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African Americans Social life and customs Depressions 1929 United States Music 19th century History and criticism Music 20th century History and criticism Music 21st century History and criticism Musical form Popular music Style, Musical United States History 1901-1953 United States Politics and government 1901-1953Kaye, Lenny
Summary: Memphis, 1954. New Orleans 1957. Philadelphia 1959. Liverpool, 1962. San Francisco 1967. Detroit 1969. New York, 1975. London 1977. Los Angeles 1984 / Norway 1993. Seattle 1991. Rock and roll was birthed in basements and garages, radio stations and dance halls, in cities where unexpected gatherings of artists and audience changed and charged the way music is heard and celebrated, capturing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.6609 KAYCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 781.6609 KAYLynskey, Dorian.
Summary: A history of protest music embodied in 33 songs since the 1930s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.42 LYNContents: [Disc 1]. Chapter 1. [Live at the Boarding House, May 1, 1974]. Salty dog blues -- Doc's talking blues -- Blue yodel no. 1 (T for Texas) -- Miss the Mississippi and you -- Wabash cannonball -- Nancy Rowland -- Solid gone -- Tennessee stud -- Frosty morn -- Matchbox blues -- Mama don't allow no music -- Deep elem blues.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK WATContents: Beale St. blues ("Fats" Waller and Alberta Hunter) -- Statesboro blues (Blind Willie McTell) -- Canned Heat blues (Tommy Johnson) -- Old dog blue (Jim Jackson) -- Death's black train is coming (Rev. J.M. Gates) -- Sometimes I feel like a motherless child (Paul Robeson) -- Walk right in (Cannon's Jug Stompers) -- Bumble bee blues (the Memphis Jug Band with Memphis Minnie) -- Milk cow blues...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: RCA 1992
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES RCAThomson, Virgil
Summary: "In this second volume in the Library of America's definitive Virgil Thomson edition, Pulitzer Prize-winning music critic Tim Page collects for the first time the great composer's four witty, incisive, and compulsively readable full-length works. Written with authority and élan, these classic books offer an engrossing tour of the tumultuous twentieth-century musical scene and Thomson's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 780 THOContents: (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons -- A Beautiful Friendship -- A Cottage For Sale -- A Fine Romance -- Across The Alley From The Alamo -- Alexander's Ragtime Band -- All The Things You Are -- Ballin' The Jack -- Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea -- Bewitched -- Beyond The Sea -- Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy -- Button Up Your Overcoat -- Bye Bye Blackbird -- C'est Si Bon (It's So Good) --...
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Hal Leonard Pub. 1991
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: Magical mystery tour (Cheap Trick) -- Here comes the sun (Grant Lee Phillips) -- She's leaving home (Harry Nilsson) -- I'm a loser (Vince Guaraldi & Bola Sete) -- Hey Jude (Wilson Pickett) -- Rocky Raccoon (Richie Havens) -- Eleanor Rigby (Trudy Pitts with Pat Martino) -- Revolution (part 1) (Nina Simone) -- With a little help from my friends (Steve Cropper) -- I feel fine (Harvey Averne) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Mojo 2004
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MOJSummary: Throughout history, musicians and musical works have reflected the fashion, culture, and social attitudes of their times. Music today is more diversified than ever, from the megahits of teen pop stars to the depth and emotionality of gospel choirs to the tones and textures produced by large-scale orchestras. Add to this the unstoppable forces of MySpace, YouTube, the iPod, and a rapidly...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Liszt frequently expanded upon the work of previous composers to create new musical forms. His transcription of Verdi's Rigoletto was part of a completely new style of piano composition. In this program, Martino Tirimo guides students toward a mastery of the Rigoletto paraphrase and an understanding of its compositional layers. Assembled at London's Royal Academy of Music, pianists from the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Updated in 1998, Edith Piaf's meteoric rise to fame from the nightclubs of Paris to the world's most famous chanteuse is legend. "The Little Sparrow's" throaty renditions of such hits as "La Vie en Rose," "Non, je ne regrette rien," and "L'Accordioniste" seem as fresh today as when they were recorded. This program pays tribute to Piaf by examining her life through archival footage, photos, and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Produced in conjunction with legendary singer Peter Gabriel, this program takes viewers to a stage outside London as it documents the work of artists appearing at the World of Music, Arts and Dance Festival (WOMAD) In addition to engaging and powerful on-stage numbers, the film captures intimate, behind-the-scenes moments with world music stars, tracing each performer's origins and artistic...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Contents: Night train to Valhalla / John Fahey (2:14) -- The ice miner / Leo Kottke (1:54) -- Anyhow / Leo Kottke (2:04) -- April in Cambridge / Peter Walker (3:11) -- Water verses / Harry taussig (1:52) -- Children's dance / Harry Taussig (3:48) -- Little Maggie / Sandy Bull (4:08) -- On the banks of the Owchita / John Fahey (3:50) -- Gypsy song / Peter Walker (3:41) -- Raga (1) / Max Ochs (4:53) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK THOSummary: This program explores a century of conflict and tragedy in the Appalachians, beginning with the cultural oppression and forced exodus of the Cherokee. Documenting Appalachia's role in racial and ideological tensions leading up to the Civil War, the video examines the prevalence of slavery outside plantation culture and the unpredictable divisions among mountain communities that followed...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: The flowering of the Jazz Age is a tale of two great cities, Chicago and New York, and two extraordinary artists whose achievements spanned nearly three-quarters of a century. Louis Armstrong was a fatherless waif who grew up on the rough streets of New Orleans, developing his extraordinary gifts before moving to Chicago, where his transcendent sound inspired a new generation of musicians. Duke...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2000
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Summary: With farms and factories falling victim to the Great Depression, jazz was one of the few American industries poised for explosive growth. This program explores the art form during the first half of the decade, a period in which New York City usurped Chicago as America's jazz capital, Louis Armstrong revolutionized Broadway song craft, and Chick Webb forged his big-band sound at the Savoy...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: Amid the rise of suburbia, television, rock 'n' roll, and the baby boom generation, jazz lost a beloved and burned-out star: Billie Holiday. But the music still had its two guiding lights. In 1956, the first year Elvis topped the charts, Duke Ellington recaptured the nation's ear with a performance at the Newport Jazz Festival. The next year, Louis Armstrong made headlines when he condemned...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: In his acclaimed debut as a filmmaker, Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson presents a powerful and transporting documentary, part music film, part historical record, created around an epic event that celebrated Black history, culture, and fashion. Over the course of six weeks in the summer of 1969, just one hundred miles south of Woodstock, The Harlem Cultural Festival was filmed in Mount Morris Park...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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3 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC SUMSummary: In the early 1950s, before rock-and-roll dominated youth and urban culture, an innovative form of music appeared on the streets of America's cities. It was a mix of strange new harmonies and nonsense syllables that came to be known as doo-wop. This program traces the development of doo-wop music and the accomplishments of musicians who made the style their own. Viewers also meet a group of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This program from the Famous Composers series introduces the life and work of Russian-born composer Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky. The film provides an overview of Stravinsky's childhood, which involved a sound musical education but pressure from his parents to pursue law, and the surrounding political turmoil in Russia. Not until Stravinsky's father died did he fully shift his concentration from...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: When America entered World War II, jazz became part of the arsenal, with bandleaders like Glenn Miller and Artie Shaw taking their swing to troops overseas. For many black Americans, however, that sound had a hollow ring. Segregated at home and in uniform, they found themselves fighting for liberties their own country denied them-as when authorities padlocked the integrated Savoy Ballroom....
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: Songs about a certain time and place are more than sentimental musings-they also serve as departure points for cultural and sociological studies. This program uses popular 20th-century French music to explore the rich character and modern-era development of Paris. Juxtaposing commentary from French scholars, performers, and business leaders with classic recordings by Edith Piaf, Brigitte...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Producer David Merrick conquered Broadway in 1981 with an adaptation of the movie musical 42nd Street. But soon the biggest hits were arriving from an unexpected source-London. This program illustrates the reshaping of the Broadway musical as the curtain fell on the 20th century and reopened on the 21st. From Stephen Sondheim’s contemplative Sunday in the Park with George to blockbusters like...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2004
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Summary: This program from the Famous Composers series introduces the life and work of German composer Richard Strauss, born to a horn player, Franz Strauss, in 1864. The film sheds light on Strauss' childhood in Munich, which revolved around the boy's musical education. His father's conservative tastes played a large role in shaping the composer, but also kept him away from the important influence of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: As the Depression dragged on, jazz came as close as it ever would to being America's popular music. Now it was often called swing, and, as this program illustrates, it became the defining music of a generation. Suddenly, jazz bandleaders were the new matinee idols, with Benny Goodman hailed as the "King of Swing," while teenagers jitterbugged just as hard to the music of his rivals: Tommy...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011