2:52) -- Window pane blues (Tommie Bradley) (3:14) -- Travelin' railroad man (Alabama Sheiks) (2:58) -- Pig meat blues (Whistler & His Jug Band) (3:07) -- Right now blues (Frank Stokes) (3:04) -- East Jackson...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Old Hat 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES VIOContents: disc 1. Maple leaf rag (Scott Joplin) ; Booker T. Washington on the Negro population in the South ; St. Louis blues (Bessie Smith) ; Black bottom stomp (Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers) ; Heebie jeebies (Louis Armstrong & his Hot Five) ; Ol' man river (Paul Robeson) ; Ain't misbehavin' (Fats Waller) ; Pony blues (Charlie Patton) ; My black mama (Part 1) (Son House) ; Tiger rag (Mills...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES SAYContents: disc 6. We are family (Sister Sledge) ; I will survive (Gloria Gaynor) ; Fight the power (part 1) (Isley Brothers) ; Rapper's delight (Sugarhill Gang) ; Breaks (part 1) (Kurtis Blow) ; Message (Grand Master Flas
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino 2009
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES SAYContents: disc 5. I want you back (Jackson 5) ; I want to take you higher (Ike & Tina Turner & the Ikettes) ; Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall on Segregation ; Ball of confusion (That's what the world is today) (Temptations) ; What's going on (Marvin Gaye) ; Revolution will not be televised (Gil Scott-Heron) ; My tribute (AndraGe Crouch ; Respect yourself (Staple Singers) ; Tired of being alone...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino 2009
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES SAYContents: disc 4. You've really got a hold on me (Miracles) ; Take my hand precious Lord (Mahalia Jackson) ; Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I have a dream" speech ; Cotton fields (Odetta) ; How blue can you get (B.B. King) ; No pity (in the naked city) (Jackie Wilson) ; President John F. Kennedy's address to the nation ; Change gonna come (Otis Redding) ; Walk on by (Dionne Warwick) ; Reach out I'll be there...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino 2009
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES SAYContents: disc 1. Maple leaf rag (Scott Joplin) ; Booker T. Washington on the Negro population in the South ; St. Louis blues (Bessie Smith) ; Black bottom stomp (Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers) ; Heebie jeebies (Louis Armstrong & his Hot Five) ; Ol' man river (Paul Robeson) ; Ain't misbehavin' (Fats Waller) ; Pony blues (Charlie Patton) ; My black mama (Part 1) (Son House) ; Tiger rag (Mills...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES SAYContents: Fee fi fo fum / Leo (3:58) -- Super breaker / The Sonarphonic (4:27) -- Bionic funk / Santiago (4:09) -- Plastic / Juju & the Space Rangers (4:43) -- Computer power / Jamie Jupitor (6:58) -- Space Invaders / Solaris (3:36) -- Make it good to me Baby / Copperfield (3:26) -- Electro-? / Robotron 4 (7:48) -- Supersonic space lady / Ernest Flippin II (4:17) -- Funk Machine / Funk Machine (4:08) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES SPAContents: Disc I. Mass meetings -- disc II. Ensembles.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Folkways 1997
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: I'm a woman / McDaniel -- Royal Garden blues / S. & C. Williams -- St. Louis blues / Handy -- After you've gone / Kremer, Layton -- If I can't sell it, I'll keep sittin' on it / Hill, Razaf -- I want a big butter and egg man / Venable, Armstrong -- Stompin' at the Savoy / Goodman [and others] -- I've got a right to sing the blues / Arlen, Kohler -- Black and tan fantasy / Ellington, Miley --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: DRG Records 1990
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC BLAContents: People don't sing like they used to sing (the Original Blind Boys) -- Jesus gave me water (the Soul Stirrers) -- Uncloudy day (the Staple Singers) -- Where shall I go (the Swan Silvertones) -- I am so glad (the Patterson Singers) -- I dreamed heaven was like this (the Highway QC's) -- Oh sinner (the Harmonizing Four) -- God has not promised (the Highway QC's) -- Let Jesus lead you (the...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Craft Recordings 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: Vol. 3. That's Chicago's South Side. That's Chicago's South Side / Sam Tehard -- Peetie Wheatstraw / Pete Wheatstraw -- Devil's Island gin blues / Roosevelt Sykes -- Sail on, little girl, sail on / Amos Easton -- Black gal, what makes your head so hard? / Joe Pullum -- I lost my baby / Lil Johnson -- Keep your hands off her / Big Bill Broonzy -- When the sun goes down / Leroy Carr -- Selling my...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Bluebird 2002
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES WHEFela
Contents: 2,000 Blacks got to be free -- Africa, centre of the world.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Celluloid 1997
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN FELParliament (Musical group)
Contents: P-funk (wants to get funked up) (7:39) -- Give up the funk (Tear the roof off the sucker) (5:44) -- Flash light (5:46) -- Dr. Funkenstein (5:42) -- Up for the down stroke (5:07) -- Chocolate city (5:35) -- Bop gun (Endangered species) (8:28) -- Testify ('74 version) (4:03) -- Aqua boogie (A psychoalphadiscobetabioaquadoloop) (6:41) -- Mothership connection (Star child) (6:12) -- Agony of DeFeet...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Mercury 2000
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES PARContents: Beale St. blues ("Fats" Waller and Alberta Hunter) -- Statesboro blues (Blind Willie McTell) -- Canned Heat blues (Tommy Johnson) -- Old dog blue (Jim Jackson) -- Death's black train is coming (Rev. J.M. Gates) -- Sometimes I feel like a motherless child (Paul Robeson) -- Walk right in (Cannon's Jug Stompers) -- Bumble bee blues (the Memphis Jug Band with Memphis Minnie) -- Milk cow blues...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: RCA 1992
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES RCASummary: 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
Belafonte, Harry
Contents: Jump down spin around (2:14) -- Suzanne (5:50) -- A little lyric of great importance (1:29) -- Chickens (3:10) -- Vaichazkem (1:34) -- I do adore her (3:18) -- The ballad of Sigmund Freud (3:38) -- I've been driving on Bald Mountain (2:20) -- Water boy (4:35) -- A hole in the bucket (5:19) -- The click song (3:06) -- One more dance (3:43) -- The ox drivers (2:59) -- The red rosy bush (2:51) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: RCA Victor 1994
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD VOCAL BELContents: Disc one, December 23, 1938 concert. Swingin' the blues / Count Basie, Eddie Durham, (Count Basie and his Orchestra) (3:34) -- One o'clock jump / Count Basie, (Count Basie & his Orchestra) (1:11) -- Introduction / John Hammond (0:38) -- Blues with Lips / Count Basie, (Oran "Hot Lips" Page, with Count Basie Orchestra) (3:11) -- I never knew / Ted Fio Rito, Gus Kahn, (Kansas City Five) (3:11) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Vanguard 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ FROSweet Honey in the Rock (Musical group)
Contents: Women gather -- Fly -- Voice of the Innocent -- Give the people their right to vote! -- Georgia Red Clay II -- Ballard of the Sit-Ins -- Let us rise in love -- 22 hours in the day -- Solid gold II -- Somebody prayed me over -- Ballard of Harry T. Moore. -- That awful day will surely come -- Nyoka Boko II --Prayer at the crossroads -- African Oasis II -- Yes it was -- Come unto me -- We want the...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: EarthBeat! 1997