Summary: "Drawn from a cache of personal video recordings from the past 22 years, director Steve Loveridge's Sundance award winning MATANGI / MAYA / M.I.A. is a startlingly personal profile of the critically acclaimed artist, chronicling her remarkable journey from refugee immigrant to pop star. She began as Matangi. Daughter of the founder of Sri Lanka's armed Tamil resistance, she hid from the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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

Brightman, Sarah

Summary: Former disco diva, Broadway star, and paramour of Andrew Lloyd Webber, vocalist Sarah Brightman is a mistress of reinvention and drama. The pixie-esque woman with an operatic vocal range reinvents herself once again with LA LUNA, the live version of her 2000 album. Originally aired on PBS, this spectacular concert paired innovative, mystical staging with a diverse set list of pop classics,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Nemo Studios 2001

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

Summary: A compilation of music videos performed by Michael Jackson.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2001

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

Summary: A fan of rock music, Fabio wanted to convince the Foo Fighters to perform in his small village in Italy. So, he gathered 1,000 musicians to play their hit song 'Learn to Fly' together, perfectly in synch. And so the Rockin' 1000, the largest rock band on earth, was formed. This is the story of how the largest rock band on the planet came to be: over nineteen thousand musicians, amateurs and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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

Contents: Turn the lights down low (Lauryn Hill) -- Waiting in vain (Chrissie Hynde) -- Jammin' (Chrissie Hynde & Jimmy Cliff) -- No more trouble (Erykah Badu) -- No woman no cry (Erykah Badu & Jimmy Cliff) -- Who the cap fit (Queen Latifah) -- War (Darius Rucker) -- Three little birds (Tracy Chapman) -- Rasta man chant (Busta Rhymes & Julian Marley) -- Kinky reggae (Chris Robinson & Damian Marley) --...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Palm Pictures 2000

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

Summary: "This collective of progressive bands started [the RIO] movement that remains one of the reference points that many listeners, musicians, and distributors use to describe a cooperative approach of making and distributing non-mainstream music"--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Media 2012

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

Contents: Start -- Can -- Damo Suzuki's network -- Floh de Cologne -- Kraftwerk -- Krautwerk -- Floh de Cologne -- Neu! -- La Düsseldorf -- Japandorf -- faUSt -- Wume.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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

Summary: Follows the English rock band around the world as they tour to promote the album "OK Computer."

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: EMI 1998

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

Sigur Rós (Musical group)

Contents: Prologus -- Alföđur -- Dvergmál -- Stendur æva -- Áss hinn hvíri -- Hvert stefnir -- Spár eđa spakmál -- Dagrenning.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SIG

Summary: An in-depth look at the relationship between the late musician Leonard Cohen and his Norwegian muse Marianne Ihlen. Nick Broomfield's most personal and romantic film of his storied career starts on the Greek island of Hydra in 1960, where Leonard Cohen, then a struggling and unknown fiction writer, and Marianne Ihlen, a single mother with a young son, became part of community of expat artists,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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

Summary: Touki bouki: "A vivid, fractured portrait of Senegal in the early 1970s. ... two young lovers long to leave Dakar for the glamour and comforts of France, but their escape plan is beset by complications both concrete and mystical"--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2013

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MAR

Summary: Alex Fletcher is a washed-up 80s pop star who has been reduced to working the nostalgia circuit of county fairs and amusement parks. The charismatic and talented musician gets a chance at a comeback when reigning pop diva Cora Corman invites him to write and record a duet with her.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2007

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MUS

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MUS

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Music

Summary: The story of four generations whose lives revolve around the beat of American popular music. The story is told in animation with songs by The Doors, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Pat Benatar and Lou Reed among others.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 1998

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA AME

Summary: When the bass guitarist of his band suddenly quits, Milan finds a replacement, and a romantic spark, in a free-spirited Kim. Just as rehearsals for recording his dream album start picking up steam, Milan's Serbian girlfriend Lela arrives with very different plans for their future. Lela wants them to go home to Serbia, but Milan is determined to stay in America at any cost.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber 2015

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LOV

Summary: Brimming with the sounds and personalities of 1950s Nashville, this is the story of legendary guitar player Hank Garland, who played music on his own terms with the likes of Roy Orbison, Patsy Cline, Hank Williams, and Elvis Presley. Details the life of a star who burned out too quickly; Garland pioneered music from country to jazz, but a hot temper and whirlwind romantic life lead to early...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Screen Media Films 2010

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CRA

Summary: Three young women Deena Jones, Effie White, and Lorrell Robinson desire to become pop stars. They get their wish when they are picked to be backup singers for the legendary James "Thunder" Early. When they are set free for leads, Curtis Taylor and Effie's brother C.C. decide that Deena should be the lead singer, which upsets Effie. The girls discover exactly what it takes to be in the music...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2007

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRE

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRE

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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS DRE

Summary: Three young women, Deena Jones, Effie White, and Lorrell Robinson, desire to become pop stars. They get their wish when they are picked to be backup singers for the legendary James "Thunder" Early. When they are set free for leads, Curtis Taylor and Effie's brother C.C. decide that Deena should be the lead singer, which upsets Effie. The girls discover exactly what it takes to be in the music...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2007

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Dream

Summary: The story of the New Orleans-born singer who began singing at a young age and went on to become one of the most esteemed gospel figures in U.S. history, fusing her music with the civil rights movement.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MAH
Call number: DVD DRAMA ROB

Summary: Brings the world of Gilbert and Sullivan to life as a dramatization of the staging of the duo's legendary 1885 comic opera, The Mikado. The world-famous Victorian librettist and composer, along with their troupe of temperamental actors, must battle personal and professional demons while mounting this major production becomes an epic about the harsh realities of creative expression.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2011

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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS TOP

Summary: Daniel Radcliffe is "Weird" Al Yankovic in the unexaggerated true story about the greatest musician of our time. From a conventional upbringing where playing the accordion was a sin, Al rebelled and made his dream of changing the words to world-renowned songs come true. An instant success and sex symbol, Al lives an excessive lifestyle and pursues an infamous romance that nearly destroys him.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE WEI

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WEI

Summary: Born to dance: "A break-a-leg tale of an understudy turned Broadway star"--Container

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2008

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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS BOR

Beatles

Summary: Take a surreal adventure, featuring The Beatles, on a magical bus ride across the countryside. All is not what it seems and magic is everywhere on this psychedelic bus trip.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Avenue One DVD 2001

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

Law, Jude

Summary: Spanning eighteen years, traces the career of a pop star, from her rise to stardom as a teenager to her personal and familial struggles in later years.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entert. 2019

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE VOX