Summary: Among the most fascinating chapters of film history is that of the so-called "race films" that flourished in the 1920s -'40s. Unlike the "black cast" films produced within the Hollywood studio system, these films not only starred African Americans but were funded, written, produced, edited, distributed, and often exhibited by people of color. Entrepreneurial filmmakers built an industry apart...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PIO1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO
Summary: Pampered African Prince Akeem is a rebel who is against an arranged marriage and heads to Queens, New York to find a new bride. His regal father agrees to allow the prince 40 days to roam the U.S., sending the prince's faithful retainer Semmi along to make sure nothing untoward happens. To avoid fortune hunters, Prince Akeem conceals his true identity and gets a "regular" guy job at a fast-food...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: Minnie the Moocher ; I. Mills, C. Calloway, C. Gaskill (Cab Calloway) -- Chicago breakdown / J. Morton (Louis Armstrong) -- It don't mean a thing (if it ain't got the swing) / D. Ellington ; I. Mills (Duke Ellington) -- Sugar foot stomp W. Melrose ; J. Oliver (Fletcher Henderson) -- I got rhythm / G Gershwin ; I. Gershwin (Don Redman).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia/Legacy 1997
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC MUSSummary: Shortly before his father's death, Prince Akeem learns that he sired an illegitimate son during his last stay in the United States and now he has to return to Queens to retrieve him to ensure a male successor to the throne.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD COMCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY COMSummary: "Join the Cat, Nick, and Sally as they-- Pretend to be pirates by following a treasure map--and find some treasure of their own! Meet Salmon Sam--and journey with her upstream to lay eggs in the same pool where she was born! See how trees send seeds flying through the air, floating on water, and hitching rides on animals to avoid overcrowding! Play sniff and seek with Whiffy the skunk (a guy...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: NCircle Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Children's videos, Call number: DVD Juv CaSummary: Fired from his telecom job, Adam Cassidy is forced by company CEO Nicolas Wyatt to infiltrate Wyatt's longtime rival's company to steal trade secrets. Soon, Adam realizes that he's caught between two ruthless players who will stop at nothing to win. But, desperate to win over an Ivy League beauty and help his blue-collar father, Adam risks everything in a dangerous race against time.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE PARCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PARStars
Contents: Dead hearts -- Wasted daylight -- I died so I could haunt you -- Fixed -- We don't want your body -- He dreams he's awake -- Changes -- The passenger -- The last song ever written -- How much more -- Winter bones.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Vagrant 2010
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK STAContents: Disc 1. Bellbottoms (Jon Spencer Blues Explosion) (5:17) -- Harlem shuffle (Bob & Earl) (2:50) -- Egyptian reggae (Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers) (2:37) -- Smokey Joe's la la (Googie René) (2:55) -- Let's go away for awhile (The Beach Boys) (2:17) -- B-A-B-Y (Carla Thomas) (2:54) -- Kashmere (Kashmere Stage Band) (4:56) -- Unsquare dance (The Dave Brubeck Quartet) (2:02) -- Neat neat...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 30th Century Records 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC BABEasy Star All-Stars
Contents: Speak to me -- Breathe (in the air) (feat. Sluggy Ranks) -- On the run -- Time (feat. Corey Harris & Ranking Joe) -- The great gig in the sky (feat. Kirsty Rock) -- Money (feat. Gary "Niesta" Pine & Dollarman) -- Us and them (feat. Frankie Paul) -- Any colour you like -- Brain damage (feat. Dr. Israel) -- Eclipse (feat. The Meditations) -- Bonus tracks. Time version -- Great dub in the sky --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Easy Star Records 2003
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD REGGAE EASStarr, Paul
Summary: "Winner of the 1983 Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize in American History, this is a landmark history of how the entire American health care system of doctors, hospitals, health plans, and government programs has evolved over the last two centuries."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.961 STAStarr, Richard.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Taunton Press 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Craft Wood StarrCalloway, Stephen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mitchell Beazley 1996
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 790.132 CALCalloway, Cab
Contents: Harlem hospitality / Arlen, Van Heusen -- The lady with the fan / Calloway -- Harlem camp meeting / White -- Zaz, zuh, zaz / Calloway -- Father's got his glasses on / Ed Swayzee -- Little town gal / Burchell -- There's a cabin in the cotton / Prish, Perkins -- The scat song ; Minnie the Moocher / Calloway -- Kickin' the gong around / Carey -- Long about midnight / Mills -- Moon glow / Hudson,...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Object Enterprises. 1989
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ CalloCalloway, Lon
Summary: When you’re out “on the salt,” the work is rough and the storms have no mercy. Yet the sun never fails to reemerge from behind the clouds, and if you look hard, a chuckle can be found. Through this remarkable collection of stories—built from over 40 years working on the water—Lon captures the thrill of the action, the pain of the struggle, and the power of a good laugh. Because whether working...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Phoenesse LLC 0000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CALLOWAY, LON CALGalloway, Gordon.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Deerfield Publishing 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 797.122 GalloCalloway, Cab
Contents: New moon and an old serenade 2:34. -- One look at you 2:43. -- Ghost of Smoky Joe 2:45. -- Floogie walk 2:16. -- Trylon swing 2:47. -- Utt da zay (The tailor's song) 2:52. -- Crescendo in drums 2:43. -- (Hep-Hep!) The jumpin' jive 2:47. -- For the last time I cried over you 2:48. -- Twee-twee-tweet 2:42. -- Pluckin' the bass 2:39. -- I ain't gettin' nowhere fast 2:43. -- Chili con conga 2:56....
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Classics 1991
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ CALCalloway, Cab
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 1994
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ CALCalloway, Cab
Contents: I got a girl named Netty -- This is always / Warren-Gordon -- Jealous / Nalie-Finch -- A blue serge suit -- One o'clock jump / C. Basie -- Frantic in the Atlantic -- Jumpin' jive / Calloway-Frobea-Palmer -- Airmail stomp / Bandul-Haggart -- Crusin' with Cab -- You got it / J. Ragovou -- That old black magic / Arlen-Mercer -- Everybody eats when they come to my house / Calloway -- The duck trot.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Prism Leisure 1988
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD PM Calloway 1987Starr, Dwaine.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 799.2 STAStarr, Michael
Contents: Introduction -- Every word he said was funny -- The funniest dishwasher on this earth -- Redd Foxx looked better on a marquee -- I gave it to them funky -- The king of the party records -- It's not easy out there -- Los Angeles is a rotten town for nightlife -- Sanford and son -- The godfather of sitcom -- The way it is, I'm still in slavery -- A cross between Disneyland and a circus -- Like...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Applause Theatre & Cinema Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FOXX, REDD STDemdike Stare.
Contents: New Use For Old Circuits -- Mephisto's Lament -- Kommunion (Alternate Version) -- Unction (Alternate Version) -- Mnemosyne -- Shade -- In The Wake Of Chronos (Alternate Version) -- Floor Stairwell -- Violetta -- Metamorphosis. All This Is Ours (Sunrise) -- Erosion of Mediocrity -- Nuance -- Falling Off The Edge (Alternate Version) -- Dauerlinie -- Dasein -- We Have Already Died -- Ishmael's...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Love Records 2012
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC DEMAyers, Starr
Summary: "When Caroline Myers discovers a box of letters in her deceased mother's trunk, she's captivated by the romance that unfolds between her mother, Emma Rose Walsh, a nineteen-year-old waitress, and Noah Anderson, a handsome young soldier. Determined to read between the lines, Caroline and her sister, Kate, set out on a search that leads them to the North Carolina foothills and the padlocked gate...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mountain Brook Ink 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AYEStarr, Mirabai
Summary: We live in a world that has suffered the abuses of an unbalanced masculine rule for thousands of years--but the feminine is rising. "Seeds of feminine wisdom that have been quietly germinating underground are now breaking through the surface," writes Mirabai Starr. "Women everywhere are rising to the collective call to step up and repair our broken Earth. And we are activating a paradigm shift...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sounds True 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Callaway, Joy
Summary: "She has one last chance to prove she chose the right course for her life. In 1908, young Dorothy Tuckerman chafes under the bland, beige traditions of her socialite circles. Only the aristocracy's annual summer trips to The Greenbrier resort in West Virginia spark her imagination. In this naturally beautiful place, an unexpected romance with an Italian racecar driver gives Dorothy a taste of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Muse 2022