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Music rough guideOtele, Olivette
Summary: Conventional wisdom holds that Africans are only a recent presence in Europe. But in African Europeans, renowned historian Olivette Otele debunks this and uncovers a long history of Europeans of African descent. From the third century, when the Egyptian Saint Maurice became the leader of a Roman legion, all the way up to the present, Otele explores encounters between those defined as "Africans"...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.896 OTECurtis, Christopher Paul.
Summary: With love and determination befitting the "world's greatest family," twelve-year-old Deza Malone, her older brother Jimmie, and their parents endure tough times in Gary, Indiana, and later Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wendy Lamb Books 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CURCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC CURVarious
Contents: Mbube (Wimoweh - The lion sleeps tonight) (Ladysmith Black Mambazo) (3:10) -- Tambala moja (Jean Bosco Mwenda) (4:27) -- Lakutshona llanga (Angelique Kidjo) (2:15) -- Tabali te (Bassekou Kouyaté, Ngoni Ba) (1:45) -- Simbo (Ali Farka Touré, Toumani Diabaté) (3:59) -- Masikini (Eyuphuro) (5:07) -- Guisa (Sara Tavares) (4:32) -- Huwaiahuwa (Saba) (1:39) -- Mother's love (Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: World Music Network 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JUV ROULevine, Kristin (Kristin Sims)
Summary: In 1958 Little Rock, Arkansas, painfully shy twelve-year-old Marlee sees her city and family divided over school integration, but her friendship with Liz, a new student, helps her find her voice and fight against racism.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LEVSmith, Clint
Summary: 'How the Word is Passed' is Clint Smith's revealing, contemporary portrait of America as a slave owning nation. Beginning in his own hometown of New Orleans, Smith leads the reader through an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarks - those that are honest about the past and those that are not - that offer an intergenerational story of how slavery has been central in shaping our nations...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: 973 SMICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 SMIUrban Village
Contents: Indhold: Izivunguvungu(4:17 min) -- Dindi(3:09 min) -- Ubaba(4:37 min) -- Ubusuku(4:12 min) -- Madume(4:21 min) -- Sakhisizwe(3:05 min) -- Marabi(4:20 min) -- Umuthi(4:04 min) -- Inkani(4:25 min) -- Makolo Yanga(5:38 min) -- Empty K-Set(2:24 min) -- Umhlaba Wonke / feat. Msaki(3:40 min)
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: No Format 2021
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1 available in NEW Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN URBJess, Tyehimba
Summary: "Part fact, part fiction, Tyehimba Jess's much anticipated second book weaves sonnet, song, and narrative to examine the lives of mostly unrecorded African American performers directly before and after the Civil War up to World War I. Olio is an effort to understand how they met, resisted, complicated, co-opted, and sometimes defeated attempts to minstrelize them,"--Amazon.com
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wave Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 JESDie Antwoord (Musical group)
Contents: Never le nkemise : 1 -- I fink u freeky -- Pielie (skit) -- Hey sexy -- Fatty boom boom -- Zefside zol (interlude) -- So what? -- Uncle Jimmy (skit) -- Baby's on fire -- U make a ninja wanna f**k -- Fok julle naaiers -- DJ Hi-Tek rulez -- Never le nkemise : 2.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Zef Recordz 2012
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC DIEVarious
Contents: Ngunyuta dance = The shake-your-behind dance (BBC) -- Nwampfundla = Pfundla's daughter (Tshetsha Boys) -- Vana vasesi = My sister's children (Mancingelani) -- Ntombi ya mugaza = Shangaan woman ; N'wagezani my love = Gezani's daughter, my love (Zinja Hlungwani) -- Vanghoma (Tiyiselani Vomaseve) -- Ngozi = Danger (BBC) -- N'wagezani = Gezani's daughter (Zinja Hlungwani) -- Naxaniseka = I'm...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Honest Jon's 2010