Reich, Steve
Summary: "Steve Reich is a living legend in the world of contemporary classical music. As a leader of the minimalist movement in the 1960s, his works have become central to the musical landscape worldwide, influencing generations of younger musicians, choreographers and visual artists. He has explored non-Western music and American vernacular music from jazz to rock, as well as groundbreaking music and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 780.92 REISummary: The feature-length documentary reveals the fascinating, far-reaching impact and appeal of the show with a compelling blend of rare footage, historical images, and behind-the-scenes stories while also exploring the dramatic talents of creator-producer-director Dan Curtis. Known as the "King of TV Horror," the Emmy-winning filmmaker followed the show with other iconic genre favorites including...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MASReynolds, Gabriel Said
Summary: The central figure of the Qur'an is not Muhammad but Allah. The Qur'an, Islam's sacred scripture, is marked above all by its call to worship Allah, and Allah alone. Yet who is the God of the Qur'an? What distinguishes the qur'anic presentation of God from that of the Bible? In this illuminating study, Gabriel Said Reynolds depicts a god of both mercy and vengeance, one who transcends simple...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Robert Palmer, author of Deep Blues, and Dave Stewart, a member of Eurythmics, pay tribute to the Mississippi blues and various blues artists. Special features include performance footage outtakes and 45 minutes of bonus audio tracks.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2003
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MUSIC DEESummary: Part 4 covers the period during the 17th and 18th centuries that saw widespread questioning of religious and other traditional authorities, growing faith in science, and early responses to the budding industrial revolution. This period marks the intellectual flowering that led to the American Revolution.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 109 GRESummary: Between 1970 and 1977, six low budget films shown at midnight transformed the way we make and watch movies: The allegorical freak-out "El topo," the graphic horror of "Night of the living dead," the outrageous filth fest "Pink flamingos," outlaw reggae's "The harder they come," the phenomenal "Rocky horror picture show," and the darkly disturbing "Eraserhead." Discover the stories behind the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Starz Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MIDSummary: Despite her premature death at age 39, Flannery O'Connor left behind one of the most haunting and strikingly original bodies of work in 20th Century literature. With the rural South as her backdrop, she brought to life a string of eccentric characters torn between their worldly ambitions and the need for a more enduring truth. This film traces the people and events that shaped her remarkable...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC UNCStubbs, David
Summary: A comprehensive history of electronic music from the earliest experimental instruments to the modern EDM scene.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Faber & Faber 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 786.7 STUHajdu, David
Summary: From the age of song sheets in the late nineteenth century to the contemporary era of digital streaming, pop music has been our most influential laboratory for social and aesthetic experimentation, changing the world three minutes at a time. Hajdu shows how pop has done much more than peddle fantasies of love and sex to teenagers. Exhaustively researched and rich with fresh insights, Love for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.5 HAJSchiff, David.
Summary: Elliott Carter (1908-2012) was the foremost composer of classical music in America during the second half of the 20th century. Over the course of a career that spanned seven decades, he consistently produced works that critics hailed as creatively daring, intellectually demanding, and emotionally complex. Distancing himself from the various "schools" and movements that grew and waned in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CARTER, ELLIOTT SCHRobertson, David
Summary: Welcome to A.S.K - Ask. Seek. Knock. We all have questions about Jesus, the Bible, the Christian faith and our culture today. The great news is that Jesus gives answers. These questions were gathered from teenagers in fifteen countries in five different continents. All of them are real questions from real teenagers. 52 short chapters. Each contains a question, a Bible passage, a Bible verse, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: CF4K 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 248.83 ROBSteinberg, David
Summary: "A personal history of comedy from the 1950s to the present, with interviews conducted by the author"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 792.2 STEThorburn, David
Contents: Part 1. Lecture 1: Road map--modernism and moral ambiguity -- Lecture 2: How to read fiction--Joyce's "An encounter" -- Lecture 3: Defining modernism--Monet's cathedral -- Lecture 4: Defining modernism--beyond impressionism -- Lecture 5: "The man who would be king"--imperial fools -- Lecture 6: "Heart of darkness"--Europe's Kurtz -- Lecture 7: "Heart of darkness"--the drama of the telling --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2007
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 809 THO PART 1Call number: CD 809 THO PART 2
Schenker, David J.
Summary: "The best of ancient Greek literature retains a freshness and immediacy that reaches far beyond its time and place of creation and speaks to readers and audience members today. In these 36 lectures, we discuss selections from that group of masterpieces, starting in every case with the cultural and historical background of each, then focusing on close readings of the works themselves"--Page 1...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2007
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4 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 880.9 MASCall number: DVD 880.9 MAS PART 1
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Summary: The evolution of Hollywood horror films gets an affectionate appreciation from one of the recent genre maestros, as the AMC documentary series by writer/director Eli Roth slashes into the on-screen odysseys of zombies, vampires, ghosts, and more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ELISummary: Featuring 57 members of the Nashville songwriting community: Garth Brooks, Brad Paisley, Kacey Musgraves, Mac Davis and more! "It All Begins with a Song" is a full-length documentary that goes behind the perfomers to the creators of well-known songs and the city they call home, and features both up-and-comers and the greats who turned Nashville into the songwriting center of the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019