Bergsman, Steve
Summary: "In What a Difference a Day Makes: Women Who Conquered 1950s Music, Steve Bergsman highlights the Black female artists of the 1950s, a time that predated the chart-topping girl groups of the early 1960s. Many of the singers of this era became wildly famous and respected, and even made it into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame. However, there were many others, such as Margie Day, Helen Humes,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Mississippi 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 782.42 BERSummary: "The Girl Group Sound, made famous and unforgettable by acts like The Ronettes, The Shirelles, The Supremes, and The Vandellas, took over the airwaves by capturing the mix of innocence and rebellion emblematic of America in the 1960s. As songs like "Will You Love Me Tomorrow," "Then He Kissed Me," and "Be My Baby" rose to number one, Girl Groups cornered the burgeoning post-war market of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2023
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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 THAHarris, Duchess.
Summary: Aretha Franklin was a legendary singer and activist. Her music helped shape the civil rights movement and inspired many people. Aretha Franklin: Legendary Singer explores her life and legacy. Includes infographics and glossary. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2020
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB FRANKLIN HARTick, Judith
Summary: A landmark biography that reclaims Ella Fitzgerald as a major American artist and modernist innovator.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton and Company 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FITZGERALD, ELLA TICBogle, Donald
Summary: "From Turner Classic Movies and Donald Bogle, the award-winning author and leading authority on Black cinema history, this is a comprehensive and lavish biography of Hollywood's first African American movie goddess"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Running Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HORNE, LENA BOGOlson, Elsie
Summary: This biography highlights the life and accomplishments of Taylor Swift. Readers learn about Swift's early life, her award-winning success in both country and pop music, and her philanthropic work. Features include a timeline, glossary, fun facts, online resources, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Checkerboard Library is an imprint of Abdo...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Checkerboard Library, an imprint of ABDO Publishing 2022
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Summary: In this unique combination of memoir and cultural history, we come to know one of the greatest stars the world has ever seen--Eartha Kitt--as revealed by the person who knew her best: her daughter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2021
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Summary: In June 2021, the whole world was listening as Britney Spears spoke in open court. The impact of sharing her voice and her truth was undeniable, and it changed the course of her life and the lives of countless others. The Woman in Me reveals for the first time her incredible journey and the strength at the core of one of the greatest performers in pop music history. Written with remarkable...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: CD 921 SPEARS, BRITNEY SPECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA 921 SPELee, Stephan
Summary: "In the sequel to K-Pop Confidential, Candace is a Rookie idol. Her life is suddenly filled with the fans, cameras, and glamor of stardom: She and her boyfriend, YoungBae, are a K-Pop power couple; she's a walking icon at Brandt Foreign School; and her new girl group, known simply as THE GIRLS, is poised to break records across the industry. With her status as the industry's K-Pop Warrior, she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Point, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LEEAnderson, Kirsten (Kirsten Stephanie)
Summary: Taylor Swift is one of the most popular singers in the world, and a billionaire who writes her own songs and plays several instruments. Find out how she became the star she is today from growing up on a Christmas tree farm in Pennsylvania.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2024
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Summary: A wickedly funny look at opera today - the feuds and deals, maestros and managers, divine voices and outsized egos - and a portrait of the opera world's newest superstar at a formative point in her life and career. In Cinderella & Company, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Manuela Hoelterhoff takes us on a two-year trip on the circuit with Cecilia Bartoli, the young mezzo-soprano who has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.5 HOEContents: disc 1. Lullabye of birdland ; All of me ; Lover man ; Over the rainbow ; Autumn in New York ; My heart stood still (Sarah Vaughan). Caravan ; Ain't misbehavin' ; Is you is or is you ain't my baby ; Smoke gets in your eyes ; I get a kick out of you ; Stormy weather (Dinah Washington) -- disc 2. A foggy day ; I've got my love to keep me warm ; God bless the child ; Too marvelous for words ; I...
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Publisher / Publication Date: GSC Music 1993
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD VOCAL GREHarmon, Amy
Summary: "When infamous outlaw Butch Cassidy decides to go straight, he discovers that too many of the powerful men he crossed won't let bygones be bygones. To have a chance at a new life, he'll have to become someone else entirely. A brief, fateful encounter with the celebrated singer Jane Touissant on the eve of his escape offers a glimpse of what might have been, but Butch disappears, leaving her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC HARHarmon, Amy
Summary: "When infamous outlaw Butch Cassidy decides to go straight, he discovers that too many of the powerful men he crossed won't let bygones be bygones. To have a chance at a new life, he'll have to become someone else entirely. A brief, fateful encounter with the celebrated singer Jane Toussaint on the eve of his escape offers a glimpse of what might have been, but Butch disappears, leaving her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC HARParton, Dolly
Summary: "Every song tells a story. She's a star on the rise, singing about the hard life behind her. She's also on the run. Find a future, lose a past. Nashville is where she's come to claim her destiny. It's also where the darkness she's fled might find her. And destroy her."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2022
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC PARFlack, Roberta
Summary: "Legendary singer Roberta Flack reflects on her early childhood and her love of music"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG FLAFrost, Caroline
Summary: From the author of the award-winning Shadows of Pecan Hollow comes a novel set in the country music world of 1970s Nashville about a struggling musician who writes a hit song that both promises her long-sought-after fame and implicates her in a heinous crime.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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Quinn, Kate
Summary: San Francisco, 1906. In a city bustling with newly minted millionaires and scheming upstarts, two very different women hope to change their fortunes: Gemma, a golden-haired, silver-voiced soprano whose career desperately needs rekindling, and Suling, a petite and resolute Chinatown embroideress who is determined to escape an arranged marriage. Their paths cross when they are drawn into the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
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Summary: A renowned pop music scholar presents a dazzling biography of the Bee Gees--Barry, Maurice and Robin Gibb, which is an extraordinary human story of career highs and lows that shows, even in the Gibbs' darkest times, their music was rarely out of the charts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2024