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Summary: A tribute to Ella Jenkins, featuring new renditions of her signature songs by a variety of folk and children's performers, including Tom Paxton, Pete Seeger, Bill Harley, and others.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Folkways Recordings 2004

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1 available in Juvenile Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JUV JEN

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Summary: Follows five bands performing Gypsy music for six weeks across North America.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Docurama 2008

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

Summary: Afro-centric jazz, street funk and the roots of rap in the black power era 1969-75.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES SOU

Summary: "The plow that broke the plains" depicts the social and economic history of the Great Plains from the settlement of the prairies by cattlemen and farmers through the World War I boom to drought and depression. "The river" traces life in the Mississippi River Valley during the previous 150 years, showing the consequences of sharecropping, soil exhaustion, unchecked erosion and floods, and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Naxos 2007

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

Summary: A feature-length documentary about the daily struggles and joys of Palestinian olive farmers. When a group of American ultra-marathoners sets out to run 129 miles in 5 days across the West Bank they discover that in replanting uprooted olive trees they are planting hope and building cultural bridges.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Hut Studios 2011

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

Giardino, Alexandria

Summary: The day the baby boy was born, on a beautiful Hawaiian island, the world sang him a lullaby. What a good song. But what is the good song? The boy listens for it and finds it in his heart and shares it with the world. Inspired by the medley of the classic songs "Over the Rainbow" and "What a Wonderful World" sung by Hawaiian singer Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, the good song is aloha--love.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Cameron Kids, an imprint of Cameron + Company 2020

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GIA

Contents: The revolution will not be televised (Gil Scott-Heron) -- Sounds from the bush (Mandingo Griot Society with Don Cherry) -- Red, black, and green (Roy Ayers Ubiquity) -- Malcolm X (Philip Cohran & the Artistic Heritage Ensemble) -- Sweet songs (Sarah Webster Fabio) -- Vibes from the Tribe (Phil Ranelin) -- Desert fairy princess (Horace Tapscott with the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra) -- Strong...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES SOU

Contents: Disc one. Give me back my wig / Hound Dog Taylor & The Houserockers (3:31) -- I'm a woman / Koko Taylor (4:36) -- Have mercy / Big Walter Horton ; with Carey Bell (3:45) -- Somebody loan me a dime / Fenton Robinson (2:54) -- It's my fault, darling / Professor Longhair (4:54) -- Telephone angel / Son Seals (5:25) -- Lights out / Johnny Winter (2:35) -- Blue Monday hangover / Albert Collins...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES ALL

Gershwin, George

Contents: Disc 1. Swanee (Al Jolson) -- The Yankee doodle blues (Van & Schenck) -- Do it again (Arthur Lange's Orchestra) -- Somebody loves me (Isabelle & Tom Patricola) -- Fascinating rhythm (Cliff "Ukelele Ike" Edwards) -- Oh, lady be good (Buck & Bubbles) -- Tell me more (Alexander Gray) -- Sweet and low-down (Singing Sophomores ; Ed Smalle) -- Song of the flame (Tessa Kosta ; The Russian Art Choir)...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 1998

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Summary: Explores the struggles of 'making it big' in the 1970's L.A. comedy scene. Every night, a group of young, up-and-coming comedians waits their turn to perform at Goldie's, the hottest stand-up club in Hollywood. But first they'll have to win over club owner Goldie, who rules the Sunset Strip with an iron fist. For them, stand-up is a drug and they're willing to sacrifice everything to get their...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2018

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV IM

Giardina, Denise

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 1987

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Giardina, Denise

Summary: A Protestant minister stands up to the Nazis and pays with his life. The hero is the real-life Pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer, executed in 1945 for participating in a plot to kill Hitler. The novel describes his youth, his seminary studies in America and his opposition to the Nazis, against whom he did not hesitate to speak out. By the author of The Unquiet Earth.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 1998

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GIA

(JAZZ ENSEMBLES)

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 1987

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/NORTH AMERICAN LOU

Giardini, Anne.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Fourth Estate 2005

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GIA

Watts Ensemble

Contents: Suite for crime (17:18)--Good morning--Train to Algeria--Theme for a cold city--Tricky Tramp--Funny cigarettes--;Suite for time (27:40)--Winter--Spring--Summer--Fall

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Kill Shaman

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ WAT

Now Ensemble

Contents: Folk music / Judd Greenstein -- Hypno-germ / Patrick Burke -- Hanging there / Mark Dancigers -- All together now / Burke -- How about now / Nico Muhly -- Cloudbank / Dancigers -- Sing along / Greenstein.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: New Amsterdam Records 2007

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD AVANT-GARDE NOW

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