Summary: Chronicles the life of Pete Seeger, the American singer/songwriter, who was a leader of the mid-20th century American folk music revival and wrote some of its best known songs. Also looks at his work as a labor and political activist and his experiences of being picketed, blacklisted, and banned from commercial television. Features archival footage and interviews with his family, including wife...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Live Nation Worldwide 2007
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC PETSummary: A powerful and stirring reinvention of the show, celebrated the world over for its Grammy Award-winning music and the thrilling energy and passion of its Irish and international dance.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC RIVMacCarry, Noel
Summary: Presents the life of the folk singer and social activist, and discusses his role in the union, anti-war, civil rights, and environmental movements and the opposition he sometimes aroused for his radical views.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB SEGER MACSummary: Bill Traylor was born into slavery in 1853 on a cotton plantation in rural Alabama, and continued to farm the land until the late 1920s when he moved to Montgomery and worked odd jobs in the thriving segregated black neighborhood. A decade later, in his late 80s, Traylor became homeless and started to draw and paint, devising his visual language to depict his memories of slavery and scenes of a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BILScott, Briana Corr
Summary: "A boldly illustrated gift edition of the beloved English Christmas carol "The Twelve Days of Christmas"--with an artful twist. East Coast artist Briana Corr Scott brings her naturalist's eye to the classic holiday song, pairing the original lyrics with bold and whimsical illustrations that celebrate flora and fauna. A kaleidoscope of monarch butterflies on milkweed flowers is Eight maids a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Nimbus Publishing 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE SCOMarcus, Greil
Summary: "Across seven decades, Bob Dylan has been the first singer of American song. As a writer and performer, he has rewritten the national songbook in a way that comes from his own vision and yet can feel as if it belongs to anyone who might listen. In Folk Music, Greil Marcus tells Dylan's story through seven of his most transformative songs. Marcus's point of departure is Dylan's ability to "see...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2022
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DYLAN, BOB MARWhite, Hy
Contents: Down in the valley -- Old Paint -- I know my love -- This old man -- Buffalo gals -- The sow took the measles -- Billy boy -- Old Chisholm Trail -- E-ri-ee -- Goodnight, Irene -- Tom Dooley -- The wreck of the John B. -- Careless love -- Drill, ye tarriers, drill -- I know where I'm going -- Cindy -- The frozen logger -- John Henry -- Aunt Rhody -- Oh, Susanna -- Red wagon -- The roving kind --...
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: MCA Music 1959
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 787.6 WHIKaskowitz, Sheryl
Summary: "In 1934, the Great Depression had destroyed the US economy, leaving residents poverty-stricken. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt urged President Roosevelt to take radical action to help those hit hardest-Appalachian miners and mill workers stranded after factories closed, city dwellers with no hope of getting work, farmers whose land had failed. They set up government homesteads in rural areas...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Neither a conventional biopic nor a traditional concert film, this documentary is a raw and intimate portrait of the legendary folk singer and activist that shifts back and forth through time as it follows Joan on her final tour and delves into her extraordinary archive, including newly discovered home movies, diaries, artwork, therapy tapes, and audio recordings. Baez is remarkably revealing...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD 921 BaezSummary: Overview: Offering insight into the arts of Great Lakes Native nations, this collection of stories, songs, poetry, speeches, autobiographies, and fiction, spans the centuries from deep past to the present. Elders, war chiefs, religious leaders, and contemporary artists share stories of the creation, stars, animals, heroes, and monsters, along with narratives of hunting, fishing, food-gathering,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ladyslipper 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 398 BRESummary: When their land is sold to developers, the magicians, acrobats, and puppeteers of Kathputli, a hand-built artist colony hidden away in the alleyways of Delhi since the 1970s, must find a way to unite or splinter apart forever. Filmed from 2011 to 2014, this documentray chronicles the last days of of Kathputli, focusing on Puran the Puppeteer, Rahman the Magician, and Maya the Acrobat as they...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TOMSummary: A cinematic synthesis of four Newport folk Festivals that depicts the crucial years of transition for the art of folk music 1963-1966.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Eagle Rock Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC FESCannon, Nick
Summary: "Nick Cannon and Mariah Carey's twins, Roc and Roe, decorate their Christmas tree with their 'pip' version of The Twelve Days of Christmas"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2014
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1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: E CANAnderson, Steven C.
Summary: This classic song gets an updated, original recording paired with a delightful picture book. The combination of paired music and text helps engage students and develop early literacy skills. -- Amazon.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Multi-Media Kits, Call number: KIT J BLUE WHEMiller, Karl Hagstrom
Summary: Karl Hagstrom Miller argues that the categories that we have inherited to think and talk about southern music bear little relation to the ways that southerners long played and heard music. Focusing on the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth, Miller chronicles how southern music--a fluid complex of sounds and styles in practice--was reduced to a series of distinct genres linked to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Duke University Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.64 MILSummary: Martin Scorsese's pseudo-documentary film, composed of both fictional and non-fictional material, about Bob Dylan's legendary 1975 tour, which featured a band of troubadours including Joan Baez, Allen Ginsberg, and Joni Mitchell, and blends behind-the-scenes archival footage, interviews, and narrative mischief.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ROLBroyles, Anne
Summary: "A picture book biography of American folk artist and labor organizer Ralph Fasanella. When dared to jump, Ralph always took the dare. So begins this loving tribute to a singular artist and his tireless efforts to honor and celebrate immigrant and working-class communities through his paintings."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 FASCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB FASANELLA BROColandro, Lucille
Summary: In this adaptation of the traditional nursery rhyme, an astronaut swallows the Moon and other celestial objects, while two children ask questions about the Solar System and outer space.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Cartwheel Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2019
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE COLCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE COLKlostermann, Penny Parker.
Summary: In this variation on the traditional cumulative rhyme, a greedy, hungry dragon eventually learns moderation.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Sayer, Chloë
Summary: Offers a portrait of the Mexican people, their lifestyles, and a representative sampling of their crafts.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 1990